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EXPERIMENT First Images

post from Rama's Screen on 05 November 2009 02:24:20 PM. © Rama's Screen

Look, it’s the skinner version of Forest Whitaker. That’s cool, as long as he’s got that awesome cockeyed trademark, he’s still the Whitaker with Oscar worthy acting skills that we knew. BloodyDisgusting has these first look images of THE EXPERIMENT a remake of the 2001 German psychological thriller movie Das Experiment a group of ordinary [...]

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AVATAR TV Spot

post from Rama's Screen on 05 November 2009 02:14:34 PM. © Rama's Screen

Check out this new TV Spot for AVATAR, via TheMovieBox, that was played during the MLB World Series. It’s the start of what will be the intense and explosive fight between humans and Navi on the exotic and dangerous planet Pandora. Check it out after the jump… AVATAR opens December 18th, 2009

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Star Trek Delivers Out of this World Blu-ray/DVD
Retail Exclusives

post from Film School Rejects on 05 November 2009 02:09:00 PM. © Film School Rejects

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If you’re anything like me, then you are ready to get out there and pick up Star Trek on Blu-ray (or DVD, if you’re so inclined) when it hits local retail shelves on November 17th. And if you’re anything like me, you will spend the preceding Sunday scouring advertisements to see who has the best price, and more importantly, the coolest collectible or exclusive.

Lucky for you, we’ve got a sneak peek at some of the retail exclusives that will be hitting when the USS Enterprise finally docks here on Earth. And I know (unlike the makers of this recent movie) that the Enterprise could never make it into the Earth’s atmosphere and that it was built, and always has been in space. I’m just being clever. Get your fix below, fellow nerds.

UNITED STATES

Hollywood Video – Rent/Buy any Star Trek DVD and be entered to win an autographed poster of Uhura (Zoe Saldana).

Transworld (FYE/Coconuts/Suncoast) – Collectible Steelbook packaging.

Best Buy – Collectible Gift Set with four pack of badge pins.

CVS – Consumer Offer. Buy $15 (or more) in itunes gift cards and get the DVD (single disc) for only $9.99 (First week only).

Target – Limited Edition Collectible Starship Enterprise Packaging on both 2-Disc DVD and 3-Disc Blu-ray. See the video below:

Amazon.com – Star Trek Limited Edition Replica Gift Set (Three-Disc + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

CANADA

Best Buy Canada – 3-Disc Special Edition Blu-Ray Collectible packaging ? Easily assembles to become a Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise DVD Package! (same as Target in the US).

Future Shop – Exclusive 2 Disc Steelbook Edition and 3-Disc Blu-Ray Steelbook Edition.

HMV – Limited Edition Blu-Ray Gift Set ? includes Star Trek 3-Disc Blu-Ray set with Digital copy and Four Replica Starfleet Division Badges.

Wal-Mart Canada – Exclusive Lenticular o-sleeve package on the Star Trek 2 disc DVD.

Are you picking up Star Trek on DVD/Blu-ray? If so, will you be getting any of these exclusives?

Attention Classic Film Fans: TCM Announces
Festival

post from Row Three on 05 November 2009 01:59:10 PM. © Row Three

Los Angeles is already a good spot to be for classic film lovers, and it’s about to get[...]

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Star Trek DVD/Blu-Ray Retail Exclusives

post from /Film on 05 November 2009 01:55:44 PM. © /Film

JJ Abrams' Star Trek hits DVD/Blu-ray on November 17th, but where you will buy the disc will determine what kind of cool exclusive retail extras will be included with the release. After the jump we have a found up of all the retail exclusives, and where you can get 'em, complete with photos.**Hollywood Video - Rent/Buy any Star Trek DVD and be entered to win an autographed poster of Uhura (Zoe Saldana). (First Image above)**Transworld (FYE/Coconuts/Suncoast) - Collectible Steelbook packaging. (Second Image above)**Best Buy - Collectible Gift Set with four pack of badge pins. (Images available at above download link).**CVS - Consumer Offer. Buy $15 (or more) in itunes gift cards and get the DVD (single disc) for only $9.99 (First week only).**Target - Limited Edition Collectible Starship Enterprise Packaging on both 2-Disc DVD and 3-Disc Blu-ray. (Video available at above download link).**Amazon.com - Star Trek Limited Edition Replica ...

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2009 Audience Award Winners Announced!

post from Austin Film Festival - on 05 November 2009 01:54:40 PM. © Austin Film Festival -

Out of Competition Audience Award Winner
Up in the Air
Writers: Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner
Director: Jason Reitman

Comedy Vanguard Audience Award Winner
Herpes Boy
Writer: Byron Lane
Director: Nathaniel Atcheson

Narrative Feature Competition Audience Award Winner
Happy Ending
Writer/Director: Atsuhiro Yamada

Documentary Feature Competition Audience Award
Co-Winners:
My Run
Director: Tim VandeSteeg

Torey?s Distraction
Director: Tisha Blood

Narrative Short Audience Award Winner
Love Bug
Writer/Director: Kat Candler

Narrative Student Short Audience Award Winner
Adelaide
Writer/Director: Liliana Greenfield-Sanders

Documentary Short Audience Award Winner
Mr. Okra
Director: T.G. Herrington

Animated Short Audience Award Winner
The Incident at Tower 37
Director: Chris Perry

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Hollywood's Recession Is Over, Declares Murdoch

post from Gawker: Defamer on 05 November 2009 01:35:00 PM. © Gawker: Defamer

Just like Murdoch to go and ruin everything for everyone. Just when the studios had a great excuse with this recession thing to slash salaries and fire everyone in sight, along comes Rupert singing "Happy Days are Here Again."

? As earning seasons reporting continued, NewsCorp came out on the winning side of the ledger, with profits up 11 percent in the past quarter with the picture for broadcast turning around. "The best results we've seen in seven quarters," is how Rupert Murdoch described the broadcast numbers. The company's dark cloud in the cheer: MySpace, which is failing to meet the deliverables in its deal with Google. "With MySpace, we are in a state of transition," was how NewsCorp's CEO described the once mighty social networking site's search for a new raison d'etre. And you know how those states of transition go online...[Variety]

? Taking those numbers with others from this earnings season, The Wrap is ready to call it a "media rebound." [The Wrap]

? Just when he seemed to be getting a head of steam on a good post-Oscar win bout of paralysis and indecision, one of Hollywood's finest traditions, director Danny Boyle has cut the party short by announcing his next film. And what could be a more obvious story to tell than 127 Hours, the true tale of a hiker trapped under a boulder who eventually cuts his arm off to escape? [Variety]

? The troubled pre-season of The Tourist may now have a A list team attached. Johnny Depp is in talks to star opposite Angelina Jolie in the film. Earlier star Sam Worthington and director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck both removed themselves from the project over "creative differences." [Variety]

? Continuing the Jackson watch, the movie has thus far brought in $125 million internationally. [The Wrap
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? Disney has settled the lawsuit brought against it by the makers of the Luxo Jr. lamp that has become the Pixar trademark. Rather than celebrating the celebrity brought to it by its high profile association, the Swedish company that manufactures Luxo sued for trademark infringement after Pixar included copies of the lamp in special editions of the Up dvd's, saying Pixar's unauthorized use of their product would "cause devastating damage to Luxo and dilute the goodwill which Luxo has built up." [Hollywood Reporter]

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Pixar and Luxo Settle Cute Lamp Dispute

post from /Film on 05 November 2009 01:33:22 PM. © /Film

Two months after Norwegian lamp manufacturers Luxo AS threatened surprise legal action, it seems that they and Pixar have settled their dispute over the hop-happy anglepoise mascot. Details are of course shrouded in the expected fog of corporate secrecy but, thankfully, there's no longer going to be any need to get the courts involved.If there was some kind of payment agreed, there's not any indication of how much. There has been some kind of amicable agreement, however, and it seems that Luxo Jr. will remain the Pixar front man, the lavish collectors set of Blu-rays and replica lamp will stay on the market and the six-foot RoboLuxo can keep entertaining the crowds at Disney's theme parks.THR Esq., the legal blog at The Hollywood Reporter, suggest that maybe the current Luxo merchandise from Disney Pixar might be the last:Disney will stay out of the lighting business, and for now we hear ...

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Glee: Take It From The Top Chef

God, this show has really gone downhill. Instead of the singing and dancing that we love, they filled McKinley High with a bunch of old chefs sitting and bitching. It was way more knife skills than jazz hands. Bleck.

Instead of opening to a buzzing chorus and a heat-seaking Slushie cruising down the hallway, we are introduced to Fabio, who will be the heavily-accented Virgil for our tour through this fresh hell. Apparently this episode is meant to show us what all of our favorite Glee club members are going to look like in 10 years. Apparently they have all become chefs and been on some sort of reality show, but not all at the same time. They have also given up singing and dancing, which is sad.

He starts bringing in all these people we don't even recognize. First is some chucklehead who must be Finn after getting married: bloated, haggard, but still walking around with that confidence that says he has the biggest dick in the locker room. Then in saunters Mercedes, the big girl with the big voice and plenty of sass to back it up. She's also pulled a Michael Jackson and lightened her skin a whole lot.

Then the Will Schuester arrives. He is going by Ilan these days, and he is still cute in a nerdy way and a little bit too earnest. Shortly after comes Puck, throwing about oblivious bravado just like he used to swings about his massive man guns, except now his mohawk has grown out into a nest of scary nettles. Babygay Kurt's has grown into chubby adolescent and screeches when he sees the sexy and kinda mean Quinn Fabray, who has dyed her hair brown and is wearing a very cute outfit that is nothing like a cheerleader's uniform. They are joined by some guy named Hung who was one of those silent Asians in the background of the Glee club who they trot out whenever they need someone to do break dance moves.

Next is Ken Tanaka, with a face that looks like it was attacked by a hive of bees and a haircut only a lesbian could love. Speaking of which, in saunters Sue Motherfucking Sylvester. Well, at least we thought so, until we realized that this dykey lady was about as funny as spending a night in county jail for public urination. What could have happened to ruin her spirit?

Finally the diva of the show arrives, but Rachel has gone from an awkward, strangely attractive and totally totally self absorbed bitch into an awkward, strangely attractive tall black woman with giant eyes. She's not nearly so full of herself though. Then we see that pot-dealing, Josh Groban-loving Sandy has gone back in the closet. What a sad day to see him without the protection of a sherbet colored sweater tied around his neck like he was pretending to drive to the country club.

Now that we've met the dramatis personae, we're ready for them to start talking about how they're going to put on the show. A little doo-wop and be-bop later, and we'll have ourselves a cheerleader-themed production number that will make every hair on your body stand on end for two whole minutes before falling off your body in exhaustion. It's like the television equivalent of a full-body wax, and it hurts so good. Well, they start talking...and talking and talking. We keep seeing flashbacks of them actually doing things—namely cooking and bitching at each other—but now that are not doing anything. It's like a third year high school reunion, where everyone is still far too familiar and the wounds are as fresh as newly-picked hemlock.

Fabio the Fabulous must be the director, because he's going around and talking to everyone and trying to find out about their character's motivations. We're ready for him to start blocking a scene or something, but instead he just seems to be practicing to host a reality show all his own. Finally, he starts to get things rolling by pulling out this crazy block with a bunch of knives sticking out of it. We get prepared for the massacre, as each gang of two (or three in the case of Babygay Kurt, Quinn, and nameless Asian) draws their weapon. But they're not fighting, they're just randomly assigning numbers. Somehow this translates into Rachel and Sandy having to make dessert, which is funny because Rachel would never eat dessert or else it would ruin her elliptical-based aerobic exercise regime and Sandy only eats dessert when he's stoned. Any situation this tedious would probably sober him up right quick.

Next thing you know, everyone is in the supermarket. This is like some kind of fever dream, when you expect to see Judy Garland dance with Mickey Rooney, and instead you get a Nicolas Cage chewing the scenery up and down a liquor store aisle as he fulls his cart full of the booze that he's going to use to kill himself. But instead of Nic's bad hair, you have a whole bunch of bad lesbian hair all competing for your attention. And it is dotted with all these wretched reminders of better days, when they were playing this awesome game that was judged by beautiful, wise, and witty people, including Parvati, the Hindu goddess of love. But these xenophobes keep mispronouncing her name and calling her Padma. God, Americans are so stupid. There is no mention of the evil goddess Kali, who once ruled the land, but was replaced by someone more charismatic and photogenic.

Then they go back and cook, but not in a way like they're actually trying to get something done (except for nameless Asian who is all high kicks and head spins around that kitchen like he's the third chorus boy in Barefoot Contessa: The Musical!) Rachel is talking about how stressful life is as a star. Sandy is walking around trying to prove how straight he is by hitting on all the lesbians. The lesbians are rolling their eyes, and Sue Motherfucking Sylvester doesn't even threaten one person except with her scowl, which could peel the hides off of a battered cardboard box of newborn puppies.

Director Fabio is making the rounds and asking everyone what they are doing, but we don't really care. We're just thinking that after this extravaganza of tedium that there has to be a great closing number with tap dancers, showgirls in headdresses, and stairs that light up when they are stepped on. Instead they all sit down to dinner. The only way this could be good is if Fabio puts on a corset and a curly wig gets Rachel in a maid's outfit and Finn as a bald butler to flank him for a rendition of "Eddie's Teddy" from Rocky Horror Picture Show, and at the end of the number he rips the table cloth off the table to reveal the body of dead goddess Kali below. But they don't, and we still don't know what happened to Kali Joel.

Instead, they sit around and talk about how hard it is to be on reality television and how no one understand them. Puck has it the worst, apparently, but it seems he deserves it because he behaves so appallingly that it makes it seem like he has some sort of personality disorder. In the middle of all this, Fabio gets all incensed for no reason. We think he's going to suddenly blow his top and scream "prostitution whore" and flip over a table, but instead he just makes some speech that we couldn't quite understand because the only Italian words we know are puttanesca and DiGiorno, which we think means delivery.

They're all eating and everyone likes most of the food, except everyone agrees that Babygay Kurt's pirogi thing is about as bad as that "Single Ladies" song the millionth time you've heard it. Then there are more memories, good and bad and more bitching. We have to check the calendar, because it seems like Thanksgiving came early this year, except we don't get to eat any of our mother's famous Indian Pudding (maybe Parvati stole it?) and we just get all the fighting. Finn tries to keep everything positive, but despite the swagger, no one listens to him anymore because he's fat now. Quinn and Rachel try to make nice and say that Rachel has forgiven Quinn for ruining her life, but we know she was kicking her under the table through the entire meal. She has very long legs now.

After more misty watercolor memories of everyone playing and getting drunk in some dirty room that must be Mercedes' basement where everyone goes to party after an especially tough rehearsal, the whole thing is over. Like sex with a bad hooker or a community theater production of Into the Woods, it ends with no climax, with no big final scene, and it took way too long to get there. We can't wait for next week when everything is back to normal, because this episode of Glee sucked.

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Andy Garcias Hemingway Film Moves Forward with
Hopkins and Bening in Lead Roles

I don't think we ever reported on it at the time, but back in March Andy Garcia was talking up a film called Hemingway and Fuentes, about the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and his fishing partner and longtime friend Gregorio Fuentes. At the time, Anthony Hopkins was loosely attached to play Hemingway. That casting has now firmed up, and the film will move forward with Annette Bening also aboard as Mary Hemingway.Garcia wrote the script with Hemingway's granddaughter Hilary Hemingway, and he will direct the film in addition to co-starring as Fuentes. Variety reports that it's a project Garcia says he's been interested in for thirty years, since he first fished alongside men who knew the author. Landing Hopkins should be the key to get financing together. Garcia explained his long-standing interest in the story:I was specifically most interested in Hemingway?s connection to Cuba, where he spent the last 20 ...

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