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Vin Diesel Gives The Thumbs Up To 'Babylon A.D.'
[A Call To The Bullpen]

post from Defamer on 27 August 2008 07:55:00 PM. © Defamer

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Find Me Guilty star Vin Diesel continued to show his support for the latest action opus Babylon A.D. despite the fact that the film's director recently disavowed it. Leaving the TRL studios, Diesel said, "Babylon A.D. isn't some red-headed stepchild that you throw out with the bath water. It's a rip roaring good time with explosions and me and some more explosions. I'm not going to disown it anytime soon. I'll be there on midnight Thursday night. " Diesel expressed a desire to record multiple commentary tracks for the DVD release and has began to brainstorm ideas for the sequel. Before hopping into his limo, Diesel confidentially stated, "I hope we can get Mathieu back for the sequel."

[Photo Credit: Getty Images]

*A Call To The Bullpen is a work of fiction. Although the pictures we use are most certainly real, Defamer does not purport that any of the incidents or quotations you see in this piece actually happened. Lighten up, people ... it's a joke.

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Remind Us Again, What Is It They Say About
Teaching Dogs Tricks [To Do]

post from Defamer on 27 August 2008 07:30:00 PM. © Defamer

Of all of the recurring cast of characters that populate Molly McAleer's nightly To Do videos, the most beloved figure is probably Molls' dog, Wagandstuff. In this evening's installment, we learn a little bit about what makes this dog jump for joy (quite literally, in fact). Get to the bottom of this mystery and find out what's going on in Los Angeles tonight after the jump. Enjoy!

· Club Moscow at Boardner's.
· Roommating: The Sex Tape at UCB.
· Women's Book Group at Barnes and Noble.

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Toronto After Dark 2008 Festival Preview Trailer

post from Late Mag - film on 27 August 2008 07:17:22 PM. © Late Mag - film

Toronto After Dark 2008 Festival Preview Trailer featuring scenes from the *first eight announced feature titles * Repo! The Genetic Opera, Red , Let The Right One In , Idiots and Angels, Tokyo Gore Police, Mirageman, Trailer Park Of Terror , Who is KK Downey?www.torontoafterdark.com Via:...

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'Spider-Man 4' Walk-On Role Auction Nice Fallback
Plan For Kirsten Dunst [Auctions]

post from Defamer on 27 August 2008 07:05:00 PM. © Defamer

If your acting career isn't going the way you had hoped, may we humbly suggest you kick start things by buying yourself a role in a summer superhero blockbuster? "But that's impossible," you're no doubt saying to yourself. "Hollywood is the quintessential meritocracy, where with nothing but hard work, talent, and some good luck thrown in, all your wildest fantasies can come true!" Well you keep telling yourself that. We'll be over here, emptying our 401k and cashing our Bar Mitzvah bonds to make sure we win this Spider-Man 4 VIP Experience eBay auction, a bounty including:

"A visit to the set of Spider-Man 4 (one shooting day)...A meet and greet with the cast (1 hour)...A walk-on/ extra role in the film for the auction winner only (Role and length of screen time to be determined by Sony Pictures)...

Designer outfits to wear to premiere for winner and guest from top designers (Designers to be chosen by Sony Pictures...Winner and guest may keep the outfits)"

As /Film points out, however, Spider-Man 4 hasn't actually gotten a greenlight yet. But presuming it does—who doesn't want to see how things played out after Tobey Maguire (or was it Topher Grace?) dirty danced with Kirsten Dunst (or was it Bryce Dallas Howard?)—we think this will be an experience you'll not soon forget, particularly if a sadistic PR exec insists your outfits be designed by Ace Uniforms, "Southern California's first name in quality caterwaiterwear."

Spider-Man 4 Premiere, Meet & Greets, Walk On + More [eBay via /Film]

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Fests and events, 8/27.

post from GreenCine Daily on 27 August 2008 07:05:00 PM. © GreenCine Daily

"Of Time and the City is [Terence] Davies's first documentary, and it's a brooding, passionate, and often sardonic essay film that tributes the working class Liverpool of his childhood, and charts - with rueful adult hindsight - its cultural...

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Bond, Shames Bond: The divorce of actor George
... [Out On Bond]

post from Defamer on 27 August 2008 06:50:00 PM. © Defamer

Bond, Shames Bond: The divorce of actor George Lazenby and tennis pro Pam Shriver has taken a nasty turn from those earlier toddler-scotching allegations that so scandalized the one-time James Bond a few weeks back. New statements by Lazenby's ex-wife Christina Master contend that he "punched her in the face when she was five months pregnant and broke her nose when their son was dying from cancer," according to reports, which add: "She claims he threatened to kill her when she told him she wanted a divorce and says she was so fearful he meant it that it took years before she found the courage to leave him in 1994." Lazenby denied the claims, further challenging Master to turn up medical reports or photos proving her injuries: "I never punched her in my life," he said through a spokesman. You can believe whomever you want — innocent before proven guilty, yadda yadda — but we know where we stand, and we don't buy for a second that George Lazenby has a spokesman. [Daily Mail]

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Breaking news from Jon Cryer's rep Karen ... [Jon
Cryer]

post from Defamer on 27 August 2008 06:30:00 PM. © Defamer

Breaking news from Jon Cryer's rep Karen Samfilippo, regarding the Fox News article that placed him at a John McCain fundraiser: "In fact, Jon is not endorsing McCain or Obama at this point. He went to the fundraiser to learn more about the candidate and would like to do the same with Obama if the opportunity presents itself." Hear that, Barack? A crucial 40% of the titular Two and Half Men is still undecided and up for grabs! Still: no word, yet, from the similarly sighted Lorenzo Lamas or Craig T. Nelson. We'll keep you posted as the official confirmation of their endorsements comes in. [Previously: Superdelegate Shocker: Jon Cryer Sighted at McCain Fundraiser!]

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'Cheap Dates' and Dying Breeds: Whither the Women
Film Critics [The Reviews Aren't In]

The film-critic execution chamber has been mercifully quiet for most of the summer, with gripey David Ansen notably still refusing to die as others continue to line up behind him. And while on one hand we're glad to see few women among the condemned, we're reminded today that it's all relative: A recently released study notes that 70% of reviews published in the top 100 American dailies are written by men. Moreover, almost half of those papers don't publish any reviews by women at all. And despite our beloved Dargises, Chocanos, Rickeys and others, we're afraid that not a number you should expect to climb any time soon:

[C]omments by Salon.com's Stephanie Zacharek raise another concern: "The big news isn't that daily newspapers aren't hiring women as critics; it's that many of them have ceased caring whether they have a full-time movie critic at all," she writes. Lauzen's numbers, she continues, "don't trouble me as much as the pervasiveness of the idea that critics — the last line of defense between moviegoers and studio-generated hype — no longer matter."

That said, Zacharek gets anecdotal about gender bias: She turned down a job as a major daily's film critic because the salary "was so laughably low. The editor who interviewed me ... made no secret that the paper wanted to hire a female critic, but clearly, what the joint really wanted was a cheap date."

This news is certainly frustrating enough in strict cultural terms, but to absorb it in a time when even Ben Lyons has occasion to shovel more shit on TV every week... well, really. That's just fucked up, right there.

Women Film Critics: An Endangered Species? [AlterNet]

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Land of the Lost Photo: Sleestak and Will Ferrell

The following image gives us the first close-up of the Sleestak named Enik from next summer’s $100 million incarnation of Land of the Lost starring Will Ferrell and Danny McBride.The Sleestaks are a horned reptilian-insectoid species that inhabit the alternate world stumbled upon by Ferrell’s paleontologist and friends. In the original source material, Enik is [...]

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Crank 2 Photo: High Voltage

Lionsgate has released a new production photo from Crank 2: High Voltage. Click on the image below to enlarge.Official Plot Synopsis: In this high-octane sequel, hitman Chev Chelios? (Statham) launches himself on an electrifying chase through Los Angeles in pursuit of the Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart. CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE is [...]

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