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We could simply cut and paste stories from Variety, but we don’t. We’re too amazing for that. We RETYPE articles from Variety…

CHOW YUN PIRATE PICTURE

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest blew the roof off of the all-time best opening weekend numbers (most often made geek joke this weekend: “Pirates beat Aquaman!” I should know, I made it like 200 times), it seems likely that the third film will not be the last one. But in the meantime, 3 … Continue reading

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE REPORT

Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest $132,100,000 $132,100,000 1 2 Superman Returns $21,800,000 $141,600,000 2 3 The Devil Wears Prada $15,600,000 $63,600,000 2 4 Click $12,000,000 $105,900,000 3 5 Cars $10,300,000 $205,500,000 5 6 Nacho Libre $3,300,000 $73,800,000 4 7 The Lake House $2,800,000 $45,600,000 4 … Continue reading

EXCLUSIVE: 13 TZAMETI POSTER

I’m off to the airport right now, but first I wanted to show you this awesome poster for the film that won the Prize for Best First Feature at the Venice International Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. It opens July 28th in New York City before rolling out across the country. … Continue reading

TRAILER: THE ILLUSIONIST

2006 is the resurgence of Edward Norton! If you don’t count his part in Kingdom of Heaven (which was like a cameo in the 2005 version anyway), Norton’s immense talent hasn’t been on our screens since 2003. Earlier this year he was in Down in the Valley, a movie that sits on my current top … Continue reading

TRAILER: DEJA VU

I kinda feel like I’ve seen this before. Except this time it’s Denzel Washington wearing the Van Damme pants for the time travel tale Deja Vu, in which he plays a government agent who goes back in time to stop The Passion of The Terrorist and rescue The Chick Who Sorta Looks Like Halle Berry. Denzel … Continue reading

LOST AT THE MOVIES

There are two things that make fans of ABC’s Lost very, very nervous: the possibility of a Hurley nude scene and the show being dragged out forever, constantly having to come up with newer and stupider mysteries just to keep the show chugging along on the network’s schedule. It turns out Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof … Continue reading

EMPLOYEES OF THE MONTH

Though his best work will likely always be Simon Sez, Dane Cook is using the recent exposure from his wildly popular and sporadically amusing stand-up routines to steamroll into more feature films, and Jessica Simpson is using the recent exposure of her ass cheeks in Dukes of Hazzard to do the same. Dax Shepard was … Continue reading

TRUTH, JUSTICE AND A BULLET IN THE HEAD

The death of George Reeves, the actor who played Superman on the Adventures of Superman TV show, remains one of the great fascinating Hollywood stories. The official version is suicide, but rumors, scuttlebutt and damning evidence point to murder. Hollywoodland is a film based on the investigation into Reeves’ death, a sort of LA Confidential in … Continue reading

GET INTERACTIVE WITH DICK

You can say that Philip K Dick movie adaptations are ubiquitous. And they could soon get Ubik-uitous. And interactive.The next Dick film (and probably the most faithful ever) is Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, which finally opens in selected cities this weekend. Today was the New York City press day for the film, and producer/animator … Continue reading