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October 5, 2012

Time-travel fantasy ‘Looper’ may be most creative of its genre

Posted: Friday, October 5, 2012
By Michael Huckaby / movie reviews

“Looper” is a gripping and stylish time-travel fantasy, perhaps the most creative of this genre ever made. Written and directed by Rian Johnson (“Brick”), the futuristic storyline is cleverly contrived, explaining just enough to make the narrow concept plausible.
Unlike most thrillers, the compelling movie includes romance and an emotionally powerful thread exploring flawed characters fighting to regain their humanity.
The opening introduces Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) standing in a Kansas cornfield. He checks his antique pocket watch and then stares at a tarp spread out before him. Suddenly, a hooded and hog-tied man materializes on the tarp. Joe coolly blows him away, removes several silver ingots (his pay) taped to the body, wraps the corpse in the tarp and dumps it in a nearby incinerator.

The Four Rules of Time-Travel Movies

By STEVE KNOPPER
September 20, 2012

In the middle of the coming movie "Looper," Bruce Willis, a retired hit man from the future, sits in a diner and offers some wisdom: "I don't want to start talking about time travel," he snarls. "Because if we start talking about time travel, we're going to be here all day, making diagrams with straws."

Mr. Willis's character is explaining one of the ironclad rules of time-travel movies: Don't get too bogged down with scientific details. "Time travel doesn't make sense," says "Looper" director Rian Johnson. "All you can do is construct a system for it."

'Resident Evil' Box Office Continues To Grow

The Huffington Post | By Christopher Rosen

Posted: 09/17/2012
Paul W.S. Anderson's "Resident Evil: Retribution" opened in first place at the box office over the weekend, raking in $21 million in ticket sales. That news might come as a surprise to those who haven't been keeping up with the "Resident Evil" franchise.

"Retribution" -- which, like "Resident Evil: Afterlife" was released in 3D -- is the fourth straight "Resident Evil" film to finish in first place at the box office during its opening frame. Since the release of "Resident Evil" in March of 2002, all five films in the franchise have grown internationally: $62 million, $78 million, $97 million, $236 million. "Retribution" opened in 50 territories overseas and grossed an estimated $50 million, more than "Resident Evil: Afterlife" earned during its first salvo. That puts the fifth film in this franchise on course to top $236 million internationally. All told, the "Resident Evil" films have earned almost $1 billion in worldwide box office.

One reason "Resident Evil" may become one of the quietest $1 billion franchises in the history of Hollywood is that domestic audiences have cooled on the films; per EW.com, "Resident Evil: Retribution" sold the fewest tickets of any film in the series thus far. Not that Sony, the studio behind the "Resident Evil" franchise, minds too much: As U.S. grosses are slowly waning, international ticket sales are booming. Think of "Resident Evil" like an R-rated zombie version of "Ice Age," a franchise that is more important to overseas audiences than those here in the States.

All of which is to say, Paul Thomas Anderson wasn't the only Paul Anderson to have a good weekend at the box office.

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August 27, 2012

"The Expendables 2" snags No. 1 box-office spot for second-straight weekend

August 27, 2012

(CBS/AP) Sylvester Stallone's "The Expendables 2" snagged the No. 1 box-office spot for the second-straight weekend with $13.5 million. Released by Lionsgate, the film raised its domestic total to $52.3 million after two weekends.
Holdover movies easily led the weekend box office again, as "The Bourne Legacy" landed in second place with $9.3 million, followed by "ParaNorman" with $8.5 million.

Hollywood may have run out of summer hits, but an anti-Obama documentary is helping to fill the gap.

The weekend's new wide releases were overshadowed by "2016: Obama's America," which expanded from limited to nationwide release and took in $6.2 million to finish at No. 8.

Movie Review: Hit and Run

August 24, 2012
By Nat Almirall

Dax Shepard: Okay, I’m writing this vehicle — hmm, vehicle — what do you want to be?

Kristen Bell: I’ve always wanted to work in conflict negotiation, or something with horses.

DS: Perfect! I’m playing a badass driver/action hero with a heart of gold and a great left hook. you can always be arguing with me over violence.

KB: Well, I don’t want to be too stuffy.

DS: No, the twist is that you’ll be the aggressive one, like we’ll have one scene where I say something that offends you and you get really mad at me. And I’ll always be doing what you want.

KB: Ha!

DS: And I’ll be in the witness protection program, so I can call myself somebody cool.

KB: Nathan Fillion!

DS: No, I want to go old school.

KB: Clint Eastwood!

Friday Flicks: Does The Expendables 2 Have More Action Stars than Any Movie in History?

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Friday Flicks: Does The Expendables 2 Have More Action Stars than Any Movie in History?

Grab some popcorn and check out the movies you should see (or avoid) this weekend.
By GLEN LEVY | @glenjl | August 17, 2012

Can you imagine if a bomb had gone off during the shoot of The Expendables 2, and rid the world of – take a deep breath – Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck

'Bourne' Dethrones Batman As #1 Movie At Box Office

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'Bourne' Dethrones Batman As #1 Movie At Box Office

Jeremy Renner-led 'Bourne Legacy' ends three-week reign of 'Dark Knight Rises' with a $40.3 million debut.
By Ryan J. Downey
Aug 13 2012
Despite losing series star Matt Damon, the "Bourne" franchise was powerful enough to dethrone three-time champion "The Dark Knight Rises" at the box office. With Jeremy Renner in the lead role, "The Bourne Legacy"took in $40.3 million over the weekend to become the #1 movie in America.

Five Reasons The Avengers Is Way Better Than The Dark Knight Rises

by Peter Paras
2012/7/24

As Batman threequel The Dark Knight Rises tries to outrun high expectations (not to mention controversy and tragedy), it now heads into an intense box office competition with the summer's biggest and most-loved hit so far, The Avengers.
These megabucks superflicks have been the talk of the season, for much different reasons, but plenty of the chatter is—finally, now that we've seen 'em—about which is better.
Both are big ambitious adventures that deserve your hard-earned moola, but in the battle of superhero

Comic-Con wraps after 4 days of pop-art indulgence

By SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer
Updated: 07/16/2012

SAN DIEGO—This year's 43rd annual Comic-Con festival may be over but die-hard fans of the pop-culture celebration already have their minds on next year's show.
"There's no more pre-registration," lamented Chris Herrera, 26, of Los Angeles, who was attending his sixth consecutive Comic-Con. "Now you have to register online, and that website always crashes."
Fans used to be able to register onsite for the following year's convention, but organizers eliminated that option this year for the 2013 convention, set for July 18-21.
The event has become so popular that organizers have capped attendance at around 130,000 and implemented the digital-registration system to reduce long lines onsite (there are enough of those

Ice Age 4 Wins a Chilly Weekend Before The Dark Knight Rises

The prehistoric-critters toon opened so-so at home, but did thaw-some business abroad, as the shadow of Batman looms over the summer movie landscape
By RICHARD CORLISS | July 15, 2012

Scrat and his prehistoric pals scampered into North American theaters; families followed in modest numbers. Ice Age: Continental Drift, fourth in the series of Blue Sky Studios animated features, earned $46 million, according to preliminary estimates by its distributor, 20th Century Fox, to win a sluggish box-office weekend. The total take was down nearly 40% from the same frame last year, when the Harry Potter finale opened to $169.2 million — the best first three days ever, until The Avengers seized that crown this May with $207.4 million.

Like kids who wait breathlessly for Christmas and can’t get excited when told that Dec. 21 is the

"Spider-man" top of the box office

"Spider-man" set to climb to the top of the box office

Brent Lang
Reuters
July 5, 2012
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "The Amazing Spider-Man" has cast quite a web over the North American box office, and there's not much room left for poor Katy Perry and Oliver Stone to break through.

The pop singer and the provocateur are facing the unenviable task of trying to attract moviegoers to their latest offerings in a crowded field.
After swinging into theaters to the tune of $35 million on Tuesday, Sony is projecting that its Spider-Man reboot will command $130 million over its first six days of release. That's a good start for a movie

The Amazing Spider-Man Off to "Healthy" Box-Office Start—Yes, Already

by JOAL RYAN
Jul 1, 2012

The Amazing Spiderman, Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield

The Amazing Spider-Man is off and flying.

In 13 overseas markets this weekend, the superhero reboot grossed an estimated $50.2 million.

"This is a very healthy start," BoxOffice.com editor Phil Contrino said Sunday.

RELATED: Amazing Spider-Man has no shortage of leaks

Moviegoers in India, Korea, Japan and elsewhere got the jump Friday on U.S.-based Spider-Man fans, who can't catch the film Stateside until midnight Tuesday at the earliest.

In India, The Amazing Spider-Man scored the biggest opening ever for a Hollywood film, its studio said. In Korea, the reboot bested the debut there of The Avengers. In Japan, it accounted for nearly all of the country's Saturday and Sunday ticket sales.

Box office report: 'Brave'...

Box office report: 'Brave' hits the bullseye with $66.7 million; 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' gets staked

by Grady Smith
JUN 24 2012

Tags: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Box Office, Brave, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Movie Biz, Prometheus, Seeking A Friend For the End of the World, Snow White and the Huntsman, News
For the third time this year, following strong openings from The Hunger Games and Snow White and the Huntsman, a movie with a tough female protagonist topped the box office in a major way.
Disney-Pixar’s Brave was right on target in its debut weekend, opening to $66.7 million — the fifth-best debut ever for a Pixar film, and a faster start than last year’s Cars 2, which opened with $66.1 million. Brave continued Pixar’s streak of number one debuts, as all 13 of the studio’s releases have reached the peak position during their first weekend of wide release.

review: 'That's My Boy'

june 15 2012

Movie review: 'That's My Boy'

“That's My Boy” easily achieves a rare feat as the grossest of Adam Sandler's late-model Happy Madison junk, and it gets points for going “all-in”: there are no half-measures in Sandler's race to the nasty, sticky bottom. But all the bodily functions, dreadfully unsexy sex and plopped-in-the-middle sentiment in this father-and-son comedy come off as random, barely considered ideas hurried to the page and screen. This is Sandler doing the bare minimum for maximum profit — again — and throwing movie legends, notable nonactors and noxious pseudo-celebrities into the same mess, seemingly just to prove he can do it.

Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg star in "That's My Boy." <strong>Tracy Bennett</strong>

Sandler and writer David Caspe (“Happy Endings”) bookend “That's My Boy” with toxically unfunny situations, beginning in 1984 with seventh-grade Bostonian Donny Berger (Justin Weaver) being seduced by his teacher, Mary McGarricle (Eva Amurri Martino) — that's “seduced” if you're being charitable, “sexually molested” if you're being legally accurate.

Sure, “That's My Boy” defenders can rationalize this as the logical next step in the Van Halen “Hot for Teacher” fantasy, but it is one thing to be hot for teacher, another thing for teacher to be hot for student.

At any rate, Donny and Miss McGarricle get busted in an act of epically stupid sex, and the teacher, now hilariously pregnant with a 13-year-old boy's child, gets sent to prison. Donny enjoys tabloid fame and is ordered to raise the baby, named Han Solo Berger, maintaining custody until his 18^th birthday.

Flash forward 28 years, and Donny (Sandler using an in-and-out South Boston accent) is a has-been strip-club patron with a big tax debt. In order to get out of serving time, he hatches a scheme to harvest some reality television cash by reuniting with Han Solo and Miss McGarricle during a prison visit. So he weasels his way back into his son's life just in time to see Han Solo, an investment banker living under an assumed name and played by former “Saturday Night Live” standout Andy Samberg, get married to a comely shrew (Leighton Meester) at the estate of his boss, played by Tony Orlando (of course).

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6-4-2012

'Dark Knight Rises' Movie Awards Footage: What We Saw

Brand-new footage gives fans terrifying insight into Bane, who may be Batman's most menacing enemy ever.

By Kevin P. Sullivan

After weeks of waiting, never-before-seen footage from "The Dark Knight Rises" debuted at the 21st annual MTV Movie Awards, and no matter how much awesomely new material we saw, the clip could never be long enough.

Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and directorChristopher Nolan were on hand to present the footage, and they did not let us down. The montage included brand-new scenes with Catwoman, more footage of the aerial vehicle, the Bat, and a terrifying shot of Bane, sure to stay burned in the collective memory of Batman fans.

Here's our take on the new "Dark Knight Rises" footage.

The Batcave
It may seem like a silly thing to look forward to when you consider all the action and chemically enhanced super villains in the film, but the Batcave will be making a welcome return for the final installment of Nolan's Batman trilogy. The secret lair took one movie off after it burned to the ground in "Batman Begins," but the newest footage from the movie shows the underground sanctuary up-and-running with a shiny, new Batsuit case to boot.

The Bat's Best Friend

'Men in Black 3'

Box office update: 'Men in Black 3' earns $18 million on Friday; 'Avengers' holds strong

by Grady Smith 5-26-2012

After 10 years away from the big screen, the alien-hunting Men In Black (Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and now, Josh Brolin) are back on top of the box office.
Men In Black 3 ended The Avengers‘ 21-day reign in first place with an $18 million Friday, which puts

'Avengers'

It's safe to say that everyone expected Marvel's "The Avengers" to smash the box office when it opened in U.S. theaters this weekend, but no one could foresee just how many records it would break.
According to Deadline Hollywood, the Joss Whedon-directed film grossed more than $207 million domestically this weekend, blasting away the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" record of $169 million. The film now also holds the #1 spot for highest Saturday gross of all time with a whopping $69.7 million made in a single day.

"We are really in uncharted territory now with an opening like this," Phil Contrino of BoxOffice.com told MTV News.

With "Avengers" exceeding fan and critic expectations, is the film poised to break any other records? Box Office Guru editor Gitesh Pandyapredicts some hefty numbers. "It also broke the speed record for hitting $200 million, doing it in a mere three days, beating a trio of past hits that did it in five days," he said. "And I project it will become the fastest film in history to

Star Wars Day

May the 4th be with you! 10 things worth celebrating about that galaxy far, far away on 'Star Wars Day'

by Christian Blauvelt 5/5/2012

After 35 years, Star Wars casts an ever-growing pop-culture shadow. Though the anniversary of the release of the original Star Wars falls on May 25, devotees of that galaxy far, far away have designated May 4, as in “May the 4th Be With You,” as the official day to party like a drunken Ewok. If you’re a diehard Star Wars fanatic, today would be the day to consider what an impact George Lucas’ space opera has had not only on J.J. Abrams, Joss Whedon, the guys at Pixar, and even Lady Gaga, but also on science, philosophy, and politics.
A lot of you also probably look at Star Wars as an unfulfilled childhood promise, a franchise that didn’t grow up with you and that’s now creatively dried up. You’ll complain about the prequels, shout down the addition of “Nooooo!” to Darth Vader’s climactic dialogue in Return of the Jedi, and bitch about Slave Leia dancing to “Genie in a Bottle” in Star Wars Kinect. Don’t give in to the Dark Side, guys! Star Wars is alive and well. If you’re willing to look beyond the big screen, and dive deep into

Five-Year Engagement

'Five-Year Engagement' is several years too long

A review of the cute but long-winded romantic comedy "The Five-Year Engagement," starring Jason Segel and Emily Blunt.
By Moira Macdonald

Nicholas Stoller's romantic comedy "The Five-Year Engagement" is one of those movies that you badly want to like much more than you actually do. It stars Jason Segel, that puppy-eyed Muppet of a man, and the always-enchanting Emily Blunt as Tom and Violet, an engaged couple who seem believably and happily in love. It lets us spend two hours in the company of two characters we genuinely like and root for. And, just to tip things over the edge, it features a scene in which Blunt and Alison Brie (as Violet's sister Suzie) have a meaningful conversation while impersonating Cookie Monster and Elmo. (I've never really thought of a cookie as a metaphor for

American engineers invented "the lazy killer" alarm clock

According to AP

　An engineer invented a "lazy killer" alarm clock: it is a ring, users have obediently get up.
　　This alarm clock to use the external power supply, built-in battery at the same time, does not ring a few minutes before. "Snooze" button. Close to the ringing time, the user can not reset the time. The bell rang, if the power is pulled, the alarm can make use of the batteries continue to perform their duties. Want to turn off the alarm, the user must get up, went into the kitchen or bathroom, with matching keyboard to enter the current date.
　　Associated Press reported on the 10th, the inventor named Paul Sammut, 25-year-old, who lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, he used the spare time to invent this alarm clock, every day use.
　　Sammut said that his inspiration from high school every morning and rush to get out of bed by her mother experienced. Him to accept the recommendation of a friend, and video release in the kick-starter.com website to promote this alarm clock. Sammut said that last a half months to raise $ 150,000, received more than 400 orders. Sammut admitted that "lazy people" shatter the alarm clock can stay in bed, only the unit price of $ 350 enough to get another look.

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Movie review: 'That's My Boy'

June 4, 2012

'Dark Knight Rises' Movie Awards Footage: What We Saw

Brand-new footage gives fans terrifying insight into Bane, who may be Batman's most menacing enemy ever.

May 26, 2012

May 7, 2012

'Avengers' Smashes Box-Office Records: Experts Weigh In

'We are really in uncharted territory now with an opening like this,' one box-office expert tells MTV News.

May 5, 2012

April 26, 2012