You know the unemployment crisis is ongoing when we can’t even be sure there’s a job for Superman. The big guy turned 75 this week, just two days after the world saw the final trailer for his upcoming, make-or-break cinematic reboot, Man of Steel. And it isn’t only Time Warner that’s wondering if that world...
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What an incredibly, monumentally, stunningly boring week this was as far as film news goes. Between the blackouts in the Mid-Atlantic that knocked a bunch of web services offline and the 4th of July getting in the middle of everyone’s shit and Comic Con next weekend (and Scott Howson refusing to trade Rich Nash…...
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So, Chris Nolan: You’re filming a sequel to the third-best-attended movie in history. And you’re making its storyline 100 percent dependent on another film that was seen by less than half as many people. Your mind is the scene of … something.
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This slot was originally slated for Best Foreign Film, and then we realized that between the three of us, we’d only cumulatively seen two of the five films (Dogtooth and Biutiful), so VFX it is! It’s an odd feeling to be judging a film visually without judging its story, but that’s what this category...
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Let’s see what’s going on in geekery this week: -Batman 3: It’ll be called The Dark Knight Rises (shrug), it won’t be in 3D, and the Riddler will not return as the villain after all (obviously). -Avatar 2 & 3: Jim’s making ‘em, set for December 2014 and 2015 respectively. They will be in...
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So here we are, having made it through two-thirds of the year, only a day away from the official start of the Toronto International Film Festival and the unofficial starting gun for the 2010 awards season. Before the Finchers and the Weinsteins can go and shake up the ranks too much, here’s a look...
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It’s a damn shame Congress has killed the concept of betting on box-office performance. Because oddsmakers could be having a field day right now with the most burning cinematic question of the moment: whether Christopher Nolan will go down in a history as one of the most important filmmakers of his generation, or just...
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