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LovelyHue: Sweet. With this and Inception, Ellen Page is turning out to be a sci fi darling. more »
themidnighter: Michel Gondry. Daniel Clowes. Ellen Page.
I think I just figured out how the world will end. All that hipster-energy in one location is bound to r... more »
Hotscot: Check out this excellent inventive video directed by Michel Gondry. "Let Forever Be" by the Chemical Brothers.
A lot of what seem to be special effec... more »
Green Hornet director Michel Gondry is teaming up with Ghost World scribe Daniel Clowes to create a time-travel drama starring Ellen "Juno Pryde" Page. Looks like Gondry's trying to sweep both the Saturn and Independent Spirit Awards with this one.
Some days Hollywood casting news just reads like drunken chimpanzees playing Mad Libs. Dane Cook confirmed that he tried out for Captain America via Twitter, and two of the Jonas Brothers are (groundlessly) rumored to be in the running.
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Despite a rollicking introduction from Dr. Horrible himself, the Oscars seemed a smidge muted tonight. Was this because Avatar got trounced? Or was it because the show was so damn long I had to zahelu with a bottle of Glenlivet?
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Physicist Sidney Perkowitz has one simple request for scifi filmmakers: please break the laws of physics only once per movie. He insists this for Tinseltown's own good, as audiences' disbelief can be only be suspended so far.
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"Umbrella" chanteuse Rihanna has reportedly nabbed the role as a roundhouse-kicking dominatrix, in the upcoming remake of the 1985 R&B martial arts fantasy The Last Dragon.
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Dean Koontz's best-selling Frankenstein series, which features androids, an evil biotechnology firm, and an inked-up iteration of Mary Shelley's monster, will become a huge movie set in 21st century New Orleans.
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We know that James Cameron's Avatar has raked in a record-breaking $1.34 billion internationally. But where exactly did Cameron make the most greenbacks off his epic of 10-foot-tall cerulean cat people who make love with their hairdos?
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Now that Avatar is on track to be the second biggest film of all time, pundits are starting to wonder if there's more to its success than Art Nouveau pterodactyls in 3-D. Here are five explanations they've come up with.
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When District 9 director Neill Blomkamp makes his next film, he won't have a $100 million budget. Instead, he'll keep making films on the (relative) cheap, because it's the only way to make science fiction movies with creative freedom.
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After the success of Paranormal Activity, Paramount Studios plans to launch a division specifically for $100,000-or-less movie projects. Unfortunately, rather than getting innovative horror films to theaters, the movie house will use the department as an expensive focus group.
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Though Hollywood excels in making plotless movies, the sale of Asteroids to Universal breaks new ground. The people who are bringing you GI Joe this month are about to make a movie about a triangle shooting a bunch of blobs.
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