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Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie Red Band Trailer: Sick Show, Great Job!

Every once in a while it’s nice to see a “red band trailer” that could possibly disturb somebody. Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie does just that, as well as build nicely upon Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim’s Adult Swim series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! , which ran for five seasons. In the trailer for the new movie, which will premiere at Sundance , we watch as Tim and Eric don fetching khakis, sever a finger, astound Zach Galifiankis, reveal a staggering sex toy and “honor their love” for each other. Disgusting and undeniably funny.

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Celebrate Britney Spears’ 30th Birthday With a Look Back at Crossroads

News flash, people: Britney Spears is 30 years old today. Oh, how the years (and ruined relationships and children and countless bags of Cheetos) have flown by! In honor of the pop princess’s milestone birthday, let’s flash back to the year 2002, a time when Brit-Brit was not a girl, and not yet a woman. When she debuted her first starring turn, the start of a promising career as a serious dramatic actress! When Zoe Saldana was just that girl from Center Stage ! Let us return to Crossroads .

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9/11 vs. the Movies

Maybe it’s more like Extremely Loud and Incredibly Too Soon : “There is also the question of whether or not certain aspects of Sept. 11 — such as the people who leapt out the tower windows — should even be dealt with in a fiction film. ‘Should you show the jumpers or not?’ wonders Angus Kress Gillespie, who teaches a course on the history of Sept. 11 at Rutgers University. ‘It’s very controversial. It’s terrifying, it’s horrible, but it needs to be shown. This is not an abstraction that it was a horrible event; it was a horrible event.'” [ LAT ]

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Talkback: What Is the Greatest Penis Moment in Movie History?

Since our friends at Next Movie totally went there , why not bat this one around Movieline HQ? It’s Friday! Live a little. In honor of Michael Fassbender ‘s infamous display of total nakedness in this week’s Shame — emotional and physical, to be fair — Next Movie ran down the nine greatest “penis moments” in the movies. Yes, Ewan McGregor . You made the list.

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9 Milestones in the Evolution of Gerard Butler

This weekend, Gerard Butler revisits the very Shakespeare play that launched his acting career: Coriolanus . This time around, Butler plays Tullus Aufidius, the rival of the title character in Ralph Fiennes’s big screen adaptation. So just how did a Scottish actor who started with Shakespeare boomerang back to the very same play a decade later after achieving Hollywood stardom?

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Week in Review: The Americanization of Uggie

The masses have spoken, and their cry is clear: “Consider Uggie!” Yes, The Artist ‘s unbelievably moving doggie is tearing up news outlets and Facebook with his Oscar potential, and I emit a silent woof in approval! Enjoy this first weekend in December (and Advent, if you still celebrate your repressed Catholic upbringing like I do), and check out this week’s highlights.

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Christopher Plummer’s Sound of Music Problem, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Friday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Helena Bonham Carter has some concerns about Dark Shadows … Hailee Steinfeld is close to playing Ender’s Game … The latest on the quest for the Razzies… War Horse finally finds some awards traction (sort of)… and more.

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Stop What You’re Doing and Reacquaint Yourself with Rita Hayworth

Starting with the magic of Gilda : “I DIE. I die a thousand Classic Hollywood beautiful deaths. There’s a pantheon of perfect moments in cinema, and this moment resides there, right between the moment when Paul Heinreid lights Bette Davis’ cigarette in Now, Voyager and Claudette Colbert hikes up her skirt on the side of the road in It Happened One Night . (Feel free to add your own classic moments , but realize that this one wins by default.) The film doesn’t need anything else but that moment, but it one-ups itself with Hayworth singing ‘Put the Blame on Mame.’ TWICE. ” It all ends tragically, but still! Go read this . [ The Hairpin ]

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VIDEO: The Karate Kid’s Rough Draft Feels Like Swedeing With the Stars

In a video that hit the Web over a year and a half ago but appears to have only really surfaced this week, find Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and other principals from The Karate Kid rehearsing the entire 1984 classic on handheld camera for the film’s director, John G. Avildsen. It’s like something out of Be Kind Rewind — except, you know, featuring the actual cast working with no budget and the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind the VHS (?) camera announcing sound cues (“Wind chimes!”) and other pertinent atmospherics as the story rolls along.

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Justin Bieber: Never Say Never vs. Harry Potter: Which Soundtracks Deserve a Grammy This Year?

Ahh, the Grammy’s — the one award show that allows films like Black Swan to be nominated in the same category as The King’s Speech and Tron Legacy . Late yesterday, the nominees for the 54th Grammys were announced and now that we’ve had nearly a day to absorb the fact that Zooey Deschanel, Seth MacFarlane and Cher are going head-to-head for a golden statuette, we can decide which artists deserve awards for their soundtrack contributions.

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