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New Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Trailer: All Aboard the Polar(izing) Express

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Now you, too, can get as close as David Denby will ever get to ” the Daldry ” prior to release: The new trailer for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has officially dropped via Apple. It looks just as Oscar-starved as it was a few months ago , though this time around, Warner Bros., producer Scott Rudin and director Stephen Daldry are putting all their eggs in young actor Thomas Horn’s Aspergers-y basket. Does it work?

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Herman Cain’s Pokémon Movie Moment, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

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Happy Monday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Tom Cruise gets his Bollywood close-up… The Up house finally sells… Peter Jackson finishes West Memphis 3 doc… More bad news for snail mailers… and more.

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Angelina Jolie Accused of Pilfering Blood and Honey

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A Croatian author has filed a lawsuit suit accusing Angelina Jolie of lifting parts of his 2007 novel for her writing-directing effort In the Land of Blood and Honey , basically arguing that the female protagonist in both works is subject to “being raped continuously by soldiers and officers” before becoming “a servant at the camp headquarters, a duty assumed by very few of the captives.” Having seen Blood and Honey , I can tell you this isn’t even an especially accurate description of the film or the context of the woman’s servitude, but hey. No such thing as bad publicity, etc. etc. [ Radar ]

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War Horse Star Jeremy Irvine on His Biggest of Big Breaks

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Drew Barrymore. Christian Bale. Bruce the Shark. It’s an elite class of young talent that has found launching pads in the films of Steven Spielberg. And while Jeremy Irvine is a little older than those actors who preceded him, you can go ahead and add the 21-year-old to the list thanks to his breakthrough in Spielberg epic Oscar hopeful War Horse .

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Smug New Yorker Critic Somehow Manages to Compel Sympathy For Scott Rudin

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This kind of silly public skirmish seems a little too convenient to just naturally occur in a week when The Artist and War Horse are dominating awards chatter, but either way, stroppy megaproducer Scott Rudin is furious with The New Yorker for breaking a review embargo on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo . Who can blame him, especially since critic David Denby — along with the rest of the members of the New York Film Critics Circle who saw the film before voting last week — signed an agreement assenting to hold his review until Dec. 13 at the earliest? Or maybe the more important question is: Why should you care? I can think of a few reasons, chief among them being that Denby’s excuse for breaking his word is hilarious .

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Jeremy Piven on I Melt With You and Searching for the Anti-Ari Gold

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Mark Pellington’s bromantic thriller I Melt With You made quite the splash at Sundance , just not the kind a filmmaker necessarily wants to make: Critics walked out of the film, recoiling at the bleakness on display in the tale of four former college friends (Jeremy Piven, Thomas Jane, Rob Lowe, and Christian McKay), reuniting for a weekend bender, who confront their collective middle-aged disillusionment with increasingly violent ends. Co-star Piven knew from the start it would be a polarizing project to take on.

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Guy Pearce Has an Interrogation Problem in the First Trailer For Lockout

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When Luc Besson isn’t directing standing ovation-worthy biopics these days, the French filmmaker is busy co-writing action thrillers for his studio EuropaCorp to produce like Taken , Transporter , Colombiana and up next Lockout — the sci-fi adventure flick that sees Guy Pearce as a wrongly-accused government agent whose only shot at freedom comes at a very risky, space-age price.

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Spike Lee, Bruce Willis Lead Sundance 2012 Premieres and Documentary Slates

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Another round of Sundance 2012 selections tumbled down the hill from Park City this afternoon, with such luminaries as Spike Lee, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julie Delpy, Chris Rock, and a bounty of others making the cut for next month’s festival. Read on for the complete list of selections in the Premieres and Documentaries sections, and have a guess at what you’ll be talking about for the rest of 2012.

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Which Book Does Steven Spielberg Admit He ‘Softened’ in Movie Form?

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Steven Spielberg is likely a man of few regrets, but even the Oscar-winning director is appearing dubious about one of his major works. In a new interview, Spielberg admits he “softened” the sensuality of one of his film’s source material to preserve a PG-13 rating. And maybe the film suffered for it. Care to guess which opus he’s talking about?

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Consider Uggie, Day 7: Is Artist Wonder Dog ‘Facing Retirement’?

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Even if no awards body deigns to recognize the year’s finest screen work by a dog (or anyone else, for that matter), we can all take some comfort in knowing that Movieline’s Consider Uggie campaign has attained an apex of some kind: The Artist ‘s wonder-dog sidekick has been featured in that celebrated repository of prestige, glamor and influence otherwise known as Page Six. But that’s the good news; another, more troubling report on Uggie suggests that this campaign may be his last shot at golden glory.

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