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Excusive Poster Debut: Fly Into the Abyss With Werner Herzog

Movieline is pleased today to bring you your first look at the new poster for Into the Abyss , director Werner Herzog’s acclaimed documentary foray into the intellectual, spiritual, emotional and legal wilds of capital punishment in America. Or Texas, more specifically, where Herzog digs into the case of convicted murderer and condemned inmate Michael Perry.

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Excusive Poster Debut: Fly Into the Abyss With Werner Herzog

Happy 50th Birthday, Ralph Macchio!

News of Ralph Macchio’s 50th birthday should be reason to celebrate and reflect on the life and work of one of the ’80s most recognized movie stars. And it is! Once you get past the fact that Ralph Macchio is 50 — and the implications this has for the rest of us.

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How’s J. Edgar? Critics, Comedians and Moviegoers Tweet Away Over AFI Fest Opener

J. Edgar is undoubtedly one of the flashiest Oscar contenders this year. With Clint Eastwood’s direction, Dustin Lance Black’s script, and the well-pancaked melodrama of Leonardo DiCaprio, Judi Dench and Armie Hammer, we’re dealing with a formidable award-attractant group. But was the film’s quality worthy of opening AFI Fest this year? Movieline saw J. Edgar last night — along with a bunch of other critics, bloggers and assorted plebes — and we’re not quite sure. Here are the first 140-character reactions to the movie. (We threw in some comedian takes for the hell of it.)

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How’s J. Edgar? Critics, Comedians and Moviegoers Tweet Away Over AFI Fest Opener

Werner Herzog Talks One Shot, Tom Cruise: ‘He Means Business’

Renowned for his prolific, fearless filmmaking, Werner Herzog is in fact nothing if not a polymath: Opera director , guerrilla film-school proprietor , diarist and author , septi-continental gadabout , and actor for hire (among other interests). It’s this latter quality that he and I discussed briefly today as he made the rounds for his new capital-punishment doc Into the Abyss — a diametric opposite to the biggest onscreen gig he’s taken to date.

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Clint Eastwood’s Brawl Lessons, and Other Revelations from the J. Edgar Press Conference

At the press conference for J. Edgar , which premiered last night at AFI Fest to mixed, often hilarious reviews , stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer and Naomi Watts joined director Clint Eastwood, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and producer Brian Grazer fielded questions about the very issues that make the biopic seem difficult to make: the ambiguity surrounding both Hoover and his confidants’ personal lives. Movieline culled the best five quotes from the panel, one of which involves 81-year-old Eastwood’s on-set brawling.

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Clint Eastwood’s Brawl Lessons, and Other Revelations from the J. Edgar Press Conference

Week in Review: Real Talk Is Scary, Y’All

It was a week for real talk ’round these parts at Movieline HQ, with everything from Halloween to Lindsay Lohan’s latest legal woes bringing everyone to terms with the truth. Like the fact that no matter how many Halloweens you live through, you’ll never match Heidi Klum’s level of kookiness. Then the awful truth about the monster flop The Wolfman broke, and America’s favorite sparkly vampire dropped some cineaste science all over the Twilight crowd. What’s going on around here?

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Week in Review: Real Talk Is Scary, Y’All

John Cho on A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, Meeting the World’s Leaders, and Talking Basketball with the President

The sweetest feel-good flick of the holiday season may well be the one about two ex-BFFs, who’d once gone in search of White Castle sliders and tangled with Homeland Security, who reunite on Christmas Eve to hunt down the perfect fir, crossing paths with drug-sniffing babies, Ukrainian gangsters, and a sweater-clad Danny Trejo along the way. Stoner heroes Harold and Kumar have come a long way since 2004 — and so has co-star John Cho , who sat down with Movieline recently to talk H&K, career moves, and his encounters with the likes of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President Obama.

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John Cho on A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, Meeting the World’s Leaders, and Talking Basketball with the President

John Cho on A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, Meeting the World’s Leaders, and Talking Basketball with the President

The sweetest feel-good flick of the holiday season may well be the one about two ex-BFFs, who’d once gone in search of White Castle sliders and tangled with Homeland Security, who reunite on Christmas Eve to hunt down the perfect fir, crossing paths with drug-sniffing babies, Ukrainian gangsters, and a sweater-clad Danny Trejo along the way. Stoner heroes Harold and Kumar have come a long way since 2004 — and so has co-star John Cho , who sat down with Movieline recently to talk H&K, career moves, and his encounters with the likes of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President Obama.

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John Cho on A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, Meeting the World’s Leaders, and Talking Basketball with the President

John Cho on A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, Meeting the World’s Leaders, and Talking Basketball with the President

The sweetest feel-good flick of the holiday season may well be the one about two ex-BFFs, who’d once gone in search of White Castle sliders and tangled with Homeland Security, who reunite on Christmas Eve to hunt down the perfect fir, crossing paths with drug-sniffing babies, Ukrainian gangsters, and a sweater-clad Danny Trejo along the way. Stoner heroes Harold and Kumar have come a long way since 2004 — and so has co-star John Cho , who sat down with Movieline recently to talk H&K, career moves, and his encounters with the likes of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President Obama.

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John Cho on A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, Meeting the World’s Leaders, and Talking Basketball with the President

John Cho on A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, Meeting the World’s Leaders, and Talking Basketball with the President

The sweetest feel-good flick of the holiday season may well be the one about two ex-BFFs, who’d once gone in search of White Castle sliders and tangled with Homeland Security, who reunite on Christmas Eve to hunt down the perfect fir, crossing paths with drug-sniffing babies, Ukrainian gangsters, and a sweater-clad Danny Trejo along the way. Stoner heroes Harold and Kumar have come a long way since 2004 — and so has co-star John Cho , who sat down with Movieline recently to talk H&K, career moves, and his encounters with the likes of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President Obama.

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John Cho on A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, Meeting the World’s Leaders, and Talking Basketball with the President