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Sugar Ray Leonard on Real Steel, Life Behind the Scenes and the Problem With Boxing Today

You might not think that Real Steel , the sci-fi action flick about a washed-up boxer and the junkyard robot he trains toward a fictional fighting championship, would carry much boxing credibility. But that’s where Sugar Ray Leonard comes in. The Hall of Famer was recruited by director Shawn Levy to choreograph the robot fights and most importantly, to advise the filmmakers on how to establish a humanistic relationship between the movie’s beleaguered trainer (Hugh Jackman) and Atom, the robo-underdog he takes on, that audiences will want to root for.

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Please Describe the My Week With Marilyn Trailer to Me

My Week With Marilyn screens this weekend as the Centerpiece selection of the New York Film Festival, and seeing as I have every intention of hauling my sleeping bag and lantern and Boggle game over and camping out overnight for a seat, there is no way I’m compromising a shred of my anticipation by watching Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh and the rest of the principals gathered in the film’s first trailer. But! That doesn’t mean I won’t read your inspired descriptions of what happens within.

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The End is Near For The Simpsons (Or Is It?), and Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Wednesday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: The Academy finally gets some movie museum space… The Coens have their eye on TV… Paul Feig backs out of his next… Another 50 Cent movie, thank God… and more.

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10 Great Disney Images Worth Paying to See in 3-D

The Lion King 3D ‘s box-office success is admirable on its own, but Disney is looking to ramp up its output of 3-D reboots in a staggering way: Beauty and the Beast , The Little Mermaid , Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc. are all coming back to theaters in 3-D within the next two years. That’s fine, but I can think of 10 great Disney visuals from other animated classics that deserve full-bodied renovation:

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David Cronenberg, Michael Fassbender Bring Their Dangerous Method to NYFF

How does Keira Knightley devour so much scenery in A Dangerous Method yet stay so thin? That was the big question Tuesday at Lincoln Center, where her director David Cronenberg and co-star Michael Fassbender dropped by to meet the press ahead of tonight’s New York Film Festival premiere of Method .

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Bad Movies We Love: Australia

Real Steel calls upon Hugh Jackman’s ability to tame and train robots, but this isn’t his first time at the robo-dome. He first conquered a borg named Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann’s failed epic Australia . Ha! Now, now, that’s the first and last Nicole Kidman joke you’ll hear from me because 1) Nicole Kidman is awesome, 2) Rabbit Hole is under-appreciated, and 3) BORGS ARE VINDICTIVE. Let’s reinspect the joys of this looooong movie without ever caring about the story!

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Jordana Brewster on Fast Five, Maturing Onscreen and the Chance of a Sixth Fast & Furious Film

Last week, Movieline spoke with with Fast Five star Tyrese Gibson to get the male perspective on being part of such a lucrative, testosterone-driven franchise. Eager to get another take, we reached out to Jordana Brewster, who has played the sole heroine of the car heist series since day one. The Yale graduate eagerly discussed her growing role in Fast Five (which is released on DVD and Blu-ray this week), a potential sixth installment and her own meager knowledge of automobiles.

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Chris Pratt Had a Perfectly Good Reason For Giving His Cat Away on Twitter

“Bottom line, and not that this is any of your fucking business weirdos, but my wife and I want to start a family and we ABSOLUTELY CANNOT have an animal that shits all over the house. Sorry. If you are a parent you will understand. And if not, that probably explains why you have such a hard on for cats. Just sayin’.” And that, Internet, is why Moneyball star Chris Pratt gave up his 15-year-old cat Bella for adoption on Twitter . The actor ultimately gave Bella to a Twitter user named Meghan who is a “perfectly reasonable, sweet and friendly cat lover.” Pratt’s wife is What’s My Number? star Anna Faris. [ ChrisPratt.com ]

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Meet Laurence R. Harvey, the Face of The Human Centipede II

Laurence R. Harvey (not to be confused with Laurence Harvey, the late Oscar-nominated Lithuanian-British actor) made an unusual debut on the world’s stage when a close-up of his face, sweaty and bug-eyed, was released as the first image from Tom Six’s depraved sequel The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) . Meeting the British stage veteran — and, yes, one-time children’s television performer — on the red carpet at Fantastic Fest , Movieline was pleasantly relieved to find that Harvey is far from his disturbing alter ego, the put-upon Human Centipede -worshipping drudge Martin, who commits unspeakable acts upon fresh victims in the new film. But does his mother know what he’s been up to?

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Johnny Depp Is Sorry, Didn’t Mean to Compare Photo Shoots to Rape

After an excerpt of his Vanity Fair interview hit yesterday in which he compared being photographed to being raped , Johnny Depp (whose Rum Diary hits screens in a few weeks) thought better of his word choice. “”I am truly sorry for offending anyone in any way. I never meant to. It was a poor choice of words on my part in an effort to explain a feeling. I understand there is no comparison and I am very regretful. In an effort to correct my lack of judgment, please accept my heartfelt apology.” No worries, Johnny. It’s Apology Wednesday ! Stick around for more Buzz Break.

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