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Week in Review: Kneel Before Movieline!

OK, fine, you can stand up. Your benevolent movie-news flagship invites you aboard to sail the tranquil waters of the weekend, both with the latest edition of Week in Review and the hospitable stewardship of Adm. (and weekend editor) Dixon Gaines. See you on the sun deck!

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Week in Review: Kneel Before Movieline!

The Hangover Part 2 Monkey Is Now Addicted to Cigarettes, Todd Phillips Regretfully Reports

Maybe including a monkey in The Hangover Part II was not director Todd Phillips’s finest idea. Earlier this month, the Motion Picture Association of America (rightly) complained about a sequence in which the denim jacketed primate simulates oral sex on Zach Galifianakis and Warner Bros. was forced to pull the the trailer from theaters. And now, officials at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are (rightly) outraged that Crystal, the capuchin monkey who appears in the film, cannot quit cigarettes after being taught to smoke on the Hangover: Part II set in Bangkok.

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The Hangover Part 2 Monkey Is Now Addicted to Cigarettes, Todd Phillips Regretfully Reports

Early Press Go Bonkers for Transformers: Dark of the Moon Footage

A handful of online press got a sneak peek at Paramount’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon the other day, complete with face time with Michael Bay himself. Alas, Movieline was not in attendance, so we’ll have to take these other folks’ word for it and assume Transformers 3 could be the balls-out, insane, eyeball-searing giant robot war movie to end all giant robot war movies! Right, guys?!

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Early Press Go Bonkers for Transformers: Dark of the Moon Footage