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What If We Reinvented Awards Season As a Playoff Tournament?

Posted on February 24, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Has awards season become a tad repetitive for your tastes? Sure, the recent surge by The King’s Speech over The Social Network is exciting, I suppose, but at this point how many awards can we see Natalie Portman and Colin Firth win against basically the same competition before we all collectively throw up our hands and say, “OK, we get it. Can we just move on to the Oscars now? Or at least try something different ?” Here’s an idea: What if every single awards ceremony were important?

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When Is Color-Blind Casting Okay And When Is It Not?

Posted on July 3, 2010 by | Leave a comment

It seems like The Last Airbender has at least 99 problems — excruciatingly bad 3D, thuddingly clumsy dialogue, sub-Jake Lloydian acting and more — but should the color of its cast really be one of them? When io9 proffered Community actor Donald Glover as a possible new Spider-Man , the internet seized on it as its new favorite meme. Sure, Glover is black while Peter Parker in the movies, TV shows and comic books has always been white, but Glover is hilarious, as Spidey should be, and could have easily played the part. So why was this move lauded while Airbender has been met with protests and picket lines ?

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Friday Box Office: Eclipse Overshadows Airbender

Posted on July 3, 2010 by | Leave a comment

The Sparkly Vampire Clan of Forks, WA easily topped the De-Asianed Trio of Heroes on Friday, as Eclipse pulled in more than $28 million on Friday night to add to their already sizeable $68 million opening day. That’s an impressive chunk of change that’ll buy plenty of promise rings and pre-torn jean cut-offs for the whole cast. Meanwhile, the Worst Reviewed Movie in the History of the World managed to sucker in more than $16 million its opening day, but look for that number to plummet as the weekend continues and the toxic word of mouth travels. The stalwart Toy Story 3 , the urine-soaked Grown-Ups , and the failure-flavored Knight and Day made up the rest of the Top 5. Check out the complete numbers after the jump.

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Attractions: Eclipse and Airbender — A Tale of Two Tentpoles

Posted on July 2, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or cash-hoarding at the movies. It’s a light week for new releases, with nobody really coveting the roadkill role opposite a certain teen-friendly Brinks truck of a franchise. Well, nobody except for Manoj Shyamalan, apparently. But even he won’t be truly flattened, regardless of the reviews. Let’s explore the box-office potential, whaddya say?

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Eclipse Keeps Record-Setting Pace, The Last Airbender Does Not

Posted on July 1, 2010 by | Leave a comment

After grossing a record-setting $30 million from midnight screenings, you didn’t need to be Nostradamus to realize that The Twilight Saga: Eclipse was going to smash some records over July 4th weekend. And so down goes the first one: Buoyed by those midnight showings, Eclipse banked $68.5 million on Wednesday, besting the gross of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for biggest Wednesday in box office history. That wasn’t enough to top the $72 million opening day record held by New Moon , but it doesn’t sound like anyone is complaining. Except maybe Paramount and one Manoj Night Shyamalan.

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REVIEW: A Few Nifty Visuals Can’t Rescue Exhausting Last Airbender

Posted on July 1, 2010 by | Leave a comment

The Last Airbender is, as M. Night Shyamalan movies go, pretty straightforward. It’s also, refreshingly, not as completely idiotic as most of his movies are. No aliens in stretchy unitards who can be vanquished by — surprise! — plain old tap water; no meek, modest 19th-century communities who are — surprise! — really just weirdo cults being kept away from 21st-century life. The Last Airbender, based on a popular Nickelodeon cartoon series, is a fantasy-adventure aimed primarily at kids, set in a world where four tribal nations — Air, Water, Earth and Fire — just can’t get along, because a revered being known as the Avatar has skipped out on them some 100 years ago. Taking advantage of this international instability, the people of the Fire Nation have decided to bully the other guys into submission and thus take over the world. Oh where, oh where, could the Avatar be?

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So, How Bad is M. Night Shyamalan’s New Movie? (Really Bad.) [Reviews]

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Sixth Sense director M. Night Shyamalan has a new movie out. It’s called The Last Airbender ; it is apparently based on some kind of cartoon; and it really, truly sucks. Like, “4 per cent ‘fresh’ on Rotten Tomatoes” sucks. More

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Bitter Mystery Talent Attacks Paramount on Twitter

Posted on May 17, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Some anonymous Hollywood creative has taken to Twitter to air his/her grievances against Paramount. “Not since we released Breakfast At Tiffany ‘s has Paramount been prouder to bring yellow face 2 cinemas with our fantastic The Last Airbender ,” wrote the person behind @ParamountFilms, who also has an unusual infatuation with Anchorman 2 . “We just got Scientology to put up the full budget for Mission Impossible 4 . Maybe it’s time to get your thetans checked @ghostpanther,” they tweeted yesterday, referencing director Adam McKay. Later: “Yes, we @ Paramount R planning 2 remake every movie in our library. So while we won’t give U Anchorman 2 , we will give U the remake in 2015.” Hmm. I have my money on Paul Rudd. You? [ @ParamountFilms via Deadline ]

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Watch The Last Airbender Movie Teaser Trailer

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Benny Hollywood

Nickelodeon and Nicktoons Network has brought the bubbly Aang in our television in the cartoon series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Destined to save the world, Aang and his friends will fight against the evil Fire Lord and end the war against the Fire Country. A lot has been carried away by the cartoon series and no doubt the the movie version would also get the same attention. The movie was directed by M. Night Shyamalan and would be released this summer. Aang would be portrayed by Noah Ringer, Dev Patel as Zuko, Jackson Rathbone as Sokka, and Nicola Peltz as Katara. Iroh will be played by Shaun Toub and Firelord Ozai by Cliff Curtis. The movie is Asian inspired combined with display of Chinese Martial Arts focusing on elemental manipulation. Movie trailer can be seen here. Click here to view the embedded video. Watch The Last Airbender Movie Teaser Trailer is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading →

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