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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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Caption This Winners Announced for Movieline’s Immortals Premiere Ticket Giveaway

Thanks to all who entered Movieline’s Caption This contest for the chance to attend the L.A. premiere of Tarsem’s Immortals — after the jump, see which entries won over Movieline’s editors with their snappy stylings. And remember, each winner gets a pair of tickets to the premiere, so it’s not too late to lobby them to bring you as their plus-one. Just sayin’. Read your winning captions after the jump.

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Caption This Winners Announced for Movieline’s Immortals Premiere Ticket Giveaway

Thanks to all who entered Movieline’s Caption This contest for the chance to attend the L.A. premiere of Tarsem’s Immortals — after the jump, see which entries won over Movieline’s editors with their snappy stylings. And remember, each winner gets a pair of tickets to the premiere, so it’s not too late to lobby them to bring you as their plus-one. Just sayin’. Read your winning captions after the jump.

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Talkback: Should Studio Heads Be as Candid as Universal’s Ron Meyer?

I was traveling all day as Movieline’s report from the Savannah Film Festival picked up steam around the blogosphere, but early on it was clear that two polar-opposite reactions were building in response to Universal Studios chief Ron Meyer’s comments about his studio’s well-publicized (at least, outside of the studio) recent flops. Either you love his blazing moment of candor — because we’ve all thought the same about most, if not all, of the woeful Universal films mentioned — or you despise what he stands for. But Meyer is a businessman, the President and COO of one of the largest movie studios and theme park conglomerates in the business. Should more filmmakers and studio heads follow suit?

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Talkback: Should Studio Heads Be as Candid as Universal’s Ron Meyer?

I was traveling all day as Movieline’s report from the Savannah Film Festival picked up steam around the blogosphere, but early on it was clear that two polar-opposite reactions were building in response to Universal Studios chief Ron Meyer’s comments about his studio’s well-publicized (at least, outside of the studio) recent flops. Either you love his blazing moment of candor — because we’ve all thought the same about most, if not all, of the woeful Universal films mentioned — or you despise what he stands for. But Meyer is a businessman, the President and COO of one of the largest movie studios and theme park conglomerates in the business. Should more filmmakers and studio heads follow suit?

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PHOTO: Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man Left His Prada at the Cleaners

DVD: This Super Bowl Sunday, Treat Yourself to a Good Cry

While the appeal of televised sports has generally eluded me, I do understand how events like the Super Bowl provide much-needed emotional release for football fans. Whether you’re cheering your team to victory, yelling at that stupid ref, or keening over a botched play, it’s a way to release tension and bottled-up feelings in a socially acceptable way. I get the same purgative experience with a good tearjerker, so if you’re not into football, watch those commercials later on Hulu and curl up with a good three-hanky DVD instead.

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REVIEW: America Seriously Needs to Evict The Roommate

After all of the trailers for movies featuring werewolves, a priest battling evil unleashed from the Stygian depths of some CGI master hard drive and Seth Rogen as an alien, the poor, mild-mannered scare picture The Roommate didn’t stand a chance. Sensation exhaustion had set. Even the flirty-eyed Aly Michalka, laboring mightily to conceal the curly haired flair she displays on Hellcats , can’t save the meekness that is Roommate . It’s the kind of live-action sub-mediocrity that usually comes with 3-D glasses. And the only fear this movie will inspire is when you realize the goggles being passed out at the ticket counter are for the far luckier patrons of Sanctum .

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Let’s Rank the Super Bowl Movie Trailers in Order of Anticipation

14 movie trailers will air during the Super Bowl on Sunday, meaning even if you don’t like football, you’ll probably get enough of an entertainment fix to keep your brain occupied for a few hours. In between making beer runs and Googling queso dip recipes, your friends at Movieline HQ have spent the better part of the day ruminating over the planned movie marketing explosion and have ranked the 14 from least anticipated to most. Click ahead for your handy Super Bowl commercial excitement chart.

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Salt, Alice in Wonderland and the Worst-Reviewed Films Nominated For an Oscar

The gold standard for bad movies getting Oscar love has to be 2007’s multiple Razzie-winning Norbit , which earned an Oscar nod for Best Make-up, and from that moment forward demanded to be called by its rightful name: ” The Academy Award-Nominated Norbit .” (Shudder.) This year’s crop of Oscar-nominated critical duds are cinematic masterworks by comparison — and most of them can thank the thankless effects, costume, and sound mixing technicians for the profile-boost — but still… who’da thunk these 8 films would have come this far?

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Salt, Alice in Wonderland and the Worst-Reviewed Films Nominated For an Oscar