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Bonnie & Clyde: What Did You Think of Lifetime, A&E & History Remake?

Bonnie & Clyde began its two-night premiere on Lifetime, A&E and the History channel last night, and did its best to introduce the 1967 film to new audiences. While by no means an attempt to upstage Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway‘s classic, it tried to rewrite the hit film with modern settings and viewers in mind. Did it succeed? Bonnie & Clyde Clip – Busting Out Emile Hirsch starred as Clyde Barrow, mixing boyish charm with criminal ruthlessness in a character whom viewers could root against or become sympathetic to. British actress Holliday Grainger, as Bonnie Parker, is fiery, fearless, and compelling as his partner in crime, whose chemistry with him was palpable. Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Elizabeth Reaser and Sarah Hyland also turned in strong performances when the gun-toting duo wasn’t raising hell. In order to enjoy Bonnie & Clyde , you basically had to not compare it to the original, a difficult task. But on its own merit, it was pretty good, right? Part 2 continues the saga tonight. What do you think so far?   Loved it! Not bad … Not a big fan … Weak. View Poll »

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Saoirse Ronan Calls ‘Host’ Scene ‘Beautiful And Epic’

Actress looking forward to ‘dramatic scenes’ with William Hurt and director Andrew Niccol’s vision for the cave. By Kara Warner, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Saoirse Ronan Photo: MTV News

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Killer Joe Trailer: NC-17 Thriller Gets Green-Band Treatment

The William Friedkin-directed, Matthew McConaughey-starring, hit-man-in-the-heart-of-Texas thriller Killer Joe has already enjoyed its share of festival notoriety for the sexualized violence that earned the film an NC-17 rating. Now comes a trailer that sanitizes for mainstream audiences what Friedkin and Co. won’t. Emile Hirsch, Thomas Haden Church, Juno Temple and Gina Gershon co-star in the tale of a young man who attempts to settle a debt by getting a cop moonlighting as a hit man (McConaughey) to off his mother for the insurance money. Guess how poorly that goes? Tracy Letts — who last collaborated with Friedkin on the psychodrama Bug — adapted the film from his play of the same name; Killer Joe opens July 27 in all its deep-fried NC-17 glory.

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Katie Holmes-Starring Seagull, New Roman Polanski Doc Funded by Elite Online Start-Up

Online film investment site Slated is touting its entr

Wim Wenders on Until the End of the World at 20, Its Amazing Soundtrack, and Loving LuLu

Director Wim Wenders has made his best-received film in years with Pina , a bold, beautiful 3-D tribute to his late friend and collaborator, the German choreographer Pina Bausch. But 2011 also marks the 20th anniversary of an even more ambitious — if eminently troubled — Wenders work loaded with cutting-edge visuals, music and concepts.

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More Meta Mayhem in the New ‘Scream 4’ Trailer

It’s never a good thing when a high-profile screenwriter gets the axe and a series creator tweets his discontent in the middle of production, but hey, how about a few dozen meta jokes? Revel in the fast-paced, action-packed, self-referential Scream -iness of the new Scream 4 trailer that just hit the web and forget about all the dramarama behind the scenes. Ghostface is back, and he’s got a 4G wireless broadband connection!

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DVD: Are We Allowed to Call Broadcast News a Classic Yet?

While Network is the movie that prophesied the future of corporate-controlled TV news, James L. Brooks’ 1987 Broadcast News was more zeitgeist-y. The shift toward happy-talk infotainment had been going on long enough that Brooks had satirized it in the 1970s on The Mary Tyler Moore Show , but the battle against what Holly Hunter’s character calls “the historic influence of Entertainment Tonight ” had not been so roundly lost as it is now.

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Expendables Fan Trailer: Boys Rule, OK?