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Tom Hardy Is In Dark Knight Rises Denial (and 8 Other Revelations From the Warrior Press Conference)

When The Fighter premiered last year, Lionsgate was sitting on Warrior , another “fighter” film about the deeply rooted rivalry between two working-class brothers. Directed by Gavin O’C onnor ( Miracle ), the action drama features burgeoning stars Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy (both of whom force fed themselves chicken and trained brutally to attain realistically rock hard MMA physiques) and Nick Nolte as their recovering alcoholic father who so desperately seeks their forgiveness. In anticipation of this gritty Sept. 9 release, O’C onnor and his stars Nolte, Edgerton, Hardy and Jennifer Morrison gathered Friday at the Los Angeles press conference to discuss Warrior , their upcoming big budget projects ( Dark Knight Rises and The Great Gatsby ) and in the case of Nolte, Katharine Hepburn’s affinity for drunks and the enduring social message of his ’80s Eddie Murphy comedy 48 Hours . Click through for the revelations.

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Tom Hardy Is In Dark Knight Rises Denial (and 8 Other Revelations From the Warrior Press Conference)

REVIEW: One Day? Feels More Like 20 Years

Great romances don’t always happen overnight. But we need to wait nearly 20 years for the romance in Lone Scherfig’s One Day to get cooking, and for long stretches it seems as if we’re watching this particular pair of nonstarters hem and haw in real time. Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess play Em and Dexter, who meet not-so-cute one night in 1988, just after they’ve both graduated from some unnamed English university. She’s gawky and wears glasses; he’s upper-crusty, as we can tell from his forelock. After a mild drunken flirtation, the two toddle back to her flat with the intent of having casual sex. The first thing Em does upon entering her cramped digs it put on a Tracy Chapman record. Back in the day, we used to call that a wienie shrinker, and Dex would be inclined to agree.

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Christina Hendricks Pouts About Sex Toys in the Red Band Trailer for The Family Tree

When was the last time we saw a hypersexual family comedy? Does Addams Family Values count ? In The Family Tree , we revisit the forgotten genre and talents of Christina Hendricks, Hope Davis, Oscar-winning songwriter Keith Carradine, Dermot Mulroney, Gabrielle Anwar, and Selma Blair in full Velma Kelly drag. How refreshing! It also helps that Christina Hendricks weeps about dildos.

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Christina Hendricks Pouts About Sex Toys in the Red Band Trailer for The Family Tree

John Carpenter 10-Word Review Contest: We Have Winners!

Let’s hear it for all of the readers and fans who participated in our John Carpenter 10-word review contest for The Ward . In just over 24 hours, we received nearly 50 submissions, all thoughtful, creative and hilarious, just like our Movieline readers. Alas, only six could be winners.

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REVIEW: Even 4 Dimensions Can’t Redeem Spy Kids: All the Time in the World

The idea that Machete , Robert Rodriguez’s grindhouse tribute, was inspired in part by his Spy Kids trilogy of the early aughts is an appealing one. Danny Trejo played a kid’s idea of a bad guy named Machete in the films, then helped carry a genre mutation of the character over into bloody B-movie territory. So it seems fitting that Rodriguez was inspired in turn, on the set of Machete , to reanimate his Spy Kids franchise. It might even bode well. But the germ of the idea — Machete star and new mom Jessica Alba wrestling with an exploding diaper in full costume — is little transformed in Spy Kids: All the Time in the World , despite two added dimensions and a brand new cast.

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REVIEW: Even 4 Dimensions Can’t Redeem Spy Kids: All the Time in the World

Mysteries of Lisbon Filmmaker Raúl Ruiz Passes Away at 70

With his latest film, the well-received four and a half-hour opus The Mysteries of Lisbon , still in theaters stateside, Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz has passed away in Paris following a lung infection. The director, who had made over 100 films in his nearly five-decade career, was 70.

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Gualtiero Jacopetti, Forefather of the Mondo Film, Passes Away at 91

Along with fellow documentarians Paolo Cavara and Franco Prosperi, Italian filmmaker Gualtiero Jacopetti helped to birth the exploitation cinema genre known as the mondo film, which took off following the success of their 1962 shockumentary classic Mondo Cane . Jacopetti, aged 92, died this week in Rome; his most provocative films include Africa Addio and Addio zio Tom ( Goodbye, Uncle Tom ), the latter of which happens to earn a nod in a certain upcoming Ryan Gosling automotive thriller opening next month.

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Gualtiero Jacopetti, Forefather of the Mondo Film, Passes Away at 91

Movieline’s Week in Review: Je Veux Pisser

Well, that happened. Has a long, sultry late-August week ever been summed up with a more succinct phrase than Gérard Depardieu’s willy-wagging protestation? Maybe so, but that’s the theme of the week at Movieline HQ. Let’s look back, if you can bear it, with the customary Week in Review. Drop by in the days ahead for updates from the box office and any other breaking news, and have a great weekend!

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Movieline’s Week in Review: Je Veux Pisser

Atom Egoyan-Helmed West Memphis 3 Feature Film on Tap for Spring

It seemed inevitable that Hollywood would turn its gaze on the incredibly dramatic tale of Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, and Jason Baldwinthe, the men known as the West Memphis 3 who were freed today after spending 18 years serving time for the 1993 murders of three young boys. But this isn’t an opportunistic stroke of timing; the film, which will be directed by Atom Egoyan, has been in development since 2006. More after the jump.

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Atom Egoyan-Helmed West Memphis 3 Feature Film on Tap for Spring

Robert Downey Jr. Speculates Very, Very Vaguely About Iron Man 3

Robert Downey Jr. is not just a laudable actor who earned the coolest Oscar nomination of the past decade for his performance in Tropic Thunder ; he’s also a damn quotable person . But what happens when he’s asked to speak about Iron Man 3 , a film that Lethal Weapon writer/ Kiss Kiss Bang Bang director Shane Black hasn’t finished writing yet and comes out in May 2013? He’s not as revealing or candid (since, uh, there’s nothing to reveal). Instead, he says things like this.

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Robert Downey Jr. Speculates Very, Very Vaguely About Iron Man 3