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Weekend Receipts: Contagion Fever — Catch It!

Hark, a new film hath unseated The Help for the #1 crown! All it took was Steven Soderbergh’s hypochondria-inducing Contagion , a picture that will surely also boost worldwide sales of Purell during flu season. And while there’s no love lost in seeing last week’s Shark Night 3D and Apollo 18 drop precipitously down in the ranks, the heartstrings pull for Warrior , a finely acted MMA film that only got a fraction of the theater count of its competitors, and performed accordingly. But! At least it fared better than Bucky Larson …

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Friday Box Office: Contagion Spreads Like Wildfire

Don’t let the PG-13s fool you: Adults have taken over the box office. For the fifth consecutive week, a sophisticated film more reliant on story, casting and filmmaking than it is on VFX bloat, franchise bulk and/or superhero ardor has claimed the No. 1 slot. Meanwhile, the late-summer phenomenon that it supplanted came in second, and you don’t even want to know where the puerile Bucky Larson wound up. (Or maybe you do. Hint: Not in the top 10!) This is your Friday Box Office.

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Sneeze Fetishists Want to Know: Is Contagion the Sexy Kind of Epidemic?

You’d think that with a cast stacked with classy, ass-y stars like Kate Winslet and Gwyneth Paltrow , the sneeze fetish community (and yes there is one, there’s a fetish for everything ) would be all over Contagion like a sneeze on a salad bar. After all, Marion Cotillard plays an expert in the forensics of sneezing- that’s like fantasy made hot French flesh right there. But as it turns out, the sneeze fetish is not all-encompassing. While some are “too shy” to see it in the theater for fear of pitching a trouser tent, others say sneezes aren’t sexy when someone, you know, dies as a result, with one user on the Sneeze Fetish Forum saying ” the whole epidemic/pandemic element takes absolutely all of the appeal out sneezes and illness for me . ” Another user is cynical about Contagion for an entirely different reason: “ Knowing Hollywood, they will still find a way to cut all the sneezes out of this movie, ” he writes. We hear you man, the MPAA is nothing but problems for us regular ol’ booby-lovers too. Perverts of the world unite! Mr. Skin lives to please, so go check out Natasha Pavlovich having a topless sneezing fit on Dream On , sneeze fetishists- and everyone can appreciate Marion Cotillard , Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet nude, right here on MrSkin.com!

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Marty McFly’s Back to the Future II Kicks Can Soon Be Yours

Back to the Future II director/producer Frank Marshall recently tweeted , “Something big is coming soon. Can’t say anything yet. No one should know too much about their own destiny. #BTTF.” Well, this package from Dr. Emmett L. Brown helps explain: It’s Nike’s upcoming Air Mag shoe, a replica of Marty McFly’s kicks from the first BTTF sequel, that boast self-lacing technology. Put on yer incredulous Crispin Glover bug eyes, because this is pretty wild! More in Buzz Break after the jump.

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REVIEW: Warrior, the Tale of Two Rockys, Packs a Potent Emotional Punch

There’s a moment at the end of Gavin O’C onnor’s MMA drama Warrior in which two men who have been relentlessly beaten and pummeled in the octagon stand dripping with exhaustion, rivers of sweat mingling with the tears running down their faces. It doesn’t matter that you can’t tell the sweat from the tears; that’s partly the point of Warrior anyway, which makes you feel every emotional wound just as acutely, if not more so, than the bruising, rib-crunching body blows. Yes, this is a mixed martial arts movie (distributed by genre specialists Lionsgate, no less). But it’s also one of the most heart-wrenching and deeply felt films of the year.

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REVIEW: Warrior, the Tale of Two Rockys, Packs a Potent Emotional Punch

Choo-Choo! Here Comes a Killer Adaptation of Anna Karenina!

Lionsgate just announced that Joe Wright, the director of Pride & Prejudice and Atonement , will helm a new adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina written by Tom Stoppard (who wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay of Shakespeare in Love , as well as countless revered plays). I think we’re owed an oversize Tolstoy treat in 2011, don’t you? We can’t subsist on The Last Station for much longer. And wait until you hear who’s set to star.

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Photobooth: A Look at the Toronto International Film Festival Gala Presentations

Hurray! Today begins the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. We’ve already predicted the five films most likely to ignite a bidding war up north, but what about the titles that will really get the red carpet TIFF treatment this week? Ahead, Movieline briefs you on the nineteen films that will be spotlighted with special premiere events as well as addresses from the directors and cast.

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Photobooth: A Look at the Toronto International Film Festival Gala Presentations

Weekend Forecast: Contagion to Brush Off Help For Box-Office Top Spot

Welcome to another edition of Weekend Forecast, your weekly guide to the latest film offerings and/or whatever you want to call that new thing Nick Swardson is in. It’s your call! Meanwhile, we’re looking at one of the most competitive weeks in a while — three cheers for the fall movie season, for reals .

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Who Will Mourn Gwyneth Paltrow’s Status as a Leading Lady?

Gwyneth Paltrow has a habit of saying things that inspire me to take notes, fill a bulletin board with theories, and question my own feelings . Today’s incendiary soundbite: a seemingly off-the-cuff remark from the Cee Lo foil regarding the roles she takes : “I have little kids, and I’m a full-time mom. I really only do small parts.” Considering her role in Contagion is a short one — she’s only in the first 15 minutes — and her newly announced ensemble role in Stuart Blumberg’s upcoming sex addiction comedy Thanks for Sharing , is it possible that we should be mourning her status as a leading lady? Will you attend the memorial?

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Steven Soderbergh Explains His Hunger Games 2nd Unit Gig

Contagion / Haywire / Magic Mike director (slash painter and future retiree ) Steven Soderbergh was indeed tapped by old friend Gary Ross to shoot second unit on the YA adaptation The Hunger Games , the challenge of which he explains in an interview with Moviefone: “I thought, ‘OK, I see what you guys are doing. I know what the tool kit is. I know what the rules are.’ And it’s fun in a way. I found it much more nerve-wracking than when you’re shooting for yourself. Because I was constantly thinking, ‘Oh, I hope that he likes this. I hope he likes that.’ May the odds be ever in his favor? [ Moviefone ]

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