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VIDEO: 4-Year-Old Learns Vader is Luke’s Father, Is Shocked

File under Adorbs: Four-year-old Faris watched Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back for the first time and was shocked, shocked by its big reveal. Watch his little jaw drop in the video below and hearken back to the first time you saw the sci-fi classic. Just wait til he watches Return of the Jedi and figures out why that Luke-Leia make-out session was so, so wrong.

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Twit Wit: The 5 Best Tweets About This Weekend’s Movies

Nope, new movies 50/50 , Courageous , and Dream House didn’t take the weekend box office away from Moneyball and Dolphin Tale . Boo, I know. But that doesn’t mean your favorite Twitter celebrities didn’t have anything to say about it! In today’s Twit Wit, we see what Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt, and one staggering Jeopardy! champ have to say about the cineplex. I’ll take ” Moneyball Jokes” for $600, Alex.

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Twit Wit: The 5 Best Tweets About This Weekend’s Movies

Netflix’s 10 Most Rented Movies Will Shock, Delight, and Sadden You

Netflix may be a little unpopular at the moment, but I assume you’re holding onto a couple of red envelopes right now, right? (I’ve had Barefoot in the Park for two months, and I desperately need to move on to A Patch of Blue . I can hear Shelley Winters bellowing at me from beyond the grave.) The company just released a list of the ten most rented movies in its history, and you’ll have several reactions to it: 1) Really? A few of these are surprising. 2) Really? A few of these are kind of cool. 3) Of course that damn movie is #1. Of course.

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Director Bennett Miller on Why Moneyball Worked: ‘It Became Personal to Me’

This fall’s hit baseball drama Moneyball stars Brad Pitt as a beleaguered Oakland A’s general manager who turns his team around with a formula designed for quality optimization. Ironically, director Bennett Miller employed a similar strategy when adapting Moneyball , the long-gestating project based on Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game for the screen.

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REVIEW: Kenneth Lonergan’s Flawed But Glorious Margaret Somehow Hits the Mark

There’s always been a soft spot in my heart for grand, uncompromising, crazy-eyed acts of directorial ambition/folly — films like Southland Tales and The Fountain , Heaven’s Gate and One From The Heart — that are either disaster or genius depending on who you talk to but that could never be described as restrained. Margaret , playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s second turn as a director after 2000’s very good You Can Count on Me , joins these titles after spending years in post-production purgatory as Lonergan reportedly struggled over a final cut, following lawsuits and studio battles and delays upon delays. (Among those listed in the opening credits are two people who’ve passed away since production began, executive producer Anthony Minghella and producer Sydney Pollack.)

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REVIEW: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Gives 50/50 a Fighting Chance

The world needs more cancer comedies. But it may not need more cancer comedies like 50/50 . It’s not that 50/50 is insensitive or dull or unfunny — it sidesteps all those potential flaws with the delicacy of the most precise surgeon. Then again, the picture’s delicacy may be misplaced: Directed by Jonathan Levine (who, in 2008, brought us The Wackness ) and written by Will Reiser, 50/50 never risks offending or shocking us as far as the cancer angle goes, but it does slot in some pretty ho-hum non-cancer-related crudeness wherever it can. When cancer-stricken Adam, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, shaves his head with electric clippers belonging to his best friend, Kyle (Seth Rogen), you don’t have to guess where those clippers have been — the movie tells you.

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REVIEW: Anna Faris Draws the Short Straw in What’s Your Number?

There are hundreds of reasons we should welcome the new trend of movies featuring women who aren’t afraid to admit they enjoy sex and who use language that isn’t always granny-approved. In theory, the Georgia O’K eefe-like flowering of the genre should speak of a newfound freedom in how we think and talk about women’s sexuality. There’s just one problem: The movies are crap.

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Armored Kristen Stewart Smokes Cigarette, Rides Into Sunset With Chris Hemsworth in Snow White Set Pics

Ever since hearing Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron promote their upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman project as dark, gritty and atypical of the Disney franchise at Comic-Con, we’ve been excited to see what the cast and director Rupert Sanders would come up with. Now, on the heels of the promising concept artwork , some set photos have surfaced showing Stewart as a horse-riding, cigarette-smoking, armor-wearing princess unlike any other.

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Armored Kristen Stewart Smokes Cigarette, Rides Into Sunset With Chris Hemsworth in Snow White Set Pics

Paramount Unveils Spoilery New Paranormal Activity 3 Trailer and Allows Fans To Pick Premiere Cities

Just because you’re not receiving mysterious VHS tapes in Austin this week — where rumor has it Paramount may premiere Paranormal Activity 3 tonight as a secret screening at Fantastic Fest — does not mean that you won’t get to see the franchise prequel before its October 21 release. The studio has just launched a Twitter campaign which allows fans to vote on 20 cities to host special pre-release premieres. And if that still isn’t soon enough for you Paranormal fans out there, Paramount has just released a majorly spoiler-filled new trailer for the film from Catfish directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Click ahead at your own discretion.

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This “Sparkle” Remake Is Looking Better And Better: Meet Jordin Sparks’ On Camera Sisters

Fellas, see how they trick you into watching a “chick flick”? Jordin Sparks was all a twitter today about her “Sparkle Sisters” Tika Sumpter and British actress Carmen Ejogo. These two aren’t the only additions to the cast of the “Sparkle” Remake announced this week… Cee-Lo Green has joined the cast along with Carmen Ejogo, Tika Sumpter and Omari Hardwick. Additionally, R&B artist R. Kelly has signed on to write original music for the soundtrack. Pic is a remake of the 1976 film that centered on the three Williams sisters, who began singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and went on to become a successful girl group, though their sudden rise took a toll on their personal lives. Remake takes place in 1968 Detroit during the rise of Motown. “American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks stars as the title character, a music prodigy who struggles to become a star as she overcomes issues that are tearing her family apart. Ejogo and Sumpter will play Sparks’ siblings, Sister and Dolores, respectively, while Whitney Houston plays the trio’s mother. Green will play a singer who serves as the girls’ opening act. Pic also stars Derek Luke as Stix, an aspiring Motown manager who discovers the sisters and eventually falls for Sparkle. Hardwick will play his cousin, Levi, who falls for Ejogo’s character but turns to a life of crime after she’s stolen from him by Detroit comic Satin Struthers, who will be played by Mike Epps. Told you it was starting to sound more promising. Source

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