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Twit Wit: The 9 Best Contagion Tweets of the Weekend

Contagion handily won this weekend’s unremarkable box office race , but it was an even bigger smash on Twitter, where 140-character raconteurs offered up every version of your standard germ/Purell/Paltrow jokes. In our new feature “Twit Wit,” we’ll highlight nine tweeters who make us laugh, make us think or just say likable things about a new movie. With Contagion , the tweets ranged from supportive to silly, and our No. 1 is a rigorously scrubbed gem.

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Twit Wit: The 9 Best Contagion Tweets of the Weekend

A Beginner’s Guide to the Late, Great Cliff Robertson

Academy Award-winner Cliff Robertson passed away on Saturday just a day after his 88th birthday, but the dependable actor (and underrated, in terms of ’60s Oscar winners — right up there with my girl Sandy Dennis !) enjoyed roles in more than 100 films. As we say goodbye to his great talent, here’s an exciting quintet of films to help you admire his versatile appeal.

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Rampart First Look: The Nasty, Nastier Side of Woody Harrelson

The buzz circulating around Rampart at the Toronto Film Festival has it either right on the fringe of the Oscar crop (with a few judicious cuts ) or simply a curio with a ferocious turn by Woody Harrelson . And now viewers at home can finally get a look at what may or may not materialize as one of the season’s awards candidates — a bundle of NSFW clips have arrived online for your viewing pleasure.

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Natalie Portman Had Better Not Be Getting Rich Off Star Wars

Carrie Fisher would not approve: “Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity. I don’t like to linger in this zone. Obviously, drug use is a huge mistake. So I’ve made some bad choices. That’s reflected in the Princess Leia thing. I do not take it on. Me having a tantrum in the corner for my cut of Star Wars toothpaste? I don’t want to get into it. Every so often, I wonder if Natalie Portman is getting more money than the none I’m getting. If she’s holding a check for Princess Amidala’s likeness in one hand and her Oscar in the other, that would piss me off.” [ The Daily Beast ]

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Venice Awards: Faust Wins Big, Michael Fassbender Takes Best Actor

Get out your scoresheets and see how they compare with those of Venice Film Festival jury boss Darren Aronofsky, whose group today awarded the fest’s top prize, the Golden Lion, to Aleksandr Sokurov’s film Faust . The heavily favored Michael Fassbender won the fest’s Best Actor award for Shame , while Deanie Ip earned Best Actress for the Stephanie Zacharek-endorsed Hong Kong effort A Simple LIfe . Other big winners included People Mountain People Sea and Terraferma ; congrats to all! [ AP ]

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Venice Awards: Faust Wins Big, Michael Fassbender Takes Best Actor

Surprise! A Horror Movie Called Creature Is in Wide Release Today

Betcha you thought this weekend’s only new game was the (excellent) MMA drama , the porn comedy , and that one coughing movie ! Think again: An independent horror movie called Creature has snuck into the opening weekend line-up to compete for your ticket dollars in 1,500 theaters across the country. Pray tell, what is this Creature all about?

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Surprise! A Horror Movie Called Creature Is in Wide Release Today

Jewish Leaders Not So Thrilled About Mel Gibson’s Judah Maccabee Movie

That was fast : “Mel Gibson has shown nothing but antagonism and disrespect to Jews. Casting him as a director or perhaps as the star of Judah Maccabee is like casting Madoff to be the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or a white supremacist as trying to portray Martin Luther King Jr. It’s simply an insult to Jews.” [ THR ]

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Jason Biggs Unleashes the One Reese Witherspoon Tweet You’ll Need

Jason Biggs, who was already our favorite Twitter celebrity (er, celebrity on Twitter?), put the news of Reese Witherspoon getting hit by a car and sustaining minor injuries in perspective last night. Since the Oscar-winner is out of the hospital and hopefully in tiptop Tracy Flick form, we like to think Mr. Biggs’s quip registers as playful sarcasm. Ahem: “I just heard the news about Reese Witherspoon doing a voice in ‘Cars 3’. Wow!” [ @BiggsJason ]

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REVIEW: Contagion Treats Star-Studded Pandemic With Stone-Cold Tension

[ Minor early spoilers may follow, particularly for anyone who’s avoided Contagion ‘s trailer or coverage from Venice . — Ed. ] No one is safe in Contagion — not from the MEV -1 virus that ricochets out of a crowded Macau casino to cut down a sizable selection of the global population with frightening plausibility, and not from Steven Soderbergh’s pitiless refusal to abide by the unspoken rules of the mainstream movie.

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REVIEW: Contagion Treats Star-Studded Pandemic With Stone-Cold Tension

Let’s All Give Jonah Hill a Phone Call Today

Something fun to spice up the end of the week: 20th Century Fox has set up a telephone line for the raunchy David Gordon Green-directed December comedy The Sitter and star Jonah Hill will allegedly be answering calls at random. We unfortunately only reached his appropriately inappropriate voicemail, but you might get lucky. What would you ask? How many pleas for weight loss tips will Hill get before he tires of this nifty marketing ploy? Dial (917) 409-7838 and find out. [20th Century Fox]

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