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Drive-Inspired Sketches by Chromatics, Desire Include Track Listings of Unused Film Score

The musical partnership between director Nicolas Winding Refn and electronic musician Johnny Jewel dates back to Refn’s Bronson , which used a track from Jewel’s group Glass Candy to strike its stylized period feel. For Refn’s latest film, the L.A. -set crime thriller Drive , he turned once more to Jewel to help create an ’80s-tinged pop synth sound — and the inspiration seemed to go both ways, as evidenced by drawings and a full collection of Drive -inspired tracks created by Jewel and his musical collaborators.

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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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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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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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New Toy Story Short to Precede The Muppets in Theaters

Disney’s D23 Expo just unleashed a delightful tidbit: The Muppets , which we’re suddenly craving , will play in theaters this November with a new Toy Story short called Small Fry . Earlier this year, Cars 2 premiered with a Toy Story Toon about Ken and Barbie’s Hawaiian Vacation . Any plot guesses for this one? I’m hoping Bo Peep returns bearing, like, 13 Fisher Price Little People children. [ /Film ]

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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

Weekend Forecast: Can Conan the Barbarian Rule the Dog Days of Summer?

Another August weekend, another genre explosion . As summer slowly ends with a whimper, four new releases are set to crowd multiplexes — three of which will screen in 3-D (with one of those even in 4-D. ( Aromascope , FTW !) Will Conan the Barbarian slay Spy Kids and One Day co-stars Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess with a broadsword slice, or will Colin Farrell and Fright Night jam a stake through the hearts of moviegoers nationwide? Or maybe The Help will clean up all four of them? Wordplay! Click through for the Weekend Forecast.

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Tony Scott, Brian Helgeland to Remake Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch

Fans of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch , steel yourself: The guy who last put Denzel Washington on top of a runaway train (and made bank at the box office doing so) wants to remake the groundbreaking 1969 Western. Deadline reports that director Tony Scott — whose most recent film was last year’s Unstoppable — is negotiating to reboot the classic Peckinpah film. He also wants to remake his own Top Gun , so clearly nothing is sacred. Read the news after the jump and weep into your cowboy boots.

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Is This the Synopsis for Man of Steel?

You know the full cast list, you got your first look at Henry Cavill in the suit , but you still hunger for more details from Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel , eh? Well, for the Superman fans out there who just have to know, a synopsis purporting to reveal the official plot for WB’ s upcoming superhero reboot has surfaced online. But is it the real deal? (Click ahead only if you really, absolutely have to know…)

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