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Ron Howard and Brian Grazer Still Hoping for The Dark Tower

Bad Movies We Love: Logan’s Run

Sexually exciting news: This week’s important new movie Spy Kids: All the Time in the World 4D (that’s not the sexually exciting part) is both “futuristic” and “sci-fi” — which means we have reason to revisit the futuristic, sci-fi lovefest of Logan’s Run . Hooray! It’s one of the most decadent, senselessly gorgeous Bad Movies We Love of all time. Better we re-watch it now than after the remake comes out and destroys our nostalgia. Are you ready for ray guns, cult-like “carrousels” of death, and the hirsute hotness of Peter Ustinov?

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The New Trailer for the George Lucas-Produced Red Tails Gets Shot Down

Fighter piloting is inherently cinematic, so when a new movie comes out in the vein of Memphis Belle and Top Gun , I already hear the swells of music and gunfire. But in the case of Red Tails , the new Anthony Hemingway drama that arrives in theaters January 20, the grace of the genre is replaced with spotty dialogue and catatonic performances. Cuba Gooding Jr., you may as well call this movie Plane Trip .

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The New Trailer for the George Lucas-Produced Red Tails Gets Shot Down

Chasing $50 Million, Midnight in Paris Set to Expand Again

Word just over the transom at Movieline HQ has announced Sony Pictures Classics’ plans to give Midnight in Paris one final push to end the summer, expanding the film once again over 1,000 screens as it pursues the $50 million milestone — by far the best domestic gross ever for a Woody Allen film.

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Chasing $50 Million, Midnight in Paris Set to Expand Again

Why Disney Will Never Spend $250 Million on The Lone Ranger

As you may have heard , Disney shockingly put the brakes on the planned big-screen adaptation of The Lone Ranger that star Johnny Depp, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski were aiming to bring into theaters next Christmas. The reasons were budgetary — the cost of Ranger had reportedly ballooned to $250 million — but it appears that a mere (“mere”) $20-30 million is all that separates the studio from the filmmakers. Provided some cuts can be made — a task easier said than done, as backend deals and three large-scale action scenes revolving around trains reportedly threaten the compromise — The Lone Ranger could conceivably hit theaters at some point. Unless, of course, Disney realizes it might not be the best idea anyway.

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Why Disney Will Never Spend $250 Million on The Lone Ranger

Why Disney Will Never Spend $250 Million on The Lone Ranger

As you may have heard , Disney shockingly put the brakes on the planned big-screen adaptation of The Lone Ranger that star Johnny Depp, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski were aiming to bring into theaters next Christmas. The reasons were budgetary — the cost of Ranger had reportedly ballooned to $250 million — but it appears that a mere (“mere”) $20-30 million is all that separates the studio from the filmmakers. Provided some cuts can be made — a task easier said than done, as backend deals and three large-scale action scenes revolving around trains reportedly threaten the compromise — The Lone Ranger could conceivably hit theaters at some point. Unless, of course, Disney realizes it might not be the best idea anyway.

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Abigail Breslin to Play Real-Life Canadian Teen ‘Bathtub’ Murderer

Hollywood’s little miss sunshines are growing up, and how ( looking at you too, Dakota ): Variety reports that 15-year-old Abigail Breslin has been cast as one of two leads in The Class Project , an indie drama based on the real-life “Bathtub Girls,” two teenage Canadian sisters who murdered their mother in 2003 and got away with the crime for a year before being found out. Stan Brooks will direct from a script by Fabrizio Filippo and Adam Till who adapted The Class Project from Toronto Star reporter Bob Mitchell’s 2008 book, The Class Project: How To Kill a Mother: The True Story of Canada’s Infamous Bathtub Girls . [ Variety ]

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Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Sensible Clothes Featured in New Breaking Dawn Key Art

We can all agree that the posters and images released so far for Summit’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 have been a little subdued , with far less angst on display here than in previous installments and more of a focus on Bella and Edward’s domestic skinny-dipping , chess-playing , honeymooning bliss. Fine enough. While you wait with bated breath to see what Summit unveils as their actual official poster, take a gander at newly surfaced key art that sees nine familiar characters in their new Breaking Dawn garb.

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Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Sensible Clothes Featured in New Breaking Dawn Key Art

The Invention of the Vibrator Reaches Climax in New Trailer for Hysteria

Since modern sex comedies are so often listless (see: The Change-Up ), perhaps a trip back to the 19th century will liven things up. Fresh off announcing the Gala premiere of the Tanya Wexler-directed Hysteria , the Toronto International Film Festival has released a new trailer for the period sex comedy replete with more orgasms than most late night Skinemax films. Scandalous! Or at least an heir to the throne of sexual antics of Road to Wellville .

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The Invention of the Vibrator Reaches Climax in New Trailer for Hysteria

See Chris Evans and Joss Whedon on the Cleveland Set of The Avengers