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American Reunion Redband Trailer Proves Things Haven’t Changed Since Jason Biggs’s Pie Days

Good news and bad news about American Reunion based on the very first (and very redband) teaser trailer that has just surfaced: Jason Biggs’s Jim still isn’t locking the door when he masturbates. This could be good news for American Pie purists who hoped the franchise would get back to basics this April, and bad news for fans who hoped Jim would never have to pleasure himself again with footwear after marrying Alyson Hannigan’s band geek Michelle in the third and most recent Pie installment, American Wedding .

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American Reunion Redband Trailer Proves Things Haven’t Changed Since Jason Biggs’s Pie Days

Joel Schumacher on His Career, His Critics, and Why It’s OK to Laugh During Trespass

There’s no stopping Joel Schumacher , the 72-year-old filmmaker who returns to screens this week with the thriller Trespass . Though to invoke his name in some circles is to invite wishes he would stop; Schumacher has never been an especially popular director among the critical elite, and his latest film, a wild home-invasion potboiler co-starring Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman , won’t necessarily change things. But you know what? That’s a good thing — at least for Schumacher.

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Joel Schumacher Tells Movieline About the Time He Wrote The Wiz

This week brings Trespass , the latest film from Joel Schumacher. The occasion prompted the opportunity for Movieline to have a candid, wide-ranging chat with the veteran filmmaker about his career, his critics and his humble origins as a costume designer in the 1970s. And despite his glossy new thriller starring Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman, one subject demanded even more attention: The Wiz , the Motown musical directed by Sidney Lumet and written, in his brief, scrappy scribe-for-hire days, by Schumacher.

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Bad Movies We Love: Australia

Real Steel calls upon Hugh Jackman’s ability to tame and train robots, but this isn’t his first time at the robo-dome. He first conquered a borg named Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann’s failed epic Australia . Ha! Now, now, that’s the first and last Nicole Kidman joke you’ll hear from me because 1) Nicole Kidman is awesome, 2) Rabbit Hole is under-appreciated, and 3) BORGS ARE VINDICTIVE. Let’s reinspect the joys of this looooong movie without ever caring about the story!

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REVIEW: I Don’t Know How She Does It Has Plenty of Fear and Loathing to Go Around

The title phrase of I Don’t Know How She Does It is lobbed repeatedly at intrepid working mom heroine Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker, who also provides a Sex and the City -style pontifical voiceover) throughout this alleged comedy, sometimes in celebration, sometimes out of envy or condescension. Inherent in it is a swirl of self-doubt and competition. To be a mother, director Douglas McGrath’s film suggests, is to be in the constant grip of guilt and judgment, worried that you’re not giving enough, convinced that others are doing things better or more correctly than you, soothed when they appear to be doing worse.

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Gus Van Sant on Restless, Test-Screening Nightmares and Why He Went Out For Breaking Dawn

After bookending the summer with prestigious appearances at festivals in Cannes and Toronto, acclaimed auteur Gus Van Sant brings his latest film, Restless , to theaters this weekend in limited release. The outcome of an unusual creative collaboration including co-producers Ron Howard and his daughter Bryce Dallas Howard, her former New York University colleague and screenwriter Jason Lew, and the visionary for hire Van Sant, Restless stars Mia Wasikowska as a terminally ill teenager who sparks up a star-crossed love affair with a gloomy, funeral-crashing, imaginary friend-confiding orphan (played by Henry Hopper).

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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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A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy: The Nude Generation [PICS]

(T)it’s true that the swingin’ 70s were positively packed with orgies, but group sex by no means died along with disco. The CGI partygoers who blocked all the sack-tion in Eyes Wide Shut (1999) may have disappointed nudity fans hoping for a full-on barenaked bacchanal (though Nicole Kidman ’s nudes were a pretty great piece offering), but Mr. Skin knows some more recent films that keep the (free) love alive. Join the orgy after the jump!

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How Will Hollywood Remake Takashi Miike’s Ninja Kids!!!?

Back when Movieline posted the bonkers-adorable trailer for genre master Takashi Miike’s Ninja Kids!!! , about — what else — children studying at a school for ninjas, it seemed unlikely that the family-friendly manga and anime adaptation would go much farther than the genre/foreign crowd. However, that was before plans were reportedly in the works to adapt Miike’s film into an Americanized remake. After all, every generation deserves their own 3 Ninjas !

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James Franco Breaks Broadway Date With Nicole Kidman

Sad news, theater fans: James Franco will not be making his Broadway debut this fall in David Cromer’s production of the Tennessee Williams drama Sweet Bird of Youth . Monday, the actor’s publicist confirmed that Franco was no longer attached to the play, where he was set to star as the gigolo paramour to Nicole Kidman’s voracious movie star. As of now, Cromer is not sure if or when the Scott Rudin-produced Sweet Bird will take the stage. [ NYT /ArtsBeat ]

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