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I Am Not Ready to Live in a World Where Michelle Pfeiffer Plays Chris Pine’s Mother

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I am not ready to live in a world where Michelle Pfeiffer plays Chris Pine’s mother. That world is one we will reportedly live in, and soon, according to recent casting news. Nothing against Pine, a pleasant young talent I look forward to seeing in a smallish drama for once as opposed to smirky sci-fi/action-flick tentpole bombast. And nothing against Pfeiffer, whose choppy last decade of work overshadows her more historic demonstration of versatility and taste. (OK: Grease 2 and Scarface , but they weren’t her fault and everyone must start somewhere.) This may be a wonderful collaboration! All I’m saying is I am just not ready to live in a world… where Michelle Pfeiffer… plays Chris Pine’s mother.

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Animal Kingdom’s Jacki Weaver on the Oscar Circuit, Campaign Couture and Going Hollywood

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We’re coming up on a year since Jacki Weaver strolled into Park City, Utah with her Animal Kingdom director and castmates, dazzled the Sundance Film Festival and commenced a run of acclaim that continues to this day. But while the film’s sweep last month of its native Australian Film Institute Awards was all but a foregone conclusion, Animal Kingdom ‘s Stateside fortune — particularly Weaver’s chances in the Supporting Actress race at the Golden Globes and, Academy willing, the Oscars — is a little more vague. So! Guess who’s back on American soil this week?

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Watch Sofia Vergara and the Cast of Glee Overcome Emmy Differences Through Rap

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If you thought that there were any residual hard feelings between Emmy competitors Modern Family and Glee , think again. Sofia Vergara and the Glee cast are so over their faux-feud that they recently filmed a Funny or Die video in which the Colombian Family star, Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison, Naya Rivera and Harry Shum Jr. rap and dance to a Gleek-ed out version of Snoop Dogg’s “Nuthin’ But a G-Thang” (rechristened “Nuthin’ But a Glee Thang). Fair warning: This will probably be the best thing you see all day.

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At Least Pirates Are Loving 127 Hours

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Awards-season slump aside, 127 Hours is on a roll in at least one of Hollywood’s most closely watched demographics: Illegal downloaders. A new report has the James Franco film way out in front of Oscar competition True Grit and Inception ; the revelation follows word that distributor Fox Searchlight will eschew SAG screeners for 127 and Black Swan in favor of secure iTunes downloads. Of course this whole thing royally screws up Movieline’s 127 Hours Fainting Tracker , but that’s the biz. Congrats? [ THR ]

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Stage Musical of Once Set to Debut in the Fall

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Any excuse to post ” Falling Slowly ,” is an excuse I’ll gladly take. The New York Times reports that Irish playwright Enda Walsh and the Scottish director John Tiffany will collaborate on the stage adaptation of Once for Broadway. The current plan is to open the show — which will feature music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova — in the fall. Assume this film-to-stage adaptation will go better than Spider-Man . [ NYT /ArtsBeat ]

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Pundit Poll: Can 127 Hours One-Arm Climb Its Way Back into Best Picture Contention?

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There was a time when critics and Oscar pundits thought Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours was a lock to nab one of the coveted 10 Best Picture slots — if not in the top three, at least landing somewhere in the comfy middle of the pack. Then came the infamous faintings and those sluggish box-office receipts, and the jaunty amputation biopic started slipping downward in the weekly charts into the dark nether regions of the awards-season landscape, pinned between its rock-solid 93 percent Tomatometer and a very hard place: the outliers of the Best Picture 10.

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No Wire Hangers: The 9 Creepiest Mothers in Film History

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As Barbara Hershey showed us in Black Swan , a mother can sometimes make an audience’s skin crawl more than any celluloid serial killer ever could. Maybe it’s because the mother-child relationship is one of the most confounding bonds in human nature; mothers love, but they can also be abusive, possessive, downright deranged or eerily vengeful of the superior offspring they’ve raised. Regardless, these menacing matriarch roles are regularly recognized by the Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Razzie Board and every award venue in between. In honor of the upcoming statuette season, and Hershey’s superb turn as the scariest mom to ever wield nail clippers and a pink sheet cake, let’s review the creepiest mothers in film.

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Who is This ‘Mark Whalberg,’ and Why Is He Trending on Twitter?

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I know we’re all quick to judge these days, but come on: Who hasn’t gravely misspelled an A-list movie star and eventual Oscar nominee’s name in the process of tweeting about his rumored third nipple?

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Terrific Carancho Trailer Features Sex, Car Accidents and Rock ‘N’ Roll

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Hollywood may be taking a bit of a break from quality this time of the year, but fortunately, we still get to play catch-up with great foreign films just making their way to the states. Case-in-point: the new trailer for Carancho , an Argentinian love-story/film-noir set in the world of insurance pay-outs for car accidents. The preview, which is violent, kinetic and sexy all at once, evokes shades of Amores Perros , Bringing Out the Dead and maybe even a little of David Chronenberg’s Crash . And then there’s the swaggering Argentinian rock song that ties it all together. You may want to watch this one twice.

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First Look at Antonio Banderas in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin That I Inhabit Hints at Sci-Fi

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The first still from Pedro Almodóvar’s upcoming The Skin That I Inhabit is a doozy; a funny, sinister image that looks like it was ripped straight from a 50’s Sci-Fi movie that starred Antonio Banderas. That said, it’s still difficult to tell what direction Almodóvar is going with this one. The novel the film is based on, Mygale by Thierry Jonquet, concerns a plastic surgeon obsessed with exacting revenge for his daughter’s death while also trying to create a new type of skin. But previous synopses for the film emphasize the revenge aspect and completely ignore the science-fiction angle. Either way, it’s a great still. Check out Banderas and his experiment after the jump.

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