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Submit a 10-Word Review, Win a Tree of Life Blu-ray Combo Pack!

It’s giveaway time again! This time, Movieline is giving away two Tree of Life combo packs (Blu-ray, DVD and digital copy included) in honor of tomorrow’s home release of the Terrence Malick drama. And what better way to toast the thought-provoking feature starring Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain and Sean Penn than with a 10-word review contest. So grab your guest critic pens and click through for more details — except for you, Sean Penn .

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Independent Theaters Join Tower Heist Boycott

Following the example set last week by Cinemark, a number of independent theater chains and movie theaters have pledged not to screen Universal’s Tower Heist in protest over the studio’s plans to drastically shorten the release window. Lyndon Golin, chief executive of Regency Theaters (which is joined by the Emagine and Galaxy chains) explained: “We certainly support Cinemark… If their position is they won’t run it, then we won’t run it either. Movies shown in the home on such a short window is a dagger to our business.” [ LA Times ]

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Fantastic Flesh from Fantastic Fest, Part 2: Clown, Polvora Negra, Boys on the Run [PICS]

After a long day of screenings, we’ve got more skinternational nudity for you from Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas! Raunchy comedy ruled on days 4 and 5 of the festival, with the gleefully filthy comedies Clown: The Movie and Boys on the Run stepping up to challenge The Hangover 2 ‘s shock-value supremacy. Nothing is taboo- accidental pedophilia, unbearably awkward threesomes, even lending your cute coworker a bestiality porn DVD- in these films that show that sex jokes are truly the universal language. Get nudity reports from Clown: The Movie , Boys on the Run , and the Brazilian Western Polvora Negra after the jump!

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Fantastic Flesh from Fantastic Fest, Part 2: Clown, Polvora Negra, Boys on the Run [PICS]

5 Suggested Na’vi-riffic Rides for the Avatar Experience at Disney World

According to a report from insider tipsters, Disney is set to announce that they’ve licensed the rights to adapt James Cameron’s Avatar into a series of theme park rides at Disney World’s Animal Kingdom in Florida. The news follows a long battle between Disney and rival amusement parkers Universal Studios for rights to the 20th Century Fox property, but the Avatar -Disney marriage makes good sense for a few reasons or five. Let’s help Disney plan the most Na’vi-riffic Avatar experience possible with these proposed attraction ideas!

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Don’t Look Now, But Johnny English Reborn Might Be Your Fall Movie Phenom

I’m nothing if not fair, so: Congratulations to Universal, which 17 months ago displayed what looked at first like a desperate lack of imagination but has since been proven to be a bit of box-office alchemy. Indeed, its comedy Johnny English Reborn — the sequel to Rowan Atkinson’s hit 2003 spy spoof Johnny English — debuted overseas last weekend to the biggest opening of Atkinson’s career. It’s a hit! In Russia!

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Don’t Look Now, But Johnny English Reborn Might Be Your Fall Movie Phenom

Do Not Mess With Universal: Bruno Bingo Hall Edition

Back in 2007, during the filming of Bruno , Sacha Baron Cohen and his film crew stormed a California bingo hall. They asked the unsuspecting patrons to sign Standard Consent Agreements, alleged that they were filming a “documentary-style film,” and then Bruno was invited on stage to call numbers. Only instead of just calling numbers, the flamboyant Austrian character related each digit to a milestone in his relationship with a former gay partner — a showy extreme that ended in tears, a call to the paramedics, security officers forcibly removing Cohen, a “brain bleed” and a lawsuit against NBC Universal, that we learn today, the studio has won.

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Do Not Mess With Universal: Bruno Bingo Hall Edition

‘American Reunion’ Promo Images and Photobooth Montage Show ‘Pie’ Cast Twelve Years Later

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[1] Tough as it is to believe, it’s been over a decade since we first met the American Pie cast in 1999. If that made you pause and think “Wow, that makes me feel old,” you’re just where Universal Pictures wants you to be. The marketing team behind American Reunion has been pushing the nostalgia angle (not surprisingly), and I, for one, have found it totally effective. Their latest effort is a montage… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 01/09/2011 20:20 Number of articles : 3

‘American Reunion’ Promo Images and Photobooth Montage Show ‘Pie’ Cast Twelve Years Later

Guess Which Actor Is Responsible For Three of the ‘Worst Accents In Movie History’

Lone Scherfig’s One Day may have received mixed reviews last week but one aspect of the film has been universally panned: Anne Hathaway’s distractingly shaky Leeds accent . In honor of the actresses’s awkward Yorkshire articulation, LIFE has compiled a list of the twenty “Worst Accents in Movie History.” Can you guess which actor is impressively listed three times?

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Conan Screenwriter Opens Up About Failure, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Universal may have put Ouija back in the box… 360 heads to London… Ed Zwick will climb the The Great Wall … and more ahead.

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Conan Screenwriter Opens Up About Failure, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

From Captain America to Drug-Addicted Lawyer: Watch Chris Evans in the Trailer for Puncture

In this summer’s Captain America , Chris Evans embodies a sickly man who, after being injected with miracle drug, becomes a crime-fighting hero. In this September’s based-on-a-true-story indie Puncture , Chris Evans plays a sickly (in the drug-addicted sense) lawyer who chooses to fight health care crime in the court room. Watch Evans transition away from his Marvel superhero role in the first trailer for Puncture after the jump.

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