For whatever reason -- a jacked-up interest in the extraterrestrial or just the simple hope that creatures more intelligent than our pizza-bombing, Catwoman crashing, Glee 3D-loving species exist -- Hollywood churned out a slew of movies this year that feature aliens. In honor of this trend (and the fact that both Paul and Mars Needs Moms were released on Blu-Ray and DVD today), Movieline figured it was as good a time as any to determine the winners and the losers in this year's crop of cinema extraterrestrials.
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· Take that, The King's Speech! Oscar-nominated in the Best Animated Feature category in 2010, How to Train Your Dragon is headed to the United States as a stage show, but not before getting out its animatronic kinks out in Melbourne, Australia. The initial takeaway? These dragons look killer -- in a non-Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark way. Expect to see Dragon in America sometime next year. Click through to watch, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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No sooner did Viola Davis sing his praises today than Tyler Perry sent an influential endorsement of her new film to his mailing list. "Had to tell you this. I saw a movie called The Help that opens this Friday. I must say, I really enjoyed it! I love looking back and seeing how far we've come. And the performances in this film are stellar. Ms. Cicely Tyson was exceptionally Cicely. Viola Davis, this woman is remarkable. Octavia Spencer, she was like watching joy rise on the screen. You know I don't recommend a lot of movies, so this one has to be special, right? Well it is!" Now you know.
Bad news, nostalgists: the Dirty Dancing reboot is happening. Worse, it doesn't even matter who Lionsgate casts in the lead roles (provided they can, y'know, dance) as the brand itself will sell the movie -- which you will likely see whether you want to or not. (For reference to this phenomenon, see Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough in the lead Footloose remake roles.) Still! Rather than curl up into a ball and listen to "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" on repeat for the next week to mourn the latest attempt by Hollywood to scorch the earth of your childhood, why not embrace the reboot and help Movieline cast this sucker? Ahead, some casting suggestions for Dirty Dancing.
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Another day, another high profile Imogene cast member: Matt Dillon is joining the Kristen Wiig comedy about a playwright who stages her own suicide after she loses her job, home, and relationship. Dillion will play the "crazy" love interest of Annette Bening's character, Wiig's crazy, Jersey Shore-like mother. Will he be Drugstore Cowboy crazy or Crash crazy? Will she be Grifters crazy or American Beauty crazy? Or is it all of the above? Crazy. [Deadline]
Ah, the floating, disembodied head; a staple of many movie posters -- apparently even ones without flesh-and-blood stars with heads to disembody. The lastest artwork for The Adventures of Tintin has arrived, ready to take on complaints about the uncanny valley head-on. (Mini-groan.) Does it work? It certainly helps that Snowy might be the cutest dog this side of Marley & Me. Click through for a look.
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Lights! Camera! Ahhhh! Run for your liiiiives!!! In case not enough of The Dark Knight Rises' Steel City sojourn has been spoiled for you yet, TMZ today passes along some interesting behind-the-scenes footage of Catwoman riding her motorcycle down the steps of Gotham City Hall and smack into an IMAX camera.
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Also in this Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: Brit Marling cashes in... Albert Brooks updates on the latest Judd Apatow movie... The Lincoln Lawyer heads to TV... and more ahead.
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Music video veteran Hype Williams made his feature debut with 1998's Belly, a stylized noir-esque crime pic starring rappers DMX and Nas that had its problems but nevertheless presaged a decent future in film for Williams. Somehow, though, Williams never followed up his first film with additional features, with project after project falling through. Until now, as Variety reports that the director has signed on to helm Lust, a "Fatal Attraction in reverse" penned by Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct, Showgirls).
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Over at Bleeding Cool, director Rupert Wyatt spitballs about ideas for a sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the first-week critical and commercial successes of which seem like good indications that sequels will indeed happen. Wyatt's idea for the next film in his Apes reboot? "Full Metal Jacket with apes." Oh, yes.
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In late July, we previewed a slew of images from films that will be screening at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Among the titles that looked most promising was Friends With Kids, Jennifer Westfeldt's indie drama which stars her real-life boyfriend Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott and Westfeldt herself as a group of best friends in their 30's whose dynamic changes after two of them decide to have a baby...and then date other people. Like Megan Fox's character, who is featured in her first Friends artwork after the jump.
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Over twenty years ago, Kenny Ortega choreographed the Patrick Swayze-Jennifer Grey classic Dirty Dancing and now, because we can't go a week without a remake announcement, Lionsgate is planning on rebooting the title, this time with Ortega at the helm. Get out of that corner and check out more details ahead.
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Now that Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a success, there is talk of an Oscar campaign for Andy Serkis. Can the man who motion captured Caesar do what Zoe Saldana couldn't do in Avatar: get the Academy to embrace a digital performance? "Motion capture definitely is like this new wave of making films that still keeps that awe-ness of filmmaking [...] And you still get an amazing performance and everything," Saldana said at the Teen Choice Awards. She hopes the Oscars are "more open to the technological aspects, the same way you would want to see more comedies and more horror movies get recognized with awards." This is gonna be the Brett Ratner Oscars, so: anything goes? [LAT/24 Frames]
McKinley High School may still be on summer break but that does not mean that the cast of Glee is on vacation. This Friday, the plucky members of New Directions premiere their first feature film Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, made up of footage from a June concert performance in East Rutherford, NJ, along with fan testimonials about the power of the Fox song and dance series. Everything you expect from a Glee movie, in fact, except for Jane Lynch.
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The King's Speech -- the cutest Best Picture winner about compelling speech patterns since Rain Man -- is rumored to be ticketed for Broadway in Fall 2012. Yep, real actors will be stuttering live, onstage, in an epic epiglottal drama for the ages. That should be adorable -- and family friendly -- but are you worried that other Best Picture nominees from 2010 are better suited for a stage adaptation? Good! Ahead, some better options.
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