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Your Last Word on the Roger Ebert/Ryan Dunn Flap
"Leave Roger Ebert alone! He's missing half his face!" [@michaelianblank]
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Human Centipede Claims Another Trauma Victim in Donnie Wahlberg
Movieline has a storied past with Human Centipede, a film that I consider a beacon of hope for rectal seamstresses everywhere. Some people aren't so chipper about the movie's after-effects, and one such doubter is New Kid on the Block/Blue Bloods star Donnie Wahlberg, who is seriously traumatized by the hundred-legged, coprophaghic sensation of light, sound, and ass. Watch this survivor tell his story on video.
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Could Immortals Be the 'Bad Movie We Love' of 2011?
Here at Movieline, we hold a special place in our hearts for bad movies. From Van Wilder to Red Sonja to High School Musical 3, the best of the worst almost always offers something truly memorable. Which is why the upcoming release Immortals has us so very excited on this lazy Tuesday: judging from the newly released character posters, this could be the Bad Movie We Love of the year!
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See the New Poster for Footloose: Kick Up Your Sunday Snooze!
Remember almost exactly a year ago when the unknown Kenny Wormald was announced as the Footloose remake's Kevin Bacon proxy, and for approximately 16 minutes you mulled him over? And how he could be named Kenny -- so thoughtlessly -- like some glib Loggins tribute artist? The first poster of Wormald in the film has surfaced, and he appears at peace with your concerns. He's reclining, in fact!
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Robert De Niro Gets Beardy In First Look at Killer Elite
· With a testosterone-heavy cast featuring Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro, the Open Road release Killer Elite is poised to be your favorite dude-y action film since The Expendables. Statham stars as a former special-ops agent lured out of retirement to save his mentor (De Niro) from an evil Brit (Clive Owen). Broken bones and dead bodies likely ensue. Fun! It's out Sept. 23, so you've got time to get mentally prepared. For now, check out a first look at De Niro in the film -- complete with a full beard -- then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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James Cameron Will Battle the Unemployment Rate With Avatar Sequels
The President of the United States may not be able to improve the country's unemployment rate these days, but fear not! Oscar-winning Titanic director James Cameron is here with two mega-budget Avatar sequels that experts hope will jumpstart the economy.
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Roger Ebert Responds to Ryan Dunn Twitter Controversy
As more details emerge about the single-car accident that killed Jackass star Ryan Dunn and passenger Zachary Hartwell -- an Iraq war veteran who was recently married, according to MTV -- the story has been overshadowed by a controversial tweet from film critic Roger Ebert, and an angered response from Dunn's best friend and Jackass cohort Bam Margera. In an effort to quell the outrage, Ebert took to his blog on Tuesday morning to clarify his remarks.
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Jake Gyllenhaal Goes Wild
A year after headlining one of summer's most ambitious blockbusters, Jake Gyllenhaal has advanced to what anybody would consider the logical next step: A guest spot on the season premiere of Man vs. Wild. The actor accompanied host Bear Grylls to Iceland for the episode airing July 11; according to a Discovery Channel press release, "Jake will have to go where Bear goes, eat whatever Bear eats, and on occasion even take the lead, if he's going to cope with some of the worst conditions known to man." Do with this information what you will. [via EW]
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Report: William Shatner Probably Won't Appear in Star Trek 2
Star Trek 2 still doesn't have an official director -- J.J. Abrams has yet to confirm his involvement, though it is widely assumed he'll be back -- but that doesn't mean there isn't time to speculate about whether William Shatner will make an appearance. You'll recall that Abrams had planned to include a Shatner-as-Captain Kirk cameo in Star Trek, but that didn't work out. ("We tried desperately to put him in the movie, but he was making it very clear that he wanted the movie to focus on him significantly, which, frankly, he deserves," said Abrams.) Will things be different for the sequel?
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You Can Thank Splash For 25 Years Of Imagine Entertainment
This year is the 25th anniversary of the Ron Howard-Brian Grazer partnership, Imagine Entertainment -- which has yielded such massive box office hits as Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Nutty Professor and American Gangster to name five -- and in a lengthy sitdown with Movieline sister site Deadline, the two men reveal the exact moment their business relationship was galvanized: Splash.
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Bam Margera Is Angry With Roger Ebert for His Ryan Dunn Tweet, and 5 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today
Also in this Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: The Ides of March will debut in August... Guillermo del Toro is intrigued by Maleficent... Sylvester Stallone casts his daughter... and more ahead.
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Ian McShane Cast as Dwarf Leader in Revisionist Fairytale Snow White and the Huntsman
Both of the competing Snow White studio flicks are racing to the box office as we speak, but Universal's revisionist take has scored the latest blow, casting Ian McShane as the leader of the dwarfs. (If you can't keep your Snow Whites straight, this is the one with Kristen Stewart as the titular princess and Chris Hemsworth as the killer huntsman who aids her, with Charlize Theron as the evil queen.) Get to dream casting McShane's remaining dirty half-dozen dwarfs! [THR]
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Paramount Pictures Will Release the Next Warren Beatty Film
Hollywood legend Warren Beatty caused quite a stir two weeks ago at the Los Angeles Times Hero Complex Film Festival when he teased the possibility of a sequel to Dick Tracy. "I'm gonna make another one," he said. Though maybe "another one" was simply code for another movie. For the first time since the disastrous Town & Country was released in 2001, Beatty has another film project in the works.
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Penn Badgley Will Play Jeff Buckley in New Film
On Friday, co-producer Orian Williams shot down a report that Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley would play late singer Jeff Buckley in a biopic Buckley's mother, Mary Guibert, has been planning for years. "Penn is not involved in the film at all," Williams told the Los Angeles Times. And he's still not! In that film. But Badgley has been cast as the iconic musician in Greetings from Tim Buckley.
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Guillermo Del Toro May Be Too Busy for Hellboy III
Hellboy comic creator Mike Mignola is shedding doubt on the possibility for a Hellboy III, suggesting that director Guillermo del Toro is quite unlikely to get around it. "Last I heard he said he would not make it," Mignola said at the Calgary Comics Expo. "Guillermo -- who I love -- in every interview there's a new story on what his next movie is and he honestly believes he's going to do all these things....I'm not surprised because he won't live long enough to do a tenth of the movies he's told me he's going to make." In the immediate future, del Toro will film Pacific Rim. [Cinema Blend]
