Remember when Tom Cruise jumped the couch on Oprah, and suddenly, all these Flash games sprung up online where you could hurl tomatoes at the star, punch him at the face, or otherwise abuse him to your heart's content? Well, the marketers behind Knight and Day must be going for that same demographic, as they're pushing a new viral video where Cruise's costar Cameron Diaz brutally kicks him in the stomach during a "stunt rehearsal."
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You know how sometimes you're watching the Syfy channel, and you see an ad for some bizarre, low-budget vampire-shark movie or something, and it stars one recognizable actor, and you wonder how this got made, and you think, "Probably Canadian tax breaks or something," and all the actors are standing in some abandoned industrial set spouting terrible lines, terribly?
Well, on a completely unrelated note, here is a new clip of Dakota Fanning and the Volturi from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
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Three things in Hollywood will never go out of fashion: Comedies about losing virginity, setting literary classics in high school and 20-something actors playing teenagers. So it's probably a good thing for Easy A that it has all of these things in excess. And that it's also the first opportunity at a leading role for Movieline favorite Emma Stone doesn't hurt either, just so long as your tolerance for Tom Cruise jokes hasn't waned since 2007.
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Remember how in Saved by the Bell, Zack Morris could snap his fingers and time would completely freeze, allowing him to regale the audience with a fourth-wall breaking monologue? Well imagine if a shady group -- clothed in the best suits a '50s G-Man could buy -- had that power, but instead of using it to make unheard quips about their buddies, they used it to make sure Matt Damon followed his predestined plan. Say hello to The Adjustment Bureau.
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Here's something I wasn't expecting to see today or, like, ever: Video has emerged of a rather erotic dance perpetrated by Miley Cyrus against Adam Shankman at last year's Last Song wrap party. That is to say, the then-16-year-old Miley was taped grinding her ass into the groin of openly gay choreographer-director-So You Think You Can Dance judge Shankman. The wan, bored look on Shankman's face alone is worth the glimpse, and at least until the hilarious slo-mo zoom in the last five seconds, it's generally safe for work.
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By being both an entry in the Un Certain Regard category at this year's Cannes Film Festival and also the latest from famed Japanese horror director Hideo Nakata (the original versions of The Ring and Dark Water), Chatroom is saddled with a lot of advance expectations. And once the trailer begins with the sound of a modem dialing up, you unfortunately know it won't possibly be able to match them. Log on to Prodigy and check it out.
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Why would Conan O'Brien interrupt his Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour last Wednesday for a 48-minute interview with Google? Movieline has no idea, and judging by Coco's confused expression throughout the sit down, the former Tonight Show host had no idea either. Fortunately, Conan used his pit stop to brush up on his open mic skills, roast his moderator (Google's Vice-President of Engineering Vic Gundotra) and direct a few cheap shots at his former employer. Click through for the best of Coco's zingers and full video from the interview.
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Movieline is happy to premiere a clip from the new Michael Douglas-starring dramedy Solitary Man, and we're even happier that it involves an annoying Ultimate Frisbee player (redundant?) who finally gets what's coming to him. Directors Brian Koppleman and David Levien (the writers behind Ocean's Thirteen and The Girlfriend Experience) paint a portrait of Douglas as a man who can't stop making the wrong decisions -- and one of those decisions may involve the chemistry he's got with his girlfriend's young daughter Allyson, played here by Imogen Poots -- but when it comes to beating up some frisbee-throwing irritant, who's to say what's wrong anymore? Sure, it may jeopardize Allyson's college visit, but it feels so right.
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The latest trailer for Christopher Nolan's megabudget mindf*ck Inception arrived in theaters Friday ahead of Iron Man 2. It was also online if you cared to visit one of the film's multitude of corresponding sites, where I'm told some video-game playing hijinx will allow viewers access to the clip. It's slowly but surely trickling out elsewhere, including right here at Movieline, but before we get too carried away, let's think about this for a second: Is it really doing ourselves (let alone the movie) any favors to succumb to the hype? As much as I want to see Inception, do I have to watch a trailer that gives everything away?
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Back in January, Academy Award-winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim won the Audience Award at Sundance for Waiting for "Superman", a look at America's depressingly screwed up public education system. And based on the newly released trailer its pretty easy to see why. Cue up the Matisyahu and grab a few tissues, this one could get dusty.
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Once upon a time, Will Ferrell was the kind of the sports comedy, but who needs a $40 million budget and a greenlight from stingy old Paramount to get started anymore? Instead, Ferrell took to the to the actual minor leagues yesterday night to debut his new creation, minor league pitcher Rojo Johnson.
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Ever since people started getting a glimpse of the trailer (embedded below) for Super 8, the seeeecret new film directed by J.J. Abrams, they've been falling all over themselves to describe it as Steven Spielberg-inspired. It certainly may be true that the actual film is, as rumored, an homage to Spielberg's early work. But this trailer? Not so much.
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In this week's installment of The Hollywood Kid, our natty host Michael Musto weighs the careers of Renée Zellweger and Kim Cattrall, brings word of a "tran-quel" to the controversial Tribeca feature Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives, and ponders one provocative blind item about an award winner with a racial peccadillo. Please let it be Taylor Swift! (Note to lawyers: It is not Taylor Swift.)
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The first trailer for the remake of I Spit On Your Grave arrived online Wednesday, just days after the poster featuring Sarah Butler, her garden shears and the tacky slogan "It's Date Night" began making the rounds. Perhaps understandably, both the trailer and the poster seem targeted to a horror-numbed younger audience -- the majority of whom likely have no idea it's a remake of one of the most notorious cult films of the last 50 years. But now it's time to catch up, and Movieline, as always, is here to help.
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Saturday Night Live has finally gotten internet meme Betty White into the studio to tape some promos! Does she poke fun at how old she is? Check. Does she use the presence of musical guest Jay-Z to indulge in slang that is simply outrageous, because this is Betty White, after all? Check. Does she use filthy, bleeped-out language that is hilarious and incongruous because she has white hair (well, off-white hair)? No. Gotta save something for the show.
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