I guess this video of James Franco rocking out while an assistant shaves him with what looks like a disposable razor is a promo for his Oscar hosting gig. According to the description, "James likes to relax with a nice shave and a song before he hosts any award shows." Alright James, don't you mean three weeks before you host any awards show? In any case, if you were sad that you missed Franco's karaoke at Sundance, this will help make up for it. And his song choice is fantastic.
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It's true - One could easily make a comparison between Uwe Boll's publicity tactics and the recent self-serving, unapologetic cries for attention from that other filmmaker. Fair. But there's something more endearing about the reviled German's director refusal to get off of his own pedestal. Maybe it's the fact that, to my knowledge, he does not have a rabid cult of fans ready to back every move he makes. In fact, quite to opposite. Or maybe it's just that he decided to actually fight the bloggers who attacked him rather than posting rants on Twitter. In any case, here's a new interview where he says his film Auschwitz should be nominated for an Oscar.
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Judging by the trailer, the eight-part miniseries The Kennedys, which has endured nearly as much bad luck as its titular family, is even worse than you've heard. Which is saying a lot considering how much has already been said about the project -- starring Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes as the fabled first couple in Camelot -- that the History Channel, Showtime, FX and and Starz all flat-out refused to air.
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Since everything else gets spoiled nowadays, why not Super Bowl commercials, too? Hell, if the Internet could spoil the actual outcome of Super Bowl XLV it probably would. Record scratch SFX! My curmudgeonly rant aside, for once a spoiler is welcome. To wit: Volkswagen has just released one of their planned Super Bowl commercials to YouTube, and it features the best uses of The Imperial March, a tiny Darth Vader, the Volkswagen Passat and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, ever. That's hyperbole, but not really. Click ahead to watch the awesomeness, then pooh-pooh my enthusiasm in the comments section.
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When Win Win premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last month, some people walked away from the film comparing it to The Blind Side, which seemed odd considering the cast (Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Jeffrey Tambor) and director (Tom McCarthy). Yet if the first trailer for the spring release is any indication, those surface comparisons are certainly warranted.
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I'm sure things happen in this trailer for the macho-as-hell medieval epic Ironclad, but literally all I can focus on each time is how furious Paul Giamatti looks in every shot. Sure, Giamatti has gone off before in movies, but never while donning this messy beard and Prince Valiant haircut and never with quite so much verve. Rather than watch the trailer a fourth time to try and figure out what the film's actually about, I'm just going to take screen captures of the three best faces Giamatti makes and post them after the jump. You're welcome.
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The trailer for Monogamy more or less runs through a checklist of things I like to see in marriage-disintegration movies. Voyeurism? Check. Obsession? Yep. Melodrama? You bet! Actors I like? Check and...check! The trailer begins with Chris Messina and Rashida Jones taking wedding photos and talking about their solid relationship. But really, in a movie called Monogamy, how do you think that's going to end?
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Whip up a batch of Cory Monteith-approved five layer dip; it's almost time for the Super Bowl! Which can mean only one thing if you're sports-averse but still forced to watch alongside a screaming Packers or Steelers fan: Commercials. This year's crop is set to include a wide variety of car and beer commercials, plus some highly anticipated trailer debuts. Or, in some cases, a combination of both.
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Of all the memorable elements of Lee Tamahori's unflinching drama The Devil's Double -- which roused Sundance with its portrait of brutal, debauched Uday Hussein and the Iraqi lieutenant enlisted to serve as his near-identical security detail -- few stirred more interest than Dominic Cooper's revelatory dual performance as both Hussein and title character Latif Yahia. While Movieline's Jen Yamato offered a bruising breakdown in a review last week, Elvis Mitchell sat down with Cooper to discuss playing multiple characters, laughing at lunacy and what happens to an actor when sympathy is not an option.
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Yesterday we observed the levels of stank, thug stare, and hardness in the new Bridesmaids poster. Just a day later we have the new trailer for the Judd Apatow/Paul Feig production, and the ladies get a little less ghetto -- and a little more delirious. For what it's worth, I still like to imagine Maya Rudolph wearing brass knuckles under her bouquet.
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With all of the attention on Charlie Sheen and his porn star collective these days, it is a little coincidental that Myriad Pictures is just now releasing a trailer for Electra Luxx, its upcoming film about a porn actress who retires after getting knocked up by a big entertainment star. Unlike Sheen's sleazy bleach blonds though, who leave the actor's house and head either directly to the bank or to the tabloids, Electra Luxx's titular character (played by the smart Carla Gugino), seems to be complex, level-headed and just as capable of human emotion as she is of seduction.
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As with every year at Sundance, the festival hangover descends quickly and lingers for days, weeks, even months afterward. (Don't believe me? Ask Jennifer Lawrence.) For the team at Movieline, meanwhile, this means an embarrassment of interview riches and other chatter in which we'll be rolling for a while to come. I mean, Miranda July stopped by! Let's hear from her.
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If the winter blahs have got you down, check out the just-released opening of Rio, the new animated feature from 20th Century Fox, which tells the story of a macaw that leaves behind the icy steppes of Minnesota for the warm climes of Rio. Plus, the studio announced that it would be releasing a special movie tie-in edition of America's favorite time waster, Angry Birds, in conjunction with the movie. Angry Birds Rio will be released in March and Rio, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway and George Lopez, hits theaters April 15th. Check 'em both out after the jump.
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There's been a lot of buzz about Glee's upcoming mid-season premiere, and with good reason: It's being heralded as the most expensive episode of television ever produced for the golden time slot following the Super Bowl. Finally, Fox has released a preview of the expected insanity that will ensue when Schue, Sue and the gang return on Feb. 6 for what appears to be the most random installment yet, "The Sue Sylvester Bowl Shuffle." Take a look for yourselves after the jump.
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Stop me if this sounds familiar: Four siblings suffering from varying degrees of dysfunction try to win the approval of their domineering and outspoken father, all while a relatively famous person narrates the sitcom antics that ensue. It's Arrested Development, right? Try Peep World, Barry Blaustein's familial comedy that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September.
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