Didn't have the stamina to camp out in downtown Los Angeles this week for tonight's Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1 premiere? Fear not! Tonight, Movieline has your live stream of the red carpet event featuring stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. Quickly, grab your finest bottle of non-alcoholic sparkling cider and meet Movieline after the jump!
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Commercial director and Ridley Scott protege Carl Erik Rinsch will become better known when his feature debut, the ambitious Keanu Reeves samurai epic 47 Ronin, hits theaters in 2012. But in the meantime, another another of his eye-catching shorts has hit the web that showcases what could be the introduction of a memorable new talent to the film world. In Escape the Map, commissioned by Mercedes-Benz, Rinsch offers an interactive behind-the-wheel adventure set entirely in a pixelated, digital world of intrigue and femme fatales caught in the matrix of Google Streetview. Watch it and weigh in; is Rinsch the visionary filmmaker of the future?
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I've said it before: Next Movie's "Rappers Review Movies" video series is ingenious. The latest rhymer to play Ebert with Hollywood's new releases is NYC-based Immortal Technique, a lyricist who frequently uses his songs to draw attention to socio-economic and political disparities. Taking on Tarsem's Greek actioner Immortals, he drops some serious conscious commentary on even greater issues: Namely, how much Clash of the Titans and the next-gen Star Wars movies totally sucked. PREACH!
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When you first wept through the Jack and Jill trailer, you probably figured that Al Pacino's role as Al Pacino would just be a brief cameo. He falls for Adam Sandler in drag at a Lakers game and sends her a hot dog with his phone number squirted in mustard. Classic meat cute! Judging by a few new clips from the Razzie front runner though, Al Pacino co-stars in multiple scenes as Jill's overeager love interest.
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You may not be able to see My Week With Marilyn until Thanksgiving, but you can watch Michelle Williams channel the Hollywood bombshell right now. In a song and dance clip courtesy of our friends at Moviefone, the probable Oscar contender shimmies and shakes out a rendition of Irving Berlin's "Heat Wave" in sequins. The temperature rises ahead.
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Following in Hugh Jackman's Real Steel-shilling footsteps, the Muppets headed over to the WWE's Monday Night Raw last night to promote their upcoming movie. Only instead of providing six minutes worth of awkward, forced film promotion, the fuzzy characters brought their own brand of innocence and (what appears to be) some of their own writing to the ring. Surprisingly, Muppets meet Monday Night Raw almost worked...when the inanimate Jim Henson gang wasn't out-acting WWE's regulars.
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In the latest, Very Special Holiday Episode of Verbal Vogueing -- starring Movieline's own beloved Anthony Perkins doppelganger and Madonna enthusiast, Louis Virtel -- things get spooky. We're talking Halloween cliches so tired they're lazily wearing a slutty plastic bag costume from the gas station. But fear not: Louis is here to save Halloween with his snappy verbal stylings!
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If you thought you had seen the last Muppets parody trailer, think again. With less than a month until Kermit and Miss Piggy storm the theaters for their movie comeback, The Muppets Studio has a released another promo in which the fuzzy gang pokes fun at Paranormal Activity 3, Puss In Boots, Breaking Dawn and themselves.
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How hardcore is Tom Cruise? So hardcore that he actually scaled the tallest structure in the world -- Dubai's Burj Khalifa, which stands at just over a half-mile high -- for a perilous, stomach-churning action sequence in the upcoming Brad Bird-directed Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Video proof of the superstar's stunt hardcore-ness ahead.
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Empire Magazine gathered ex-Hobbit pals Frodo, Sam, Pippin, and Merry (otherwise known as Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, and Dominic Monaghan) for a reunion photo shoot to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of The Fellowship of the Ring, in the December issue. It'll include Viggo Mortensen's behind the scenes photos, concept art, and stories from the set, and to whet your appetite Empire's released a brief "trailer" from its recent Hobbit cast reunion.
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Director Dante Lam has been called the Michael Mann of Hong Kong cinema, and Movieline's exclusive clip from his latest pic, Fire of Conscience, demonstrates why: In the span of just over a minute, watch as a nighttime foot chase in a busy metropolitan street turns deadly as a portentous rain falls, all captured in gloriously saturated hues with menacing finesse. Watch the clip and get more details after the jump.
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We may not have another Harry Potter film to look forward to (at least until the remakes), but there is some original Potter-related footage to anticipate still: A 48-minute documentary about the filming of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 and Part 2 that goes behind-the-scenes of the franchise's final leg with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson & Co. Click ahead for a teaser of the documentary, When Harry Left Hogwarts, which features the stars as they prep for their final scenes, dodge a set fire and worriedly speculate about their post-Hogwarts careers.
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When Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson presented some of the first footage from their epic mo-cap collaboration The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn to this summer's Comic-Con audience, they also shared the film's "first motion-capture test" -- a cute video in which Jackson nervously auditions for the role of Captain Haddock with a bottle of Jack Daniels in hand. Now, the audition video is available for everyone to see via a new Tintin featurette.
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What can you expect from the two Avatar sequels that James Cameron is currently writing for 2014 and 2015? No one is sure exactly but Nightline anchor Bill Weir was able to tease a few details from the franchise's filmmaker in a casual interview recently.
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Have you heard about Act of Valor , the upcoming Navy-approved action film starring actual Navy SEALs as Navy SEALs on a covert mission that is based on actual Navy SEAL missions? The one that totally glamorizes Navy SEAL-dom and resembles, as EW points out, a feature-length Navy SEAL recruitment video? Not yet? Well, you're in luck, because now there's a trailer.
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