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Tree of Life vs. The Social Network, and More Golden Trailer Awards Match-Ups

Tree of Life vs. The Social Network, and More Golden Trailer Awards Match-Ups

Awards season isn't completely over for some of your favorite films from last year: The 12th annual Golden Trailer Awards pit the best marketing campaigns, trailer, and posters from films in 2010 and 2011 against one another, which means the Tree of Life trailer is up against that of The Social Network, the vampire remake Let Me In competes with the spooky remake Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, and Cars 2 battles Rango. Never mind that half of these films haven't come out yet!

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Hanna Director Joe Wright on Smashing the 'Gun-Loving, Republican Bullsh*t' Action Mold

Hanna Director Joe Wright on Smashing the 'Gun-Loving, Republican Bullsh*t' Action Mold

BAFTA-winning director Joe Wright could have stuck to his bread-and-butter area of expertise, the lush period drama, a domain in which his films have notched multiple Academy Awards just six years into a feature filmmaking career. But after making Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and the subsequent misfire The Soloist, Wright flipped the script and re-teamed with the teenage actress he'd previously directed to an Oscar nomination -- 16-year-old Saoirse Ronan -- on Hanna, a dizzyingly kinetic action film about a girl assassin on a mission of self-discovery.

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Hip-Hop Fan Abbie Cornish Hoping to Record Album

Hip-Hop Fan Abbie Cornish Hoping to Record Album

Abbie Cornish didn't get to sing in the theatrical cut of Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch, but may soon be sharing her musical talents with the world. The Australian actress, who covers the May issue of Esquire UK, told the British mag that she'd like to record an album when her schedule opens up. "I would love to play here in Los Angeles... and record an album," she said. But Cornish won't be just any actress releasing a vanity album; the self-admitted hip-hop fan, who has been DJing since her teen years, has been performing with a crew for years. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the lady rapper known as Dusk!

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Hanna Director Joe Wright Slams Sucker Punch's Girl Power, Spice Girls: 'That's Marketing Bullsh*t'

Hanna Director Joe Wright Slams Sucker Punch's Girl Power, Spice Girls: 'That's Marketing Bullsh*t'

In San Francisco to present his upcoming teen assassin thriller Hanna at WonderCon, director Joe Wright threw a few pointed barbs toward Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch, calling out the film's brand of scantily clad feminism. Speaking exclusively with Movieline, Wright elaborated on the subject, tracing the "alarming" brand of sexually-exploitative girl power found in Sucker Punch back to the Spice Girls.

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VIDEO: Find Out If You Were Right to Ignore Sucker Punch By Watching the First 6 Minutes

Since so many folks opted to stay home and wash their hair in lieu of buying a ticket to Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch, here's a chance to see what you missed: The first six minutes of the film (well, the opening sequence plus a sizzle reel) are online! In it, the life-changing "Janie's Got a Gun"-inspired events that bring Babydoll (Emily Browning) to the film's mental institution for wayward girls are revealed in -- what else? -- slow motion! Death, child abuse, face-scratching, sisterly love, tragedy, a sultry cover version of "Sweet Dreams" sung by Browning... it's all here, after the jump.

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Rapper Pharoahe Monch Reviews Sucker Punch, Because Why Not?

Rapper Pharoahe Monch Reviews Sucker Punch, Because Why Not?

These days everyone's a critic. No, really: The folks at NextMovie got rapper Pharoahe Monch to review Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch for a video series entitled, appropriately enough, "Rappers Review Movies." (Previous installments include Lil Mama on Big Momma's House 3 -- oh, the sweet poetry in that pairing -- and Talib Kweli on The Fighter.) So what did the Queens-born self-identified nerd (who famously sampled the theme from Godzilla for his chart-topping 1999 anthem "Simon Says" and has a new album out now) think of Sucker Punch?

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SLIDESHOW: A Taxonomy of Girls Ganging Up in the Movies

As director Zack Snyder demonstrates in this week's Sucker Punch, there are few filmic thrills as satisfying as watching women band together to turn gender assumptions upside down. But Emily Browning's Babydoll wasn't the first to grab a weapon and lead her lady friends into the fray; plenty of women have cleared the path for the Sucker Punch gang where sisterly solidarity is concerned, even if some of them used sex appeal or caustic wit instead of samurai swords or machine guns to deal death blows to the enemy. Join Movieline in revisiting the varied history of sisterhood in cinema as we catalogue over a dozen case studies of fierce femmes fatale doing it for themselves on film.

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Zack Snyder on Male Moviegoers and His Subversive Sucker Punch: 'We Are the People in the Brothel'

Clicking and unclicking his pen with nervous energy as he spoke, director Zack Snyder took Movieline back to the first smattering of ideas that ran through his brain when the concept for the girl-power action fantasy Sucker Punch first took root: Lobotomies. Planet of the Apes. Loss of self. The magic of music. And perhaps the most important takeaway of all from Friday's PG-13, pop culture-mashing fever dream: the idea that, simmering beneath the film's fantastical burlesque numbers and bloodthirsty rampages is a subversive desire to turn the tables on the very moviegoers who least expect it.

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Director's Cut Delights, Death Star Doodles, and 7 Other Revelations from the Sucker Punch Junket

Director's Cut Delights, Death Star Doodles, and 7 Other Revelations from the Sucker Punch Junket

How do you even begin to wrap your head around Zack Snyder's latest epic, Sucker Punch? The anachronistic pop fantasy mash-up follows '60s-era insane asylum inmate Babydoll (Emily Browning) who plots escape with four fellow prisoners (Abbie Cornish as Sweet Pea, Jena Malone as Rocket, Vanessa Hudgens as Blondie, and Jamie Chung as Amber) by going into a dream world within another dream world to fight dragons, zombie Nazis, and evil nightclub pimps. And as Snyder and Co. revealed while making the press rounds, what hits theaters this Friday is only one version of what Sucker Punch ever was, is, and still could be whenever Snyder's unveils his full Director's Cut.

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Zack Snyder on Henry Cavill and His Realistic Superman: 'For Me, That's Like a Documentary'

Zack Snyder on Henry Cavill and His Realistic Superman: 'For Me, That's Like a Documentary'

More bits and pieces of Zack Snyder's upcoming Superman project emerged Sunday as the director made the press rounds with the girl power action pic Sucker Punch, another wildly fantastical, epic-scale vision from the man behind 300 and Watchmen. As Snyder told Movieline exclusively with a nod to his creative exchanges with producer Christopher Nolan, Superman will mark a stylistic departure of sorts: The comic book adventure about the flying, super-powered Man of Steel will be his most realistic film to date.

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