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  Newswire Syfy-caliber movie Legion to become actual Syfy series

  Finding inspiration, like so many networks seem to be doing these days, in its Netflix queue, Syfy has begun developing a TV adaptation of 2010’s Legion—a series that would potentially join the channel’s adaptation of The Adju...

  February 10, 2012 | 2:52pm -

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  Newswire Yet another version of Beauty And The Beast in the works

  Because the best stories are those that can be told again and again, preferably in competing versions and all at once, Beauty And The Beast is making inroads toward becoming the next Snow White in terms of fairy tales that producers believe...

  February 10, 2012 | 11:52am -

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  Newswire New version of Rebecca to be haunted by the memory of Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca

  Alfred Hitchcock won his only Best Picture Oscar for 1940’s Rebecca, suggesting that anyone who would attempt their own adaptation of Daphne du Marier’s novel—as DreamWorks and Working Title are now planning—would be haunte...

  February 10, 2012 | 10:18am -

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  Movie Review The Vow

  An accident forces a young married couple (Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams) to start the wooing process from scratch. 

  February 9, 2012 | 5:40pm -

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  Newswire George Lucas says Han never shot first, you were just confused

  Last month, George Lucas, emboldened by his impending retirement from the business of blockbusters, opened up about his weariness with the complaints of Star Wars fans who have long griped about his many changes to the saga over the years—fo...

  February 9, 2012 | 5:29pm -

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  Newswire Here's who's been cast so far in Jason Reitman's "all-black Reservoir Dogs" reading

  Director Jason Reitman has been entertaining audiences with movies that are not his own for a while now, gathering diverse and inspired groups of actors for live readings of films such as The Breakfast Club, The Princess Bride, and The A...

  February 9, 2012 | 4:08pm -

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  Great Job, Internet! Jean-Ralphio is the new Spider-Man; Entertainment 720 now superhero base of operations

  February 9, 2012 | 3:05pm -

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  Newswire And lo, Legendary Pictures did cast its 3-D Paradise Lost movie into the abyss

  As foretold by the oracle God and Variety, Legendary Pictures has scrapped all plans to adapt John Milton’s epic 17th-century poem Paradise Lost into a 3-D movie about angels and demons engaged in “aerial warfare,” hurling...

  February 9, 2012 | 2:30pm -

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  Newswire The addition of Billy Connolly finally brings an end to Hobbit casting news

  It has been a long and unexpected journey fraught with assorted perils and YouTube tributes set to Enya songs, but at last Peter Jackson’s quest is at an end: With the addition of Billy Connolly, the director has announced that he has finally finis...

  February 9, 2012 | 12:41pm -

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  Primer Robert Bresson

  A guide to one of film’s most forbidding, and rewarding, directors.

  February 9, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  Newswire Today in movies not starring Jessica Chastain: Naomi Watts, not Jessica Chastain, will play Princess Diana

  In an increasingly rare instance of a role not going to Jessica Chastain, Deadline reports that Naomi Watts has taken the lead in the Princess Diana movie Caught In Flight, a part which had initially been attached to Chastain in accordance with mo...

  February 9, 2012 | 11:34am -

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  Newswire Don't worry, Lars Von Trier's next movie will feature an abused woman

  As Lars Von Trier remains under a self-imposed code of silence until the world is finally ready to talk about Nazis, much of the information regarding his next film, Nymphomaniac, has been secondhand. What we do know so far: It will definitely fea...

  February 9, 2012 | 11:14am -

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  Newswire There's "absolutely" going to be another Wet Hot American Summer

  Amid all the excitement surrounding the very almost-reality of returns for Arrested Development and Party Down, you may have forgotten that you were also supposed to be getting your hopes up for a Wet Hot American Summer reunion. For...

  February 9, 2012 | 10:41am -

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  Movie Review Safe House

  A quarter-century after his Oscar-nominated role as Stephen Biko, Denzel Washington returns to South Africa as a decidedly shadier character.

  February 9, 2012 | 12:08am -

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  Movie Review Rampart

  Woody Harrelson teams up again with Oren Moverman (The Messenger) for a take on the same LAPD corruption case that inspired The Shield. 

  February 9, 2012 | 12:07am -

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  Movie Review Chico & Rita

  A “what’s that?” nominee for Best Animated Feature turns out to deserve the slot. 

  February 9, 2012 | 12:06am -

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  Movie Review Return

  Linda Cardellini plays a returning soldier in a familiar drama boosted by excellent performances. 

  February 9, 2012 | 12:05am -

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  Movie Review Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

  The Rock takes over for Brendan Fraser in an island adventure that invokes Jules Verne just enough to insult him. 

  February 9, 2012 | 12:04am -

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  Movie Review The Turin Horse 

  The reputed final film from Hungarian master Béla Tarr pivots on the incident that marked Friedrich Nietzsche’s break from sanity.  

  February 9, 2012 | 12:03am -

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  Movie Review In Darkness

  Director Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa) follows a sewer worker and petty thief as he makes his way through a Nazi-occupied Polish city. 

  February 9, 2012 | 12:02am -

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  Movie Review The Miners’ Hymns

  In this compilation, multimedia artist Bill Morrison’s stunning new experimental film about coal miners joins a handful of his other shorts. 

  February 9, 2012 | 12:01am -

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  Movie Review Perfect Sense 

  Ewan McGregor and Eva Green star in an apocalyptic romance that handles the apocalypse better than the romance. 

  February 9, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Deciphering the shorts: A guide to this year’s Oscar nominees

  Inside the Academy Awards’ least-seen nominees. 

  February 9, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  The New Cult Canon Observe And Report

  Jody Hill’s hilarious, uncomfortable, puzzling riff on Taxi Driver plants a dangerous obsessive in the middle of a shopping mall.

  February 9, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Newswire Brian De Palma and Jason Statham remaking Heat (the other one)

  After a five-year hiatus following the back-to-back, poorly received efforts The Black Dahlia and Redacted, Brian De Palma appears to be ready to return to filmmaking with a remake of Heat—and no, not that one. Rather than atte...

  February 8, 2012 | 4:53pm -

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  Newswire Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are making another movie together

  In news that threatens to rock 1987, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone have confirmed long-rumored plans to join forces for the action movie The Tomb, a film that will at last see the playful rivals teaming up without any Planet Hollywo...

  February 8, 2012 | 3:39pm -

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  Newswire Bro comedy bros Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson to reunite for another bro comedy, bro

  Movie-bros Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are in talks for another comedy utilizing their bro chemistry, with the Wedding Crashers duo set to reunite for the Shawn Levy-directed Interns, and once again embody Jung’s duality of bro...

  February 8, 2012 | 2:53pm -

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  Newswire Philip Seymour Hoffman, Anton Corbijn, and John le Carré join slow-moving forces for A Most Wanted Man

  Anton Corbijn—whose The American established him as a director of some of the slowest-paced thrillers on record—is now readying A Most Wanted Man, a movie based on a novel by a man who’s also known for taking his sweet tim...

  February 8, 2012 | 1:43pm -

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  Newswire Natalie Portman signs on for both of Terrence Malick's new movies

  Following a prolific year in which seemingly every week brought a new Natalie Portman movie, until the industry finally caved and gave her an Oscar so she’d just take a break already, Natalie Portman has been following the postpartum path of many a...

  February 8, 2012 | 1:24pm -

• Great Job, Internet! The entire Harry Potter saga in just 60 seconds 

  Even easier than CliffsNotes

  February 8, 2012 | 1:00pm -