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Summer Movie Blow Out! Entertainment Weekly In 60 Seconds

By Bob Sassone (Subscribe to Bob Sassone's posts), Posted Apr 23rd 2006 9:06AM
Filed under: Action, Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Foreign Language, Horror, Independent, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense, RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Box Office, Fandom, Entertainment Weekly in 60 Seconds, Family Films, Newsstand, Home Entertainment, Movie Marketing, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels, Games and Game Movies, Lists, Cinematical Indie, Features, Movie News, UK Box Office, Cinematical, UK Box Office
  • Steve CarellHoly crap, it's supergigantic, megacolossal Summer Movie Preview issue! Everything you need to know about all the big pics, including Superman Returns, Mission: Impossible 3, Clerks II, X-Men 3, Little Miss Sunshine, The Da Vinci Code, and 4 millon others, including smaller, independent films (note: above link goes to EW's list of movies they're anxious to see -- buy the issue for the whole summer preview guide).
  • Steve Carell on mastering the squirrel and finding his nuts.
  • Owen Glieberman on which actors and actresses have surprised him the most with their movie singing.
  • New movies: they give United 93 an A-, American Dreamz a B , and a C- to The Sentinel.
  • Just as The Da Vinci Code is about to open in theaters, Dan Brown says his follow-up book won't be ready by the end of this year as originally planned. I guess this means that everyone will have to find some other book to read.
  • Augusten Burroughs talks about the movie adaptation of Running With Scissors, having kids, and why James Frey is like Milli Vanilli.

Cruise and Holmes Welcome Baby Girl - BREAKING NEWS

By Bob Sassone (Subscribe to Bob Sassone's posts), Posted Apr 18th 2006 7:29PM
Filed under: RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Tom Cruise, Cinematical
Yup, it's finally here. Katie Holmes has given birth to a baby girl. Her name is Suri (not sure what that means), and she weighs 7 pounds, 7 ounces.

More details soon ...

The Season of the Gumshoe?

By Bob Sassone (Subscribe to Bob Sassone's posts), Posted Apr 17th 2006 8:01AM
Filed under: Noir, Mystery & Suspense, Critical Thought, Newsstand, Movie News, Cinematical
Da Vinci CodePart of me really wants to agree with the premise of this article (that there is a resurgence in stories about private eyes and detectives and the mystery genre in general, especially in film), but the author uses Superman Returns, Miami Vice, and X-Men 3 as examples, and that just makes me scratch my head.

But as long as James Sallis is one of the people interviewed, I'm all for it. Of course, calling Sallis "a Phoenix author whose crime novel Drive has been optioned by Universal" is a bit like saying "William Shakespeare, a Stratford-upon-Avon writer, will have his Romeo and Juliet made into a film later this year." Sallis is one of the great writers of our time.

Another way you know this article, a piece about the return of the gumshoe, is woefully incomplete? Brick isn't even mentioned! If anything, it should be the main point in the piece.

Oscars 2006 And Schmuck Bait: Entertainment Weekly In 60 Seconds

By Bob Sassone (Subscribe to Bob Sassone's posts), Posted Apr 15th 2006 7:06PM
Filed under: Casting, New Releases, RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Fandom, Entertainment Weekly in 60 Seconds, Newsstand, Home Entertainment, Movie Marketing, Lists, Oscar Watch, Features, Movie News, Oscar News, New Releases, Cinematical
  • Scary Movie 4A glossary of movie terms created by Scary Movie 4's David Zucker and his crew. My favorite is "Schmuck Bait."
  • Does critic Lisa Schwarzbaum always sit though the end credits of movies?
  • New movies: they give The Notorious Bettie Page a B , while Scary Movie 4 gets a C , Hard Candy gets a B and Kinky Boots gets the same.
  • New on DVD: instead of giving one overall grade to The Robert Altman Collection, they grade each movie individually. MASH gets a B , while A Wedding gets a C , Quintet a D, and A Perfect Couple a C . I haven't even heard of three of those movies (yes, I've heard of MASH).
  • Dave Karger gives his Oscar picks for 2006: All The King's Men (Sean Penn and Jude Law), Dreamgirls, The Good Shepherd, Will Ferrell's Stranger Than Fiction, and The Good German. Soderbergh, Clooney, and noir? I am so there.
  • An interview with Bill Paxton (including a "Must" list for his movies), and another chat, with Catherine Keener.
  • So, who have been the best movie Jesuses anyway?

Horror, Hotstuff, And Hairspray: The New York Times In 60 Seconds

By Bob Sassone (Subscribe to Bob Sassone's posts), Posted Apr 11th 2006 12:07PM
Filed under: Casting, New Releases, RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Box Office, New York Times in 60 Seconds, Newsstand, Home Entertainment, Movie Marketing, Politics, Features, Movie News, UK Box Office, New Releases, Cinematical, UK Box Office
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  • So let me get this straight: Hairspray, the movie, is released in 1988. Then they make a musical from it in 2002. And now New Line is again going to make a movie of it, this time with a budget of $50 million? Jeez, I know they say Hollywood is out of ideas, but this is ridiculous.
  • The paper reviews some of the more weird horror flicks coming out from overseas, including Pray, about a punk teen and his druggie girlfriend who kidnap a girl, only to find out she's been dead for a year (Oooooooo!); Una Bianca, a long Italian TV movie about two cops tracking down a group of vicious crooks; and Don't Deliver Us From Evil, which is about two young girls who worship Satan and start killing males in their neighborhood. And in one of the more unintentionally funny segues, the Times then says, "Also out today ...Fun With Dick And Jane."
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Snakes, Sex, And Superman: Entertainment Weekly In 60 Seconds

By Bob Sassone (Subscribe to Bob Sassone's posts), Posted Apr 9th 2006 3:00PM
Filed under: Casting, New Releases, RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Box Office, Fandom, Entertainment Weekly in 60 Seconds, Newsstand, Home Entertainment, Movie Marketing, Politics, Lists, Features, Movie News, UK Box Office, New Releases, Cinematical, UK Box Office
  • It's a bird, it's a plane...it's Superman! Brandon Routh flies at you on the cover. Inside, a preview of the movie, and an interview with director Bryan Singer, who talks about many of the myths revolving around the new flick (including, yes fans, the bulge).
  • Do you know what E.T.'s final words to Elliott were in E.T.? What's the highest-grossing superhero film of all-time? What was the name of the Focker's dog in Meet The Fockers? In the Marx Brothers film Horse Feathers, what was the password to get into the speakeasy? If you know the answers to these questions, you might do well in the annual Great American Pop Culture Quiz. No prizes, but you can brag to your roommate.
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Bettie Page And Big League Baseball: The New York Times In 60 Seconds

By Bob Sassone (Subscribe to Bob Sassone's posts), Posted Apr 4th 2006 3:07PM
Filed under: New Releases, Celebrities and Controversy, Fandom, New York Times in 60 Seconds, Newsstand, Movie Marketing, Lists, Movie News, New Releases, Cinematical
  • Playwright Martin McDonagh always wanted to be a director, and now his live-action short, Six Shooter, has won an Academy Award.
  • Universal is getting a lot of criticism, but it's not going to pull the trailer for United 93.
  • The "Times Pulse" says that Basic Instinct 2 is the most popular movie among New York Times readers. That's probably why it came in 10th in the box office this weekend. Its opening weekend.
  • I had no idea that Mary Harron, who directed American Psycho, also directed the new flick The Notorious Bettie Page, with Gretchen Mol as the famous 50s pinup icon.
  • The new baseball season started yesterday, and the paper gives a rundown of the twelve baseball movies being celebrated at MoMA. But it's woefully incomplete. I mean, no mention of good flicks like Rookie of the Year, Little Big League, or Fever Pitch? Any of those movies are better than Cobb.
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