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Trailer Tracker: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 50/50 and more

June 2, 2011 | | Movie Features

As the second official month of blockbuster season rolls around, so does a mixed slate of new clips including a
handful that are among the best-looking of the year so far and a couple that incite
grimaces as quickly as the weather does profuse sweating. Our featured trailer
this week is the “leaked” red band trailer for David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (more on
that disclaimer later), which stands as one of the most unique and enticing
instances of marketing in recent memory.

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“Hangover Part III” Script Ordered, Ending Revealed?

June 1, 2011 | | Movie News

It’s obvious that Warner Bros. wants more of the Wolfpack. TheWrap relays that “Part II” scribe Craig Mazin is already back on board for screenwriting duties for “Part III.” Series director Todd Phillips told Vulture last week that his “idea [for the third installment] is serious. Deadly serious. It will not revolve around a wedding, and it will not revolve around a forgotten night.”

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“Old Spice Guy” Video Campaigns to Play Marvel’s Luke Cage

June 1, 2011 | | Movie News

It’s natural that a film about Marvel’s Luke Cage might come to fruition in the near future; the studio’s hinted at the possibility. Cage is a detective with bulging muscles and hard skin thanks to an experiment gone wrong. The Daily Blam! relays that actor Isaiah Mustafa, most famous for his role in the popular Old Spice commercials, has actively campaigned for the role of Cage. He even mentions having met with the studio:

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DVD/Blu-ray DISCussion (New for 5.31.11)

May 31, 2011 | | Movie News

Stanley Kubrick fans rejoice: The Stanley Kubrick Collection is coming out onto Blu-ray this week. If you only want some of Mr. Kubrick’s films three of them are being released as separate Blu-rays, including a 2-Disc re-release of A Clockwork Orange. Other classics coming to Blu-ray are the Western classic Once Upon A Time in the West and the George Lucas film American Graffiti. If you want something new, there is either the depressing Spanish film Biutiful or Drive Angry with Nicolas Cage.

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“The Hobbit” Films Get Titles and Release Dates

May 31, 2011 | | Movie News

Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit has spent a hefty amount of time in the pre-production stages to say the least. Between the many delays and changes made throughout the course of putting it all together, one may have wondered if it would even happen. Thankfully, it looks like Jackson and the gang have everything finally set. The two parts will be titled The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again; they’ll release on December 14, 2012 and December 13, 2013, respectively.

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“Hangover Part II” Sets Comedy Box-Office Record

May 30, 2011 | Mark Quinlan | Movie News

Critics be darned it seems. The Hangover Part II triumphed despite bad scores from movie reviewers and broke records in the process. As far as R-rated comedies go, the Wolfpack set the bar with a $10 million early morning launch. It added $86.5 million to the money chest through the traditional weekend earning it the number one spot at $118.1 million in four days. It’s good to be a foul-mouthed drunk with a monkey in Thailand these days.

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David O. Russell Drops Out of “Uncharted” Film

May 29, 2011 | | Movie News

Looks like Nathan Drake is hanging by a thread. David O. Russell (The Fighter) has walked away from Sony’s upcoming adaptation of the smash video game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.

It’s been said that he submitted a 200-page script (huge, by screenplay standards) to Sony that largely broke away from the format, story and characters of the game series; leading to a splitting of ways between the (volatile) director and Sony. Now it sounds like the studio is more keen on the original draft by Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer (Conan the Barbarian), scrapping most of what Russell had planned for the adaptation.

Trailer Tracker: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 50/50 and more

“Hangover Part III” Script Ordered, Ending Revealed?

“Old Spice Guy” Video Campaigns to Play Marvel’s Luke Cage

DVD/Blu-ray DISCussion (New for 5.31.11)

“The Hobbit” Films Get Titles and Release Dates

“Hangover Part II” Sets Comedy Box-Office Record

David O. Russell Drops Out of “Uncharted” Film

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