Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Dec 5, 2009, 9:40 am
Before now, all we really knew about the next Jack Ryan film is that Chris Pine (Star Trek) would be taking up the role, picking up where Ben Affleck left off in 2002. But producer Mace Neufeld answer...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Dec 5, 2009, 7:02 am
I wonder what all of this means for Steven Spielberg's next couple of years. He was looking for a project after this summer, was rumored for the spy movie Matt Helm, but instead hustled quickl...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Dec 5, 2009, 4:20 am
I know it doesn't mean much, but every stitch of Kick-Ass that we've been shown does exactly that. The Comic Con trailer, the official theatrical trailer, character posters (including this new...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Dec 5, 2009, 1:34 am
We are among the many websites and other interested parties who have erroneously stated that Disney and Marvel have merged. There's a pending merger, but the shareholders at Marvel has to OK t...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Dec 4, 2009, 10:53 pm
Clearly, they're not looking for a lot of depth from the performance, but Paramount and Mattel have reportedly zeroed in on Taylor Lautner, Jacob from New Moon, to play the lead in Max Steel, base...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Dec 4, 2009, 7:59 pm
It's list time again, this one courtesy of The Onion's AV Club. The Best Bad Movies of the Decade is really a hard thing to categorize. The first rule is probably that the bad movie intended i...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Dec 4, 2009, 4:27 pm
Kate Beckinsale and Zooey Deschanel are featured in some new retro-inspired Absolut ads that sell the hell out of Kate Beckinsale, but not so much the vodka. Kate has Everybody's Fine in the...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Dec 4, 2009, 2:13 pm
The remake of The Birds, which we learned several months ago had hit a brick wall, may have found a way around it. Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, the upcoming Green Lantern) is no longer the ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Dec 4, 2009, 11:58 am
Happy 60th to The Dude, Jeff Bridges. Even though his career should be envied and appreciated by just about everyone, it's possible Bridges found his signature role after nearly 30 years in the bu...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Dec 4, 2009, 11:03 am
In some circles the name of this new Johnny Depp project is getting trashed, but I kind of like it: Seven Friends of Pancho Villa and the Woman with Six Fingers. Variety indicates that Depp is in seri...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Dec 1, 2009, 12:02 am
I bet Nic Cage wishes this year was over so he can turn the page and start all over. All the financial issues and whatnot, the passing of his father...he'll be glad to have a fresh start. One way ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 30, 2009, 9:25 pm
In a year full of delayed or scrapped release dates, another 2009 casualty was The Weinstein Company's Youth in Revolt with Michael Cera. It was going to open October 30th, which was proba...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 30, 2009, 6:33 pm
Yep, that's War Machine standing back-to-back with Iron Man in the first real deal Iron Man 2 poster. The one-sheet premiered this afternoon at Yahoo! and I wouldn't be surprised if the next p...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 30, 2009, 5:17 pm
Here's a story you should definitely follow for a while: The Playlist reports that sources close to the production are indicating director Paul Greengrass has walked away from Bourne 4, leaving a ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 30, 2009, 2:56 pm
John Hillcoat's The Road didn't make a huge impression in its first weekend in theaters, making a little over $1.5 million in limited release. Hard to blame Hillcoat, though, for a movie that ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 30, 2009, 12:37 pm
Perhaps it's better in theory than execution, but I give the makers of this spoofified mash-up of Inglorious Basterds and New Moon called - as you can plainly see - Inglourious Vampires. H...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 30, 2009, 10:01 am
Here's our first look at the new Karate Kid, courtesy of People. That's Jaden Smith next to Jackie Chan, and is it me, or does it look like Will's kid isn't growing at all? I kno...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 30, 2009, 7:18 am
In terms of box office, the biggest news was not what won the holiday weekend but what came in second. The Blind Side was just a few million bucks behind New Moon, and it's safe to say nobody ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 30, 2009, 4:57 am
Every year, The International Press Academy hands out the Satellite Awards, which used to be the Golden Satellite Awards. The key in all of this is "Press Academy," meaning this may look similar to so...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 30, 2009, 2:26 am
All of a sudden, this one has my attention. I saw the poster over the Thanksgiving break, and even with the great cast, I just didn't know enough about 44 Inch Chest before I saw a series of new c...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 29, 2009, 11:54 pm
Ever since the we learned that MGM had failed to call FreeCreditReport.com for years and found itself billions of dollars in debt, I was one of the many who wondered what it could mean for The Hobbit....
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 29, 2009, 9:21 pm
Paramount Pictures, in what should be a surprise to no one, has signed the domestic distribution deal for Oren Peli's follow-up to Paranormal Activity. That film made a cozy $100 million-plus prof...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 29, 2009, 6:47 pm
Sam Raimi looks to build on the slight momentum of his Ghost House Pictures by picking up Uruguayan filmmaker Federico Alvarez to direct a sci-fi movie of his choosing. Why does he get tha...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 29, 2009, 4:23 pm
Here's the problem I have with a new list by The Hollywood Reporter covering the biggest flops of the decade. When dissecting the movies that lost the most money over the past ten years, The R...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 29, 2009, 1:50 pm
We finally have some commercials for Nine, which is pretty distinguishable from the other Best Picture hopefuls because of its major league cast and it's the only musical anywhere near the run...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 29, 2009, 11:24 am
Just about any other weekend, $66 million might seem like a powerful number, but pull back a bit and you'll start to see a different kind of writing on the wall. The Twilight Saga: New Moon di...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 29, 2009, 8:27 am
Robert Rodriguez is producing and not directing the upcoming Predators reboot. The reason for the confusion, if you still have some confusion about it, is because Rodriguez wrote the script th...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 29, 2009, 5:58 am
I'm one of those people who would be fine with a new Toy Story trailer every week. It doesn't work like that, of course, but I have such great memories of the first two movies and such high ho...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 29, 2009, 3:39 am
Have you been following the tug-of-war going on between studios about the release windows for DVDs and Blu-ray? It's been pretty fascinating to watch this year, as the bad economy has led to a...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 29, 2009, 1:05 am
I've said about all I can say about The Wolfman and in particular its production woes. So we'll just table that for now. Instead, here are two new international posters, one of which I thi...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 28, 2009, 10:39 pm
Here's news you can use: A chart of what Oscar handicappers are thinking moving into the final month of the year. Now, this year, we have ten Best Picture nominees, and the winner will be determin...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 28, 2009, 8:00 pm
For lack of a better comparison, Exam looks like Saw in a business suit. It's a single-room thriller, upping the stakes from two characters to eight, and they're not handcuffed to steam pipes ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 28, 2009, 3:07 pm
... , I would be happy to bounce back and forth between Sherlock Holmes and Tony Stark until I am forcibly retired," the actor admitted. "And also, fortunately, not unlike Iron Man, there is a wa...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 28, 2009, 12:59 pm
The downward turn for The Twilight Saga: New Moon was shortlived. The vampire sequel, already one of the year's top ten movies, was upended by The Blind Side on Friday, which indicates to me - bas...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 28, 2009, 10:11 am
The Lovely Bones is well-positioned, if nothing else, to play spoiler at the Academy Awards. It could be a vote-splitter in a couple categories, although Best Picture and Best Director don't seem ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 24, 2009, 8:37 am
Stephen Norrington was brought in to direct a new version of The Crow, which is not exactly a remake and certainly not a prequel or a sequel. That led me to call the film a "rebootmagining," because...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 24, 2009, 6:02 am
We've been on a poster kick so far this week, revamping the one-sheets for several movies that have high aspirations during awards season. Curiously enough, most of them come from The Weinstein Co...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 24, 2009, 3:32 am
Mia Wasikowska will go from one famed literary heroine to another. The star of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland will star in a new version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. As differen...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 24, 2009, 1:01 am
It's pedal to the metal time over at Kenneth Branagh's big Thor adaptation. The casting came slowly but surely for about four months, but here lately, Marvel has ramped up the ensemble quite a...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 23, 2009, 10:45 pm
Here's the first For Your Consideration ad for The Hangover, which is a pop-up at Variety that First Showing noticed recently. It's not strictly speaking an Oscar ad, but it's defi...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 23, 2009, 8:21 pm
I guess when a movie costs as much as Avatar, the real price tag - whether it's $250 or $300 million, or $400 or $500 million - really isn't the point. It would be nice to know a total, ei...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 23, 2009, 6:02 pm
Maybe I missed this before or maybe it's new information, but did you know that J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot are co-producing the feature film version of Samurai Jack? Apparently, that's the skin...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 23, 2009, 3:38 pm
Not surprisingly, New Moon director Chris Weitz is going right back to work for Summit on his follow-up, The Gardener. "There are no werewolves or vampires, just a Mexican gardener in Los Angeles," We...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 23, 2009, 1:14 pm
Here's another awards-friendly poster update from The Weinstein Company. John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road finally arrives in select theaters...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 23, 2009, 12:06 pm
We just received a brand new poster for Tom Ford's A Single Man, which is pushing Colin Firth pretty heavily for Best Actor. I suppose it has a few other possibilities in the awards season, but Fi...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 23, 2009, 10:11 am
You have to wait until the very end to see something pretty cool in this new trailer for Universal Soldier: Regeneration, but before you get there, you'll smirk just a little bit at the fact that....
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 23, 2009, 7:26 am
There's nothing new about Pixar producing companion pieces to its films. Think Jack Jack Attack from The Incredibles or last year's Wall-E off-shoot, Burn-E. Now we're finally seeing t...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 23, 2009, 5:01 am
You know what the big story of the weekend was: A huge, huge, huge weekend for New Moon. You can read the story below for a little historical perspective, not that there's much history for som...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 23, 2009, 3:02 am
I have seen bad werewolf effects in New Moon and I have seen bad werewolf effects in the trailers for The Wolfman, and I have wondered why (or how) this particular school of wizardy has gone backward ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 23, 2009, 1:29 am
With Precious hitting its stride in theaters - another $11 million this weekend to take its domestic total to twice its production cost with plenty more to go - Lionsgate is going on the offensive wit...
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