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I don't know if it's water under a considerable bridge or what, but Harvey Weinstein and Disney are working together again. You'll remember that Harvey and Bob split from Disney severa...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 11, 2009, 5:40 am
I can't believe Sony is trying this, but if you want to rent Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 30 days early, you can...for $25. That's not entirely accurate. ZDNet says it will really onl...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 11, 2009, 3:24 am
We covered this ground a while ago, when Damon Lindelof said he wouldn't be adapting Stephen King's Dark Tower, one of those projects so big it has to be a movie, but too big to actually be a ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 11, 2009, 1:03 am
Our friends at Trailer Spy have the new Clash of the Titans trailer (they also have a cool new iPhone app, but we'll get into that next week). At first, I had my doubts: Not a Louis Leterrier ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 10, 2009, 10:43 pm
Almost exactly a year after Taken stormed American theaters, director Pierre Morel will return with From Paris With Love, a great title for a movie that is about the exact opposite. Oh sure, it's ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 10, 2009, 8:18 pm
A few more names have been added to Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, the movie that is becoming more heavily circulated because of a sex scene with Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis than its subject ma...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 10, 2009, 6:00 pm
After they're reunited in the The Hangover sequel (May 2011), Zach Galifianakis and Bradley Cooper will star in You Are Here, the first film from Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner. Variety says we...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 10, 2009, 3:46 pm
We're a third of the way through the Winter of Clooney; George's Men Who Stare at Goats opened last weekend, and considering it's not getting rave reviews, the film is actually doing prett...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 10, 2009, 1:20 pm
Back in April, I sat down with Pete Docter, the director of Up, and asked him about the rumored sequel to Monsters, Inc. He was not very forthcoming then. "Basically, the way we approach all the films...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 10, 2009, 10:49 am
Even though I can't confirm if the recent Will Smith-Flowers for Algernon news is true, if it is, that would limit Smith's ability to do other films, or at least force him to shuffle things ar...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 6, 2009, 4:46 pm
There's a great opportunity for Paranormal Activity fans to have one final, permanent connection with the micro-budgeted horror flick/multiplex phenom. Paramount is giving the fans a chance to hav...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 6, 2009, 2:06 pm
If these things lived in a vacuum, it might be a different story. On its own, there's nothing wrong or inherently evil about making a movie based on The Flintstones or Scooby Doo or even Rocky & B...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 6, 2009, 12:03 pm
Brüno was damn funny in small doses, but as an entire movie, it kind of lost its way. But when the film comes out on DVD November 17th, it will have a few more small doses, like this deleted scene wi...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 6, 2009, 10:56 am
We've gotten plenty of traffic here at The Big Picture thanks to the story alleging that Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis will have mad sapphic sex in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, so thanks fo...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 6, 2009, 8:12 am
After footage from the film debuted at Comic-Con, Kick-Ass immediately became one of next year's most anticipated fanboy movies. There was a bidding war to secure the rights for the young non-supe...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 6, 2009, 5:52 am
So what did we learn this week? Well, we learned that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will host the Oscars, we learned that if you've got the coin, you could buy the rights to Terminator, and we l...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 6, 2009, 3:20 am
A Christmas Carol Starring Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman Directed by Robert Zemeckis Rated PG There are two ways to perceive A Christmas Carol. You can either look at th...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 6, 2009, 12:49 am
The Men Who Stare at Goats Starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey Directed by Grant Heslov Rated R It's a deviously warped story, the kind...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 5, 2009, 11:01 pm
I think you should just go ahead and ask Kristanna Loken out. Clearly, she'll say yes to just about anything. Director/pugilist/laughingstock Uwe Boll says Loken will return for yet another BloodR...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 5, 2009, 8:38 pm
I read The Killer Inside Me about 25 years ago, and in general I'm an admirer of the work of pulp novelist Jim Thompson. His most recognized works are probably that title, The Killing (later turne...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 5, 2009, 11:53 am
Michael Jackson's This Is It performed worse than expected last weekend, although you wouldn't know it to read the trades, many of which used way too many adjectives to describe a movie that d...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 5, 2009, 9:52 am
Didn't I just say Zach Galifianakis has had a great year, with The Hangover leading to several big casting announcements in the past four months? I'm sorry if that sounds a bit like an admonition, but...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 5, 2009, 7:28 am
As we previously reported, Danny Boyle's follow-up to Slumdog Millionaire will be the story of mountaineer Aron Ralston. You'll remember Ralston pinned himself literally between a rock and har...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 5, 2009, 5:09 am
I'm not sure whether or not this requires a spoiler alert, but director Roland Emmerich says he's planning a TV spin-off to 2012. So I guess that means the world doesn't totally come to an...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 5, 2009, 3:05 am
... is another 2010 supervillain cartoon comedy. That one's about a villain who kills his archrival and loses the will to live. Despicable Me is about a villain named Gru (Steve Carell) who want...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 5, 2009, 12:41 am
Remember the stupid bit in the first couple Mission: Impossible movies where everybody would rip their faces off to reveal someone new underneath? That must be the blueprint for The Tourist, a film th...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 4, 2009, 10:09 pm
The Academy Award nominations aren't due for another 90 days or so, and most of the movies that figure to be prominent nominees this year still haven't been released. Still, a few movies s...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 4, 2009, 8:18 pm
Sure, board games movies seem to be popping up much, much faster than the need demonstrates - we haven't even seen one of the new crop yet and there are about a half-dozen in various stages of dev...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 4, 2009, 5:31 pm
There are a few more scenes hinted at in the latest Sherlock Holmes trailer, and one of them - what appears to be a perilous fencing duel atop a bridge - could be the showstopper this one really needs...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Nov 4, 2009, 4:48 pm
Everything that goes around comes around, or so they say, which is why - after you take that first hit of air after having the wind knocked out of you - another Three Men and a Baby movie is not terri...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 31, 2009, 11:40 pm
A couple times this year, the subject of a proper Blair Witch Project sequel has been mentioned, and creators Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez have even chimed in on it. Now, with the succes...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 31, 2009, 9:10 pm
It was somewhat surprising that Robert Zemeckis mentioned earlier this year that he might be working on a sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit He's been pushing technology forward for several years w...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 31, 2009, 7:23 pm
Even though movie lists are opinions (and we know what opinions are like), there's usually a kernel of universality to them. For example, any knowledgeable list about the greatest movies ever ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 31, 2009, 4:10 pm
You don't have to throw out all of the following examples to assert that Percy Jackson & The Olympians is not a sure thing, but we will anyway. Of the many Harry Potter gravytrainers, only Twiligh...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 31, 2009, 12:25 pm
When we made our prediction on Thursday about the box office future for This Is It, I was relying on information that turned out not to be true. It was reported that the film was estimated to make $10...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 31, 2009, 11:14 am
Even with the Spy Kids connection, it didn't seem to be a natural fit to have Robert Rodriguez direct a live-action Jetsons, one the dozen or so projects on his to-do list. And it now looks as tho...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 31, 2009, 7:18 am
Who knows how this will play out, but it's certainly one of the stranger developments to come along in a while. Kenny Ortega recently bailed on the Footloose remake - and based on the so-so perfor...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 31, 2009, 4:47 am
Like any guy who grew up in the 1980s, I sure did enjoy me some Friday After Dark, now a cottage industry affectionately known as Skinemax. And because it's not quite Friday and not quite Saturday...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 31, 2009, 2:13 am
We don't yet know who exactly will be in The Hobbit, but we know one actor who won't: John Rhys-Davies aka Gimli the dwarf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy tells Empire he will not be return...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 30, 2009, 11:47 pm
I don't know why the trailer for The Road is so troublesome. The first one (and a subsequent touch-up) had way too many explosions and the latest one goes too far the other direction. So, whereas ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 28, 2009, 9:16 am
You haven't had to follow the Academy Awards all that closely over the past few years to jump to the conclusion that Clint Eastwood's Invictus has better odds than most movies of being inv...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 28, 2009, 7:01 am
Yesterday, we told you about a new Short Circuit that Dimension Films is making. Dimension is doing the drive-thru window thing these days by propping up revisions of Hellraiser, An American Werewolf ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 28, 2009, 4:25 am
Two years ago, this news would have you running for the hills. John Woo and Tom Cruise, who made that hulking mass of mediocrity known as Mission: Impossible 2, are getting back together for a Wor...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 28, 2009, 2:03 am
This Is It Starring Michael Jackson Directed by Kenny Ortega Rated PG You don't often get a chance to see something like This is It. A document of a great performer&#...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 28, 2009, 12:16 am
There has been about as much speculation about the villains for Spider-Man 4 as there was disagreement with the use of villains in Spider-Man 3. Would we see one great villain or another parade of b...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 27, 2009, 8:07 pm
Has it really been 20 years since GoodFellas? Wow. Just think: Sam Jackson played Stacks in that film for a fleeting moment, and has appeared in 108 productions since. I'm not sure where I'd r...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 27, 2009, 5:40 pm
Were it not for Dan Milano (Robot Chicken) writing the screenplay, I'd have very few good things to say about a remake of Short Circuit. What a silly movie. And it was tragically unnecessary back ...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 27, 2009, 2:56 pm
The midnight crowd at the Saw VI screening I attended seemed really impressed with the trailer for Daybreakers, the futuristic sci-fi vampire movie about that breed's race against time and the sho...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 27, 2009, 1:09 pm
Delayed a few months and effectively knocked out of any awards consideration (unless next year is incredibly weak and this film is monumentally strong), Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon have teamed up a...
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Colin B. posted an article on Get The Big Picture - Oct 27, 2009, 11:10 am
Along with Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof is one of the creative heads of Lost at this point, even though most people still probably associate it with J.J. Abrams. With the final season looming (it will...
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