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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 2 Moves Forward
My nomination for the best opening title sequence ever - Spider-Man 2. What's yours?
Milo with Ken Marino Goes to Magnet Releasing
Casey Anthony’s Bankruptcy Trustee: Sell Her Story to Pay Off Debt
Kim And Kourtney Kardashian Have A Girlie-Parts 'Smell-Off'
Lawmakers want Colorado to have its own air fleet to fight wildfires
Kevin Feige Touts IRON MAN 3 Big Finale, Flashback And Discarding Tony Stark’s Playboy Mien
Tom Cruise In Talks For THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E; Guy Ritchie Set To Direct
'Shopped Stills From Action Movies with Guns Replaced with Thumbs-Ups
Compliance.
G.I. Joe Retaliation 'A Message from C.O.B.R.A. Special Forces' Viral Video
Producer Joel Silver Announces Escape from New York Reboot
G.I. JOE: RETALIATION: Channing Tatum Featurette Includes New Cupcake Clip
Aspen cocaine trafficker sentenced to 53 months in prison
AP Source: Colo. governor to sign gun controls
Wilson Phillips Singer Carnie Wilson Reveals She Has Bell's Palsy
Vanessa Marcil Officially Divorced from CSI's Carmine Giovinazzo
Erased Poster with Aaron Eckhart
Nick Jonas Boards Careful What You Wish For
Sarah Silverman Joins A Million Ways to Die in the West

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 2 Moves Forward

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 04:55 PM PDT

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters sequel moves forward at Paramount and MGM

Paramount Pictures and MGM have confirmed that a sequel to Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is in the works. The news comes on the same day that director Tommy Wirkola's fairy tale action-thriller crossed the $200 million plateau at the worldwide box office, a milestone which was integral in both studios deciding to make a sequel.

Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton star as the title characters, 15 years after their nasty experience at the gingerbread house. While the two stars will most likely be back for seconds, their involvement has not been confirmed. It isn't known if writer-director Tommy Wirkola will be back at the helm. While the first movie made just $54 million at the domestic box office since opening in January, it has earned well over $150 million internationally for a current global tally of $205.8 million.

Beau Flynn is expected to return as producer, along with Gary Sanchez Productions principals Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Kevin J. Messick.

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters was released January 25th, 2013 and stars Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen, Pihla Viitala, Derek Mears, Robin Atkin Downes, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Joanna Kulig. The film is directed by Tommy Wirkola.

My nomination for the best opening title sequence ever - Spider-Man 2. What's yours?

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 04:20 PM PDT

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Milo with Ken Marino Goes to Magnet Releasing

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 04:28 PM PDT

Milo acquired for distribution by Magnet Releasing

Magnet Releasing has acquired North American distribution rights to the acclaimed comedy/horror film Milo. Written and directed by Jacob Vaughan and starring Ken Marino & Gillian Jacobs, Milo premiered last weekend at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival. Blending the gory elements of a classic critter film (&#224 la Gremlins) with the lighthearted comedy of an unlikely friendship (reminiscent of Ted), Milo was one of the most talked about and unique films of the festival.

The sale for Milo was completed late Friday night, making it the last deal to close during this year's SXSW.

Duncan's (Ken Marino) life is a real pain in the ass. Tormented by manipulative, crooked boss (Patrick Warburton), a nagging mother (Mary Kay Place), a deadbeat new age dad (Stephen Root), and a sweet, yet pressuring, wife (Gillian Jacobs), his mounting stress starts to trigger an insufferable gastrointestinal reaction. Out of ideas and at the end of his rope, Duncan seeks the help of a hypnotherapist (Peter Stormare), who helps him discover the root of his unusual stomach pain: a pintsized demon living in his intestine that, triggered by excessive anxiety, forces its way out and slaughters the people who haveangered him. Out of fear that his intestinal gremlin may target its wrath on the wrong person, Duncan attempts to befriend it, naming it Milo and indulging it to keep its seemingly insatiable appetite at bay.

Milo features notable puppetry by Frank Langley and Bob Mano.

Milo was produced by Adele Romanski with New Artists Alliance's Gabriel Cowan and John Suits. Executive producers include Mark Duplass & Jay Duplass, John Norris, Kerry Johnson, Dallas Sonnier, Jack Heller and Floren Shieh Productions' Clay Floren and Aimee Shieh.

Here's what Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles said in a brief statement.

"Just like Ken Marino, our stomachs were hurting watching Milo, happily because of laughter rather than an intestinal demon. Milo is a rare entry in the horror-comedy genre that truly delivers."

Director Jacob Vaughan also released the following statement.

"Magnet is the perfect home for Milo. The company is second-to-none in releasing quality genre movies and their passion for Milo is overwhelming. I'm confident they will do an incredible job positioning the film in the marketplace and getting it seen by audiences everywhere."

Milo comes to theaters in 2013 and stars Patrick Warburton, Peter Stormare, Gillian Jacobs, Stephen Root, Ken Marino, Mary Kay Place, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Toby Huss. The film is directed by Jacob Vaughan.

Casey Anthony’s Bankruptcy Trustee: Sell Her Story to Pay Off Debt

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 03:16 PM PDT

The trustee overseeing Casey Anthony's bankruptcy case has filed a motion to sell the rights to Casey's story in an effort to pay off the money she owes several debtors.

In a motion filed Friday in federal court in Tampa and obtained by "Extra," trustee Stephen Meininger asked the judge for permission to sell the "exclusive worldwide rights" of Anthony's life story or "Property," as the story rights are called in the legal documents.

Kim And Kourtney Kardashian Have A Girlie-Parts 'Smell-Off'

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 04:44 PM PDT

During Sunday night's episode of Kourtney & Kim Take Miami, the show's three stars, Kourtney, Khloe and Kim Kardashian were up to their usual antics once again, this time coming up with the idea to...

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Lawmakers want Colorado to have its own air fleet to fight wildfires

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 04:41 PM PDT

Colorado could better fight wildfires if the state had its own fleet and didn't have to wait for aging federal tankers to be dispatched, say a bipartisan pair of lawmakers drafting

Kevin Feige Touts IRON MAN 3 Big Finale, Flashback And Discarding Tony Stark’s Playboy Mien

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 04:44 PM PDT

Indicating earlier that Iron Man 3 centers primarily on the love triangle between Pepper Potts, Tony Stark and his many suits, Kevin Feige has expounded their relationship, furthermore, during a chat with bloggers weeks ago. With Tony Stark's playboy card being revoked, Feige was asked whether having the genius billionaire model relationships positively was intended from the beginning. "Well, you know, Tony, Pepper, was always the most important relationship to Tony Stark in the comics. That's not always true with, Clark Kent has Lois Lane, right. That said, a lot of the other characters don't have that. The Marvel characters sort of do. We do pull it all from the comics and that is what it was. It really was fun to us in the beginning of Iron Man 1. He goes to Vegas, he sleeps with a reporter, to sort of set up that, so that the relationship with

Tom Cruise In Talks For THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E; Guy Ritchie Set To Direct

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 04:20 PM PDT

The Man From U.N.C.L.E has been knocking around at Warner Bros. for a long time now, and was originally set to star George Clooney and be directed by Steven Soderbergh until the actor was forced to drop out because of neck surgery. But now according to Deadline Sherlock Holmes helmer Guy Ritchie is on board to direct, and Tom Cruise in in talks to star. The original TV series ran from 1964-68, and starred Robert Vaughan and David McCallum as agents of the United Network Command for Law Enforcement, Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin as they battled the evil forces of "Thrush" (sounds nasty). If the deal goes through, this would mark yet another potential action franchise for Cruise on top of Mission Impossible - also a reboot of an old tv series - and apparently he is also expected to reprise the role of Jack Reacher at some point.

'Shopped Stills From Action Movies with Guns Replaced with Thumbs-Ups

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 02:21 PM PDT

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Compliance.

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 01:17 PM PDT

I watched Compliance last night.

For those of you who don't know, Compliance is a film that came out last year based on true events. It revolves around a fast food manager who is tricked by a prank caller claiming to be a police officer into detaining a young female employee because she is told she is accessory to a theft and major drug crime. Under the false knowledge the manager ends up strip searching the employee and that's only the beginning of the horror.

I watched this movie after seeing it in a few of those "Cringeworthy movies" threads or the "Good movies you will never watch again" I was ready for it to get really messed up, and it was, but I thought it was nice that this movie focused on telling the story and not shocking the audience. I mean, yes, it was a very shocking movie. But they showed a lot less than some filmmakers might have and it gave a respectful tone to the film rather than seemingly being made to shock it seemed like it was more made to raise awareness of the weakness of people, the seemingly unprovoked evil of some, and the dynamics of authority.

What hit me hard about this movie was simply the fact that it's a true story. This was happening in the 90's and early 2000's and this movie is not only based off of those events, but it is a dramatic retelling of the particular case that got on to national news. It was also the furthest the prank ever went, with the caller eventually Spoiler It's a movie that would hold absolutely no water if it weren't true, it would be considered too ridiculous. The events are bizarre and falls under the so weird it has to be true genre.

The characters were really well set up in this movie. While the prank call starts only about 10-15 minutes into the movie and lasts well over an hour, the first 10-15 minutes are not wasted. We see a 19-year-old girl talking about boys, obviously carefree and very impressionable and while I don't think anyone would disagree that she was the victim in this case, I found the manager to be a very compelling character. In the beginning we see so much about her in so little time. You can see that she doesn't hate Becky (the victim/employee) but she is very jealous of her ability to be wanted by young attractive men, and the juxtaposition of Sandra (the manager) being excited about being engaged to a middle aged redneck while Becky flippantly scrolls through pics young men send her really established their dynamic. I was only able to imagine how much it must suck being a middle aged manager of a fast food restaurant getting no respect from employees half your age and knowing they are going to leave that place to find their life while your life is that restaurant. Sandra's jealousy of Becky doesn't really come into play later, but it is a fascinating dynamic that I think added to the tension once Sandra was given true power over Becky by the caller. The scene where Becky pleaded for help, naked, to Sandra and Sandra yelled, "Why are you talking to me!? Don't talk to me!" was much more powerful with this relationship dynamic pretense.

Another thing I liked about this movie was the writing. It was very reminiscent of Hard Candy (another great movie you will surely enjoy if you liked Compliance, or are just really weird). It was very few characters in a single location dealing with a fucked up situation. The prank caller's dialogue was written so well it did a lot to keep this movie from ever getting boring. The whole time I was on the edge of my seat just wondering what this guy was going to make them do next. The dynamics between the pranker and the manager were incredible. He always kept control of the conversation, and even though you could hear him getting frustrated when people didn't do what he said he was very quick and always able to convince people what they were doing was for the best. It was interesting how all he had to do was gain the manager's trust and after that everyone took her word that he was a cop, even though it is established early on that the manager is easily the weakest person working there. (Established by her employees laughing while she was talking to them about leaving the freezer open, and also her super awkward and probably false confession that her fiance sexts her, it was obvious to me she only wanted to be liked and respected by Becky which is why she said that.)

Another interesting moment was at the very end when Spoiler I thought this was really interesting, like she was using lessons she had learned from the despicable prank caller to have the same kind of control over conversational flow as he did. The caller used simple polite conversation, some urgency, some simple information gathering ("Ah yes, Becky, we have Rebecca on the sheet."/ "I have your regional manager on the other line") and some authority tactics that instantly make people more likely to do what you say (such as forcing everyone to call him "sir" and giving Becky ultimatums whenever he had to convince her to let someone do something to her.) It seemed that the manager was able to recognize all this only after she realized it was all a farce and she learned from it. Which was an interesting way to end the movie, showing that she had learned from her experience.

After watching the movie I looked into the actual events of this particular case and I was floored to see that it's pretty much all true and even was totally caught on tape. I think the detective towards the end summed it up pretty well, "Wait, you're telling me this has happened more than once!?" This was already shocking enough to know he succeeded this far this time, but to know it was only the last in a long string of successful pranks of the same nature was just frightening. Frightening to think how weak and unquestioning people in authority are, frightening to think how few people question their commands, and frightening to think that people are still so unaware how dangerous anonymity can be.

I also read some reviews of the film and it seems after its premiere at Sundance last year it caused a shouting match during the Q&A because many people found the film exploitative with simple shocks. To me, this couldn't be farther from the truth. I thought the movie was pretty respectful. None of it was taken lightly at all. It was horrifying to watch and while the movie pulled no punches with what happened it did pull punches with what it showed. Some filmmakers may have been a lot more flippant about what to show. Spoiler This movie, however, did not seem to exploit the sexual nature of the film in order to get some sort of weird sex appeal. It wasn't sexy when Becky got naked, it was an act of desperation and truly difficult to watch. The horrifying acts are framed just as that, horrifying. I don't think simply making a movie about this subject makes it shocking. Shocking, to me, is when a film uses shock material gratuitously. Like Pink Flamingos. That's a shocking movie, not only because we see a manwoman eat real dog shit and give her son a BJ, but because it has little place in the plot other than to shock us. Yes, the plot was a competition to see who was the most disgusting, but really that plot is just a way to show us the most disgusting shit we've ever seen. Not that I have anything against Pink Flamingos (actually a very important movie) but it always seems odd to me when people call movies like Compliance a shock film. Compliance was not made to shock you, it was made to shed light on real events and how people bend to authority or how they react to being given ultimate authority.

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G.I. Joe Retaliation 'A Message from C.O.B.R.A. Special Forces' Viral Video

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 04:10 PM PDT

After two somewhat innocuous recruitment videos, the C.O.B.R.A. viral campaign for G.I. Joe Retaliation has taken a rather nasty turn. A viral video from the terrorist organization makes it clear that they are targeting major cities throughout the world for destruction. Will they get away with it? Or will the Joes save the day? Take a look at new footage from director Jon M. Chu's sequel that highlights C.O.B.R.A.'s destructive methods.

G.I. Joe Retaliation - A Message from Cobra Special Forces

G.I. Joe Retaliation comes to theaters March 29th, 2013 and stars Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis, Dwayne Johnson, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Stevenson, Joseph Mazzello, Ray Park, Walton Goggins. The film is directed by Jon M. Chu.

Producer Joel Silver Announces Escape from New York Reboot

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 03:33 PM PDT

Escape From New York remake is in the works with producer Joel Silver

Producer Joel Silver and StudioCanal are joining forces on a remake of John Carpenter's 1981 action classic Escape From New York. Neither a writer nor a director has been attached at this time.

No details were given regarding the story, but Joel Silver is working on an entirely new take on the plot. The original starred Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken, a one-eyed convict in a future where New York has been turned into a maximum-security prison for the most dangerous criminals. Snake is tasked with rescuing the President of the United States (Donald Pleasence), who is being held captive by a dangerous inmate (Isaac Hayes) after his plane crashes into the city.

Joel Silver and his Silver Pictures partner Andrew Rona will produce, with Alex Heineman serving as executive producer. No production schedule was given.

An Escape from New York remake was in development at New Line Cinema, with actors such as Gerard Butler, Tom Hardy, and Jeremy Renner circling the Snake Plissken role at various times. New Line let the rights expire in 2011, making room for Silver Pictures to pick up the project.

Escape From New York was released July 10th, 1981 and stars Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Season Hubley, Harry Dean Stanton, Adrienne Barbeau. The film is directed by John Carpenter.

Escape from New York is in development . The film is directed by Breck Eisner.

G.I. JOE: RETALIATION: Channing Tatum Featurette Includes New Cupcake Clip

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 03:49 PM PDT

In this sequel, the G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy, Cobra, they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence. The film stars D.J. Cotrona, Byung-hun Lee, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Park, Jonathan Pryce, RZA, Ray Stevenson, Channing Tatum with Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson. Directed by Jon M. Chu, and produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Brian Goldner, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick based on Hasbro's G.I. Joe® characters. March 29th, 2013!

Aspen cocaine trafficker sentenced to 53 months in prison

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 04:21 PM PDT

Wayne Alan Reid told authorities that the $116,000 tucked into three manila envelopes found in the car he was driving during a July 2010 traffic stop was retirement savings that he hadn't had a

AP Source: Colo. governor to sign gun controls

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 04:08 PM PDT

DENVER—Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper will sign gun control measures Wednesday that pose limits on ammunition magazines and expand background checks for firearms.