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Bill Crystal hosts the 84th annual academy awards.

2011-11-12T14:46:00.001-08:00

On the 10th of November Emmy awards winner Bill Crystal has confirmed that he will be hosting the awards show. After the dramatic step down of producer Bret Ratner and just a day after comedy legend Eddy Murphy relinquished his hosting duties, Bill Crystal steps into the scene to takeover.
A spokesperson confirmed Crystal's hosting duties to the Times. It will mark the comedy veteran's tenth time hosting the Oscars. Brian Grazner will be taking over production.

Steve Carrell features in "The Lunatic" as universal picks up rights to the novel.

2011-11-12T12:51:00.001-08:00

Steve Carrel has picked up the lead role in "The Lunatic" as universal studios pick up the rights to the novel. the novel itself is set to be released on January 10 2012. The authors Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel will adapt the scripts themselves.
The story tells of the feud two new jersey soccer dads which escalates far beyond their wildest imaginations.
Philip Horkman owns a pet shop called the wine shop and on Sundays is a referee for kids soccer. Jeffery peckerman is the sole sane person in a world of jackasses and morons. The two collide, leading to a series of life threatening experiences.
Scott Stuber, Pam Abdy, Vance DeGeneres and Charlie Hartsock will produce.

warner bros"clash of the titans"- begins palns for the theequel

2011-11-02T21:58:00.000-07:00

Even though the sequel of the clash of the titans, the wrath of the titans is scheduled to be released by next year, we have reliable informaton that warner bros is already planning a third sequel to be written by Dan Mazeau and David Leslie Johnson who wrote the forth coming sequel. The sequel of the 1981 film is not due to be till march next year. The movie has sam worthington back as persus.read more

MOVIES ON DVD THIS WEEK

2011-03-15T12:20:00.000-07:00

Here are a list of movies on dvd this week

The fighter
This David O. Russell's inspirational true life drama focuses on the life

"Irish" Mickey Ward and his trainer brother Dick Eklund. The movies starts from the
brothers early days in the street of lowell,Massachusetts, Ekund battle with drugs and Mickey's eventually win of the world championship.This single act brought togehter his
torn family and brought pride back to his hometown.Christian Bale and Melissa Leo
oscar wining performances landed the movie with seven oscar nominations - including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay .

Hereafter

In this clint Eastwood tale of three people connected by death in different ways, French journalist Marie has a near death experience that shakes her,
George is an american who tries desperately to reject his physic ability and when london schoolboy lost the person closet to him he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth their lives will intersect to what they believe must exist in hereafter.starring matt damon

The switch

An unconventional comedy movie about family,friendship and fertility.
starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman,the movie tells the story of how
kassie, a smart, fun-loving single woman who decides to have a baby and no matter what neurotic best friend waly, says she goes on to have a baby even if its by herself, with a little help from a charming sperm donor.Seven years later Waly becomes acquainted with kassie neurotic friend and the truth about the actual donor becomes a question

NEW MOVIES ON DVD

2011-03-14T06:31:00.000-07:00

New movies releases on dvd

A film unfinished

Inside Job

127 hours

Top Movies: BoxOffice top 10 Movies

2011-03-14T05:04:00.000-07:00

Box Office results for march 11-13

1. Battle :los angeles
2. Rango

3. Red riding hood

4. The adjustment bureau

5.Mars need moms

6. Hall pass

7. Beastly

8. Just go with it

9. The king's speech

10. Gnomeo and Juliet

coming soon

2011-03-11T09:10:00.000-08:00

SUPER 8

A catastrophic train accident occured in the summer of 1979 which was witnessed by a group of friends in a small ohio town while making a super 8 movie.afterwards it was suspected that it might not have been an accident and then soon enough unusual disapperances and events begin to happen in the small ohio town. The local deputy begin to try to unravel the truth, which is something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.

PAUL
In their pilgrimage journey two sci-fi (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) geek's journey take them to america's ufo heartland. In the heartland they meet an alien named paul who for the past 60 years have been hanging out at a top-secret militarybase and now for reasons unknown he decide to leave the compound and hop on to the first human vehicle out of town- a rented vehicle carrying earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost) .
Things get serious in this comedy adventure when the trio is pursued by federal agents and a fanatical father of a woman they accidentally kidnapped.
Amidst all,Graeme and Olive put together a plan to return paul to his mother ship.A plan to help one little green man might just move these nerds up from outcasts to heroes.
In theatre's march 18.

Paul Details

Length: 104 min

Rated: R

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Release Date: 2011-03-18

Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Blythe Danner, Joe Lo Truglio, John Carroll Lynch, David Koechner, Sigourney Weaver, Voices: Seth Rogen

Directed by: Greg Mottola

Produced by: Nira Park, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner

Written by: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost

Visit the Paul Official Website

movie news

2011-03-11T08:55:00.000-08:00

Matthew McConaughey:On his abandoned collegiate law aspirations and parenting

His stunning performance in the movie 'A TIME TO KILL' over fifteen years ago and now Matthew McConaughey is back on big screen again with the role of a lincoln lawyer.This time he is a lincoln lawyer who practices out of his lincoln town car in the upcoming drama,'THE LINCOLN LAWYER'.The actor who played the role as an embattled lawyer in the movie a 'time to kill' says that he almost missed out of his hollywood career to become an attorney.

Talking to access the star told of how his decision to become an actor was influened by his desire to make an imprint in soceity in his 20s.

Mattew is married toCamilla Alves and they have two children,son Levi,2 and daughter,vida,1.

The actor also talk of his children as been like a 'mirror',"Children remind you something about yourself everyday that maybe you forgot -- or maybe you know, but you didn't think you were doing that till you were like 20 and they're doing it when they're like, 2,".Talking to access about his youngsters,"And you're going, 'Wait a minute -- you're pulling something on me? You just pulled a McConaughey! You just pulled a Matthew! But I didn't know how to do that till I was 18 and you're two-and-a-half and you're doing it? Oh. Maybe I was doing it long before I thought I was.'"

The actor speaking on parenting was of the opinion that parents should let their children develop a sense of individuality while still imparting parental wisdom.

catch Matthew McConaughey,Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillipe in ''The Lincoln'' Lawyer in theaters march 18

MOVIE NEWS

2011-03-11T02:27:00.000-08:00

BOX OFFICE TOP 10 MOVIES FOR MARCH 4-6

1.RANGO

2.ADJUSTMENT BUREAU

3. BEASTLY

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4.HALL PASS

5. JUST GO WITH IT

6. UNKNOWN

7. THE KING'S SPEECH

8. I AM NUMBER FOUR

9.GNOMEO AND JULIET

10. TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT

MOVIE NEWS

2011-03-06T04:59:00.000-08:00

SHREK'S PUSS IN BOOTS GETS HIS OWN MOVIE

After bringing the shrek movie to life in shrek 2 and helping the shrek franchise to make a lot of puss in boots really had nothing much to do in the sequels, he even got fat.but after watching the trailer of his upcoming movie, l think puss in boats just might have one last dance in him for the shrek franchise in this spin-off movie.
The spin-off tells the story of puss in boots (antonio banderas), humpty dumbty( voiced by Zach Galifianakis), kitty ( voiced by Salma Hayek) and their adventure filled quest to save the goose who laid the golden eggs.
The future of animation clearly lies with movies like rango but this franchise clearly has one last story tell. let listen.





RANGO TOPS FRIDAY BOX OFFICE

Rango- the critically acclaimed movie wins the friday box office number one spot with an estimated $9.8million from 3,917 theaters.Although earning's for the toon was less than expected forcing box office observers to readjust their projections for the family friendly film, and now expect an opening weekend gross of $36 million to $38 million for Rango, versus $38 million to $40 million.

The Paramount and Nickelodeon movies toon-Rango, have been embraced by the country's top critics-the film has an 88% rating on rottentomatoes.com although moviegoers was not so friendly, getting a c+ cinemascore.what is worthy of note is that even if the movie should score a low number according to the box office observer projections Rango should score the best opening gross of 2011 for a non-holiday weekend.

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2011-03-04T10:36:00.000-08:00

"AVATAR 2" WILL BE SET UNDERWATER

In a statement to associated press, actress Michelle Rodriguez who played a combat pilot in avatar revealed that "avatar 2" will be set underwater.
Although she is not certain if she will be involved in the sequel due to hit theaters in 2014 by twentieth century fox,she hopes that some how director James Cameroon will involve her somehow, even if just inviting her to set to watch the filming.
Director James Cameron who recently released sanctum-3d, has said that characters who survived the first "get to be in the second film, at least in some form.").
he also said that the avatar sequel could involve the oceans and also take place on another planet in the same solar system as Pandora, the forest in which the first took place.

RESIDENT EVIL 5 IS CLEARED FOR FILMING BY SONY PICTURES

The resident evil franchise has made a lot of money, resident evil 5: afterlife was the fourth and scored high opening numbers of any film in the RE franchise so far. it no surprise then if that sony pictures has authorized the filming of another resident evil and its realise date set to be September 14 2012. The last three movies was realized in September and they all made a hit, so while it may not be so good for others it seems to favor the franchise pretty well.
The last resident evil was extraordinary and with no doubt had some of the best 3D in any movie last year and the storyline was outlandish. No word yet on what the resident evil 5 will be about and what it will be called.

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2011-03-03T09:02:00.000-08:00

DIANE LANE TO PLAY "SUPERMAN'S MOTHER" MOM MARTHA KENT

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures said late Wednesday that the actress is set as "the only mother Clark Kent has ever known."
Diane Lane will star in Zack Snyder's upcoming superman movie with Henry Cavill who was recently revealed as the new Clark Kent/Superman.
Snyder said in a statement "this was a very important cast for me because Martha Kent is the woman whose values helped shape the man we know as Superman".
commenting on the actress Diane Lane "we are thrilled to have lane play the role of a mother whose son has powers beyond her wildest imagination.
In other roles Viggo Mortensen is on Snyder's list to play General Zod and kevin Costner is up for the part of Jonathan Kent.
There has been no official statement on those role and mortensen may not even be taking up the role of general zod as he has been in negotiations to star in Universal's Snow White and the Huntsman and seems to almost come to the end of the deal.

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2011-03-01T13:22:00.000-08:00

KATIE HOLMES FILES $50 MILLION LIBEL SUITE AGAINST TABLOID

The coverline read "ADDICTION NIGHTMARE-katie DRUG SHOCKER!- the real reason she can't live Tom." Although the actual article does not allege any drug use Katie Holmes has filed a $50 million libel suit against the publishers of star magazine because this coverline implied she was a drug addict.

In a statement, her rep says: "Star Magazine's malicious claims about Katie are untrue, unethical and unlawful. Not only do they cruelly defame Katie, they play a cheap trick on the public, making ridiculously false claims on the cover unsupported by anything inside. Someone should bring a class action to get all buyers their money back."

comment on the lawsuit by america media the publishers of star magazine is yet to come.

LINDSAY LOHAN HOPING FOR AN ON SCREEN RETURN

NEW YORK- after making the headlines recently for allegations of theft of a $2,500 necklace from an upscale store which she pleaded not guilty to the felony charge, it seems this troubled starlet has had just about enough of bad times.
Speaking on the syndicated magazine show Lindsay Lohan says she wants to be known for great movies in the future,not the personal issues that have placed stalled her career."l don't want to be known for what l'm known for anymore-the tabloid stuff" she said on tuesday speaking on the show.
Although she did not speak of her case in court she did say that she knows her come back will not be easy.

movie news

2011-02-26T15:02:00.000-08:00

IN THEATERS THIS WEEKEND-

DRIVE ANGRY 3D-

Milton(Nicholas cage) is a hardened criminal who breaks out of hell in pursuit of a cult that killed his daughter.he is joined by piper a sexy waitress who breaks loose with her ex-boyfriends cherry red-muscle car to help milton. milton (nicholas cage) has three days to stop the vicious cult before they sacrifice his daughter's child and one final chance at redemption.

2. Hall pass

jason sudeikis and owen wilson are best of friends and they are granted one week from their wives and what wonderful about it.....no questions asked.

3. justin bieber : never say never

justin bieber's shoot to stardom was as we all know metoric and this movies does just that, tell the story of the teen pop idol's rise to stardom.so sit tight and enjoy the chronicles.

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INSIDIOUS POSTER OUT !

2011-02-17T14:04:00.000-08:00

JESSICA ALBA SAY'S SHE IS PREGNANT WITH BABY NO.2
NEW YORK-Jessica Alba and her husband Cash Warren are expecting their second child.
jessica and her husband already have a child and her name is Honor marie
on wednesday jessica announced on her facebook page and twitter acount that she was expecting a second child.
she wrote on the social networking site ''l thought l'd drop by and let you in on some exciting news. Honor is going to be a big sister!''.
she added ''cash and l are thrilled''.

LEONARDO DICARPIO AND MARTIN SORCESE TOGETHER ON THE 'WOLF OF WALL STREET'

After much debate martin sorcese has now decided to take on the wolf of wall street an adaptation of the jordan belfort memoir. On the project with him is leonardo dicarpio and boardwalk empire's terry winter.
so when exactly is martin sorcese crying wolf again?
Accoridng to soruces he does not intend to take on the project immediately. martin wants to finish his post on hugo cabret and then film his dream project, silence, an adaptation of the shusaku endo book that now has bencio del toro attached.
The plot tells the story of two jesuits who move to japan to spread the word of christianity and are met with violence and abuse as they try to find btheir mentor. the project start date is yet to be released but the movie wil star Daniel Day-Lewis, Gael Garcia Bernal and Bencio Del Toro.

The project was suppose to have been done years ago by sorcese and dicarpio but it stalled in a battle between warner bros and paramount. warner bros controlled the project but sorcese had a pretty big deal with paramount which enable them to have a share in the studio.
During this battle dicapio and sorcese both decided to do another movie, shutter island, which turned out to be a great hit.
Recently though it was said that Ridely scott would take on the project as it new director as sorcese seemed overly ocuupied.
Leonardo dicarpio will play a wall streeter with a raging drug problem and hard partying lifestyle that finally brings him down.
Financing and the start date will be announced on cannes.