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Ed Helms gets heavyweight support for his comedy, Cedar Rapids

OtownRog — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:39:05 -0500

Ed Helms was one of the break-out stars of last summer's The Hangover. His payoff? A star vehicle comedy, Cedar Rapids, about an insurance salesman who treks across the Midwest trying to save the jobs of his co-workers. Now Sigourney...

Gerard Butler may do Shakespeare with Ralph Fiennes

OtownRog — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:25:01 -0500

The play isn't one of the most-produced "Bard's Greatest Hits." But a contemporary adaptation of Coriolanus is what Ralph Fiennes has in mind to star in and direct. It's a large ensemble tragedy about family and civil strife in Rome...

Will Transformers, Star Trek, Up, etc., save DVDs?

OtownRog — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:15:55 -0500

The declining market for DVDs is up against the holiday season and the timed-release of summer blockbusters, two big indicators of whether the fall-off is simply recessionary, cyclical or endemic. A good time for The Wrap to file this optimistic...

Up in the Air--Reitman thins out, hones novel for film

OtownRog — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:05:35 -0500

I've been reading Walter Kirn's sardonic, satiric and entertaining novel Up in the Air which Jason Reitman has turned into a film that hits theaters in December. Having seen the film, I was curious about how much of the finished...

Mirren, Willis and Freeman see "Red"

OtownRog — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:46:50 -0500

Oscar winner Helen Mirren has joined the cast of the comic-book-based espionage thriller Red, which has Bruce Willis in the lead and Morgan Freeman already on board. Willis plays the CIA killer forced "back into the game," hunting those who...

Martin & Baldwin & The Oscars--a safe but funny choice?

OtownRog — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:41:12 -0500

They didn't go "edgy," didn't go outside the movie star universe to pick a host this time. No Letterman, Stewart, Ellen or whoever. Just two guys with a movie out at the end of the year -- Alec Baldwin and...

The Fourth Kind--No, it's not real

OtownRog — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:18:27 -0500

Back when the Coen brothers made Fargo, there were Minnesota newspaper reporters who debunked the offhanded claims the brothers made in interviews about their tale of faked kidnappings, hit men and wood-chipper body disposal. But these days, the stakes of...

Christopher Walken Performs Lady Gaga's "Poker Face

OtownRog — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:24:22 -0500

Funniest man. On the planet. When he's not. TryING to be. On UK TV reading lyrics. I finally "get" Lady Gaga. Christopher Walken, is there anything you cannot do, and funny?

Prince of Persia---a trailer of action, spectacle, and exposition, exposition exposition

OtownRog — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:30:52 -0500

Love Jack Gyllenhaal's faux English accent, lusting after Gemma Arterton. A summer spectacle from Jerry Bruckheimer, based on a video game, also starring Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina. Enjoy the eye candy.

2:22--so many places to see this Orlando-made horror short; at OFF, Film Slam

OtownRog — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:40:06 -0500

I've plugged this terrific night-out-clubbing-gone-wrong horror short 2:22 a couple of times before. If you haven't seen it, it got into the Orlando Film Festival so it'll be showing there this week. Remember, that's free. And this weekend, check out...