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Kim Masters with a piece in Slate on the hush hush release strategy for the Da Vinci Code.
From the monthly archives:
May 2006
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The 2nd trailer for the new film from Pixar.
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Reuters on the increasing Hollywood dominance of Cannes.
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Time Out on the (highly unlikely!) link between the director of ‘Donnie Darko’ and terrorism.
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The latest ‘Miami Vice’ trailer.
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The Guardian with news that the 2nd biggest cinema chain in the UK is to float.
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David Poland with a lengthy analysis of how different releases will play at the box office this summer.
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Poseidon gets a mixed reaction from US critics (an overall score of 49 at the time of posting)
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The legendary composer of the ‘Mission: Impossible’ theme chats with Jake Coyle of the AP.
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Reuters report on the game of ‘Heat’ that is in the works for a 2007 release. Pacino and De Niro are “in talks” to reprise their roles.
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Jeffrey Wells reports that Sofia Coppola’s latest film with Kirsten Dunst as the famous French arstiocrat will open in France and Belgium in a couple of weeks (May 24th). But it won’t open here until September and the US gets it even later in October. Str
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Time Out report that Chris Weitz is back in the director’s chair for The Golden Compass - the first filmed adaptation of Philip Pulman’s His Dark Material’s trilogy
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The Hollywood Reporter review Poseidon
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Anne Thompson at The Hollywood Reporter on C-Span’s disappointing attitude to the Stephen Colbert video. Whilst I sympathise with them to some degree, don’t they see what incredible reach and free publicity YouTube has given them?
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Capone from AICN interviews Terry Zwigoff about ‘Art School Confidential’
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A strange but intriguing piece on Lindsay Lohan in - of all papers - the New York Times.
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The AP report on how Maggie Gyllenhall nearly quit ‘World Trade Center’ over remarks she made last year.
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A mjor Hollywood studio finally realises that BitTorrent technology can work FOR them rather than against them.
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If fans of World Of Warcraft can drag themselves from actually playing the game then they might catch the film version currently in the works.
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Buisness Week with a story about the FBI going undercover to bust pirates. Maybe this could be the basis for MI:4 ;- )
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A movie about Daniel Pearl - the WSJ reporter who was murdered in Pakistan in 2002 - is going to be made according to the AP. Based on the book “Who killed Daniel Pearl?” by Bernard-Henri Levy it will star Josh Lucas as in the title role.
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Cinematical on Al Pacino’s podcast. I’m a couple of days late with this one but it was too good not to link to.
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Although it only deals with US releases at the moment Release Guide looks like an extremely useful site if you want to check out the release dates for Films, DVDs, Albums, Games and Books.
> Release Guide
> The RSS feeds are particularly useful if you are into that kind of thing
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David Poland at the Hot Blog dissects the performance of MI:3 at the box office this weekend.
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The New York Times work the “negative publicity” angle in their report on the MI:3 disappointment
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Cinematical thinks that Cruise media overkill has gone too far.
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The Guardian’s obituary to Phil Brown - a character actor probably best known for his role as Uncle Owen Lars in Star Wars.
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Nikki Finke reports on catholics who are risking eternal damnation (or something like that anyway) by planning to see the Da Vinci Code.
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The official site for Oliver Stone’s ‘World Trade Center’ gets a significant update.
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Tilda Swinton with an interesting and heartfelt speech at the San Francisco Film Festival.
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James Bond’s new Aston Martin in ‘Casino Royale’
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Is this serving Star Wars fans or ripping them off? I’m still undecided…
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Cinematical reports that a Star Wars TV show is still some way off.
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Some film bloggers predict what will hit, flop and sleep this summer. I think The Da Vinci Code and Pirates are going to be the two biggest films (closely followed by Superman Returns) whilst Poseidon is looking shaky. Snakes On A Plane and Nacho Libre lo
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JJ Abrams talks to the AP about making M:I:3 and his career up to this point.
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Highly amusing montage of Tom Cruise running in his films. He does it more than you might think and - come to think of it - there is a classic “Cruise run” towards the end of M:I:3.
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Boing Boing with the latest on the Stephen Colbert saga.
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Salon with their theory on the Colbert episode.
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The excellent teaser poster for ‘Snakes On A Plane’.
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