Tag: New Line Cinema
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‘The Hobbit’ Closing in on Greenlight from MGM, New Line, Warner Bros.
After years of delays, setbacks, ecstatic highs and devastating lows, fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work may soon find themselves back in Middle-earth. According to LA Times Warner Bros., its subsidiary...
Oct 3, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongMacGruber (2010)
Saddled with plot holes, tonal and practical inconsistencies, shallow characters and an uneven, intermittently funny script, “MacGruber” is not a good film. But it does feature a surprisingly nuanced...
May 27, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Avatar’ Becomes #2 Grosser All-time, On Pace For World Record
After the 20-minute clip screened at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con was met with lukewarm reception, James Cameron’s “Avatar” was bombarded with almost universal skepticism. Giant blue aliens?...
Jan 7, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Lovely Bones (2009)
Peter Jackson’s first feature since 2005’s remake of “King Kong” is, contrary to first impressions, not so much a departure from that picture. The former gross-out horror auteur-turned Oscar-winning...
Jan 7, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongAvatar (2009)
I was made by a computer! There are big movies, and then there are BIG movies. James Cameron’s technical chef d’oeuvre and decade-long undertaking, “Avatar,” is neither — it’s bigger. It occupies a...
Jan 5, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongAvatar Trailer #2
Avatar takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery, as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization. The...
Nov 4, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA FilmCast #21 – District 9
Rookie director, Neill Blomkamp, has received untold accolades for his alien apartheid allegory, “District 9.” Can this $30 million socially conscious film please both the sci-fi fanboys and hardcore...
Oct 11, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongDistrict 9 (2009)
The 1970s were to good science-fiction what the 1960s were to social and political unrest, and counter-cultural deviance. With genre classics like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Star Wars,”...
Sep 1, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongAvatar Trailer!
Avatar takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery, as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization. The...
Aug 22, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongOrphan (2009)
With protesting rapidly emerging as a new national pastime, it’s shocking that middle-aged housewives and adoption advocates aren’t lining the streets opposite Warner Bros. Studios shouting...
Aug 22, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongWhere The Wild Things Are Trailer #2
Maurice Sendak’s classic book comes to the big screen in an adventure tale for every generation. Where the Wild Things Are follows the adventure of Max (Max Records), a mischievous young boy who is...
Aug 6, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongMaurice Sendak Loves Jonze’s ‘Wild Things’
In an effort to appease fans of Maurice Sendak’s children’s classic, “Where the Wild Things Are,” Warner Bros. put together a video that first screened at this year’s Comic-Con in which Sendak gives...
Jul 29, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongJason Lee, Michelle Trachtenberg Join ‘A Couple of Dicks’
Kevin Smith, director of “Mallrats,” “Chasing Amy,” and most recently, “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” is filling out the cast of his upcoming detective comedy, “A Couple of Dicks.” Jason Lee and...
Jun 30, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Invention of Lying Trailer
In an alternate reality, lying — even the concept of a lie — does not even exist. Everyone — from politicians to advertisers to the man and woman on the street — speaks the truth and nothing but the...
Jun 30, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongKeanu Reeves to Star Opposite Himself in ‘Jekyll and Hyde’
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Universal Pictures will help Keanu Reeves continue his losing streak of remaking old Hollywood classics. Reeves recently starred in the sci-fi remake of “The Day...
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