Posts by Zach Dionne
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Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Caine Will Star in Harry and the Butler
Stage director George C. Wolfe (Tom Hanks’s Lucky Guy, 1996’s Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk) is about to present us with a film with great potential for specialness. Titled Harry and the Butler and loosely based on a Danish movie from 50 years ago, it has little or nothing to do with […]
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Afternoon Links: Jimmy Kimmel Remains a Halloween Candy Monster
There aren’t words for the emotions kids go through when you tell them you ate all their Halloween candy; only YouTube compilations can come close to portraying the next-level sensations of agony and betrayal. Jimmy Kimmel knows this, and he has an annual monopoly on the prank. Watch, laugh, feel horrible, feel tickled, feel hungry […]
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Negotiations for The Wolverine Sequel Under Way; Hugh Jackman Looks Into Getting Claws Installed Permanently
There can never be enough filmed adventures about bearded mutants with retractable adamantium claws, and James Mangold might be game to keep helping the cause. 20th Century Fox is looking to strike a deal with the director following this summer’s The Wolverine, Mangold’s first comic book movie, which grossed an impressive $413 million worldwide, $132 million of that […]
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Gets Another Pristine Trailer
One of the great joys in life is pushing play on a new trailer and cranking the video quality up as high as it’ll go. But with this three-minute Desolation of Smaug trailer, I barely dare. Even in 720p, everything looks so crisp and beautiful and oh-jeez-we’re-almost-at-the-end-of-all-these-movies-ish. Legolas’s eyes? THAT blue. Smaug, a.k.a. “Smowg”? SO […]
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Afternoon Links: Monuments Men Missed a Huge Opportunity for Timeliness
Monuments Men is about American national monuments like George Clooney and Bill Murray and Matt Damon. But it’s also about those gents playing intellectuals sent to WWII Europe to rescue priceless art from ze Nazis. The release was recently pushed from November 15 to early 2014, which was already a shame since the film sounds […]
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Q&A: Sleepy Hollow Creator Phillip Iscove on Fox’s Unexpected Hit, Ichabod’s Old Clothes, and the Headless Horseman With a Machine Gun
It’s hard to watch Fox’s Sleepy Hollow (which returns tonight on Fox after a brief World Series break) without wondering how it wound up being this solid. An eerie, mystery-laden network drama so soon after CBS burned us with Under the Dome, which happens to film in the same town? Recurring shots of George Washington […]
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The Star Trek 3 Directing Gig Might Go to Attack the Block’s Joe Cornish
J.J. Abrams has been vocal about the impossibility of directing Star Wars: Episode VII as well as another Star Trek movie. It’s just too much space for one man; his insides would get all goopy and he’d start muddling Yoda’s catchphrases with Spock’s. With that reality starting to sink in, Paramount is reportedly looking at […]
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Box Office Top Five: Ender’s Game Opens at No. 1
1. Ender’s Game, $27.6 million (opening weekend) Not only is Catching Fire mere weeks away and on track to just crush the box office, but its young-adult source material also features the term “game(s)” and, unlike Orson Scott Card’s novel, it originated on this side of the year 2000. So while a so-so opening weekend […]
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Afternoon Links: Just Because You’re Touring With Bob Dylan Doesn’t Mean You’ll Ever Meet Bob Dylan
This summer, Jim James learned that the man so enigmatic six people had to play him in I’m Not There really is that inaccessible. “The whole concept of [Bob Dylan’s AmericanaramA Festival of Music tour] was supposed to be super collaborative,” the My Morning Jacket front man tells Rolling Stone. “We were expecting to be […]
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George A. Romero Would Rather Not Write for The Walking Dead
The 73-year-old writer/director who once gave us Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead (but has since burdened us with Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead) doesn’t want to hang with America’s biggest modern zombie enterprise. “They asked me to do a couple of episodes of The Walking Dead but […]
