It was Spielberg’s idea, it doesn’t have a title and no one will say what it’s about, but Oscar winner Diablo Cody is writing it so it’s news.
Meanwhile, hordes of bitter unproduced screenwriters all over Hollywood snap their MacBooks shut in disgust, seething at another’s success.
Coming soon from Cody is the horror comedy Jennifer’s Body [...]

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Ay Caramba, It’s Mamma Mia!
The big screen adaptation of the ABBA musical starring Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth isn’t opening in US theaters until Friday but it’s already huge. According to Rachel Abramowitz in the LA Times, “the film has already opened No. 1 in the U.K., Australia, Sweden, [...]

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Everyone’s favorite industry rag hops aboard the Inglorious Bastards (or Inglourious Basterds if you prefer) bandwagon and throws out a few nuggets of its own.
Michael Fleming sees Brad Pitt as a “strong logistical fit for the project” if he agrees to the role of Aldo Raine. The actor is in France wrangling Pitt/Jolie spawn with [...]

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So, Meet Dave stiffs in the worst way ($5.25 million opening weekend) and suddenly everyone’s an Eddie Murphy expert.
Patrick Goldstein puts the kibosh on my pet theory that the movie simply sucks by pointing out that 20th Century Fox practically has a business model predicated on making money off of bad movies. For evidence he [...]

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Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows in The Bank Job
All of those weeks in the early part of the year where there was nothing good in the Weekend Forecast have now carried over to the DVD releases. There doesn’t appear to be much to get excited about on this particular Tuesday.
Though it doesn’t quite fit the [...]

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