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The Watercooler: 9/22/08

I crammed all my movies into Sunday evening and it’s late and I’m tired so I’m going to keep my half of this short. Let’s just say It wasn’t exactly a movie going weekend for the record books, but it could’ve been a lot worse.
First up was Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear and Téa Leoni in [...]

‘Burn After’ Reviewing

It seems perfectly foolish to link to a review that I’m not going to read and this probably isn’t even the first official review of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading, but it’s the first one that’s come across my newsfeeds and this is how I roll when it comes to the Brothers Coen.
Here’s [...]

LiC 2008 Fall Forecast: September

George Clooney and Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading
You can almost hear the air being let out of the summer movie season. Overall it was a pretty decent four months of movies, but I for one am glad to see it coming to an end. Now it’s time to look forward to the last third [...]

Coens get ‘Serious’

With Burn After Reading set to premiere next month, it looks like Academy Award winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen are getting down to business with their next project, the black comedy A Serious Man.
According to Variety’s Tatiana Siegel, the brothers have chosen Richard Kind (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and TV’s Spin City) and [...]

International ‘Burn After Reading’ Poster

JoBlo has the international one-sheet for Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading. It’s obviously very similar to the US poster with the addition of the figures at the bottom.
I like it, but then it’s widely known I’m in the tank for all things Coen.

‘Burn After Reading’ Featurettes

According to Cinematical, these don’t offer much more than the teaser or red-band trailers for Burn After Reading, but we’re spiritually obligated to run all things Coen.
As always, I’m not watching, but don’t let that stop you.
Here’s George:

Brad after the jump:

‘Dark Knight’ Raises ‘Titanic’? and Other Stories

Here’s a quick rundown of some of the news in the last 24 hours or so.
The LA Times speculates on whether The Dark Knight will surpass Titanic’s hallowed $600.8 million domestic box office mark, but unless you account for inflation (ticket prices averaged $4.69 in 1998 compared to an expected $7 this year), it doesn’t [...]

New ‘Burn After Reading’ One-Sheets

Check them out…after the jump so as not to spoil things for those who take their movie virginity seriously…
[Update: 7/14 - I've been asked to remove these images because they're "not approved film assets"]

‘Burn After Reading’ Poster

This one requires no comment from me. Click to enlarge.
Source: Cinematical (who were kind enough not to crap it up with a watermark)