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Restored 'Godfather' and 'Godfather Part II' Screen in NYC
Filed under: Classics, Drama, Paramount, Tech Stuff, Exhibition, Home Entertainment  New York City's Film Forum will be screening both The Godfatherand The Godfather Part IIduring a special three week engagement beginning September 12. And yes, it's a big deal. The first two installments of Francis Ford Coppola's trilogy are often featured in repertory houses, sure, but Film Forum's presentation is of newly restored 35mm prints, which were produced under the direction of Coppola and cinematographer Gordon Willis and the supervision of film historian and master preservationist Robert A. Harris. The Godfather will run solo from September 12 through September 18,...
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Clifton Collins Jr., Romulan, Talks 'Star Trek'
Filed under: Action, Classics, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Paramount, Fandom, Newsstand, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels  In the absence of anything official from the land of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, we must report on the tiniest tidbit we can. The latest "scoop" comes from E! Online and the mouth of Clifton Collins Jr., who plays Ayel the Romulan.
"Me and Eric [Bana] are the new Romulans," Collins said. "They had a linguist come in and invent Romulan!" Does that mean that Bana's Nero is a Romulan? There was much Trekkie buzz over Nero's funky...
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Instructions for Boycotting 'Tropic Thunder'
Filed under: Comedy, Paramount, Celebrities and Controversy  As is usually the case when people and groups make a lot of noise over a film's perceived offensiveness, I suspect all the ruckus over a planned boycott of Tropic Thunder over its perceived treatment of people with mental disabilities has only served to give it additional publicity. Nonetheless, organizations such as The Arc are going ahead with plans to call for a boycott of the film. Slate has found the organization's instruction sheet for putting together protests of Tropic Thunder, a six-page bulletin suggesting techniques and talking points for mentally disabled self-advocates and supporters. Sample talking point: "Movies and media,...
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Jim Emerson Smacks Down 'Tropic' Boycotters
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Awards, Casting, New Releases, Paramount, Celebrities and Controversy, Box Office, Fandom, Images  Whether or not you're offended by the use of the word "retard" in Tropic Thunder, it's hard to deny the difference between the intention of the humor and the ire of the groups protesting it. When Ben Stiller's character, Tugg Speedman, learns that he was mistaken in going "full-retard" with his miscalculated awards-bid performance as a mentally challenged man in Simple Jack, you either laugh or you don't, but you definitely get it. Stiller's point is that self-important...
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Discuss: The Bigger They Are
Filed under: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Paramount, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Family Films, Dreamworks, Remakes and Sequels  It's hard to deny that, in any format, The Dark Knight has made a considerable impression on the moviegoing landscape (current gross: a bajillion dollars and counting), yet it's equally difficult to deny that the IMAX showings held their own potent appeal, thanks to director Christopher Nolan's use of proper cameras to help the action fill the screen -- and if any of you haven't noticed, that's a lot of screen to fill.
ComingSoon.net has confirmed...
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Review: Tropic Thunder
Filed under: Action, Comedy, Paramount, Theatrical Reviews 
Tropic Thunder, starring Ben Stiller as one of a group of runaway actors whose work on a big-budget Vietnam epic goes horribly awry, is a funny, far-fetched mockery of modern Hollywood; the laughs don't maintain anything like a coherent intensity, but when they come, they're big enough to get you through the spaces between them. Some will mistakenly call Tropic Thunder a satire, but Tropic Thunder is in fact an example of satire's boisterous, bumbling sibling, the spoof. A satire's held with a light but precise grip, so the point can slice and the blade can cut; a spoof's...
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Duvall Returns to 'Godfather' Franchise
Filed under: Classics, Drama, Casting, Paramount, Home Entertainment, Remakes and Sequels  Too much merchandising can saturate the classiness of a film, but I still think any actor who has played an iconic character should stick with that role through and through. Decades ago I was down for any movie star reprising a role for an animated spin-off (Mary Steenburgen, you're constantly giving me reasons to love you), and today I support anybody who follows his or her character to the world of video games. So, regardless of whether or not Francis Ford Coppola approves, kudos to Robert Duvall for being involved...
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George Lucas Talks 'Indiana Jones V'
Filed under: Action, Casting, Paramount, RumorMonger, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Remakes and Sequels  Less than three months ago, Eugene told us George Lucas was hinting that his Indiana Jones franchise might continue on with Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf) as the main character and that Indy (Harrison Ford) would be more of a secondary figure. But MTV Movies Blog now reports that Lucas has had a change of mind and instead plans to make a fifth installment with our beloved hero still in the lead. During promotions for the new Star Wars: Clone Wars movie, he apparently stated that, "Indiana...
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On Warners' To-Do List: 'Eat, Play, F*ck'
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Casting, Deals, Paramount, Warner Brothers  As Hollywood is not an industry known for letting chick-lit properties slip through its proverbial fingertips, it should come as little surprise that the yay-for-life bestseller "Eat, Pray, Love" -- a memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert about her quest for peace in those three forms following her divorce -- is being indeed developed into a movie by Paramount, with Julia Roberts attached to star and a 2010 release date as rumored by the good ol' IMDb.
What's of arguably greater interest in this Hollywood Reporter piece is the fact that Warner...
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Japanese Critics Angry About Nuclear Blast in 'Indiana Jones'
Filed under: Action, Paramount, Celebrities and Controversy, Steven Spielberg, Remakes and Sequels  A lot of us totally lost it while watching Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skullwhen our hero hides inside of a refrigerator and survives government testing of a nuclear bomb. Some people went so far as to coin a new term, "nuke the fridge", which is akin to the now-well-known "jump the shark" term, only specifically for film series. It makes sense, though, that they'd be having even bigger issues with the scene over in Japan, where the movie opened mid-June. After all, the country did experience two...
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