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Ghostbusters 3 To Shoot Next Year for 2011 Release?

18 hours ago | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

For literally years now (even stretching as far back as 1989) we’ve heard word of a Ghostbusters 3, with quotes of “maybes” and “mights” chiefly coming from Harold Ramis and Dan Akroyd, the director and star of the first two movies. But there’s so much of those vague speculative statements that it seems we can’t really trust anything that comes out about the film, even if it comes straight from the key players involved.

The last piece of speculation we posted about Ghostbusters 3 didn’t come from the usual suspects, but rather from one of the first two film’s other stars, Sigourney Weaver. While doing the rounds promoting Avatar, questions inevitably turned to the third Ghostbusters and she said that she’s had calls asking if she’ll read the script (leading her to think she’ll be involved) and also that Bill Murray might be back but as a ghost. »

- Ross Miller

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Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Added To National Film Registry

23 hours ago | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »

Iconic clip is the first music video to be inducted into the Library of Congress.

By Gil Kaufman

Michael Jackson in his "Thriller" music video

Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/ Getty Images

Since his death on June 25, 2009, late pop icon Michael Jackson has been showered with accolades and honors for his 40-plus-year musical career. But on Wednesday (December 30), one of Jackson's most enduring legacies, the pioneering 1983 dancing-ghoul-filled video for "Thriller," was inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

The Associated Press reported that the 14-minute mini-movie that revolutionized music videos and cemented Jackson's status as one of the most ambitious, innovative pop stars of all time, was one of 25 films that were inducted into the world's largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings.

The iconic video, directed by John Landis ("Animal House," "The Blues Brothers"), is the first music video named to the registry. It earned »

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Ramis Confirms Ghostbusters 3 Shooting In Summer 2010

29 December 2009 2:10 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

I hate to say it, but the more I hear about Ghostbusters 3 the harder it is to get excited about it. Alyssa Milano and Eliza Dushku? Bill Murray as a ghost? While it is only but speculation at this point and all of it could be completely wrong, nothing I have heard so far really instills a lot of confidence that they can get the magic back 20 years later. Like it or not, however, the film is most likely happening, and now Harold Ramis has given us an indication as to when exactly that might be. In an interview with Heeb Magazine, which covered old ground such as Animal House, Club Paradise, Stripes, and Groundhog Day, Ramis confirmed that the film will center on both the old and new team of Ghostbusters, but more significantly spilled about the film's production timeline. Last week, Ivan Reitman hinted that filming could get »

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"Blue Mountain State": Go Long, Go Deep

21 December 2009 11:06 AM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »

"Blue Mountain State" is a new Lionsgate comedy series debuting on Spike TV January 12, 2010.

Described as "National Lampoon's Animal House" meets "Van Wilder", the show focuses on the football-centric university of 'Blue Mountain State' and its team called 'The Goats'.

The show covers 'essential' topics pertaining to college life, including football, meeting girls, drinking binges, wild partying and fraternity hazing, from producers Chris Romano and Eric Falconer of "The Sarah Silverman Program".

Characters include 'Coach Marty Daniels' (Ed Marinaro), quarterback 'Alex Moran' (Darin Brooks), 'Sammy Cacciatore' (Chris Romano) who dresses as the team mascot 'The Goat', 'Craig Shilo' (Sam Jones III) star runningback, girlfriend 'Denise Roy' (Gabrielle Dennis) and 'Thad Castle' (Alan Ritchson), team captain.

Click the posters to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Blue Mountain State"...

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- Michael Stevens

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25 Most Disturbing Movies List: #18: Sweet Movie

18 December 2009 1:24 PM, PST | GreenCine | See recent GreenCine news »

[Note: Simon accidentally omitted this from his original Disturbing Movies List but we think it was worth waiting for.--ed]

18. Sweet Movie artistic: 7 / gross out; 6

Once you begin to watch this 70's oddity--an obscure and shocking ode to the joys of communal living and nonconformist thinking--you soon think to yourself: "When is something going to happen?' And then realize nothing is going to happen...at least not in the way you think or could reasonably expect. Director Dusan Makavejev's bizarre trip down a river in Amsterdam in a ship of revelry and rebellion--a journey both literal and figural into heart of counterculture idealism--consists of a surreal series of episodes, loosely involving the strange adventures of a beauty contestant.

"Miss Monde 1984" symbolizes just about everything wrong with American capitalism (greed, possession, conversion of people into commodities) and, like the protagonist of Terry Southern's Candy, another well-known freak-out, she encounters a series of lovers and loonies who defile or enlighten her in one way or another (in the process, »

- underdog

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Movie Reviews: “Up In The Air”

5 December 2009 6:45 PM, PST | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Not a few critics are calling Up in the Air a film for our times -- while at the same time comparing it with the classic romantic comedies of the ‘30s and ‘40s by Billy Wilder, Leo McCarey, Garson Kanin, Frank Capra, Ernst Lubitch and Preston Sturges. They’re also predicting Oscar nominations for its star, George Clooney, and its writer-director, Jason Reitman. And several have designated it best picture of the year. (Indeed it is being released on the same day that the National Board of Review, the group that traditionally opens the awards season, named it the year’s best.) In the movie, George Clooney plays a “transition specialist” whose job it is to fire people for corporation executives who don’t have the stomach for such business themselves. It marks “the high-water mark in George Clooney’s career,” says Peter Howell in the Toronto Star. At the crosstown Toronto Globe and Mail, Rick Groen comments, “Clooney is made for this role.” Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post judges Clooney to be at the peak of his career. “He operates not just as an actor but also as a finely machined screen object,” she writes. But Reitman garners even more rapturous reviews. Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal says that Up in the Air, Reitman’s third feature (after Juno and Thank You for Smoking), shows him to be “a filmmaker of rare distinction.” Claudia Puig in USA Today calls him “a bona fide filmmaking talent ... a modern-day Frank Capra.” Several critics call attention to the fact that Reitman is the 32-year-old son of producer-director Ivan Reitman, whose credits include Animal House, Meatballs, Ghostbusters, Twins, and Junior. In his review of the movie, Roger Ebert notes that the younger Reitman has said that one of the questions he is most often asked in interviews is, “How does your father feel about your success?” Comments Ebert “Bursting with pride, is my guess.” »

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Not Available on DVD: Scorchy

19 November 2009 6:25 AM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »

Throughout her 50-year career, renaissance blonde Connie Stevens has been a popular star of movies and TV as well as a recording artist and founder of a hugely successful cosmetics empire. Now with the new film Saving Grace B. Jones, Ms Stevens can add movie director and screenwriter to her list of accomplishments. But I’ll always remember Ms Stevens fondly for a movie she starred in in the mid 70’s. It may not be her proudest moment but the 1976 movie Scorchy is an entertaining action-adventure in which Connie starred as a sexy undercover drug agent who will stop at nothing to break up a violent narcotics-smuggling ring. Scorchy was a fun, if not particularly good, movie aimed squarely at drive-in audiences who like their action spiced with a touch of sexploitation but Scorchy is Not currently available on DVD.

In Scorchy Connie Stevens plays Sgt. Jackie Parker (I have »

- Tom

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Celebrity Biography: Emma Stone

15 November 2009 9:21 AM, PST | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »

Emily Jean Stone, better known as Emma Stone, was born on November 6, 1988, in Scottsdale, Arizona, the daughter of Jeff and Krista Stone, and the older sister of Spencer. Stone started acting at a relatively young age, appearing in a school production of The Wind in the Willows when she was just 11. Regional theater appearances followed and eventually, at 15, Stone convinced her parents -- using popcorn and a PowerPoint presentation, of all things, keyed to the Madonna song "Hollywood" -- to let her take a serious shot at acting, which meant relocating to Los Angeles. "I just always wanted to act from birth,” Stone told Saturday Night Magazine. "I think I was drawn to comedy originally because when I was really young, by the time I was eight, I had seen movies like The Jerk (1979), Animal House (1978), and Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) with my dad, and I knew them by heart. I loved them, »

- ianspelling@corp.popstar.com (Ian Spelling)

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Review: Pirate Radio

12 November 2009 11:11 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

If you know me personally, or read anything I write, you know that I worship the 1960s and the music of the time. I grew up behind the seat belt of my dad's Chevy Silverado, driving around town with the Oldies station blaring out songs about Brown Sugar tasting so good, My Guitar Gently weeping, and People Trying to put down my father's generation. I fell in love with grinding guitars, amps that never worked quite right, and the homemade sound of just trying to be louder and more soulful than the guys who were just on stage. As if it were really hard to impress me when a soundtrack includes some of the coolest Rock 'n' Roll of the mid-60s, Pirate Radio (aka The Boat That Rocked) goes far beyond the Whiter Shade of Pale in order to build an irreverent story that captures the (romanticized) spirit of the time and become one of the »

- Dr. Cole Abaius

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AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes

4 November 2009 4:45 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »

"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list!

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)

“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.

The Godfather (1972)

“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.

On the Waterfront (1954)

“You don’t understand! »

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Video: First Look at Spike TV's Raunchy 'Bms'

28 October 2009 4:56 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

By Josef Adalian

From the studio that brought you "Mad Men," get ready for....something completely different.

Spike TV has just released the first official trailer for its new scripted football comedy "Blue Mountain State," and... wow.

The series -- official tagline: "At Blue Mountain State, only two things matter-- football, and scoring" -- looks like a mix between "Animal House" and "Revenge of the Nerds," with a bit of "American Pie" thrown in, according to someone who's seen the full pilot.

In other words, "Bms" c »

- Adalian

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Sorry, Farley

26 October 2009 4:30 PM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »

Remember that recent DirectTV ad where John Belushi reenacts the potato-spitting scene from Animal House with a mouthful of hard drugs Chris Farley sings "Fat Guy in a Little Coat" for the benefit of David Spade's checking account? David Spade sent Asylum an explanation: "When Direct TV came to me and the Farley family with this idea about Tommy Boy, we talked and thought it would be a cool way to remind people just how funny Chris was. It is a clever homage to my friend and a movie that we loved doing." To be fair, at least it wasn't a clip from Almost Heroes. [Asylum] »

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American Pie: The Book of Love on DVD and Blu-ray This Christmas

26 October 2009 5:43 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has just announced the next chapter in their hugely popular direct-to-dvd American Pie Presents series entitled The Book of Love, which will hit DVD and Blu-ray on December 22nd, 2009. Here is the official Press Release:

The latest hilarious new escapade from the ever popular, long-running American Pie Presents comedy franchise, American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, comes to Blu-ray Hi-Def and DVD on December 22, 2009 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The newest release from the studio's highly-successful DVD Originals&#8482 film line is packed with the high-spirited humor, raucous antics, and outrageously-inspired sex-capades that have become a hallmark of the American Pie Presents films.

In this newest adventure, a legendary guide to achieving guaranteed sexual success leads to unexpectedly hilarious predicaments in the funniest chapter yet.

American Pie Presents veteran Eugene Levy (For Your Consideration) returns as the befuddled but ever-wise Noah Levenstein. In addition, an array »

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National Lampoon’s Animal House Returns to Cinemas

19 October 2009 5:04 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

We’ve just found out today that Universal Studios are going to re-release John Landis’ classic movie, National Lampoon’s Animal House on  November 3rd 2009 for a limited time.

National Lampoon’s Animal House finally returns to UK cinemas, 31 years since its original release in 1978. With a legendary performance from John Belushi, and directed by John Landis, this is the comedy that started it all – Will Ferrell, Judd Apatow and the rest of the Hollywood Frat Pack are in its debt!

Larry Kroger (Tom Hulce) and Kent Dorfman (Stephen Furst) are freshman in college in 1962 and want to join a fraternity. After visiting several, including the snobby Omega house, they come to the Delta house pledge party. Here they meet handsome, compulsive womanizer Otter (Tim Matheson), his adventurous best friend Boone (Peter Reigert), Boone’s girlfriend Katy (Karen Allen), the daring thrill-seeker D-Day, the responsible Hoover, and the unforgettable Bluto. »

- David Sztypuljak

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Dr. Who and Shaun of the Dead unite for 'Burke & Hare'

13 October 2009 4:30 PM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »

I hate the way most older directors are treated by this business. John Landis is a good example.  Yes... there is a reason his career took a nosedive during the mid-to-late '80s, but no matter what your feelings about that incident, Landis is still the guy who made "An American Werewolf In London," "National Lampoon's Animal House," "The Blues Brothers," "Coming To America," and "Three Amigos!", and the idea that a guy like that has trouble getting funding for anything is just preposterous.  Sure, give some new guys work, but don't just throw older directors away because of some arbitrary calendar date.  It's short-sighted, and »

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David Tennant and Simon Pegg will be robbing graves

13 October 2009 1:30 PM, PDT | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

David Tennant and Simon Pegg will star in John Landis' next film Burke and Hare. Tennant will soon be stepping down as the lead character in Doctor Who and while Pegg has mostly been in movies as of late (such as the recent cinematic remake of Star Trek), he is known for co-creating the television cult fave Spaced.

It will be interesting to see them work together since Pegg is a big sci-fi fan. He appeared in the first season of Doctor Who as "The Editor," before Tennant came on board. Sadly, the movie probably has very little science fiction involved since it's about a pair of famous 19th century grave robbers. What do you expect from the man who brought us An American Werewolf in London?

It's also good to hear that director John Landis apparently isn't career-dead either and has just moved shop to England (hopefully only »

- Brad Trechak

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New Line Books Lampoon’s Vacation Sequel

11 October 2009 2:10 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »

New Line Cinema, an arm of Warner Bros, is producing a sort of sequel and reboot to 1983’s National Lampoon’s Vacation.  David Dobkin (The Wedding Crashers) is set to produce and possible direct.

The original starred Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo taking their Griswold family on a cross-country trip to Wally World.  It spawned three sequels centered on Clark Griswold’s wacky shenanigans, including holiday classic Christmas Vacation.

According to THR’s Heat Vision Blog, the new installment would be Chase-less and focus on now adult Rusty Griswold taking his own family on a drive.  They would acknowledge the trip in the 80’s, which makes it a sequel, but if it’s successful it would start another series of these for New Line.  No screenwriters have been hired yet.

National Lampoon gave up the character and franchise to Warner Bros and has since declined into licensing their once »

- Jeff Leins

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An American Werewolf In London, Army Of Darknes and Van Helsing Blu-ray Reviews

10 October 2009 10:01 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Halloween brings out the ghosts, ghouls and reissues of Haloween favorites and “favorites.” Universal, one of the great studios for catalog Blu-ray releases has put out two cult-classics, and one film that might strain to be some day. My reviews of An America Werewolf in London, Army of Darkness and Van Helsing after the jump.

John Landis has a great and awkward career, one that started with promise and mutated into saggy but somewhat enjoyable enterprises. It’s hard to say if the joy is gone because his first episode of Masters of Horror suggested that the man still has some game. An American Werewolf in London may not be his best movie (it’s hard to argue between it, Animal House and Trading Places), but it’s one of the great modern horror films.

David Naughton stars as David Kessler, who’s out backpacking with his best friend Jack Goodman »

- Andre Dellamorte

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Year One – DVD Review

5 October 2009 1:32 PM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »

One of the worst reviewed films of the year comes to DVD tomorrow, October 6th, with theatrical and unrated releases, and despite a 16% freshness rating, there are moments of fun in the Harold Ramis effort. Many were quick to slam Year One, and wonder in shock at the downfall of Ramis, the man behind Caddyshack, Animal House, Stripes, and Groundhog Day, but I think they may have been a bit too quick in more than one direction. First, the film isn't that bad. Second, Ramis really creates potential to a far greater degree than he solidifies actuality, and then he puts Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and other comedic talents into his films, and sometimes they work out. Where his films are genius, it is more a result of the stars ability to make it play well than anything else. Let's not pretend Club Paradise, Analyze This (and That), and Bedazzled don't exist. »

- Marc Eastman

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From Maestro to Mayor: Mark Metcalf on 'Mad Men'

5 October 2009 9:59 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

The mayor in last night's Mad Men looked familiar, right? The man who mightily refrained from grilling Betty Draper re: the whereabouts of her pledge pin was character actor Mark Metcalf. He's probably best known for playing The Maestro on Seinfeld. What I hadn't realized, until my viewing partner who apparently rocks harder than I do pointed it out to me, is that Metcalf was also the disapproving father in Twisted Sister's video for "We're Not Gonna Take It" (pictured, left) and the sadistic teacher in their "I Wanna Rock" video. He also played Neidermeyer in Animal House, The »

- Annie Barrett

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