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‘Marvin the Martian’ Gets Director, Mike Myers?
22 December 2009 7:45 PM, PST
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In May 2008, Warner Bros announced a feature film was being developed based on the Looney Tunes’ character Marvin the Martian. The live-action/CGI hybrid, scheduled for December 2010, is about how the cartoon alien travels to Earth to steal Christmas, but is foiled when he becomes trapped in a gift box.
The La Times’ Hero Complex is reporting Alex Zamm has come aboard as the director. Zamm is behind such gems as Dr. Dolittle 5: Million Dollar Mutts (I kid you not), Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, and an upcoming adaptation of “Hong Kong Phooey.” Paul Kaplan and Mark Torgove are re-writing the script (and also working on CHiPs: The Movie).
The team is already talking to stars who’ll add voices to the cartoons, and Mike Myers’ name has popped up as a possibility for Marvin.
Myers isn’t new to voice overs or children’s movies, cashing in his
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- Jeff Leins
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Mike Myers in Talks for Marvin the Martian Movie?
22 December 2009 9:43 AM, PST
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It was announced [1] last year that a CG/live-action movie based on the popular Looney Tunes character Marvin the Martian was on its way to becoming a reality. At the time, the project was still in the very early stages of development, with no writer or director attached, but now this week we have an update courtesy of the L.A. Times [2]. Apparently the movie is still happening, with Warner Brothers and producer Alcon Entertainment eyeing a Christmas 2011 release date.
The holiday release date is essential since the story revolves around Marvin the Martian coming to Earth to destroy Christmas. No word on whether or not any other Looney Tunes characters will be involved (I'm hoping his loyal dog K-9 will at least have a part), but they have named Alex Zamm (Chairman of the Board, Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2) as the director. Oh good. The script will be written
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- Sean
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The Misanthrope, Rope and The Cat in the Hat | Theatre reviews
19 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST
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Comedy, London
Almeida, London
Cottesloe, London
She's as sculpted and svelte as a trophy. She's the coquette as maquette. It was truly ingenious to cast Keira Knightley in Martin Crimp's updated version of The Misanthrope. Knightley plays a Hollywood actress, a magnified version of her public self. The less she acts, the more she becomes the part. Crimp's play, given a sparky production by Thea Sharrock, carps at suckers-up to celebrity and at media minions; it does so with many postmodernist winks. And what's more postmodern than an attack on celebrity culture which features a celebrity?
First seen in 1996, and now revised, Crimp's adaptation has a go at bankers and at Tom Stoppard; it creates a critic called Covington – bit of a cut and shunt with reviewers' names there – who's a would-be playwright with bad hair and a blazer; it alludes knowingly to Molière. It does all this in tremendously dextrous,
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- Susannah Clapp
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Critical Thinking: Avatar, Nine, Morgans
17 December 2009 8:56 PM, PST
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Avatar
Rotten Tomatoes: 83% (7.4/10)
Metacritic: 84/100
Films with Comparable Scores: "Children of Men," "Milk," "The Princess and The Frog"
Crazy Heart
Rotten Tomatoes: 96% (7.4/10)
Metacritic: 83/100
Films with Comparable Scores: "The Cove," "The Dark Knight," "Eastern Promises," "Michael Clayton"
Did You Hear About the Morgans
Rotten Tomatoes: 11% (3.3/10)
Metacritic: 30/100
Films with Comparable Scores: "The Cat in the Hat," "Norbit," "Saw VI," "The Unborn"
Nine
Rotten Tomatoes: 31% (4.6/10)
Metacritic: 51/100
Films with Comparable Scores: "My Bloody Valentine 3D," "Ninja Assassin," "Transporter 3"
The Young Victoria
Rotten Tomatoes: 71% (6.2/10)
Metacritic: 62/100
Films with Comparable Scores: "The Blind Side," "Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," "The Duchess"
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- Garth Franklin
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Self-Described Failure Alec Baldwin Talks Career Highlights
16 December 2009 10:05 PM, PST
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A little while back it was said that Alec Baldwin simply didn't have an interest in his craft anymore and would be retiring from acting when his award-winning bout on NBC's comedy series "30 Rock" ended, most likely around 2012. To make matters worse, Baldwin went even deeper and darker: "I consider my entire movie career a complete failure." Powerful, but sad words from a gifted actor. Some people have written this off as an empty promise, but when Baldwin sat down with Wired, he went through his career ups and downs and talked about how making terrible films has saved his career on many occasions. Read on!
Despite Baldwin's follies from losing the Jack Ryan franchise to Harrison Ford after The Hunt for Red October to appearances in less than stellar films like My Best Friend's Girl and The Cat in the Hat, it seems his failures ultimately ended up
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- Ethan Anderton
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Where the Wild Things Are | Film review
10 December 2009 3:00 PM, PST
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Maurice Sendak's classic picturebook is expanded into a dark, imaginative full-length movie. By Peter Bradshaw
What would it be like if Edmund, Lucy, Peter and Susan Pevensie could escape from wartorn Britain through the back of a wardrobe – only to be totally cool and blank about this new world of fawns and talking lions? Or if Dorothy and Toto could fly away from drab family strife to a multi-coloured land of midgets and witches and yellow brick roads and yet remain shruggingly laidback about the evident contrast between this place and Kansas? My guess is that it would look like this film, Spike Jonze's subdued, deadpan and even slightly depressive account of Maurice Sendak's much-loved 1963 picturebook classic Where the Wild Things Are.
It has been expanded into a full-length psychological study of childhood loneliness and dysfunction, in which an unruly boy called Max (tousle-haired, 12-year-old Max Roberts
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Alec Baldwin: don't be a closer
2 December 2009 4:36 AM, PST
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Last month, The Guardian launched a campaign to rescue Nicolas Cage. Today, we're coming to the aid of Alec Baldwin
Yesterday's news that Alec Baldwin plans to quit acting wasn't particularly surprising (it's a promise he's made several times before). But it was, still, saddening. When other actors threaten to leave the profession - invariably because their egos have convinced them that they'd make brilliant politicians - you know that the giant salary and global adoration will always pull them back in.
But Baldwin's announcement was depressing not just because he seems convinced of his intentions this time, but because he's arguably one of the best actors around. To lose him purely because he can, sometimes, be a bit of a sourpuss borders on the tragic.
Fortunately he's not threatening to retire until 2012, so we've got plenty of time to change his mind. By hook or by crook, we need
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- Stuart Heritage
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Exclusive Interview: Dakota Fanning (The Twilight Saga: New Moon)
19 November 2009 10:55 PM, PST
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Dakota Fanning makes quite an impression in The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009). Actually, Fanning makes a strong impression in every movie she does. At just 15 years old, she's already one of the best and most accomplished actresses out there, with credits spanning from I Am Sam (2001), The Cat in the Hat (2003), and War of the Worlds (2005) to Dreamer (2005), Hounddog (2007) and the upcoming film The Runaways (2010), which reteams her with New Moon co-star Kristen Stewart. New Moon casts Fanning as Jane, the super-nasty Volturi who can inflict serious pain merly by using her mind. It's a small role, really, just a few minutes of screen time, but Fanning maximizes every second of it, relying on pure performance, an assistant from creepy red contacts and face-whitening makeup, and precious little dialogue. Popstar recently spoke to Fanning while she was doing her bit to promote New Moon -- which opens nationwide on November
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- ianspelling@corp.popstar.com (Ian Spelling)
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Lorax Speaks For The Trees In 2012
29 July 2009 12:56 AM, PDT
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Recent attempts to bring Dr Seuss to the screen (The Cat in the Hat, The Grinch, Horton Hears a Who) have been patchy at best, but we're optimistic that Universal's 3D animated The Lorax could break the trend.The forest-dwelling Lorax first appeared in print in 1971, but his eco-friendly message - "I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees!" - is as relevant today as ever. Kind of a bleak message though. The Lorax' forest is destroyed by big industry, leaving only a polluted wasteland, and the Lorax buggers off into the smog, never to be seen again. Although it's ultimately revealed that the narrator has a single seed left, with which to start the forest again and tempt the Lorax back, we can probably expect that ending to be substantially cheered up.The script will be written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio (who did Horton) according to Variety,
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