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They say truth is stranger than fiction. Based on a memoir, We Bought a Zoo follows single father Matt Damon as he purchases a dilapidated zoo and moves his family there to refurbish it. While the book's author (Benjamin Mee) and his family reopened the dilapidated Dartmoor Zoological Park in England, director Cameron Crowe moves the story from England to California, saving Damon and co-stars Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Hayden Church and Elle Fanning from having to don English accents.
watch the trailer >> Posted 09.15.11 by Ryan -
In less than a week, the country will observe the 10-year anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on American soil — 9/11. ReelzChannel is remembering that tragic day and the changes it brought with 9/11: Ten Years Later.
The one-hour special looks at how 9/11 affected movies, entertainment, and pop culture, including how the entertainment industry responded with segments on the Concert for New York and the birth of the Tribeca Film Festival.
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Writer-director Neill Blomkamp's new sci-fi movie, Elysium, went into production in Canada last month and now the first "spy" photos have leaked from the set, offering a first look at a very bald Matt Damon wearing some sort of exo-skeleton apparatus. Unfortunately, since virtually nothing has been revealed about the plot of the movie — all that is known is that it is set in the future and possibly on another planet, that it will be "violent, very violent", and that it will include the same sort of blend of action and sociopolitical themes as Blomkamp's hit 2009 feature debut, District 9 — there's no telling what is going on with Damon's character in these shots.
more about Elysium >> Posted 08.10.11 by BrentJS -
At Comic-Con, unless there's a comic book superhero or a teen vampire/werewolf heartthrob, your movie can get lost in the shuffle. The exception is made for a spy flick directed by the Steven Soderbergh.
Relativity Media introduced the trailer for Haywire, starring mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano. The story follows Mallory Kane (Carano), a freelance covert operative who's betrayed on a mission in Barcelona and must fight her way back to the States to protect her family and track down those who double-crossed her. The cast includes Michael Douglas, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender, Michael Angarano, and Antonio Banderas.
Soderbergh Calls Matt Damon a 14-year-old girl >> Posted 07.22.11 by Chris -
Universal cast a wide net when it began looking for an actor to headline the latest movie in its popular Bourne movie franchise based on the books by Robert Ludlum. Names that popped up in the past couple of months include Garrett Hedlund, Joel Edgerton, Luke Evans, Shia LaBeouf and Taylor Kitsch, but Universal went with an increasingly in-demand actor that surprisingly was not previously considered to be near the top of the list. According to Deadline, actor Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) has been offered the lead role in Bourne Legacy.
more about Bourne Legacy >> Posted 04.22.11 by BrentJS -
Today's Challenge: The Adjustment Bureau and Rango both open nationwide today. Can you link their leading men?
Our first Facebook movie game, ClusterFlick, plays off that old "six degrees of separation" theory — you know, the one that has a certain Kevin at the center of the Hollywood universe. It's easy to play, but not so easy to win. The goal is to use the major cast of movies to get from Point A to Point B in the smallest number of moves.
Play ClusterFlick >>
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Back in 2009, The Bourne Ultimatum screenwriter George Nolfi was hired to write a fourth Bourne movie for The Bourne Supremacy and Ultimatum director Paul Greengrass and actor Matt Damon. Greengrass left the proposed sequel, and Nolfi went on to write and direct the upcoming The Adjustment Bureau (which stars Damon). Universal moved on to The Bourne Legacy, which won't feature Jason Bourne, but another protagonist with the same training and skill set and has Tony Gilroy writing and directing.
In an interview with The Playlist, Nolfi explained what happened to his Bourne 4 was abandoned.
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Universal is hyping the upcoming release of writer-director-producer George Nolfi's (The Bourne Ultimatum) new romantic sci-fi thriller, The Adjustment Bureau, by releasing six new preview clips from the movie. Based on a short story by the late sci-fi author Philip K. Dick, whose works have been adapted into such movies as Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly, The Adjustment Bureau proposes that there is a shadowy organization working behind the scenes of everyday life to make sure that we all follow our preordained destinies.
When an aspiring politician named David (Damon) falls for a ballet dancer named Elise (Blunt), "the agents of Fate" intercede to keep the two apart because they foresee the pairing as ultimately disastrous for both parties. David, refusing to accept his fate, struggles against the seemingly all-powerful agents for the right to follow his heart.
watch the new video clips >> Posted 02.14.11 by BrentJS -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Jennifer Aniston turns 42 years old today, and Pop Sugar celebrates with a 20-picture collection of her hottest bikini moments.
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Charlie Sheen showed off his gold teeth and gave a strong anti-drug message to the UCLA baseball team yesterday, telling them to "Stay off the crack. Drink chocolate milk." Meanwhile, Sheen will be officially single in May when his divorce from second wife Brooke Mueller is finalized.
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US Magazine reports 26-year-old Scarlett Johansson and 50-year-old Sean Penn are dating and that ScarJo is "smitten" with the actor/activist. US says they began their fling in early January when she was staying at L.A.'s Chateau Marmont while filming We Bought a Zoo with Matt Damon, but a Johansson rep denies the report and says they've been friends for years.
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Former Terminator and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger took to Twitter yesterday to announce he's looking for movie roles.
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In the wake of her not guilty plea for felony grand theft — and as her white court-appearance dress recalled Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct — Lindsay Lohan also used Twitter to announce "I would never steal, in case people are wondering. I was not raised to lie, cheat, or steal..."
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With an obvious eye towards the upcoming Valentine's Day holiday, the latest clip released by Universal for writer-director-producer George Nolfi's (The Bourne Ultimatum) upcoming sci-fi thriller, The Adjustment Bureau, ignores the whole "sci-fi thriller" aspect of the movie and focuses on the budding love affair between the movie's protagonists, David Norris (Matt Damon), an aspiring politician, and Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt), a ballet dancer. Based on a short story by acclaimed sci-fi author Philip K. Dick, The Adjustment Bureau follows Norris and Sellas as they fight for their love against god-like "agents of Fate" responsible for making sure that everyone on Earth stays on the pre-ordained path that is set for them. Anthony Mackie, Terence Stamp, John Slattery, and Shoreh Aghdashloo also star.
watch the new clip >> Posted 02.09.11 by BrentJS