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Trailer Thoughts: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

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Here is the first teaser trailer for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s Motion Capture CGI adaptation of the Belgian comic. While fairly popular in Europe, I would say that Tintin is fairly unknown in North America, though Canadians are more likely to recognize the character than Americans, thanks to a Canadian-produced animated series that aired in […]

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Trailer Thoughts: Fright Night

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Today we have the first trailer for the new remake of the 1985 vampire film Fright Night. I never seen the original Fright Night, but from what I gather, this will be a much more darker film. Colin Farrell takes over the role, played by Chris Sarandon in the original, of a vampire who moves

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Trailer Thoughts: Rise of the Planet of the Apes

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A decade after Tim Burton’s remake of the 1968 sci-fi classic, a new reboot of Planet of the Apes is scheduled to be released, this time retelling the origin (and using digital apes instead of the previous man-in-suit versions). I am pretty certain that 20th Century Fox is just starting over with this film and that

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Trailer Thoughts: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

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Here is a humourous trailer for the latest documentary by Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me). The full title of this film is Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold and that should say everything that needs to be said about what this documentary is about, that is a film that is 100% paid for (and

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Trailer Thoughts: The Smurfs

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I just had to say some words about this new trailer for the film based on the classic cartoon. For those of you too young to remember The Smurfs, it was a Hanna-Barbera cartoon from the 1980s the featured tiny happy-go-lucky blue people that lived in mushrooms and avoided the evil wizard Gargamel. It was definitely

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My Opinion on the Red State Distribution News

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I was reading posts on Twitter all night about the Sundance premiere of Kevin Smith‘s new horror film Red State and his subsequent decision to self-distribute the film on October 19, preceded by a road show tour of the film. I thought I would provide some of my personal thoughts on this news, which also

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News: James Franco and Anne Hathaway to host Oscars

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Source: /Film It was announced that James Franco and Anne Hathaway are going to co-host the 83rd Academy Awards on February 27, 2011. Traditionally, the Oscars have been hosted by comedians, which included long runs by Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, and Billy Crystal. In 2009, the Oscars changed the formula by having Hugh Jackman host.

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R.I.P. Leslie Nielsen: 1926 – 2010

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The news spread fast last night (on Twitter of course) that Leslie Nielsen had died yesterday, from complications from pneumonia, at the age of 84. I, like most people of my generation, am most familiar with Nielsen for his comedy work during the last 30 years. I was particularly a fan of the Naked Gun

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News: First Images from Tintin film

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Source: Empire Empire magazine has revealed the first images from Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s motion-capture film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, based on the Belgian comics. I suppose that outside of Europe, Canadians have a better chance than Americans at begin familiar with the character of Tintin thanks to a

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Trailer Thoughts: Scream 4

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Yep, you read that correctly. Here is the teaser trailer for the fourth entry of the Scream series, which takes place a decade following the previous. Scream 4 has been described has being both a sequel to the previous trilogy, as well as a reboot that would begin an entirely new trilogy. After my ho-hum

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