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Best/Worst Movie Promos of the Week: ‘Hotel Transylvania’ Rocks a Great Concept But Poor Executions
Poor The Expendables 2. G.I. Joe Retaliation beat you to it. Both summer blockbusters delivered a slew of character posters this past week and not only were they released in a similar format, the collection of posters being distributed amongst a selection of … Continue reading
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‘The Hunger Games’ Countdown: Everything You Need to Know About ‘Catching Fire’
You’ve got until November 22, 2013 to finish reading Catching Fire before the big release, but don’t you want to be in-the-know when it comes to all the pre-production madness? We’ve just about wrapped direction selection (Francis Lawrence nabbed that gig), casting … Continue reading
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Best/Worst Movie Promos of the Week: Stripping Channing Tatum, a Plane Crashes in ‘Area 407,’ Tyler Perry’s Latest, and More
There are a number of reasons to keep an eye on a movie, but first and foremost, you look forward to something because it looks good. Fox Searchlight’s Ruby Sparks trailer comes as a nice surprise, showing off a goofy, but charming … Continue reading
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Best/Worst Movie Promos of the Week: Stripping Channing Tatum, a Plane Crashes in ‘Area 407,’ Tyler Perry’s Latest, and More
There are a number of reasons to keep an eye on a movie, but first and foremost, you look forward to something because it looks good. Fox Searchlight’s Ruby Sparks trailer comes as a nice surprise, showing off a goofy, but charming … Continue reading
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The Self-Distribution Model: Indie Movies Following in the Footsteps of ‘Bottle Shock,’ ‘Red State’ and More
Studio filmmaking and independent filmmaking both have their ups and downs, but a definite up of making a feature under the studio umbrella is guaranteed distribution. You can pour loads of money into your promotional campaign and travel from festival … Continue reading
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Best/Worst Movie Promos of the Week: ‘Django Unchained’ and ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Win Big with Unique Imagery
In case you haven’t noticed, The Avengers is coming. For the past few weeks we’ve gotten featurette after featurette and TV spot after TV spot, and now we land on two new clips and 20 minutes of B-roll footage, too. Of the … Continue reading
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‘The Hunger Games’ Countdown: The Movie Is Out and So is Gary Ross, So What’s Next?
The Hunger Games just wrapped up its third weekend in theaters and, naturally, Catching Fire chatter is already taking over. Making a movie is a very temperamental process, so while the Hunger Games sequel does have a definitive due date, November 22nd, 2013, the road to that … Continue reading
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Best/Worst Movie Promos of the Week: Time to Sing the Thunder Song with Ted
The summer season is upon us. The Avengers’ promotional campaign takes a huge leap forward, releasing its very first clip, a scene in which Scarlett Johansson takes on the bad guys with ease. Also in the summer realm is Total Recall. Now … Continue reading
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Cast Reunions that Should and Shouldn’t Happen
If you haven’t noticed, this industry loves to use and reuse material, spawning sequels, reboot and now reunions. There’s been a whopping six American Pie movies since the very first hit theaters in 1999, but come Friday, we’ll see the entire original … Continue reading
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Best/Worst Promos of the Week: Vampires Are Lifeless. Go Figure.
Hot on the heels of the wild success of The Hunger Games comes the teaser for another highly anticipated young adult book to film adaptation, Stephenie Meyer’s The Host. It’s particularly simple and, therefore, not profound, but it does fair better than a … Continue reading
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