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News Roundup: 'This Is The End' Character Posters, Tom Hardy To Play Elton...

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Seth Rogen's upcoming comedy This Is The End looks like the funnest thing ever. Here are six famous actors playing hilarious versions of themselves in a post-Apocalyptic Hollywood. Sony has released six character posters featuring the stars of the film. See them below. Also, Tom Hardy is being courted to play Elton John on the big screen. More details on that below. And we also have...

DVD and Blu-ray Picks for April 23 - 29

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As we head into the summer season, we’re starting to see some 2013 releases hitting DVD and Blu-ray just as some of the last films from 2012 are hitting the format. It’s an okay week for releases, but it’s hard to get super excited about any of the new films. Check it out…

Interview: Josh Brolin on 'Gangster Squad' and Fighting Sean Penn

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In Ruben Fleischer's new film, Josh Brolin heads a task force called the Gangster Squad. The Oscar-nominated actor plays a straight-laced detective named John O'Mara. The character and story are based on actual events that happened in 1940s Los Angeles. O'Mara and his team helped bring the notorious mobster Mickey Cohen to justice. A few weeks ago, Brolin participated in a press...

Gangster Squad: Movie Review

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Director Ruben Fleischer goes back in time with his latest film, Gangster Squad. It's an ensemble piece headlined by Josh Brolin, Sean Penn and Ryan Gosling. Based on the book of the same name, the film charts the real-life fall of mobster Mickey Cohen.

Christopher Meloni, Josh Brolin Sign On For 'Sin City: A Dame To Kill For'

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Sin City: A Dame To Kill – Josh Brolin and Christopher Meloni
Even though most of Robert Rodriguez's Sin City sequel has already been shot in the director's Austin studios, major additions are still being announced. Yesterday it was revealed that Joseph Gordon-Levitt had snagged one of the leading roles. Today, Christopher Meloni and Josh Brolin were also added to the cast.

Blu-ray and DVD Picks for November 27 - December 3

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With Thanksgiving weekend just passed, it seems that the studio is slow on their roll with this weeks releases. To wit, there are no big classic titles hitting streets today, but there are a number of recent movies, including the latest Step Up film, Men in Black III, and some of the late summer films. Check it out.

'Gangster Squad' Gets A New Trailer

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Following the horrific shooting that took place in Aurora, Colorado during a premiere screening of The Dark Knight Rises this summer, Warner Bros. decided that the having the climactic gunfight of their upcoming Gangster Squad film would be too gauche/offensive to filmgoers.  Thus, Gangster Squad’s ending was reshot in Chinatown and the film (originally set for a...

Spike Lee's 'Oldboy' Remake Receives A Plot Summary, Gets Picked Up By...

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Those of you who are excited about Spike Lee’s upcoming remake of Oldboy have reasons to rejoice this morning—the film has just gotten both a distributor and a plot summary, which includes a few differences from the original film (but not enough, seemingly, to justify a remake of a great film but whatever).

'Gangster Squad' To Reshoot Finale In LA's Chinatown

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Necessary or not, Gangster Squad will be reshooting its ending later this month in LA’s Chinatown, which has become the new scene for the big final confrontation in the upcoming action drama. The original ending took place as a shootout inside a movie theater, and is now being reshot out of sensitivity in the wake of the The Dark Knight Rises Aurora...

'Gangster Squad' May Be Pushed Back To 2013 Due To Colorado Shooting

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In the wake of the horrific assault upon theater-goers during last week’s Aurora, Colorado screening of The Dark Knight Rises, Warner Bros. is currently “scrambling” to rework Ruben Fleischer’s film Gangster Squad before its planned release date of September 7.  Featuring as it does a scene during the climax in which a mob villain fires a gun through...

'Gangster Squad' May Face Delays, Possibly A Recut

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Ruben Fleischer‘s film Gangster Squad is in a difficult position this week, and may have to be delayed or recut in the wake of the horrific cinema shooting in Aurora, CO. Part of the climax of the film features a scene in which mobsters fire at a theater full of moviegoers, shooting out into the auditorium from behind the screen, as pictured in the trailer.

Interview: Josh Brolin Talks 'MIB III,' Impersonating Tommy Lee Jones And...

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In Men In Black 3, Josh Brolin plays the 1960's version of Tommy Lee Jones' Agent K. His cool, charm and optimism offer a new side to a character we all knew to be otherwise grumpy. We recently got the chance to talk to Brolin. He told us why he chose to join the Men in Black, the terrifying process of impersonating Jones, and his first impression of Will...

Men In Black 3: Movie Review

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Men In Black 3 has become a blockbuster underdog, mainly because it's the movie no one was asking for, and has to overcome a lot of bad buzz about re-shoots. It's been 10 years since we last saw Will Smith's Agent J and Tommy Lee Jones' Agent K monitor alien activity on Earth, and the new film offers a time travel twist which introduces Josh Brolin as the new K,...

'Men in Black III' Featurette Re-Introduces The Franchise

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We're heading toward the Memorial Day weekend, and though The Avengers is still setting records (and may continue to), Men in Black III is the big picture of that holiday weekend, which sells Will Smith's agent J losing his partner K (Tommy Lee Jones) and traveling back in time to work with a younger version of his partner (Josh Brolin)....

Josh Brolin And Ryan Gosling Get Rough In 'Gangster Squad' Trailer

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The trailer for Gangster Squad is an interesting beast—it starts out appearing to be a star-studded (Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, and Emma Stone) and sharp take on 1940s noir; then, around 1:30 mark, it switches gears and becomes a Guy Ritchie-styled monstrosity.  So what kind of film is this—an L.A. Confidential neo noir, or a...

Get Ready for 'The Avengers' With a New Featurette

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Though The Hunger Games may have set the event film bar higher with its record-breaking $155 Million opening, the summer movie season is only a few weeks away and it's going to kick off with The Avengers - which is looking to be a monster of a release. It's not a sequel, per se, but it does bring together Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man with...

'Men In Black III' Official Trailer Shows More Josh Brolin, More Will Smith...

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While we saw a trailer for the upcoming Men in Black III last December, it felt more like a teaser, seeing as how it was a quickie trailer for an incomplete film with a troubled production and, at the time, apparently no written ending.  Now, we get a more polished trailer for the entirely unnecessary sequel, which finds Will Smith traveling back in time to save Tommy Lee Jones,...

Men in Black 3 Trailer Offers One Joke

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Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Josh Brolin...as Tommy Lee Jones? That's the set up from the Men in Black 3 teaser trailer, one that seems to be there to refresh viewers on the world of the Men in Black. Though the rough outline of the plot has been known for a while, this gives a sense of what the film is about, with newcomer Emma Thompson telling the viewers that...

Josh Brolin to Star in Spike Lee's Oldboy

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Josh Brolin and writer/director Spike Lee have enough respect to quiet naysayers. And that's exactly what happened when Josh Brolin was cast in Lee's remake of 2003's Oldboy. The original is a cult Korean film by Chan-wook Park that won the Grand Prize at Cannes (and is currently in the top 100 films of all time according to IMDb), and originally fans were perturbed...