1. “Date Night” is a comedy featuring Tina Fey (“30 Rock”) and Steve Carell (“The Office”). They try to revive their marriage by going out on a date. Hilarity ensues after they are mistaken for another married couple who owe people money. If, like me, the comedic veterans aren’t enough to convince you to watch the movie, “Date Night” also stars rapper Common, Mila Kunis (“That ‘7os Show”), Mark Wahlberg (“Four Brothers”) and James Franco (“Pineapple Express”).

2. “Did You Hear About the Morgans?” also centers on a marriage on the rocks and a married couple on the run. This time around, though, Hugh Grant (“Notting Hill”) and Sarah Jessica Parker (“Sex and City”)  are placed in the witness protection program after seeing a murder. I’ve seen this trailer in theaters several times and every time, someone reacts to the last part of the trailer. Indeed, the laughs start once they relocate to Wyoming …

3. “Kick Ass” follows newcomer Aaron Johnson as he decides to become a superhero even though he has no powers. The tone of the film is similar to the humor in several Owen Wilson movies, such as “The Darjeeling Limited.” Christopher Mintz-Plasse, of “Superbad” fame, also stars. Johnson can also be seen in the John Lennon-film, “Nowhere Boy.” Its trailer is over here.

4. Acclaimed actor James McAvoy can next be seen in “The Last Station,” which focuses on the life of famed author Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer). The trailer doesn’t reveal much else, but the film does have a 7.3 star rating on IMDb.com. The film’s early release is supposedly a ploy to secure Plummer an Oscar nomination in next year’s weak Best Actor race. McAvoy’s real-life wife, Anne Marie Duff, as well as Oscar favorites Helen Mirren and Paul Giamatti co-star.

5. Focus Features is set to release “Babies,” a documentary which chronicles one year in the lives of different newborns around the world, namely Tokyo, San Francisco, Mongolia and Namibia.

Edward Norton, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Robert Pattinson, Vanessa Hudgens, “Toy Story 3,” romantic comedies (Amy Adams! Nicholas Sparks!), potential Oscar nominees (George Clooney! Emily Blunt!) and more after the jump.

6. Hollywood takes another stab at “Beauty and the Beast” with the adaptation of Alex Flinn’s novel, “Beastly.” The teaser trailer is so abrupt that I’m not excited to see it in theaters. Relative unknown Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens (“High School Musical”) star.

7. “Season of the Witch” reteams Nicolas Cage with “Gone in 60 Seconds” director, Dominic Sena. This heart-pounding action movie takes us with a band of knights who are tasked with moving a powerful witch to a monastery. Ron Perlman from “Hellboy” co-stars.

8. Amanda Seyfried (“Mamma Mia”) sure knows how to pick movies — at least, chick flicks that I want to see. First, there was Nicholas Sparks’s “Dear John.” Now, there’s “Letters to Juliet.” Seyfried stars as a girl who’s engaged to Gael Garcia Bernal (“Science of Sleep”) but goes on an adventure with Christopher Egan (“Eragon”) and Vanessa Redgrave after she finds Redgrave’s letter to a long lost love.

IMDb.com states that Hugh Dancy was originally cast in Bernal’s role but dropped out, which is a shame. Anyone who’s seen him in “The Jane Austen Book Club” knows that Dancy would have been perfect in this movie albeit in Egan’s role. Oh, well. Cue Taylor Swift’s “Love Story.”

9. Noah Baumbach (“The Squid and the Whale”) once again gifts us with his zing-damn-oh snap (!) dialogue in “Greenberg.” Ben Stiller tries his hand at drama as a man in a mid-life crisis. Jennifer Jason Leigh (“Single White Female”) and Rhys Ifans (to be seen in “Harry Potter 7″) round out the cast.

10. “Crazy Heart” is another film with an earlier-than-scheduled release date. Again, the movie studio is trying to nab its star, Jeff Bridges, a Best Actor nod. Bridges (“Iron Man”) stars as a country music star who’s down on his luck until his path crosses with a journalist (Maggie Gyllenhaal).

11. According to IMDb.com, “Remember Me” is up by 658 percent in popularity this week. The most probable reason? Robert Pattinson (“Twilight”) is the star. He is joined by Pierce Brosnan (“James Bond”), Chris Cooper (“The Kingdom”) and Emilie de Ravin (“Lost”).

12. In “Leaves of Grass,” Edward Norton plays twin brothers who plot to kill their small town’s drug lord. The supporting cast includes Susan Sarandon (“Stepmom”) and Keri Russell (“August Rush”).

13. “Extraordinary Measures” is based on the true story of John and Aileen Crowley who race to find a cure for their dying child. Brendan Fraser (“The Mummy”), Russell (“Felicity”) and Harrison Ford (“Indiana Jones”) star.

14. “In Ireland, women can propose to men on the 29th of February.” This is the premise of “Leap Year,” in which Amy Adams (“Enchanted”) takes it upon herself to propose to her longtime boyfriend. Fate intervenes when she lands in Wales instead and runs into Matthew Goode (“Chasing Liberty”).

15. In “Grown Ups,” five childhood friends reunite after 30 years. The movie’s cast is a who’s who of comedy, namely David Spade (“The Benchwarmers”), Chris Rock (“Down to Earth”), Adam Sandler (“Spanglish”), Kevin James (“Hitch”), Rob Schneider (“Hot Chick”), Maya Rudolph (“Away We Go”), Salma Hayek (“Frida”) and Maria Bello (“Coyote Ugly”).

16. After failing to impress the girl of his dreams, Michael Cera (“Superbad”) decides to rebel in the comedy, “Youth in Revolt.” Justin Long (“Accepted”) and Zach Galifianakis (“The Hangover”) also star in the movie. Trailer no.1 and trailer no. 2 follow:

17. Soon there won’t be another Sparks’s novel to film, and the world as we know it will come to an end. “The Last Song” is Hollywood’s latest try at the author’s romantic novels. Miley Cyrus (“Hannah Montana”) stars as a rebellious teenager who, along with her younger brother, is sent to spend the summer with her estranged dad. Cyrus, also a musical prodigy, falls in love and makes amends with her father.

I guess that means two things. 1) We can look forward to Cyrus-filled soundtrack. 2) Supposedly, the studio thought Mandy Moore in two Sparks’s adaptations would have been too much. Nonetheless, Greg Kinnear (“Little Miss Sunshine”) and Kelly Preston (“Jerry Maguire”) lend the movie some credibility.

18. Maybe you’ve heard of James Cameron’s (“Titanic”) latest venture, “Avatar.” An adventure in another world and another time pits  human soldiers against an entirely new species. Sam Worthington (“Terminator: Salvation”), Sigourney Weaver (“Alien”), Zoe Saldana (“Star Trek”) and Michelle Rodriguez (“Girl Fight”) star.

19. It’s just a teaser trailer, but “Clash of the Titans” looks pretty amazing. Whoever created the score is some kind of genius. Liam Neeson (Batman Begins”), Ralph Fiennes (“Harry Potter”) and Worthington  are all part of the remake.

20. Catch the “Toy Story 3″ teaser and full trailers below:

21. Emily Blunt is “The Young Victoria.” From the looks of the trailer, Blunt (“The Devil Wears Prada”) will give another powerhouse performance as Queen Victoria. She is paired with Rupert Friend (“Pride and Prejudice”) as her Prince Albert. The ensemble cast includes Paul Bettany (“The Da Vinci Code”) and Jim Broadbent (“The Chronicles of Narnia”).

22. Clooney may have cinched another Oscar nomination with his performance in “Up in the Air.” In fact, director Jason Reitman (“Juno”), actresses Anna Kendrick (“Twilight”) and Vera Farmiga (“The Departed”) all have Oscar buzz surrounding them. Clooney is the guy that companies hire to travel all over the globe and fire people for them.

The film was originally meant to be a satire like Reitman’s “Thank You for Not Smoking,” but the recession called for a revamping of the movie. The first trailer below tells you more about the story, but the second trailer is by far the better one. Fasten your seatbelts …

Personally, I’m looking forward to “Up in the Air,” “The Young Victoria,” “Leap Year” and “Letters to Juliet” although I’d probably watch some, such as “Avatar” and “Did You Hear About the Morgans?” if my friends want to see them. What about you? Sound off in the comments!

//

Mike Judge, writer/director of King of the Hill, has been in the business of making people laugh for a long time, and perhaps if his past works hadn’t been such comedic hits, his latest, Extract, wouldn’t have been such a let-down.

Extract tells the story of Joel Reynold (Jason Bateman), a man comfortable in his life as the owner of a successful Extract-production plant, in which he oversees a line of workers with very strong, but very stereotyped Redneck personalities.  After his marriage turns sex-less and attractive con-artist Cindy (Mila Kunis) takes a job at the plant, Joel allows his grubby bartender friend Dean (Ben Affleck) to hire a man to seduce his wife, clearing Joel’s conscience to go for Cindy.

One machinery accident and one lost testicle later, the floor manager, coerced by money-hungry Cindy, threatens to sue, which would put an end to the plant – the last positive thing left in Joel’s life.

Bateman’s acting is the same as it always is — funny, dry, and subtle.  But in this film, it seems his humor is a bit misplaced, as the other actors are over-the-top funny.  Bateman fans are used to his complacent attitude in most of his acting, but in this film — when the audience is watching Joel’s world crashing down around him – the subdued nature that fans find funny (and dare I say, attractive?) becomes nothing short of frustrating and unfitting for the scenes.

Affleck, who I ordinarily hate, is the perfect actor to play a degenerate bartender who keeps a box of pills including horse tranquilizers and a variety of recreational drugs — though he can’t tell the difference between them — under the counter, as well as the phone number for a gigolo programmed into his cell.  As out there as he is, his performance isn’t over-the-top.

I applaud Judge’s attempt to bring together a cast of very diverse actors, but he didn’t do it seamlessly.  Bateman’s acting is poorly matched with Mila Kunis’; I have trouble watching her in anything but That 70s Show and kept waiting for her to come out in bellbottoms and ridicule Fez.

Visually, the film is very bland.  Granted, the majority of it takes place in a flavored extract plant and the blandness matches Bateman’s subdued acting style.  But at times the dry acting and the dry scenery had me looking around and counting the seats in the theater — about 200, and less than a quarter of them full — until something funny but undeniably stupid happened on-screen again.

The plot is believable as a person’s boring — but not bad — life, but the ending is a bit too clean for me.  Certainly, there is an obvious choice for a “safe” ending in a storyline where a wife cheats and the couple separates.  Fine.  But when the husband pays a gigolo — who later carries on a relationship with his wife — to sleep with her, the safe, predictable ending probably should be tweaked a bit.  I wasn’t impressed with Judge’s choice for the ending.

Don’t get me wrong — I laughed a lot in this movie.  At times, it was because something was so stupid that I couldn’t help it.  Often, it was because I appreciated Bateman’s dry humor, and his collaboration with Affleck.  But the woman sitting three rows behind me chomping on popcorn throughout the movie (don’t people usually finish it by the end of the previews?) and laughing like a hyena must have been watching something else.

The movie is strong in the beginning, but as it continues and the story gets more and more convoluted, it just becomes too much.  The acting doesn’t mesh well and the shots are too “safe” and boring.

At the end, Judge tries to bring Extract full circle and give it the same cookie-cutter feel that the beginning of the movie implies it will have.  But the film loses that opportunity sometime around the time the gigolo is paid, and it just isn’t believable.

- Anna Dolianitis

A pesar de la extensa y variada multitud de carteles aparecidos de The Book of Eli, sus responsables siguen sacando nuevos a la red. El punto en común de todos ellos sigue siendo la exaltación de Denzel Washington, protagonista absoluto de este thriller post-apocalítico a pesar de nombres como el de Gary Oldman (el único que al parecer resiste comparaciones, según los carteles) Mila Kunis, Michael Gambon o Ray Stevenson. Eli / Washington es en la película un duro caminante que porta un libro que alberga la respuesta para salvar a una humanidad en total decadencia tras un apocalipsis de, por el momento, causas desconocidas.

:::::ACTUALIZADO::::: Un nuevo cartel de la película.

A lone hero (Denzel Washington) guards the Book of Eli, which provides knowledge that could redeem society, but a despot (Gary Oldman) of a small, makeshift town plans to take possession of the book. Directed by The Hughes Brothers (From Hell), the film co-stars Mila Kunis and is out on 15 January 2010.

Audrina joins the crew via satellite to discuss her relationship with Justin, her friendship with Lauren and the advice you didn’t hear her give Heidi about babies. She says she wasn’t as blank faced as the producers would have us think; she actually did offer some advice at lunch with Heidi.

As for Audrina’s own dysfunctional relationships, we’ve heard all about Audrina and Lauren and Audrina and Justin. The latter is almost nauseating now. Audrina tries to explain the dinner with Justin where he dissed her for Kristin, but nothing coherent really comes out. She does say that she has only seen him one time since he rejected her on TV. Said meeting will be on the finale.

That doesn’t jive with what she said on her website. She recently said they were trying to work it out.

Audrina also says that she could see Mila Kunis playing her in L.A. Candy since she did a spoof on Audrina before. It was perfection we might add. She could see Christine Taylor playing Lauren.

Also, The After Show host Jessi’s charity dress auction has raised more than they expected; they have enough to adopt and support an entire village. Audrina’s dress sold for hundreds of dollars.

Portman is one of the hottest actresses around. She’s smart, sexy and a damn good actress, so of course I wanted to check out her spread in V magazine.  She talks about her new movie called Black Swan where she’s got a sexual scene with none other than actress Mila Kunis, 26-years-old.

Natalie Portman plays a veteran ballerina who competes with rival dancer played by That 70’s Show actress Mila Kunis.  I never thought 28-year-old Natalie would do something like this, but after watching her performance in Closer, I guess I’m not that surprised. Something tells me the lesbian scene is what’s going to bring in the peeps to watch this flick.

The 28-year-old also revealed that she had refused to strip off in the past because she was working out her own sexual identity.

‘It’s weird to be doing stuff on film as you’re figuring it out,’ she told V magazine. ‘Also, being a sexual object when you’re a kid is really uncomfortable.’

Read the full interview at www.vmagazine.com

Extract

Extract [DVD]

Extract [Blu-ray]

Director: Mike Judge
Writer: Mike Judge

Starring: Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Ben Afflek

If ever there was a director who always managed to grab my attention with his work it would most certainly be Mike Judge. I find the work of Mike Judge to be very satirical of the world around us. Mike Judge who’s other work includes “Beavis & Butthead: Do America, Office Space, and Idiocracy” now brings us a comedy about an Extract factory.

Jason Bateman plays the owner of the factory which he built from the ground up. Jason’s character is very proud of what he has accomplished but along the lines trouble is brewing. Mila Kunis (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) plays a cunning little thief who wants to do what she can to rob people blind. This is where the entire plot comes in to play.

A silly mistake at the factory leaves one of the top employees seriously injured. Mila Kunis hears of the accident in the paper and immediately attempts to shack up with the man who sustained the injury, her idea is to get the man to sue the company and become rich as a result.

The lawyer that gets involved with the lawsuit is beautifully played by Gene Simmons of the band KISS. Simmons portrays a real bad ass lawyer with attitude which leads to some remarkably hilarious scenes.

Like the previous works of Mike Judge this movie fell victim to a lack of proper attention from the movie going public. I however wish to recommend that people give this comedy the opportunity it truly deserves.

While fans of Mike Judge may be quick to write this one off being that it is not quite caliber of Office Space and maybe not quite the social statement film that Idiocracy was, in my opinion this movie still holds strong and should be appreciated for the fun and the laughs that it provides.

My Rating: 70%
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Max Payne è un film del 2008 vagamente basato sul gioco del 2001 con lo stesso nome della Remedy Entertainment. E’ stato scritto da Beau Thorne ed è stato diretto da John Moore.

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BLACK SWAN by Mark Heyman

25 March 09 draft

129 pages

Darren Aronofsky to direct

Starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey

Fox Searchlight, Overnight Films producing

Fox Searchlight distributing

Darren Aronofsky is unique in Hollywood; he’s a brand, a brilliant filmmaker, but his artistic reputation is predicated on one crazy film (Requiem for a Dream), one good low-budget exercise (Pi), one brilliant character study (The Wrestler), and one absolute train wreck (The Fountain).  He’s a good director, but his reputation far outstrips his actual output.  He’s able to attract great actors and he’s a gutsy, unrelenting artist, but his movies are unapologetic exercises.

Auteur with a capital "A."

When news of Black Swan first hit, everyone got 12-year-old-boy excited when they heard that Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis would have sex in the movie. The script is far more than that, but the sequence that ends in Portman and Kunis’s characters sleeping together is the centerpiece of the story.  The script is a plague of mood-without-story, and it seems to play into all the qualities that make Aronofsky a critical darling and a commercial conundrum.  This is insular writing that doesn’t need to be.  It makes one yearn for the fantasia that would’ve been Aronofsky’s Robocop reboot.  If anyone has that script…

Black Swan follows NINA, a ballet dancer with a company in New York.  She’s cast in the lead role in Swan Lake by Korolyevna, the company’s artistic director, but he’s still not sure she can play the black swan, the dark half of the role.  Enter LILY, new to the company and a dead ringer for Nina.  She’s a free spirit and Nina feels threatened by her.  Nina pushes herself to prepare for the role, she has a brief affair with Korolyevna, and she becomes more and more paranoid as opening night approaches.  Lily takes Nina out, inspiring her to cut loose but also stretching Nina’s psychosis past the breaking point, ending in Nina having sex with what she thinks is Lily but turns out to be her own doppelganger.  On opening night, Nina kills her double and dances the role brilliantly but she bleeds on stage, the wound self-inflicted.

Script is here, and as always if you’re the copyright holder and you’d like me to take down the link please email me and I’ll do so.

Darren –

That week in St. Barts was fantastic, thanks again for inviting us.  My wife was wondering if Rachel wouldn’t mind passing on her recipe for cioppino – OK, really I’m the one asking.  The secret ingredient is Worcestershire, isn’t it?

I read the latest draft of Black Swan.  I see how it’ll play to your strengths, and Natalie and Mila are great casting choices.  I’m concerned, though – I don’t think the script is up to par.  It’s good, but it’s not great.

To me, this script is about the relationship an artist has with herself; it’s about her perception of herself, about catalyzing her inner conflict by physically manifesting it in another character.  I like that theme.  It’s an exploration of the duality artists must inhabit, and in many ways I think the script becomes a metaphor for the actor’s process.  That the medium is ballet rather than theater or film makes all the difference – ballet can be visceral, visually arresting, and enrapturing without lapsing into cliché.

The Black Swan

That’s all why the script is a good idea, but the issue here is execution.  I don’t think the script has made good on its conceit, and although some of what I’m going to suggest might feel as though it’s taking the script in a more commercial, less auteur-centric direction, you know all too well that I believe in the audience, not the artist.  The Fountain is an amazing piece of art but it’s a crap movie, and I don’t want you to make another one of those.  The Wrestler touched people because Mickey was an amazing character and the relationships were conflicted, difficult, and nuanced, and the script was impeccably structured.  Black Swan is more The Fountain than The Wrestler right now.

Let’s just run through the sketch of the plot here.  Nina gets the chance of a lifetime when she’s cast as the swan in Swan Lake.  Nina starts to doubt herself, sabotage her own dancing, and throw away everything she’s worked so hard for. Nina is pushed to the brink, but as she self-destructs, she also finds the inner fire needed to fully execute the role.

Do you see what’s missing there?  Any other character aside from Nina.  They’re all unnecessary to the story.  Even though Lily appears to be the driving force behind Nina’s breakdown, she has nothing to do with Nina falling apart.  She’s only present for Nina’s breakdown, not inciting it.

As we deconstruct the story, it feels as though there is less and less substance here.  I keep waiting for something to happen.  The affair with Korolyevna and Nina’s guilt about Beth takes up most of the first half of Act 2, climaxing in the cocktail party and the first real moment of connection between Nina and Lily.  The second half of Act 2 doesn’t really get started until Lily and Nina go out together; that’s a great sequence, but I don’t feel like the script earns it.  Really, the whole story seems to be building to the moment where Nina and Lily have sex.  It’s the ultimate act of self-love on Nina’s part – she’s having sex with someone she believes is a manifestation of herself, as much about her own self-confidence and interior struggle as it is about her relationship with Lily.  It’s the one moment in the script that feels dangerous, unexpected, daring, and a little bit original.

In order for that moment to work, I think everything up until then has to change.

First of all, Lily must become a central part of the first act.  I’d like her to show up first by page 12, or no later than page 15 rather than half an hour in.  Introduce her as Nina is trying out for the swan, establish Lily’s part in the company, and begin the connection between Nina-as-the-swan and Lily’s presence.  I want Lily in a lot more of the script, and I think it’s important to keep her front-and-center, always near Nina.  She’s must be the manifestation of everything in Nina that is both dangerous and powerful, everything that Nina has repressed.

I don’t understand why Korolyevna gives Nina the part right now.  If it’s his attraction to her, I don’t think that’s interesting enough.  A more genre approach would have the other competitors felled by mysterious injuries; better might be that Lily is the front-runner, but she purposefully messes up so that Nina gets the part. Perhaps we find out later that Lily was just too scared of the role, that her flub had nothing to do with Nina at all.  I want Nina to feel as though she’s being manipulated by Lily in every scene.  The relationship between Nina and Lily is where this script works best; let’s put it everywhere we can.

The relationship with Korolyevna and Nina doesn’t have enough tension to it right now.  Yes, she’s not all that interested in sleeping with him and that sex scene toes the line of consent (until, y’know, she commands, “Fuck me”), but otherwise?  He’s single, she’s single, it’s ballet; their affair doesn’t have any conflict to it.  There isn’t even a cautionary tale told early on, where Nina hears how one of Korolyevna’s former lovers lost a great part or went crazy or killed herself.  If Nina has a boyfriend then the affair matters a little more.  If Korolyevna is married, I’m more interested.  If he’s married to the prime benefactor of the ballet, now I’m intrigued.  If the ballet is going to close down if Korolyevna gets divorced, the affair starts to make sense.  The thing is, I never feel like there’s any jeopardy for these characters – the worst that might happen is that Nina loses her role as the swan and ends up back where the script started.  It’s a cliché to tell a script to raise the stakes, but, well, raise ‘em.

The script doesn’t handle Beth well.  I suppose she and Korolyevna were having an affair too, but it doesn’t matter to the plot.  We don’t see her accident or even really hear about what lands her in the hospital, which turns what should be an important detail into inconsequential trivia.  If I had to guess, I’d say that she’s supposed to be a warning to Nina, but the script doesn’t make that work in the least.  This isn’t to say that Nina has to be accused of causing Beth’s accident or that Lily should be the one who harms Beth, or even that Beth should point a crooked finger at Nina, warning her of what’s to come.  Nothing so on the nose is needed.  Play up Nina and Beth’s similarities, how Nina is supplanting Beth (and an errant newspaper clipping doesn’t cut it).  Show the horror of Beth’s accident, the sudden and sheer terror that she feels when she realizes she’ll never dance again.  That way, she’s a cautionary tale for Nina without being cliched about it.

$20 says she's playing Beth.

I don’t think the script pays off Erica either.  The fact that Erica is Nina’s mother isn’t much of a revelation, except to make us wonder why Nina is still living with her mom and why her mom is a controlling freak.  Without context, more information about Nina’s family, I don’t care.  Erica is an unnecessary character right now.  Also, be careful about the eating disorder stuff; it’s such cliché in a ballet movie and it never pays off here.  That’s also true of the Mean Girls nattering Nina overhears in the hallways, all the other ballet dancers talking about her behind her back.  A little goes a long way.

The script finally starts to cook when Nina and Lily go out together in the sequence that culminates in them having sex.  The script needs more of when Lily and Nina clash, when Lily cajoles Nina, when they inspire each other.  Often the script only tells us that Lily looks up to Nina instead of putting that in a scene.  We know how Lily effects Nina.  How does Nina effect Lily?

In the end, I don’t think the script reaches the transcendent moment it’s looking for.  It’s trying to boil to an aha; that moment when Nina kills her double and then dumps the body in the closet should be frightening and scary, but instead it’s just weird.  I never believe that the body is real.  When she bleeds on the stage as the script ends, I’m not sure what the point is.  Does she die?  Does this mean she’s sacrificed herself for her art?  To what end?  Has the soul of the Black Swan taken her over?  It’s all just metaphor at this point, metaphor I’ve seen done elsewhere better.

The script can climax in cacophony – build to opening night, maybe Nina’s double has actually become real, and it’s Nina’s double who dances the Black Swan part.  Maybe Lily, understudy to Nina, takes over the role because Nina isn’t ready and Nina’s double kills Lily and takes her place.  The idea of Nina’s double becoming a real person, Nina’s psychosis manifested physically, is attractive to me but by no means is it the script’s only option.  Either way, I don’t think it’s enough for the script to build to Nina just performing the part on opening night and that’s it.

I trust that your vision for the movie can smooth over a lot of these rough patches, but no matter how deft your touch, you can’t fix the endemic problems with the script.  I know you don’t want to turn this into some kind of mechanical exercise in plot, but the script needs purpose and direction so that it’ll pay off on its potential.

I’ll have Simone send over my page-by-page notes.  See you in Vail?  We’re there between Christmas and New Year’s, as usual.

- John

Non mi scaricare è un film del 2008, una commedia romantica dalla Universal Pictures e diretto da Nicholas Stoller e scritta da Jason Segel.

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Amennyire vártam, annyira lapos lett..:(

Three Obscure Facts About The Blowhole Babe of the Week: Mila Kunis Edition
1.) She learned to speak English from watching The Price is Right because Bob Barker spoke slow enough for her to understand.
2.) She won the role of Jackie on “That 70’s Show” when she was only 14. She told the producers she was 18.
3.) She is a huge fan of the computer game World of Warcraft.

-Michael

La Gata Negra

Si bien no hay nada seguro aún sobre lo que podremos esperar de Spiderman 4, los rumores sobre los posibles villanos que veremos son muchos y muy frecuentes. Por lo pronto, ya se está comentando sobre la posibilidad de ver a la Gata Negra dentro de la historia, llegando a barajarse no una, sino cinco posibles candidatas. Las que se han mencionado hasta el momento son:

• Elisa Cuthbert
• Kristen Bell
• Maggie Grace
• Mila Kunis
• Rachel McAdams

Ni los estudios ni el mismo Sam Raimi ha mencionado nada al respecto, así que tomémoslo con reservas.

As promised, here is today’s girl of the day.  Sorry for the delay but we were watching football like real men.

You can also find this girl in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and she played a role in That 70’s Show.  She’s really hot and I think that you guys will agree.  Here she is, Mila Kunis.

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I’ve recently gotten into (Besides the BBC channel) Teen Nick. Is that lame since I’m not a teen anymore(22) ? Well, I have been watching a ridiculous amount of Degrassi and that 70’s show(Eric Foreman is my hero): Topher Grace, Mila Kunis, Danny Masterson, Ashton Kutcher, Laura Prepon, Wilmer Valderrama . The funny thing is, I never watched that 70’s show when it was actually on. Degrassi on the other hand I did watch a little junior year of highschool.

This season of Degrassi has been  intriguing, I think it maybe the newbies on the show, some of which who have already hit the two season mark, and have had  pretty convincing performances: Argiris Karras, Samantha Munro, Raymond Ablack, Melinda Shankar…etc.

The show has been touching on issues, that teens and adults  both deal with.

Check it out sometime.

~Nicole

Oh Tina Fey, how I love her character.  Likely she’s going to receive even more backlash for playing that same character again, but that’s her shtick.  I’m really looking forward to this movie.  It’ll be like Thursday night on NBC, except I’ll be paying money.  Honestly though, this movie does look very funny.  These two are hilarious and I look forward to watching them play off each other.  It looks like they have no chemistry, but I think that’s going to make everything a lot more fun.

And look at the rest of the cast.  (BTW, I’ve put the actors and actresses that I like in the tags section, that way I don’t have to mention them every time.)

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- izi

The new romantic action comedy starring Steve Carrell and Tina Fey, Date Night, has finally revealed their teaser trailer. It looks meh to me and looks a little corny and extreme. I think the writer’s are hoping the actors are going to save this film from a catastrophe. oh well.

Check the trailer after the jump:

The Fosters are a typical suburban couple whose lives – including their weekly date nights of dinner and a movie – have become routine. To reignite the marital spark, they visit a trendy Manhattan bistro where a case of mistaken identity turns their evening into the ultimate date night-gone-awry. But as Claire and Phil take their unexpected walk on the wild side, they begin to remember what made them so special together.

Time for everybody’s favourite installment. This week, I’m nominating the superhot Mila Kunis. Remember that 70s show? You know you do. 6:30-7:00pm, everybody’s favourite time of the day. Well, in case you needed more convincing, apparently she has a “steamy“  scene with previous “I’d tap that” winner, Harvard’s Natalie Portman, in the new Darren Aronofsky movie about competing ballet dancers (Yes, from the man who brought you “Pi”, and “Requiem for a Dream”). This is sacrificing for art.

these boots are made for lying down suggestively

The worst part about Hollywood is when a movie assembles a great cast but manages to turn all that gold into a giant pile of poop. Even more confusing is when that movie clearly has a ridiculous premise to begin with, thus begging the question of how all those great cast members ended up signing on to a clearly absurd project?

Are there some magic string-pullers out there in California who are just so amazing at pitching ideas they convinced the cast of Mars Attacks that it would be a great movie? “It’s Tim Burton! Just say yes!”

I wonder these things mainly because I am an unabashed Steve Carell fan, adore Tina Fey, and think the concept of them being married is pretty much the most obvious, genius idea ever. I mean, come on! Steve Carell! Married to Tina Fey!

This is the basic premise to the upcoming film Date Night, which has just put out a trailer this week. From the looks of it, I fear the worst but hope for the best.

What’s so promising? Here’s the supporting cast: Mila Kunis, James Franco, Mark Whalberg, Mark Ruffalo, Kristen Wiig, Ray Liotta, Olivia Munn, Common and Samantha Bee.

Less promising? The director is Shawn Levy, who gave the world Night at the Museum. If that wasn’t scary enough in terms of precedence for movies-with-good-casts-that-blew, the trailer for Date Night totally gives me some Spy Kids vibes. Maybe it’s just the typography, or cheesy espionage family humour. But it’s not really family humour. I don’t think.

I really hope this movie is not awful.

Trailer after the jump.

Date Night is film starring Steve Carell (The Office) and Tina Fey (30 Rock) as a a married couple with two children who decided to go on a date night. Everything is going as planned until they decide to take someone else’s reservation at a restaurant where they are mistaken as criminals.

The film also stars Mark Wahlberg (The Departed), James Franco (Pineapple Express), Mila Kunis (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Mark Ruffalo (13 Going On 30), Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live), Common (Wanted), and Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button).

Date Night hits theaters nationwide on April 9, 2010

Another trailer! Date Night, starring Steve Carrell and Tina Fey, two amazing reasons to see this movie. It depicts the Fosters (Carrell and Fey), who are bored with their average lives. One date night turns chaotic adventure, crafted by director Shawn Levy. Now, most people really dislike Shawn Levy, but he does have promise, and has put out a few enjoyable movies, such as Big Fat Liar. This film, as the trailer shows, also includes Mila Kunis, James Franco, and Mark Wahlberg. I am labeling this one as hopeful!

There’s not much in the way of news, but here’s what’s on offer over the past couple of days.

Aronofsky finds a way to convince straight blokes to see a ballet flick

If you want proof that Darren Aronofsky is talented, you’ve got it.  By casting the jiblet-tingling trio of Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Winona Ryder in his new thriller ‘Black Swan’ he’s managed to convince me to see a movie about ballet.  That’s undeniable talent right there.  Now he just needs a quick re-write to include a gratuitous three-way scene and we’re set.

He’s black?  Check.  He’s a comedian?  Check.  He hasn’t had a hit in a while?  Check.  Get that man into a dress asap!

What is it with black comedians and cross dressing?  Jaime Foxx and Martin Lawrence are teaming up to subject the world to “Sheneneh and Wanda”, an alleged comedy based on some sort of BET Awards skit they did a few years ago.  The story centers around two “modern independant women” who rob banks.  Ugh.  Hasn’t anyone learnt from “Big Momma’s House” or “White Chicks”?

It’s official.  I will never see this movie.

As if one wasn’t bad enough, BOTH Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman have been cast in “The Danish Girl”, the new movie from Thomas Alfredson, director of “Let the Right One In”.  It’s about the real life relationship between the first post-op transsexual and it’s wife.  Kidman will play the tranny and Paltrow will play it’s wife.  While the story doesn’t particularly interest me, I like LTROI a lot and was interested in Alfredson’s next flick.  Not anymore.