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'Funny People' Manages #1 But Still Disappoints
03/08/2009 | Administrator
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'Funny People' Manages #1 But Still Disappoints Judd Apatow's latest does little to help worst box-office weekend of the summer. By Elisabeth Rappe


'The Collector': Bad Blood, By Kurt Loder
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The torture never stops. "The Collector" Photo: Sony Pictures To say that "The Collector" is a torture-porn movie of a particularly vile and hateful sort is already to waste more words than [ ... ]








'Futurama' Cast Back In, False Alarms Deactivating

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Move along people, there's nothing to see here. A few weeks ago, word emerged that the triumphant return of Matt Groening's and David X. Cohen's prematurely canceled TV series "Futurama" might be marred by the departure of the original voice cast. These people, who were responsible for making the initial five ...

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Steven Spielberg Hops Onboard To Direct 'Harvey'

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I sort of worship at the altar of director Steven Spielberg. In 1975's "Jaws" the man introduced the world to the blockbuster, and with it hundreds of spectacle-filled summer weekends to come. He slips in and out of genres like seasonal outfits, wearing a thriller one year, a touching family drama...

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No 'Twilight' Comic Book, But Stephenie Meyer Will

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FROM SPLASH PAGE: Last month we told you about the upcoming "Twilight" manga, and now it looks like the massively popular series is making another splash in the comics world with an upcoming single-issue comic about "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer. The next woman to be featured in Bluewater Productions' popular line ...

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Brandon Routh Wants To Play 'Warcraft' With Sam Ra

Brandon Routh gets a bad rap for his turn as the Man of Steel in "Superman Returns." The movie was... not great. That wasn't his fault though. Routh looked the part, he acted the part and he reminded us all that there is life after Christopher Reeve, even for Superman. He's...

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Jeremy Renner 'Fighting' To Join George Miller's R

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This is purely a premature news bite. In a recent interview with his hometown newspaper, The Modesto Bee, "The Hurt Locker" star Jeremy Renner mentioned that he’s “fighting” to get a role in a new “Mad Max” movie. Renner says that he’s screen testing and taking a meeting with director Georg...

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Spielberg Sees a Giant Rabbit

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No Neighborhood Watch for Ferrell, Dobkin

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Stephen Sommers Talks G.I. Joe

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Kurt Loder Reviews 'Funny People'

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George Simmons is a dying comic. Not just dying onstage — he's really dying, of leukemia. In Judd Apatow's "Funny People," Adam Sandler, in a strong and resolutely unsentimental performance, plays this character as a guy who's worked his way to the top of his trade — from bottom-rung standup gigs to blockbuster movies — and now, at 40, doesn't know what to do with the news that his time is up. What's it all been for? He recently moved into a huge Malibu mansion, through which he wanders like Charles Foster Kane adrift in the empty splendor of Xanadu. Which is to say, alone. "I don't have any friends," he tells Ira Wright, the guy he's hired to impersonate one. "I have showbiz friends."

 

 

'Harry Potter' IMAX Opening, 'Funny People' Top The Weekly Box Office Poll

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The majority of you -- 60% -- will forego the week's latest movie releases in favor of witnessing the IMAX Experience for the summer hit "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." I'm not expecting to see another record-breaking weekend along the lines of what happened when "Prince" opened a couple of weeks ago however. Mainly because there's some stiff competition this week.

The other favorite is Judd Apatow's "Funny People," which earned 21% of your votes. The story of a dying comedian and his young protege has garnered some mixed reactions. Apatow rarely disappoints when he brings the funny, but "People" supposedly has a more serious bent.

 

Kurt Loder Reviews 'Thirst'

Thirst

A movie about a priest who's transformed into a vampire might inspire some deep noodling about Catholic liturgy, no doubt. And that could be what Park Chan-wook, the waywardly brilliant South Korean director (and onetime philosophy student), had in mind in making his latest film, "Thirst." But just when we've set our brains on ponder, the picture muddies all hope of contemplation with flashes of the fearlessly eccentric imagery for which Park has become famous.

Park's narratives are ... challenging, you might say. Here, the virtuous priest, Sang-hyun, after volunteering to be a test subject in the search for a cure for a mysterious disease, finds himself developing a taste for blood. At first, being a gentle soul, or possibly just lazy, he siphons it out of comatose patients at the hospital where he ministers.

 



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