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2009: What to Look Forward To Part 3

Posted: July 21, 2009 at 12:40 pm   /   Film, Local

Part 1 Part 2 Alright, let’s continue to look at some of the films that are coming out later this year! Shutter Island – October 2nd Here we have Martin Scoresse’s followup to his Oscar winning tale The Departed. This time he is going in with an adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel Shutter Island. […]

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Leonardo DiCaprio Enters the Twilight Zone For New Movie

Posted: July 20, 2009 at 3:48 pm   /   Local, Movie News

According to Variety, both Warner Brothers and Appian Way (Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company) are green-lighting a new “Twilight Zone” movie. Rand Ravich, probably best known for creating the NBC television show “Life,” will be working on the script for the film. The “Twilight Zone” was a well known TV series that originated in the 1950s, […]

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Win FREE Passes to see THE UGLY TRUTH at the St. Louis Screening

Posted: July 20, 2009 at 1:29 pm   /   Contests, Local

ReviewSTL.com invites you and a guest to attend a special advance St. Louis screening of THE UGLY TRUTH.   Enter for your chance to win a pass good for two! Screening is on Thursday, July 23 @ the Chesterfield Galaxy NO PURCHASE NECESSARY OPENS NATIONWIDE JULY 24 Please note that winning passes to THE UGLY […]

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THE HANGOVER beats out BEVERLY HILLS COP For Top Grossing R-rated Comedy

Posted: July 20, 2009 at 1:01 pm   /   Local, Movie News

  As of yesterday, “The Hangover” has become the #1 grossing R-rated comedy of all time. The widely successful comedy, directed by Todd Phillips, broke the record that has been held by the Eddie Murphy film “Beverly Hills Cop” for over 25 years. As of today, “The Hangover” has grossed almost $236 million dollars after […]

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Warner Brothers Breaks $1 Billion Dollars at Domestic Box Office

Posted: July 20, 2009 at 9:11 am   /   Local, Movie News

After only 192 days in 2009, Warner Brothers has grossed over $1 billion dollars this year domestically from their films. This was announced on Sunday, the fifth day in theaters for HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE. They join Paramount in making over $1 billion dollars as well, due to the success of TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE […]

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Star Trek Blu-Ray Details

Posted: July 19, 2009 at 2:34 pm   /   DVD News, Local

For many this year, the best film released so far is J.J. Abrams Star Trek and we now have word on all the special features and what not packed into the 3-Disc set to arrive, November 17th. Blu-ray.com reported the news and here it is all for you: The Blu-ray offers exclusive branching pods that […]

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Harry Potter has a Magical $160 Million Opening

Posted: July 19, 2009 at 1:57 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood after it’s amazing $22 million dollar night in midnight screenings went on to gross an estimated $159.7 through the weekend.  This is so far the best start to the popular franchise.  Half-Blood Prince looks on pace to easily surpass the previous installment Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. […]

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Barabara Walters Rips on BRUNO and calls Pornographic – Does Anyone Care?

Posted: July 18, 2009 at 8:40 pm   /   Local, Movie News

On Wednesday, Barbara Walters called Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie BRUNO “…almost as pornographic as any pornographic thing that I’ve seen,” and said “I think this will make people, if you’re not homophobic, it could make you.” Obviously Babs was not the target audience for this film. Maybe she thought that she was going to […]

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Jackie Chan Says Will Smith’s Son Has Excellent Karate Skills

Posted: July 18, 2009 at 8:04 pm   /   Local, Movie News

The remake of “The Karate Kid” started filming on July 11 in Beijing. The film, titled “Kung Fu Kid,” stars 11-year-old Jaden Smith, son of mega stars Will and Jeda Smith. Jaden has been training in the art of Kung Fu by Jackie Chan’s stunt co-ordinator, and according to Chan’s blog – he is more […]

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May We See A New Master and Commander Film?

Posted: July 17, 2009 at 10:18 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Russell Crowe recently talked to the AP about the possibility of a follow up to his excellent 2003 picture, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with Peter Weir. Apparently there is a script done for The Reverse of the Medal and there are some early talks into him possibly staring. Personally, this […]

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