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In the near future, a mercenary based in Russia, Toorop, is contracted to make sure that he gets a mysterious young woman named Aurora from the ravages of a post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to New York City. He picks the girl up at a Mongolian monastery where she’s accompanied by her guardian, Sister Rebekah. Now the [...]

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  The 65th annual Venice Film Festival opens on Wednesday with a screening of the Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading. Stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt are expected to attend. The film, however, is not among the 21 films entered in the official competition. Also expected to attend the festival — and screenings of films [...]

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#1 Tropic Thunder from Paramount/Dreamworks takes #1 this weekend bringing in $16,100,000 thats up 37% over last week. Thunder showed in 3352 theaters up 33 and has earned a total of $65,668,000. Thunder cost $92 million to make. #2 The House Bunny from Sony debus at #2 taking in $15.1 million in 2714 theaters. Bunny cost %25 million. #3 Death [...]

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In the year 2012, the United States economy has collapsed and the crime rate is now at an all time high. Prison populations are growing and now large corporations have assumed the running of these prisons and have decided to use them for televised gladiatorial combat as an opiate for the masses, and yet the [...]

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According to the Playlist Nicolas Cage has signed on to the lead in Matthew Vaughn’s (Stardust, Layer Cake) adaptation of the Mark Millar comic book Kick Ass. Also signed on are Aaron Johnson (The Illusionist, Baker Street Irregulars) and Lyndsy Fonseca (Heros, Desperate Housewives). Kick Ass, originally written by Mike Millar and illustrated by the venerable [...]

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Variety reports that Ben Affleck has signed on to the new Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-head, Office Space) vehicle Extract.  Affleck, who turned 36 last week, will be playing an ambulance chasing attorney opposite Jason Bateman (Hancock, Juno) who will be playing a down on his luck flower extract factory owner.  Also starring is Clifton [...]

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In this week’s episode, we discuss Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Be sure to let us know if there are any movies we should add to the List o’ Movies. And while we won’t announce this on the show for a few weeks, make sure you visit our page at Myxer.com. www.myxer.com/backseat We’ve got cell phone [...]

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The BBC reports that Twentieth Century Fox has applied to a Los Angeles court to block the release of Watchmen, based on the comic books written by Alan Moore. Fox, which says it bought film rights to the series in the 1980s, has been given the go-ahead to launch an injunction against rival Warner Bros. Fox said [...]

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In an effort to establish a new theatrical distribution model for independent filmmakers Dylan Marchetti has announced the formation of VARIANCE FILMS. The former THINKFilm director of distribution and marketing, says that Variance Films will allow lesser-known films to bridge the gap between self-distribution and traditional theatrical distribution.  ”Variance Films will represent the best of the old thinking [...]

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#1 Tropic Thunder from Paramount/Dreamworks debuts at #1 this weekend bringing in $26 million from 3319 theaters. Thunder cost $92 million to make. #2 The Dark Knight from Warner Bros. takes the #2 spot this weekend bringing in $16.8 million for the weekend, thats down 35%, putting its total earnings at $471,493,000. The Dark Knight [...]

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