Movie Reviews & Clip: Nanny McPhee Returns

In Nanny McPhee Returns, Academy Award®-winning actress EMMA THOMPSON (An Education, Stranger Than Fiction, Nanny McPhee, Love Actually, Sense and Sensibility) returns to the role of the magical nanny who appears when she’s needed the most and wanted the least in the next chapter of the hilarious and heartwarming fable that has enchanted children around the world. In the latest installment, Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green (Academy Award® nominee MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL of Crazy Heart, The Dark Knight, Stranger Than Fiction, SherryBaby), who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that Mrs. Green’s children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in and refuse to leave. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and a baby elephant who turns up in the oddest places, Nanny McPhee uses her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons.

Starring alongside Thompson and Gyllenhaal in Nanny McPhee Returns are RHYS IFANS (Notting Hill, Pirate Radio, Greenberg) as Mrs. Green’s villainous brother-in-law, Phil, and legendary two-time Academy Award®-winning actress DAME MAGGIE SMITH (Becoming Jane, Harry Potter series) as the delightfully enigmatic Mrs. Docherty. Nanny McPhee Returns is directed by BAFTA winner and two-time Emmy nominee SUSANNA WHITE (television’s Generation Kill, Bleak House, Jane Eyre) from a screenplay by Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Emma Thompson, based on the character from the “Nurse Matilda” children’s book series by CHRISTIANNA BRAND.

Genres:            Family Comedy
Starring:    Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans and Maggie Smith
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Movie Reviews & Clip: Vampires Suck

VAMPIRES SUCK is a comedy about contemporary teen angst and romance movies. Becca, an anxious, non-vampire teen, is torn between two boys. Before she can choose, Becca must get around her controlling father, who embarrasses Becca by treating her like a child. Meanwhile, Becca’s friends contend with their own romantic issues – all of which collide at the prom.

Watch the group lampoon Twilight.


Starring:    Matt Lanter, Jenn Proske, Chris Riggi, and Ken Jeong
Directed By:    Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer

Vampires Suck
20th Century Fox
Release: 08/18/2010

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Movie Reviews & Clip: Lottery Ticket

Kevin Carson (Bow Wow) a young man living in the projects, is just an ordinary guy...until he wins $370 million in the Mondo Millions Lottery.

That's the good news.

The bad news is, the lottery claim office is closed for the long Fourth of July weekend, so, before he can collect his prize, Kevin is going to have to figure out how to keep a lid on his good fortune and survive the next three days.

The film's all-star ensemble cast is led by Bow Wow ("The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift"), Brandon T. Jackson ("Tropic Thunder"), Naturi Naughton ("Fame"), Keith David ("All About Steve"), Charlie Murphy ("Frankenhood"), Gbenga Akinnagbe ("The Wire"), Terry Crews ("Terminator Salvation," TBS series "Are We There Yet?"), Loretta Devine ("Crash") and Ice Cube ("First Sunday," "Are We There Yet?"). It also stars Bill Bellamy ("Any Given Sunday," TV's "October Road"), Mike Epps ("The Hangover") and Faheem Najm, better known as Grammy Award-winner T-Pain.

"Lottery Ticket" is directed by Erik White, marking his feature directorial debut. The screenplay is by Abdul Williams, from a story by Erik White & Abdul Williams.

It is produced by Mark Burg and Oren Koules, producers on all of the "Saw" horror hits; Alcon Entertainment's Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, who recently produced the Academy Award®-nominated smash "The Blind Side"; and Matt Alvarez, whose producing credits include "Are We There Yet?" and its sequel, "Are We Done Yet?" Ice Cube ("Beauty Shop"), Timothy M. Bourne ("The Blind Side") and Steven P. Wegner ("Racing Stripes") serve as executive producers, with co-producers Brad Kaplan, Andrew Wilson and Yolanda T. Cochran. Add a comment

Movie Clip: Chris Brown in Takers

TAKERS takes you into the world of a notorious group of criminals (Idris Elba, Paul Walker, T.I., Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen and Michael Ealy) who continue to baffle police by pulling off perfectly executed bank robberies. They are in and out like clockwork, leaving no evidence behind and laying low between heists. But when they attempt to pull off one last job with more money at stake than ever before, the crew may find their plans interrupted by a hardened detective (Matt Dillon) who is hell-bent on solving the case.

In this clip from TAKERS, Chris Brown is on the run from the police and men in suits who want him dead.

Release: 08/27/2010

Starring:    Matt Dillon, Paul Walker, Idris Elba, Jay Hernandez, Tip “T.I.” Harris, with Chris Brown and Hayden Christensen
Directed By:    John Luessenhop
Produced By:    Will Packer, Tip “T.I.” Harris and Jas

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Movie Reviews & Clip: Jennifer Aniston in The Switch

A 40-year-old unmarried woman decides to become pregnant by inseminating herself with a turkey baster. What she doesn't know is that the sperm is from her best friend, who must live with the secret that the child is his.

In this clip from THE SWITCH, Jennifer Aniston talks to her best friend played by Jason Bateman about finding the right sperm donor. 

The Switch
(Walt Disney Pictures)
Release: 08/20/2010

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Will Farrell Jokes About Mistreating Co-Stars

Will Farrell stars and produces THE OTHER GUYS with Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Samuel L. Jackson, and Dwayne Johnson.  As the boss on THE OTHER GUYS set, Farrell jokes he likes to keep it hostile during the production to bring out the tension in a scene.



VIDEO: Will Farrell's weapon is confiscated by chief and replaced with a rape whistle. Watch!

During a press conference in Downtown Los Angeles for the film, Farrell's co-stars Eva Mendes, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Keaton, and director Adam McKay, Farrell's producing partner, joined in on the joke and elaborated on Farrell's approach to mistreating his co-stars like line-counting.

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Movie Clip: Middle Men with Luke Wilson

In 1995, everyone had a VCR, music was sold in record stores, and the world-wide-web was a new found discovery. Businessman Jack Harris had the perfect life - a beautiful family and a successful career fixing problem companies. And then he met Wayne Beering and Buck Dolby, two genius but troubled men, who had invented the way adult entertainment is sold over the internet. When Jack agrees to help steer their business, he soon finds himself caught between a 23 year-old porn star and the FBI all the while becoming one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs of his time. Inspired by a true story that proves business is a lot like sex--getting in is easy, pulling out is hard.

Middle Men

Paramount

Release: 08/06/2010

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Movie Trailer: Faster with Dwayne Johnson

After 10 years in prison, Driver (Dwayne Johnson) has a singular focus - to avenge the murder of his brother during the botched bank robbery that led to his imprisonment.  Now a free man with a deadly to-do list in hand, he’s finally on his mission…but with two men on his trail – a veteran cop (Billy Bob Thornton) just days from retirement, and a young egocentric hitman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) with a flair for the art of killing and a newfound worthy opponent.  The hunter is also the hunted. It’s a do or die race to the list’s finish as the mystery surrounding his brother’s murder deepens, and new details emerge along the way hinting that Driver’s list may be incomplete.

 

Film:                FASTER
Studio:            CBS Films
Starring:          Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Carla Gugino
Release Date:   November 24, 2010
Genre:             Action/Drama
Rating:             Not Yet Rated

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Movie Trailer: Tron: Legacy

 


Walt Disney Pictures debut the new trailer for TRON: LEGACY (2010) at 2010's Comic Con in San Diego, CA.  Watch the new movie preview above.

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JEFF BRIDGES, winner of both a Golden Globe® and Screen Actors Guild Award®—and now an Oscar® winner—for his performance in “Crazy Heart,” stars in TRON: LEGACY, a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (GARRETT HEDLUND), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (BRIDGES), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the digital world of Tron where his father has been living for 25 years. Together, they embark on a life-and-death journey of escape across a visually-stunning and exceedingly dangerous cyber universe. 

Olivia Wilde (House M.D., The O.C.) is Quorra in the world of Tron with Sam Flynn played by Garrett Hedlund (Eragon, Four Brothers).

The film hits U.S. theaters Dec. 17, 2010.

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Movie Trailer: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Director Edgar Wright turned the zombie-genre on its head with the cult hit Shaun of the Dead and then the police buddy comedy in Hot Fuzz.  In his latest feature film, Edgar Wright tackles a comic book adaptation blending different genres in SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD starring Superbad's Michael Cera, Twilight's Anna Kendrick and Fantastic Four's Chris Evans

Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera). A bass guitarist for garage band Sex Bob-omb, the 22-year-old has just met the girl of his dreams...literally. The only catch to winning Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead)? Her seven evil exes are coming to kill him.

Genre-smashing filmmaker Edgar Wright tells the amazing story of one romantic slacker’s quest to power up with love in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Scott Pilgrim has never had a problem getting a girlfriend. It’s getting rid of them that proves difficult. From the girl who kicked his heart’s ass—and now is back in town—to the teenage distraction he’s trying to shake when Ramona rollerblades into his world, love hasn’t been easy. He soon discovers, however, his new crush has the most unusual baggage of all: a nefarious league of exes controls her love life and will do whatever it takes to eliminate him as a suitor. As Scott gets closer to Ramona, he must face an increasingly vicious rogues’ gallery from her past—from infamous skateboarders to vegan rock stars and fearsome identical twins. And if he hopes to win his true love, he must vanquish them all before it really is game over.

Genres:     Action-Comedy

Starring:    Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Chris Evans, Anna Kendrick, Brandon Routh, Jason  Schwartzman

Directed By:    Edgar Wright

Produced By:    Marc Platt, Eric Gitter, Nira Park, Edgar Wright

 

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Selena Gomez and Joey King Interview

Wizards of Waverly Place's Selena Gomez and ten year-old newcomer Joey King rule the screen as sisters in the film adaptation of Beverly Cleary’s books RAMONA AND BEEZUS.

CineMovie's Zay Zay sat down with the two young actresses who describe their day on set as child actors. Selena also names Leonardo DiCaprio (Inception) as her favorite dreamy actor who she hopes to work with one day and more once she's "legal" joked the Disney star who reaches her eighteenth birthday this month.  Watch the video above.

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Eva Mendes Seeks Quality Roles

THE OTHER GUYS leading lady Eva Mendes is one of the few actresses who has transcended all genres playing different types of characters opposite A-List actors Denzel Washington (Training Day, Out of Time), Nicolas Cage (Ghost Rider, The Bad Lieutenant), Johnny Depp (Once Upon A Time in Mexico), Joaquin Phoenix (We Own The Night), and Will Smith (Hitch) but the actress feels the juicy roles have always gone to male actors.

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Bollywood Meets Hollywood: KITES

Bollywood has come to Hollywood in the new romantic saga KITES starring Mexican actress Barbara Mori (La Mujer De Mi Hermano) who starred in the highest Mexican soap Rubi and India's Brad Pitt - Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan

KITES is a story of passion that defies every rule, of a relationship that takes two lovers on a thrilling journey filled with precious moments - and unexpected betrayal.  Shot in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Santa Fe, KITES is one of the biggest films ever produced in India.

The sexy Mexican actress sat down with CineMovie and tells us what attracted her to the Indian produced film and working with the Bollywood cast and crew.  

KITES is in theaters May 21st.

BOX OFFICE:  KITES is the first Indian produced film to break into the top 10 movies at the U.S. box office for the weekend of May 21st through May 23rd.    

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INTERVIEW: Josh Brolin Defends Megan Fox

Josh Brolin's JONAH HEX co-star Megan Fox has been outspoken about Hollywood and director Michael Bay which may have cost her return to the third Transformers movie starring Shia LaBeouf and Josh Duhamel.  Josh Brolin admired the "rebellious" actress and cast her as Jonah Hex's leading lady in the comic book western adaptation opening June 18.  

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In a press conference with Josh Brolin and Megan Fox in Beverly Hills, Josh defended his co-star's rebelliousness and CineMovie has the audio from the press conference as well as Megan's response to Josh's comments.  

Listen to the interview above or read below. 

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JOSH: However Megan was perceived, I liked the idea of giving somebody - even though this is a kind of an absurd ridiculous escapist film - the opportunity like someone gave me in saying "hey we can go a little further with the acting here.  Even though we made it fun, Megan did a lot of different takes where she's crying, not crying. There some of a dialect there and bucolic dialect.  But when I read some of these articles that she had done and was kind of acerbic and rebellious she could be - I wanted to see how real that was.  
 
Nobody can handle that kind of fame that fast at 22 years old and I thought she was handling it really well. I just wanted to see she was the real deal.  I wanted to see if she could go head to head with John and hold her own.  There's definitely a truck driver mentality there. 

MEGAN: I think it's wonderful what they're saying it and I'm humbled by their comments.
People who are famous and make it to this level of fame for whatever reason whether it'd deserved or not - you have to be a strong person to survive it because it is very difficult to be under the microscope every moment of every day.  Everything that leaves your mouth becomes this sensationalized newstory no matter what your intentions were when you said it. It becomes overwhelming but am I that rebellious?  Of course I think there are many sides to me who I am in my personality. The only thing that is rebellious about me is that I don't really have any fears as far as this industry is concerned that maybe other people are afraid to do or say.  In my personal life, I am actually very responsible with my personal relationships and things like that. 

JOSH:  Rebellion could be holding on to your own integrity of not playing into the idea of this sensationalizing.  We all have our moments.  and that's your guy's job to take those moments and turgid - gaseous and make it big.  It's bigger than the person is.  And when you start believing your own press that's when it gets really sad. But that's part of the rebellion that I responded because she is still her.  She's still very grounded.
 

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INTERVIEW: Co-Directing Tips With Mark and Jay Duplass

Director-writers Mark and Jay Duplass direct Marissa Tomei, Jonah Hill, and John C. Reilly in the unconventional romantic dramedy - CYRUS.  Since their attention-grabbing debut at Sundance with their first feature film The Puffy Chair, the brother directing team remain faithful to their style of low-budget filmmaking and improvisational techniques with their mainstream film CYRUS.

Directors Mark and Jay Duplass on set of CYRUSCineMovie sat down with the sibling filmmakers to find out 5 successful tips to co-directing a movie production, why they shoot on video and keeping things 'real' without the traditional coverage and marks.

The brother team first came to the attention of producer Michael Costigan at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, where he saw their $15,000 feature debut, The Puffy Chair. Mark and Jay Duplass impressed many in Hollywood went on to direct their second feature film Baghead in 2008. 

Marke and Jay Duplass' Co-Directing Tips

1. Two Heads Are Better Than One

2. Use Breath Mints

3. Keep Actors Surprised

4. Good Cop, Bad Cop

5. The Back-Up Plan


About CYRUS:
With John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcee finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life - her son.

Still single seven years after the breakup of his marriage, John (John C. Reilly) has all but given up on romance. But at the urging of his ex-wife and best friend Jamie (Catherine Keener), John grudgingly agrees to join her and her fiancé Tim (Matt Walsh) at a party. To his and everyone else’s surprise, he actually manages to meet someone: the gorgeous and spirited Molly (Marisa Tomei).

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