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Planet 51 interviews with Dwayne Johnson, Gary Oldman, Seann William Scott, Justin Long and Jessica Biel

18 hours ago | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

It makes sense that Planet 51 exists. No, not in real life, but in movie life. After all, there have been millions (not technically) of films where an alien lands on Earth and adjusts to our situation. Now we have an astronaut who crashes on an alien planet and much figure things out in this alien adventure from the guys who brought us Shrek.

An interview with Dwayne Johnson who is the voice for Captain Charles T. Baker in Planet 51.

They grabbed some pretty good voice talent as well, and if you’ve come here simply looking for Biel, scroll to the bottom.

An interview with Gary Oldman who is the voice for General Craw in Planet 51.

An interview with Seann William Scott who is the voice for Skiff in Planet 51.

An interview with Justin Long who is the voice for Lem in Planet 51.

An interview »

- Jeff Bayer

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Michael Caine Says Batman 3 Might Not Happen

19 hours ago | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

Batman's faithful butler, Alfred, has dropped bad news ... again.

Batman fans everywhere have been furiously blogging and discussing the twists and turns in the will-they-or-won't-they debate over a third installment of Christopher Nolan's revamped Batman franchise. Early on it was announced that, although lead actor Christian Bale was contractually obligated to appear in Batman 3, Nolan had no such obligation and might decide not to direct another one.

Screenwriter David S. Goyer gave fans some hope when he said that he believed Nolan would return if he could "find the story that he's happy with." Then, Gary Oldman got everyone excited when he announced that filming would begin in 2010, only to recant his statement a couple days later.

Actor Cillian Murphy, who played The Scarecrow in the first two films, is hopeful that another film will be made, and Aaron Eckhart, said that he "would do anything" Nolan asked of him, »

- BrentJS Sprecher

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Robert Zemeckis to Adapt 'The Nutcracker' Next?

11 November 2009 5:45 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Here's the thing about Bob Zemeckis and all his newfangled motion-capture outings. When put to more mythic use in Beowulf, I was more drawn in by the adventure and less distracted by the characters. However, between The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol, I couldn't help but be re-struck time and time again but that unfortunate uncanny valley, especially when the characters look so much like the real thing (see: Gary Oldman as Cratchit) that I'd just as soon watch them give live-action performances that would then go surrounded by countless effects (you know, the way they used to make movies).

That disappointing truth, combined with last weekend's good-not-great opening for Carol, isn't getting Zemeckis down, though. According to Pajiba, he's pursuing The Nutcracker as his next holiday adaptation to be 'enhanced' by mo-cap technology. (I think it's fairly safe to assume after Carol and Express that this will likely »

- William Goss

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Dane Cook thought Joker should be creepy before anyone else, expresses interest as Riddler

11 November 2009 11:48 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

Hack comedian Dane Cook told MTV he would be interested in playing the Riddler in the next mythical installment of Batman. In other news, I wish Jennifer Love Hewitt would stop calling me.

Cook is reportedly a big fan of the way director Christopher Nolan handled the reboot of the formerly beleaguered Batman franchise along with billions of other sentient beings. “If they brought back the Riddler – a new Riddler the way they did with the Joker that would be badass. I would do that,” the 37-year-old said.

“When they were making the new one and they were doing the Joker, I always thought it [should be] kind of like The Crow – having that dark element but still comedic,” Cook said pulling a “I thought of that first” move. “[My performance] would probably have to be something in that vein, even though I think what Heath Ledger did with the Joker was the greatest comic book villain ever. »

- Reel Loop News Staff

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Planet 51 - 29 total videos available including film clips, interview clips, behind-the-scenes and more!

11 November 2009 5:39 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

MovieJungle.com has a total of 29 videos available from Sony's animated family science fiction comedy "Planet 51." These include interviews with Dwayne Johnson, Gary Oldman, Seann William Scott, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, writer Joe Stillman, directors and producers. Additionally, there are fresh TV spots in as well as film clips and behind-the-scenes look at the film which opens on November 20th. This film has been rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for mild sci-fi action and some suggestive humor. Planet 51 is a galactic sized animated alien adventure comedy revolving around American astronaut Captain Charles "Chuck" Baker, who lands on Planet 51 thinking he's the first person to step foot on it. To his surprise, he finds that this planet is inhabited by little green people who are happily living in a white picket fence world reminiscent of a cheerfully innocent 1950s America, and whose only fear is »

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Harry Brown – Martyn’s Review

11 November 2009 3:07 AM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

Michael Caine is Harry Brown. In a long and resplendent career he’s been Jack Carter, Alfie, Harry Palmer, Alfred the Butler and Austin Power’s dad, to name a few. The man is a legend and in his august years, starring in a film set in his home city, in which he kicks arse as a senior citizen dispensing some rough justice to criminal feral youths. Violent lives will meet a violent end. So goes the film’s message.

By coincidence, Daniel Barber’s debut holds a few similarities with Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino. As in Eastwood’s final acting gig, there is something very elegiac about Michael Caine’s performance: all shuffling movements and sad eyes until he finds inner strength through violent means.

Harry Brown is a widowed pensioner living on a council estate descended into social chaos. It is a place where gangs loiter, rob and kill for kicks. »

- Martyn Conterio

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Frugal Christmas arrives early for Disney at UK box office

10 November 2009 9:04 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

It's only November and A Christmas Carol is already No 1, albeit with a lacklustre £1.92m. The box-office feast will only truly start next week with 2012 and the Twilight sequel

The chart-topper

Knocking Michael Jackson's This Is It off the top spot, Robert Zemeckis's motion-capture animation A Christmas Carol can at least be satisfied with its chart position. As for its opening gross – £1.92m – that's another matter entirely.

In the first place, it's behind the openings of the previous two motion-capture films from the Zemeckis stable: Polar Express earned £2.14m from its first weekend of wide play in 2004, and Beowulf debuted with £2.2m in November 2007. (And bear in mind, there were fewer than 60 3D screens in the UK when Beowulf opened, compared with 260 now.) Second, A Christmas Carol's debut is well behind that of 2009 big-hitters Bolt, Monsters Vs Aliens, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Up. It's even »

- Charles Gant

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

9 November 2009 9:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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It happens every year, almost without fail.  Christmas day comes around and as I am tearing through my presents there is always that one gift.  You know the one where the person giving it to you is so excited they hold it back so you have to open it last so they can make a big spectacle of it.  Usually the bigger deal they make, the more I dread it.  Not because I am ungrateful, but my appreciation hardly ever matches their excitement.  Then there’s that whole awkward exchange where they think you don’t like it and you tell them you do but they don’t buy it because they were super excited but you weren’t as excited and… »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

9 November 2009 9:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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It happens every year, almost without fail.  Christmas day comes around and as I am tearing through my presents there is always that one gift.  You know the one where the person giving it to you is so excited they hold it back so you have to open it last so they can make a big spectacle of it.  Usually the bigger deal they make, the more I dread it.  Not because I am ungrateful, but my appreciation hardly ever matches their excitement.  Then there’s that whole awkward exchange where they think you don’t like it and you tell them you do but they don’t buy it because they were super excited but you weren’t as excited and… »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

9 November 2009 9:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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It happens every year, almost without fail.  Christmas day comes around and as I am tearing through my presents there is always that one gift.  You know the one where the person giving it to you is so excited they hold it back so you have to open it last so they can make a big spectacle of it.  Usually the bigger deal they make, the more I dread it.  Not because I am ungrateful, but my appreciation hardly ever matches their excitement.  Then there’s that whole awkward exchange where they think you don’t like it and you tell them you do but they don’t buy it because they were super excited but you weren’t as excited and… »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

9 November 2009 9:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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It happens every year, almost without fail.  Christmas day comes around and as I am tearing through my presents there is always that one gift.  You know the one where the person giving it to you is so excited they hold it back so you have to open it last so they can make a big spectacle of it.  Usually the bigger deal they make, the more I dread it.  Not because I am ungrateful, but my appreciation hardly ever matches their excitement.  Then there’s that whole awkward exchange where they think you don’t like it and you tell them you do but they don’t buy it because they were super excited but you weren’t as excited and… »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

9 November 2009 9:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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It happens every year, almost without fail.  Christmas day comes around and as I am tearing through my presents there is always that one gift.  You know the one where the person giving it to you is so excited they hold it back so you have to open it last so they can make a big spectacle of it.  Usually the bigger deal they make, the more I dread it.  Not because I am ungrateful, but my appreciation hardly ever matches their excitement.  Then there’s that whole awkward exchange where they think you don’t like it and you tell them you do but they don’t buy it because they were super excited but you weren’t as excited and… »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

9 November 2009 8:49 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Release Date: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 96 mins.

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

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- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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A Christmas Carol Review

9 November 2009 12:59 AM, PST | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

Charles Dickens’ beloved holiday story “A Christmas Carol” gets the 3D treatment, and the result is a visually stunning big-screen experience I’m sure many cinema goers out there will enjoy to the fullest extent. As far as I’m concerned, my feelings about this one are mixed.

The story doesn’t really require a lengthy introduction. The holiday season is in full swing, and Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) despises Christmas and everyone celebrating it. Then he’s visited by three ghosts who take him on an emotional journey, and before you know it, his meanness is gone for good…read more [ScreeningLog]

It’s hard to believe that Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol 166 years ago, but here we are in 2009 and Robert Zemeckis has spent $180 million to produce a motion-capture animated film that retells the famous story. The movie opens this weekend on more than 2,000 digital 3D screens and »

- Allan Ford

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First “Planet 51″ Clip

8 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

The first clip for the upcoming animated “Planet 51,” voiced by Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Gary Oldman and John Cleese, has been released.

The sci-fi animated film revolves around American astronaut Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker who lands on Planet 51 thinking he’s the first person to step foot on it.

To his surprise, he finds that this planet is inhabited by little green people whose only fear is that it will be overrun by alien invaders.

With the help of his robot companion “Rover” and his new friend Lem, Lem, Chuck must navigate his way through the dazzling, but bewildering, landscape of Planet 51 in order to escape becoming a permanent part of the Planet 51 Alien Invaders Space Museum.

“Planet 51,” directed by Jorge Blanco and Javier Abad from the script by Joe Stillman, is scheduled to hit theaters on November 20th 2009.

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- Fiona

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A Christmas Carol Review – Not Quite Magical Yet!

8 November 2009 9:21 AM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

Robert Zemeckis is so convinced by the creative merits of motion-capture technology he has abandoned live-action filmmaking. Forever. Or so he keeps telling anybody who will listen. The director would argue he has freed himself from the tyrannies of filmmaking and problems he could not control. Mo-cap has destroyed the accidents, trouble and hassle associated with undertaking a major production. With untold creative choices, it seems Zemeckis has become rather stuck. If it is such a radical, revolutionary tool – why not use it as such?

In choosing material, Zemeckis, very tellingly, has gone for literary adaptations: from children’s books to Dickens (with a poetic epic in between). If the director created an original work off his own back (and imagination) would it appeal to us as much? Raiding literature for material is nothing new. Yet there is a sense he’s never held a burning desire to make any »

- Martyn Conterio

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A Christmas Carol sings in $31 million opening. Precious most impressive with a massive per-theatre average.

8 November 2009 7:14 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' "A Christmas Carol" topped the box office charts with a strong $31 million estimate from 3,683 venues. The Robert Zemeckis-directed animated family adventure featuring the voice talents of Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman and Robin Wright Penn, averaged $8,417 per theatre. Just in IMAX theatres alone, pic earned $4.5 million or 14.5% of thr weekend tally. Second placed Michael Jackson documentary "This Is It" continued well in its sophomore weekend with around $14 million grossed. Sony Pictures-distributed film now easily covers the amount of $60 million paid for the film with a global gross of $186.4 million. In third, Overture Films' oddball flick "The Men Who Stare At Goats" finished about $13.3 million. Comedy starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey opened in 2,443 locations at an average of 5,448 per theatre. »

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Birthday Suits: Immortal Beloveds

8 November 2009 6:27 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Who needs holidays? Make your own with the birthdays of movie people.

Parker, Oleg and Vlad the Impaler (as interpreted by Gary Oldman)

Today's Birthdays 11/08

1431 Vlad the Impaler would have turned 578 years old today if not for that stake through the heart. To be accurate, his exact birthday is unknown but sometimes he's listed on this date which probably has something to do with...

1847 Bram Stoker who wrote the original Dracula, which gave Vlad the immortality that he had mythically already won as the original nosferatu... vampyr. The cinema loves him harder and deeper than Lucy Harker ever could.

1900 Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone With the Wind. She didn't have to impale anyone or renounce heaven to achieve immortality. She just had to write one mammoth book. The movie based on her novel is still the highest grossing film of all time when adjusted for inflation. One of only four films »

- NATHANIEL R

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10 Most Fascinating 'End of the World' Movies

8 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!

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- - - Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.

Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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10 Most Fascinating 'End of the World' Movies

8 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!

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- - - Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.

Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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