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Gwyneth Paltrow Stands By Her Man: Nicole Kidman

7 November 2009 2:59 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Even though she's one great part of the insanely entertaining Iron Man, Gwyneth Paltrow hasn't been notable for her acting in years. Since marrying Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and raising their two kids, she's become more notable for stuff like traveling around Europe with Mario Batali, and founding the laughably snooty lifestyle site Goop.com, which encourages readers to "nourish the inner aspect." But after a promisingly low-key turn in James Gray's Two Lovers earlier this year, Paltrow is taking on a role that's a genuine challenge: she'll play the wife to a character played by Nicole Kidman in The Danish Girl, a movie that sounds as weird and twisty as Iron Man is enjoyable and mainstream. The film, directed by Let the Right One In's Tomas Alfredson, tells the true story of Einar Wegener (Kidman), the world's first person to get a sex-change operation. According to Variety, Paltrow »

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Marvel unveils future film, animation and video game projects

7 November 2009 9:34 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »

Comic Book titan Marvel Entertainment has detailed its future slate of film, DVD and video game projects.

The company's latest earnings statement, released on Yahoo, confirmed four upcoming feature films: Iron Man 2 on May 7, 2010; Thor on May 20, 2011; The First Avenger: Captain America on July 22, 2011; and The Avengers on May 4, 2012.

There are two animated TV series in the pipeline: The Super Hero Squad (52 30-minute episodes on Cartoon Network in the Us and launching on international broadcast channels by the end of this year); and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (52 30-minute episodes in production; timing and network to be decided).

Animated direct-to-dvd projects coming up are: Planet Hulk (production complete, scheduled for February 2010 release); Thor: Tales of Asgard (production complete, release date to be decided).

Outside Marvel's own production studios, Spider-Man 4 is being made by Sony's Columbia Pictures for release on May 6, 2011 and there is a $40million Broadway musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, »

- David Bentley

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Marvel unveils 'Deadly Origin'

6 November 2009 11:12 PM, PST | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Marvel Comics is to reveal the backstory of its Black Widow character in a new minseries titled Deadly Origin. The Soviet assassin first appeared as an Iron Man villain in 1964, and is due to feature alongside the character on the big screen in next year's Iron Man 2, played by Scarlett Johansson. Captain Britain scribe Paul Cornell has written the series for Marvel and Tom Raney has provided artwork. "A hidden enemy is killing everyone our heroine Natalia has ever been close to: romantic partners, friends, people she (more) »

- By Mark Langshaw

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'Twilight' Actors Without Clothes, The 'New Moon' Premiere And Dog Accounts In Today's Twitter-Wood

6 November 2009 4:30 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

The Twitter-Wood feed started following its first canine today, as recent hacking victim and "Eclipse" actress Jodelle Ferland tweeted a pic referencing her dog "Genevieve Ferland." According to @gena_fur's Twitter account, Genevieve recently turned five, hates nail clippers and dressed as a princess last year for Halloween.

Lack of clothing was on the minds of two other "Twilight" series actors, though, as Tinsel Korey seems to have not yet found a dress for the "New Moon" premiere, and Charlie Bewley reported on his love of not wearing anything. Remarkably, I made none of this up. Check it out, along with an award Arnold Schwarzenegger recently presented to Kirk Douglas, a scandalous "Full House" photo and the reason "Iron Man 2" will show up to theaters late if it gets delayed. It's all in the Twitter-Wood report for November 6, 2009.

Twitter Pic of the Day:

@Schwarzenegger http://twitpic.com/og6tz »

- Brian Warmoth

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Review: 'Two Girls and a Guy' on Blu-ray

6 November 2009 1:07 PM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

When an actor or director suddenly breaks out and gets hot, studios scour their vaults to see if there’s a way they can capitalize on this heat. Last year, Robert Downey, Jr. went from a troubled, gifted actor to a Super Star thanks to his performance in Iron Man. This week, 20th Century-Fox hopes to catch a break with the Blu-ray release of Downey’s 1998 film Two Girls and a Guy.

Written and direct by James Toback, the film is virtually a real time three-person stage play on a film. In his self-congratulatory 20 minute conversation on the Extras, Toback talks about how he came to write the film, by beginning to imagine a setting. In this case, that’s the spacious loft apartment which became the set his performances would use. After that, he populated the apartment with his players.

We open with Natasha Gregson Wagner’s Lou and »

- Robert Greenberger

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Stan Lee On 'Thor,' 'Micronauts' In IMAX And Danish 'Scott Pilgrim' In Today's Twitter Report

6 November 2009 10:01 AM, PST | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »

Someone appears to have finally told Stan Lee that Anthony Hopkins will play Odin in "Thor," and he had a thing or two to tweet about it, including what he would like to do in the film when it comes out in 2011. Also on the Marvel movie front, "Iron Man 2" director Jon Favreau expressed dismay over the effect "World of Warcraft" could have on his editing process.

Elsewhere, Bryan Lee O'Malley shared a look at the new Danish-translated "Scott Pilgrim" volume he received, as well as some on-the-fly Google interpretation of Danish. You can find all those tweets after the jump along with Dan Slott on "Micronauts," Jim Lee on the passing of Halloween and a rad custom Mockingbird action figure.

I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is the Twitter Report for November 6, 2009.

@smilinstanlee I learned that Anthony Hopkins'll play Odin in the Thor movie! There goes my big chance! »

- Brian Warmoth

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‘Green Lantern’ Director on Special FX & New Set Location

6 November 2009 6:54 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Last time we checked in on the progress of The Green Lantern the shoot had pulled out from down under in Sydney, Australia (thanks to inflating costs of production) and was looking for a new locale in which to conduct its principal shoot, which Was set to begin in January.

Now, thanks to The Geek Files, we have updates from director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale), letting us know where the Green Lantern shoot has moved to and what kind of challenges they’re facing in bringing the intergalactic adventures of the emerald warrior to the big screen.

 

First up, you should know that previously rumored shooting locations like Mexico and Canada have been revealed as just that – rumor. Green Lantern has in fact come on home to the U.S. of A. and tapped the city of New Orleans as the location for its principal shoot, which is now set to being in April, »

- Kofi Outlaw

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Crazy Heart Bumped to December Release

6 November 2009 5:23 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

It seems that Fox Searchlight, desperate to have at least one film out by the end of the year (looks like they oddly don’t have enough on their plate this season) will be bumping Crazy Heart up to a December 16 release date. It’s a little romantic drama of sorts, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and the omnipresent Jeff Bridges, alongside Robert Duvall.

Written and directed by actor Scott Cooper, Crazy Heart centers around “the story of boozing and broken-down country singer Bad Blake (Bridges), who finds redemption with the help of a young journalist (Gyllenhaal).” I don’t know about you, but it would be refreshing to see Bridges not play alcoholics so often in his latter years. He’s becoming sort of typecast.

Crazy Heart was originally a novel by Thomas Cobb, so if you’re interested, check that out!

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- John Cooper

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Does The Road really need a video game tie-in?

5 November 2009 4:17 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

Some movies just lend themselves to a video game tie-ins. Iron Man, Star Wars anything with larger than life heroes and villains really and anything set in space. But I have to say that when I read Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," I didn't immediately think, man that would make a great video game!

Granted the game, called "Survive the Road," is more like that old PC game, The Oregon Trail, or a choose-your-own-adventure game where you choose options and see if you can make it through the story alive. Certainly not fun enough to warrant all the work that went into it and even a little inappropriate considering the film is an Oscar contender.

But anyway, I know you're all dying to play it, so check it out and leave a comment. »

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The World Series, Hideki Matsui and Mariah Carey In Today's Twitter-Wood

5 November 2009 3:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Yankees supporters were out in force last night, and a few Twitter-Wood citizens were right by the field uploading pics. Brody Stevens may have shot the most enviable of the day, apparently getting soon-to-be-mvp Hideki Matsui in the dugout before the game. Jeremy Piven caught another high-quality photo-op, though, standing with his fellow Chicagoan Brian Urlacher.

Poor John Favreau was stuck in the editing room for "Iron Man 2," though, which he noted on his account. Larry King, Eliza Dushku and other added their thoughts after Phillies finally went down. Check out all of their tweets, along with Brett Ratner's pic with Mariah Carey after wrapping her video and Andy Milonakis. They're all in the Twitter-Wood report for November 5, 2009.

Twitter Pic of the Day:

@jeremypiven on the field before last nights game...amazing http://yfrog.com/05worldser...

-Jeremy Piven, Actor ("The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard," "Entourage")

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@AndyMilonakis http://twitpic. »

- Brian Warmoth

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Cool Stuff: Real Life Iron Man In The Making Builds Wrist-Mounted Flamethrower

5 November 2009 12:00 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Everett Bradford is, for all intents and purposes, a real-life Tony Stark/Iron Man in the making. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years we see him flying around the sky fighting supervillains with his self-made robotic suit. He recently demonstrated his "Prometheus Device", which is a hand-mounted appliance that shoots real fire, in a flame-thrower like blast, into the air. Head on over to Picasa to see scans of Bradford's design notebook, sketches, Cad shots, and photos of the device in and out of action. Watch a video demonstration of the contraption after the jump. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com. via: Gizmodo »

- Peter Sciretta

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The Yankees, Guy Fawkes Day And New Jim Lee Art In Today's Twitter Report

5 November 2009 11:01 AM, PST | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »

Simon Pegg tweeted an impassioned appreciation for "V for Vendetta" today in honor of Guy Fawkes Day, proving that he has not forgotten the 5th November. Also not forgetting were Jill Thompson, Neil Kleid and a few other I couldn't fit in.

Jon Favreau, it seems, didn't have time to commemorate anything last night, as he was hard at work editing "Iron Man 2." If he was following Joe Quesada or Matt Fraction, however, he probably kept up on the game's details just fine. Scope out all of those posts below, along with a new Jim Lee page and Geoff Johns' mystery project that he wants to work with Greg Rucka on.

It's all in the Twitter Report for November 5, 2009.

@Jon_Favreau Edited Iron Man instead of watching New York win the World Series.

-Jon Favreau, Director ("Iron Man," "Iron Man 2")

@JoeQuesada #mlbpulse If Yanks win, I feel »

- Brian Warmoth

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The Pull List Comic Reviews: ‘Lobo’, ‘Buffy’, ‘Psylocke’ and More

5 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

Welcome to The Pull List Comic Reviews! First off, a huge thanks to John Carle for covering the column last week, he did a fantastic job. Make sure you check out The Flickcast’s podcast this week where he was also a guest-host! The dude’s everywhere. Okay, on with the comics. As always, Warning: Spoilers Ahead.

Pull Of The Week:

Lobo: Highway to Hell #1 (of 2) – DC Comics – $6.99 Us

Writer: Scott Ian Artist: Sam Keith

Score: 8.5

You’re sitting there, asking yourself “How in all that is holy is Lobo: Highway to Hell the Pull of the Week?” Believe me, I’m asking myself that very same question. You see I’ve never dug Lobo. I’ve read a good chunk of his various issues over the years and I’ve never seen the attraction to the character, but seeing as variety is the spice of life, I figured I’d give this a shot. »

- Sal Loria

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Machine Man being manufactured by Mandalay

5 November 2009 7:52 AM, PST | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »

Max Barry is publishing his sci-fi thriller one page at a time on the internet. The writer is posting one full page each day from a novel he's working on called Machine Man, slowly revealing his book to those that drop by maxbarry.com. If you don't have an internet connection, then first why are you reading this story? Next, don't worry about having to read Berry's book only online; Vantage Books will publish the dead trees version in 2011.

Since there's some novelty and thus some hype now associated with Barry's work, Hollywood has stepped in. Mandalay Pictures grabbed the movie rights to the book.

Machine Man sounds like a real world version of how Iron Man would happen. In it a tech engineer begins to replace bits of his meatsack body with titanium replacements, removing the flesh and making him more metal as time progresses. However, in that spin »

- Patrick Sauriol

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Hasbro and Legacy FX Representatives Talk G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra DVD & Blu-ray

5 November 2009 5:57 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Without a doubt the biggest surprise hit of this past summer was G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra racking in an astonishing $300 million worldwide. The brand, which has been around since the '60s began as doll for boys, to compete in the market with Barbie and was the first "Action Figure," a phrase that it's manufacturer Hasbro coined. Almost 45 years later it is the worlds second most popular action figure, right behind Hasbro's uber-successful "Star Wars" franchise. So with a history like that it only make sense that the film would be a huge hit around the world. Last month representatives of Hasbro gathered at an event in Santa Monica sponsored by Paramount to celebrate the release of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra on DVD and Blu-ray, which hit stores earlier this week. We had an opportunity to attend and were joined by reps from EA Games, who »

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More Fights and Explosions Packed in New Jude Law's 'Sherlock Holmes' Trailer

4 November 2009 8:29 PM, PST | Celebrity Mania | See recent Celebrity Mania news »

On Wednesday, November 4, MTV has exclusively premiered a new trailer for Christmas' movie "Sherlock Holmes". The footage contains all kind of fights, including gunfights, sword fights, fistfights, lovers' fights, and fights involving electrocution. Some parts of the clip, moreover, offer glimpses of explosions, near-death experiences, and horse-carriage races that appear to top out at Ferrari-level speeds.

Beside all of those action scenes, the bromance between Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. is also highlighted in the clip. Jude has been booked to star as Dr. John Watson, while the "Iron Man" star portrays the titular character, Sherlock Holmes.

As of late, Robert Downey Jr. dished on his role on "Sherlock Holmes", saying "He's a total badass." The 44-year-old movie star then elaborated, "He thinks through all eventualities, possibilities and counterattacks when he's fighting, so he actually has the fight worked out before he starts."

In addition to Robert, director Guy Ritchie »

- celebrity-mania.com

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Cow Films, 'V' On ABC And Sesame Street In Today's Twitter-Wood

4 November 2009 4:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Cow films appear to be the official successor to the unseen prequels tag that was trending on Twitter earlier this week. Both Jon Favreau and Steve Agee made contributions today, while John August offered some criticism of ABC's new "V" series and Brian Lynch commemorated the 40th birthday of "Sesame Street."

In the "Twilight" neighborhood of Twitter-Wood, meanwhile, Peter Facinelli discussed an accidental oversleeping incident that resulted in a late arrival on-set. David Slade responded by thanking him for not ever being late during "Eclipse." Check out all of those tweets after the jump. It's all in the Twitter-Wood report for November 4, 2009.

Twitter Pic of the Day:

@Danny_DeVito Visiting Tracey Walter http://yfrog.com/17u3qej

-Danny DeVito, Actor ("Batman Returns," "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia")

@johnaugust Man, the V pilot has more Dutch angles than an Amsterdam protractor factory.

-John August, Writer/Director ("Big Fish," "The Nines »

- Brian Warmoth

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Fun Finds: My Favorite Movie-Related Halloween Costume Goes To...

4 November 2009 2:47 PM, PST | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »

Now that it's been a few days since Halloween, some fun movie-related costumes have popped up online. In my travels, I've come across a pretty cool Iron Man costume, as well as everything from Michael Jackson (who took first place in Fandango's Halloween costume poll) to Edward Scissorhands. The movie Where the Wild Things Are seemed to have inspired tons of parents to dress up their kids as Max or, in some cases, even a Wild Thing.     My favorite movie-related Halloween costume so far, though, goes to an unknown dude who dressed up as a Na'vi from James Cameron's upcoming sci-fi flick Avatar. It's funny, too, because as big as Avatar is poised to become, I didn't see any homemade Halloween costumes related to that film at all this year, whereas there were tons of costumes...

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Holiday Movie Guide: Werewolves & the Apocalypse!

4 November 2009 11:20 AM, PST | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »

Did you hear? The world's gonna end—and soon! Also, we've discovered an alien planet with blue-skinned tribal badasses, and Sherlock Holmes is alive and well and looks like Iron Man. Oh, and vampires and werewolves totally don't wear shirts. At least, that's according to the wannabe blockbusters blasting into theaters this season. We've got the skinny on everything from Twilight sequel New Moon to James Cameron's 3-D space epic Avatar; from John Cusack's end-of-the-world problems in 2012 to Robert Downey Jr.'s sleuthin' bowler hat in Sherlock Holmes. Keep it all straight with our all-new 2009 Holiday Movie Guide! »

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Iron Man 2 War Machine Updates

4 November 2009 10:31 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Checking back in with next summer’s most anticipated movie, Iron Man 2, we have some new updates about War Machine, the armored battle suit worn by Jim “Rhodey” Rhodes, who will be played by Don Cheadle in the sequel, taking over the role from Iron Man’s Terrence Howard.

The first update comes from Cheadle himself, talking about his performance as Rhodey/War Machine armor and hinting at how much screen time the actual armor will get. The second update comes our way via Sam Rockwell, who stars as Iron Man 2’s evil mastermind industrialist Justin Hammer, the man who (we now know) will be responsible for creating the War Machine armor and sticking Rhodey in the cockpit.

Both of these updates come our way via MTV Splash Page, who have been diligent about keeping up on all things Iron Man 2.

 

First let’s check out what »

- Kofi Outlaw

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