THOR Movie Trailer with Chris Hemsworth

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Thor Movie

Check out the trailer for THOR starring Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Stevenson, and directed by Kenneth Branagh. You can read all our coverage of Thor here. Thor Synopsis: Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior, is sent down to Earth has punishment for reigniting a reckless war. But after a dangerous villain from his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard [...]

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Sundance Film Festival USA Films Selected Announced

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Sundance Film Festival USA

The Sundance Institute has announced the films from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival scheduled to screen in theaters in nine different cities, including the newly added Seattle, Washington Egyptian Theatre, on the evening of Thursday, January 27, 2011. The screenings are part of Sundance Film Festival USA, designed to introduce the Festival experience to film-loving audiences nationwide. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival opens January 20 [...]

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2011 Spirit Awards Nominations

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Film Independent 2011 Spirit Awards - Joel McHale

Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, recently announced the nominations for the 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards. This year’s winners will be announced at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. on the beach in Santa Monica. The 26th annual awards show will air exclusively that night on [...]

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DVDs Expected To Be Replaced With Streaming Content

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DVD

DVDs are expected to see a massive decline over the next few years says a study from In-Stat, a research firm. DVD sales are expected to “plummet” while Blu-Ray is expected to climb, but not enough to make up for the steep decrease in DVD sales. Between 2009 and 2014, DVD sales are expected to drop by $4.6 billion. Streaming content is expected to take [...]

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Michelle Yeoh Will Star In Luc Besson’s DANS LA LUMIERE

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Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh, best known for her roles in Tomorrow Never Dies, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon will be taking a detour from action films. Yeoh is starring in a biopic of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. DANS LA LUMIERE (translated to INTO THE LIGHT) will be directed by French filmmaker Luc Besson. Besson directed La Femme Nikita and The Fifth Element, but generally [...]

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Cate Blanchett Will Be Back In THE HOBBIT

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Cate Blanchett

Good news Middle Earth fans! Cate Blanchett will be back as Galadriel in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of THE HOBBIT. Blanchett first played to role in Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and officially signed this week to bring the Lady of Lothlorien back to the big screen. “Cate is one of my favorite actors to work with,” Jackson said, “and I couldn’t be more [...]

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Neill Blomkamp’s ELYSIUM May Sign Matt Damon

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Matt Damon

We reported last week that District 9 star Sharlto Copley had signed on to ELYSIUM. It looks like Matt Damon may be joining Copley is Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi film. The project itself is being kept under wraps – there is very little information regarding plot, but we did learn that Elysium will probably have the same political themes that were evident in Blomkamp’s District 9. [...]

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Blockbuster Passed On Partnership Offer With Netflix

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Netflix Blockbuster

According to Barry McCarthy, chief financial officer of Netflix (he recently resigned), in early 2000, Reed Hastings (Netflix CEO and co-founder) approached Blockbuster CEO John Antioco with a proposition that Netflix would run the blockbuster brand online, if Blockbuster ran the Netflix brand in store. According to an interview that McCarthy gave to the Unofficial Stanford blog, Antioco “just about laughed them out of their [...]

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Golden Globe 2011 Nominations

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Golden Globe Awards

The 2011 Golden Globe Nominations were announced this morning, so it’s time to find out what movies you’ll have to go see before the show airs. The 68th Golden Globe Awards will be broadcast nationwide live on NBC, Sunday, January 16, 2011 from 5:00-8:00 (PST)/8:00-11:00 (EST) from the Beverly Hilton Hotel. MOVIES   Cecil B. DeMille Award Robert De Niro Best Motion Picture – Drama [...]

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Harry Potter 2011 Movie Challenge

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Harry Potter 2011 Movie Challenge - Daemon's Movies

Welcome to the first Daemon’s Movies challenge, which is also a great way to start off the year 2011. And since this year also marks the ending of the Harry Potter series with the 8th and final movie coming out on July 15, we thought this was the perfect time to experience the entire series one more time before it all ends. So what does [...]

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