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Exclusive: US Poster And First Official Photo From Jason Reitman’s Up In The Air Jason Reitman’s new film, a big screen adaptation of Walter Kim’s novelUp in the Air, will premiere next month at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. Paramount Pictures has begun releasing promotional materials in anticipation of the film festival release, and have given us an exclusive look at the film’s U.S. one-sheet. I love the simple and very proportionate design layout....

Fire Of Love Review: A Mesmerizing Portrait Of The World’s Best Volcanologist Power Couple [Sundance 2022] “Once you see an eruption, you can’t live without it,” Katia Krafft once wrote. And when you see the jaw-dropping footage she and her husband Maurice captured of volcanoes around the world, you’ll understand why the two became obsessed with studying these natural phenomena. For decades, Katia and Maurice were two of the biggest names in the emerging field of volcanology, leading the charge to better understand exactly how volcanoes work, and getting dangerously close to eruptions in the name of science....

FX Defends Airing ‘Impeachment: American Crime Story’ During Election Year [TCA 2019] Rumors of anAmerican Crime Storyseason based on the impeachment of Bill Clinton have long been floating around. Yesterday, FX announced that the third season would, in fact, beImpeachment: American Crime Story, and it would premiere on August 05, 2025, just about six weeks before the 2020 presidential election.The Television Critics Association’s executive session with FX ChairmanJohn Landgrafput the exec on the spot about airing a retrospective on a Democratic scandal in an election year....

HBO Exec Reflects On ‘Game Of Thrones’ Finally Overtaking The Books, And Jon Snow Trailer Teases HBO chairman and CEORichard Pleplerwas at HBO’s reception for the Television Critics Association last night and I was able to get a few minutes with him to talk aboutGame of Thrones. The networkannounced the premiere datefor season six earlier in their sessions. There’d long been talk about the show catching up toGeorge R.R. Martin’s books, and even when season six and book six were looming, Martin shared information with series creatorsDavid BenioffandD....

Hilary Swank Kept A Dangerous Secret From Clint Eastwood During Million Dollar Baby In film theory, the term “verisimilitude” means the appearance of truth. It’s easy to feel like the 2004Clint Eastwoodfilm"Million Dollar Baby"is based on a true story. It is far from what you’d expect out of Hollywood. It is dark, gritty, raw, and depressing. Downright exhausting, really. But it’s also beautiful in the way it captures hope, determination, and the sweet science behind the sport of boxing in a different light....

How The Cannes Film Festival Set The Stage For Lord Of The Rings Could you imagine life without the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy? Without it, the fantasy genre may not have that big of a foothold in pop culture — which means shows like “Game of Thrones” and “The Legend of Vox Machina” may not have taken off like they did. References to J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels would more than likely be regulated to Stephen Colbert’s talk shows, which would sadly deprive the world of raps about the “#1 trilly”....

Interview With Ninja Assassin Director James McTeigue Last week, I had the opportunity to talk with directorJamesMcTeigue(V For Vendetta)about his new film,Ninja Assassin.As many of you know,McTeiguestarted in Hollywood as a second assistant director on films likeDark City, and made a name for himself as the first assistant director onThe Matrixfilms. He famously took the reigns fromTheWachowskiBrothers, directing big screen adaptation of Alan Moore’s comic bookV For Vendetta(currently ranked #178 onIMDb’stop 250 of all time)....

Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart Movie Moving Forward After Scoring $14 Million Tax Credit, This Is Not A Mad-Lib I’m pretty sure I ate breakfast this morning and I’m not hallucinating this story. I mean, I’m not 100% positive, but here we are. I’m not sure how I missed the news that Jerry Seinfeld was makinga Pop Tart movie, but it’s entirely possible that I thought it was a joke. This film is based on astand-up bitSeinfeld did back 2010 on “The Late Show with David Letterman....

Jerry Stiller, Legendary Comedian And ‘Seinfeld’ Co-Star, Has Died At 92 The world is a little less funny today as veteran comedianJerry Stillerhas passed away at 92 years old. Best known for playing Frank Costanza, father of Jason Alexander’s character George Costanza on the classic comedy seriesSeinfeld, the comedian is forever associated with the creation of Festivus, a holiday created in response to the crass commercialization of Christmas. But Stiller had a long career before joiningSeinfeld, not to mention fathering one of today’s biggest comedy stars....

King(s) Of The Monsters: Everything You Need To Know About Godzilla’s Greatest Allies And Adversaries It’s been an eventful couple of weeks forGodzillafans. Though it got a bit lost in the shuffle thanks to all the news coming out of San Diego Comic-Con, the second installment in Netflix’s anime Godzilla trilogy is now available to stream.Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battlecontinues the story — and the thread ofPlanet of the Apeshomages — fromGodzilla: Planet of the Monsters,as protagonist Haruo Sakaki and the remnants of humanity encounter a tribe of telepathic, underground-dwelling humanoids, who worship a glowing egg instead of a nuclear bomb like the mutants inBeneath the Planet of the Apes....

LA Prosecutors To Roman Polanski: Surrender First, Then We’ll Talk Marina Zenovich’s documentary,Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desiredwas probably one of the best documentaries of 2008 that you didn’t see. Zenovich meticulously documents the events surrounding the trial of director Roman Polanski, who unlawfully had sex with 13-year old Samantha Geimer, and the ensuing media spectacle. While the film doesn’t shy away from Polanski’s dark past, its primary target is the American judicial system, not necessarily the man himself....

Licorice Pizza: Release Date, Cast, And More (Welcome to …And More,our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you may watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) It’s been a few years since we last saw a Paul Thomas Anderson film with 2017’s “Phantom Thread.” His upcoming feature, “Licorice Pizza,” will be his first feature-length work since then, and Anderson fans are eagerly awaiting its arrival....

Lionsgate Will Release ‘The Voices,’ A Super-Dark And Violent Ryan Reynolds Comedy The Voicesis weird. Really weird, and violent, and even uncomfortable. The film featuresRyan Reynoldsas a mentally troubled guy who has a solid gig in a bathtub factory, and who finds himself acting out unconscious urges when he falls for a pretty girl at work. Those unconscious urges are often brought to the surface via pets owned by Reynolds' character....