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Hendrix Estate Crushes Hopes for Paul Greengrass’ Jimi Hendrix Biopic
In some alternate universe out there, there’s a film by Paul Greengrass starring Anthony Mackie as the talented and troubled Jimi Hendrix. Sadly, we don’t live in that universe because Experience...
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Paul Greengrass May Direct Angelina Jolie for ‘Cleopatra’ Biopic
No matter who ends up directing Cleopatra, it’s going to be a cyclopean undertaking. The budget will be inflated, Angelina Jolie will be inflated, and the director will have to make sense of it all....
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Jeremy Renner Is Your Jason Bourne (Almost)
Well, Jeremy Renner is almost Jason Bourne in that he’s been offered the role as Matt Damon’s replacement. He’s also almost Jason Bourne because he’ll be playing a new character in the same...
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Movie News After Dark: Jeremy Renner, Piranha 3DD, A Deathly Hallows Trailer...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s all business tonight. Movie news, fascinating articles, at least 12-minutes of grown men screaming. All business, baby. Vulture has an interesting piece on how...
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News After Dark: Leslie Nielsen’s Eternal Humor, Blake Lively, Richard Ayoade...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly thing about movie stuff. Tonight’s edition features mini-ninjas, talk about naked pictures of Blake Lively, Sly Stallone set to music, an explanation of...
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Paul Greengrass Might Be Battling Somali Pirates With Tom Hanks
After leaving the Bourne franchise behind, Paul Greengrass made Green Zone (which might as well have been called The Bourne Historical Rewrite) and has been attempting to get his Martin Luther King, Jr...
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Matt Damon Says He Can’t Quit ‘Bourne’ or Ben Affleck
While doing some publicity for his current release Contagion, actor Matt Damon sat down to have a few words with The Shortlist, and they managed to get a couple quotes out of him that could spell good...
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Tony Gilroy Says ‘The Bourne Legacy’ Will Present “A Wider Horizon” to...
The Bourne Legacy is not only one of the most highly-anticipated films of the summer, it’s a unique chance to revisit the blockbuster franchise with a different star at the helm. Meanwhile,...
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Tony Gilroy: ‘Michael Clayton’ Wouldn’t Pay for ‘The Bourne Legacy’s’...
From the aesthetic to its own protagonist, Tony Gilroy did some work to distance The Bourne Legacy from the previous, Jason Bourne-led trilogy. Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) isn’t Bourne, and The Bourne...
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‘Cleopatra’ Loses Its Third Director (Sort Of); David Fincher Off Sony Project
Perhaps it’s time that we all faced facts – this Cleopatra remake just might not happen. In reality, it shouldn’t happen – after all, is anyone really demanding an Angelina Jolie-starring and...
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George Clooney and Paul Greengrass Are Getting ‘Argo’ Screenwriter Involved...
Now that he’s had his screenplay Argo produced as one of the highest-profile films of the year, and one of the front-runners for all of those little golden statues that are going to be given out...
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Justified: ‘Decoy’ is a Near Perfect Game of Cat and Also-Cat
With Justified winding down to its season finale in two weeks, it hasn’t lost the high-octane momentum of last week’s amazing episode with “Decoy“ continuing to plow along full steam ahead – an apt...
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‘Captain Phillips’ Trailer Drops Tom Hanks Right In the Middle Of a Hijacking
Pirates have made a big comeback in recent years thanks to the lawless activities happening off the coast of Somalia, but while we hear of multiple hijackings and kidnappings from the region they...
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‘The Trial of the Chicago 7′ is Finally Getting Made, Probably by Paul...
When Aaron Sorkin first wrote the screenplay for The Trial of the Chicago 7 back in 2007, the safe assumption was that the film would quickly be fast-tracked to fame, glory, and lots and lots of...
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‘Captain Phillips’ Trailer Shows the Softer Side of Somali Pirates
There’s a new trailer online for Paul Greengrass‘ Captain Phillips, so if you’ve been feeling any urges to see Tom Hanks sport a wicked goatee and a somewhat-believable Southern accent (or you just...
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Updated: Universal Wants Matt Damon Back For Another ‘Bourne’
Update: According to Variety, Universal is denying that they’re talking with Damon or Greengrass about returning to the franchise. This might be a tactic to futilely keep the possibility quiet until...
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Pirate-Filled ‘Captain Phillips’ Clips Sell the Scope of the Film’s...
If you thought the trailer for Captain Phillips looked promising, likely a large part of what sold you on it is the brief glimpses it gives us of the exciting sequence where the ship of the title...
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‘Captain Phillips’ Review: Tom Hanks Gives a Career-Best Performance in...
Editor’s note: Kate’s review of Captain Phillips originally ran during this year’s NYFF, but we’re re-running it now as the film opens in theatrical release today. Side note, it’s the best film...
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‘Captain Phillips’ and Powerlessness as a Survival Technique
A boat at sea is a pretty rich place to explore ideology. Bear with me here. The sea, by assumption, bears no visible national borders, no unified language, no tactile culture for human beings. Yet...
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Battling Our Debris: The Real Struggles of ‘Gravity,’ ‘Captain Phillips’ and...
Captivity/survivor narratives are hardly unfamiliar to our movie screens, and such films tend to come in bunches. Three years ago, for instance, both Buried and 127 Hours boasted solo or near-solo...
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Warner Bros. is Looking to Get Paul Greengrass Entangled in Their ‘The Stand’...
Though it’s starting to look to anyone with any sense like Warner Bros. should let their dream of putting together a film adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Stand” go, they seem to still be soldiering...
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Paul Greengrass Eying 1996 Olympics Bombing Movie and a Deadly Serious Jonah...
Paramount Pictures We’ve known since February that the fabled Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill bromance first seen in The Wolf of Wall Street would continue into a second film. We’ve also known who...
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Timeliness or Obviousness, Or Do We Need Another ‘1984’ Movie Now?
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. Unless you’re a superhero movie with a release date set way in advance, it’s not easy these days to know when your movie will wind up produced let alone released. A...
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There Are No Plans for a Bourne Crossover With Matt Damon and Jeremy Renner
Universal Pictures Two franchises starring Jeremy Renner are apparently going in opposite directions regarding what they want to do with the actor. For The Avengers, Renner is likely to never get a...
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Tommy Lee Jones to Play a Cranky Old CIA Agent in Next Bourne Movie
Miramax While we wait to see if Tommy Lee Jones gets to reprise his cranky FBI agent role in that maybe-sequel to (or maybe it’s a remake of) The Fugitive and whether he’ll reprise his cranky Men in...
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