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A second trailer (watch it after the jump!), more photos (featuring the lead cast) and an interview with Tobey Maguire at the LA Times. Apparently, the marketing campaign for Jim Sheridan's latest film, Brothers, is well underway!

Our recent spotlight article on Jake Gyllenhaal offered some details on his character, Tommy Cahill. The character study came from Jake's co-star Tobey Maguire during his interview at the LA Times.
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All Facebook posted an article about the current filming of David Fincher's 'The Social Network':

Last week we wrote that Johns Hopkins would welcome the crew of "The Social Network" this week as they'd be filming in front of some of the dorms. Today photos of the shooting are rolling in from Twitpic including shots of Eamon Brooks and Jesse Eisenberg, two of the film's main characters. [ read more ]

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I'm quite certain that one of the actors in the photos is Jesse Eisenberg, but I'm not too sure that the other one is Eamon Brooks. I believe it'sAndrew Garfield. I maybe wrong of course... So try to look at the photos please....
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Is today's business of making movies really going through very rough times? In the case of Fox Searchlight, it seems 2009 is their year of 'financial reckoning'.

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Come to think of it, the studio was the best performer last year - Take a look: Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine and Juno.

More about the studio's line up of movies for 2009 and some Box Office reports after the jump!
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I've been reading a couple of movie blogs and finding out what's their take on the latest Sherlock Holmes trailer. One of the most intriguing just got to be Movieline's post, which I'm quoting below:

It's been a long, interesting ride for the Sherlock Holmes promotional campaign, which began with a shot of Robert Downey Jr stripped to the waist and now finishes with a final trailer full of homoerotic banter. "This is not your father's Sherlock Holmes!" the trailer cries. "Did your father's Sherlock Holmes flirt with Watson all day? Did he sublimate his sexual urges for Jude Law into a simultaneous, side-by-side orgasm of gunfire? [ read more ]

Other blogs are not as provocative as Movieline's take on the latest trailer. Total Film simply took note of the additional scenes and the music, saying: There are a few more story fragments and a snippet or two of fresh footage, but it's largely what we've seen before, albeit with the action ramped up and the music more boisterous...

So, what do you think? Oh, yeah you need to watch the trailer! More views after the jump!
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Here we go again! Twilight: New Moon is scheduled for release this coming November 20 but already a fight is brewing between two massive movie audiences - the Twilight fandom versus the Comic book guys!

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Is this the ultimate battle of the sexes? Peter Sciretta @SlashFilm thinks so:

The funniest thing about the rankings is the demographics behind the votes The average Male user rating is a 3.3, while the average female user rating is an 8.0. And while females under 18 rate the film a 8.7, the most popular demo is the "Twilight Mom", females aged 30-44, which have given the film an average rating of a 9.9. Wow... [ read more ]

I'm still wondering how come IMDb already allowed its registered members to vote when the movie is not yet released? Anyway, we have a proposition to make, right after the jump!
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Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. A global cataclysm brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.

How's that for an intro of Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster epic, 2012! Watch the trailer after the jump!
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According to the Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision, Oscar winner Helen Mirren is cast to play an assassin in Summit Entertainment's adaptation of the Wildstorm/DC Comics' Red.

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Details as follows:

The Oscar winner has signed to play an assassin in "Red," Summit Entertainment's adaptation of the Wildstorm/DC Comics miniseries being directed by Robert Schwenke. Mirren joins Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman in the tale of a former black-ops agent (Willis), now in retirement, who has to contend with younger, more high-tech assassins who show up to kill him. Mirren plays an old associate of Willis with a lethal set of skills. [ read more ]

This is, yet again, proof of the versatility of Mirren, who won Best Actress for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in Stephen Frear's The Queen. Of course, this is not the first time for Mirren to play an assassin. In Shadowboxer (that's where the picture above came from), she plays Rose, a female assassin, who is diagnosed with terminal cancer; decides to carry out one final killing, assisted by lover and also stepson, Mickey (played by Cuba Gooding, Jr.)
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Two Oscar news of different levels of importance caught everyone's attention: The new Oscar hosts and Danny Boyle's problem with his Slumdog Millionaire child actors. I'll deal with the hosts here...

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While I'd love to see Hugh Jackman do it again and it would have been cool to see Ben Stiller and Robert Downey, Jr team up and do some hilarious antics on the stage, but it seems they're not in the mood to host the Oscars. When it was announced that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin would host the upcoming Awards show, then that's also fine with me. Steve Martin is cool and he can really make the Oscar awards night lively and fun, while Baldwin can take care of the more serious side. Of course, they're together in It's Complicated with Meryl Streep, who could have been a host too, but...
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