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Robert Pattinson, Brad Pitt And More Overnight Sex Symbols

29 September 2009 2:52 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

'Twilight' has catapulted RPattz into the stratosphere where he joins some other beefcake breakout stars.

By Larry Carroll

Robert Pattinson

Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage

Every now and then, a movie comes out that transforms a male actor into someone to be desired, adored and often watched for decades to come. We're experiencing such a phenomenon now with Robert Pattinson, who has essentially starred in one wide-release movie and had "Twilight" transform him from "Who's that?" to "Hottest Man Alive" overnight.

But where does RPattz go from here? Will he launch a decades-long career? Work with directors like Spielberg and Scorsese? Or will he become another Hollywood cautionary tale? Below are a handful of beefcake breakouts transformed by one major role, whose careers could perhaps give guidance to the Sparkly One.

James Dean

Arguably the greatest male cinematic sex symbol of all time, actors like Pattinson and James Franco continue to »

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Our Favorite Montages: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

28 September 2009 5:15 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

You learn something new about your movie tastes when you're writing about them every single day. I'm realizing that most of my favorite montages don't come from the 1980s, but are historical recreations of one kind or another. (Even now, there's one hovering in my bookmarks because I can't decide whether it's a montage or a credits report. You'll see it eventually, I'm sure.) Today's montage is from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and has to be one of the most unusual because it's done entirely through still sepia photographs. It's a wonderful sequence, and the photos of Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Katharine Ross would look at home in your western history museum. For a bunch of photos, it feels incredibly animated by the endless fun Butch and Sundance are having, clearly enjoying the fact that they're wanted men who can go unnoticed in a crowd as they party their way to Bolivia. »

- Elisabeth Rappe

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Tom Cruise Sets Eyes on 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' Remake

6 April 2009 2:12 AM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

Rumor has it, Tom Cruise is planning a remake to western classic "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". The Daily Express suggested the matter, writing that the 46-year-old actor/producer intends to produce the remake movie through his United Artists and that a senior executive has said the actor has interviewed potential screenwriters.

"It has been a pet project of his that has been on the back-burner for years," the publication quoted the executive as explaining. "But now he's ready to go, and will most likely happily eschew the enormous salary that he normally commands." Another source was quoted, "Butch and Sundance is a labor of love for Tom. He was eight years old when he saw the original and it made an impression that has stayed with him all his life. He can't wait to get to work."

In addition to producing the remake, the actor who is last »

- AceShowbiz.com

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Spring Preview: Rian Johnson on The Festival of Fakery

23 February 2009 5:52 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

When Rian Johnson attended USC in the '90s, he had a certain criteria that needed to be met when choosing an apartment. "It was walking distance from the New Beverly," says Johnson, who's been living in the same place near the venerable Los Angeles revival house ever since. Thanks to a collision of fate, whimsy and just a little bit of conniving reminiscent of his latest film, the thoroughly delightful conman caper "The Brothers Bloom," Johnson will take over programming duties at the theater starting tonight in what's being billed as "Rian Johnson's Festival of Fakery, a week of films regarding frauds, fakers, charlatans, hoaxters, huxters and other unsavory sorts." Johnson follows other recent guest programmers at the theater that include Edgar Wright, Diablo Cody and Peter Bogdanovich, and will be onhand every night of the festival to give introductions to the films. Fortunately, if you're not in L. »

- Stephen Saito

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Rip Robert Quarry (1925-2009)

21 February 2009 7:31 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

It is with great sadness that I write of the passing of actor Robert Quarry.

To most who read Fangoria, he was Count Yorga, Vampire (Aip 1970) who Returned (1971) before he found that Dr Phibes Rises Again that same year, became a Deathmaster in 1972, met Sugar Hill and went to the Madhouse in 1974.

He was more than that, though.  Born Robert Walter Quarry on November 3, 1925, the highly intelligent Quarry (who it was said had an I.Q. of 168) graduated High School at age 14, and started his acting career soon after on radio. Living in Santa Rose, Quarry won an acting scholarship to the Pasadena Playhouse. When Alfred Hitchcock came to Santa Rosa, Quarry auditioned and won the role of Theresa Wright’s boyfriend in the 1943 classic Shadow Of A Doubt. His role, however, was all but cut out (he swore he appeared a nanosecond mooning over the actress), but it led to his Hollywood career, »

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'Slap Shot' Remake Gets a Director, Scorn

3 February 2009 6:50 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

Because I am not against the practice of remakes in theory, I can't demand that they stop remaking Slap Shot before they even begin. But I still hate to see it happen.

The script for the remake of one of the all-timers is being crafted by Peter Steinfeld (21), and now they've hired director Dean Parisot, who is probably not a fair approximation of George Roy Hill.

Parisot's last movie was also a remake - Fun with Dick and Jane - and because Variety mentions the nostlagia craze that accompanied The Longest Yard with Adam Sandler, I'm even less inclined to be excited about this. »

- Colin Boyd

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