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2 September 2008 5:30 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Photo: Paramount Pictures / Warner Bros. SlashFilm has been something of a spearhead when it comes to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and the strange stories surrounding the production. Back on August 18 a reader review hit Ain't It Cool News saying, "By an hour and a half/forty five, the audience was getting restless. I could hear them squirming in their seats in front and behind me. The last hour is ultimately weighed down by a lot of repetition that has to do with the romance between Pitt and Blanchett." That review alone seemed to be where it all began. At that time the film ran around three hours long and since then cuts have been said to have taken place. Anne Thompson only three days ago said the film is "a little over two and half hours" long. That statement came at the same time 20 minutes of snippets of

Brad Brevet

21 August 2008 12:05 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Note: The word "retarded" is used in this article, but I want you to know it is not used out of hatred or malice. It is used in conjunction with the argument at hand. I only say this to encourage constructive conversation should you decide to comment on the article and its language. I realize the word "retard" and "retarded" are sensitive words that can arouse emotions just as can the words "nigger" and "spic", which are also used in this article, and once again, not in any attempt to breed hatred but in line with the topic at hand. If you do have a comment after reading the article it is welcomed, but please also try to be sensitive if you decide to use these words as well. According to the New York Times a national boycott of Tropic Thunder is set to begin today as a coalition of

Brad Brevet

6 August 2008 11:59 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

As I was putting together my article featuring a clip from Tropic Thunder yesterday I wanted to get an image to support the article and I knew Paramount had created faux websites for its faux actors in the upcoming film. Ben Stiller plays a character named Tugg Speedman and he is primarily known as an action star chasing an Oscar. One such role is as Jack in Simple Jack, a movie about a disabled character and it's marketing takes it to a whole new level saying "Once upon a time ... there was a retard." The point of the film-within-the-film is not to offend anyone, but instead poke fun at actors for chasing Oscars by playing disabled characters. The clip I featured can be seen below, but to give you the short of it, Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) explains to Speedman (Stiller) that an actor "never goes full retard" in his Oscar chasing roles,

Brad Brevet

28 July 2008 1:34 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Has Tom Hanks metamorphed from liberal peacenik into gun-loving yahoo?

That's the question being posed in rural Idaho, where the superstar actor has installed a pistol-packing security guard to patrol his posh Sun Valley getaway.

As Page Six reported last month, Hanks has warred for six years with Storey Construction, which built his spread in 2002. The star and his actress wife, Rita Wilson, withheld the final $3 million payment, claiming "shoddy construction," but were later forced to pay up. They're now appealing to get back $2.5 million.

The lawyer for contractor Gary Storey, who has the

10 July 2008 2:04 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Like a shapelier Forrest Gump, the German model Uschi Obermaier had a knack for witnessing history without ever affecting it. A close consort of The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and the leaders of Germany's radical left, she was a poster child for the counterculture of the '60s and '70s, doffing her clothes for the covers of news magazines and lending a touch of glamour to political protests. The trouble for Achim Bornhak's biopic Eight Miles High is that, apart from being famous, Obermaier doesn't appear to have actually done much. As played by Polish-born newcomer Natalia Avelon, she's a shallow dilettante in thrall to ideas beyond her ken, Marianne Faithfull without the talent. At times, Bornhak shows an awareness of his heroine's vapidity. She steals away from the grungy anti-capitalists in Munich's Kommune 1 to apply a touch of eye shadow; going without clothes is one thing, going without.

Sam Adams

3 July 2008 9:07 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Matt Singer

Many movies wax nostalgic for the good old days; "The Wackness" is the only movie I can think of that's nostalgic for a time occupied by people who are themselves nostalgic about their own good old days. Though writer/director Jonathan Levine's wistful coming-of-age film wants us to miss New York City as we knew it in 1994, the characters are all pissed off: their marriages are falling apart or their high school careers (and, thus, their lives) are coming to an end, and the new mayor is cracking down on drug use.

I guess the grass . the grass, man . is always greener. Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) is an enterprising high school senior who makes up for his parents' employment fuckups by dealing pot around his Upper East Side neighborhood. His aesthetic, much like the movie itself, is pointedly old school: cassettes instead of CDs, Nintendo instead of Sega Genesis.

Matt Singer

9 March 2008 4:01 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

The sequel to the TV show John Ritter was shooting when he died is to be turned into a movie.

As Ritter's widow Amy Yasbeck fights an ongoing wrongful death legal battle with doctors she claims misdiagnosed her husband in 2003, studio bosses are planning to turn writer W. Bruce Cameron's 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter into a film.

Cameron will adapt his semi-autobiographical book 8 Simple Rules For Marrying My Daughter for the project, which will be produced by Oscar winner Wendy Finerman, the woman behind big screen hits like The Devil Wears Prada and Forrest Gump.

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