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Sunday
05Jul

Warners Inserts Lots of Quarters, Buys Midway Games

DateSunday, July 5, 2009 at 5:31PM

Sooner or later, we'll see the positive by-products of this, although for Warner Bros., that day has already arrived. Variety reports that Warners has acquired "most of" Midway Games' assets in bakruptcy court for a little north of $30 million. That gives Warner Bros. Interactive the rights to Spy Hunter, Joust, Mortal Kombat, Ms. Pac Man, Defender, Rampage, and Robotron 2084, among many other titles.

Whether or not Warner Bros. exercises those rights into movie spin-offs is not known, although with the epidemic of board games and other favorite toys from the 1970s and 1980s, it certainly seems like a distinct possibility. The company already has a relationship with Midway, thanks to the Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe game. DC Comics is also a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner.

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Sunday
05Jul

'Half-Blood Prince' HBO First Look

DateSunday, July 5, 2009 at 1:34PM

The sixth of eight Harry Potter movies opens in ten days, and Emma Watson appeared on Jonathan Ross the other night saying that filming on the series will wrap up in April 2010. Of course, Half-Blood Prince filmed over a year ago, and was originally scheduled for a November 2008 release.

There are no official reviews for Half-Blood Prince yet, but the few unofficial ones I've heard about are really encouraging. A lot of people thought Order of the Phoenix was a bit too lightweight, but I actually thought David Yates' approach was exactly what the series needed at that point. So I'm one of those who has been looking forward to Half-Blood Prince more because of the last film.

The usually entertaining HBO First Look has gone behind the scenes of Half-Blood Prince, which is broken up into two parts:

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Sunday
05Jul

Box Office - 'Ice Age' and 'Transformers' Tie

DateSunday, July 5, 2009 at 10:58AM

Something's gotta give in this back and forth box office race, but we'll have to wait until Monday afternoon to know for sure. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen both made $42.5 million, according to the latest estimates, and both, you would have to say, underperformed to get there.

I don't remember the last tie at the top of the box office, and it's very unlikely that this will stay that way when all the tickets are counted, but $42 million for either one of these movies has to be considered something of a disappointment, even though it was a holiday weekend. Over the course of the five days, Ice Age has earned $67.5 million, which some analysts thought would be the three-day total.

Transformers, even if it gets the edge when the final results are tallied, probably won't have the legs to take a third weekend against the likes of Bruno. It's true that the holiday weekend took some of the starch out of its performance, losing 61% of its opening weekend audience, but even if it slips to 35% of this weekend's results (or roughly half of a $50 million weekend), Bruno would only have to gross $28 million to win, and Borat made over $26 million in its November 2006 debut.

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Sunday
05Jul

Jaa-Dropping New Trailer for 'Ong bak 2'

DateSunday, July 5, 2009 at 8:27AM

I've been watching martial arts movies pretty consistently for over 25 years. In that time, I've only seen a few guys on the level of Tony Jaa. Bruce Lee and early Jackie Chan, obviously, but check out the work of Yuen Biao if you've never seen him. I'd take Jaa over anything I've ever seen Jet Li do, if that tells you anything.

The point is Tony Jaa is one of the best martial arts actors we've ever seen, and his unbelievable action scenes and fight choreography is probably unparalleled right now. The good news is Jaa was still in his 20s when the first Ong bak was released, so he's still in his prime. Let's hope that means another couple decades of his films.

Ong bak 2 will hopefully get a healthy U.S. release, even though Jaa's The Protector wasn't a very big hit here. Hard to deny there will be some interest if enough people see this trailer, though. Is that a real alligator?

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Sunday
05Jul

Twenty-One New Images from 'I Come With the Rain'

DateSunday, July 5, 2009 at 5:04AM

Special thanks to Brian Jones for sending along almost two dozen new pictures from the cop thrilla, I Come With the Rain.

We showed you a poster for the film last month and wondered why a flick with Josh Hartnett, an impressive international cast (including Byung-hun Lee), and decent financial support wouldn't target the American market. In fact, as of this writing, it's only scheduled for releases in France, Japan, and Russia.

There's kind of a supernatural noir component here: A cop from Los Angeles travels to Hong Kong to help search for the missing son of a billionaire. Then memories of events from his past come rushing back in very real ways.

Here are over 20 photos from I Come With the Rain:

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Sunday
05Jul

'Twilight: Eclipse' To Begin Production Next Month

DateSunday, July 5, 2009 at 2:08AM

I don't need to tell you that Twilight was one of the big success stories of 2008. Just in case: $37 million budget, $382 million worldwide, plus all the DVDs and merchandise sales.

Sequels were inevitable, of course, since the book is part of a series. But it's a little surprising that Summit decided to crank the next two installments out. New Moon has already filmed and will be released on the Twilight opening weekend of November 21st. Eclipse, which will mark the third director to go behind the camera on one of these, is set to open about a year from now, on June 30, 2010.

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Sunday
05Jul

This Week in Trailers - 'Informant,' 'Couples Retreat,' 'Planet 51'

DateSunday, July 5, 2009 at 12:43AM
One of the highlights of the short week where very little real news made its way to the forefront was the new trailer for the Steven Soderbergh film The Informant, which stars Matt Damon. I had thought this would be more serious, but it looks like one of the smartest comedies of the year, featuring Damon as a corporate whistleblower of questionable common sense.

Also good from the trailer park this week: Tobey Maguire in Brothers and the best look yet at Inglourious Basterds. Take a few minutes and watch a couple or more.

The Informant

The animated Planet 51

Will Assassination of a High School President ever get released?

Inglourious Basterds in French

Vince Vaughn et al in Couples Retreat

Maguire, Gyllenhaal, and Portman in Brothers

Deadgirl Red Band trailer

More Gerard Butler in Gamer

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