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Woody Harrelson Stars in Real-Life Cop Drama: ‘Rampart’

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Rampart is a movie about a real-life police scandal in 1999 in inner-city Los Angeles. Woody Harrelson plays Dave Brown, a member of the rampart division of the Los Angeles Police Department. The drama with Brown began to become public when he was caught on tape severely beating a citizen who had hit him with his car. The video hit the news, and the scandal began. Brown was also accused of many other controversies including murder. The movie also deals with Brown’s home life. He has two ex-wives, who are sisters. He has one child by each of them.

Director Oren Moverman and Harrelson went to the rampart department of the LAPD to shadow them. The two went on ride-alongs and got an inside look of the area that was being policed during the scandal, as well as the tension within the department.

Rampart will release in theaters tomorrow, although it is not being released locally, so I cannot see it yet.

Check out the trailer:

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What Do You Get When You Mix Osama Bin Laden and Zombies? Osombie!

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Each week, there are ideas that come to Hollywood and we all just think, “Alright, they’ve reached the limit, it can’t go much farther than that,” and each week, we’re just surprised by what they can come up with. At this point, we think we’ve reached the limit, but we really haven’t. The newest piece of awesome to hit theaters? Osombie, and no this isn’t a weekday prank, this is real.

The plot, you ask? The film, “Follows Dusty, a yoga instructor from Colorado on a desperate rescue mission to save her crazy brother Derek, a conspiracy theorist who is convinced Osama Bin Laden is still alive. In Afghanistan, Dusty falls in with a team of NATO Special Forces on a secret assignment. Turns out Derek is not so crazy after all, and Osama Bin Laden has returned from his watery grave and is making an army of zombie terrorists.”

Now, I don’t know about you guys, but American cinema just doesn’t get more inventively and sarcastically patriotically than that. The hilarious trailer, which starts off with: Viewer Discretion: scenes of violence and gore and muscular men with their shirts off. From there, the hilarious teaser keeps you laughing through your dropped jaw for a good minute and a half, and when it’s over, you have to ask yourself, is this real?

Well, I’m here to report that it is. Fortunately, this isn’t just another 30 second preview of a film like 2016 which is a mystery as to whether it’s an actual movie or not. Directed by “veteran editor” John Lyde, with a script by Kurt Hale, the movie has already been shot and edited, with the filmmakers now in post-production, laying a soundtrack over it, as well as tweaking a few other things.

Honestly, I can’t wait. Terrorists and zombies mixed together are about as great as Nazi zombies, but let’s hope it’s not as disappointing as Dead Snow.

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‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Trailer Is Here!

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Now it wasn’t that long ago that we got our first look at Marc Webb‘s upcoming reboot The Amazing Spider-Man starring Andrew Garfield as Spidey. The first footage was interesting to say the least, and it offered a pretty great look at Peter Parker and some of the cast of the film. There was a little Spider-Man here and there, but it loved up to its name. It was a teaser.

This is the trailer, folks. This trailer is chock full of new and great footage, including our first looks at the Lizard, some really great Spidey action scenes, and tons more. We’ll talk after. Enjoy.

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‘Lovelace’ – Movie Update Center

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The movie Lovelace is a biopic about 70s porn actress Linda Boreman, or Linda Lovelace. It will tell the story of how Lovelace was abused by the porn industry, and how her husband pushed her into doing pornography. There is no release date yet, so here’s all of the most up-to-date information we have…

First and foremost, Amanda Seyfried will be playing the porn star, meaning… naked Seyfried! E! released news in January that the In Time actress will be doing nude scenes.

Another recent fact, Demi Moore was set to play feminist Gloria Steinem, but had to drop out due to “exhaustion”. She was recently rushed to the emergency room. I am sure you have all heard the 911 call that her friend made:

Moore will be replaced by Sarah Jessica Parker, according to IMDB.

The cast is full of pretty impressive names:

James Franco – as – Hugh Hefner

Wes Bentley  (also will star in Gone with Seyfried)- as – Larry Marchiano

Sharon Stone – as – Dorothy Boreman

Peter Sarsgaard – as – Chuck Traynor

Hank Azaria – as – Jerry Damino

For a complete list, check it out: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1426329/

Also, Lindsay Lohan was supposed to play Linda Lovelace in a different movie about her life called Inferno.

Unfortunately, she had to get her legal things in order… and then she did Playboy. Anyway, I am happy about this: Malin Akerman (Watchmen) will be replacing her! I am not sure why there needs to be two Linda Lovelace movies out there, but there will be, come 2013!

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‘The Avengers’ SuperBowl Trailer Is Online Now

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The Avengers aired its SuperBowl spot earlier tonight, and chances are you are one of the many who saw it. But just in case you haven’t, I’ll give you a very brief summary: It features some of the best footage we’ve seen outside of Comic-Con so far, lending more camera time to Loki, his yet-unidentified alien army and The Hulk. The extended version of the trailer is up on the Avengers’ Facebook page now. Check it out below:

This looks fantastic. Can’t wait to see more.

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Harrison Ford In Talks For New Blade Runner Film

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Ridley Scott will be reacquainting audiences with two of his most beloved film franchises in the next few years with Prometheus drawing ever-nearer and the announcement in early 2011 that he would be directing some kind of tie-in to Blade Runner. It’s enough to get fans incredibly excited, especially because  we know so little about both productions. Prometheus is only about four months away and surprisingly little has been revealed or leaked about the film, and this Blade Runner project has been flying so under-the-radar that the only thing we could say for sure was that Harrison Ford wouldn’t be reprising his role as Deckard. And wouldn’t you know it, that might not even be accurate.

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Previously the film’s producer, Andrew Kosove, had said this to say about bringing Ford back, in an interview with The L.A. Times:

“In no way do I speak for Ridley Scott, but if you’re asking me will this movie have anything to do with Harrison Ford, the answer is no. This is a total reinvention, and in my mind that means doing everything fresh, including casting.“

However Twitch debunked Kosove’s statement this week with a report that Mr. Solo is indeed undergoing negotiations for the film. The talks are in the very early stages, however, so this is far from a confirmation that he’ll appear. It’s also worth pointing out that we don’t even know how this movie will tie in with the timeline – It may be a prequel, sequel or something else entirely, so Ford’s casting could mean anything from a role as protagonist to a minor cameo.

Having Ridley Scott behind the camera really got me interested in this project. The approach he appears to have taken with Prometheus (A wildly different story than Alien, loosely tied to the same universe) might be an indication of the route he’ll take with Blade Runner, which I would love to see. I probably would have taken Harrison Ford’s involvement as a good sign as well, had I not seen the mediocrity-fest that was Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

More on this story as it develops.