Movie News: Friday, November 24

Reno 911!: Miami
    ( Release: Feb. 23, 2007   Rated: R    Details | Trailers  ) — Based on the hit Comedy Central series, the usual gang of idiot cops head to Florida for a police convention. After creating their typical chaos on the sunny sands of South Beach, they are called into action after terrorists poison all of the other visiting officers. Will Lieutenant Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon) and his pack of misfits save the day… or destroy it?

The Number 23
    ( Release: Feb. 23, 2007   Rated: Rating Pending    Details  ) — Jim Carrey plays a man who becomes fixated on the number 23, and begins to notice that it appears everywhere around him.

Gray Matters
    ( Release: Feb. 16, 2007   Rated: PG-13 (MPAA)    Details  ) — Talk about sibling rivalry! A brother (James Marsden) and a sister (Heather Graham) both fall in love with the same woman.

Glastonbury
    ( Release: Feb. 23, 2007   Rated: Rating Pending    Details | Photos  ) — Famed music documentary filmmaker Julien Temple chronicles 30 years of England's biggest rock festival with David Bowie, Bjork, James Brown, Nick Cave and many more music luminaries.

Black Snake Moan
    (  Details | Photos  ) — A has-been blues musician (Samuel L. Jackson) is placed in charge of the rehabilitation of a hopeless nymphomaniac (Christina Ricci).

The Astronaut Farmer
    ( Release: Jan. 12, 2007   Rated: Rating Pending    Details  ) — Billy Bob Thornton plays a retired astronaut who sets up a farm, but unwittingly alerts the authorities when the secret activities he is conducting in his barn causes trouble.

Ghost Rider
    ( Release: Feb. 16, 2007    Details | Trailers  ) — The story is based on the Marvel character Johnny Blaze, a motorcycle stuntman who becomes the host of a "spirit of vengeance" in exchange for the safety of his true love. At night he's transformed into a fiery demon with superpowers who chases bad guys.

Bridge to Terabithia
    ( Release: Feb. 16, 2007   Rated: PG (MPAA)    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — Jess Aarons is an 11-year-old boy, aiming to be the fastest runner in his grade, until the new girl, Leslie Burke, shows up and proves that she can run faster than all of the boys. Despite their uncomfortable introduction, the two form a friendship and Leslie introduces Jess to the imaginative land of Terabithia.

Breach
    ( Release: Feb. 16, 2007   Rated: PG-13 (MPAA)    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — Eric O'Neill's (Ryan Phillippe) dream of becoming a big-time agent in the FBI is finally coming true; he's been promoted to work with renowned operative Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper). But O'Neill soon realizes that he's supposed to spy on Hanssen — a suspected traitor within the organization.

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I Could Never Be Your Woman
    ( Release: Jul. 28, 2006   Rated: PG-13    Details  ) — A mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) falls for a younger man (Paul Rudd) while her teenage daughter (Saoirse Ronan) goes through a romance for the first time.

Daddy's Little Girls
    ( Release: Feb. 14, 2007   Rated: Rating Pending    Details | Photos  ) — In Tyler Perry's follow-up to Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea's Family Reunion, single father Monty (Idris Elba) loses custody of his three young daughters to his corrupt ex-wife. Desperate to win his girls back, Monty enlists the help of an attractive, hard-nosed attorney named Julia (Gabrielle Union). As a garage mechanic, Monty is Julia's complete opposite, yet an unexpected romance brews.

Primeval
    ( Release: Feb. 9, 2007   Rated: Rating Pending    Details  ) — After traveling to South Africa in pursuit of a notoriously huge crocodile named Gustave, the members of a news team encounter unforeseen trouble when a warlord threatens their lives.

Superhero!
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Norbit
    ( Release: Feb. 9, 2007   Rated: Rating Pending    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — Eddie Murphy stars as both a nebbish guy and his overbearing fiancée, whom he tries to dump once he meets the girl of his dreams (Thandie Newton).

The Lives of Others
    ( Release: Feb. 9, 2007   Rated: R (MPAA)    Details | Photos  ) — In 1984, five years before the fall of East Berlin, Captain Gerd Wiesler (Muehe) is employed by the Stasi, East Germany's incredibly powerful secret police. He is asked to spy on a celebrated playwright and actress couple, Georg Dreyman (Koch) and Christa-Maria Sieland (Gedeck). But his role as an observer suddenly morphs into that of a manipulator, Wiesler is stuck in a very dangerous game.

Hannibal Rising
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Rogue
    ( Release: Feb. 2, 2007   Rated: Rating Pending    Details | Photos  ) — Jet Li stars in this fast-paced action thriller, playing an assassin named Rogue who has murdered an FBI agent. Now the agent's former partner is hellbent on revenge--and there's no avoiding a tense showdown with Rogue.

Because I Said So
    ( Release: Feb. 2, 2007   Rated: Rating Pending    Details | Trailers | Photos  ) — Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore star as a mother and daughter, with the former desperate to find the right man for the latter to ensure she doesn't make the same mistakes her mother did.

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Burns debuts new documentary, 'The War' (AP)
   AP - Two troubling statistics fueled the creation of "The War," the 14-hour documentary about World War II from acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns.

Paramount making a Jack Ryan film without Ryan?
   Clear and Present Danger , The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games were very successful spy movies back in the day and apparently Paramount is looking for more of that sort of success, but they are going about it in a very strange way. Here's what director Phillip Noyce had to say over at movieweb.com: Phillip Noyce, who directed Jack Ryan films Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger,...

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Swedish town seeks Bergman look-alike (AP)
   AP - A small Swedish town is searching for a bride-to-be who is an Ingrid Bergman look-alike to take part in a reenactment of the film star's first wedding in 1937.

Movie theaters to get more culture with Opera screenings
   When you think movie theater you don't automatically think culture, but this holiday season you may just want to consider checking out some opera at one of the fifty theaters across the US that will have The Magic Flute directed by Julie Taymore. I caught this news tidbit from a studio briefing over at imdb.com : More than 50 theaters across the U.S. plan to screen a live performance of the New...

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Spider-Man 3 Footage
   Here is the Spider-Man 3 stuff that aired on TV the other night. Thanks to Mitch for the heads up.

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Final Thoughts On Jackson, The Hobbit and The Boycott
   The capacity that film fans seem to have (myself included) to over simplify certain things and fall into a blood lust of rabid and blatant fanism never ceases to amaze me. Like the fools who got running with the whole "Craig Not Bond" site when it was announced Daniel Craig was cast as the new James Bond. They, the self proclaimed "true fans of Bond" thought they knew better than the studio. ...

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Movie Mistakes
   I love catching little mistakes in movies. Not story mistakes... but little "cought on film" continutiy errors that were either missed by the editors, or that they just didn't think was worth re-shooting or that many people would notice. I still remember the first time I cought a mistake... it was in Raiders of the Lost Ark... and there were 2 of them (that I cought at the time). The first on...

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Thank You For Smoking To Get TV Show
   I really enjoyed Thank You For Smoking earlier this year. I mean come on... how can you have a movie where the main protagonist is the spin doctor FOR the tobacco industry and not at least be a little bit interested right? Aaron Eckhart gave the best performance I've ever seen in his career, and the film made you laugh pretty much the whole way through. Well... I guess the folks over at NBC...

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Kazakh says Borat creator deserves prize (AP)
   

AP - A leading Kazakh writer has nominated actor Sacha Baron Cohen for a national award for popularizing Kazakhstan. Novelist Sapabek Asip-uly called on the Kazakh Club of Art Patrons to give Baron Cohen its annual award, according to a letter published by the Vremya newspaper Thursday.

Liv Tyler films thriller in S.C. town (AP)
   

AP - Liv Tyler says when she first saw the title of the script for her new film, "The Strangers," she thought it was a comedy. Turns out it was a thriller about a couple trying to survive when three masked strangers invade their home.

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Sir Ian McKellan Saddened About a Jackson Free Hobbit.
   Sir Ian McKellan is saddened by the announcement that Peter Jackson will not be directing The Hobbit. I am too. But I will get over it. Yahoo! NewsSir Ian McKellen, who played the wizard Gandalf in the smash hit "Lord of the Rings" movies, said on Wednesday he is sad director Peter Jackson may not make a film based on author J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit." "I'm very sad as I should have...

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French actor Philippe Noiret dies at 76 (AP)
   AP - Philippe Noiret, a beloved French actor featured in the popular "Il Postino" ("The Postman"), died Thursday, the Culture Ministry said. He was 76.

Actress Tawny Kitaen faces cocaine charge in Calif (Reuters)
   Reuters - Actress Tawny Kitaen, best known for starring in a series of 1980s heavy metal videos, has been charged with possessing 15 grams of cocaine, prosecutors said.

'Da Vinci' heavenly on DVD charts (Reuters)
   Reuters - Consumers cracked "The Da Vinci Code" in a big way. The controversial Vatican thriller topped both the national DVD sales and rental charts the week ending November 19.

Pitt, Jolie spend holiday in Vietnam (AP)
   

AP - Instead of stuffing themselves with turkey and all the fixings, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie spent Thanksgiving cruising around Vietnam's largest city on a motorbike.