Archive: June 2011 (131-140 of 401)

Jun 20 2011 09:55 PM ET

Summer Movie Body Count: The soul-sucking Parallax lays waste to 'Green Lantern'

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Categories: Summer Movie Body Count
Parallax

Image Credit: TM & © DC Comics/Warner Bros

Week 7 of EW’s 2011 Summer Movie Body Count continues with Green Lantern. For those of you who do not possess a green ring of power that can download information into your memory, here’s a reminder of the rules. SPOILER ALERT: Things are about to get messy!

In Green Lantern, the film’s big bad Parallax — a soul-sucking embodiment of fear itself capable of decimating whole planets — is responsible either directly or indirectly for 93 percent of all the on-screen deaths. That is quite likely the highest percentage of loss of life attributable to a single entity in a movie yet this summer, impressive considering how little screen-time the undulating cloud of yellow-tinted despair really had in the film. So let’s break it all down, shall we?  READ FULL STORY »

Jun 20 2011 06:15 PM ET

'Harry Potter' tickets selling better in 2-D than 3-D. How will you be seeing the film?

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Categories: Harry Potter, Is This a Rhetorical Question?
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Image Credit: Jaap Buitendijk

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1 was originally going to be converted into 3-D to enhance ticket sales the cinematic experience, but Warner Bros. eventually decided to release the film just in old-fashioned 2-D. It was a move that was applauded by moviegoers, who were just beginning to suffer eyestrain from cash-grab 3-D conversions that assaulted anyone unlucky enough to see Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans, and/or The Last Airbender. But the studio made it clear that they fully intended to release Part 2 in 3-D. Flash forward to today: Audiences are suffering from severe 3-D fatigue, and a report by BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield claims that audiences buying presale tickets for the final Harry Potter film are generally opting for 2-D screenings of the film. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 20 2011 04:24 PM ET

Fill in the blank: Heidi Montag is a world-class...

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Categories: Does Anyone Really Need an Article to Answer This Headline?, HeadScratcher, Made Us Think, Ouch! That Was My Ear!, Ridiculata, That Was Way Harsh, Tai, This Really Only Needs One Sentence, Total Trash
Heidi-Montag

Image Credit: Denise Truscello/WireImage.com

…athlete?

You may look at Heidi Montag’s cartoonishly sexualized body and dismiss it is as the mere product of a frightening number of plastic surgeries. You couldn’t be more wrong. Montag works hard to look the way she does, harder than maybe anyone who’s ever lived. She told Us Weekly magazine that she’s spent the last two months working out 14 hours day. “I’ve been working out from, like, 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. for two months now,” she told the magazine. “I’ve been working out really hard because I had this pool party and I was like, I have to be in shape.” READ FULL STORY »

Jun 20 2011 03:40 PM ET

'Glee' Live 2011: The shrieks shall inherit

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Categories: 100% Pure Cheese, Camp Classics, Concert Reviews, Glee, On the Scene, Television
Glee-Live

Image Credit: Jonathan Shensa/PR Photos

When I boarded a train at Jamaica Station and immediately found myself sitting across from two teenage boys decked out in full Warbler getup — including Dalton blazers and sweaters, despite New York’s 80-degree weather — I began to think that I was in over my head.

We were headed to Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum to see Glee Live!, the show’s second annual concert tour. After this matinee performance and one more show Saturday evening, the cast of Fox’s chart-topping hit would be leaving for Europe — apparently, there’s no rest for the gleeful. I didn’t quite know what to expect… but if the superfans riding the train with me were any indication, the spectacle I was about to witness wouldn’t just be confined to what was happening onstage. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 20 2011 03:13 PM ET

Tom Hanks endorses 'The Onion' for a Pulitzer Prize

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Categories: Apropos of Nothing, Bitchery, Everyone's a Critic, Have You Seen This?, Made Us Think

The Onion, the satirical newspaper and website that calls itself  ”America’s Finest News Source,” recently launched a full-scale campaign to win a Pulitzer Prize, the highest honor in American Journalism. And it’s bringing in the big guns: that’s right, we’re talking about Tom Hanks.

In this video endorsement for the publication (embedded after the jump), an oh-so-serious Hanks intones of the selection committee, “I feel an intense physical malice towards whoever is in this mysterious cabal” and goes on to say that if the paper doesn’t receive an award, ”I will search you down … each and every one of you who is responsible for this grave injustice. The Pulitzer Prize committee, in fact, should be ashamed of making me this way.” Oh Pulitzer people, are you listening? You do not want to make the Hanks angry! READ FULL STORY »

Jun 20 2011 02:52 PM ET

Is 'The Killing' the new 'Heroes'?

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Categories: Heroes, Made Us Think, This Would Never Fly In Sweden
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Image Credit: AMC

Hopes were high when The Killing debuted on AMC back in April. AMC had a near-perfect track record — Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, and no need to mention Rubicon — and The Killing felt like the next step in the network’s rise to glory. It was to be an “anti-cop show” cop show, tracing one murder case over the course of an entire season in sharp contrast to the typical procedural structure. Early episodes earned accolades, high ratings, and comparisons to Twin Peaks. But the show lost a broad swath of its viewership and declined in quality in the red herring-laden second half of its season. (It’s never a good thing when one of the best episodes in a long time essentially ignores most of the characters and the main plot.)

But The Killing must have still had some devoted fans. How else to explain the near-rabid reaction to last night’s finale, which pointedly did not answer the central question of the season: “Who killed Rosie Larsen?” If critical reaction has been mixed, fan reaction has been vehemently negative — there’s already a site called f—thekilling.com, which says simple, “Dear ‘The Killing: F— You!!! Sincerely, Everyone Who Used To Watch Your Show.” READ FULL STORY »

Jun 20 2011 01:52 PM ET

The EW Twitter Exit Poll

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Categories: Exit Poll

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Each week, we invite our Twitter followers to share their 140-character reviews of the weekend’s big opening films in our EW Exit Poll. On the heels of its box office blunder, Green Lantern didn’t redeem itself in the hearts of those who did go to see it. On the flip side, Super 8 and X-Men: First Class continue to hang in there with solid feedback. This week’s winning submissions are after the jump. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 20 2011 12:04 PM ET

Julie Taymor says 'Spider-Man' harmed by Twitter, focus groups

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Categories: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Stage/Theater
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Image Credit: Amanda Schwab/Startraksphoto.com

Days after the official opening of Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, director Julie Taymor spoke candidly at a conference of theater professionals about the challenges that led her to leave the show in March. According to the New York Times, Taymor pointed a finger at the show’s producers for using focus group testing to tweak the show after a round of scathing early reviews in February. “It’s very scary if people are going more towards that, to have audiences tell you how to make a show,” she told an audience at the national conference of the Theatre Communications Group in L.A. on Saturday. “Shakespeare would have been appalled.” READ FULL STORY »

Jun 20 2011 11:05 AM ET

The new Miss USA likes 'Game of Thrones,' supports medical marijuana, believes in evolution, and is not unattractive

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Categories: Geekery, Ridiculata, Things That Are Classy
Alyssa-Campanella

Image Credit: Julie Jacobson/AP Images

Your new Miss USA is a redhead from California named Alyssa Campanella. She is allergic to the sun. When it came time to offer a personal anecdote, she said, “I’m obsessed with the Tudor and Stuart era,” which is surely the nerdiest thing that anyone has ever said on a show produced by Donald Trump. Or at least, it was the nerdiest thing, until she followed it up with: “I watch Game of Thrones.” Later, when Real Housewife Caroline Manzo asked if Campanella supported legalizing marijuana to inject a new source of capitalistic competition into our recessionary economy (although not in so many words), Campanella demurred by noting that, although abusing drugs is bad, medical marijuana is a social good (although not in so many words.) She apparently believes evolution should be taught in schools. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 20 2011 09:00 AM ET

Who is the coolest ThunderCat? (Ho!)

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Categories: Animals, I Remember When It Used To Cost A Nickel, I'm Just a Geek, Nostalgia, Things That Are Awesome!, Things That Make Us Feel Old, Who is the coolest...
Thundercats

Image Credit: Everett Collection

For an animal that’s synonymous with being uncool to have inspired possibly the badass action cartoon ever is an epic feat in itself. To have that cartoon still stand as one of the coolest shows to love more than 25 years after it’s inception is outstanding. Having grown up on ThunderCats myself, I tend to have an eagle eye for the trademark black-and-red shirts that roam the streets in increasing numbers. My freshman year of college, my roommate put up posters of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and paintings of sophisticated, angry-looking French cats. I put up this similarly feline-themed poster (later to be transferred to my cubicle at the school newspaper). And yes, I did special order it online. For Christmas years ago, my mom gave me DVD box sets of seasons one and two. And yes, I was 19 years old that year.

That gift was given much to the dismay of my older brother, who insists to this day that not only is he the bigger ThunderCats fan, but that Lion-O is the coolest ThunderCat of them all, which makes him wrong about two things. Now, you may be thinking, “That’s so not true, no space-cat can surpass Cheetara in my book,” and unfortunately, that would make you wrong as well. I contend, my Mumm-Ra-fearing friends, that the hands-down coolest ThunderCat of all time (presumably until July when Cartoon Network reboots the series and forever changes the landscape and dynamics of planet Thundera) is indisputably Panthro. Yes, Panthro! I said it. His badassery simply cannot be contended with. Or can it? Let’s debate!  READ FULL STORY »

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