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	<title>RopeofSilicon.com Movie News, Trailers, Reviews and More &#187; Around the Web</title>
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		<title>&#039;Road&#039; Poster, Maguire on &#039;Spider-Man 4,&#039; Shatner in &#039;Star Trek&#039; and &#039;Thor&#039; Casting</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/road-poster-maguire-on-spider-man-4-shatner-in-star-trek-and-thor-casting</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/road-poster-maguire-on-spider-man-4-shatner-in-star-trek-and-thor-casting#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spider-Man 4]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Star Trek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Road]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Shatner]]></category>

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First off, a new short arrives on the heels of the short for Up I posted earlier. This time it&#039;s the fifth in a series of Cars shorts directed by John Lasseter called &#034;Unidentified Flying Mater.&#034;

Moving on, TrekMovie has the as scripted scene from Star Trek had William Shatner as Captain Kirk been included. Read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desplat Gives Additional Details On Malick&#039;s &#039;Tree of Life&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/desplat-gives-additional-details-on-malicks-tree-of-life</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/desplat-gives-additional-details-on-malicks-tree-of-life#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clearing the Air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Tree of Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=21969</guid>
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For all intents and purposes, the headline above is not a lie, but said &#034;details&#034; aren&#039;t as alarming and plot producing as you may like as The Playlist alerts us to a clip from Movie City Indie in which composer Alexandre Desplat talks about working with Terrence Malick and his new film Tree of Life.

To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cormac McCarthy Thinks &#039;Blood Meridian&#039; Can be Filmed</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/cormac-mccarthy-thinks-blood-meridian-can-be-filmed</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/cormac-mccarthy-thinks-blood-meridian-can-be-filmed#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=21933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last August I wrote an article headlined &#034;Cormac McCarthy&#039;s &#039;Blood Meridian&#039; Can&#039;t Possibly Become a Movie&#034; in response to continued word Little Children and In the Bedroom helmer Todd Field was set to direct McCarthy&#039;s blood-soaked 1985 breakthrough novel. Among the reasons given I wrote &#034;there is no chance this book can be brought to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Before He Was a &#039;True Blood&#039; Vampire He Was Starting Gas Fights!</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/before-he-was-a-true-blood-vampire-he-was-starting-gas-fights</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/before-he-was-a-true-blood-vampire-he-was-starting-gas-fights#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For No Reason Whatsoever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Skarsgard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[True Blood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zoolander]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=21878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For no reason whatsoever I offer up Alexander Skarsgard as Meekus doing the jitter-bug with Ben Stiller in Zoolander. Orange Mocha Frappacino!




Now he&#039;s just Eric Northman, a 1000-year-old vampire sheriff in HBO&#039;s &#034;True Blood.&#034;
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		<title>Button Mashing Was Popular before Richard Kelly&#039;s &#039;The Box&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/button-mashing-was-popular-before-richard-kellys-the-box</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/button-mashing-was-popular-before-richard-kellys-the-box#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fan Made Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Box]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=21799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you get a chance to see Richard Kelly&#039;s The Box this past weekend? By now, if you are an avid online reader, you&#039;ve probably heard the film is an adaptation of Richard Matheson&#039;s &#034;Button, Button&#034; which was also turned into an episode of &#034;The Twilight Zone&#034;. However, a second video has shown up online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is &#039;The Fourth Kind&#039; Real or Another &#039;Blair Witch&#039; Fake Out?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/is-the-fourth-kind-real-or-another-blair-witch-fake-out</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/is-the-fourth-kind-real-or-another-blair-witch-fake-out#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digging for Dirt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Fourth Kind]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=21695</guid>
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Milla Jovovich in The Fourth Kind
Photo: Universal Pictures


I saw The Fourth Kind last night and while I&#039;m not allowed to review it until this coming Friday, I did want to talk about it a little bit beforehand and share with you what little information I know.



I hadn&#039;t watched a trailer before going into the film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATED: &#039;Amelia&#039; is On Everyone&#039;s Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/amelia-is-on-everyones-mind</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/amelia-is-on-everyones-mind#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Contenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amelia]]></category>

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From left, Hilary Swank in Amelia and the actual Amelia Earhart in 1928. 
Photo: New York Times


UPDATE: I have now been informed Seattle will have an earlier screening on Wednesday morning. So I will have a chance to see it before Thursday night, which will certainly help in putting together a more thoughtful review.



Last week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German? Swedish? Jibberish? Who Cares? Wonka is Terrifying!</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/german-swedish-jibberish-who-cares-wonka-is-terrifying</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/german-swedish-jibberish-who-cares-wonka-is-terrifying#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=20981</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Film Drunk posted the below video featuring the tunnel trip from 1971&#039;s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The only difference between this version and the original, however, is that it has been reversed and while that may sound a little silly, it actually works in creating a terrifying trip through a tunnel of Hell.

Go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Director Responds to Recent Revelations in &#039;Roman Polanski&#039; Doc</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/director-responds-to-recent-revelations-in-roman-polanski-doc</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/director-responds-to-recent-revelations-in-roman-polanski-doc#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clearing the Air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marina Zenovich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=20725</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I received a statement from Marina Zenovich, the director of the much talked about documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired in response to yesterday&#039;s revelation from former prosecutor, David Wells, saying he lied when making statements in said documentary. Here is the snippet from former Los Angeles District Attorney Marcia Clark&#039;s article in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like Movie Lists? Here are Four to Scrutinize</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/like-movie-lists-here-are-four-to-scrutinize</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/like-movie-lists-here-are-four-to-scrutinize#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lists]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=19808</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you like lists? Well, how about these options?

Wired&#039;s Favorite Sci-Fi Flicks of All Time &#8211; Pre-Star Wars


A Trip to the Moon (1902)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
Them! (1954)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958)
The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Before They Were &#039;Basterds&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/before-they-were-basterds</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/before-they-were-basterds#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inglourious Basterds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=19788</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seattle&#039;s Scarecrow Video is located approximately 15 blocks down the road from my house (don&#039;t stalk me!) and on top of being one of the largest independent video stores in the country they apparently have a blog I knew nothing about and my first trip to said blog has me looking squarely at a post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#039;Fatal Attraction&#039; Ending: Fatally Flawed or Ambigiously Brilliant?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/the-fatal-attraction-ending-fatally-flawed-or-ambigiously-brilliant</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/the-fatal-attraction-ending-fatally-flawed-or-ambigiously-brilliant#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clearing the Air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fatal Attraction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=19231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, after my Sunday posting of What I Watched a conversation got started on Twitter with Drew McWeeny from HitFix.com. The discussion was in regards to the ending of Fatal Attraction based on another back-and-forth I was having with Garth Franklin who runs DarkHorizons.com about my comments on Dead Calm in which I detested the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Bites: Sommers Talks &#039;Joe,&#039; More &#039;Kill Bill,&#039; &#039;Inception&#039; Trailer Date and More</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/news-bites-sommers-talks-joe-more-kill-bill-inception-trailer-date-and-more</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/news-bites-sommers-talks-joe-more-kill-bill-inception-trailer-date-and-more#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward James Olmos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kick-Ass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kill Bill: Volume One]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kill Bill: Volume Two]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meryl Streep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rapunzel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saw VI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Sommers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Green Hornet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Twilight Saga: New Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whiteout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[X Games 3D: The Movie]]></category>

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Photo: Summit Entertainment


First for the trailer news as Summit sent out word yesterday the second trailer for The Twilight Saga: New Moon will debut this Friday, August 14 attached to prints of the studio&#039;s own Bandslam. Secondly, the trailer for Christopher Nolan&#039;s Inception is expected to be attached to prints of Quentin Tarantino&#039;s Inglourious Basterds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Bites: Top Crix On &#039;Joe,&#039; Spielberg Wants &#039;Halo,&#039; &#039;Underworld 4&#039; in 3-D and More</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/news-bites-top-crix-on-joe-spielberg-wants-halo-underworld-4-in-3-d-and-more</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/news-bites-top-crix-on-joe-spielberg-wants-halo-underworld-4-in-3-d-and-more#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digging for Dirt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Serious Man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Green Hornet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whiteout]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=18957</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

Concept art from Halo: The Fall of Reach
Photo: LatinoReview


A couple of newsy items for you to peruse on this lazy Saturday&#8230;

IESB is reporting Steven Spielberg was &#034;blown away by writer Stuart Beattie&#039;s [Halo] script entitled Halo: The Fall of Reach&#034; based on the popular Microsoft videogame that was once set to be directed by District [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summit and Lefevre Battle It Out In the Press Over &#039;Twilight&#039; Re-Casting</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/summit-and-lefevre-battle-it-out-in-the-press-over-twilight-re-casting</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/summit-and-lefevre-battle-it-out-in-the-press-over-twilight-re-casting#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clearing the Air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachelle Lefevre  ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Twilight Saga: Eclipse]]></category>

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Rachelle Lefevre as Victoria in Twilight
Photo: Summit Entertainment


Less than 24 hours after it was announced Bryce Dallas Howard would be replacing Rachelle Lefevre in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse as the vampire Victoria a battle of press statements has ensued with Lefevre issuing the following statement picked up by Access Hollywood:

I was stunned by Summit&#039;s decision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fox&#039;s &#039;I Love You Beth Cooper&#039; Viral Marketing Failure</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/foxs-i-love-you-beth-cooper-viral-marketing-failure</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/foxs-i-love-you-beth-cooper-viral-marketing-failure#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I Love You Beth Cooper]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I first read about this in Monika Bartyzel&#039;s piece at Cinematical, but didn&#039;t want to post anything because I couldn&#039;t find the video, but now thanks to Film Drunk that problem has been solved.

In a July 28 piece at the Wall Street Journal (of all places) Ethan Smith and Sabrina Shankman point out a strange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Can&#039;t Wait to See &#039;Marbles: The Movie!&quot;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/i-cant-wait-to-see-marbles-the-movie</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/i-cant-wait-to-see-marbles-the-movie#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Ebert]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

I think the green one with yellow stripes is eye-balling me!


Roger Ebert just won&#039;t give up on his mission to remind us all how bad Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was. Today he posted a new article headlined &#034;The toys that ate Hollywood,&#034; which prognosticates what children&#039;s toys Hollywood may snatch up next. He casts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judging a Book By Its Cover: &#039;My Sister&#039;s Keeper&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/judging-a-book-by-its-cover-my-sisters-keeper</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clearing the Air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Sister's Keeper]]></category>

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I have no idea if this will become a regular thing for me since I believe judging a film too much based on its marketing material is a wrong-headed thing to do, but as the release date for My Sister&#039;s Keeper gets closer and closer I can&#039;t help but get more and more irked by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanna See &#039;Adventureland&#039; for Free? Just Inquire about Illegally Downloading It On Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/wanna-see-adventureland-for-free-just-inquire-about-illegally-downloading-it-on-twitter</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/wanna-see-adventureland-for-free-just-inquire-about-illegally-downloading-it-on-twitter#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adventureland]]></category>

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Photo: Twitter


I Heart Movies stumbled across an interesting little back-and-forth between a Twitter member going by the name of Amanda Music and Miramax Films following Amanda&#039;s Twitter post, which you see above, asking, &#034;Ugh WHY IS ADVENTURELAND NOT ON TORRENTS YET?&#034;

Of course, seeing how the idea of piracy (in more ways than one) is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;Iron Man 2&#039; Set Pics and Video Plus Story Chatter and Howard Responds to Cheadle Casting</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/iron-man-2-set-pics-and-video-plus-story-chatter-and-howard-responds-to-cheadle-casting</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/iron-man-2-set-pics-and-video-plus-story-chatter-and-howard-responds-to-cheadle-casting#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clearing the Air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Set Pics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Set Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Cheadle]]></category>
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April 6 marked the first day of principal photography of Iron Man 2 as Jon Favreau Tweets from the set including looks at a sign directing folks to the set as well as his director&#039;s chair. However, more than just inanimate objects have been captured from the first day as you can see from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parody Trailer: What if Zack Snyder Made &#039;WALL-E&#039;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/parody-trailer-what-if-zack-snyder-made-wall-e</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/parody-trailer-what-if-zack-snyder-made-wall-e#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fan Made Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WALL-E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watchmen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[YouTube user &#034;TM2Megatron&#034; has put together a fan trailer for WALL-E using the audio from the teaser trailer for Watchmen and it is truly inspired. The use of slow-motion and appropraite scenes duplicating the mood from the original Watchmen trailer is spot on accurate.

On the accompanying YouTube page he gives the following note for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;Transformers 3&#039; Release Date Looks to 2012&#8230; Not 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/transformers-3-release-date-looks-to-2012-not-2011</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/transformers-3-release-date-looks-to-2012-not-2011#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clearing the Air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transformers 3]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I guess if you are going to announce a release date for your movie you should do your best to start by getting the year correct and go from there. On Monday Paramount announced a July 1, 2011 release date for Transformers 3 all while stating Michael Bay was not confirmed as director and no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is &#039;Duplicity&#039; Going to Test the Star Power of Julia Roberts?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/is-duplicity-going-to-test-the-star-power-of-julia-roberts</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/is-duplicity-going-to-test-the-star-power-of-julia-roberts#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digging for Dirt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Duplicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Roberts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I saw Duplicity starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen on Monday night and while I am not going to slather it the way Variety did (superior to Michael Clayton?), I will say it is a pretty good flick and a fair amount of fun to watch. However, it appears this is much more than just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#039;s Called &#039;Twilight: The Musical&#039; and It&#039;s a Real Thing</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/its-called-twilight-the-musical-and-its-a-real-thing</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/its-called-twilight-the-musical-and-its-a-real-thing#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fan Made Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twilight]]></category>

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Photo: TwilighttheMusical.com


On March 13 the Internet will witness what may be a brief moment of insanity or an inspired moment of parody as Twilight: The Musical will debut Act One online at TwilighttheMusical.com. Thanks to Cleolinda we get this following bit of info she received from the musical&#039;s creators:

In June of 2008, a group that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Download Now: &#039;Raiders of the Lost Ark&#039; 1978 Lucas and Spielberg Story Conference Transcript</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/download-now-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1978-lucas-and-spielberg-story-conference-transcript</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/download-now-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1978-lucas-and-spielberg-story-conference-transcript#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have not read this yet, but in tracking several other website owners through my Twitter account the 126-page transcript from the original story conference for the first Indiana Jones adventure, Raiders of the Lost Ark, between George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan in January 1978 is apparently quite interesting.

Peter at SlashFilm was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malick, Pitt, Penn and Dinosaurs?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/malick-pitt-penn-and-dinosaurs</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/malick-pitt-penn-and-dinosaurs#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digging for Dirt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Tree of Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I need to brush up a bit more on Terrence Malick&#039;s The Tree of Life starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn and expected to bow sometime this 2009 as a third-hand report from Empire Magazine by way of Hollywood Elsewhere that first showed up in the CriterionForum on Friday. The quote apparently is found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;Terminator Salvation&#039; MPAA Rating Bickering, New Photos and Trailer</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/terminator-salvation-mpaa-ratings-bickering-new-photos-and-trailer</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/terminator-salvation-mpaa-ratings-bickering-new-photos-and-trailer#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clearing the Air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terminator Salvation]]></category>

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Photo: Warner Bros. via Yahoo! Movies


Apparently while at WonderCon McG, director of the upcoming Terminator Salvation, got convention goers all riled up by saying a Warner Bros executive wanted him to edit his current cut of Terminator Salvation in hopes of a PG-13 rating as opposed to the certain R-rating the current cut would receive.

Peter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;The Reader&#039;&#8230; One of the Most Uplifting Movie Experiences of Your Life</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/the-reader-one-of-the-most-uplifting-movie-experiences-of-your-life</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/the-reader-one-of-the-most-uplifting-movie-experiences-of-your-life#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[False Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Winslet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I liked The Reader. I even included it on my top ten of 2008 in the #10 slot. However, the ad you see directly to the right comes from Nathaniel at The Film Experience as he scanned it out of this weekend&#039;s &#034;New York Times&#034;.

The quote you see on there comes from Rex Reed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emily Blunt&#039;s Involvement in &#039;Iron Man 2&#039; is in Question</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/emily-blunts-involvement-in-iron-man-2-is-in-question</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/emily-blunts-involvement-in-iron-man-2-is-in-question#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digging for Dirt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eliza Dushku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emily Blunt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iron Man 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every single movie blog in the known universe is reporting on a story from The Playlist in which they are giving out second hand information as one of their readers &#8212; someone named &#034;Script Grrrl&#034; &#8212; tells them they they heard Jon Favreau on E! say &#034;Fox exercised its [Gulliver's Travels] option on Emily Blunt, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Fans &#039;Superman Unleashed&#039; Keeps Your Hope Alive</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/super-fans-superman-unleashed-keeps-your-hope-alive</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/super-fans-superman-unleashed-keeps-your-hope-alive#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digging for Dirt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Superman Returns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Untitled Superman Reintroduction]]></category>

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Photo: SlashFilm


There is no doubt about whether or not there will be another Superman movie. However, the nature of the film is obviously up in the air. Will it be a sequel to Superman Returns? Who will write it? Who will direct it? Who will star?

Personally I don&#039;t think it necessarily needs to be made [...]]]></description>
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