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Alice Review: Keke Palmer’s Enslaved Character Realizes She’s Actually Living In 1973 [Sundance 2022] “Alice” opens with a marriage, but when the couple’s vows include the phrase “until distance do us part,” it quickly becomes clear that this is not a typical ceremony. Alice (Keke Palmer) is an enslaved woman living on a plantation in Georgia, now married to Joseph (Gaius Charles) and part of a community of so-called “domestic livestock” who have been long-suffering under the tyranny of cruel landowner Paul Bennet (Jonny Lee Miller)....

American Gangster Leaked Online “For Your Consideration” season has begun. I know this because the first Oscar screener of the season has been leaked online. A week and a half before the official release date, Ridley Scott’s new filmAmerican Gangsterhas been uploaded to the bit torrent networks and has already been illegally downloaded by tens of thousands of people. And that’s just in the first 20 hours online. As I write this, over 10,000 users are currently downloading the video off a popular bit torrent website....

Black Friday Trailer: Bruce Campbell And Devon Sawa Battle Rabid Shoppers We are, rather amazingly, nearing the holiday season already. Halloween is just around the corner and, before we know it, Thanksgiving is going to be here. And with Thanksgiving comes a uniquely American tradition known as Black Friday. Now, someone has finally decided to make a horror movie about it, appropriately titled “Black Friday” — and they wisely brought Bruce Campbell (“The Evil Dead”) and Devon Sawa (“Final Destination”) along for the ride....

Blu-Or-Not: Eagle Eye, Serenity, The Duchess, Ghost Town We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Each week in Blu-or-Not I take a look at the recent Blu-ray releases. This isn’t a review column. If you’re looking for movie reviews, look out for Adam’s This Week in DVD on Tuesdays. Blu-or-Not takes a look at the extra value content — the Blu-ray difference (and yes, this does include Picture and Sound)....

Box Office Tracking: Heartbreak Kid Soft; Seeker Headed For $5M-$8M What ever happened to The Farrelly Brothers? Bobby and Peter exploded onto the scene back in 1994 with the landmark rude comedy Dumb & Dumber. This gem delivered $127M domestic with lines like, According to the map, we’ve only gone 4 inches," and “Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?,” and “Check out the funbags on that hosehound.” You won’t get that sort of smart dialogue from scribes like William Monahan, Akiva Goldsman or Paul Haggis....

Box Office: Fool’s Gold $22.6M 3-Day; Paris Hilton’s Hottie $76 PTA 5 years ago, Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson teamed up for the romantic comedy How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days with a $7.96M Friday and a $23.7M opening weekend. Their new movie together, Fool’s Gold (Warner Bros), is enjoying virtually the same success. The tepidly-reviewed date flick has opened with an estimated $7.81M on opening day, and will apparently sail to a $22....

Chris Evans To Lead Marc Webb’s ‘Gifted’; Rosamund Pike And Jeff Bridges Join ‘The Only Living Boy In New York’ Having left behind one Marvel superhero,The Amazing Spider-MandirectorMarc Webbis preparing to team up with another.Captain AmericastarChris Evansis set for Webb’s new movieGifted, aBlack List dramaset up at Fox Searchlight. Meanwhile, Webb’s other upcoming projectThe Only Living Boy in New Yorkis also making some progress.Jeff BridgesandRosamund Pikehave just signed on for theAllan Loeb-scripted romance, joiningMiles Teller....

Contest: Babel On DVD Babelhits DVD store shelves on February 20th, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is toe-mail uswith the reason why you should win. On February 28th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump. In BABEL, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world....

David Slade Comments On ‘Daredevil’ And ‘The Wolverine’ Controversy Leave it to Twitter to be your #1 source for superhero news. DirectorDavid Sladeturned to the social media network this weekend to offer brief, but telling, updates on his plans forDaredevilas well as commenting onThe Wolverine.Last week,20th Century Fox announced Sladeas the new director for an upcomingDaredevilfilm. He was also in talks to directThe Wolverinefor Fox before Darren Aronofsky came on board so, now thatAronofsky has left the project, speculation is running wild that Slade could possibly helm that film once again....

Dianne Wiest Boards Noah Baumbach’s ‘The Corrections’ For HBO; Chris Cooper In Talks Last month, I got very excited aboutreportsthatNoah Baumbachwould be adaptingThe Correctionsfor HBO. TheSquid and the Whaledirector struck me as a perfect pick to bringJonathan Franzen’s unhappy family tome to life. Today’s news makes me even more certain that HBO will do right by Franzen. The project, which is being directed by Baumbach and penned by Baumbach and Franzen, has now moved into casting — and the first two choices seem like truly fantastic ones....

Edgar Wright Talks Scott Pilgrim Music And Reveals Some Soundtrack Details Update:A musical artist was incorrectly attributed as Kevin Canning, butno such person exists.The track played was by Brendan Canning and Kevin Drew. This afternoon,Edgar Wrighttook the airwaves with a two hour music show on the BBC’s 6 Music, something they calledA Month of Matinees… With Edgar Wright. As well as playing an awful lot of soundtrack cuts from old TV shows and films, he also spilled a little bit of information on the music for his upcomingScott Pilgrim vs....

Everything We Learned About ‘The Mandalorian’ At The Star Wars Celebration Panel Live-actionStar Warsstories have always been on the big screen, with only animated tales getting a shot on television. Until now.The Mandalorianis the first live-actionStar WarsTV series and Disney knows this is a big deal – it’s being positioned as the flagship series for the new Disney+ streaming service. Much like how CBS used a newStar Trekshow to draw people into their new subscription service, Disney and Lucasfilm know that all it takes is one great show to get people hooked…and the next chapter in a beloved franchise certainly helps get people through the door....

Five And A Half Hour ‘Nymphomaniac’ Director’s Cut Lands In October We saw the two theatrical releases ofNymphomaniacVol. 1and2earlier this year fromLars von Trier, and you’re able to watch them on Netflix now, too. But the “hardcore” and extended director’s cut of the full assembly is still to come, and now we’ve got an October date for the full five and a half hour version. The director’s cut will release day and date in theaters and on VOD in a number of different countries including the US....