Its Man vs machine After racking up a cool 104 million in its domestic opening weekend Iron Man is poised to hold onto the top box office spot even with competition from Speed Racer opening todayAt least one advance ticket retailer indicates the battle for No 1 could be tightAs of Friday morning Fandango reports Iron Man accounts for 33 percent of advance sales while newcomer Speed Racer checks in at 32 percentWhile each movie is geared toward the same audience Speed Racer probably offers four gears critics have been cool toward the Emile Hirsch-driven action flickWhich movie do you plan to see this weekend JR Whalen
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Got the need for speed? Then you probably won’t be disappointed with the new trailer for Speed Racer. Not only does the big screen adaptation of the animated series have an awesome cast (Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon and Matthew Fox), visually, the flick looks like it’s going to be a mock-speed ride bursting with more colors than a Crayola factory. Watch it now! | More online videos
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Set the red carpets loose! The Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men is the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures' pick for the best film of 2007. "I think it is one of the purest adaptations of a book," board president Annie Schulhof tells the AP. "The ensemble performances were absolutely extraordinary and it really talks about what happens when evil overrides good."In other categories, George Clooney (Michael Clayton) and Julie Christie (Away from Her) were named best actor and actress, Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) and Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) topped the supporting slots, and Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) and Ellen Page (Juno) won the young-actor contests.
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Director Bryan Singer has wooed Tom Cruise into taking a role in an untitled thriller based on an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the height of World War II.... The Devil Wears Prada's Emily Blunt will topline The Young Victoria, a biopic of the 19th-century monarch.... Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer, John C. Reilly and Elijah Wood will voice rag dolls from a parallel universe in the animated 9.... Emile Hirsch is in talks to star in the Wachowski siblings' Speed Racer, to film this summer and to be released next year.... New Line has acquired film rights to the hit video game Gears of War.
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Sometimes my job gets spooky. Minutes after I Q&A'd Tara Lipinski (re: an upcoming Malcolm in the Middle), a TV Guide colleague asks if I want to chat up Amber Heard, an ingénue-on-the-rise who plays a big role on tonight's Criminal Minds (9 pm/ET on CBS) but more interestingly got the edgy film role Lipinski just told me she had to pass on. Alpha Dog (in theaters May 12), though, is but one of the many gigs Heard is about to hit you with. In fact, you may be looking at the fledgling CW network's first breakout star. You be the judge.
TVGuide.com: Get this: I just interviewed Tara Lipinski, who opted to pass on a role in Alpha Dog because of the, um, required nudity. That's the gig you wound up with, right?Amber Heard: I definitely think it is. Th
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