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Opening This Week
Will ‘Speed Racer’ beat ‘Iron Man’ to the finish this weekend?
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| Emile Hirsch as Speed Racer in a scene from Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ action adventure “Speed Racer.” |
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PINELLAS COUNTY – A number of new movie releases will hit theaters on May 9, including the following:
“Speed Racer” – Warner Brothers in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, of a Silver Pictures Production, in association with Anarchos Productions, will bring “Speed Racer” to the big screen this Friday.
From the Wachowski brothers and producer Joel Silver, creators of the groundbreaking “The Matrix” trilogy, “Speed Race” stars Emile Hirsch. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless.
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Future Feature: ‘Bangkok Dangerous’
Pang brothers remake their own debut film
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| Nicolas Cage (left) stars as Joe in “Bangkok Dangerous,” directed by the Pang Brothers. |
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It’s rare for a summer to roll by without seeing a Nicolas Cage blockbuster, and Lionsgate’s “Bangkok Dangerous” may be the actor’s juciest role since “Adaptation.”
Written and directed by Danny Pang Fat and Oxide Pang Chun, the crime film is actually a remake of the Pang brothers’ debut Thai film of the same name.
That version won an award from the International Federation of Film Critics at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for best film and best editing at the Thailand National Film Association Awards.
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Reel Time
‘Iron Man’ forged on new superhero assembly line
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| Iron Monger (left) does battle with his nemesis, Iron Man (right) in “Iron Man.” |
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With Hollywood increasingly turning to yesteryear’s comic books for this summer’s blockbusters, it’s refreshing to see that “Iron Man” didn’t end up being a formulaic cookie-cutter cliché geared toward teenage audiences like so many of its antecedents.
“Iron Man” thankfully comes off of a completely different assembly line.
Directed by Jon Favreau, Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment’s “Iron Man” boasts a cast of Hollywood heavies that at first glance don’t seem to meet the parameters for this high-octane, science fiction action romp.
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Future Feature: New ‘X-Files’ movie
Chris Carter is currently working on a new “X-Files” movie for Twentieth Century Fox, slated for release on July 25.
In grand “X-Files” manner, the as-yet-untitled film’s storyline is being kept under wraps.
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