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TELEVISION - From YahooTV: CBS has cancelled another of its series that is produced by Warner Bros, but that CBS does not own. Last year, it was "Mike and Molly." This season, CBS cancels "2 Broke Girls" after six seasons.
From YahooTV: The stars of "2 Broke Girls" react to the cancellation of their series.
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TELEVISION - From TheWrap: FOX and Warner Bros. are joining on a live musical version of the classic MGM film, "A Christmas Story." The three-hour television event will air on the Fox tnetwork in December.
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MOVIES - From THR: Daniel Radcliffe continues to expand his resume of genres with an action comedy, "Gun Akimbo." This news about the "Harry Potter" star was announced at Cannes.
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COMICS-ANIMATION - From SideshowToys: Donald Glover (actor and creator of FX's "Atlanta") and his brother Stephen are joining FXX to create a "Deadpool" animated series that will debut in 2018 with 10 episodes.
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TELEVISION - From Variety: The major networks start announcing their TV series for the 2017-18 TV season at what are called "Upfronts." Before these new "Upfronts," the networks have announced the cancellations of some current series, including Tim Allen's "Last Man Standing" at ABC and "Son of Zorn" and "Sleepy Hollow" at FOX.
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BOX OFFICE - From YahooMovies: Apparently, Guy Ritchie's pricey "King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword" ($175 million production budget) is expected to be a box office disappointment or maybe even a flop.
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CELEBRITY - From YahooMovies: The story of Johnny Depp and his money "woes."
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CULTURE - From YahooBeauty: A dad, his daughter, and her half-naked doll.
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MUSIC - From YahooMusic: According to Fortune magazines, Sean "Diddy" Comics still the richest hip hop star.
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MOVIES - From Variety: John Ridley's L.A. Riots documentary, "Let It Fall," will try to capture Oscar interest.
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BLM - From ThinkProgress: Madison County, Mississippi combines the best of Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South. Plan your vacation today!
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POLITICS - From TheNation: Trumpism is really coming from the suburbs, not the trailer parks.
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AVATAR - From TheReelWord: Cliff Curtis, who is more or less the lead actor in AMC's "Fear the Walking Dead," joins the cast of the "Avatar" sequels in a major role.
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COMICS-FILM - From TheReelWorld: There apparently a reboot of the "Hellboy" film franchise without writer-director Guillermo del Toro and actor Ron Perlman, who guided two films to the screen.
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COMICS-FILM - From DenofGeek: Who has what left on their Marvel Studios contract.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Russell Mulcahy, best known for his mid-1980s film, "Highland," has begun production on a biopic of notorious Hollywood legend, Errol Flynn.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 4/5 to 4/7/2017 weekend box office is Marvel Studios' "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" with an estimated take of $145 million.
From Variety: "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" has a $145 million debut.
From Variety: For the fifth year, a Marvel/Disney kicks off the box office in style. This time, it's "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3." This film's box office to date pushed the combined box office total of Marvel Studios films to over $11 billion dollars.
From Variety: If Marvel has a sequel curse, "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" breaks it.
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OBIT - From THR: The actress Quinn O'Hara has died at the age of 76, Friday, May 5, 2017. She was known for being a "sex kitten" in 1960s films like "The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini" and "A Swingin' Summer."
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TELEVISION - From Variety: Netflix renews its controversial "13 Reasons Why" for a second season.
CRIME - From RSN: Schools continue to ignore K-12 sexual assualts committed by K-12 students.
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FILM - From BET: In this video, actor Tyrese Gibson confirms that there will be a sequel to John Singleton's 2001 film, "Baby Boy."
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POLITICS - From GuardianUK: President Trump's Civil War statement regarding Andrew Jackson the latest in a long line of right wing Republicans trying to downplay slavery and how absolutely important it was to the southern states.
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POLITICS - From VanityFair: Confederate States of America Attorney General Jeff Session is prosecuting a woman who rightfully laughed at him.
TRAILERS:
From TheReelWord: First teaser trailer for Spike TV's new series, "The Mist," based on the Stephen King story.
From YahooMovies: See the first official trailer for "Blade Runners 2049." And it's visually striking.
From YahooMovies: Viewers of the 2017 MTV Movie Awards were treated to new footage from the new film adaptation of Stephen King's "It." See the creepy 98 minutes at the link at the front of this line.
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Thursday, September 9, 2010
Review: "Resident Evil: Extinction" is More Apocalyptic
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Running time: 95 minutes (1 hour, 35 minutes)
MPAA – R for not-stop violence, language, and some nudity
DIRECTOR: Russell Mulcahy
WRITER: Paul W.S. Anderson
PRODUCERS: Paul W.S. Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, and Robert Kulzer
CINEMATOGRAPHER: David Johnson
EDITOR: Niven Howie
HORROR/ACTION/SCI-FI with elements of drama
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Iain Glen, Ali Larter, Ashanti, Christopher Egan, Spencer Locke, Matthew Marsden, John Eric Bentley, and Mike Epps
Following the events of Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the recent film, Resident Evil: Extinction, presents a world where only pockets of humanity scattered around the globe remain because the world has been overrun by flesh-eating zombies. Series heroine, Alice (Milla Jovovich), hides in the Nevada desert, traveling the lonely highways on a motorcycle. Fate forces her to rejoin her old comrades Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps) and a group of new survivors, including Claire Redfield (Ali Larter), K-Mart (Spencer Locke), and Nurse Betty (Ashanti). They’re all part of a lonely convoy of small trucks and one school bus, trying to evade the undead humans, who were turned into flesh eating zombies by the T-virus.
Meanwhile, Dr. Isaacs (Iain Glen), a scientist from the Umbrella Corporation, the people responsible for the creation of the T-virus is seeking Alice’s whereabouts. Isaacs believes her blood is the key to finding a way to destroy the virus. He tracks to Alice and the convoy just as they arrive in what is left of Las Vegas, which is now nearly buried in sand and likely stocked with the undead.
Resident Evil: Extinction is an improvement over Resident Evil: Apocalypse, but Extinction isn’t as thrilling or as frightening as the original 2002 Resident Evil. Extinction is somewhere in the middle, but closer to the first film. Director Russell Mulcahy (best known for directing Highlander over two decades ago) piles on more visual style and flair than Apocalypse had, so the fight scenes in this film are much more exhilarating. Although often predictable, Extinction is, at times, genuinely chilling and creepy thanks to the stellar makeup on the zombies.
Yeah, the filmmakers sell us out at the end by setting up the story for another film, but what they deliver in Resident Evil: Extinction is mostly good. Bring on the next film.
6 of 10
B
Thursday, October 18, 2007
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