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CBS3 morning-team cameo on 'World War Z'
Erika von Tiehl, Ukee Washington and Katie Fehlinger report on the zombie apocalypse in the Brad Pitt flick.
philly.com (28 minutes ago)
'We Were Bored Ourselves'
NEW YORK -- Brad Pitt wanted to build a better blockbuster. During the years Hollywood shifted toward increasingly bigger spectacles and superhero tentpoles, one of the movies' biggest stars largely stayed on the sidelines, focusing instead on ambitious ensembles ("The Tree of Life," `'Inglourious Basterds") and...
huffingtonpost.com (8 hours ago)
Review: Pitt and his zombies entertain in 'WWZ'
Might there be a real-life zombie apocalypse one day? Not likely, but then again, the way zombies have chomped their way into our pop culture the last several years, it's maybe a bit less implausible than it once was.
yahoo.com (13 hours ago)
Jimmy Fallon & Brad Pitt Yodel Because Why Not?
Brad Pitt's zombie-apocalypse blockbuster "World War Z" opens on Friday, so what better way to promote it than having a yodel-off with Jimmy Fallon? If you've got a better PR idea we'd LOVE to hear it.
huffingtonpost.com (14 hours ago)
Rob Taub: James Rollins: Renaissance Man
I was first introduced to Michael Crichton in 1971, when I read The Andromeda Strain as a high school freshman. Shortly thereafter I saw the movie Westworld and I was hooked. Crichton invented his own genre -- a unique combination of historical fact, thriller and science fiction. After Crichton passed away in 2008...
huffingtonpost.com (14 hours ago)
Floods Close French Pilgrimage Site
LOURDES, France — Heavy floods in southwest France have left two dead and forced the closure of the Catholic pilgrimage site in Lourdes and the evacuation of pilgrims from nearby hotels. Muddy floodwaters swirled Wednesday in the grotto where nearly 6 million believers from around the world, many gravely ill, come...
huffingtonpost.com (14 hours ago)
A $50 Movie Ticket? Theaters Try Selling a Supersized ‘Mega Ticket’
People complain that $50 is too steep of a price to bring a family of four to the movies. Yet this week theaters are seeing how many fans will pay $50 per person for a package that includes admission to the new Brad Pitt film, “World War Z,” two days before the worldwide release. The special “World War Z” Mega...
time.com (14 hours ago)
Are We Seriously Considering the Threat of an Internet Apocalypse?
“To start the program, don’t be scared, we’re going to dim the lights,” said Elizabeth Kreft, an aide to Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz.
yahoo.com (16 hours ago)
Volcano near Mexico City erupts: Rattles homes miles away
Apocalypse wow! A volcano southeast of Mexico City exploded violently: dark clouds of ash rocketed sky-high, white-hot cinders scattered across rumbling slopes and homes rattled as far as 25 miles off.
nydailynews.com (16 hours ago)
Goodbye World: LAFF Review
"Entourage" alum Adrian Grenier stars in Denis Henry Hennelly's movie about a group of college friends reuniting on the brink of the apocalypse.
hollywoodreporter.com (1 day ago)
Brad Pitt in World War Z: Get a Sneak Peek With These Hot Movie Photos!
The zombie apocalypse is almost here! Brad Pitt's highly anticipated action movie World War Z hits theaters this Friday and we thought we'd prepare ourselves by checking out...
eonline.com (1 day ago)
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Where To Hide When The Ecopocalypse Hits [Infographic]
Let this map of U.S. states scaled by volume above sea level guide you to your water-damaged, dystopian home of the future. Thanks to climate change, our oceans could rise by as much as 20 or 30 feet in the coming centuries. You can either build an ark (which sounds like an awful lot of work) or high-tail it to...
popsci.com (1 day ago)
10 Awesomely Random Band Cameos in Movies
[Spoiler alert: This intro gives away some details about the ending of This Is the End.] After an hour and a half of apocalypse shenanigans, certain members of the six-person This Is the End main cast find themselves chilling in heaven, where their wildest dreams are at their fingertips. What ...
vulture.com (1 day ago)
Miss Utah had no-win question
The ritual of sitting down at night to watch a nationally televised beauty pageant is becoming a relic in American culture, usurped by the ritual of sitting down the morning after to watch the video of the pageant contestant who gave the dumbest answer the night before. This year’s Miss USA winner of the unofficial...
standard.net (1 day ago)
Bill Callahan Sets 'Sensual, Soulful' September LP 'Dream River'
Bill Callahan has announced the follow-up to 2011's frank, unhurried Apocalypse. The booming-voiced luminary of underground rock will release his 16th album overall, counting his records as Smog, on September 17 via longtime home Drag City...
spin.com (1 day ago)
Review: 'World War Z' Delivers Zombie Apocalypse In Grand Style
I'm a huge fan of zombie fiction in all mediums. And I've read Max Brooks' book World War Z, and love it. So it was that, having heard the rumors about reshoots and script problems and significant changes from the source material, I wondered what I was in for when I sat for an advance screening of director Marc...
forbes.com (1 day ago)
'Homeland' Star Mandy Patinkin to Navigate the Apocalypse Off Broadway
The actor will team with downtown New York performance artist Taylor Mac on "The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville."
hollywoodreporter.com (2 days ago)
Man of Steel takes off – but will World War Z bring him back to Earth?
Raiding the vaults is de rigueur in an industry where the heads of studios are terrified of change and thus as creatively risk averse as their corporate parents. Warner Bros has consistently been one of the more daring purveyors of mass-appeal content, but even its minions are not inured to the allure of...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
Q&A: Francis Ford Coppola Talks About His Passion For Wine
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is still best known for his movies, especially his early successes Patton, Apocalypse Now, and the mega-hits, The Godfather and the Godfather Part II, which have become two of the most lauded and popular films in history. All of these critically acclaimed bombshells were made in the...
forbes.com (2 days ago)
This Is the End: 5 Celebs You Want for the Apocalypse
The end of the world as we know it feels more than fine if you party with James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jay Barachel, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride and a ton of other LA hipsters. After Seth picks up...
eonline.com (3 days ago)
Apocalypse Now: How Hollywood Ends the World
With summer releases like World War Z and This is the End, the film industry continues its longtime obsession with the apocalypse
time.com (3 days ago)
Man of Steel Swoops Into Weekend Box Office Lead
The latest Superman reboot set a new record for best-ever June opening weekend with a projected four-day cumulative total of $125.1 million domestically and $196.7 million worldwide. The less obviously heroic bros of Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg'ss apocalypse comedy This Is the End brought in a projected $20.5...
vulture.com (3 days ago)
Video class inspires students
OGDEN - The moral of the story: Attend college now, because those who delay enrollment until the zombie apocalypse will find it much harder to move safely between classes. read more
standard.net (5 days ago)
How Hollywood Ended the World
With summer movie releases like 'This is the End,' 'Pacific Rim,' and 'After Earth,' Hollwood reveals an obsession with the apocalypse. But there's a long tradition of movies ending the world.
time.com (5 days ago)
Emma Watson crowned Queen of the Tearling in new fantasy franchise
Harry Potter star Emma Watson is returning to fantasy cinema after signing on to play the lead in "Game of Thrones-style" saga Queen of the Tearling, reports Variety. Watson will play 19-year-old idealistic princess Kelsea Glynn, created by Erika Johansen after the author heard a 2007 speech by a pre-presidential...
guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)
Occupy the Multiplex: Class Warfare in This Summer’s Movies
Moviegoers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains. Doesn’t the movie theater seem a little Marx-ish lately? Tales of class struggle abound this summer. At the current multiplex, you might choose from The Purge (about a future dystopia where class warfare breaks out on the one night of the year...
time.com (5 days ago)
In Hollywood trend, apocalypse is portrayed in a comedic light
NEW YORK - The Earth has been coming to an end with comic frequency. We've seen tsunamis sweep the oceans ("2012"), the world freeze over ("The Day After Tomorrow") and a rogue planet bear dow…
azstarnet.com (6 days ago)
Film Review: Rapture, Rogen collide in "This is the End"
If the actual apocalypse arrives soon, it will find “This Is the End” a hard act to follow. A rip-roaring fire-and-brimstone comedy with shocks and special effects that are more startling if not more “realistic” than those found in “serious” blockbusters, the movie is vulgar, violent and grotesque in the extreme.
gomemphis.com (6 days ago)
Close up: How super is Man of Steel?
It's big. Very big. It could be the biggest ever. Man of Steel is here, the latest Superman film, directed by Zack Snyder and with Christopher Nolan's sticky fingerprints all over it. The film itself burst fully formed into the media at 4am on Tuesday morning, when the worldwide media embargo was lifted. Our first...
guardian.co.uk (6 days ago)
Edelstein on This Is the End: Friends Don’t Let Friends Face the Apocalypse Alone
Co-directors and co-writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg evidently had a lot of fun sending up their posse’s star personas and the apocalyptic disaster genre as a whole in This Is the End, and some of that fun is infectious. For a while. Maybe 45 minutes. But when actors look ...
vulture.com (6 days ago)
