We Hunter S. Thompson freaks never stop hoping for a filmmaker to come along and re-create the buzz of reading him in that short-but-so-sweet era when his prose was as exhilarating as rock and roll and a damn sight funnier, before the drugs and booze mad
From white veil to red carpet, newly married Kim Kardashian -- who is headed for the big screen in “The Marriage Counselor” -- is making star tracks, and the top celeb glossies are doing their best to keep up. US Weekly’s Eric Anderson dissects the marri
At the risk of invoking Freud, you have to wonder why movie stars are attracted to big, long films about towers. “The Towering Inferno” had Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, and William Holden; it also had Fred Astaire and O. J. Simpson, a pairin
Must Factor: Yes, I understand that "Lulu" has been streaming in full for a week-and-a-half now, and yes, I know the critics haven't been kind (our own Katie Hasty described hearing 30 seconds of one song off the album as "like your drunk uncle talking a
It’s been a while since we have seen Eddie Murphy on the big screen but he makes his return this week as he teams up with fellow funny man Ben Stiller in Tower Heist.
To celebrate the release of the movie and Murphy’s return to the silver screen we take
"Martha Marcy May Marlene" (Friday). Elizabeth Olsen, the younger sister of fashionistas and former child stars Mary Kate and Ashley, makes a big impression in this drama about a full house of an entirely different sort. It's a psychological thriller abo
When “Tower Heist” filmed a shoot-’em-up car chase scene on 59th Street in Manhattan last year, even jaded New Yorkers found it so realistic that one of them actually dialed 911. “We were downstairs at Columbus Circle,” says Alan Alda, who plays a crooke
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A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (R): Six years after their previous adventures, the pothead pals (John Cho and Kal Penn) have grown apart and lead unconnected lives. That all changes, though, with the arrival of a package in the mail
Only Hollywood could assemble a holiday guest list that ranges from the Muppets, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Puss in Boots and dancing penguins to J. Edgar Hoover, Margaret Thatcher, Marilyn Monroe and a steed in the trenches of World War I.
The latter are
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You know Alan Alda as an actor — most famously as Hawkeye Pierce in the classic TV comedy M*A*S*H — but now he's making his debut as a professional playwright,
A few years ago Brett Ratner appeared on Entourage, playing a brash, belligerent and presumably heightened version of himself in a decadent scene filmed in his own Beverly Hills home. Load the clip on YouTube and there's a maelstrom of vitriol in the com
Brett Ratner's new comedy, Tower Heist, with its fine cast of comic talents like Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, Eddie Murphy, Alan Alda, and Tea Leoni is slowly worming its way into my...
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MOVIES | ‘Immortals,’ ‘Muppets’ and a certain ‘Girl’ 10 holiday movies we’re looking forward to Here are 10 films we’re most looking forward to this season. By JON NICCUM Special to the Star By JON NICCUM Updated: 2011-10-28T20:03:53Z Columbia Pictures R
"The Addams Family Mystery": Comedy Tonight Productions' dinner-theater series, featuring mysteries written by local writer and actor John Logue, plus a buffet meal, continues with this murder-mystery spoof of "The Addams Family." 6:30 p.m. Oct. 30, Gard
WHO: Charlie Harper. Charlie Sheen. SHOW: Two and a Half Men. KILLED OFF: While in Paris, Charlie is hit by a train. BEHIND THE SCENES: After Sheen was hospitalized following a weekend of drugs and hookers, creator Chuck Lorre cancelled the remainder of
There are probably no big fixes for the issues facing the Canadian film industry, but there may be some smart small ones. Consider The First Weekend Club, a national organization based in Vancouver that’s tackling the chronic problem of getting Canadians
Only Hollywood could assemble a holiday guest list that ranges
from the Muppets, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Puss in Boots and
dancing penguins to J. Edgar Hoover, Margaret Thatcher, Marilyn
Monroe and a steed in the trenches of World War I.
The latter are
LITTLE ROCK (opening dates are tentative) A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, R Six years after the Guantanamo Bay sequel, Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) reunite when a mysterious package mistakenly arrives at Kumar’s door on Christmas Eve. He a
Or, rather, baseball, the proud, diamond-shaped pursuit of such American heroes as Ty Cobb, Pete Rose, and Mark McGwire, is dying, slowly but surely, without any hope of a future. Ever seen Children of Men? Compared to baseball, Children of Men is Dora t
Movies have a longer gestation period than is sometimes appreciated. It's very easy, looking at the trailers for Universal's "Tower Heist," which opens next week, to assume that the filmmakers wanted to pillory Bernie Madoff. As the official plot synop
Eddie Murphy is making a comeback.
But don't expect the 50-year-old actor to go to clubs, make family movies or another "Beverly Hills Cop" film.
Murphy, who rarely gives interviews, recently sat down with Rolling Stone to talk about his career, personal
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Last night was the premiere of Tower Heist in NYC. I’ve gone back and forth on how this film will perform, if it will be any good, and whether I should take my mother to see it (she really wants to see it). Brett Ratner directed it, and IMO, Ratner = Sel
Brilliance!, the kid-friendly companion show to Alan Alda's world premiere Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater, November 12-December 10.
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Tower Heist is the upcoming comedy starring Ben Stiller, Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick, Eddie Murphy, Alan Alda, Michael Pena, Tea Leoni and Gabourey Sidibe. Basically they play a group of employees trying to steal $20 million after losing their pensi
Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has announced a second round of 2011 Edgerton Foundation New American Play awards. As previously reported, 19 theaters received support during the first round of grants, which are designed to provide for extra time in t
The movie is a comedy caper about ordinary working guys who seek revenge on the Wall Street swindler who stiffed them.
After the workers at a luxury Central Park condominium discover the penthouse billionaire has stolen their retirement, they plot the ul
Donald Trump's Trump International building near Columbus Circle is about to be the star of a crime comedy called "Tower Heist" directed by Brett Ratner and featuring Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick and Alan Alda, among others (see video abo
Wow! He stepped down over that but the Melrose bozo kept his job after saying much worse? My coach at Briarcrest used language like this.
I liked the coach's speech. It was direct, to-the-point, and very well spoken. It appears that the slackers on his t
Antonio Banderas, who returns to provide the voice of Puss, said much of the character's charm arises as the tiny cat struts and boasts with a bravado that's out of whack with his size.
"We just provided him with a voice that doesn't go, actually, with
TICK tock, tick tock, which of us can beat the clock? Well, Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfriend are the comely couple determined to give it a go.
They’re the big name stars of In Time, a high concept sci-fi thriller from Andrew Nichol, who has form in
Brett Ratner‘s “Tower Heist” is getting an old fashioned mega push from Universal Pictures, a studio desperate for a hit after a slow year. Will “Tower Heist” be a Universal and universal hit? I think so, judging from last night’s star studded four star
A colorful amusement-park magnate from New York and a polished health-care tycoon (and erstwhile politician) from Kentucky become unlikely pals. They decide to go into the movie business, because thats what bored rich guys do.
As it turns out, theyre pre
Remake of vintage cold-war TV miniseries, new Bill Frisell CD tribute to John Lennon, online photography project and more.
He looks like Buddy Holly, talks like Barry White, and sings like Curtis Mayfield. Intrigued? He's Mayer Hawthorne, and his second
Hello! Thank you for reminding me how much I love caramel apples! By the way, do you have any thoughts on acorn flour? I made my own acorn flour from my Red Oak tree acorns and made acorn bread! DELICIOUS!! Here are my photos for you! : http://livewithfl
This is my first guest post here on Knockoff Report so I think I should introduce myself. My name is Mason Pelt and I am an intern at the intellectual property firm IPCybercrime.com. I also own a small production company. As a result I’m highly opinio
The Brett Ratner crime comedy has an all-star cast, also including Matthew Broderick, Casey Affleck, Tea Leoni, and Alan Alda. Alda stars as a Donald Trump or Bernie Madoff-esque multi-billionaire who squanders the money of all the employees in his high-
LOS ANGELES -- Although it may seem a classic case of grasping at straws, the one positive thing that can be said about this fall season is that it has been equally tough on both genders. While female characters revisited the Madonna/whore trope, cram
Although it may seem a classic case of grasping at straws, the one positive thing that can be said about this fall season is that it has been equally tough on both genders. While female characters revisited the Madonna/whore trope, cramming themselves in
The world premiere of the action-comedy TOWER HEIST
TOWER HEIST director Brett Ratner; cast member/producer Eddie Murphy; cast members Ben Stiller, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Judd Hirsch, Tea Leoni, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zeljko I
According to Geffen notes, "Timed perfectly with the 100th anniversary of Madame Curie's second Nobel Prize as well as the first International Year of Chemistry, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie delves into the life and romance of one of the most bri
By RACHEL DODES Kevin Spacey has a lot of experience playing a classic Hollywood archetype: the evil executive. In "Glengarry Glen Ross," he was a corrupt office manager at a real estate firm. In "Swimming with Sharks" he was cast as an abusive and sadis
University alumnus Aaron Burr, Class of 1772, has been nominated to be a member of the New Jersey Hall of Fame Class of 2012.
The hall of fame inducts members in categories such as history, arts and entertainment, enterprise and sports.
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October 14, 2011
It’s been five years since we lost a very good ballplayer, one who developed something of a cult following during his days in Philadelphia. Johnny Callison, who had struggled with a variety of heath problems for sever
Alan Alda is known by much of the world from his starring role on
"M*A*S*H." He is also a film actor ("Flirting With Disaster"), a
theater actor ("Art"), a writer-director ("Betsy's Wedding"), and
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It took about a week for the suits at Universal to change their minds on including ‘Tower Heist’ on select Video on Demand services.
On Oct. 5, The LA Times’ blog Company Town announced the film studio would be making ‘Heist,’ an ensemble comedy starring
This bioplay delves into the life and romance of one of the most brilliant female scientists in history. Famous for her groundbreaking research in radioactivity, Curie was the only person ever to win two Nobel Prizes in multiple sciences, but not without
In 2001, when I was 28, I broke up with my boyfriend. Allan and I had been together for three years, and there was no good reason to end things. He was (and remains) an exceptional person, intelligent, good-looking, loyal, kind. My friends, many of whom
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In 2001, when I was 28, I broke up with my boyfriend. Allan and I had been together for three years, and there was no good reason to end things. He was (and remains) an exceptional person, intelligent, good-looking, loyal, kind. My friends, many of whom
The cast is probably one of Tower Heists biggest selling points. With Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, and Dave Chappelle set to star, among others, itll be very interesting to see the kind of chemistry these actors have when the comedy hits
Three Morris County notables are among 50 entertainers, inventors, sports heroes, artists and politicians nominated for the New Jersey Hall of Fame Class of 2012.
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Check out the latest trailer from the action comedy Tower Heist .
When the hard-working staff of a New York high-rise - Ben St
Who hosted this episode, Jason Sudeikis? It seemed like Jason Sudeikis was in almost every sketch! Not that I’m complaining necessarily, it was just kind of an odd thing. And you know what else was an odd thing? BEN STILLER’S FACE! I certainly hate to be
In the latest about face from Netflix in the wake of splitting its once-free streaming service from its rent-by-mail service and charging separately for each, CEO Reed Hastings proclaimed this morning that it will NOT spin off its DVD-by-mail serviceinto
Universal Pictures has provided ComingSoon.net with new bus shelter art for Brett Ratner's Tower Heist featuring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy.
The two lead an all-star cast in the comedy caper about working stiffs who seek revenge on the Wall Street swi
In the film “Tower Heist” Eddie Murphy, Gabby Sidibe, Ben Stiller and a cast of characters team up for a comedic heist flick.
In the film, which is sort of a funny version of Ocean’s 11, follows a group of service workers in a high rise who get Bernie Ma
Earlier this year, we told you that DIRECTV would offer theatrical movies at home for a mere $30 a pop. It happened, and of course, was a massive failure. That said, those are some bargain basement prices compared to what Comcast has planned.
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Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, Téa Leoni, Gabourey Sibide, Casey Afflect, Michael Peña join a revitalized Eddie Murphy as they try to steal $20 million from Alan Alda in Tower Heist. After it was announced on Wednesday that folks can pay the hefty price
The list of actors Woody Allen has worked with reads like a who’s who of Hollywood royalty: Diane Keaton, Christopher Walken, Alan Alda and Julia Roberts, just to name a few.
But the legendary director has his eye on a famous leading lady from a differen
Universal Pictures has released a trailer for their upcoming release Tower Heist which stars Ben Stiller as a hotel manager who decides to rip off the Bernie Madoff figure (Alan Alda) who Ponzied him and his coworkers out of millions of dollars. Here are
Without a doubt, the best cars to be driving out there on the road are ones helping the air stay clean. Whether that’s hybrid, electric or even bio-diesel the way to go is green. It's needed more than ever to put the conscious at ease. Picking from tha
It's not just a Robbery. It's Payback. Universal has debuted a second new trailer via Apple for the ensemble comedy Tower Heist, directed by everyone's favorite filmmaker, Brett Ratner. At least it has a good cast: Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick and next
Talk about the world turned upside down. First it's a heatwave in October. Now it's a new Woody Allen film you actually feel glad to have seen. Already well-received at Cannes, Midnight in Paris did such good business in the US that it qualified as a hit
Let's face it, Universal Pictures is very interested in you seeing its upcoming comedy, Tower Heist. And you can watch it in the comfort of your own home, for a price.
The LA Times reports that Universal is planning to use Tower Heist as a test for its
Tower Heist, in case you were wondering, finds a group of disgruntled employees led by Ben Stiller’s Josh at a luxury apartment block planning to rob the criminal billionaire (Alan Alda) who flushed their pension funds down the tubes of a failed Ponzi sc
Brett Ratner’s new heist comedy Tower Heist has an okay buzz going amongst casual moviegoers (if laughs measured in random movie theaters is anything to judge by) – however, more hardcore fans aren’t yet convinced that the film is going to bring the laug
Playwright Alda, best known for playing Hawkeye on TV's "M*A*S*H," and for his screenplays and direction of feature films, said in a statement, "Marie Curie has been alive in my head for the last four years while I've been writing this play, and to see t
This bioplay delves into the life and romance of one of the most brilliant female scientists in history. Famous for her groundbreaking research in radioactivity, Curie was the only person ever to win two Nobel Prizes in multiple sciences, but not without
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Fall has officially begun – which means that the Fall Movie Season began a few weeks back as Hollywood movie studios carefully plan the release of movies they want dumped at the marquee as soon as possible and those the
Lots of great science events going on in Los Angeles in October. Why not check one or more of them out?
Justin Hall is a Ph.D. student in the Human and Evolutionary Biology Program at the University of Southern California. Justin worked on a number of th
Plot: After the workers at a luxury Central Park condominium discover the penthouse billionaire has stolen their retirement, they plot the ultimate revenge: a heist to reclaim what he took from them. Queens native Josh Kovacs (Stiller) has managed one of
