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...Unfortunately, the film’s mixture of soul-searching angst and renegade idealism creates more melancholy than comedy in a cinematic experience that gets old fast. The story is about the rise and fall of John “Rugged” Rudgate (Aaron Stanford, “X-Men: The Last Stand”) and his notorious life of crime. Initially, Rugged’s attempts at law-breaking are so pathetic that the only person who thinks he’s cool is his half-wit sidekick, Lagrand (Paul Schneider, “All the Real Girls?...
...seekers aren't waiting. On YouTube, there are already 1,590 entries listed under rsum. Not all are what you would call serious ("After losing his powers at the end of X-Men 3, Magneto is forced to apply for a job at the local Starbucks"). The best ones, though, are smart, colorful and effective. Benjamin Hampton, a recent graduate of Washington State University in Pullman, posted a 5 1/2-min. video on YouTube last fall, thinking it would be something different to send to employers. (To view Hampton's video rsum, go to TIME.com. With his brother...
...Mutawa’s media group was joined by Sven Larsen, former director of marketing and creative services at Marvel.Perhaps most tellingly, the characters of “The 99” were originally drawn by Dan Panosian, also a contributor to Marvel hits like “X-Men,” “Spider-Man,” and “The Hulk.”WHAT PRICE VICTORY?As such, there is a clear, indisputably American precedent for the images on the pages of “Zein?...
...rare cases, like Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, do the two genres intersect. For 2006, for example, the five live-action movies that grossed more than $200 million at the domestic box office - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Da Vinci Code, Night at the Museum and Superman Returns - received not a single major nomination among them. (Cars, the top-grossing cartoon, won a nod in the animated feature grotto.) Until the Academy creates a category called Best Picture a Whole Lot of People Paid...
Cost management aside, threequel makers need to serve up the familiar product but in a larger size. "The third one is about giving more,"says Ratner, who has also directed third films in the X-Men and Hannibal Lecter series. "More action if it's an action film, more laughs if it's a comedy, and all without compromising or changing the characters...