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Box-Office Benjamin$: Oh Those Glorious Basterds
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After a very warm critical reception and the enticing brand name that is Quentin Tarantino, Inglorious Basterds blew up the box-office this weekend by raking in an impressive $37.6 million. It’s the biggest opening weekend for Tarantino’s blood-spattered career; the second best being Kill Bill in 2003, which brought in just over $22 million during its opening weekend. Oh, and the fact that The Weinstein Company had Brad Pitt’s face to plaster all over banner ads and TV spots didn’t hurt. It was just a great movie and it really was Tarantino’s masterpiece; as Lt. Aldo Raine mentioned in the film’s closing shot.
Nerds of the Round Table: Episode 2, August Summer Movie Preview
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In Episode 1 of Nerds of the Round Table, Ryan, Travis and I discussed our favorite films of the summer thus far, our biggest disappointments and a breakdown of what’s currently going on in the superhero genre. In Episode 2, we’re going to look at the month of August by discussing the three biggest films of the month: G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, District 9 and Inglorious Basterds. As always, we’ll provide expert insight and analysis of what you can expect from this later stage of summer movies.
Trailer Trash MASH: Inglorious Basterds & The Last Airbender
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The summer movie season has been in full-swing for almost two months now and as July approaches, studios are going to start pumping out the trailers for their fall releases and some teasers for their 2010 releases. Today we’ve got a couple new ones from two “name-brand” directors. The first is the second official trailer from Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic, Inglorious Basterds. The film premiered at Cannes in France a couple months ago and received mixed reviews. Many people thought that the film is TOO dialogue-based, with not enough action. Others praised Tarantino’s focus on the characters interactions, rather than just blowing stuff up for the sake of blowing stuff up.
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I posted some news a couple weeks about new photos from Quentin Tarantino’s anticipated new World War II epic, Inglorious Basterds. As I briefly stated in my former piece, Shrek & Austin Powers himself, Mike Myers, has a significant role in the film. Meyers plays Gen. Ed Frenech, who seems to be a member of the British army that helps out the American Basterds. This is the first non-comedy that Meyers has been in since he portrayed club kingpin Steve Rubell in 54 way back in 1998. It’s a little hard to take him seriously, especially with the British accent that he’s used for comedic purposes so many times, but Tarantino definitely has something up his sleeve. Mic check this behind-the-scenes featurette below.
Next up we have the Iraq war film The Hurt Locker, which has some serious buzz surrounding it with some very solid intial reviews. In the film Jeremy Renner is the leader of an elite Army bomb squad unit that must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb. And whats interesting is that it is being described as an action film and not an Iraq war film, which is very interesting and awesome. Finally we can have a badass action film take place in Baghdad without all the political baggage. Looks very intense. Mic check the official second trailer below.
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New Photos From “Inglorious Basterds”
Posted by: | CommentsVanity Fair has some exclusive set photos of Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming brutal World War II epic, Inglorious Basterds, starring: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger (National Treasure), Mike Meyers (yes, Austin Powers) and narrated by Samuel L. Jackson.
(From left: Laurent, Christopher Waltz as Colonel Hans Landa, Omar Doom as P.F.C. Omar Ulmer, Daniel Brühl as Frederick Zoller, Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth as Sergeant Donny Donowitz, Diane Kruger, and Brad Pitt.)
Although he’s written, produced and been a guest director on many films, this is only the 7th film (written & directed) by Quentin Tarantino. I love Brad Pitt and I’m glad that he’s getting bad-ass and brutal for this film. Inglorious Basterds takes place in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, where a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Sounds pretty intense and I cannot wait! I love WWII movies. I know that they can be played-out sometimes, especially around Oscar season (cough: The Reader), but how awesome is it that this truly visionary director is going to put his twisted-genius into HIS STORY about World War II? The film opens everywhere August 21st.
Check out the bad-ass teaser trailer!
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