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Weekly Roundup: Male Strippers and Magical Blue People

Published on June 29, 2012

Four times a charm. Four movies are better than one. No matter how you put it, three more Avatars will be released with James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver staying with the franchise. If the first movie already made $2 billion. How much can the next three possibly make? We’re talking Bill Gates money here.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… a fly? Just when you thought Marvel ran out of superhero films, they reached into the bottom of the comic book collection and pulled out The Human FlyWonder if the upcoming film will be anything like The Fly?

Seth Macfarlane’s Ted has already made $2 million on its opening midnight release. Pretty damn impressive. Will the R rated Teddy Bear have stamina throughout the weekend? No pun intended.

Everybody is Kung Fu fighting, but not everybody is punching eyeballs out of people’s sockets. Well, the RZA is. The rapper writes, directs, and stars in his his first film, The Man With the Iron Fists.

Tim Burton’s career will be coming full circle as one of his first short films, Frankenweenie is scheduled for a full feature release in October. However, some luck fans will be able to see the movie at Fantastic Fest. Could this be the film that rejuvenates Burton’s career?

Lena Dunham exploded onto the pop culture pantheon with her HBO show Girls. With the passing of one of Hollywood’s most respected women, Lena wrote a remembrance for Nora Ephron.

It takes what you would call cajones to write a blog article discussing what changed the face of culture forever. But MovieFone did. And it’s about porn. But come on. What’s more important than porn?

Fan hype for The Dark Knight is reaching fever pitch. Observe HitFix frothing at the mouth over the release in a way reminiscent to those pimply teenage girls in front of the TRL building.

Steven Soderbergh is retiring … film. THR reports that the director will possibly take on television with a vengeance. Moviegoers everywhere mourn as his final bow is the seminal classic Magic Mike.

Speaking of, the male stripper movie of the ages is coming out this weekend. Salacious debauchery is expected to dominate the Box Office as women are all a-chatter over who they want to see and objectify. The smooth handsome of Matt Bomer? The rugged goodness of Joe Manganiello? The buff beefcake that is Channing Tatum? Hell, why choose?! Go wild, ladies! There’s thongs!

 

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