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When Erin is bored with being just a receptionist, Angela offers to become Erin’s mentor. Erin is wowed by the idea of playing accountant for a day and begins to look and act like Angela. OMG.

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With more people getting their news from the internet and the decline of advertising revenues, newspapers are in a frenzy to stay in business. But what if newspapers disappear? What will old loons stack along their hallways and down the stairs? What will be the next hoarding craze be if the daily newspaper isn’t delivered to the front porch? And…OMG…what will be used to insult Old Loon Fashionwear?

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Stan Lee, father of Spider Man, Iron Man, Hulk and many more comic book super heroes, campaigns for his own Oscar in this funny video. But it’s not as one of the world’s most famous comic book writer and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics OR as a film producer, it’s for a “Cameo Artist.”

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A big congratulations to Sandra Bullock for winning the Best Actress Oscar for her role in The Blind Side!

Although the film is a drama, I found this funny clip to share on FunnyFixx.

In this clip, Leigh Anne (Sandra Bullock) interrupts practice to talk to Michael (Quinton Aaron) to tell him how to block and act like his is protecting the family.

(Maggie, I told you Sandy could win an Oscar with the right script. Congrats to you and everyone at Fortis!)

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This 3D animated short film was created by “bongba” on AniBoom and it took him five months to produce on his own. He created the film to show the importance of family. I believe it’s also a story about not giving up and you can do almost anything if you’re determined.

Enjoy!

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Opening this weekend in theaters in the U.S. Alice in Wonderland.
Above is a short featurette with Johnny Depp telling us what it was like playing the Mad Hatter.

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And here’s a clip of the bizarro tea party with Johnny Depp starring as the Mad Hatter.

Please go to see Alice in Wonderland in 3D. It’s a great escape from our mad, mad real world.

Barack Obama gets a surprise visit in the night from ex-Presidents Bush Sr., Bush Jr., Clinton, Ford, Reagan and Carter to get a few pointers about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and why it’s so important.

Starring Will Ferrell, Chevy Chase, Jim Carrey, Fred Armisen, Darrell Hammond, Dan Aykroyd, Maya Rudolph and Dana Carvey. Directed by Ron Howard.
Cinematographer: Antonio Scarlata. Written by: Al Jean, Adam McKay, Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Dan Greaney & Michael Price. Produced by: Mike Farah.

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Fall face-first into the Imaginarium of Dr. Terry Gilliam and take an outrageous ride through a surreal world you may not want to leave…depending on your imagination.

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is a delicious fantasy about Parnassus, his mystical traveling show and the ordinary people in their audience who get a chance to walk through the “looking glass” imaginarium into an extraordinary world. The world is their wildest dreams, their worst nightmares. It’s an exploration of their imagination and psyche, good, bad or indifferent.

Dr. Parnassus has a dark secret and it has something to do with immortality, Tom Waits…ah, Mr. Nick (the devil) and his first-born daughter whose 16th birthday is looming large. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is a visual feast of magical madness. It’s the kind of movie where you forget you’re in a theatre. Like many of the story’s London audience members, you volunteer to step into the Imaginarium with delight. You go along on the adventure with Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer), Valentina (Lily Cole), Tony (Heath Ledger), Anton (Andrew Garfield) and Percy (Verne Troyer), hoping the journey is never-ending.

The film is a comedy, it’s a fantasy, it’s a drama. It’s delightfully difficult to pour into the dreaded marketing mold that rounds off the edges and flattens out capriciousness of any film run through the Hollywood factory.

Heath Ledger’s death caused by an accidental overdose of prescriptions meds during the filming of this movie was a shock to the actor’s fans and Hollywood. Ledger was 28, and although he died in Manhattan, he had been shooting The Imaginarium in London at the time of his death in January 2008.

After Gilliam decided to continue shooting and to finish the film in Ledger’s honor, he invited Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Ferrell to play “Imaginarium Tony #1, #2 and #3.” It was a stroke of brilliance, since the scenes shot with Depp, Law and Ferrell all take place in the extraordinary world of the Imaginarium, where imaginations determine physical being.

In an interview with Wired.com, Gilliam spoke about continuing production after Ledger’s death.

Wired.com: In the case of Imaginarium, after Ledger died, you reshot an early scene with a second actor to play the same minor character in order to establish the idea that people change appearance after they go through the magic mirror.

Gilliam: It’s all in my head, the kind of movie I’m making, so once I’ve got that happening, when I come up with a solution it’s always within the realm of the world that I’ve been working in. It’s just another way of looking at the world, Parnassus is doing that all the time, trying to encourage people to look at the world in a slightly different way. [To illustrate, Gilliam points to the hotel room TV set.] “That’s not a television. That’s a black hole in the wall. What happens if you fall into that black hole?” I’m very quick to do that and, frankly, it makes life bearable to me — the fact that I can keep on morphing the world into other things.

Wired.com: There’s a line in Imaginarium that sort of sums up Doctor Parnassus’ world view, something about the power of enchantment.

Gilliam: “The world is full of wonder for those with eyes to see.”

Read More of Wired.com’s interview http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/01/imaginarium-terry-gilliam/2/#ixzz0gm0CNXLb

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is a must-see film. Take your leap of imagination soon.

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Jay Leno moved back to The Tonight Show last night, but there’s a problem. He needs a desk, so he goes door-to-door with his guests in tow looking for the right desk. I think he’s on to something. President Obama is taking the White House to Main Street, so why not take The Tonight Show to the ‘Hood?

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Tim Roth, William H. Macy, Juliette Lewis, Fred Willard, Frances Fisher, Eddie Izzard, Illeana Douglas and Viola Davis talk about what the Independent Spirit is to them in honor of the 25th Independent Spirit Awards.

If you’ve made an independent film (translation: no budget) recently, you’ll identify with these famous indie film faces.

Hurray for independent film!