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	25-year-old Wes was the most disaffected, cube-dwelling drone the planet had ever known. His boss chewed him out hourly, his girlfriend ignored him routinely and his life plodded on interminably. Everyone was certain this disengaged slacker would amount to nothing. There was little else for Wes to do but wile away the days and die in his slow, clock-punching rut. Until he met a woman named Fox. After his estranged father is murdered, the deadly sexy Fox recruits Wes into the Fraternity, a secret society that trains Wes to avenge his dad's death by unlocking his dormant powers. As she teaches him how to develop lightning-quick reflexes and phenomenal agility, Wes discovers this team lives by an ancient, unbreakable code: carry out the death orders given by fate itself. With wickedly brillia... (more)
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Genres :	Action/Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Thriller, Crime/Gangster and Adaptation
Running Time :	1 hr. 48 min.... (more)

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"Wanted" an audacious adrenaline rush
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It's good to be "Wanted."
The debut American feature by successful Kazakhstan
director Timur Bekmambetov ("Night Watch" and its record-smashing 2006 sequel, "Day Watch"), this over-the-top, ultraviolent, hyperkinetic action thriller pretty much has it all.
That would include engagingly offbeat source material in the form of Mark Millar and J.G. Jones' comic book series, a decent adaptation by Michel Brandt and Derek Haas (last year's "3:10 to Yuma" remake) and Chris Morgan ("Cellular"), a terrific cast and jaw-dropping stunt work.
Then there's the visually charged talents of Bekmambetov -- a man who has funneled the best of the Wachowski brothers, Quentin Tarantino and contemporary Hong Kong action movies through his own wry sensibility.
Capably establishing the anything-goes tone of the Los Angeles Film Festival in its capacity as Thursday's official curtain-raiser, the Universal guilty pleasure should make plenty of noise, especially with young males, when it opens nationally on June 27.
James McAvoy, sporting a swell American accent, is certain to build on his big-screen appeal as Wesley Gibson, a put-upon account executive who discovers that his long-absent father belonged to a centuries-old league of supersensory assassins known as the Fraternity.
It also turns out that Gibson is a chip off the old block in the killing department, but before he can avenge his father's death, he must get into fighting shape with a little help from the Fraternity's Zen master of a leader, Sloane (Morgan Freeman), and tough-cookie Fox (Angelina Jolie, in sinewy "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" mode).
The three of them prove to be colorful assets in a film where even the bullets seem to have a personality all their own.
Set in Chicago but shot in a cleverly disguised Prague (save for a noticeably Eastern European-accented rendition of "Happy Birthday" by Gibson's fellow office workers), "Wanted" effectively hits the ground running with a steady flow of wildly inventive, CG-infused action sequences.
Also cranking things up a couple of extra notches are resident Michael Bay cinematographer Mitchell Amundsen, Oliver Stone's longtime editor David Brenner and prolific composer Danny Elfman, who skillfully dispenses with anything that could be mistaken for subtlety.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
BOTTOM LINE: A bloody, .
opens: Friday, June 27 (Universal). production: Universal, Spyglass Entertainment, Relativity Media, a Marc Platt/Kickstart production. Cast: Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Common. Director: Timur Bekmambetov. Screenwriters: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Chris Morgan. Story by: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas. Based on the comic books by: Mark Millar, J.G. Jones. Producers: Marc Platt, Jim Lemley, Jason Netter, Iain Smith. Executive producers: Adam Siegel, Marc Silvestri, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber. Rated R, 110 minutes.
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Director of photography: Mitchell Amundsen.
Production designer: John Myhre.
Music: Danny Elfman.
Costume designer: Varya Avdyushko.
Editor: David Brenner.
...(more) - 06 21 2008 4:57AM
Rate-a-Trailer: Angie Slays, Seduces in Wanted
Los Angeles (E! Online) - Angelina Jolie may be all plump 'n' happy with twins at the moment, but don't forget: She
9;s a badass. An unreasonably sexy one. The guns, grimace and back tattoos she's sporting in the new trailer for Wanted should do enough to drive that home, right? It's also clear she scares the crap out of James McAvoy, the clueless/cool newbie assassin in this adaptation of some very cool comics by the prolific Mark Millar.
What do you think? Can Jolie make this flick a killer, or does Wanted feel like The Matrix warmed over? Sound off in comments.
...(more) - 06 6 2008 6:41PM
R. Kelly P.I.: Witness Wanted Hush Money
Los Angeles (E! Online) - The topic was extortion. Here's telling whether it pays off for the defense.
A private investigat
or testified on R. Kelly's behalf Thursday that the fiancé of Lisa Van Allen, the prosecution's so-called star witness who told the court yesterday that she engaged in several threesomes with the singer and the underage girl he's accused of making a sex tape with, attempted to extort $300,000 from Kelly in exchange for his girlfriend's silence.
Van Allen had testified Wednesday about meeting once with Jack Palladino, saying the P.I. threatened her.
But Palladino said he believed that Van Allen's fiancé, Yul Brown, was trying to hit Kelly up for money when he happened to mention that Van Allen was looking at a possible $300,000 book deal to write about her relationship with the R&B star and that they would make the decision that was best for their family.
"I didn't believe there was a book deal. The $300,000 was a coded way to get money from my client," Palladino testified. "I assumed they were trying to solicit money from my client."
On cross-examination, prosecutor Bob Heilingoetter pressed Palladino about whether Brown and Van Allen actually said specifically that they wanted money from Kelly.
"There's little doubt about what that meant," Palladino replied. "It meant, 'I want to take care of them financially.'"
"The conversation was recorded from beginning to end," he added.
Also on the stand for the defense today was forensic video analyst Charles Palm, who was called to rebut the expert testimony of Grant Fredericks, who testified last week that, in his opinion, the copy of the sex tape authorities used to go after Kelly was not doctored and that it would take a massive amount of time to put it together. (He couldn't say for sure, however, that the very first incarnation of the tape was the real deal.)
Palm testified that the video was of "such poor quality," he found it hard to believe Fredericks could be so sure. He also said that a mole spied on the back of the man in the tape, which Fredericks pointed out was similar to one that Kelly has, was actually a shadow that disappeared and reappeared depending on the lighting in the frame.
Kelly's "is a fairly high-contrast mole on the skin. I would expect to see it as a persistent image," Palm said. "[The mark on the guy in the tape] was not anything that was physically a part of the back of the individual."
He also testified that he thinks the tape had been edited, and he demonstrated how easy it was to manipulate such images, showing the jury several frames he had doctored himself.
When the prosecution questioned him about his lack of expertise—Palm has a doctorate in engineering and is reportedly not recognized as an authority in the video analysis field—Palm said computers make editing easy, even for those with no formal training.
"The computer can do something like this in just a matter of a few seconds," Palm said.
...(more) - 06 6 2008 5:52PM

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