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Click on the images above for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, Broken Embraces, Fix, The Blind Side, Missing Person, Mammoth, Planet 51, Staten Island, Defamation, New Moon, Psycho, Jabberwocky, Red Cliff, and Rene'.

There is bad, if unsurprising, news for moviegoers who routinely stuff their faces with incessant handfuls of popcorn: Not only does your maddening snack rustling ruin the delicate movie magic, but you're making yourself morbidly obese and prone to heart disease, too. Lab tests conducted by the Center for Science in the Public Interest have determined that popcorn at the major movie chains has way more calories than cud-chewing plebes are led to believe. For cinema snack-hounds, these lab results are more horrifying than The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past:

            

Click on the film stills for details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include 2012, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Messenger, Oh my God?, Pirate Radio, Ten9Eight, Uncertainty, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, Women in Trouble, The Red Shoes, Goonies, and All Tomorrow's Parties.

          

Click on the film stills for more details and reviews for this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include Precious, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Fourth Kind, A Christmas Carol, The Box, Collapse, Turning Green, That Evening Sun, And Now For Something Completely Different, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

How many helicopter scenes are in this movie anyway? WCBS is reporting that there will be yet another two days of low-flying helicopters over Manhattan — both today and tomorrow from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. This time around the locations include midtown, Wall Street, and the George Washington, Manhattan and Verrazano bridges. See Matt Damon's stunt double dangling from a chopper over the East River? You know where to send your pics.

              

Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Antichrist, (Untitled), Astroboy, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant , Saw VI, Eulogy for a Vampire, Motherhood, Night and Day, Ong Bak 2: The Beginning, Rembrandt's J'Accuse, Wild River, The Lost Boys, and Life of Brian.

Now that we solved that whole tax credit deficit problem, there's a new worry for the filmmakers who want to point their lens at New York City. Crain's reports that "the latest shock to the industry is a plan by the city to charge the largest fees in the nation for filming in its buildings [$3,200/day]. The Mayor's film office is also drawing up plans to charge for its famous free permits. Even more troubling, the city's tax incentive program is out of money and in the process of being scaled back, and the state is in negotiations over whether to renew its tax incentives." Well, that's an exhausting list.

We've been thoroughly enjoying Max Silvestri's rants and commentary over at the AV Club, and in his latest piece he takes on Regal Cinemas. The young lad is living the dream out in Williamsburg, just one 11 minute train ride from Union Square... and as such, from Regal Cinemas on Broadway and 13th. But before your face turns green with jealousy, Silvestri says:

           

Click on the film stills above for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Black Dynamite; Law Abiding Citizen; New York, I Love You; Food Beware; The Little Traitor; The Maid; Adela; Splendor in the Grass; Beetlejuice; and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

No one panic! The helicopters Hollywood sent in last week are back in the Manhattan airspace today. ABC alerts that "between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., there will be movie filming in New York City. As a result, there will be low-flying helicopters over Manhattan. The helicopters will be in the vicinity of the Empire State building, Chrysler Building and Central Park by the reservoir." UPDATE: The copters today are for a commercial. That's one big budget commercial!

Surely this Halloween will bring every era of Michael Jackson back to life in costume form, but this Long Island City local has put up a scarecrow tribute to the late performer. Apparently he wears two gloves in the afterlife!

              

Click on the film stills for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include An Education, The Damned United, Adventures of Power, Free Style, Good Hair, The Heretics, Peter and Vandy, Yes Men Fix the World, Lisztomania, Bronson, Paranormal Activity, Pretty in Pink, and Sixteen Candles,

If you rise and shine to the sights and sounds of helicopters darting over Manhattan tomorrow: don't fret. We just got word that "a movie shoot will be taking place in the vicinity of 12th Avenue and 23rd Street in Manhattan from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m." and you should "expect to see filming activity in the area including helicopters making sharp turns and maneuvers." If only Air Force One gave this kind of warning. Send us photos if you see the action; and try to figure out which one of these movies currently filming here it might be... perhaps the mysterious Untitled!

       

For whatever reason, Vice Magazine is totally in bed with director Spike Jonze, and last night they invited some people to an advance screening of Where the Wild Things Are. Before it started, we told a friend that we'd heard the film was "unwatchable" and, afterward, we heard a bewildered audience member gripe, "What the hell did I just watch?" But earlier our friend had declared, "I have faith in Spike Jonze," and he was absolutely right. We never doubted you Spike, and those suits at Warner Bros. can go play in traffic.

              

Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Fame, Pandorum, Blind Date, Surrogates, The Boys are Back, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, In Search of Beethoven, Irene in Time, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Passing Strange.

Post-apocalyptic docu-drama The Age of Stupid stars Pete Postlethwaite as a global archivist living in 2055, flipping through the pivotal news stories from 2004 - 2008 on a Minority Report-type screen, wondering why we didn’t stop global warming when we had a chance. Well, maybe we would have had time if HBO didn't produce so much time-consuming must-see TV.

             

Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Jennifer's Body, Bright Star, Harmony and Me, Disgrace, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, The Burning Plain, Love Happens, Paris, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Made in Jamaica, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Fat City.

              

Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include White On Rice, Crude, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Gogol Bordello Non-Stop, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, No Impact Man, The Painter Sam Francis, Sorority Row, The Other Man, Walt & El Grupo, Give Me Your Hand,Whiteout, and The Godfather.

Seen any cougars prowling your neighborhood lately? As the Sex and the City gals film their sequel around town, the NY Post takes a look at the aging foursome a whopping 11 years after we first all got to know them. The paper, which points out the women range from 43 to 53 years old these days, says, "One is more likely to sport burp cloths than Manolo Blahniks on the weekends."

            

Click on the film stills above for more on this weekend's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include All About Steve, Gamer, American Casino, Amreeka, Liverpool, Tickling Leo, For the Love of Dolly, Unmade Beds, Ghostbusters and The Big Lebowski.

Eco-thriller documentary The Cove follows Louie Psihoyos, leader of the Ocean Preservation Society, and Richard O'Barry, a dolphin trainer and activist best known for his work on the 1960's TV show Flipper, as they infiltrate a small seaside Japanese village where tens of thousands of dolphins are secretly slaughtered every year. The critical reaction has been stellar, and we can assure you that the film is not some tedious Earth First diatribe—it's a suspenseful tour-de-force about the Japanese government's effort to cover up something quite revolting, and one small group's mission to expose it, using everything from high-tech hidden cameras to breath-holding free divers. And yet, The Cove has struggled to connect with mainstream American audiences, much to Psihoyos's dismay. Check out the trailer below, and go see it while it's still screening at Angelika... or Psihoyos will personally hunt you down like a dolphin.

              

Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Passing Strange, The Baader Meinhof Complex, Five Minutes of Heaven, World's Greatest Dad, Shorts, Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchy Footed Mutha, Fifty Dead Men Walking, X Games 3D: The Movie, My One and Only, Post Grad, Art & Copy, Spaceballs, and Fargo.

              

Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Cloud Nine, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, Bandslam, Ponyo, The Time Traveler's Wife, Grace, Earth Days, Spread, My Fuhrer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler , Taxidermia, It Might Get Loud, The Man Who Wasn't There, and Jaws.

Now that everyone is paying attention to Javier Bardem and James Franco as they film scenes in Brooklyn, Gerard Butler's publicist is clearly leaking stories to the press as a reminder that he is also still in the borough making movie magic! The NY Post reports that he set for the new Jennifer Aniston film The Bounty (in which he co-stars) has been surrounded by paparazzi, and one bodyguard "allegedly flipped out and keyed a photographer's car—causing thousands of dollars in damage" to his 2003 Infiniti. The WireImage photographer was the victim of the East Flatbush incident, saying that he was "surprised that the community had my back." The guard was assigned to protect Gerard Butler, who is rumored to be dating Aniston; perhaps he was trying to stop the photog from taking this photo of Butler in flagrante delicto with another woman!

Sometimes slow news days are good when they allow for photos of two of the sexiest men alive. That's right! Javier Bardem and James Franco are both in town filming scenes for Eat, Pray, Love. Check out more images of Mr. Bardem on Smith Street here. According to this Twitter update, they'll both be filming scenes today (and tonight?) at Robin Des Bois restaurant in Brooklyn, along with Billy Crudup and Julia Roberts.

    

You may have seen a lot of SJP-wannabes yesterday around 18th Street and 6th Avenue, as the extras casting call for the Sex and the City sequel were held. The listing called for "models, celebrity types, upscale socialites, urban clubgoers, gays and lesbians, international types (Middle Eastern, Arabic, Asian, European, British) and professional soccer players" (NYMag has more photos in their slideshow if you can't get enough of what that smorgasbord looked like).

Who among us can sit comfortably for longer than 90 minutes without urinating? Okay, maybe adults under 30 and sober people, but we're neither, and our path to utter incontinence keeps depriving us of pivotal Hollywood plot points. Thankfully, a new technology is giving moviegoers with disadvantaged bladders an alternative to unsightly catheters and adult undergarments: the website RunPee.com, which is now available as an iPhone application, compiles the best opportunities to race to the restroom during motion pictures. The app gives you a cue for your exit, tells you how long you've got and even summarizes what you missed. It's the work of 42-year-old Flash developer Dan Florio, who tells 1010 Wins he got the idea while watching Peter Jackson's three-hour-plus King Kong remake. (Funny, we couldn't wait to go to the bathroom during that.) Florio's currently raking in about $800 a month with RunPee, and he spends his days watching movies to take notes. So basically, he's living the dream. But if he really wants to cash in, he'll get a RunSmokeJoint app ready in time for Tron Legacy.

              

Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Shrink, The Answer Man, G-Force, Orphan, The Ugly Truth, California Company Town, The English Surgeon, Paraiso Travel, Loren Cass, Import/Export, Blood Simple, Deadgirl, and, starting Wednesday, Rediscovering John Cazale.

             

Click on the film stills above for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include 500 Days of Summer, Homecoming, Death in Love, Off Jackson Avenue, Somers Town, A Woman in Berlin, The Way We Get By, Died Young, Stayed Pretty, In a Lonely Place, Flesh Gordon, The Blair Witch Project , and A Clockwork Orange.

If there's ever a motion picture produced about the life of Broadway musical theater star Carol Channing, eternally cool actor Johnny Depp would very much like to be considered for the lead role. How perfectly deranged would that be? In an interview with the Mirror in UK, Depp strayed off the topic of Public Enemies to reveal his burning passion for Channing, who is now 88 years old: "My dream role would be to play musical legend Carol Channing in a biopic of her life. I love her, I really do. With all the digital technology available these days I could probably pull it off." But who needs special effects? This the guy who brilliantly nailed such disparate roles as Hunter S. Thompson and Ed Wood. Red lipstick and a little tuck is all would take. Still, Depp may need a little post-production help to pull off his other weird fantasy role: "I'd have a go at playing a 12-year-old girl if they asked me to." Uh, that's where he loses us. But for fun, here's Channing's wacky cameo in Alice in Wonderland; coincidentally, Depp is playing the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's forthcoming 3-D adaptation of the Lewis Carroll novel.