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We already know a sequel to Alexandre Aja’s rebooting of the Piranha series is in the works, and now comes news that The Weinstein Company is planning to let the fans get involved with the story development.

The as yet untitled sequel will take a page out of the Paranormal Activity playbook — not by asking viewers to demand the film, but instead letting them vote on which celebrity they‘d love to see turn up in the sequel and die a horrible death. Sounds fun to me — and the possibilities are endless!

The film, which has only made around 20 million dollars so far, was well-received by critics and horror fans alike. In it, Elizabeth Shue and Ving Rhames must contend with a group of prehistoric piranha freed by an earthquake during spring break. Lots of gore and nudity follows.

As far as ideas go, I like this one. I’m tempted to say we should all vote for someone obnoxious like the Jersey Shore kids (but not Lindsay Lohan, who would probably jump at the opportunity … ), but I think we should really go all out. I’m sure there’ll be a Betty White movement, too, but I like the direction PopWatch has suggested: Meryl Streep or Sir Ian McKellen. I’m gonna vote for Judi Dench — serious acting skills and she still can rock a bikini. As far as men go, why not De Niro? I can just see Bobby D. glowering and looking pained as a horde of prehistoric fish gnaw his face off. De Niro has been in some clunker films over the years too — this wouldn’t be a huge stretch.

Those are just a few names off the top of my head. Hit the comments section and chime in.

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When Mark Cousins was growing up in war-torn Belfast, he would escape the horrors of life by going to the movies. For a child, imagination can make all the difference. But what about kids in strife-ridden areas who don’t have the luxury of nearby movie theaters? How do they cope?

As it turns out, children who don’t watch movies are still capable of engaging in whimsy and fun. It’s true! Mark Cousins learns this in The First Movie, a documentary shot in the tiny, impoverished village of Goptapa, Iraq. The locals have never even seen a film before, much less been part of one, and Cousins gives them both opportunities. He screens E.T. and other gems for them, and gives video cameras to a few of the kids so they can record their own stories.

The subject of how children deal with the realities of war is potentially a very moving one, and “The First Movie” often addresses it with great sensitivity. Unfortunately, Cousins inserts himself into the story too much of the time, and what should be a movie about Goptapa turns into a movie about Mark Cousins’ trip to Goptapa. His intentions seem to have been pure, but by the end, he comes across as parochial and condescending.

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For a good dose of post-holiday bile, chew on this: Pamela Anderson has reportedly agreed to partake in a cinematic sex scene with a fan. Yep, if you ever watched her saucy seas sex tape with Tommy Lee and wished you could get close to the ex-Baywatch star, it’s as far away as entering your name, e-mail address, and phone number … and being a resident of the UK.

A contest brought to you by Nokia UK, the McHenry Brothers (who wrote and directed the upcoming Jackboots on Whitehall) will grab the company’s new Nokia N8 and shoot a short film called The Commuter in high definition with the device. There’s quick turnaround on this — filming is slated to take place on September 20th in London.

But is it really a sex scene?

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For Albert “Bertie” Frederick Arthur George, the Duke of York who would become Great Britain’s King George VI just prior to the start of World War II, the act of speaking was a death struggle between him and the words he was trying to say. Crippled by a stammer for as long as he could remember - the result of a brutal royal family upbringing that included forced right-handedness, leg splints, and nothing more than a “daily viewing” with his parents - Bertie could not get through a sentence without a Herculean effort to subdue the syllables that refused to cooperate.

When you are the Duke of York, second in line for the throne, one can see how this would be a serious problem. As his wife puts it with impeccable English understatement in Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech, “his job requires a bit of public speaking.” Every speech doctor in the realm has had a go, to no avail. Bertie’s ready to give up, but the wife finds one last hope: an unconventional therapist in a seedy part of town who seems, somehow, to have a clear view of the mental blocks and hang-ups that make up Bertie’s impediment.

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If you are a game lover then the internet edge has been one delight to you. The cyber landscape makes all easy to access all the exciting games that you can enjoy from your computer seat. With modern technology you do not need to go to the gaming halls and the 0big screen venues for your games.

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He may have found two stars — Robert Duvall and Ewan McGregor — but Terry Gilliam’s ever-doomed The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is dead again.

The doom started creeping in just as Gilliam made progress. Duvall, who was set to play Don Quixote de la Mancha, was really apprehensive that the funding was going to come together. In fact, he stated that he wouldn’t even start preparing for the role until the project was definite and secure. Over the summer there were rumblings that Gilliam had suffered another financial setback, and now it’s been confirmed: Financing has collapsed, and his long-gestating, long-plagued passion project is in limbo once again.

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We haven’t heard much about Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel lately, but things definitely picked up over the last few days. The director spent some time talking about the film with The Independent recently, and then Gemma Arterton revealed that the filmmaker wants to meet with her about appearing in the film too (though her publicist has denied that to MTV). It’s like an Alien bonanza all of the sudden!

Arterton, speaking to England’s Sunday Times, revealed that the director wants to talk with her about starring in the film. Arterton says, “Ridley Scott saw Alice Creed and loved it. He wants me to meet for Aliens: The Remake, or something.” Way to sound excited.

Scott’s news was far more detailed, but somewhat troubling. He tells The Independent, “The film will be really tough, really nasty … It’s the dark side of the moon. We are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would go in and clean up a planet?”

Hit the jump to read more about Scott’s new concept for the prequel.

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Mainstream romantic comedies generally suck. I know, because I have seen a lot of them, and they make me want to poke my own eyes out. The ones geared towards female audiences are actually worse than the Judd Apatow man-child ilk in my opinion. Although both peddle stupid stereotypes like the Career Woman, the Desperate-for-Marriage Harpy, and, my favorite, The Ice Queen, at least the guys in Apatow movies are slightly more likeable in their fallibility than the romantic leads in The Bounty Hunter, The Ugly Truth, When in Rome, and other female-skewed flicks.

Going the Distance is an interesting hybrid, and it’s one I really enjoyed. And I know I’m not alone; both men and women I’ve talked to have also liked it, although I suspect this has more to do with age and sensibilities than gender. If you are offended by jokes about trying to perform fellatio on yourself or dry-humping, or if you don’t watch YouTube videos of animals being ridiculous, maybe you should take a pass on this film.

The story itself is not particularly new, but it’s been updated for the 21^st century. Last time I was in a long-distance relationship, we didn’t have YouTube, much less any sneezing pandas to laugh at together late at night on our cell phones. I emailed him using PINE and dial-up. It was a nightmare. And texting? Let me dig up my old campus phone call bills for you.

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As much as I know about movies, that’s about the opposite of how much I know about wine. In fact, I’m probably less informed than the waiter in the restaurant scene from Going the Distance. I’d love to be a connoisseur, though, and I wonder if the key for someone like me to learn the ways of the grape are to do so through film. I don’t mean like how I first heard of Pinot Noir thanks to Sideways or that a 95-cent Idaho bubbly is likely a bad choice via The Muppet Movie. Or how I’ve bought certain bottles just because they have a filmmaker’s name on them (I had some sparkling Sofia Coppola this past weekend, in fact). I mean something more specific, like the list Focus Features had compiled for its own titles back in June as a promotion for The Kids Are All Right, or how our own Erik Davis found pairings on [yellow tail]’s new ReserveYourNight.com movie/wine-pairing site for recent blockbusters like The Expendables and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

For now the best I can do is pair a generic white wine with Finding Nemo because I hear white goes with fish. And because red goes with meat, I think of it as something to go with a manly movie, particularly a boxing film like Raging Bull (for the steak scene, you know?). Or maybe white is lighter, so it goes with a lighter sort of movie, like a romantic comedy, while a deep red goes with a dark drama or thriller? Other than that, I have occasionally thought to drink an Argentine Malbec while watching Argentine films, just as I’d likely pair a French wine with a French film, etc. But it impresses me to no end that someone can come up with an exact brand and year to go with Ratatouille (the Pixar film, not the dish) let alone the documentary American Movie.

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