Episode 23 – The Place Beyond the Pines

This week the film nerds take a break from the popcorn fare for Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines. They also talk about waning 3D box office projections and some surprise Ninja Turtles casting.

Show Notes:

• Introduction
• What We’ve Been Watching
  • Willie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), The Neverending Story, Masters of the Universe (0:01:42)
  • Nick: Dredd, Insidious, Constantine (0:06:16)
  • Alex: Before Sunrise (0:14:53)
• Film News
  • 3D box office is projected to drop for 2013 (0:19:22)
  • Nolan alum casting news: (0:29:37)
    • Morgan Freeman has joined Wally Pfister’s Transcendence
    • Anne Hathaway has joined Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar
  • Danny Woodburn has been cast as Splinter in Michael Bay’s Ninja Turtles (o:30:45)
  • Bradley Cooper and Noah Emmerich replace the fleeing cast of Jane Got a Gun (0:36:00)
• Review: The Place Beyond the Pines (0:38:26)
  • Spoilers Start: (0:50:00)
• Food For Thought: What movies had very misleading trailers? (1:10:38)
• Outro (1:19:07)

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