the a-team

Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Flotsam & Jetsam

Bradley Cooper Can Only Be Marketed In One Way

8:31AM Brian Moylan | Hollywood marketing departments aren’t that creative, so how else to sell an ensemble pic? With a bunch of smiling stars smooshed on a poster, especially in a cute shape. The only one who appears on all three? Bradley Cooper! More »
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Saturday, January 9, 2010
Big Screen

The A-Team Trailer: The Latest ’80s Remake We Didn’t Want

5:20AM Brian Moylan | As expected, the new iteration of The A-Team looks to be an uninspired collection of boys playing with their guns and bad jokes. The highlight: a tank parachutes out of an exploding plane. Also Bradley Cooper’s abs. Yowza!
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Fox, Ridley Scott Apparently Reviving ‘A-Team’ For Real This Time

1:55AM STV | A year after Fox inflated and mercilessly dashed a few hundred Americans’ hopes of a big-screen A-Team adaptation, behold the promise of a new start — with surprisingly, almost bafflingly influential connections. More »
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Friday, March 21, 2008

John Singleton Brings Impossible Dream of ‘A-Team’ Adaptation to Screen

4:40AM Defamer Hollywood | We’ve long believed that of all of Mr. T’s deeply subversive acting work of the ’80s, nothing demands a more serious reappraisal through the prism of contemporary social issues than The A-Team. Especially an A-Team directed by John Singleton, whom Fox has nabbed for its feature-length adaptation to open in summer 2009. Alas, with the updating reportedly focusing on a group of Iraq War veterans railroaded for a crime they didn’t commit, Singleton requires a kinder, gentler, less gold-plated ‘Nam vet anti-hero B.A. Baracus to carpool his batch of mercenaries in that famous black van. More »
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