January 08, 2009
Broadcast Film Critics Name Critics' Choice Winners
The 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards were given on January 8, 2009, to honor the finest achievements in 2008 filmmaking. A list of nominees follows below, with winners in bold: More...

January 07, 2009
Slate's Movie Club Looks Back at 2008
Slate's Movie Club, boasting an all-female lineup for 2009, has convened to debate the best movies of '08. More...

December 12, 2008
Weekly Ketchup: Tom Cruise to return as Tropic Thunder's Les Grossman
This week sees a surprising lack of the remakes we've gotten used to seeing in the Weekly Ketchup, with the shelving of one horror remake balancing out a movie that is only a remake in as much as it tackles a subject mostly only adapted in... More...

December 12, 2008
Les Grossman: The Movie?
Tom Cruise's foulmouthed studio executive, Les Grossman, stole the show in "Tropic Thunder" and earned Cruise a Golden Globe nomination. Could a Les Grossman feature film be next? More...

November 17, 2008
RT on DVD: WALL-E And An Exclusive Tropic Thunder Deleted Scene!
The summer's biggest oohs and ahhs (and guffaws) hit DVD this week, as Wall-E and Tropic Thunder hit shelves with tons of bonus content for fans. Cineastes will be rewarded by the latest from Harmony Korine (Mister Lonely) and David Lynch (the... More...

November 14, 2008
Saving the best for first in the case of a radically raunchy pseudo-prologue, the most frightening episode in this jungle gross-out is not warfare, but Cruise's newly bald, hairy and paunchy bizarre update of his classic Risky Business musical romp.
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September 25, 2008
EMarketingMag.com: Saving the best for first in the case of a radically raunchy pseudo-prologue, the most frightening episode in this jungle gross-out is not warfare, but Cruise's newly bald, hairy and paunchy bizarre update of his classic Risky Business
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September 19, 2008
UK Critics Consensus: Tropic Thunder Soldiers On; Then She Found Me Is Found Out
This week's UK releases, expect big laughs as Ben Stiller's star-studded Hollywood satire comedy blasts onto our screens in Tropic Thunder. The sound of a big old biological clock ticking away heralds two maternally yearning movies onto our... More...

September 15, 2008
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Coen Brothers Ring in a New Weekend at the Box Office
Joel and Ethan Coen scored the largest debut of their career and first-ever number one opening with the crime caper Burn After Reading. More...

September 08, 2008
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Worst Box Office in 5 Years
Americans spend the weekend doing everything but watching movies as the box office spills into a five year slump. More...

September 02, 2008
RT's Summer in Review: The Best, The Worst, and Our Favorite Films!
The summer movie season of 2008 ended last weekend, and boy, was it a good one. Led by box office smashes like Iron Man, Wall-E, and The Dark Knight, Hollywood raked in the dough week after week -- and, surprisingly, scored major Freshness on the... More...

September 01, 2008
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Tropic Thunder Triumphantly closes Summer
Labor day weekend saw a host of new films; few of them showing any signs of box office msucle. More...

August 28, 2008
Rain of Madness Available for Free on iTunes
"Rain of Madness," the fake documentary about the making of the film-within-a-film in "Tropic Thunder," is now available for free on iTunes. Get downloadin'! More...

August 24, 2008
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Tropic Thunder Holds Strong
Tropic Thunder enjoys another good week but The Rocker and The Longshots limp into the game. More...

August 17, 2008
Box Office Guru Wrapup: The Bat Finally Falls While Tropic Triumphs
While Dark Knight bows out from the top spot to make room for the star power of Tropic Thunder, it holds its place as the number two domestic blockbuster of all-time and the number one global smash of this year. More...

August 16, 2008
You know you're asking for trouble when you make a movie with a white actor in blackface wearing a lower lip extension who's always talking jive jibberish, and with a mentally-challenged character who's repeatedly teased about his disability.
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August 15, 2008
Review Revue: Tropic Thunder, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Clone Wars and Mirrors
There are a whopping four wide releases to choose from this weekend, so how will you decide what to watch? Let the Tomatometer be your guide, that's how! See if critics are going fresh or rotten on the jungle comedy Tropic Thunder, Woody Allen's... More...

August 11, 2008
Tropic Thunder Boycott Rumbles
DreamWorks is standing by the final cut of Tropic Thunder -- and now the studio will have to contend with a nationwide boycott from a coalition of disabilities groups. More...

August 08, 2008
Saving the best for first in the case of a radically raunchy pseudo-prologue, the most frightening episode in this jungle gross-out is not warfare, but Cruise's newly bald, hairy and paunchy bizarre update of his classic Risky Business musical romp.
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August 06, 2008
Disability Groups Not Laughing at Tropic Thunder
It won't reach theaters for another week, but Tropic Thunder's use of the word "retard" has already incensed disability groups, more than half a dozen of which are scheduled to speak with DreamWorks executives today. More...

August 04, 2008
Downey Promises "Action-Packed" Sherlock Holmes
You'll soon see him running through the jungle wearing blackface in Tropic Thunder, but Robert Downey Jr. is already thinking about his next projects -- including Iron Man 2 and Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes project, both of which he recently... More...

July 27, 2008
Box Office Guru Wrapup: The Bat Smashes More Records
The Dark Knight breaks $300 million after only ten days. More...

July 16, 2008
Three featurettes of the movie. Entertaining.
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July 16, 2008
Tropic Thunder Scribe Penning Iron Man 2?
Marvel is in final negotiations with a writer for Iron Man 2 -- and his name is Justin Theroux. More...

July 15, 2008
Tropic Thunder Moves Up, The Rocker Pushed Back
The August schedule shifted a bit yesterday, with Tropic Thunder moving up two days to the 13th, and The Rocker being pushed back almost a month, to the 20th. More...

July 09, 2008
Before Tropic Thunder, Feel the Rain of Madness
The parallels between Apocalypse Now and Tropic Thunder have just been extended -- a trailer for Rain of Madness, the mock mockumentary detailing the production of Thunder's film-within-a-film, is now online. More...

July 01, 2008
Prepare to Drink Ben Stiller's Booty Sweat
It isn't even reaching theaters until August 15, but Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder has already inspired an unusual tie-in -- an energy drink called Booty Sweat. More...

June 29, 2008
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May 19, 2008
(Red Band) Trailer Bulletin: Tropic Thunder
You've seen the Tropic Thunder trailer -- but you've never seen it quite like this! More...

April 14, 2008
2008 is the summer of Robert Downey Jr.
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April 14, 2008
2008 is the summer of Robert Downey Jr.
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April 07, 2008
Tropic Thunder Multitasker Ben Stiller Can't Discuss Tom Cruise's Cameo, But He Did Reveal Jack Black's Water-Buffalo Baby
Don't look now, but the heated race for summer's biggest blockbuster has a dark horse approaching on the outside track -- a dark comedy horse, that is. More...

April 03, 2008
Ben Stiller, DreamWorks Herald The Return of King Doug
Greg Erb and Jason Oremland's graphic novel The Return of King Doug hasn't even reached shelves yet, but it's already being turned into a movie. More...

March 25, 2008
Trailer & Poster review
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March 10, 2008
Tropic Thunder Rolls Out Official Site and Teaser
Mere days after releasing the first still of Robert Downey Jr. with an unexpected complexion, Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder has rolled out its official site -- and the coolest film tagline of the year. More...

March 06, 2008
First Shot of Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder Hits the Web
The first photos from Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder and Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno surfaced online this week, and though the Zack and Miri still is basically just your garden-variety shot of the stars in action, the Thunder shot had... More...

March 06, 2008
20th Century Fox's Dragonball Rolls to 2009
You can go ahead and make new plans for August 15th, Dragonball fans -- James Wong's live-action adaptation won't be hitting screens that weekend. More...

February 15, 2008
Star Trek XI Going Boldly to May 2009 Release Date
Time to make new plans for Christmas Day, Trekkies -- Paramount has Scrooged Star Trek XI all the way back to 2009. More...

September 19, 2007
Matthew McConaughey Replaces Owen Wilson in Tropic Thunder
A paid week in Hawaii? With a craft service table? Dude, Matthew McConaughey is so there. More...

August 29, 2007
Owen Wilson Drops Out of Tropic Thunder
This one comes out of the "well, duh" files, but it's been announced and we're passing the news along: Owen Wilson has dropped out of his planned appearance in the Ben Stiller comedy Tropic Thunder. More...

August 28, 2007
Robert Downey Jr. To Lead In The Soloist
It looks like Robert Downey Jr. may be cultivating a mini-career of playing journalists. First it was Zodiac, and now Variety is reporting that Downey will join the cast of The Soloist, playing a reporter who discovers a homeless violin virtuoso,... More...