'Inception' trumps 'Salt' with $43.5 million weekend
Los Angeles -- Leonardo DiCaprio's "Inception" has won a battle of superstar Action Thrillers over Angelina Jolie's "Salt" at the weekend Box Office. "Inception" remained the No. 1 movie for the second-straight weekend with $43.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Thriller featuring DiCaprio as leader of a team that sneaks into people's dreams raised its 10-day total to $143.7 million. Sony's spy caper "Salt" debuted a solid No. 2 with $36.5 million. The movie stars Jolie as a...

Hans Zimmer on manipulating Edith Piaf for 'Inception': 'It's how you get from one dream level to the next'
Christopher Nolan 's dream-within-a-dream-heist comes with a taut, damning score, courtesy of the filmmaker's go-to-composer, Hans Zimmer . Yet the tense, minimal foghorn-like bellows take their inspiration from something far more delicate.  Édith Piaf' s "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" was one of the composer's prime sources of inspiration for "Inception." Zimmer spoke about the connection to our sister blog Hero Complex when the film was released, and...

Inception: The Names Within Names May Offer Clues
In its second week, Inception appears to be yet another successful blockbuster movie for director Christopher Nolan. Peter Travers of the Rolling Stone describes Inception as “James Bond meets The Matrix.” However mind-bending the plot might be, there’s a lot of speculation about what the movie really means. Is it about dream thieves, or is it more of an allegory about movies in general? Is the movie filmed from the main character’s perspective of reality or was he...

Has Inception Made Batman 3 Less Likely to Succeed?
The third Batman film already has to deal with the high standards of The Dark Knight and the horrific history of super hero 'threequels.' With the success of Inception Christopher Nolan has an even slimmer margin for error.

Inception
(12A) 147min. Christopher Nolan adds yet another mind-bending movie to his canon, following the amnesiac flashbacks of Memento and Insomnia's sleep-deprived trippyness. This time round it's dreams he wishes to explore: Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief of the subconscious, sneaking into people's dreams and stealing their deepest secrets. When asked by the shady Saito (Ken Watanabe) if it was possible to plant an idea instead of removing one (Inception as opposed to extraction),...

Will Inception Get a Sequel?
When we mentioned a sequel to our newest blockbuster fave, Inception , we were just assuming that Hollywood would want to milk its success for every last penny it could. Which no doubt would include Inception: Return to the Subconscious . But let's get serious, how likely is a sequel? "Even in making a sequel, you have to be fresh. You have to be different. You have to take risks," Christopher Nolan , the director of the dreamy flick, told Entertainment Weekly recently. So why not take...

'Inception' trumps 'Salt' with $43.5M weekend
In this July 21, 2010 file photo, Director Christopher Nolan, left, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, center, and Japanese actor Ken Watanabe pose for photographers during a Press Conference of their new film "Inception" in Tokyo, Japan.

'Inception' Infographics Explain The Film's Levels & Kicks
Christopher Nolan ’s Inception is still going strong at the Box Office, coming in on top for the second week since it was released on July 16, 2010, making over $232 million worldwide. Since its release, Inception has been praised by most and will probably be the most talked about movie of the year, thanks to its multiple layers and intricate plot lines. On the Inception episode of our movie podcast Flix of Doom, we spent nearly two hours analyzing the film, and other sites as well...

Nightly News: Edi Gathegi Is the Latest X-Men Mutant; Tom Hardy Joins 'War'
Edi Gathegi is seguing from vampire to mutant. The actor, who played Laurent in the 'Twilight' films, has signed on to 'X-Men: First Class' to play Darwin, a mutant who has the power of "reactive Evolution," meaning he can adapt to any situation or environment by changing his body accordingly, according to a report at Deadline Hollywood. The X-Men prequel, directed by Matthew Vaughn, stars James McAvoy as Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Magneto, Alice Eve as Emma Frost, Nicholas Hoult as...

My Mind Just Got Blown... Again
Current music: Time- Hans Zimmer Entry tags: Joseph gordon levitt , Leonardo DiCaprio , Marion Cotillard , soundtrack My Mind Just Got Blown... Again The Inception music is really just other music slowed down. You know that (*BRAAAAAAAAHMM*) sound from Inception with which we've been having so much fun? Well as you can see in this video, some brainiac on the Internet put it together that the main musical cue in Hans Zimmer's Inception score is actually a slowed-down version of...

Everybody's a Critic of the Critics' Rabid Critics / The Film Culture Of the Internet
Entry tags: film Everybody's a Critic of the Critics' Rabid Critics / The Film Culture Of the Internet IF I had to issue a one-sentence manifesto for film criticism, it would be this: Any movie worth seeing is worth arguing about, and any movie worth arguing about is worth seeing. But nothing is ever that simple, as demonstrated by "Inception," a movie that makes a show of complicating everything in its path. In case you have been sleeping through some other movie, or pursuing...

Women on Film - Cinematic Sexuality. It's an issue.
Current mood: calm Entry tags: discussion Women on Film - Cinematic Sexuality. It's an issue. Ellen Page has been called "asexual, childish and a little Boy" because of the clothes she wore in the movie, Inception . This begs the question (which seems to have no solid answer, as of yet): Are the standards for being/looking sexual on film getting out of control? The article is long, but it is written well enough to the point where it is worth the read. When it comes to women and...

'The Town': Assessing the trailer for a film destined for the Toronto International Film Festival
One of the many Films announced today as part of the Toronto Film Festival line-up is Ben Affleck's "The Town," his second directorial effort after "Gone Baby Gone." If you've seen "Inception," you may well have seen the trailer for "The Town," a Boston crime thriller that contains echoes of "Gone" and whose bank heist snippets are creepily reminiscent of the opening of "The Dark Knight." Affleck did a solid job with "Gone Baby...

'The Town': Assessing the trailer for a film destined for the Toronto International Film Festival
One of the many Films announced today as part of the Toronto Film Festival line-up is Ben Affleck's "The Town," his second directorial effort after "Gone Baby Gone." If you've seen "Inception," you may well have seen the trailer for "The Town," a Boston crime thriller that contains echoes of "Gone" and whose bank heist snippets are creepily reminiscent of the opening of "The Dark Knight." Affleck did a solid job with "Gone Baby...

Video: 'Inception' Gets Mashed-Up With 'Toy Story 3'
'Inception' and 'Toy Story 3' don't have much in common (beyond being the summer's two best blockbusters), but that didn't stop some Internet geniuses from finding the common thread and spinning it into YouTube gold.That's right -- ScreenRant married the two films into one hilariously fitting trailer.'Toy Story 3: Inception' imagines the usually flamboyant Ken doll as the brooding extractor (played by Leonardo DiCaprio in 'Inception') and his girl Barbie as dream newbie Ellen Page.Check out the mash-up be...

The Awesome 'Secret' Behind the Music in Inception [Whoa]
Did you like Inception ? Especially the booming score? Do you like having your mind totally blown ? Then you will enjoy watching this one-minute explanatory video about exactly how awesome the movie was. You just got incepted . [ Via ]

The Inception music is really just other music slowed down
You know that (* BRAAAAAAAAHMM *) sound from Inception with which we’ve been having so much fun?

THE AWESOME SECRET BEHIND INCEPTION'S SCORE
I have been considering writing a follow-up to my incredibly (and thankfully) popular Never Wake Up article about the secrets and meanings of Inception , with new information and thoughts. But before I do, I have to share with you this incredible video. While the information within it is not technically 'new' - Hans Zimmer spoke about it at the Inception press junket - the way it's presented here is almost stunning. It really makes you think... and how cool is it that there's a hit summer...

Is The Secret To Inception In The Music?
As Inception continues to baffle and amaze audiences, and theories as to what the hell exactly was going on bound around the Internet , it seems that the intrigue goes even further as Gawker have put up a video that seems to suggest even the music was playing with our minds. In the film, the song 'Non, je ne regrette rien' is used by the crew of dashing sleep invaders as a way of warning themselves that the dream is about to end and a 'kick' is going to occur (if you haven't watched it I...

The Easter Egg In Hans Zimmer's 'Inception' Score
By Andrew Sorcini After a recent screening of Inception , it occurred to YouTuber camiam321 that there may be some method to the madness of the dark, slow, bass-heavy theme that dominates Hans Zimmer ’s score. He took Edith Piaf’s “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” (which is used as a recurring motif in the film’s heist sequence), and slowed it down in Adobe Soundbooth by 300%. The result was a near exact match to the Zimmer theme. Watch the video here below and...

Inception: the movie that just keeps blowing your mind
That menacing Hans Zimmer movie score from Inception? The one that infused the movie with such a sense of mounting dread? It's just Edith Piaf's "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" in extreme slo-mo. And if you've seen the movie, that's a HUGE "holy crap!" revelation. Explains A/V Club : "In the movie, we learn that the further the heroes dive into a person's subconscious " into a dream within a dream within a dream, and so on " the more slowed-down time becomes. So if...

"Inception's" break-out boy cast in McG's "This Means War".
Entry tags: film "Inception's" break-out boy cast in McG's "This Means War". A tiny tidbit, but news, nonetheless. Hollywood's 2010 handsome man, Tom Hardy, has replaced 2009's handsome man Sam Worthington for the action-comedy This Means War for director McG. I think I can speak for everyone when I say that when We collectively said, "Tom Hardy was great in Inception, I'm glad Hollywood has taken note of him", this is not what we were hoping for. Source Good thing or bad...

Inception's Tom Hardy Replacing Sam Worthington In This Means War
You can probably pick a dozen of your favorite things from Inception right off the top of your head-- this post is a good place to do that-- but for me there was nothing better than Tom Hardy, the British actor who stole every scene from his better-known co-stars as the tricksy and sarcastic forger Eames. Hardy has been marked for stardom ever since his role in the indie Bronson , but Inception has vaulted him into the big league of up-and-comers, and he's just signed his first deal to...

"Inception" has viewers guessing
If you like action and suspense packed with a mind-blowing plot then Christopher Nolan's new film "Inception" is the one to watch. From beginning to end "Inception" has viewers guessing about what's real and what's not. The beefy plot makes one recall the popular 1999 film, "The Matrix." In "Inception," characters are mostly in a dream state hooked up to IVs while another is awake to monitor them as they sleep. The film's star, Leonardo Di Caprio, plays Cobb, who is hired to get in the head of a...

Bob Samuels: Inception as Deception: A Future Look at Our Everyday Reality
Within the plot of Inception , the big question concerns how can you implant an idea into another person's head so that the person receiving the idea actually thinks it comes from his or her own intention. While the film depicts this form of mind control as a futuristic mystery, we must ask, isn't this the central trick of contemporary culture and Capitalism? Doesn't advertising get us to desire things and then makes us think that these desires come from our own free will. In other words,...