Al Pacino says the enduring success of “Scarface” is “kind of like a fairy tale.”

At a party Tuesday heralding the Blu-ray release of the gangster classic, Pacino said the film “was eviscerated and treated with disrespect” when it came out in 1983 and “it’s almost a miracle” audiences continue to discover it.

The 71-year-old actor reunited with “Scarface” co-stars Steven Bauer, Robert Loggia and F. Murray Abraham and producer Martin Bregman at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles, where they shared memories about making the movie.

Pacino says he wanted to do a remake after seeing Paul Muni in the 1932 original, and Sidney Lumet suggested he make the main character Cuban instead of Italian.

Bregman called their new version “a perfect film.”

The Blu-ray comes out Sept. 6.

I'm not a super fan, but still wild about "Harry."

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Confession: I have never been a die-hard fan of the “Harry Potter” series – I think I made it through the first book, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” and stopped. And the first several films, while fanciful, were never must-sees for me. Maybe it’s that I was childless, 26 and not a big fantasy fan in 1997, when the first book came out. And since it wasn’t an initial draw for me, I was put off by the hype and the insistence of everyone around me that I simply had to get into it. Blame my Taurus stubbornness, or whatever zodiac sign I’m allegedly since the whole chart changed.

Still, I literally left the house for the first time in three days (housebound by doctor’s orders) this afternoon because I was so excited to see the last half of “Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows.” Maybe it’s that I caught the first half during its theatrical run and was so moved by the story, the acting and the beautiful bond between the cast, that I Netflixed it last week to get back in the spirit.

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Well, it looks like Green Lantern might just be the worst-reviewed comic-book movie this summer. Rotten Tomatoes has given it a 21 percent fresh rating, relegating it with the likes of Priest and Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer.

And now, mere hours after its official release, it’s already started to be a punchline. The Onion pulled no punches, making fun of its aggressive marketing:

‘Green Lantern’ To Fulfill America’s Wish To See Lantern-Based Characters On Big Screen

Ryan Reynolds poses in front of the 'Entertainment Weekly' cover of him as Green Lantern.

Photos: Ryan Reynolds, sexiest man alive

It’s a great day to be Ryan Reynolds.

First, he just got named People‘s Sexiest Man Alive, joining the ranks of Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, and the first, named 25 years ago, Mel Gibson.

And, as his style, Reynolds made a joke about it, according to the magazine (via E! Online):

“We’re trying to nationalize sexy. Sort of like Medicare,” he said of the hotness that comes with being Canadian. “There’s an inherent ability to be self-deprecating. That has served me well in my career and personal life.”

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Rooney Mara, who's just been cast as Lisbeth in 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo', on the red carpet earlier this year. (Gabriel Bouys / AFP / Getty Images)

Rooney Mara will be working alongside James Bond star Daniel Craig in the Hollywood remake of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”

Sony Pictures announced Monday that Mara will play Lisbeth Salander, a fearless genius tormented by a terrible childhood, in the crime thriller based on the first book in Stieg Larsson’s best-selling series.

Mara, 25, joins Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who teams up with Lisbeth to delve into a string of decades-old murders.

“Dragon Tattoo” is directed by David Fincher, who cast Mara in “The Social Network,” a drama about the founders of Facebook due in theaters Oct. 1.

The English-language adaptation of “Dragon Tattoo” begins shooting next month in Sweden and is due out Dec. 21, 2011.

Soap fans are constantly explaining to their non-daytime drama-loving friends that the “unknown” actor playing the victim’s mother on “Law and Order” or that “Burn Notice” villian aren’t newcomers – they’ve been working hard for years in daytime and wildly famous to the people who follow their show.

But not to anybody else.

And that’s why soap fans like me can’t help but feel a little bit of pride when an actor that they’ve long followed hits the mainstream and just blows the joint up. So it was this morning during our viewing of “The A-Team,” which was not only co-written by Brian Bloom, who established the role of “As The Wolrd Turns”‘wolf blue-eyed teen heartthrob Dusty Donovan in the 1980s, but features the actor in a surprisingly significant role as a wry mercenary named Pike. He not only has an intense fight scene with B.A. Baracus (Quinton “Rampage” Jackson), but seems to have written himself some of the script’s best lines (A disgusted Pike disapprovingly watches his own would-be assassin fumble with his gun and snaps to a rival “Don’t let this guy kill me” as if the prospect is not scary but just beneath him.)

Bloom left “As The World Turns” in 1986, and spent the next two decade guesting on everything from “Matlock” to “Law and Order SVU”  and “Oz” and appeared in 2006′s “Smokin’ Aces”. But the “A-Team” role is biggest and most significant as an adult actor, and even though the movie’s not doing as well as predicted, he’s an incredible amount of fun.

My only regret is that as “ATWT” winds down to its last episode this fall, Bloom probably won’t come back to make a cameo because there’s another actor, Grayson McCouch, currently playing Dusty (and not doing as good a job, honestly). Seeing him blow stuff up on the big screen will have to be enough.

Before Twilight mania, there was Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint are back with the latest installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

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Hallows is the last book in the wildly popular series and will be split into two films, the first of which is due out on November 19th.
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If Quentin Tarantino ever gets around to making a cowboy movie, the result will probably look a lot like The Good, the Bad, the Weird. Billed as an “oriental western,” the film, by South Korean director Ji-woon Kim, is a high-concept homage to the oater, complete with a train robbery, buried treasure, shootouts galore and more horses than you can count.

It’s also set in a multi-ethnic, Japanese-occupied Manchuria of the 1930s and features an all-over-the-map soundtrack including surf guitar, mariachi trumpet and a snippet from Moonlight Serenade, played as a dying man, who has just been stabbed in the back of the neck, crawls, gagging on his own blood, across the floor.
Old-fashioned it ain’t.
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By MADELEINE MARR

Oscar Isaac as Prince/King John with Lea Seydoux in 'Robin Hood'.

Oscar Isaac knows how lucky he is to star in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood.

The Guatemalan-born son of Miami pulmonologist Oscar G. Hernandez plays King John, the tyrannical ruler of 13th-century England.

But the 30-year-old was well prepared — he attended Juilliard, after all.

“That was four years of incredibly intense drama boot camp,” says Isaac, from the Loews Miami Beach Hotel. “It allowed me to do accents, which has been invaluable so far.”
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Steel bested bows and arrows at the movies this weekend, with “Iron Man 2″ fighting off the new release “Robin Hood” to stay at the top of the box office.

The superhero sequel starring Robert Downey Jr. took in $53 million domestically to remain at No. 1, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The Paramount Pictures release has made over $212 million in its first two weeks.
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