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Guillermo Del Toro Signs to Direct Emma Watson in BEAUTY (and the Beast)

Nick Martin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:10:41 +0000

Seems that Hollywood starts to shape up its calendar in a way similar to the Chinese lunar calendar — the current year’s animal symbol of the Chinese calendar is most popular subject, replaced with the most popular fairytale in Hollywood’s case. Therefore, this year is going to be the year of Snow White tales — [...]

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Michael Bay Signs Two-Picture Deal With Paramount: PAIN AND GAIN & TRANSFORMERS 4

Allan Ford — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:37:13 +0000

Paramount Pictures announced today that director Michael Bay has signed a two-picture deal with the studio, which will commence this spring with the filming of Pain and Gain, and will be followed by the next installment in the hit Transformers franchise. Based on a true story, “Pain and Gain” follows a group of bodybuilders who [...]

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Tom Cruise’s OBLIVION Adds Game Of Thrones Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Nick Martin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:27:08 +0000

The Joseph Kosinski’s sci-fi thriller Oblivion, which has had Tom Cruise devoted from the start, began completing its cast puzzle last week with Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough and Olga Kurylenko in supporting roles. Next up we have Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau who has signed on to join the production, which is slated to [...]

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Adam Scott Joins THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (Ben Stiller) Cast

Nick Martin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:54:43 +0000

Adam Scott has signed on for an as-yet-unspecified role, but let’s say he will be somehow connected to Ben Stiller’s character. Don’t ask me why it just does: Kristen Wiig will play a co-worker who becomes Stiller’s love interest, Patton Oswalt will play Todd, an eHarmony worker who helps Stiller creates an online dating profile. [...]

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BLACK WINGS HAS MY ANGEL Adds Paquin, Hiddleston

Nick Martin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:33:23 +0000

The cult classic Black Wings Has My Angel by newspaperman Elliot Chaze, ‘less about plot than the completely convincing characterizations’ has actually been developing since around 2007. Finally, Cargo Entertainment has taken on the long-gestating film and two new stars have joined Elijah Wood, who had previously (a couple of years before) signed on to [...]

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THE NECESSARY DEATH OF CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN Adds Two More

Nick Martin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:46:30 +0000

No doubt, return of Shia LaBeouf to play the titular Charlie Countryman help The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman action comedy getting back into production. The Ides of March’s Evan Rachel Wood and The Three Musketeers’ Mads Mikkelsen have both joined the cast of the gritty pulp romancer, which is being shopped in Berlin. Woods [...]

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Weekend Box Office: February 10-12, 2012

Allan Ford — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:37:44 +0000

Rentrak Corporation, today announced the official weekend theatrical box office numbers for the weekend period of February 10th, 2012 through February 12th, 2012 according to the company’s Box Office Essentials™ theatrical box office data collection and analytical service. Rank Film Name Distributor Name Weekend Revenue Cume Revenue Locs 1 Vow, The Sony 41,700,000 41,700,000 2,958 [...]

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Dominic Cooper is Set to Star in Roger Donaldson’s CITIES

Nick Martin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:13:25 +0000

British actor Dominic Cooper gave us one of the last year’s best acting performances in The Devil’s Double and had one hell of the year in which he starred in Captain America and awards contender My Week with Marilyn. Now comes word from Variety that Cooper has just entered final negotiations to join Roger Donaldson‘s [...]

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Evil Dead Reboot Adds Lou Taylor Pucci

Nick Martin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:57:09 +0000

Lou Taylor Pucci first appeared on film in Rebecca Miller’s well-received Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, a small indie drama that was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2002, from which it won the Grand Jury Prize. Pucci landed his first starring role in Thumbsucker, the movie directorial debut of music video director Mike [...]

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DRACULA YEAR ZERO Returns from the Dead

Nick Martin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:23:49 +0000

By chance, if you are a commercial director you really have the chance to seat in director’s chair for feature film sooner rather than later. Gary Shore (The Draft) is certainly one of these guys. He decided to use his precious experience to work within a limited budget to direct the film, complete with a [...]

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Saoirse Ronan to Star in Disney’s ORDER OF THE SEVEN

Nick Martin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:58:21 +0000

The Order of the Seven, formerly known as Snow and the Seven, which originated under the title Snow White and the Seven Samuri, once had Natalie Portman slated to play the lead and now, the lead role has been given to Saoirse Ronan. Finaly, Ronan has chosen to play a sort of version of that [...]

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Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux to Play BEAUTY AND THE BEAST for Christophe Gans

Nick Martin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:45:58 +0000

The best stories are those that can be told again and again: Snow White, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast are some of the well-known fairy tales you may have seen or heard in your youth. Recent CBS Films’ Beastly starring Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens, and just last month Disney’s version of the Beauty and [...]

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Emma Thomspon for One of the BEAUTIFUL CREATURES

Nick Martin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:07:48 +0000

Things move really quickly with each day bringing new news of Beautiful Creatures casting developments. Two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson will be joining Jack O’Connell, Alice Englert and Viola Davis in the ‘hauntingly intense coming of age story set in the South (about) two star-crossed teenage lovers, Ethan (O’Connell), a local boy, and a mysterious [...]

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John Cusack and Evan Peters in ADULT WORLD

Nick Martin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:23:35 +0000

Emma Roberts has been alone on the project for nearly an entire year and now the Adult World movie is moving quickly from one Central NY location to another, compressed into their tight 22-day schedule. Being helmed by actor-turned-director Scott Coffey from a script penned by Andy Cochran (MTV’s Teen Wolf show) Deadline has learned [...]

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Jim Mickle to Remake Cannibal Horror WE ARE WHAT WE ARE

Nick Martin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:11:12 +0000

I agree some people are really lazy when it comes to watching foreign films because the original has subtitles and so Stake Land director Jim Mickle takes advantage of that need by ‘sinking his teeth’ into a remake which involves the cult cannibal film We Are What We Are. However, it has the potential to [...]

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