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New 'Fantastic Four' are Teller, Mara, Jordan and Bell
14 hours ago | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Fox is ready to reboot Mravel's Fantastic Four and have revealed the cast, which includes Miles Teller playing Reid Richards (aka Mr. Fantastic), Kate Mara playing Sue Storm (aka The Invisible Woman), Michael B. Jordan playing Johnny Storm (aka The Human Torch) and Jamie Bell lining up to play Ben Grimm (aka The Thing) for director Josh Trank (Chronicle). Jordan and Teller were said to be attached for a long time while as was Mara. Bell is the newest name attached to the cast and according to Variety, no formal offer has yet been made to Bell. The film, with a script from Simon Kinberg, said to be based on the comic "The Ultimate Fantastic Four," which will focus on the characters as young men and women, is already slated for a June 19, 2015 release. »
- Brad Brevet
A Good Day To Die Hard Star Jai Courtney Lands Kyle Reese Role in Terminator: Genesis
23 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
The new Terminator film has found its Kyle Reese. After testing a number of actors for the key role in director Alan Taylor’s (Thor: The Dark World) reboot Terminator: Genesis, we learned recently that Taylor and Paramount had narrowed their focus to two actors: Jai Courtney (Jack Reacher) and Boyd Holbrook (The Host). Now Variety reports that the former has come away with the role, as Courtney has been tapped to play Kyle Reese opposite Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) as Sarah Connor, Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty) as John Connor, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the iconic Terminator. Hit the jump for more. Per Variety’s report, plot details on Terminator: Genesis are firmly under wraps save for the fact that it’s being planned as the first in a new trilogy of films. Michael Biehn inhabited the Reese role in James Cameron’s original film, so Courtney certainly has big shoes to fill. »
- Adam Chitwood
Ben Kingsley Joins Robert Pattinson in ‘Life’
23 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Ben Kingsley has joined the cast of Anton Corbijn’s period drama “Life,” opposite Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan.
Shooting started Wednesday in Toronto on the film, produced by See-Saw Films and First Generation Films, with Corbijn directing from a script by Luke Davies (“Candy”). The film also stars Alessandra Mastronardi.
The story centers on the friendship that developed between photographer Dennis Stock (Pattinson) and actor James Dean (DeHaan) when Stock was commissioned to photograph the actor for Life magazine in 1955. The assignment took the pair on a photographic journey from Los Angeles to New York and on to Indiana.
Producers are See-Saw Films’ Iain Canning and Emile Sherman with Christina Piovesan of First Generation Films and is co-produced by Wolfgang Mueller and Benito Mueller of Barry Films. The film is financed by Corner Piece Capital, LLC,Telefilm Canada, Film4, Screen Australia, Michel Merkt and Union Bank, N.A.
FilmNation Entertainment is handling international sales. »
- Dave McNary
Meryl Streep to Join Carey Mulligan in Women’s Rights Drama ‘Suffragette’
23 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep is in final negotiations to play political activist Emmeline Pankhurst opposite Carey Mulligan in the women’s rights drama “Suffragette,” an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap. Sarah Gavron is directing Ruby Films’ drama, which starts production overseas next week. Streep’s deal is expected to close shortly. Abi Morgan (“Shame”) wrote the script, having previously worked with Streep on “The Iron Lady.” Also read: Harvey Weinstein Making ‘The Senator’s Wife’ With Meryl Streep to Make NRA ‘Wish They Weren’t Alive’ Mulligan stars as a woman instrumental to the early feminist movement. »
- Jeff Sneider
'Fantastic Four' casting: Fox zeroes in on its final 4
17 minutes ago | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
It’s almost clobberin’ time. Twentieth Century Fox is in serious talks with a quartet of in-demand actors to cast its new Fantastic Four. According to The Wrap, Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, and Michael B. Jordan are close to signing on for the superhero reboot from director Josh Trank. Jordan, who worked with Trank on Chronicle, has long been rumored to play Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, but Fox declined to confirm that a deal for the Fruitvale Station actor, or the other three stars, had been reached — yet.
Teller, who starred opposite Jordan in That Awkward Moment, »
- Jeff Labrecque
Ice Cube: 'My son could recite Straight Outta Compton at two years old'
33 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The actor-rapper on his new film, Ride Along, the progress of the Nwa biopic and how the old righteous fury still burns brightly
Hi, Cube. What are you up to?
Ah man, just sitting here chilling with my wife, watching the Lakers game.
Nice. Did you do any police research for Ride Along?
Ha ha! Nah, I didn't have to do no research – I've been in the back of those cars, I know how it goes! And my character is undercover. The difference between an undercover cop and a crook is a badge.
When was the last time you were in the back of one of those cars?
In real life? '90.
What for?
It was a bad night. Let's leave it at that.
So what was it like working with Laurence Fishburne again? (1)
The best. I owe a lot to Larry just for the advice he gave me on Boyz n the Hood. »
- Alex Godfrey
Hollywood’s Greats Embrace Fresh Takes
36 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
What do directors Fritz Lang, Stanley Kramer, Preston Sturges, Stanley Kubrick, Sam Peckinpah, Alain Resnais, Ang Lee, Wim Wenders and Peter Watkins have in common?
They’re all filmmakers who made their reputations by taking the movies to new places, to worlds and ideas they hadn’t visited either by the helmers’ cinematic approaches or by embracing material that didn’t conform to the “commercial” film business of their times.
Despite their different nationalities, wildly disparate techniques and wide range of genres they worked in, they were all innovators.I think the Oscar race of 2013, a contest characterized by boldness and daring, might impress cinema’s great risk-takers.
Fritz Lang would be intrigued by “Gravity’s” mix of sci-fi and metaphysics. Stanley Kramer’s social conscience would be touched by “Philomena.” Road movie pioneer Wim Wenders could see a lineage to “Nebraska.” Preston Sturges would laugh and admire the inventive antics of “American Hustle. »
- Steven Gaydos
What Actors Can Learn from Marlon Brando, Ellen Page and James Franco (Video)
38 minutes ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
James Franco is no fool. He has made a study of how to survive in Hollywood as he pursues multiple careers--without worrying about how he will be judged. Whether it will be fulfilling or not is up to him. He gets that the relationship between him and his audience is complicated. And that the only way to combat all the sycophancy and craziness from agents, managers, lawyers, producers, publicists, filmmakers, executives and the media is to try to be himself, for better or worse, and not get hung up on everyone else's expectations and desires. 27-year-old Shia Labeouf's recent behavior--and the media response-- has prompted Franco to try and explain what he thinks is happening, in the Nyt. Marlon Brando was one Hollywood movie star who struggled to remain authentic under the most trying circumstances, hating obsequious questions from the press, whether in English or French. He challenged the »
- Anne Thompson
Updated List of 2014 Oscar Presenters and Performers
41 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The 86th Academy Awards have begun finalizing the list of announced presenters and performers for this year's ceremony. So far, the list includes all of last year's acting winners -- Jennifer Lawrence, Daniel Day-Lewis, Anne Hathaway and Christoph Waltz -- and performers such as U2, Karen O, Pharrell Williams, Idina Menzel (performing the nominated original songs) and Bette Midler (for the first time ever). The Oscar presentation -- hosted by Ellen DeGeneres -- also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.The complete list of announced presenters, performers and people making "special appearances" is below, and will be updated in the days leading up to the ceremony. Check out all predictions in all the categories here. Daniel Day-Lewis Anne Hathaway Jennifer Lawrence Idina Menzel Bette Midler Karen O U2 Christoph Waltz Pharrell Williams »
- Indiewire
Christoph Waltz set to present at Oscars
49 minutes ago | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Christoph Waltz, last year’s Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor, will return to the Academy Awards to present (presumably to this year’s Best Supporting Actress winner). The Austrian actor won last year for his role as a bounty hunter in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, his second Oscar statue after winning in 2010 for Inglorious Basterds.
Waltz joins Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, and Anne Hathaway as last year’s prize-winners who’ve been announced to present at the ceremony on March 2. »
- Jeff Labrecque
'The Simpsons' Get Lego Episode, David Michod To Direct Ballet Drama Pilot 'Flesh And Bone' & More
53 minutes ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
With "The Rover," his follow-up to the highly lauded “Animal Kingdom” set for release this summer, David Michôd has free time on his schedule and decided to head to the small screen. Per Deadline, Michôd will helm the pilot episode for the Starz series “Flesh And Bone” from “Breaking Bad” staff writer Moira Walley-Beckett. The series follows “a young ballet dancer, Claire, who has a distinctly troubled past, as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York.” Sounds like "Black Swan: The Series." Michôd previously helmed an episode of the now-cancelled Mike White HBO comedy “Enlightened.” We write a piece on “The Lego Movie” and whether its success should be celebrated or feared, and just like that, the blocky stop-motion-esque aesthetic of that movie is being brought to the small screen. EW reports “The Simpsons” is all set to “air an all-Lego episode” that sees “Homer finding himself in a world where Marge, »
- Cain Rodriguez
Music Box Picks Up German Period Drama 'Beloved Sisters' Out of Berlin
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The 64th Berlin International Film Festival may have ended, but acquisition season is still in full swing. Music Box Films has obtained the U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to Berlin competition title "Beloved Sisters," the period romance film by Dominik Graf. Florian Stetter stars as the Romantic era poet Friedrich von Schiller. The film follows Schiller's love affair with the aristocratic von Lengefeld sisters, played by Hannah Herzsprung and Henriette Confurius. Graf is best known for the German thrillers "The Invincibles" and "A Map of the Heart," the latter of which was a Berlin competition title in 2002. No release date is set. »
- Max O'Connell
Check out Gabz’ Limited Edition Posters for Tony Scott’s True Romance; Available in “Detroit” and “Los Angeles” Versions
1 hour ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
True Romance is one of Tony Scott's best films. It boasts a great cast and a fun Quentin Tarantino script. The film has legions of fans, and now they'll have a chance to own a limited edition poster based on the picture. Designed by artist Gabz, the posters represent the two main settings: Detroit and Los Angeles. The blue Cupid on the white background is for Detroit, and the black Cupid on cream is for Los Angeles. The prints measure 24"x36"; there will be 85 for each the Detroit and Los Angeles version, printed with 6 inks. Each version will be $55. The prints will be sold online at Odd City Entertainment at a random time on Friday, February 21st. Hit the jump to check out the prints. Here's the press release: Odd City Entertainment And Morgan Creek Productions Partner With Artist Gabz For A Limited Edition Print Honoring The Tony Scott Film True Romance. »
- Matt Goldberg
Attention Filmmakers: Last Chance to Enter a Contest to Compete for $100,000
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
To any filmmakers looking to get a wider audience for their most recent project, Viewster may have just the thing for you. The VOD service launched its inaugural Viewster Online Fim Festival (#Voff) in December, and today is the final day for submissions. This edition is entitled "When Life Gives You Lemons...," and it asks for dark comedy features and series in English or with English subtitles. The festival will provide filmmakers and producers the chance to show their film to a new audience and win prizes: $70,000 for first prize, $20,000 for second, and $10,000 for third. Millions of Viewster voters will vote to create a shortlist, from which an expert jury will select the winners. Ted Hope, producer of landmark films such a "Trust," "Safe," "The Ice Storm," "Happiness," and "Martha Marcy May Marlene" will lead the jury, which will announce the winners on April 1. For information on how to sign up, »
- Max O'Connell
Watch: Amy Adams' Tearful Tribute To Philip Seymour Hoffman On ‘Inside the Actors Studio’
1 hour ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
We're coming up on three weeks since we learned about the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman, and the loss of his tremendous talent still stings cinephiles the world over. But of course, the weight of his loss is more deeply felt to those who were close to him, and there were few actors who were lucky enough to work him on the level that Amy Adams did. She starred in three films with Hoffman—"Charlie Wilson's War," "Doubt" and "The Master"—and was slated to feature in his next directorial effort "Ezekiel Moss" before he passed away. And clearly, that time with him was special. Earlier this month—three days after this death—Adams dropped by "Inside The Actor's Studio" to record an episode with James Lipton. Naturally, any discussion of her work involves her films with Hoffman, and Adams paid a lovely, tearful tribute to her friend. "He was beautiful, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Jim Jarmusch: 'Women are my leaders'
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
His new film, Only Lovers Left Alive, is a great romance between two vampires unanswerable to time. But Jarmusch doesn't want to live for ever – unless it's with Tilda Swinton or Patti Smith
'I've seen my dog dreaming," says Jim Jarmusch over lunch in New York on a snowy December day. His voice is sedate, but excitement pops in his eyes. Other animals have imaginations, too, he thinks. "Once I left a mop outside the window of my apartment, and I saw a sparrow examining it for several days. It kept coming back, and then it started biting through to take away some strands to build a nest. It was thinking, you know?" Jarmusch does a sparrow voice, which sounds identical to his usual voice: "Man, I think this might work …"
Speaking to Jim Jarmusch, it turns out, isn't so different from watching one of his films. His work, like his conversation, »
Nymphomaniac (Volumes 1 and 2)
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
An appealing odd-couple relationship is at the heart of this heartfelt study of sex addiction with few of the director's usual provocations
To recap: Lars von Trier makes an explicit film called Nymphomaniac; he orchestrates some traditional tongue-in-cheek Trier publicity about "hardcore" and "softcore" versions; he even induces excitable critics in Denmark and elsewhere to pull a gallery of orgasm faces in homage to the naughty poster campaign – like a Victorian medical textbook about congenital idiocy. Yet his new film is his most inoffensive, which is to say its offensiveness is deliberate; it's the first Von Trier film that is not a tiresome practical joke on the audience. It is about the most tender, platonic relationship imaginable: a depressed and exhausted woman and an elderly, vulnerable man, played superbly by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stellan Skarsgård.
Skarsgård is Seligman, a lonely old bachelor who discovers Joe (Gainsbourg) lying bruised, bleeding and semi-conscious near his apartment building. »
- Peter Bradshaw
Heroines of Cinema: 10 Trans Actors Who Could Have Played Jared Leto's Role in 'Dallas Buyers Club'
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
I was going to start this article by saying that I don't want to take anything away from Jared Leto's performance in "Dallas Buyers Club". But in a sense, I do. The performance certainly holds up as a piece of art, but as a part of our culture, I believe it needs contextualizing. I am not the first person to suggest this. Chelsea Hawkins wrote in PolicyMic that "Dallas Buyers Club" fails trans actors while Paris Lees in the Independent was perhaps more equivocal but still asked "Why can't we cast trans people in trans roles?". Of course, nobody wants to limit trans actors to trans roles, but in the context of the status quo and general acceptability of handing the role to an actor such as Leto, it would be an undeniably liberating move.But wait, you say - Leto was playing a pre-op trans woman. Surely it »
- Matthew Hammett Knott
Rob Zombie Working on New Horror Film; Compares to 'The Devil's Rejects'
1 hour ago | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
After last year's release of The Lords of Salem - a polarizing piece of art, to say the least - Rob Zombie announced that he'd be making his first film outside of the horror genre. Titled Broad Street Bullies, it was to be an unexpected hockey movie from the musician-turned-filmmaker, though Zombie has just revealed that the project has found itself in the dreaded development Hell, and that he's instead returning to his horror roots.
In an interview conducted over on New Zealand's 3 News, Zombie opened up about his future as a filmmaker, starting it off by saying that he's not sure if he's as big of a horror fan as he used to be, but nevertheless seguing into a discussion about how the pre-production stage of Broad Street Bullies turned into the planning stage for yet another horror film.
Though Zombie had been working on the hockey movie for the last couple years, »
- John Squires
Filmfest Hamburg to Present Producer Award
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
London — The newly created Hamburg Producer Award will be presented for the first time at this year’s edition of Filmfest Hamburg.
The prize is worth 50,000 euros ($68,400) and will be awarded to German producers for outstanding achievements. The award is intended to promote and celebrate the work of producers of both German television productions and European film co-productions.
The award will be presented at Filmfest Hamburg in two categories: German television production, and European film co-production with German participation. The German producers of the winning films will each receive 25,000 euros ($34,200).
The winners of each category will be selected by a three-person jury. The award ceremony will take place at the beginning of October during Filmfest Hamburg.
The prize money for the best television production will be provided by the Vff (Collecting Society for Film and Television Producers), while the prize money for the best European film co-production (with German participation »
- Leo Barraclough
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