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10 hours ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Well this sequel is really shaping up to be better than expected. While still in the development stages, XXX: The Return Of Xander Cage has begun the casting process at full force. Besides previously announced Samuel L. Jackson and of course Vin Diesel himself, xXx: The Return of Xander Cage has just signed on another heavy hitter, literally.  It has just been announced that actor and martial arts Jet Li will be joining the cast of xXx: The Return of Xander Cage. This seems like the perfect choice for the xXx franchise, as there was a common thread of extreme athleticism in the previous two incarnations. On a similar note, and apparently highlighting a focus on impressive fight sequences, martial artist Tony Jaa will be joining the cast as well, as reported by Twitchfilm. Jaa was previously seen in the highly successful Furious 7. Clearly, Vin Diesel enjoyed working alongside »

13 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Showing no signs of a slowdown, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has eclipsed the final Harry Potter movie for the seventh spot in worldwide box office with $1.39 billion.

The seventh Star Wars movie took in $59.5 million on Friday — its 17th day of release — with $34.5 million in the U.S. and another $25 million internationally.

Disney’s space saga will pass another of its tentpoles by the end of Saturday when “The Force Awakens” tops Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” at $1.405 billion. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2” grossed $1.34 billion in 2011.

Domestic grosses have hit $686.4 million in 15 days with another $60 million projected for the rest of this weekend. That leaves “The Force Awakens” on track to top the all-time mark set six years ago by “Avatar” at $760 million early next week.

International grosses have gone past $700 million. At its current pace, the movie — starring Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley and John Boyega »

- Dave McNary

7 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »

Actor Jason Wingreen, perhaps best known to Star Wars fans as the voice of Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back and to legions of TV viewers as Harry the bartender in All In The Family and Archie Bunker’s Place, has died. Wingreen, who also was one of the co-founders of the Circle in the Square Theatre in Greenwich Village, was 95 and died Christmas Day at his home in Los Angeles. On Broadway, the Brooklyn native played a police inspector in The Girl On The Via Flaminia… »

15 hours ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Apocalypse is coming, and from the look of things he will pose the greatest challenge ever faced by Charles Xavier’s misunderstood team of super powered mutants. The marketing campaign has thus far provided good glimpses at what Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Archangel), and Magneto will be capable of in the coming X-Men: Apocalypse, but we’ve seen very little of the fourth horseman: Psylocke. Actress Olivia Munn has released a new photo of herself as the character showcasing her awesome costume Check it out below:     To say hello to 2016, I'm gonna say Goodbye To 2015 with my Top 5 Favorite Memories of 2015 (that I can think of)... #4 Getting to play #Psylocke in #xmenapocalypse. She's a telekinetic telepath who chooses to kill with a sword because she wants to do it up close and intimate and killing from afar just seems too easy and no »

14 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Balloting is well underway for the 88th annual Oscars as members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (or their assistants or sons or daughters or dogs or cats) sit down to chalk up the best in 2015 cinema. I’ve already rattled off a personal list of superlatives, but allow me a final “for your consideration” pitch for a few contenders that could really use a leg-up. All of these are on the far outside looking in, but they represent some of the finest achievements of the year. So, to the various branches of the Academy…

Directors Branch: Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen for “Inside Out”

I’ve been ringing this bell all season long but here’s one more push: Animation directors deserve some love, too, particularly when they crank out something as thematically and emotionally rich as “Inside Out.” Pete Docter and his co-director Ronnie Del Carmen created, »

- Kristopher Tapley

18 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

The life story of miracle mop inventor Joy Mangano has plenty of style but doesn’t quite wash

Here’s a story that Hollywood has been waiting for: the rags-to-riches saga of Joy Mangano, the entrepreneur and inventor who gave the world… (fanfare of 80s-style synthesiser trumpets) the self-wringing Miracle Mop. Whether the best director to tell that story is the erratic David O Russell is another matter. His last film, retro-styled crime caper American Hustle, was so exuberantly cynical that you can’t quite believe he’s playing with a straight deck in telling the tale of a hard-working woman realising her destiny on the QVC shopping channel.

Executed with much the same quasi-Scorsese whiz-bang as Hustle, though the material rarely seems to call for it, Joy works most convincingly as a vehicle for the no-nonsense warrior-woman persona of Jennifer Lawrence, who comes across personably if a touch coldly. »

- Jonathan Romney

18 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Coming of age takes centre stage, from the inner-city La of Sundance favourite Dope to the Welsh valleys of black comedy Just Jim

The next Sundance festival is just over a fortnight away and sure to unveil a surfeit of genial-to-gelatinous American coming-of-age indies that will trickle down to our screens over the next 12 months. We’re still working through last year’s batch: luckily, Dope (Sony, 15) is one of the charmers, even as it scrabbles to make a point beyond its own adorability. Director Rick Famuyiwa previously examined the trials of African American young adulthood in his 1999 debut, The Wood, but this is a fresher, springier take, infused with a bright-eyed nostalgia for the 90s its young protagonist never knew. (Courtesy, largely, of a bang-on soundtrack curated by executive producer Pharrell Williams.)

With his geek-chic styling and straight-a grades, enterprising teen Malcolm (the delightful Shameik Moore) bucks the stereotype of South Central youth. »

- Guy Lodge

18 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Zac Efron plays the stock car racing rebel refusing to follow dad Dennis Quaid into the farming business

American writer-director Ramin Bahrani specialises in low-key realist drama rooted in everyday economics: his recent 99 Homes was a trenchant take on the Us mortgage crisis. But he’s on minor form in his previous film, At Any Price, made in 2012 and belatedly getting a limited UK release.

This Iowa-set story is a downbeat affair demonstrating that today’s rural life is in thrall to corporate values and the pressures of the Gm industry. Dennis Quaid plays a fiercely competitive farmer and seed salesman, Zac Efron his rebellious stock car racer son. While Efron pulls off his role with unfussy grace, Quaid rather overplays his rhetoric-spouting midwest Willy Loman. It’s an honest, grown-up, slightly earnest slice of rolled-sleeves Americana – something like the cinematic equivalent of a Steve Earle album.

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- Jonathan Romney

18 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Brigitte Bardot reminds us what all the fuss was about, alongside Jack Palance and Michel Piccoli, in this restored version of Godard’s 1963 classic

I first saw Le Mépris many years ago in a print so faded that everything was pale pink; it felt like gazing at an artefact from an immeasurably distant past. Watching the film now, with its reds and Mediterranean blues restored to their full intensity, the film is still redolent of a lost antiquity, not least because Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 feature is so steeped in melancholy and a sense of mourning.

Related: Jean-Luc Godard: 'Film is over. What to do?'

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- Jonathan Romney

19 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

A smart New York comedy of sexual manners between ex-lovers

Alison Brie deserves to sleep with whomever she wants, having spent seven seasons of Mad Men married to the lizard-like Pete Campbell. In this brisk New York comedy of sexual manners, Brie and Jason Sudeikis play Lainey and Jake, who slept together years ago but now enjoy a platonic if implicitly unchaste friendship; they’re sufficiently comfortable with each other to discuss a masturbation technique named the “Dirty DJ”.

Brie’s air of smart, startled prissiness nicely offsets the grit, while Sudeikis works those labrador jowls to amiable effect. Gags about Aaron Sorkin and Malcolm Gladwell make Leslye Headland’s script sometimes feel more like a 2015 zeitgeist-capsule than an organic piece of comedy, but the mix of sophistication and unabashed raunch has a definite light charm.

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- Jonathan Romney

23 minutes ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »

Saturday, 11:55 Pm: If estimates hold, by tomorrow at this time, Star Wars: The Force Awakens will have pocketed another $204M+ in one week’s time to bring its total domestic gross to date to around $744M. Today, despite the college bowl games, Disney’s latest installment of the franchise, was up 1% to bring in an estimated $34M to $35M, which means it’s on track for a 3rd weekend gross of $92M to $93M. Although tomorrow is football Sunday and then kids return to school… »

47 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Honorees at the Palm Springs Film Festival gala were campaigning and practicing their awards speeches Saturday night.

Chairman of the Board recipient Matt Damon suggested his “The Martian” director Ridley Scott, for instance, was overdue even though he had helmed an Oscar best picture winner in “Gladiator.”

“There are only a handful of master directors on the planet and Ridley is one of them.”

As the last honoree of the night Damon may have felt pressure to wrap up, especially with some empty tables before him.

“There’s a bunch of people I want to thank, but I won’t do it here, I’ll do it privately,” he said.

Earlier Cate Blanchett, who accepted the actress Desert Palm Achievement Award from Saoirse Ronan, said Todd Haynes and the “Carol” team had “set the bar so high I don’t know where to go as an actress.”

She took time to praise Ronan, »

- Shalini Dore

5 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »

How are the Oscars like New Year’s Eve? This year’s Academy Awards host Chris Rock offers his observation in this 15-second spot posted, appropriately enough, on the final day of 2015 and somehow largely overlooked and unremarked until today. If there’s one thing that really takes off once the calendar has clicked over to the New Year, it’s Awards Season. Sure, it has already been under way for weeks, well months actually if we’re honest. But Oscar nominations balloting… »

8 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Creed shows how old favourites are being reinvented to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. But – unlike the latest Star Wars – these films have a healthy disregard for convention and cliche

No one would call Airplane 2: The Sequel one of the great film follow-ups of all time. But that 1982 comedy does contain one smart, pointed sight gag, in which a movie poster shows a doleful, decrepit prizefighter unable even to lift his own gloves. The title? Rocky Xxxviii.

It’s a knockout joke, but it didn’t get the future quite right. Here we are, 34 years later, and a new Rocky is indeed upon us, though it is the seventh rather than the 38th. Its poster depicts not an old-timer, but a strapping young African-American boxer (Michael B Jordan) accompanied by an older trainer (Rocky himself, Sylvester Stallone). This is Creed, in which the former champ coaches the son of Apollo Creed, »

- Ryan Gilbey

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