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Comics Relief: Carrey & Sandler Under Consideration For 'Guardians of the Galaxy'?

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Posted 4 months ago

If you need further evidence that Marvel is winning the battle against DC on the comic-book movie front, consider the latest Internet chatter about the Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Latino Review, which knows how to work that fan boy beat, reports that Marvel has inquired about the availability of both Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler for the movie, which is slated to hit theaters on Aug. 1, 2014. ...

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Joins 'Sin City: A Dame To Kill For'

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Posted 4 months ago

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Introducing the possibility that the upcoming Sin City: A Dame To Kill For will feature an extremely hip soundtrack packed full of adorkable DIY indie rock classics, Dimension Films announced today that Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been signed on to play a major role in the sequel to the 2005 film adaptation of Sin City. Levitt will play a new character called 'Johnny,' whose relation to the events ...

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Vin Diesel Is... Kojak

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Posted 5 months ago

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If you haven't been following Vin Diesel's Facebook page, you are missing out on the dorkiest and most touching thing in all the universe. Vin and his 36,982,149 devoted fans live in perfect, sentimentally cheeseball symbiosis, and those fans are a huge part of why he continues to be able to make movies. Chief among them is the incredibly successful Fast & Furious series, which has earned more ...

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Super Clueless! CW's 'Amazon' To Depict 'Tactless' Twentysomething Wonder Woman Who's Never Had Ice Cream

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Posted 6 months ago

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Many have tried and failed to reboot Wonder Woman for contemporary audiences (some rather famously - looking at you, David E. Kelley). If The CW succeeds with "Amazon," their origin series will envision the Amazonian warrior princess as a tough twentysomething fish-out-of-water named... Iris. According to Deadline's Nellie Andreeva, a casting breakdown calls for Wonder Woman/Iris ...

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Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen Back For 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past'

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Posted 6 months ago

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Prepare for a double dose of mutant powers: The X-Men of the past and future will collide in Bryan Singer's forthcoming sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past, which will bring Patrick Stewart's Professor X and Ian McKellen's Magneto together with their X-Men: First Class counterparts James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender in the same film, Singer announced today. I'd like to officially ...

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Eddie Murphy Passes 'Beverly Hills Cop' Torch To Brandon T. Jackson

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Posted 6 months ago

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Cue up the "Axel F": Tropic Thunder actor Brandon T. Jackson has landed the lead in CBS's Beverly Hills Cop reboot, which producers plan to bring back as a series for TV under the guidance of original star Eddie Murphy and The Shield's Shawn Ryan. Murphy, who will executive produce and act in the series pilot, will reprise his role as the wisecracking, transplanted cop Axel Foley ...

Related Links: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Brandon T. Jackson, Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Life (1999), Tropic Thunder (2008), movieline.com

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Michael Bay Taps Mark Wahlberg For 'Transformers 4'

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Posted 6 months ago

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Mark Wahlberg: The new Shia LaBeouf? Michael Bay and Paramount announced Thursday that Wahlberg, who stars in Bay's real life crime pic Pain & Gain, will lead the franchise sequel Transformers 4. "An actor of his caliber is the perfect guy to re-invigorate the franchise and carry on the Transformers’ legacy," said Bay in a statement. LaBeouf's run as the squirrelly-scrappy ...

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In Honor Of Miley Cyrus's Bonnie & Clyde, A Brief History Of Starlets Channeling Bonnie Parker

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Posted 8 months ago

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No matter how hard they try, it’s highly unlikely any actress/singer/starlet will ever come close to portraying famed Depression-era outlaw Bonnie Parker like Faye Dunaway did in Arthur Penn’s game-changing Bonnie and Clyde. But no matter! That won’t stop Miley Cyrus from being the latest to give the fantastically stylish bank robber a try, as she’s slated to do in the four-hour ...

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Expendables 3 Producer Wants Cage, Eastwood, Ford, And Snipes, 'When He Comes Back From Prison'

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Posted 8 months ago

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Producer Avi Lerner dropped a handful of big names when asked which action heavyweights are being courted for the inevitable Expendables 3; I'm willing to bet at least one of them (*cough* Snipes *cough*) takes him up on the offer. "We've approached Clint Eastwood to be one of the guys, we've got a character in mind for him," Lerner told Total Film. "We're talking to Harrison ...

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Today In Inspired Casting: Al Pacino As Joe Paterno?

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Posted 8 months ago

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Deadline reports that Al Pacino has been tapped to play famed Penn State fixture Joe Paterno, the legendary football coach who enjoyed the winningest reign in history before the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal marred his legacy. A little side-by-side photo comparison shows that Pacino bears a resemblance to the late coach, if you squint a bit; after a spotty run in film and TV of late (veering ...

Related Links: Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Joe Paterno, Jack and Jill (2011), You Don't Know Jack (2010), movieline.com

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Mr. Eko To Join Doctor Who In Thor 2

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Posted 9 months ago

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Yes, yes, I know Mr. Eko has a real name. But who doesn't like imagining Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's LOST alter ego duking it out with Dr. Who (okay, Chris Eccleston) and Thor (FINE, the Huntsman the jock the Wolverine Chris Hemsworth) in an epic Thor 2 Norse space brawl? Per Variety, Akinnuoye-Agbaje has landed the role of Dark Elf bruiser Algrim the Strong in Thor 2 (AKA Thor: The Dark ...

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Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt's 4-Year-Old Daughter Scores Maleficent Movie Debut

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Posted 9 months ago

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Nepotism strikes again (but that's okay): Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's 4-year-old daughter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt has scored her first movie role. The tot will play a young version of Princess Aurora, later played as a teenager by 14-year-old Elle Fanning, in Disney's live-action Maleficent, which stars Jolie as the famous evil witch of Sleeping Beauty lore and is in production gearing ...

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Wait! What? Beverly Hills 90210 Love Triangle Reunites For (Ulp!) Old Navy Ad

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Posted 9 months ago

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My dreams are dashed. After enjoying the big-screen treatment of 21 Jump Street — replete with cameos by original cast members Johnny Depp, Peter DeLuise and Holly Robinson Peete — I held out hope that Fox would make a smart alecky theatrical adaptation of Beverly Hills 90210. But the Hollywood-goes-to-high-school-series just opted for smaller rather than bigger. Our sister website ...

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Kristen Stewart Will Lie Down in Darkness (Professionally Speaking, of Course!)

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Posted 10 months ago

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Finally, some news about Kristen Stewart that doesn't involve her love life. Vulture reports that the actress has landed the lead role of Peyton Loftis in Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper's adaptation of William Styron's 1951 novel, Lie Down in Darkness. The project — and the role — sure sound like the level of work that will propel Stewart toward that Oscar that I'm c ...

Related Links: Kristen Stewart, Scott Cooper, William Styron, Crazy Heart (2009), movieline.com

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Pulp Fiction's Amanda Plummer Joins Hunger Games: Catching Fire

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Posted 10 months ago

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Francis Lawrence's Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire has nabbed yet another notable name for film fans in Amanda Plummer, the stage/TV/film veteran perhaps best known as the diner-robbing "Honey Bunny" in Pulp Fiction as well as for her roles in The Fisher King and So I Married an Axe Murderer. Plummer will take the role of a Tribute and former Games winner whose eccentricity belies an ...

Related Links: Amanda Plummer, Pulp Fiction (1994), So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993), The Fisher King (1991), movieline.com, Hunger Games

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Hunger Games: Jena Malone Cast As Johanna Mason in Catching Fire

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Posted 11 months ago

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Jena Malone, seen kicking all sorts of ass last year in Sucker Punch, has nabbed the role of Johanna Mason in the Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire, THR reports. Malone is in negotiations to play the crafty and ruthless past Games winner from District 7, who forms an uneasy friendship with Katniss Everdeen as they, along with Peeta and fellow previous victors, are forced back into the arena to fight ...

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Channing Tatum as Superman, Will Arnett as Batman... in LEGO Movie

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Posted 11 months ago

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Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller made names for themselves with their feature debut, the animated Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, before moving on to direct Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill in the live-action hit 21 Jump Street. As they work up their next film — WB's live-action/CG blend LEGO adaptation, apparently titled Lego: The Piece of Resistance, based on the plastic toy building ...

Related Links: Channing Tatum, Will Arnett, Chris Pratt, Dwight Howard, Jonah Hill, Chris Miller, Phil Lord, Batman, movieline.com, 10 Years (2011), 21 Jump Street (2012)

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Josh Hartnett approved her casting for 40 days & 40 nig

Posted 11 months ago by BlytheNY

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Josh Hartnett approved her casting for 40 days & 40 nights.

Was casted as Puck in a high school performance of "A M

Posted 11 months ago by BlytheNY

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Was casted as Puck in a high school performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Catching Fire Casting: Philip Seymour Hoffman in for Hunger Games Sequel?

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Posted 11 months ago

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After inheriting the reins of the Hunger Games franchise from director Gary Ross, Francis Lawrence is making casting moves as the YA series sequel, Catching Fire, comes into view. According to THR, the first new cast addition may be Philip Seymour Hoffman, who has reportedly been offered a key role that will figure into the next two installments in the franchise: New Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee ...

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