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Zach Braff hits back at Kickstarter critics
Actor-director defends using the crowdfunding site to raise finance for new film Wish I Was Here, rather than conventional investment.
From: The Guardian - Film News 30/04/2013

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will not be aliens in new movie, says Michael Bay
Bay reassures concerned fans that he will be sticking to the original concept in his film reboot of the classic cartoon story.
From: The Guardian - Film News 30/04/2013

Hillary Clinton biopic aimed at potential presidential campaign
Release of much-anticipated Young Il Kim-scripted film Rodham to tie in with 2016 US presidential primaries.
From: The Guardian - Film News 30/04/2013

Colin Firth set to join up with Matthew Vaughn's The Secret Service
The actor is in line to star in the Kick-Ass director's new project for his first comic-book movie.
From: The Guardian - Film News 30/04/2013

Worthington Enters The Keeping Room
With Clash and Wrath Of The Titans, Avatar and its future sequels, and his recent work with Arnold Schwarzenegger on the action thriller Ten, it's fair to say that Sam Worthington gravitates towards big, blockbuster-type projects.
From: Empire Online 30/04/2013

Michael Fassbender Will Be Macbeth
Sooner or later, it seems that every young actor is drawn to Macbeth. James McAvoy performed the role on stage recentlty and a castle-load of people have embodied the character on screen, including Orson Welles and Sam Worthington.
From: Empire Online 30/04/2013

Jamie Foxx In Talks For Annie
As Will Smith, Jay-Z and Sony finally see their efforts to launch a remake of Annie take off, the cast is coming into focus. Quvenzhané Wallis landed the lead already, but the other key role of Daddy Warbucks was still up for grabs. Until now, that is, because it appears Jamie Foxx will take it on.
From: Empire Online 30/04/2013

Brit Marling Reteams With Another Earth Director For Sci-Fi Drama I Origins
Mike Cahill grabbed Sundance and the indie world by the brain with his thoughtful and emotional 2011 sci-fi drama Another Earth, co-written and starring Brit Marling. When we found out Cahill's next film would also blend science with human drama, it was almost comforting to see the filmmaker stick with potentially familiar subject matter. And thankfully that's not all he's sticking with.
From: Cinema Blend 30/04/2013

The Woman In Black: Angel Of Death Adds Its First Cast Members
Unlike ghosts, which aren't even real, ill-conceived horror movie sequels will sometimes go away all on their own, without any outside interference like an exorcist or a demonologist coming out to take care of it.
From: Cinema Blend 30/04/2013

Steven Soderbergh Tears The Movie Industry A New One In Film Festival Speech
Ever since he first started hinting about retiring, Steven Soderbergh's fans have been wondering why (and how we might be able to change his mind).
From: Cinema Blend 30/04/2013

Michael Fassbender Will Be Macbeth
Whether playing a brooding aristocrat, smug cinephile, vengeful mutant, shame-filled sex addict, or pragmatic android, Michael Fassbender has awed audiences and critics alike. So for his next feat, he'll take on one of the most coveted and challenging roles of all time.
From: Cinema Blend 30/04/2013

World War Z's Behind-The-Scenes Chaos Revealed By Damon Lindelof
Marc Forster's upcoming adaptation of World War Z is going to be one of those films we end up talking about for the next few years … even though - much like the movie - the ending has yet to be scripted.
From: Cinema Blend 30/04/2013

Die Hard 6: Die Hardest Could Follow John McClane To Tokyo
I never thought I'd write a Die Hard story - let alone a story about a potential new Die Hard movie - with such a heavy heart.
From: Cinema Blend 30/04/2013

Exclusive The Last Stand Bonus Clip Shows How Action Transcends Language
The Last Stand is famous for being former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's big return to film as a leading man.
From: Cinema Blend 30/04/2013

Rebecca Hall 'bullied' Marvel
Rebecca Hall "bullied" Iron Man 3 producers into letting her see the whole script. The British actress, 30, plays scientist Maya Hansen in the new film, also starring Robert Downey Jnr. and Gwyneth Paltrow.
From: Film-News 30/04/2013

Cannes: Un Certain Regard, Camera D'Or Juries; Critics' Week To Close With Godard
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the official selection and also for the panel that will decide the winner of the Camera d'Or for best first film.
From: Deadline 30/04/2013

Jennifer Konawal Becomes Manager At Washington Square Films
Jennifer Konawal, formerly an agent at Gersh, has joined Washington Square Films as a manager. Based out of New York, she reps actors, writers and directors and brings her clients including Ruby Sparks' Zoe Kazan, Martha Marcy May Marlene's Louisa Krause and King Kelly director Andrew Neel.
From: Deadline 30/04/2013

'Rob The Mob' Enlists Andy Garcia And Ray Romano
Andy Garcia and Ray Romano are joining Raymond De Felitta's True Romance-esque crime drama Rob The Mob.
From: Deadline 30/04/2013

2013 Tony Award Nominations: The List
Sutton Foster and Jesse Tyler Ferguson unveiled the nominations for the 2013 Tony Awards this morning. Here are the nominees in the categories Deadline readers might care about.
From: Deadline 30/04/2013

Cannes : More Titles Added To The Festival Line Up
Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive makes a late inclusion to the festival's competition line up and four more films have been added outside of competition.
From: Screenrush 29/04/2013

UK's Pinewood Shepperton Plans U.S. Studio Based In Atlanta
Pinewood Shepperton is continuing an aggressive expansion drive with its new Pinewood Atlanta joint venture. The studios are partnering with River's Rock LLC, an independently managed trust, to develop 288 acres of land south of Atlanta into world class studio facilities.
From: Deadline 29/04/2013

Magnolia Acquires Spanish Ensemble Comedy 'Tasting Menu'
After hooking up on three titles at the EFM in Berlin, Magnolia Pictures has closed yet another deal on a film from Scandinavian sales outfit TrustNordisk.
From: Deadline 29/04/2013

'Woman In Black' Sequel Casts Jeremy Irvine And Phoebe Fox
War Horse's Jeremy Irvine and British actress Phoebe Fox (Switch) will star in Hammer's follow-up to The Woman In Black.
From: Deadline 29/04/2013

Johnny Depp May Head Into The Woods
When Rob Marshall started developing a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's fairytale-tweaking musical Into The Woods with Disney, mention was made of him considering the idea as he made Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
From: Empire Online 28/04/2013

Cannes-Bound With Directing Project, James Franco Commits To Helm 'Garden Of Last Days'
James Franco, whose film As I Lay Dying screens in competition at Cannes next month, has locked in his next directorial outing. He'll helm and play a starring role in Garden of Last Days, an adaptation of the bestselling book by House Of Sand And Fog author Andre Dubus III.
From: Deadline 27/04/2013

Steven Poster Re-Upped As International Cinematographers Guild President
International Cinematographers Guild incumbent president Steven Poster won another term today in the union's elections. Poster ran unopposed and won another term by "a significant majority" said the union Saturday afternoon.
From: Deadline 27/04/2013

Nicki Minaj to make movie debut opposite Cameron Diaz
The rapper and American Idol judge is set to feature in the revenge comedy The Other Woman.
From: The Guardian - Film News 26/04/2013

George Clooney and Grant Heslov to reunite with Argo journo on new film
Coronado High, about teen drug smugglers in San Diego, to be based on another article by same journalist who inspired Argo.
From: The Guardian - Film News 26/04/2013

Cannes film festival adds Jim Jarmusch's 'crypto-vampire love story'
Last minute space in competition found for Only Lovers Left Alive, starring Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton, as well as latest from Shoah director Claude Lanzmann and three new titles for Un Certain Regard sidebar.
From: The Guardian - Film News 26/04/2013

Don Cheadle On War Machine Spin-Off
Don Cheadle is The Man Who Would Be War Machine - also known as James 'Rhodey' Rhodes, also also known as Iron Patriot - and as anyone who has already heard this week's Empire Podcast will tell you, a very fun interview, and not just because he threatened to vaporise one of Team Empire: he also had some interesting things to say about a potential War Machine movie spin-off.
From: Empire Online 26/04/2013

Jake Gyllenhaal On Trail Of Nightcrawler
The Bourne Legacy may not quite have kicked the franchise in the robust new direction hoped for, but it certainly gave a boost to the professional clout of writer Tony Gilroy.
From: Empire Online 26/04/2013

Monsters University's Mike Wazowski Invades Epcot For Disney Parks Monstrous Summer
Walt Disney World has its eye on you, "so get ready to be scared!." In all likelihood, the sight of Monsters University's Mike Wazowski staring down at Epcot visitors from the iconic Spaceship Earth ball will make people laugh more than it'll make people scream.
From: Cinema Blend 26/04/2013

Watch Tilda Swinton's Barry White Dance Party Honoring Roger Ebert
People claim they want their funerals to be celebrations of their lives, but it's a hard thing for a lot of us to pull off. Roger Ebert wasn't like a lot of us, though, either in life or in death.
From: Cinema Blend 26/04/2013

R.I.P. George Jones
The country music superstar had been admitted to Nashville's Vanderbilt University Medical Center with high fever and irregular blood pressure, and died this morning, according to multiple reports. He was 81. George Jones' hits included "She Thinks I Still Care" and "He Stopped Loving Her Today."
From: Deadline 26/04/2013

Abstinent A Decade, Adrian Lyne Beds Down With Fox 2000 On Adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's Sexy Thriller 'Deep Water'
After directing the steamy, sexy hits Flashdance, 9 1/2 Weeks, Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal, and Lolita, Adrian Lyne has found nothing to get excited about since 2002′s Unfaithful.
From: Deadline 26/04/2013

WME Signs 'Maleficent's Sam Riley
The client-signing game has been voracious lately, but sometimes it's not about poaching the big names but betting on the ones that might be big down the line.
From: Deadline 26/04/2013

Alan Cumming to return to Cabaret for Broadway revival
Scottish actor to reprise Emcee role that won him a Tony award in 1998 - but not with Anne Hathaway as Sally Bowles.
From: The Guardian - Film News 25/04/2013

Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt lined up for remake of Guys and Dolls
New version of the classic musical would see them in roles originated on screen by Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando.
From: The Guardian - Film News 25/04/2013

Rosario Dawson Up For Rock Comedy
Rosario Dawson - you know her: beautiful lady, was in Trance and Sin City, was once on Sesame Street - will soon be showing off another side of her formidable arsenal. According to Deadline, she'll be appearing in Chris Rock's so-far untitled romantic-comedy, a lead role that will see her playing opposite Rock himself.
From: Empire Online 25/04/2013

William Monahan To Tell A Delicate Truth
If you've got a book property that needs adapting, you could do an awful lot worse than hiring The Departed scribe William Monahan to do it for you. And that's exactly what The Ink Factory are in the process of doing, with the Oscar-winning screenwriter in talks to adapt John le Carré's new novel, A Delicate Truth.
From: Empire Online 25/04/2013

James Franco May Head To The Desert
Werner Herzog's having a tough time getting his Gertrude Bell biopic Queen Of The Desert moving.
From: Empire Online 25/04/2013

Shaun The Sheep Gets A Spin-Off
Like the Scorpion King and Richard B. Riddick, only about 6000 per cent fluffier, Aardman's knitwear icon Shaun the Sheep is getting his own spin-off movie.
From: Empire Online 25/04/2013

Sandler And Barrymore's Blended To Square Off Against Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
The romantic comedy pairing of Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore has a solid history of success at the box office, with both 1998's The Wedding Singer and 2004's 50 First Dates considered big hits in theaters, but will the idea of their third time working together be enough for them to outshine a movie about apes taking over the Earth?
From: Cinema Blend 25/04/2013

Armie Hammer Joins Tom Cruise In Guy Ritchie's The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The Social Network star Armie Hammer hasn't quite made his way to the A-list just yet, but he's certainly doing a great job of finding projects that allow him to work with the biggest stars in the world.
From: Cinema Blend 25/04/2013

Guillermo Del Toro To Create (A) Monster, HBO Adaptation of Japanese Manga
Partnered by the UK's very own Steve Thompson, del Toro is to create a HBO pilot adapting Naoki Urasawa's manga, Monster.
From: Screenrush 25/04/2013

Hugo Weaving Set For Aussie Crime Drama 'The Mule'
The Hobbit's Hugo Weaving is turning to crime. The Australian actor has signed on for the true crime drama The Mule, I've learned.
From: Deadline 25/04/2013

Fox And Film Rites Win 'Red Sparrow' Spy Thriller Auction
After a spirited bidding battle involving multiple studios, 20th Century Fox has just closed a 7-figure deal for film rights to the international spy thriller Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews.
From: Deadline 25/04/2013

'American Idol' Judge Nicki Minaj Joining Fox's 'The Other Woman'
Nicki Minaj, whose clever and sassy commentary makes American Idol bearable, has signed on to star with Cameron Diaz in The Other Woman, the pic that Nick Cassavetes is directing for Fox.
From: Deadline 25/04/2013

Cargo Entertainment Acquires Anna Paquin And Cam Gigandet Crime Drama 'Free Ride'
Cargo Entertainment has acquired international rights to Free Ride, a Shana Betz-directed crime drama that stars Anna Paquin and Twilight Saga's Cam Gigandet.
From: Deadline 25/04/2013

Universal Dates 'Dracula' Origin Pic For August 8, 2014
Fast & Furious 6's Luke Evans stars in Dracula, about Prince Vlad, the man who would become the mythological bloodsucker.
From: Deadline 25/04/2013

Indie Drama 'The White City' Casts Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett & Bob Morley
Thomas Dekker and Haley Bennett will star alongside Bob Morley in the indie drama The White City, which will be co-directed by Tanner King Barklow (from the Oscar-nommed The Invisible War)
From: Deadline 25/04/2013

Mike Epps, Katt Williams Top Indie Action Comedy 'Blazin Four'
Williams will face off in Blazin Four, a Blazing Saddles-style action comedy. The indie revolves around a ragtag quartet of gunslingers hired to protect a small town from marauding Mexican bandits. John Luessenhop and Gabriel Casseus, who produced Sony Screen Gems' Takers, optioned the project and will produce.
From: Deadline 25/04/2013

Michael Bay sets the record straight: no apologies for Armageddon
The director took to his blog to refute stories that he apologised for 1998 blastfest Armageddon and criticised Guillermo del Toro
From: The Guardian - Film News 24/04/2013

Culture Film Fifty Shades of Grey: Gus van Sant makes steamy bid for director's chair
Van Sant has reportedly shot sex scene - with Alex Pettyfer as Christian Grey - in hopes of tying himself to forthcoming film.
From: The Guardian - Film News 24/04/2013

Emma Stone set for lead role in next Woody Allen film
Star of The Amazing Spider-Man becomes latest young actor to work with Allen after Scarlett Johansson and Jesse Eisenberg.
From: The Guardian - Film News 24/04/2013

Emma Stone Up For Woody Allen's Latest
Emma Stone loves Woody Allen movies. So much so, she named her dog Alvie in his honour. So you can imagine her reaction upon learning that he wants her to star in his next, still-to-be-titled project. We'd imagine it's somewhere between excited clapping and bouncing off the walls.
From: Empire Online 24/04/2013

Lee Pace On For Guardians Of The Galaxy
Though Chris Pratt pipped him to the post for the key role of Star-Lord in Guardians Of The Galaxy, Lee Pace clearly impressed director James Gunn and the Marvel team, because he's been handed a crack at another major part. Pace is now locking down a deal to play one of the movie's villains.
From: Empire Online 24/04/2013

Patrick Hughes Directing Expendables 3
He may not have landed The Rock, and he still might be trying to get Jackie Chan on board, but Sylvester Stallone has announced the man who will attempt to wrangle the Expendables for their third time on screen: Red Hill director Patrick Hughes.
From: Empire Online 24/04/2013

Wild Things Director Wants A Sequel About Neve Cambell And Bill Murray's Offspring
If you take a few moments to brainstorm the shittiest ideas for film sequels that could also turn out to be amazing, you might instinctively come up with a few humorous answers, like Who Else Framed Roger Rabbit? or The Great Dictator 2: Even Greater. But no one in their right mind would ever stumble upon saying "a Wild Things sequel." But that just means you're not director John McNaughton, whose right-mindedness is up in the air.
From: Cinema Blend 24/04/2013

Ivan Reitman's Draft Day Finalizes Casting And Begins Production On Eve Of NFL Draft
The casting news for Ivan Reitman's upcoming football-themed comedy Draft Day has been coming fast and furious this month thanks to a deadline that most films aren't tethered to. Due to the film's subject matter, Reitman will be filming at the 2013 NFL Draft, which starts tomorrow, on April 25. Production began today in New York.
From: Cinema Blend 24/04/2013

Ang Lee, Christoph Waltz And Nicole Kidman Make Steven Spielberg's Cannes Jury The Starriest Ever
When you land someone of Spielberg's stature as President of the Jury it seems you can't fill the rest of the judging committee with minnows.
From: Screenrush 24/04/2013

Cannes 2013: line-up completed as Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week announce selections
First film in 20 years from Alejandro Jodorowsky, as Clio Barnard and Paul Wright fly flag for Britain.
From: The Guardian - Film News 23/04/2013

Olympus Has Fallen drops in at No 1
Welcome return to commercial form for actor Gerard Butler, but overall audience figures are down thanks to the spring sunshine.
From: The Guardian - Film News 23/04/2013

Film Education closes after 26 years
Withdrawal of funding by Cinema First is said to have led to charity's closure, with all 15 staff to be made redundant.
From: The Guardian - Film News 23/04/2013

Seth MacFarlane considers repeat Oscars performance
Actor-director poised to reverse decision not to return as MC following his notorious turn this year.
From: The Guardian - Film News 23/04/2013

Marc Forster On World War Z's Reshoots And those fast zombies
The adaptation of Max Brooks' World War Z has hit some bumps in the road on its way to the screen, but with the release date fast approaching we recently persuaded director Marc Forster to address some of the questions about the film and tell us why he went for fast zombies. Here's what he told us about that rumoured seven weeks of reshoots.
From: Empire Online 23/04/2013

Todd Phillips On Hangover 2 Criticism 'It annoys me when people say it's lazy'
Todd Phillips' Hangover trilogy checks out next month with the concluding part likely to add a motza to the billion-plus dollars banked so far. Commercial success came much more easily than critical plaudits for The Hangover Part II though, a fact that clearly still rankles with the director.
From: Empire Online 23/04/2013

First Full Star Trek Into Darkness Clip Kirk, wind and fire
As with Iron Man 3, we're reaching the point in the Star Trek Into Darkness promo period where the trailers, posters and photos subside and are replaced by clips from the movie.
From: Empire Online 23/04/2013

Ratchet & Clank Movie Aiming For 2015
There's a chance you've never heard of universe-saving duo Ratchet & Clank. Ratchet is a Lombax - like a cat, but not - and Clank is his clever little robot chum. They usually appear in Sony video games, but now they're appearing on the big screen.
From: Empire Online 23/04/2013

The World's End Gets A New Release Date
Before this announcement, the world was expected to end (figuratively speaking) on August 13. Incidentally, this would have seen The World's End sharing cinema space with fellow British comedy Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, which is aiming for an August 7 release.
From: Empire Online 23/04/2013

Summit Rolls The Dice On Best-Selling Christian Novel The Shack
Are you familiar with The Shack? If you're Christian it's pretty likely you're familiar with the best-selling novel from William Paul Young about transformation and healing, which has dominated virtually every chart used to track book sales. Now it's making the leap to the big screen to try and bring Young's message to a larger audience through a feature-film adaptation.
From: Cinema Blend 23/04/2013

Liam McIntyre wins role in Hercules 3D
Liam McIntyre has signed up to star in Hercules 3D, alongside Kellan Lutz in the title role.
From: Film-News 23/04/2013

De Niro and LaBeouf in negotiations for Spy's Kid
Shia LaBeouf and Robert De Niro are in talks to join director D.J. Caruso's next project Spy's Kid, an espionage thriller.
From: Film-News 23/04/2013

The Critics Week And The Directors' Fortnight Have Announced Their Selections For Cannes 2013
The high profile parallel sections to the main festival have announced their lineups for next month's festivities.
From: Screenrush 23/04/2013

Hayley Atwell And Tom Hiddleston To Play Lovers In War Drama Close Encounters
Paul Andrew Williams set to direct this biopic based on the real life story of Robert Capa and Gerda Toro.
From: Screenrush 23/04/2013

New Pic Of Halle Berry In Latest Xmen: Days Of Future Past
Bryan Singer has tweeted a picture of Halle Berry in her new Storm costume for the latest film in the X-men franchise.
From: Screenrush 23/04/2013

Focus Features Acquires HIV/AIDS Drama 'Dallas Buyers Club' Starring Matthew McConaughey
This was a long-coveted project for actors and directors even before Matthew McConaughey came aboard in May 2011 to star alongside Hilary Swank (Jennifer Garner eventually came on to take the latter role).
From: Deadline 23/04/2013

Bret Easton Ellis's tweets provoke 'ban' from gay media awards
Novelist and screenwriter misses ceremony in wake of string of contentious comments on social media.
From: The Guardian - Film News 22/04/2013

DreamWorks Animation courts Tibet controversy with China film deal
DreamWorks Animation courts Tibet controversy with China film deal.
From: The Guardian - Film News 22/04/2013

Marc Webb Has Given Us a First Official Pic Of Jamie Foxx In The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Picture shows Foxx as Max Dillon before he comes Electro and we've also been given a glimpse of Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborne.
From: Screenrush 22/04/2013

Viola Davis Circling Michael Mann's Upcoming Cyber-Crime Thriller
Michael Mann fans have had to wait an inordinate amount of time for the director's next effort. While he worked on the pilot episode for the TV show Luck, Mann hasn't had a movie in theaters since 2009's Public Enemies with Christian Bale and Johnny Depp.
From: Cinema Blend 22/04/2013

Adan Canto Joins The X-Men And he might turn into a ball of fire...
The colossal cast of X-Men: Days Of Future Past continues to get, um, colossal-er, and the latest addition is Adan Canto. Canto, currently appearing in Kevin Williamson's TV drama The Following alongside Kevin Bacon, tweeted over the weekend that he's "thrilled to be in X-Men".
From: Empire Online 22/04/2013

Hayley Atwell Volunteers For Tomb Raider
A couple of Hayley Atwell stories are doing the rounds this morning, one with a bit more substance than the other.
From: Empire Online 22/04/2013

Global Showbiz Briefs: Rowan Atkinson, Film Education, The Hairy Bikers, Salon Pictures
A sketch performed by Rowan Atkinson during British charity telethon Comic Relief prompted more than 2,200 complaints to the BBC and will be investigated by regulator Ofcom.
From: Deadline 22/04/2013

42's Chad Boseman Joins Kevin Costner In Draft Day
42 star Chad Boseman, who just played one of baseball's most iconic figures in Jackie Robinson, will trade his bat for a football. The Hollywood Reporter says Boseman will join Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner and Elle Burstyn in Ivan Reitman's Draft Day.
From: Cinema Blend 21/04/2013

Smith Still Considering American Can And The Accountant
After a quiet period during the last few years where, except for showing up to make Men In Black 3, he's been content to work as a producer, guide his kids' careers and develop new possible movies, Will Smith appears to be gearing back up.
From: Empire Online 21/04/2013

Jason Sudeikis Finds Tumbledown In a rom-com with Rose Byrne
Given how busy his big screen career is getting, we wouldn't be surprised if Jason Sudeikis is the next regular cast member to pull the eject cord on Saturday Night Live. He's just added yet another project to his schedule, landing the lead in Tumbledown opposite Rose Byrne.
From: Empire Online 21/04/2013

Roland Emmerich May Make Stonewall Film
Empire caught up with the always-entertaining White House Down director Roland Emmerich recently, and learned something very interesting. A routine Independence Day sequel status check ("the stars have to align a bit for that one.
From: Empire Online 20/04/2013

R.I.P. Marcel Vercoutere
Marcel Vercoutere, the special effects and makeup artist in films including McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Deliverance, and The Exorcist, died April 13. He was 87.
From: Deadline 20/04/2013

Cannes: In Paris Thierry Frémaux And Gilles Jacob Announce The Official Selection For The 2013 Edition Of The Film Festival
James Gray, Alexander Payne, Roman Polanski, Steven Soderbergh and the Brothers Coen will all be heading to Cannes with their new films next month to fight and squabble over the Palme d'Or
From: Screenrush 19/04/2013

Cameron Diaz Wants To Make A Sex Tape
Though it looked for a while as though Reese Witherspoon might be headed for raunchy comedy territory in Sex Tape alongside Jason Segel, she's dropped out. Now Segel and Jake Kasdan - who took over directorial duties last year - have a new potential co-star in mind, as Cameron Diaz is in talks.
From: Empire Online 19/04/2013

Raffey Cassidy Heads For Tomorrowland
Brad Bird's mysterious new project Tomorrowland is being kept so under wraps that when Disney boss Alan Horn presented his company's future projects at CinemaCon on Wednesday, he only showed a title treatment and talked up how much he was enjoying having Bird, Damon Lindelof and George Clooney working on the film.
From: Empire Online 19/04/2013

Ben Stiller Promotes Walter Mitty
Though you might have thought that 20th Century Fox would go big with The Wolverine during its product presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday, the stars of the show were actually Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy comedy The Heat and, more unexpectedly, Ben Stiller's new take on The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty.
From: Empire Online 19/04/2013

The Croods Sequel Moving Forward At DreamWorks Animation
Because Hollywood hasn't yet figured out how to reboot The Flintstones (thereby squeezing dollars out of our nostalgia), we're going to have to settle for more adventures with the next best thing.
From: Cinema Blend 19/04/2013

Ellen Burstyn Joins Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner In Draft Day
Ivan Reitman continues to cast an all-star team for his upcoming NFL-geared comedy Draft Day, which begins shooting next week in New York. THR reports that Ellen Burstyn has nabbed the role of Kevin Costner's mom in the picture. She'll join Jennifer Garner, Denis Leary and Frank Langella, who already had been cast.
From: Cinema Blend 19/04/2013

Will Ferrell And Jack Black Lined Up For Tag Brothers
Following up on a brief but memorable scene on screen together in Anchorman, Jack Black and Will Ferrell will be reuniting more prominently in New Line Cinema's Tag Brothers. The two funny men will play two of the four planned starring roles for the picture, which is based on a real-life ongoing game of tag between a group of former classmates who are now adults but have yet to outgrow their beloved game.
From: Cinema Blend 19/04/2013

Lily Collins can't keep away from film set
Lily Collins is happy to go into work, even when she's not needed. The British-American actress has just completed filming for The English Teacher, a comedy drama starring Julianne Moore.
From: Film-News 19/04/2013

Ari Folman's The Congress Will Open The Directors' Fortnight At Cannes In May
The Israeli director's follow up to his brilliant 'animated documentary' Waltz With Bashir will open the Cannes sidebar, The Directors' Fortnight.
From: Screenrush 19/04/2013

David O Russell's 'American Hustle' Halts Production Because Of Boston Manhunt
The David O. Russell film American Hustle has suspended production in Boston because of the manhunt for the 19-year-old Marathon bombing suspect.
From: Deadline 19/04/2013

Sony Shifts 'After Earth' Release To May 31
The Will and Jaden Smith sci-fi starrer had been slotted for June 7 but Sony Pictures has pushed up the wide release date to May 31, where it will open alongside Lionsgate/Summit's Now You See Me and Universal's The Purge but get an extra week of summer play.
From: Deadline 19/04/2013

Bruce Brown's Motorcycle Docu 'On Any Sunday' Gets Sequel Revved Up By Son Dana Brown
Red Bull Media House and Freeride Entertainment are behind On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter, which will act as a follow-up to Bruce Brown's quintessential 1971 motorcycle racing movie that was nominated for a Documentary Feature Oscar and featured Steve McQueen.
From: Deadline 19/04/2013

Cannes 2013: the full programme
The full list of films at this year's Cannes film festival.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/04/2013

New Star Wars trilogy to arrive in 2015, 2017 and 2019
The latest trilogy of Star Wars films will arrive in 2015, 2017 and 2019, Disney chairman Alan Horn has revealed.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/04/2013

Cannes film festival 2013: Ryan Gosling, Coens and Polanski line up
Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn team up again for Only God Forgives, with Alexander Payne, Steven Soderbergh, James Gray and Stephen Frears also set to present new work.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/04/2013

John Cusack to play Brian Wilson in biopic Love & Mercy
High Fidelity star will portray older Wilson, with Paul Dano set to play him as young man.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/04/2013

Cannes 2013 lineup: a programme of heavy-hitters and unexpected gems
From Roman Polanski to James Franco, by way of the Coen brothers and a sneaky encore from Steven Soderbergh, there's plenty to look forward to at this year's festival.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/04/2013

Clifton Collins Achieves Transcendence
Are we done yet? Nope. Two days after the last casting announcement, here's yet another. This time it's Clifton Collins Jr. who's had the call from Wally Pfister to join Transcendence, Pfister's directorial debut. His name gets added to a ridiculously starry roll-call that already includes Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara, Morgan Freeman and Cillian Murphy.
From: Empire Online 18/04/2013

Horror Apartment 1303 3D Will Soon Scare Viewers In 3D On VOD
Night of the Living Dead, Scream and The Blair Witch Project are three horror films that completely shook up the genre, and by extension, cinema itself, proving that cheap genre flicks aren't always just that. Now, when it comes to Michael Taverna's upcoming horror film Apartment 1303 3D, there won't be any noticeable changes to cinema, only one of the ways in which it can be enjoyed.
From: Cinema Blend 18/04/2013

Seth MacFarlane Reportedly Invited To Host The Oscars Again
Just a day after the Academy officially confirmed that producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron would be returning to produce the Oscars again in 2014 comes a report that says this year's host, Seth MacFarlane, has been asked to return to host next year's ceremony. But is the Family Guy creator up for another turn at the job?
From: Cinema Blend 18/04/2013

John Cusack And Julianne Moore Join David Cronenberg's Maps To The Stars
Few directors have had such noticeable career arcs as mad genius David Cronenberg. His early career was filled with paranoid science fiction that thrived on mutilated humans, and that aesthetic was left behind and a more thoughtful approach to the stranger plateaus of the human condition took over his work during the 1990s.
From: Cinema Blend 18/04/2013

Nightmarish Thriller Mr. Jones Acquired By Anchor Bay Films
Horrors set in remote wooded locations are nothing new. One just came out April 5. But it probably won't ever cease to be a go-to location for the genre because while technology and modernization have made cities and towns fairly intuitive places, the woods will always be slightly mysterious and ripe for exploration, since just about anything could be hiding just up ahead.
From: Cinema Blend 18/04/2013

Teen Wolf's Dylan O'Brien To Star In The Maze Runner Movie
The feature adaptation of James Dashner's young adult novel The Maze Runner has found its leading male, and it's a face that should be very familiar to those who tune in to MTV's Teen Wolf. Dylan O'Brien, who plays Stiles in the MTV drama, has been tapped to play the role of Thomas in the sci-fi film.
From: Cinema Blend 18/04/2013

Raffey Cassidy Joins Tomorrowland As Young Female Robot
Through name changes and potentially real, potentially fake casting call plot descriptions, director Brad Bird's upcoming Tomorrowland has remained one of the closest guarded secrets in Hollywood. Unless someone in the assembly line seriously screws up, fans likely won't be able to unwrap the mystery in its entirety until the film hits theaters, but today, we got one more morsel to chew on.
From: Cinema Blend 18/04/2013

Weird Science Is Getting A Remake
Even John Hughes films aren't immune to the remake treatment, it seems. As geekdom is practically revered in today's pop culture, it's really a wonder that Hughes' 1985 comedy Weird Science hasn't already been mined for a remake. Better late than never? Some would surely argue that point. "Leave it alone," thirty and forty-somethings will cry. But they may not be heard over the sound of the thudding hearts of those of us anxiously and optimistically hoping that maybe - just maybe - the remake all be good. Because maybe it will.
From: Cinema Blend 18/04/2013

Ben Kingsley: Iron Man co-stars are evil
Sir Ben Kingsley has joked that his evil Iron Man 3 character is based on "observing" his co-stars. The 69-year-old actor joins the comic book movie franchise as villain Mandarin, the enemy of hero Iron Man, played by Robert Downey Jr.
From: Film-News 18/04/2013

'Peeples' Helmer Tina Gordon Chism Sells 'Inheritance' To Sony
Tina Gordon Chism's thriller script follows a young female lawyer handling the case of a New Orleans coffee magnate whose passing sparks a deadly chain of events. Project reteams Chism with producer Stephanie Allain following the pair's collaboration on Lionsgate's Peeples for Tyler Perry Studios.
From: Deadline 18/04/2013

Oscars producers rehired for 2014
The producers who oversaw this year's controversial Oscars, including Seth MacFarlane's infamous We Saw Your Boobs opening number, have been rehired for next year's ceremony.
From: The Guardian - Film News 17/04/2013

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes Director Rupert Wyatt To Adapt Noir Novel Night Film
Director Rupert Wyatt has a couple of solid flicks behind him in 2008's The Escapist and 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes , and his career is currently showing it, as he's taking projects like the WWI love story Birdsong and the sci-fi action Agent 13, while dropping others, like adaptation of the 1980s TV show The Equalizer. So what are we to believe about this piece of enticing news?
From: Cinema Blend 17/04/2013

Was Princess Diana's Death Planned? This Movie Will Reveal The 'Truth'
Films are always going to stretch the truth. We can't even completely trust documentaries to tell us the complete truth. But there's a strange sub-genre of films in the last few years whose intentions are to toe the line between non-fiction and alternate history.
From: Cinema Blend 17/04/2013

Frank Langella Will Own The Cleveland Browns In Ivan Reitman's Draft Day
As a lifelong football fan, I've been less than impressed with many films that involve the often brutal sport, due to their inadequacies in balancing the games within the plotline.
From: Cinema Blend 17/04/2013

Vince Vaughn Takes Yet Another High Concept Comedy With Business Trip
I'm not sure anyone has been standing around going, "Dammit, it's 2013! We need three, possibly four Vince Vaughn movies with mid-to-high concepts. Stat!" But that's just what happens in 2013, it looks like.
From: Cinema Blend 17/04/2013

Sorvino joins Careful What You Wish For
Paul Sorvino will star opposite Nick Jonas in forthcoming thriller Careful What You Wish For.
From: Film-News 17/04/2013

'Hercules' Pic Adds 'Lovely Bones' Reece Ritchie
Hercules has put on a bit more casting muscle. Reece Ritchie has joined Dwayne Johnson in Brett Ratner-directed action movie from Paramount and MGM.
From: Deadline 17/04/2013

Tom Cruise to star in Japanese sci-fi saga Yukikaze
After success with Oblivion, the 50-year-old actor is to take on another dystopian-future tale, this time an adaptation of Chōhel Kamayashi's novels.
From: The Guardian - Film News 16/04/2013

David O Russell's Abscam film to be named American Hustle
Silver Linings Playbook director David O Russell's FBI conman drama reported to be titled American Hustle.
From: The Guardian - Film News 16/04/2013

Rooker Joins The Guardians Of The Galaxy
Here's a piece of casting news that won't come as much of a surprise to anyone who knows James Gunn's films Slither and Super: Michael Rooker will be part of the team for Guardians Of The Galaxy.
From: Empire Online 16/04/2013

Fast & Furious 7 Set For July 2014
Yesterday was Paramount's turn to show off its upcoming slate of films at the Las Vegas CinemaCon, while today brings Universal and Warner Bros. The Universal gang were first up, and announced a release date for Fast & Furious 7 plus sequels for Pitch Perfect, Snow White And The Huntsman and, more nebulously, the Bourne movie universe.
From: Empire Online 16/04/2013

Cillian Murphy Up For Transcendence
Chalk up another Chris Nolan/Wally Pfister veteran joining Pfister's directorial debut, Transcendence. According to the team at Latino Review, Dr Jonathan Crane, better known as Cillian Murphy, is aboard the sci-fi thriller.
From: Empire Online 16/04/2013

Joss Whedon Says He Knew Avengers 2 Plot Before He Made Avengers
Success breeds more success. Nowhere is that old and wise phrase more proven than inside the Marvel Universe. While other comic book franchises spin their heels, the superheroes who collectively make up The Avengers just keep churning out sweet movie after sweet movie, like a motivated chef plating shawarma.
From: Cinema Blend 16/04/2013

First Official Image Of Ben Stiller In The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty
Directed and starring Ben Stiller, this remake of the 1947 film has been a long time coming.
From: Screenrush 16/04/2013

R.I.P. Richard LeParmentier
Richard LeParmentier, best known for his role as Admiral Motti, commander of Vader's Death Star in Star Wars Episode IV: The New Hope, has died at his Austin, Texas home. He was 66.
From: Deadline 16/04/2013

David O Russell's Abscam Pic Titled 'American Hustle'
David O. Russell's upcoming corruption drama, formerly known as American Bullshit, has a new name. It's now titled American Hustle.
From: Deadline 16/04/2013

'Luther' And 'Pacific Rim' Star Idris Elba Is In Play At The Big Agencies
After quietly leaving UTA last week, Idris Elba is the hot actor in play, and it's suspected he'll either land at WME or CAA.
From: Deadline 16/04/2013

The Avengers becomes triple hero at MTV Movie awards
Joss Whedon's action adventure takes three awards including movie of the year, best fight and best villain for Tom Hiddleston.
From: The Guardian - Film News 15/04/2013

Cannes film festival 2013 to close with Jérôme Salle's Zulu
The Cannes film festival has announced its closing film will be Zulu - the first English-language film from French director Jérôme Salle.
From: The Guardian - Film News 15/04/2013

Django Unchained's China release may be back on
Publicists work with Chinese authorities after Tarantino film blocked, possibly due to censors' objection to nudity.
From: The Guardian - Film News 15/04/2013

General Zod Has A Message For Us All
While the team behind Man Of Steel - including producer Chris Nolan and director Zack Snyder - and studio Warner Bros. have chosen to keep the marketing for the movie relatively scanty compared to other superhero/sci-fi franchises up to now, things are moving up a notch.
From: Empire Online 15/04/2013

Sylvester Stallone Swears Wesley Snipes Will Be In The Expendables 3
Sylvester Stallone has made it perfectly clear that Wesley Snipes has an open invitation to join the Expendables franchise - only, a little thing called prison was keeping the action star from participating in the fun. Now that Snipes is free from jail, though, Stallone is hopping back on the actor's Money Train, and claiming he's a member of the crew.
From: Cinema Blend 15/04/2013

Jupiter Ascending Reveals Plot As Wachowskis Begin Production
Siblings and filmmakers Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski don't make simple narratives. After earning indie cred with their subversive debut Bound, they exploded onto the mainstream movie scene with the mind-bending blockbuster The Matrix. Of course, their efforts have not always met with success.
From: Cinema Blend 15/04/2013

Aaron Eckhart asks moviegoers to keep open mind
Aaron Eckhart says "going along with the ride" is essential when watching Olympus Has Fallen.
From: Film-News 15/04/2013

'Murder Of A Cat' Adds Nikki Reed
Nikki Reed is filling out her post-Twilight dance card with a quirky indie project. The Sam Raimi-produced pic follows a young man (Fran Kranz) who discovers his dead cat was leading a double life with another owner.
From: Deadline 15/04/2013

Ashley Judd Set For Divergent
It's a big day for news of Young Adult adaptations, with word on a Mortal Instruments prequel and some new casting info on dystopian sci-fi hopeful Divergent. Ashley Judd has signed on to the film, which kicked off shooting last week in Chicago.
From: Empire Online 14/04/2013

Rob Cohen Tracks Down Crash Bandits
Though we thought directing last year's slightly shonky Alex Cross might have seen him condemned to director jail for a while, Rob Cohen is still lining up future jobs. He's now attached to make Crash Bandits for Nu Image/Millennium.
From: Empire Online 14/04/2013

Mortal Instruments Prequel Planned
Long gone are the days when studios waited to see how the first instalment of a hoped-for franchise did before considering work on the next; now it's all feeding the machine before the initial film is even in cinemas. In the case of The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones (not due to hit here until August), that also includes developing a prequel.
From: Empire Online 14/04/2013

MTV Movie Award Winners 2013: Full List Of Results
The MTV Movie Awards, lets face it, are about as ridiculous as it gets. There are prizes for Best Kiss and Best Scared-As-Shit Performance. There are endless stuts, and hosts and presenters chosen entirely because they'll get more people to watch. OK, on that count they're not so different from the Oscars, but we'll reserve the right to make fun of them for the Best Kiss prize forever.
From: Cinema Blend 14/04/2013

R.I.P. Michael France
The screenwriter whose credits spanned Cliffhanger, GoldenEye, Ang Lee's Hulk, The Punisher, and Fantastic Four has died, his sister confirmed to local press.
From: Deadline 14/04/2013

Backstage Stops Film & Theater Reviews
Here's another blow in the ongoing crisis in film criticism. On the heels of Roger Ebert's April 4 passing, film and theater reviews at the industry magazine founded 53 years ago are kaput as of Friday's April 11 issue.
From: Deadline 14/04/2013

Lindsay Lohan's tears mark the start of another bid to clean up and come back
The troubled star earned praise for a frank Letterman TV interview, but still faces a long journey to salvage her professional reputation.
From: The Guardian - Film News 13/04/2013

Roger Ebert: film luminaries pay tribute
The eminent critic was remembered in a memorial service, while film industry colleagues - including Martin Scorsese and Werner Herzog - paid their respects in the Hollywood Reporter
From: The Guardian - Film News 12/04/2013

Adam Shankman May Activate The Machine
Everybody prepare to get happy! Because it looks like the team who made The Pacifier might be getting back together! No, wait… come back! It is true, however: MGM is talking to director Adam Shankman about taking over Vin Diesel family action comedy The Machine.
From: Empire Online 12/04/2013

Alan Arkin Has A Million Dollar Arm
Argo Oscar nominee and everybody's favourite loveably grumpy grandpa in interviews Alan Arkin has baseball on his mind. He's joining the cast of Disney drama Million Dollar Arm alongside Jon Hamm.
From: Empire Online 12/04/2013

DreamWorks Really Gets Into Trolls
Here's some news that makes us wonder whether Jeffrey Katzenberg or someone else at DreamWorks Animation has become a feverish troll doll collector. Because, not content with buying the rights to make a film out of the creepy plastic toys, the company is now going all Verruca Salt and snapping up the brand.
From: Empire Online 12/04/2013

Carey Mulligan's Far From The Madding Crowd To Add Matthias Schoenaerts
English ingénue Carey Mulligan broke through internationally in 2009 with the delicate drama An Education. Not only did her performance win her the world's notice, it also earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
From: Cinema Blend 12/04/2013

Alan Arkin Joins Jon Hamm For Baseball Drama Million Dollar Arm
Over the years, reality TV has become an arena where dreams can come true, if your dreams mostly involve fame whatever the costs. But for two Indian cricket players, reality TV proved the unlikely path to a career in Major League Baseball. This is the incredible true story being tackled in the soon-to-shoot drama Million Dollar Arm.
From: Cinema Blend 12/04/2013

Jason Statham's Heat Remake Adds Stanley Tucci, Cedric The Entertainer
Simon West's remake of the 1986 film Heat, with Jason Statham in the Burt Reynolds role, is ramping up production by adding even more supporting cast members. Earlier we reported that West has recruited Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia in a supporting role. Today, three more high-profile character actors have joined the cast as production rolls along in New Orleans.
From: Cinema Blend 12/04/2013

Wrongful Execution Documentary The Last Word Getting Supernatural Horror Adaptation
Can you take a real-life tragedy and turn it into the film? Sure, if you're making it as a drama-- that's practically the backbone of Oscar bait. But can you take a real-life tragedy, fictionalize it a bit, and rework it as a horror film? That's a whole lot dicier.
From: Cinema Blend 12/04/2013

Morgan Freeman Puts His Name Down For Wally Pfister's Transcendence Alongside Johnny Depp
Batman trilogy's Lucius Fox will reteam with Christopher Nolan's cinematographer Wally Pfister for his directorial debut.
From: Screenrush 12/04/2013

Glen Mazzara Lined Up To Write Shining Prequel, The Overlook Hotel
Warner lands the (ex) Walking Dead showrunner but has anyone considered what author of source material Stephen King thinks?
From: Screenrush 12/04/2013

Paradigm Signs Scribe/Playwright David Auburn
Paradigm has signed David Auburn, best known for writing the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof, and adapting it into the Miramax film.
From: Deadline 12/04/2013

R.I.P. Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters, comedian and television and film actor, best remembered for his roles in It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and as the voice of Papa Smurf in The Smurfs, has died. A family friend tells the AP Winters passed away Thursday night at his Montecito, CA home of natural causes. He was 87.
From: Deadline 12/04/2013

Cannes: Forest Whitaker, Orlando Bloom Thriller 'Zulu' To Close Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival will wrap with Jérôme Salle's noir thriller Zulu on May 26. The Pathé, Lobster Tree and M6 Films co-production stars Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom.
From: Deadline 12/04/2013

Liam Neeson and Woody Harrelson on tail of Bonnie and Clyde spin-off
Pair in talks for frontier drama, Highwaymen, about Texas rangers who pursued and killed the notorious duo.
From: The Guardian - Film News 11/04/2013

Veep's Timothy Simons Will Add Laughs To Ivan Reitman's Draft Day
With two weeks left to go until the NFL Draft finds homes for some college football's most gifted athletes, football fans are getting their ears filled with the minutiae of sports analysts endlessly showcasing their opinions through mock drafts. Here at Cinema Blend, we prefer a different kind of fictional football draft, such as the one central to Ivan Reitman's upcoming comedy Draft Day, which is firmly back on track after a short stint in turnaround mode.
From: Cinema Blend 11/04/2013

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon Eyeing Awards Run With October Release Date?
There were a few kinks that needed to be ironed out prior to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut Don Jon making its way to theaters. For starters, the festival hit - which wowed Sundance and SXSW crowds earlier this year - underwent a title change, dropping the key word Addiction.
From: Cinema Blend 11/04/2013

Mike Meyers And Dana Carvey Bury The Hatchet For Wayne's World Reunion Panel
Ever wonder why there was no Wayne's World 3? Part of the reason could be the lackluster box office totals for Wayne's World 2, but it could also be blamed on the rift that formed between star Mike Meyers, his co-star Dana Carvey and Wayne's World director Penelope Spheeris.
From: Cinema Blend 11/04/2013

Connie Britton Will Date Adam Driver In This Is Where I Leave You
As the miracle-haired star of ABC soap Nashville and the oddball leading man on HBO's down-and-dirty Girls, Connie Britton and Adam Driver come from TV universes so different it's impossible to imagine them breathing the same air.
From: Cinema Blend 11/04/2013

Hailee Steinfeld Joins Tommy Lee Jones' The Homesman
Actress Hailee Steinfeld got her big breakthrough role in a western, earning an Academy Award nomination starring alongside Jeff Bridges in the Coen brothers' True Grit, and now she's set to make her return to the genre with a role in Tommy Lee Jones' new directorial effort The Homesman.
From: Cinema Blend 11/04/2013

David Zucker: Scary Movie is tough to make
Scary Movie director-and-producer David Zucker says the franchise is the "hardest" to make. The movie mogul helmed the third and fourth instalments of the comedy-horror films and is now returning as producer and writer to Scary Movie 5.
From: Film-News 11/04/2013

Emmerich aims at Jane Got a Gun
Noah Emmerich will round out the cast of Jane Got a Gun. The western starring Natalie Portman has been riddled with problems since it commenced filming last month.
From: Film-News 11/04/2013

Open Road Squirrels Away 3D Animated Pic 'The Nut Job' For January 17 Release
Open Road Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Nut Job, a 3D animated family film. The distributor has set a January 17, 2014 opening date.
From: Deadline 11/04/2013

Sony Pictures Buys Remake Rights To Korean Crime Drama 'New World'
Sony Pictures has emerged from a three studio bidding battle with screen rights to remake the Korean crime film New World. The deal was mid six-figures and the film will be produced by Roy Lee and Dan Lin, with Jon Silk and John Powers Middleton exec producing.
From: Deadline 11/04/2013

Anne Hathaway contemplates Interstellar mission
Oscar-winner set to join Christopher Nolan's sci-fi space adventure, for which Matthew McConaughey already confirmed.
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/04/2013

Quentin Tarantino stems bloodflow in Django Unchained for Chinese market
Director said to be reining in gore and 'tuning the blood to a darker colour' to secure release date in China this month.
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/04/2013

Jane Got A Gun Finally Adds Last Cast Member, Noah Emmerich
At the center of Jane Got A Gun is Natalie Portman, as a woman living in the old West who wants to stop a gang of men from arriving to kill her husband. Surrounding Portman, though, has been an endless revolving door of faces, from director Lynne Ramsey being replaced by Gavin O'Connor after walking away from the first day of shooting to literally every major male role being shuffled around.
From: Cinema Blend 10/04/2013

The Shining's Overlook Hotel Hosting Its Own Spooky Film Festival
The Overlook Hotel of The Shining isn't exactly a real place, but it looms large enough in our cultural imaginations that we're probably more afraid of it than most places that actually exist.
From: Cinema Blend 10/04/2013

Insidious Chapter 2 Moves Up One Week, Makes Way For Walk Of Shame
This is set to be a big year for director James Wan. Not only does the filmmaker have The Conjuring due out this summer, set to debut in theaters on July 19th, he also has the anticipated sequel Insidious Chapter 2 due out in the fall. And the good news for fans is that now they'll be able to see the movie one week earlier than originally scheduled.
From: Cinema Blend 10/04/2013

Carrey to take on Ricky Stanicky
Jim Carrey is taking on the lead role in comedy Ricky Stanicky. The 51-year-old funnyman is reteaming with Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls director Steve Oedekerk on the forthcoming film from Summit Entertainment, according to Variety. Steve adapted the story penned by Jeff Bushell for the big screen and is also helming the project.
From: Film-News 10/04/2013

It's All Pain & No Gain As New Movie Stills Are Released For Michael Bay's Latest Film
We've got just what you were looking for: a load of pictures from Michael Bay's latest action comedy, Pain & Gain.
From: Screenrush 10/04/2013

Vince Vaughn, Scott Stuber Set Family Comedy At Universal
Universal Pictures has acquired an untitled family comedy pitch from scribes Brian Gatewood and Alex Tanaka that will be developed as a star vehicle for Vince Vaughn. The film will be produced by Scott Stuber and his Bluegrass Films banner and Vaughn and his Wild West Picture Show banner.
From: Deadline 10/04/2013

Resolution Signs 'Tommy Boy' Helmer Peter Segal
Resolution has signed Peter Segal and his Callahan Filmworks producing partner Michael Ewing.
From: Deadline 10/04/2013

MRC, Universal Fund John Lee Hancock-Helmed 'Highwaymen;' Liam Neeson, Woody Harrelson Courted To Play Texas Rangers Who Killed Bonnie & Clyde
Media Rights Capital has teamed up with its Ted partner Universal Pictures to co-finance Highwaymen, a drama about the Texas Rangers that hunted and gunned down Depression Era bank robbers Bonnie & Clyde. The film is coming together for a first quarter 2014 production start.
From: Deadline 10/04/2013

APA, Gotham Group Sign Animation Director Timothy Reckart
Oscar-nominated director and animator Timothy Reckart has signed with APA and The Gotham Group.
From: Deadline 09/04/2013

Film Movement Nabs Uruguayan Comedy 'Tanta Agua'
Film Movement will release Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge's Spanish-language comedy later this year. Tanta Agua, about a divorced father on vacation with his two children, took home the Grand Prize at the Miami International Film Festival as well as accolades from the Guadalajara and Cartagena festivals.
From: Deadline 09/04/2013

Helmer Roger Donaldson Joins Paradigm
Paradigm has secured some good clients of late as filmmakers have followed agents like Robert Bookman into the fold.
From: Deadline 09/04/2013

Carrie-Anne Moss Joins 'Pompei' Toga Party
Carrie-Anne Moss has joined the cast of Pompeii, the Paul W.S. Anderson-directed 3D action adventure film. Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Kiefer Sutherland, Jessica Lucas and Jared Harris also star in the film, which began shooting last month in Pompeii and is now in Toronto.
From: Deadline 09/04/2013

Check Out Matt Damon Sporting Some High Tech Shit In The Poster For Elysium
District 9 director Neill Blomkamp has decked out Damon in all kinds of technological wizadry in the poster for his latest film though we won't lie, we have no idea what it does.
From: Screenrush 09/04/2013

Newcomer Sells Sci-Fi Script Omega, Like E.T. With Grown-Ups
A science-fiction pitch from a writer with the name "Cameron" could have CBS Films dreaming dreams of Avatar-level box office receipts.
From: Cinema Blend 09/04/2013

What Major Change Has Baz Luhrmann Made To The Great Gatsby?
Brace yourselves, English Lit majors. You might not be thrilled to learn that director Baz Luhrmann had to make a few changes to F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved tome The Great Gatsby while working hard to adapt the novel for the big screen. What did he have to alter on the book's journey to theaters?
From: Cinema Blend 09/04/2013

Netflix Fights Crime! How A Raleigh Thief Got Caught Red-Handed
Since shortly after New Years Day, Raleigh, North Carolina has been plagued by a string of home invasions and car break-ins. While Batman was bringing in crooks in the UK, the collar on bringing down this band of thieves goes to Netflix.
From: Cinema Blend 09/04/2013

CIA agents look better in Harris tweed: how Argo revived a Scottish classic
Tony Mendez, the real-life CIA agent played by Ben Affleck in Argo, honored for his efforts in making Harris tweed cool again.
From: The Guardian - Film News 09/04/2013

Robert De Niro booked for David O Russell's Abscam FBI thriller
De Niro joins cast for film about US anti-corruption operation and signs up for role in boxing drama Hands of Stone.
From: The Guardian - Film News 09/04/2013

Meryl Streep praises Margaret Thatcher as 'figure of awe'
Awarded an Oscar for her portrayal of the former PM in The Iron Lady, actor pays tribute to her 'grit' and model as a female leader, while Arnold Schwarzenegger adds to chorus of praise and Ken Loach calls for her funeral to be privatised.
From: The Guardian - Film News 09/04/2013

Bradley Cooper to replace Jude Law in Jane Got a Gun
Silver lining for troubled indie western as Cooper is cast as main villain following departure of Law and director Lynne Ramsay.
From: The Guardian - Film News 08/04/2013

James Cameron to use underwater motion capture for Avatar sequels
Producer Jon Landau says director will 'take advantage of the technologies brilliant people are putting out' in next two films.
From: The Guardian - Film News 08/04/2013

Bigas Luna: the Spanish director's best known films - in pictures
The celebrated Spanish film-maker died on Saturday, after a career specialising in the bawdy and absurd. Alongside his compatriot Pedro Almodovar, he helped modernise the country's cinema, and can claim to have discovered its two biggest international stars, Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem.
From: The Guardian - Film News 08/04/2013

Mouseketeer Annette Funicello dies at 70 of complications from MS
Former child star was hand-picked by Walt Disney and spoke openly about the degenerative effects of multiple sclerosis.
From: The Guardian - Film News 08/04/2013

Bigas Luna Dies
Acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Bigas Luna has died aged 67. The Catalan director had been battling leukemia.
From: Empire Online 08/04/2013

Oscar Isaac In Talks For Ex Machina
We recently learned that Alex Garland - writer and producer behind such movies as The Beach, 28 Days Later and Dredd - is jumping into the director's chair for a new sci-fi project, Ex Machina. He's now starting to track down the cast with Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson in talks.
From: Empire Online 08/04/2013

Kaya Scodelario Joins The Maze Runner
Kaya Scodelario is certainly making the most of the opportunities afforded by the praise for her work on Skins and in the likes of Wuthering Heights and Moon
From: Empire Online 08/04/2013

Luke Evans Is Dracula
We've seen him more as a heroic copper or Greek god recently, but Luke Evans will show up as a wrong 'un in this spring's Fast & Furious 6. For his next trick, he's channelling one of the most famous monsters of all time,
From: Empire Online 08/04/2013

Little Children's Todd Fields Will Next Adapt Jess Walter's Romance Novel Beautiful Ruins
The joy of most novels is in the trip the author takes the reader's imagination on, allowing a string of words to substitute for locations and emotions, pulling characters from one writer's mind into everyone else's.
From: Cinema Blend 08/04/2013

Skins' Kaya Scodelario Joins The Maze Runner Adaptation
It's been at least a few hours since we've talked about something to do with an adaptation of a young adult novel, so what better time than now to reengage in that never-ending conversation. The adaptation of choice in this case is director Wes Ball's upcoming debut feature, The Maze Runner, which doesn't sound like the absolute worst idea in the world for a feature, but it could just be my affinity for mazes.
From: Cinema Blend 08/04/2013

Exorcism Diaries Lands A New Writer
Will Hollywood ever grow sick of exorcisms? From the looks of modern trends, our bet is a firm "no." In the past couple years alone we've seen movies like The Last Exorcism, The Last Exorcism Part II, The Devil Inside, The Possession and The Rite (not to mention countless demonic films ranging from Paranormal Activity to Sinister) and now there's a new project in the works that will keep the horror subgenre going.
From: Cinema Blend 08/04/2013

Robert De Niro And Edgar Ramirez To Team Up For Boxing Drama Hands Of Stone
It would seem that Robert De Niro has gotten bit by the pugilist bug as of late. While the actor is best known for his role in Raging Bull - the only performance to win him Best Actor at the Academy Awards - he recently completed shooting Grudge Match against fellow boxing movie veteran Sylvester Stallone, and now he's lined up another fighting pic, this time alongside Edgar Ramirez.
From: Cinema Blend 08/04/2013

Evil Dead's Jessica Lucas Joins Paul W.S. Anderson's Pompeii
Cameras may already be rolling on Paul W.S. Anderson's Pompeii, but apparently that doesn't mean the project is done finding new actors to join the cast. Three weeks ago we found out that Kiefer Sutherland joined the film in a villainous role, and today we've learned that yet another name has been attached to the disaster epic.
From: Cinema Blend 08/04/2013

Divergent Begins Production, Mekhi Phifer And Ray Stevenson Join The Cast
Following on the huge success of the Twilight franchise, Summit-Lionsgate continues to target the young adult audience with feature adaptations of popular book series
From: Cinema Blend 08/04/2013

'I, Frankenstein' 3D Release Set For January 24, 2014
Lionsgate announced today that it will release Hopscotch Features/Lakeshore Entertainment's I, Frankenstein in 3D on January 24, 2014.
From: Deadline 08/04/2013

R.I.P. Sara Montiel
Spanish actress Sara Montiel, best known in the U.S. for her roles in Vera Cruz and Run Of The Arrow has died at her home in Madrid. She was 85. Montiel made her feature film debut as a teenager after winning a beauty contest. The prize was a film role in Te quiero para mi and that sparked a 30-year movie career that included nearly 50 films.
From: Deadline 08/04/2013

9/11 taboo is over as Hollywood fires on the White House
Twelve years after the terror attacks, directors are daring to film the Capitol in flames.
From: The Guardian - Film News 06/04/2013

Susan Sarandon and Topher Grace Join Indie Thriller The Calling
When the words "independent serial killer thriller" all come together like that, it brings to mind a certain kind of…how do you say it…stinking piece of crap. The cinema world is flooded with stuff like that, so all exceptions to that normalcy are certainly welcome around these parts.
From: Cinema Blend 06/04/2013

Bradley Cooper Replaces Jude Law In Jane Got A Gun
Let's be honest here. We aren't sure if this Is the last major update when it comes to Jane Got a Gun or not. It seems perfectly plausible, but then nothing that's happened in this film's long and winding road to production - a production that is now two weeks in progress no less.
From: Cinema Blend 06/04/2013

Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig to star in Pinter play on Broadway
The husband-and-wife duo will appear together in Harold Pinter's Betrayal, a play about an adulterous couple.
From: The Guardian - Film News 05/04/2013

Gerard Depardieu fails to show up to Paris court case
Actor is charged with drink driving but failed to appear - for the second time - because he is filming in New York.
From: The Guardian - Film News 05/04/2013

Roger Ebert dies at 70: 'Roger was the movies,' says Obama
Twitter is abuzz with recollections and thanks as president, peers and the movie world pay tribute.
From: The Guardian - Film News 05/04/2013

Cumberbatch Heads For Crimson Peak
Team Sherlock managed to wrangle Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman back to shoot the third set of episodes, and Holmes himself has said that they'll return for the fourth. But both men are ever in demand, with Cumberbatch headed to Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak.
From: Empire Online 05/04/2013

Hans Zimmer Talks Scoring Man Of Steel
Given his close working relationship on the Batman trilogy and beyond with Chris Nolan, it likely seemed obvious to everyone who isn't Hans Zimmer that he'd be the natural composer to score the Nolan-produced, Zack Snyder-directed Superman pic Man Of Steel.
From: Empire Online 05/04/2013

Twilight's Kellan Lutz Will Face Off Against The Rock In Rival Hercules Movie
2012 was the year of the Snow White showdown with Mirror Mirror facing off against Snow White and the Huntsman. This year will see two action flicks best described as Die Hard at the White House, thanks to Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down. And 2014 will be the year where two Hercules face off, as both Renny Harlin and Brett Ratner prep wannabe blockbusters about the Greek god.
From: Cinema Blend 05/04/2013

Jurassic Park Oral History Reveals How Jim Carrey And James Cameron Almost Got Involved
Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park started stomping back into theaters on Thursday with an upgraded 3D print stretched to fit IMAX screens. Both formats seem tailor-made for the director's larger-than-life digital dinosaur creations, which were impressive 20 years ago and remain spectacular to this day.
From: Cinema Blend 05/04/2013

Beware! Jurassic Park 4 Will Get A Terrifying New Dinosaur
There is still a long time to go before Colin Trevorrow's long-awaited sequel Jurassic Park 4 hits theaters next summer.
From: Cinema Blend 05/04/2013

Tom Stoppard Signs With Paradigm
Screenwriter and playwright Tom Stoppard has signed with Paradigm, re-joining longtime agent Robert Bookman. That means in two consecutive days, two Oscar-winning screenwriters have followed Bookman from CAA to Paradigm. The Silence Of The Lambs scribe Ted Tally joined yesterday.
From: Deadline 05/04/2013

Michael Pena Joins David O Russell Pic
Michael Pena is the latest name to join David O Russell's next film, which already stars Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Jennifer Lawrence.
From: Deadline 05/04/2013

Brad Pitt aims sights at second world war tank movie Fury
Star considering role in new thriller from David Ayer, director of End of Watch and writer of Training Day.
From: The Guardian - Film News 04/04/2013

Matthew McConaughey to star in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar
Nolan's forthcoming film, a science-fiction time-travel drama influenced by physicist Kip Thorne, will include the Texan actor.
From: The Guardian - Film News 04/04/2013

Linklater May Take A Walk In The Woods
Robert Redford might have been able to bring the Sundance Film Festival to life, and snag a job overseeing the tricky organisation that is S.H.I.E.L.D., but his cinematic white whale appears to be Bill Bryson's A Walk In The Woods. Now Redford might have the right man for the director's chair, with Richard Linklater set to come aboard.
From: Empire Online 04/04/2013

Roger Ebert Documentary Will Be Finished, According To Filmmakers
For a website such as this, that features news and reviews about all areas of cinema, the passing of Roger Ebert will reverberate for quite some time, silencing a voice that most of us have for years held high as one of the only critics left who could encapsulate an entire life's worth of film knowledge and experiences into a single article without ever making it sound like anything but a simple film review.
From: Cinema Blend 04/04/2013

Benedict Cumberbatch Joins Guillermo Del Toro's Haunted House Flick Crimson Peak
Sure, Benedict Cumberbatch still has one of the stranger names in Hollywood, but he's fast becoming a household name. The stellar British series Sherlock is only the start of it. He's also put in quality performances in almost every film he's been in, including War Horse and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, but it will be his evil villainy in the upcoming Star Trek: Into Darkness is going to rocket him into the forefront of the American consciousness.
From: Cinema Blend 04/04/2013

Richard Linklater Will Direct A Walk In The Woods For Robert Redford
Bill Bryson is one of America's most interesting travel writers, able to weave together humor in with what it takes to be a human on Earth, instead of just listing locations and describing their histories. His frequent dabblings in science, history and language are just as interesting, but aren't as easy to adapt.
From: Cinema Blend 04/04/2013

Catherine Hardwicke Guiding The Age of Miracles
After decades as a production designer, Catherine Hardwicke made her directorial debut and breakthrough with the Oscar-nominated teen drama Thirteen. With follow-ups like The Nativity Story, Twilight and Red Riding Hood, Hardwicke has developed a niche for coming-of-age dramas with a fantastical bent. Having recently wrapped on the psychological thriller Plush, this daring writer-director is lining up another eccentric coming-of-age tale, The Age of Miracles.
From: Cinema Blend 04/04/2013

Roger Ebert, Legendary Film Critic, Dies At 70
Those were the final words Roger Ebert wrote in what became his final post at his indispensable blog for the Chicago Sun-Times, the paper where he worked as a critic for more than 45 years. Today the Sun-Times announced that he passed away at the age of 70, just two day after publicly revealing that cancer had returned to his body, and announcing what he called a "leave of presence" from full-time reviewing.
From: Cinema Blend 04/04/2013

Justin Lin Won't Direct Fast And Furious 7
According to THR, the director reportedly alerted Universal Studio executives that he will not be coming back to direct the planned seventh installment in the long-running muscle-car franchise. Lin first started on the Fast track with 2006's The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. He has made four Fast films to date, including Fast & Furious 6, which will be in theaters on May 24.
From: Cinema Blend 04/04/2013

R.I.P. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Two time Oscar winning screenwriter best known for her work on Merchant-Ivory has passed away in New York at the age of 85.
From: Screenrush 04/04/2013

R.I.P. Besedka Johnson
Besedka Johnson, who co-starred in Sean Baker's Starlet in her first and only film role, died today in Los Angeles. She was 87. Johnson spent most of her life in LA as an aspiring actress but nabbed her first feature role as Starlet's Sadie at the age of 85 after being spotted by producer Shih-Ching Tsou at the YWCA in West Hollywood.
From: Deadline 04/04/2013

Jacki Weaver To Star In Indie '6 Dance Lessons In 6 Weeks'
Jacki Weaver is set to star opposite Gena Rowlands in the indie film 6 Dance Lessons In 6 Weeks based on Richard Alfieri's play.
From: Deadline 04/04/2013

Fox Searchlight's 'Baggage Claim' Gets September Release Date
Baggage Claim will be flying on to the big screen on September 27, 2013, Fox Searchlight announced today. Starring Paula Patton, the romantic comedy is directed by David Talbert, who adapted it from his bestselling 2003 novel of the same name.
From: Deadline 04/04/2013

Jane Henson Dies
Sad tidings this morning with BBC News reporting the death of Jane Henson. The Muppets designer and Jim Henson's former spouse died at her home in Connecticut after a long struggle with cancer. She was 78.
From: Empire Online 03/04/2013

Avengers 2 Will Be Assembled In The UK
They faced Loki and an alien armada in Avengers Assemble. Now, for the sequel, Earth's Mightiest Heroes' great nemesis will be fire. Because according to Screen Daily, the Avengers will be made out of pinewood.
From: Empire Online 03/04/2013

Tim Burton Directing Big Eyes
The wheel turns once more for Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander's long-gestating script Big Eyes. After several attempts, the film may now actually get made with Tim Burton directing Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams.
From: Empire Online 03/04/2013

Will Arnett Cast In Ninja Turtles
Will Arnett seems intent on dominating both the big and small screens at the moment. Though his most recent US sitcom, Up All Night, has come to a rather abrupt halt, he's using his available time to work on a new pilot and has just snagged a role in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
From: Empire Online 03/04/2013

Matthew McConaughey Confirmed As Lead In Christopher Nolan's Interstellar
Matthew McConaughey, after having one of 2012's most unlikely breakouts in a variety of excellent roles, has picked the film that will return him to blockbusters-- and it's about as big as it gets. Talking to Minneapolis Star-Tribune, he confirmed that he'll play the lead role in Interstellar, the new sci-fi project to be written and directed by Christopher Nolan.
From: Cinema Blend 03/04/2013

Pixar Give Us A Few Tantalising Details About Finding Dory, Their Upcoming Sequel To Finding Nemo
Finding Dory set for release in 2015 will star Ellen DeGeneres as the voice of central character Dory, the lovable, memory deficient, blue fish.
From: Screenrush 03/04/2013

With Amy Adams And Christopher Waltz Set To Star, Tim Burton Preps his Canvas For Next Project: Big Eyes
Based on the true story of painter Margaret Keane and her husband Walter, we wonder whether Tim Burton is attempting to abandon the gothic fantasy style he's so well known for.
From: Screenrush 03/04/2013

Jack Reacher film gives New Zealand viewer too little bang for his buck
Cinemagoer to get refund after complaining explosion in trailer for Tom Cruise thriller Jack Reacher did not make final cut.
From: The Guardian - Film News 02/04/2013

Brad Pitt zombie movie re-edited for Chinese market
World War Z will get a second cut to remove reference to China as source of undead attack.
From: The Guardian - Film News 02/04/2013

Finding Nemo Sequel Is Now Finding Dory, Plans 2015 Release
Taking a film's side character and making them the center of the sequel is a risky proposition, as Pixar well knows after the disappointing, Mater-centric Cars 2. But Dory the blue tang fish from Finding Nemo remains by far the film's most enduring character, and the studio seemingly has no choice than to put her front and center in the planned sequel. So today they've officially announced Finding Dory, a sequel to the studio's second-most profitable film (behind Toy Story 3) set for a November 25, 2015 release.
From: Cinema Blend 02/04/2013

The Avengers 2 Starts Production In Early 2014 Outside Of London
Both Captain America: The First Avenger and the upcoming sequel Thor: The Dark World have spent some time boosting the UK economy by shooting over in Great Britain, and now the biggest of all the upcoming Marvel movies will have its turn as well. According to Screen Daily, The Avengers 2 will be setting up shop at Pinewood-Shepperton, just outside of London, later this year, with cameras set to start rolling in early 2014.
From: Cinema Blend 02/04/2013

Evil Dead Director Dreams Of An Army Of Darkness Crossover
When Sam Raimi first let the cat out of the bag that he was plotting out a fourth Evil Dead movie with Bruce Campbell back in the role of Ash, fans immediately wondered how the canon of the gory horror franchise would be affected by Fede Alvarez's reboot, which arrives in theaters on Friday. Well, as Campbell and Alvarez continue to promote the reboot, ideas for how the stories could merge continue to develop.
From: Cinema Blend 02/04/2013

David Fincher's 20,000 Leagues Moves Even Closer To An Australian Shoot
Here's one way to guarantee that a major movie studio films its massive tentpole picture in your country: Pay millions for the privilege of hosting a production that's sure to generate thousands of jobs and potentially goose the local economy.
From: Cinema Blend 02/04/2013

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 To Start Production In June
Those who loved the 2010 comedy Hot Tub Time Machine may want to toast this news with a can of "Chernobly." This is the End's Craig Robinson says the sequel to the film is set to go into production in the beginning of June. At this point though, it sounds like negotiations are still ongoing and there's an updated script coming.
From: Cinema Blend 02/04/2013

Chloe Moretz May Visit Dark Places
Back in February, it was reported that Charlize Theron was in talks to star in and produce an adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel Dark Places. It would appear she's locked, as she's now hunting down co-stars. The first in her sights is Chloe Moretz, who has started talks.
From: Empire Online 02/04/2013

Jennifer Garner Set For Draft Day
American Football comedy drama Draft Day looked like it was on its way up the film leagues when Paramount nabbed the rights to the script and Ivan Reitman stepped aboard to produce and direct.
From: Empire Online 02/04/2013

Laurence Fishburne Goes Rudderless
It's a dangerous thing to release any information on April 1, but we're pretty certain a standard casting announcement about William H. Macy's first film as director is unlikely to be a joke.
From: Empire Online 02/04/2013

Latest Promo For The Mortal Instruments
As the Young Adult arms race to find the next Potter/Twilight/Hunger Games success continues, one of the big contenders has thrown its trailer hat into the ring months ahead of its release. The new promo for The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones has arrived over on Apple's site.
From: Empire Online 02/04/2013

R.I.P. Jess Franco
Spanish filmmaker Jess Franco, director of more than 180 films including cult pics Vampyros Lesbos and Venus In Furs, died in Malaga early today after suffering a stroke, Spain's El Pais reports. He was 82. Born Jesus Franco Manera, he made his feature directing debut with 1959′s We Are 18 Years Old and opened his cult classic The Awful Dr. Orlof stateside in 1961. His erotic horror films of the 1970s and 1980s sealed his reputation as an exploitation cinema icon.
From: Deadline 02/04/2013

Richard Pryor Biopic Gets A Major Boost From Forest Whitaker
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A big-screen biopic of late comedian Richard Pryor is moving forward, only this time with an Oscar-winning talent leading the charge to push this project up the hill of production and into theaters.
From: Cinema Blend 01/04/2013

Four Join William H. Macy's 'Rudderless'
Selena Gomez, Anton Yelchin, Laurence Fishburne, and Billy Crudup have been cast in William H. Macy's directorial debut. Macy and Felicity Huffman also star in Rudderless, a musical drama about a grieving father who forms a band after finding his deceased son's songs. The Shameless star co-wrote the original story with Casey Twenter and Jeff Robison, who adapted the script.
From: Deadline 01/04/2013

'Townies' Duo Sells Pitch To Fox 2000 Based On Viral Wedding Date Ad
After scoring a seven-figure deal with Universal for their R-rated comedy Townies, Andrew Cohen and Brendan O'Brien sold another pitch over the Easter weekend. This one's based on the Craiglist ad that went viral in February when brothers Mike and Dave Stangle took to the personals in search of wedding dates. The untitled project takes it one step further: When the hard-partying bros finally select plus-ones, their dates end up even being even bigger messes than they are.
From: Deadline 01/04/2013

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