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First look at Paul Thomas Anderson's Pynchon adaptation, Inherent Vice
Joaquin Phoenix stars alongside Josh Brolin and Reese Witherspoon in a marked change in tone from Anderson's previous film with Phoenix, The Master.
From: The Guardian - Film News 30/09/2014
Tetris the movie falls into place
'A very big, epic sci-fi movie' planned for console-to-cinema adaptation of block-stacking classic.
From: The Guardian - Film News 30/09/2014
DreamWorks Animation 'could be sold to Japan's SoftBank group'
Hollywood studio reported to be in sale talks following losses on Rise of the Guardians, Mr Peabody & Sherman and Turbo.
From: The Guardian - Film News 29/09/2014
Spanish thriller Magical Girl wins top award at San Sebastián film festival
There was a home win at the San Sebastián film festival as the event's top award, the Golden Shell, went to Spain's Magical Girl, directed by Carlos Vermut.
From: The Guardian - Film News 29/09/2014
Putin-bashing film Leviathan named as Russia's Oscar contender
Major surprise sees Andrei Zvyagintsev's Cannes award-winner nominated by Russian committee despite film's attack on governing elite.
From: The Guardian - Film News 29/09/2014
Emma Watson to star opposite Daniel Brühl in political thriller Colonia
Emma Watson will star opposite Rush's Daniel Brühl in Colonia, a political thriller set against the backdrop of the Chilean military coup of 1973, reports Variety.
From: The Guardian - Film News 29/09/2014
Gone Girl unleashes battle of the sexes at New York film festival
Chilly woman at heart of David Fincher drama is a new kind of screen heroine, says film's star Rosamund Pike at the movie's world premiere.
From: The Guardian - Film News 27/09/2014
George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin tie the knot in Venice wedding
Hollywood star marries British lawyer in private ceremony and celebrates with host of celebrity friends and A-listers.
From: The Guardian - Film News 27/09/2014
Terry Gilliam: The Fisher King is changed by Robin Williams' death
The director, who made The Fisher King in 1991 with Robin Williams in the lead role, said that seeing the film in the wake of the actor's suicide cast it in a new light.
From: The Guardian - Film News 26/09/2014
Bill & Ted 3 to be totally radical and feature multiple Bill and Teds
Alex Winter confirms long-awaited third instalment in franchise will be populated by many versions of the characters played by he and Keanu Reeves.
From: The Guardian - Film News 26/09/2014
Interstellar will be Christopher Nolan's longest film odyssey yet
Much-hyped science fiction epic about man on a journey to find a new home for humanity clocks in at 175 minutes - 10 minutes longer than The Dark Knight Rises.
From: The Guardian - Film News 26/09/2014
Culture Film World cinema Seattle property boom sparked by blockbuster Chinese romantic comedy
Finding Mr Right, a romcom inspired by Sleepless in Seattle and one of China's biggest ever hits, has triggered massive upsurge in house-buying in the city.
From: The Guardian - Film News 25/09/2014
Vin Diesel shares first photo of Paul Walker from Fast and Furious 7
Diesel pays tribute to late co-star Walker following the actor's death in a car crash, saying that seeing the film's trailer was 'emotional and bittersweet'.
From: The Guardian - Film News 25/09/2014
Monster fuss: Ridley Scott alienates xenomorphs from Prometheus 2
The director has said his sequel to the 2012 Alien spin-off Prometheus is unlikely to feature any more of the franchise's iconic beasts.
From: The Guardian - Film News 25/09/2014
Idris Elba to release album inspired by Nelson Mandela
Actor has enlisted the help of artists such as James Blake, Mumford & Sons, Mr Hudson and Nothembi Mkhwebane for album Mi Mandela.
From: The Guardian - Film News 24/09/2014
A strange doctorate: university to offer course in Marvel movie studies
Students at the University of Baltimore can take Media Genres: Media Marvels, which aims to deepen understanding in Marvel Studios output and impact.
From: The Guardian - Film News 24/09/2014
Steven Soderbergh recuts Raiders of the Lost Ark as a silent movie
To show the importance of staging in filmmaking, the director reworks Steven Spielberg's classic adventure into a moodily black and white silent film.
From: The Guardian - Film News 24/09/2014
Threat to post Emma Watson nude photos appears to be hoax
It was seen, at first, as a backlash. When online threats emerged at the weekend to release naked photographs of the actor Emma Watson, many felt it was a hostile response to a barnstorming speech the Harry Potter star had just given to the UN about women's rights.
From: The Guardian - Film News 24/09/2014
Film industry perpetuates gender discrimination, says UN-backed study
Report finds 'deep-seated discrimination and pervasive stereotyping of women and girls', including blanket under-representation and widespread hypersexualisation.
From: The Guardian - Film News 23/09/2014
Oldest surviving film starring black actors to premiere in New York
Previously unseen footage from 1913 silent movie is to be screened at the Museum of Modern Art.
From: The Guardian - Film News 23/09/2014
Oscars race for best foreign-language film expands as Saint Laurent biopic sashays in
French film about fashion designer faces strong competition from other foreign-language favourites, including the Dardenne brothers' Two Days, One Night.
From: The Guardian - Film News 23/09/2014
Joseph Gordon-Levitt to play Edward Snowden in Oliver Stone's NSA whistleblower movie
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has agreed to take the lead role in Oliver Stone's forthcoming biopic of the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, reports Variety.
From: The Guardian - Film News 22/09/2014
Angelina Jolie to direct story of the man who declared war on elephant poachers
Actor's fourth film behind the camera will be a 'sweeping epic' focusing on fossil-hunter Richard Leakey's aggressive wildlife preservation campaign in Kenya.
From: The Guardian - Film News 22/09/2014
The Vanishing director George Sluizer dies aged 82
Dutch director behind River Phoenix's final film - who courted controversy with Ariel Sharon murder accusation - dies aged 82.
From: The Guardian - Film News 22/09/2014
X-Men's Deadpool to fight his way back to the big screen after footage leak
X-men character gets movie spin-off green light despite onscreen death in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, with Ryan Reynolds tipped to play the anti-hero
From: The Guardian - Film News 19/09/2014
Ang Lee to enter the huddle with Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Life of Pi director to adapt Ben Fountain's award-winning novel, a 'Catch 22 for the Iraq war' about an army squad paraded at an American football game.
From: The Guardian - Film News 19/09/2014
Channing Tatum to play man made a mathematics genius by brain injury
Channing Tatum is set play a young man who becomes an overnight maths genius at the age of 31 after being attacked, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
From: The Guardian - Film News 19/09/2014
Star Wars: Episode VII: No CGI C-3P0 and Adam Driver shuns the dark side
Anthony Daniels, who played Luke Skywalker's robot aide C-3P0, will play a live action version of the droid in JJ Abrams's Star Wars, while a leaked set photo suggests Adam Driver might not be playing a baddie after all.
From: The Guardian - Film News 18/09/2014
Don't cross the Kremes: Ghostbusters doughnuts to go on sale
Krispy Kreme are to produce a range of Ghostbusters-themed snacks to tie in with the film's 30th anniversary - as Dan Aykroyd imagines a Marvel-style universe for the films.
From: The Guardian - Film News 17/09/2014
Make 'em laugh: Imax head says audiences want happier films
Greg Foster, the head of Imax who create projection systems for extra-large cinema screens, has said that audiences are looking for more easygoing, happy films.
From: The Guardian - Film News 17/09/2014
Jack Huston to star alongside Morgan Freeman in Ben-Hur
Jack Huston, the British actor known for roles in American Hustle and Boardwalk Empire, has been cast as the lead of the upcoming Ben-Hur remake.
From: The Guardian - Film News 17/09/2014
Scientists name ancient flying reptile after Avatar creatures
A newly discovered varient of the pterosaur has been named Ikrandraco avatar after the flying dinosaurs from the James Cameron blockbuster.
From: The Guardian - Film News 16/09/2014
I Totally Know What You Did Last Summer: teen slasher flick remade
The hit 1997 film about a group of attractive teenagers trying to evade a killer fisherman is to be remade by Sony Pictures.
From: The Guardian - Film News 16/09/2014
Tom Hiddleston to swing on to King Kong 'origins' film Skull Island
British actor popular from Thor and Avengers movies to take key role in giant-ape yarn, while Jordan Vogt-Roberts takes on directing duties.
From: The Guardian - Film News 16/09/2014
Laura Poitras to premiere Edward Snowden film Citizenfour in October
Laura Poitras' highly anticipated documentary about Edward Snowden and the NSA will have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival in October, organisers announced on Tuesday.
From: The Guardian - Film News 16/09/2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 1 releases first full trailer
The first full glimpse of the face-off between Jennifer Lawrence and Donald Sutherland in the third film of the series.
From: The Guardian - Film News 15/09/2014
Sir Donald Sinden dies aged 90
Family announces that veteran actor with string of stage, screen and TV credits since the 1940s had been ill with cancer.
From: The Guardian - Film News 12/09/2014
Hollywood discriminates against gay actors, claims LGBT thinktank report
More than 50% of acting union members consulted by UCLA academics say film-makers are biased against LGBT performers.
From: The Guardian - Film News 12/09/2014
Woman marries cardboard cut-out of Robert Pattinson
Lauren Adkins said she immediately fell for the Twilight star after seeing him on screen, and wed the cut-out in Las Vegas before enjoying a Los Angeles honeymoon.
From: The Guardian - Film News 12/09/2014
Roger Moore 'distraught' at death of Bond villain and friend Richard Kiel
Towering actor turned down the role of Darth Vader to play steel-toothed killer Jaws in two films alongside Moore.
From: The Guardian - Film News 11/09/2014
Paul Greengrass set to direct Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio in Olympic terrorism drama
Captain Phillips director to join Wolf of Wall Street stars in the story of a security guard who went from hero to villain after the bombing at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
From: The Guardian - Film News 11/09/2014
Andrew Garfield blames studio for ruining 'thread' of Spider-Man sequel
The actor laments interference in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, saying that 'deep scenes' were cut.
From: The Guardian - Film News 11/09/2014
Richard Kiel, Jaws actor from James Bond, dies aged 74
Towering figure, famous for two Roger Moore era instalments of spy series, had been in hospital after breaking his leg.
From: The Guardian - Film News 11/09/2014
23 Jump Street promises college return for Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill
Sony approves third instalment of undercover cop comedy based on 80s TV series starring Johnny Depp
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/09/2014
Denzel Washington replaces Tom Cruise in The Magnificent Seven
Training Day's Antoine Fuqua will direct Washington as a gun-slinging guardian angel in remake of John Sturges's 1960 western.
From: The Guardian - Film News 10/09/2014
Charlie Hunnam reveals pain over turning down Fifty Shades of Grey
Charlie Hunnam has opened up about the stresses of turning down the role of Christian Grey in the forthcoming movie adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey.
From: The Guardian - Film News 09/09/2014
Orlando Bloom set to board Pirates of the Caribbean 5
Orlando Bloom has held talks with Hollywood producers over a return to the Pirates of the Caribbean series, the British actor has revealed.
From: The Guardian - Film News 09/09/2014
Robert Downey Jr plays down prospect of fourth Iron Man movie
2015 Avengers sequel could mark Downey Jr's swansong in superhero role that has made him world's highest-paid actor.
From: The Guardian - Film News 08/09/2014
Quentin Tarantino ditches digital as owner-curator of historic LA cinema
Tarantino's New Beverly Cinema to show celluloid prints from his collection when former pornographic venue reopens in October.
From: The Guardian - Film News 08/09/2014
Swedish Pigeon bags Golden Lion: surrealist drama wins Venice film festival 2014
Roy Andersson's A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence takes top prize at the 71st film festival, while Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence is runner up.
From: The Guardian - Film News 06/09/2014
Fault in Our Stars author John Green's Paper Towns gets big-screen green light
Robot & Frank's Jake Schreier has been hired to direct the latest big-screen adaptation of a novel by John Green, the author of young adult bestseller The Fault in Our Stars, reports Variety.
From: The Guardian - Film News 05/09/2014
Mystery over claim that Paul Schrader has 'lost control' of Dying of the Light
Brief appearance of Facebook petition alleges director's thriller, starring Nicolas Cage, has been re-edited by producers.
From: The Guardian - Film News 05/09/2014
Abel Ferrara on the death of Pasolini: 'The pursuit of truth is what matters'
As his much-anticipated biopic, Pasolini, premieres at the Venice film festival, the American film-maker reveals his debt to Italy's film provocateur.
From: The Guardian - Film News 04/09/2014
Kubrick 'did not deserve' Oscar for 2001 says FX master Douglas Trumbull
Director acknowledges Kubrick's genius, but says the maverick's only Oscar was for special effects he did not originate.
From: The Guardian - Film News 04/09/2014
Brittany Murphy's father calls TV movie biopic 'hideous'
Angelo Bertolotti says Lifetime's The Brittany Murphy Story, about the late actor, is 'unauthorised and completely untrue'.
From: The Guardian - Film News 04/09/2014
Reality bites at this year's Toronto film festival
Lineup at Toronto film festival and Oscars release schedule show new appetite among audiences and studios for films based on recent headlines.
From: The Guardian - Film News 03/09/2014
The elephant who cried: Raju's story on way to big screen
The story of Raju, the elephant who cried, is heading for the big screen after a production team led by the Indian actor and former tennis player Vijay Amritraj secured the screen rights to his story.
From: The Guardian - Film News 03/09/2014
Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language heads to UK's biggest screen
it has been described as baffling, with no discernible plot, and features a frequently naked pair of lovers discussing life, art and scatological semiotics - ideal for the biggest screen in Britain, say organisers of the London film festival.
From: The Guardian - Film News 03/09/2014
George Clooney to direct new film about UK phone-hacking scandal
George Clooney is set to direct an adaptation of the book Hack Attack by Guardian journalist Nick Davies, an account of Davies' investigation into Rupert Murdoch's media empire which uncovered the phone-hacking scandal that rocked the British establishment and resulted in the closure of the News of the World.
From: The Guardian - Film News 03/09/2014
New DC Domain Names Suggest Future Slate
Spotting newly registered internet domain names has been a useful sport for a while, giving strong indicators of what studios are up to before official announcements are made. That method was how we learned Skyfall was called Skyfall, for example, and it may just have revealed DC / Warners' immediate future in comicbook movies.
From: Empire Online 03/09/2014
Full Line-Up Announced For the BFI London Film Festival 2014
This year's BFI London Film Festival kicks off on October 8 with Alan Turing drama The Imitation Game and finishes on October 19 with David Ayers' tank drama Fury. But what about the days inbetween? Well the full line-up, featuring 245 features and 148 shorts, has now been announced and there are some very tasty films to see.
From: Empire Online 03/09/2014
Julie Engelbrecht On For The Last Witch Hunter
The Last Witch Hunter already has something of an international flavour to its cast, with American and British actors aboard. And here comes Julie Engelbrecht to represent Germany.
From: Empire Online 03/09/2014
Dwayne Johnson Officially Set For Shazam
He's been dancing around the DC Comics cinematic universe for years now, dropping coy hints about possible roles and films he'd like to tackle. Finally, Dwayne Johnson has made it official, making a deal to play the villain-turned-antihero Black Adam in a Shazam film.
From: Empire Online 03/09/2014
The Little Rascals Grew Up, Here's How They Look Now
That Tweet comes to us from Travis Tedford, who you may remember played Spanky in the Penelope Spheeris-directed film, and the image was taken as part of a event from the production company 22 Vision.
From: Cinema Blend 03/09/2014
The Boondock Saints 3 Title And Plot Revealed
Filmmaker Troy Duffy is a prime example of the kind of story Hollywood loves - a rags to riches tale that featured phenomenal success, crashing failure, and if not redemption, then at least resurrection.
From: Cinema Blend 03/09/2014
Kanye stores Grammys in drawer
The 37-year-old rapper joined his wife Kim at the GQ Men of the Year Awards in London last night, where the brunette beauty scooped the Woman of the Year gong. She was thrilled to have won the prize and already has plans of where to place it in her and her husband's home.
From: Film-News 03/09/2014
'Noah's Douglas Booth Joins 'Pride And Prejudice And Zombies'
British actor Douglas Booth is joining the cast of the classic lit mash-up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, adapted from Seth Grahame-Smith's parody novel of the same name. The send-up of Jane Austen's 1813 book tracks the adventures of heroine Elizabeth Bennet but adds hordes of the undead to her Regency-era English existence.
From: Deadline 03/09/2014
Johnny Knoxville Joins Jackie Chan In China-Set 'Skiptrace'
Johnny Knoxville has been set to star alongside Jackie Chan in Skiptrace, the Renny Harlin-directed film that has just begun shooting in China. Last I wrote about this, Chan was going to star opposite Seann William Scott and X-Men: Days Of Future Past's Fan Bingbing in the tale of a Hong Kong detective (Chan) who teams up with a mouthy American gambler (Scott) to save his niece and take down the city's most notorious criminal. Bingbing is in, but Scott exited and Knoxville has stepped up to play that role. The tone of the movie is Midnight Run.
From: Deadline 03/09/2014
Jessica Chastain & Kristen Wiig Circle Ridley Scott's 'Martian'
Jessica Chastain and Kristen Wiig are circling the lead female roles opposite Matt Damon in The Martian, the film that Ridley Scott will next direct for Fox. Pic's about an astronaut on Mars and his struggle to survive. These talks are early, and at this point, Chastain seems likelier than Wiig to be set for the film. Simon Kinberg, Scott and Aditya Sood are producing the pic, which Drew Goddard wrote based on an Andy Weir book.
From: Deadline 03/09/2014
Hot Venice Clip: Joe Dante Zombie Rom-Com 'Burying The Ex'
Joe Dante has jumped into the zombie world with Burying The Ex, the Voltage Pictures' romantic comedy starring Anton Yelchin and Ashley Greene and world premiering Thursday out of competition the Venice Film Festival. Greene plays an ex-girlfriend who dies in a freak accident but rises from the dead and expects her relationship with her boyfriend (Yelchin) to continue as normal — like if Dante's Gremlins were clingy significant others.
From: Deadline 03/09/2014
Angelina Jolie's wedding dress designed by Atelier Versace - and her children
Well, it's one way to stop your toddlers scribbling on the wall. Angelina Jolie has revealed that she married Brad Pitt in a couture wedding dress covered in drawings by her own children.
From: The Guardian - Film News 02/09/2014
Michael Bay makes viewers snack more, says Cornell University study
Study group supplied with junk food, fruit and vegetables ate 65% more calories while watching Bay's frenetic The Island, compared with those who watched a slow-paced talk show.
From: The Guardian - Film News 02/09/2014
Lava trailer offers first glimpse of Pixar's lovesick volcano
The dream technicians at Pixar have given us anthropomorphic toys, robots, cars, fish and rats. But none of the Emeryville production house's previous efforts truly prepares one for the sight of a lovelorn, crinkly-eyed Hawaiian volcano crooning its loneliness to the heavens.
From: The Guardian - Film News 01/09/2014
Pirates of the Caribbean 5 gets green light to shoot in Australia
Dead Men Tell No Tales likely to shoot in Queensland after Australian government agrees tax incentives worth $20.2m.
From: The Guardian - Film News 01/09/2014
Star Wars: Episode VII Recruits Miltos Yerolemou
There's one Westeros resident already in the cast, in the shape of Gwendoline Christie, but J.J. Abrams and his Star Wars: Episode VII casting team have not finished recruiting Game Of Thrones actors. Miltos Yerolemou has, according to the BBC, scored a small role in the new film.
From: Empire Online 01/09/2014
Michael Bay Drives To Cosmic Motors
Whether or not Michael Bay ends up directing Transformers 5, high-concept sci-fi vehicles are clearly still a part of his future. He's currently in the process of setting up Cosmic Motors at Warner Bros., a film based on Daniel Simon's book of lavish concept art. Kyle Ward, who wrote Machete Kills and the new Hitman movie Agent 47, has been tasked with creating the screenplay.
From: Empire Online 01/09/2014
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