Posted on Thursday, May 10th, 2012 by Angie Han
Following last month’s news that Joseph Gordon-Levitt had left Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained, two more of his would-be co-stars confirmed their own departures earlier this week. Kurt Russell and Sacha Baron Cohen will no longer be appearing in the film, which is currently shooting for a December release. It’s disappointing for sure, but at least the remaining cast — which includes Jamie Foxx, Christopher Waltz, and Leonardo DiCaprio — still looks pretty damn great. More details after the jump.
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Posted on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 by Angie Han
Because nothing works up the appetite quite like traveling back in time and fighting aliens, Baskin-Robbins is introducing a limited-edition line of Men in Black 3-inspired menu items. Also after the jump:
- Will Scary Movie 5 be a Black Swan spoof?
- Piranha 3DD soundtrack listing revealed
- Anchorman 2 teaser to debut before The Dictator?
- Vin Diesel drops another Riddick photo
- Expendables 2, G.I. Joe: Retaliation get new posters
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Posted on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 by Angie Han
Yep, Scary Movie 5 is happening, but will its stars return? Anna Faris isn’t sure. Also after the jump:
- Sony unveils two more clips from Men in Black 3
- Tony Gilroy talks balancing old and new in The Bourne Legacy
- Check out some concept art for TRON: Uprising
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Doesn’t Leonardo DiCaprio look great as a villain? That’s Leo as Calvin Candie, the slaver antagonist of Quentin Tarantino‘s new film Django Unchained, in which the character is opposed by a German bounty hunter and a freed slave, played by Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx. That image is one of two fantastic official first looks at the characters; the other, featuring the heroes, is below. Read More »
Posted on Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 by Angie Han
It seems that Iron Man 3 won’t feature quite the redhead trio we expected, as Jessica Chastain and Gwyneth Paltrow won’t be joined by Scarlett Johansson after all. Also after the jump:
- Muppets 2 gets some very early marketing art
- Chris Pine says Star Trek 2 has action, character development
- Scary Movie 5 finds a director in Malcolm Lee
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“Do you have any idea what a Thompson submachine gun does to a mortal?”
Oh, man, here we go. We’ve waited a long time to see footage from John Hillcoat‘s new film Lawless, formerly titled The Wettest County. Based on Matt Bondurant‘s book The Wettest County in the World, the film had a long pre-production history and nearly didn’t happen, until Megan Ellison and Annapurna Pictures saved the day.
And so Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Jason Clarke are the bootlegging Bondurant brothers who have to contend with the attentions of some powerful and jealous authorities, with Guy Pearce looking like he’s having the time of his life as the agent on the trail of the boys. Gary Oldman has his part, too, and Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and more fill out the cast.
A trailer has just hit for Lawless, and it looks fantastic.
Update: Seems like Yahoo posted the trailer too soon, because they pulled it briefly. The embed below seems to be working for most people now, however.
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Get out that red pen and mark your calendar as several major movies just got release dates. The biggest one is Lego 3D, written and directed by 21 Jump Street helmers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and co-directed by Chris McKay, which is now scheduled for February 14, 2014. 42, the Jackie Robinson biopic starring Harrison Ford and Chadwick Boseman, written and directed by Brian Helgeland, will be released a year earlier on April 12, 2013 and The Weinstein Company revealed release dates for a bunch of upcoming animated films such as Santapprentice, The Trick or Treaters and Leo the Lion. Read more about those films after the jump. Read More »
The PR reps for Quentin Tarantino‘s new film, Django Unchained, have sent out the official synopsis for the film. There isn’t any new detail in there, but I thought we’d pass it along for those who have only seen the barest recap of what the story is about, and would like to know a little bit more without having to worry about big story spoilers. Don’t be worried by the length of the synopsis; having read the script I’ll assure readers that there isn’t anything crucial revealed in what follows.
The synopsis is interesting for two other points. The first is that it made me realize that this is only the second Quentin Tarantino film not produced by the director’s long-time collaborator Lawrence Bender. (The other being Death Proof/Grindhouse.) That’s more an interesting trivia point than anything else; I doubt that most casual viewers will be able to note Bender’s absence based on the end result.
The other point is a reminder to see who is cutting the film for Tarantino, whose films were all previously edited by the late Sally Menke. Fred Raskin is cutting Django Unchained; he assisted Menke on the Kill Bill films, and worked on Punch-Drunk Love and Boogie Nights, and Insomnia. So that’s a track record with three impressive directors. He has also edited the last three films in the Fast and the Furious series.
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