'Blindspotting' TV Series Trailer Expands The Movie's Narrative, Keeps The Same Style And Energy
Starz has released the first Blindspotting TV series trailer, which follows one of the movie's supporting characters but keeps the same style.
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'Mad About You' Revival Officially Happening With Helen Hunt And Paul Reiser Returning
The Mad About You revival is a go, with both Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt reprising their roles from the '90s sitcom.
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'Mad About You' Revival Signs Paul Reiser And Helen Hunt
The Mad About You revival is closer to reality than ever before as original stars Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt officially sign on.
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'Die In A Gunfight': Josh Hutcherson And Kaya Scodelario To Star In Modern 'Romeo & Juliet' Riff
Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games) and Kaya Scodelario (The Maze Runner) will join forces in Die in a Gunfight, a modern day action riff on Romeo & Juliet.
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'Decoding Annie Parker' Trailer: Starring Samantha Morton And Aaron Paul
Watch the first Decoding Annie Parker trailer, about the discovery of the breast cancer gene. Samantha Morton, Helen Hunt, and Aaron Paul star.
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'The Sessions' Review – 2013 Oscar Contender With John Hawkes, Helen Hunt & William H. Macy
Note: This is a reprint of my review of The Sessions, formerly The Surrogate, upon its premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. I've changed the name of the film below, but left everything else remains intact. It opens on a limited basis today and is truly one of the year's most special films. With…
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'The Sessions' Trailer - John Hawkes' Oscar-Buzzy Turn As A 38-Year-Old Virgin
The story of a guy trying hard to get laid for the first time has been told and told again in many an R-rated comedy, but Ben Lewin's The Sessions isn't American Pie or even The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Instead, it's a truth-based drama that's garnering serious Oscar buzz for its star, John Hawkes. The Martha Marcy May…
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Sundance Fave 'The Surrogate' Dated By Fox Searchlight, Now Called 'Six Sessions'
We can probably blame the Bruce Willis sci-fi film Surrogates for the fact that Fox Searchlight has changed the title of the John Hawkes-starring Sundance fave The Surrogate. The Willis film was pretty forgettable, but not quite forgettable enough that Searchlight wanted to go with the original title for the film about a sex surrogate…
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Casting Bits: Emma Stone In 'He's F*ckin' Perfect', Michelle Monaghan In 'Fast Flash To Bang Time', Brian Cox In 'Dog Fight', Alice Eve In 'Decoding Annie Parker'
Emma Stone has been moving into more dramatic territory lately with parts in The Help and Gangster Squad, but she may be returning to her comedy roots soon. The actress has entered talks to star in He's Fuckin' Perfect, a comedy by first time feature writer Lauryn Kahn. The film is being produced by Will…
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Casting Bits: Eddie Redmayne In 'Les Miserables', Rashida Jones And Corey Stoll In 'Decoding Annie Parker', Shea Whigham In 'The Silver Linings Playbook'
My Week with Marilyn star Eddie Redmayne will join Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Anne Hathaway in Tom Hooper's prestige musical Les Miserables. Based on the hit Broadway show and Victor Hugo's classic novel of the same title, the film follows an ex-con named Valjean (Jackman) in 19th century France as he seeks to redeem…
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Casting Bits: Olivia Wilde In 'Rush', Billy Crudup In 'Neighborhood Watch', Helen Hunt, Aaron Paul, And Maggie Grace In 'Decoding Annie Parker'
Olivia Wilde has landed the coveted role of '70s supermodel Suzy Miller in Rush, Ron Howard's Peter Morgan-scripted drama about the real-life rivalry between British Formula One driver James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Austrian racer Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl). Miller married the womanizing Hunt, but then fell in love with Hunt's friend Richard Burton. Burton…
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Helen Hunt And Moon Bloodgood Join John Hawkes In 'The Surrogate'
The title The Surrogate, to me, immediately calls up impressions of a horror film or thriller, but the movie that has had John Hawkes attached is something else entirely. An emotional thriller, perhaps. The Surrogate is based on a true story and will feature the actor as "Mark O'Brien, a paraplegic polio victim who lived…
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'Soul Surfer' Trailer
Earlier this month, a in-house promotional teaser trailer leaked for Soul Surfer, a drama about young, teenage surfer girl (played by Bridge To Terabithia/Race To Witch Mountain's AnnaSophia Robb) who "summons the courage to go back into the ocean after losing an arm in a shark attack." When I posted the teaser, I was kind of…
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TV News Bites: Ron Howard's IRS Comedy; Ray Wise In Dollhouse; Helen Hunt Joins Parenthood
Got some brief TV news today, leading off with a project from Ron Howard that returns the filmmaker and Arrested Development producer to television comedy. THR reports that Howard has landed a pilot commitment at Fox for a multicamera workplace comedy set in an IRS office. (Cue cries of surprise about Arrested Development alums working…
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