60 years ago, Disney released one of its best live-action movies, and one that has vanished into the shadow of its remake.This is The Parent Trap revisited.
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Believe it or not, a Lindsay Lohan werewolf noir is almost here. Check out this trailer for Among the Shadows...if you dare.
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Thought shark-tornadoes were a ridiculous idea? Wait til we send them into outer space! Or at least, that's what the artwork on the new Sharknado 3 seems to be saying. Also after the jump: Tina Fey says it's "too late" for a Mean Girls sequel Bette Midler is totally up for a Hocus Pocus sequel…
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We present to you some sequel-related odds and ends to take you into the weekend. After the jump: Liam Neeson and John Slattery will also be in Ted 2 Check out the first Dumb and Dumber To TV spot Watch the new extended Alien: Isolation TV spot Lindsay Lohan has an idea for a Mean…
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High school movie reunions are recurring theme in today's Sequel Bits. Zac Efron and Lindsay Lohan tease High School Musical and Mean Girls reunions, respectively, while Kristen Bell discusses a potential Veronica Mars sequel. Also after the jump: Ralph Fiennes hints at M's future in Bond 24 Fifty Shades producer isn't thinking sequel just yet Producer gives a status update…
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Lindsay Lohan's planned comeback hasn't gone quite as planned. Her 2012 Lifetime movie Liz & Dick got laughs in all the wrong ways, while 2013's The Canyons failed to do even that. Hardly anyone noticed at all as it came and went from theaters. Nevertheless, she's not giving up. Lohan's next project is a psychological…
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Briefly: People are getting rightfully excited for the September 29th return of Kenny Effing Powers on the final season of Eastbound and Down. Now, the show is adding at least one surprising cast member that's sure to turn some heads. Lindsay Lohan has just signed to play a small but important role on the show.…
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There's a lot to look at in today's Sequel Bits, including concept art for G.I. Joe: Retaliation and a bloody new image from The Raid 2: Berandal. Also after the jump: Director offers status update and possible title for Tron 3 John Cusack may be back for Hot Tub Time Machine 2 this summer Transformers 4 will…
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HBO's other big spring premiere, Veep, debuts a new teaser today. Also after the jump: Gillian Anderson, Ken Jeong, Jorge Garcia, and more land new series Lindsay Lohan will woo Charlie Sheen on Anger Management Kathy Bates will face down Jessica Lange in American Horror Story Ben Stiller returns to Arrested Development; Netflix hopes for…
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So far, the scariest thing about Paranormal Activity 5 may be how little anyone involved with it claims to know about it. We are talking about a movie that's due out in just under nine months. After the jump: Katie Featherston and Oren Peli talk Paranormal Activity 5 No, Linday Lohan will not be reprising…
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I feel like the team behind The Canyons is just playing with us at this point -- can the movie really be as lifeless as the teasers indicate? Is the listless acting part of the point, and meant to be some comment about the lives of the rich and idle in southern California? Written by…
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Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis' The Canyons was never going for subtlety or elegance, and the marketing seems to be having some fun playing up that fact. The first trailer was cut to mimic grindhouse and exploitation movies of the '70s, whereas the latest one has been done up like black-and-white '50s pulp. No…
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Has Paul Schrader created a film that might have played at a theater his defining character Travis Bickle might have visited in Taxi Driver? Schrader directs The Canyons, written by Bret Eason Ellis and starring Lindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen. The first real trailer for the film is cut in a style meant…
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The Lindsay Lohan career comeback tour is kicking off with Lifetime's Liz & Dick, a small-screen movie about the volatile romance between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Lohan's casting drew eyerolls, sighs, and giggles when it was announced back in April, and while the first stills and set photos weren't so bad, it was tough…
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My favorite Sequel Bits are the ones with a little something for everyone, like this one. After the jump: Lindsay Lohan tries to get out of Scary Movie 5 Looks like Adele will be singing the Skyfall theme Human Centipede 3 will have a 500-person chain Lydia Hearst boards Cabin Fever: Patient Zero Breaking Dawn Part…
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One actor joins a sequel and teases a second, while a different actor dismisses a sequel and approves another. All that and more in this edition of Sequel Bits. After the jump read about the following: Mel Gibson says he wouldn't do a fifth Lethal Weapon and was at one point interested in doing Mad…
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Happy Monday! In today's comedy-heavy edition of Sequel Bits: Dumb and Dumber 2 could shoot as early as next spring American Reunion directors will return for the sequel Charlie Sheen joins Lindsay Lohan in Scary Movie 5 Kick-Ass 2's marketing campaign kicks off with a new logo If you're at all invested in the possibility…
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Sequel Bits is more badass than usual this time, with updates on skilled assassins, demonic heroes, costumed villains, and more. After the jump: Watch Bruce Willis on the set of A Good Day to Die Hard Alex Kurtzman talks about the villain's central role in Star Trek 2 Lindsay Lohan is in talks for a…
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We're still waiting to find out what comes of Bret Easton Ellis' campaign to adapt E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey, but in the meantime another of his projects is coming together with some attention-grabbing casting. Lindsay Lohan has just joined porn star James Deen in The Canyons, a sexual thriller that Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader …
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When we first heard about Lifetime's decision to cast Lindsay Lohan as silver screen icon Elizabeth Taylor in the TV biopic Liz & Dick, we wondered if it might just be a PR stunt. But the deal was firmed up over the spring, and now shooting is actually underway. The first official image has now…
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In the past few weeks, biopics have been the source of the weirdest casting news. Ashton Kutcher is playing Steve Jobs, and Jane Fonda is playing Nancy Reagan. Now a casting choice that seemed like a PR stunt when first mentioned -- Lindsay Lohan playing Elizabeth Taylor in a Lifetime movie -- has come to…
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Though everyone knows Marilyn Monroe is Lindsay Lohan's deceased classic Hollywood legend of choice, it may be Elizabeth Taylor she'll be playing next. Lohan has entered early talks to star in the Lifetime original movie Elizabeth & Richard: A Love Story, about the tempestuous, Vatican-condemned romance between Taylor and actor Richard Burton. Oh boy. I…
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Barry Levinson is moving from the horrors of man's manipulations with nature to man's own horrible nature. Last year he put together the low-key 'found footage' eco-horror thriller The Bay, which will be released this year by Lionsgate. And now he has been tapped as the director for Gotti: Three Generations, which recently saw the…
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OK, this is getting ridiculous. The latest bit of news on the John Gotti biopic front (Gotti: Three Generations just lost Nick Cassavetes as director earlier this week) is that Lindsay Lohan is no longer in consideration to play Victoria Gotti. Producer Marc Fiore told People that talks with her reps had stopped, but didn't…
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For the past few months, Nick Cassavetes has been attached to direct the film Gotti: Three Generations, which will depict the lives of Gambino crime family boss John 'The Dapper Don' Gotti and his son John Gotti, Jr. The film is still moving forward with John Travolta attached to play the Dapper Don (for now)…
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John Travolta is already playing the Don in a film about the Gotti family, and now his extended cast of underlings in Gotti: Three Generations is slowly being filled up. The film, which will tell the story of the complex relationship between John Gotti Sr. (Travolta) and his son John Gotti Jr. has now added…
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It's a shame that Lindsay Lohan's name is only linked of late to stunt casting in roles based on the lives of abused or damaged women. She was set to play Linda Lovelace for some time, and is now in talks to play the murdered actress Sharon Tate, who was one of the victims of…
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