• Casting Bits: Ellen Page Joins 'The East', Anthony Mackie Developing Jesse Owens Biopic, Tom Everett Scott Boards 'Us & Them'

    Ellen Page is in final negotiations to star with Brit Marling and Alexander Skarsgard in The East, Zal Batmanglij's thriller about a mysterious eco-terrorism organization called The East. Marling, who co-wrote the script with Batmanglij, leads as an undercover agent who infiltrates the group but then finds herself developing feelings for the group's leader (Skarsgard).…

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  • George Clooney's 'The Ides Of March' Will Open The Venice Film Festival

    One of the great many films that seems like a strong 2011 festival prospect is George Clooney's The Ides of March, which adapts Beau Williams' play Farragut North. Now the film has been tabbed as the opening selection for the Venice Film Festival, and will therefore premiere on August 31. That'll probably be in time…

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  • 'Salvation Boulevard' Trailer

    Salvation Boulevard is a film that found distribution at Sundance likely thanks to a high-power cast, because the reviews were middling and occasionally dismal. The roster for this comedy that skewers personality run amok and the power of fringe religious organizations is pretty serious: Pierce Brosnan, Ed Harris, Jim Gaffigan, Marisa Tomei and Jennifer Connelly.…

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  • 'Crazy, Stupid Love' Trailer

    The last film by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, I Love You, Phillip Morris, took quite a winding path to get to theaters in the US. But their follow-up, a romantic comedy called Crazy, Stupid, Love, was made with Warner Bros. and is already set to release this summer. The film stars Steve Carell as…

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  • Check Out Obama-Style George Clooney In 'The Ides Of March'

    [No photo] George Clooney is directing his fourth film, The Ides of March, right now. It's a political satire based on Beau Williamson's play Farragut North, which in turn was based on Beau Williamson's time working with the Howard Dean primary campaign in 2004. Clooney has a supporting role as a presidential candidate whose young,…

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  • The Lincoln Lawyer Trailer #2

    Lionsgate Films have released a second movie trailer for The Take director Brad Furman's big screen adaptation of author Michael Connelly's novel The Lincoln Lawyer. The film stars Matthew McConaughey as a lawyer who "conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills." The movie co-stars…

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  • Teaser Trailer: 'The Lincoln Lawyer'

    This morning, if someone said "You're going to be reading movie news about two films with the word "Lincoln" in the title today," you would have laughed in their face. However, hot off the heels of the big news about Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, we've now got your first look at footage from The Lincoln Lawyer.…

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  • Sony Picks Up George Clooney's 'The Ides Of March' For December 2011 Release

    As we've talked about The Ides of March, which George Clooney will soon direct based on the play Farragut North by Beau Williamson, the lingering question has been: who will distribute? Now the film has a studio backer, as Sony has bought North American distribution rights to the film. The studio will release The Ides…

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  • George Clooney Wants Ryan Gosling For 'Farragut North'

    Ryan Gosling is back in a big way. He got great notes for his work in Blue Valentine; he's shooting Drive right now, under the direction of Nicolas Winding Refn; and he's got a Steve Carell comedy to shoot soon and the Andrew Jarecki film All Good Things finally about to release. And now George…

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  • International Movie Trailer: Cyrus

    One of the films I really loved at this year's Sundance Film Festival was The Duplass Brothers' Cyrus, a comedy about "a recently divorced depressed guy who meets the woman of his dreams, who he learns lives with her 21 year old son." The film stars John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill, and Catherine…

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