Hong Chau has joined Brendan Fraser in The Whale cast, which will be filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's first movie since the divisive mother! in 2017.
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Neil Gaiman's acclaimed graphic novel series is getting adapted into a star-studded Sandman audiobook with James McAvoy in the title role of Dream.
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Our column 21st Century Spielberg begins, examining the challenging later period films of Steven Spielberg. First up: A.I. and Minority Report.
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A new batch of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them character posters have arrived, providing some interesting little details from the spin-off.
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As part of the new magical characters, there's one particular Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them witch with some interesting new abilities.
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Directed by Johan Renck (Breaking Bad), The Last Panthers is a new series starring Samantha Morton (In America) and more. Watch The Last Panthers trailer.
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Fantastic Beasts shooting has begun in the U.K. The Harry Potter spinoff is directed by David Yates and stars Eddie Redmayne and Colin Farrell.
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In The Strain S2 trailer, we see humans and vampires preparing to increase the intensity of their conflict.
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Watch the Miss Julie trailer. Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell star as an aristocrat and a valet who fall into a toxic affair.
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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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Most of us don't spend a lot of time considering the nuances of disembodied robot voices like Siri's or the GPS navigator's. But then most of us aren't directing movies in which an operating system is one of the romantic leads. Scarlett Johansson has replaced Samantha Morton as the computerized love interest of Spike Jonze's Her,…
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We've already got the villainess (Angelina Jolie), the young princess (Elle Fanning), her father (Sharlto Copley), and the three fairies (Imelda Staunton, Lesley Manville, and Juno Temple), and now, at long last, we have the prince. Young Aussie actor Brenton Thwaites has just boarded Robert Stromberg's Maleficent, a Sleeping Beauty retelling seen from the perspective…
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The first teaser trailer for David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis was a delirious ode to the filmmaker's middle period -- a chapter in his career that we'd begun to think was closed for good. But in that teaser for the adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel about a young billionaire who pulls strings from within a high-tech limo,…
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It's the big weekend for Disney, and Pixar director Andrew Stanton, as Stanton's live-action adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel A Princess of Mars finally hits theaters. John Carter is a film that has been many, many years in development, and finally sees life thanks to Stanton's interest in the story. Taylor Kitsch, Lynn…
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On a surface level, there's much that Andrew Stanton's John Carter gets right -- much more than you'd expect, given Disney's exasperatingly incompetent marketing campaign. The visual effects are imaginative and seamless, the action is appropriately flashy, and the source material by Edgar Rice Burroughs seems rich enough in mythology to make even the most jaded sci-fi…
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Disney aired a new commercial for Andrew Stanton's live action debut John Carter during the big game. After the jump you can watch the super bowl spot, and a 60 second extended spot. 60 Second Extended Spot In Game Spot: Official plot: From Academy Award®–winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes John Carter—a sweeping action-adventure set on…
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Spike Jonze has been plenty busy cranking out short films over the past few years, but he hasn't directed a full-length feature since 2009's Where the Wild Things Are. That's about to change, though, and he's already lining up quite an exciting cast for his return to feature filmmaking. Samantha Morton, Amy Adams, and Carey…
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We got our first glimpse of the new trailer for Disney's John Carter on Good Morning America several hours ago, but as promised, we now have a much better version to show you. And by "better," I don't just mean higher-quality, but also longer, somewhat more interesting, and a little more promising. Check it out…
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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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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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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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One of the biggest question marks on the 2012 tentpole schedule is Disney's John Carter, formerly John Carter of Mars. Pixar's Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E) directs the live-action film that adapts A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Now that we're able to see some footage, it appears that he has done so…
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In June, I visited the editing room of John Carter, the big screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic sci-fi novel A Princess of Mars (you can watch my video blog here). At the event, director Andrew Stanton and producer Jim Morris gave a presentation explaining how they came to be involved with the project,…
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On June 20th, I flew to San Francisco to visit Barsoom Studios, in an office building minutes sown the road from Pixar Animation Studios, to see the first footage from John Carter, a big screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic sci-fi novel A Princess of Mars. In a screening room, Finding Nemo/Wall-E director Andrew…
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The casting for David Cronenberg's adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel Cosmopolis has been an up and down affair, with original talents Colin Farrell and Marion Cotillard dropping out. Robert Pattinson is now the male lead -- he plays a young billionaire who deals with quite a few problems as he spends a day crossing…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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Three more actors have joined Andrew Stanton's big screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars: Samantha Morton (In America, Control), Dominic West (300, Chicago) and Polly Walker (Patriot Games). Morton, West and Walker join Taylor Kitsch (Wolverine, Friday Night Lights), Lynn Collins (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, True Blood), and Willem Dafoe in the Walt…
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