As the race for the year's most coveted trophies came to a close with this weekend's Oscars ceremony, another much less prestigious awards competition was just getting started. Nominations have been announced for the 32nd Razzie Awards, handed out to the "worst achievements in film" each year. Leading the 2012 list is Adam Sandler, whose…
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Entertainment Weekly's Fall Movie Preview hits newsstands Friday and, as usual, it's filled with new information and photos from some of the most anticipated films scheduled for release between September through December. After the jump, check out new photos from We Bought a Zoo, Jack and Jill, Like Crazy, Contagion, Drive, Abduction, Hugo, The Muppets,…
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In John Singleton's Abduction, Taylor Lautner gets to play out a great teen fantasy: rather than being just another good-looking high-school kid with a caring family, he's a good-looking kid who is secretly a total badass. He's so secretly a badass that he doesn't even know it. That is, not until his adoptive spy parents…
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The first trailer for Abduction, starring Twilight's Taylor Lautner and Snow White's Lily Collins, just came online courtesy of MTV. Directed by John Singleton (Boyz N The Hood), the film stars Lautner as a teenager who sees a picture of himself on a missing person's website and is subsequently chased by a bunch of mysterious…
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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 46 (!?!) different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness.…
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Got to hand it to Collider: they're scouring the American Film Market scarfing up info on a ton of new films being represented there this week. The latest two are Abducted, which is the first post-Twilight film for Taylor Lautner, and ATM, which is based on a script hatched by Chris Sparling, aka the screenwriter…
Read MoreElisabeth Röhm has joined the cast of John Singleton's Bourne-styled teen action film Abduction. The film stars The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Taylor Lautner as a teenager named Nathan “who has long felt disconnected from his parents, and figures out why. That unleashes a chain of violent events.” After discovering his own baby picture…
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Taylor Lautner's action film Abduction, to be directed by John Singleton, just got an extra dose of class. Sigourney Weaver is joining the cast as "a psychiatrist to Lautner's character, who discovers his own baby picture on a missing persons website." Also in the supporting cast are Lily Collins and Alfred Molina. [Variety] After the…
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I really want to write more about Melancholia, the upcoming film from Lars Von Trier, but we just don't know very much right now. What we do know today is that John Hurt has joined the cast. Always great to see him in a new film, and it will be nice to see him really…
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I'll be fairly well amused if Kellan Lutz ends up being the real breakout star from Twilight. He's in a few films now, and even though he lost the lead role in Conan, the fact that he's not angling for ridiculous paydays (a la Taylor Lautner) makes me think he'll be around for a minute.…
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John Singleton has signed on to direct The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Taylor Lautner's next project -- a Bourne-styled action film called Abduction. Lionsgate acquired the spec script after a week long bidding war in February. Rumor has it that the project sold for close to $1 million. Singleton is of course the two-time…
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After a week-long bidding war for The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Taylor Lautner's next project -- a Bourne-styled action film called Abduction, Lionsgate has come out the winner. Rumor has it that Dreamworks had come close to nabbing the project, but that was not the case. I'm not sure how much the deal was…
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Russ mentioned in his Casting Notes post earlier today that a bunch of studios were in a bidding war for The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Taylor Lautner's next project -- a Bourne-styled action film called Abduction. Rumor has it that Dreamworks has won the bidding war. Update: Dreamworks has contacted us and the studio…
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