It's "cool projects for former The Shield actors" day! We just heard that Michael Chiklis will be the bad guy in Taylor Hackford's Parker, and now Walton Goggins has been cast in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. He's the latest addition to a monster of a cast that begins with Daniel Day Lewis as the sixteenth President…
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Steven Spielberg is a busy man, and while his plans to finally make an Abraham Lincoln biopic were announced late last year, we've had little news since. We know that Daniel Day Lewis would play the title role, and that Sally Field will be Mary Todd, but other than that, there has been very little…
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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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Liosngate has released a couple new production photos from Oliver Stone's George W. Bush biopic - W. The photo above shows George W. Bush (Josh Brolin, front) playing with his two dogs, Barney and Spot, on the White House lawn, as Karl Rove (Toby Jones) comes up with evil schemes on his blackberry (we can…
Read MoreLast month we brought you the teaser trailer for Recount, HBO Films' retelling of the behind-the-scenes happenings during the 2000 presidential election and the scandal that resulted. /Film reader Linton sent us the full length trailer for the upcoming film. Written by 33-year old actor turned screenwriter Danny Strong, Recount was the top film on…
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