These days, teen romances are as likely as not to involve vampires, werewolves, zombies, aliens, and/or hellish dystopian landscapes. At their heart, though, so many of them are about forbidden love of one kind or another. In other words, they're essentially Romeo & Juliet with supernatural bells and whistles. Now along comes the original Romeo &…
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Since her Oscar-nominated breakthrough performance in 2010's True Grit, Hailee Steinfeld has mostly kept out of the limelight. In fact, she hasn't appeared in a single movie since then. But with half a dozen releases planned for the next couple of years (including Ender's Game, Can a Song Save Your Life, and Three Days to…
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Whether the world really needs another Romeo and Juliet adaptation is up for debate, but Carlos Carlei's upcoming film boasts some intriguing talent, at least. The script comes from Gosford Park and Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes, while young up-and-comers like Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth, Ed Westwick, and Kodi Smit-McPhee are lined up to star.…
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Briefly: I get the idea that yet another version of Romeo and Juliet isn't something that people are wildly keen to see, but that isn't putting the brakes on the film that Carlo Carlei (Flight of the Innocent) will direct based on a script by Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park). The main reason to be interested…
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An up and comer, a recognizable character actor and a seasoned veteran have all signed on to very different projects. The up and comer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, best known for his awesome work in The Road and Let Me In, is reportedly circling the role of Benvolio in Carlo Carlei's new film adaptation of William Shakespeare's…
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Great Hope Springs, the movie in which Meryl Streep plays one half of a married couple spending a week of marriage and sex therapy with a famous therapist (Steve Carell) has gone through a few possible male leads. Jeff Bridges was mentioned early on, and James Gandolfini looked like a possibility at one point. (Those…
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