• Casting Bits: Martin Freeman, Ewan McGregor, Eiza Gonzales, And More

    In this edition of Casting Bits: Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago) joins a Facebook Watch show Martin Freeman (Black Panther) will star in an espionage thriller Ralph Fiennes (Harry Potter) boards a new drama Eiza González (Baby Driver) signs on for the Kung Fury movie And many more! Sherlock star Martin Freeman is joining an espionage thriller called The Operative,…

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  • 'Red 2' Trailer #2: Bruce Willis Enjoys Life While He Still Can

    Bruce Willis' year of action sequels continues this summer with Red 2, which reunites him with stars John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, and Mary Louise Parker while bringing on some fresher blood in the form of Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lee Byung-hun, David Thewlis, and Anthony Hopkins. If you've seen the first one, you know basically what to…

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  • 'Red 2' And 'Now You See Me' Pulled Up To Earlier Release Dates

    Lionsgate made two release date changes today. Now You See Me, which comes from director Louis Leterrier and features Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo, and Michael Caine, has been pulled up from July 7 to May 31. The thriller centers around a group of illusionists who pull off heists, seemingly at…

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  • 'Side Effects' Review: Steven Soderbergh Diagnoses Paranoid Fears In His "Final" Theatrical Outing

    Steven Soderbergh, so often adventurous over the course of his career, closes out his theatrical run with the relatively conventional thriller Side Effects. Though the ideas within are familiar, a winding narrative path keeps predictability out of sight, and prevents Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns from ever falling back to one simplistic message. Soderbergh's own skill with…

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  • 'Side Effects' International Trailer: Now With More Plot

    As Steven Soderbergh hurtles toward retirement, he's dropping one last theatrical feature. (He also has the HBO movie Behind the Candelabra, but that's not hitting cinemas.) In Side Effects, Rooney Mara plays a woman dealing with her husband's (Channing Tatum) imminent release from prison. To help her cope with her anxiety, her psychiatrist (Jude Law)…

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  • 'Red 2' Trailer: Bruce Willis Hasn't Killed Anyone In Months

    Bruce Willis has starred in many sequels over the course of his three-decade career, but in 2013 he really outdoes himself with three separate sequels and nothing else. The first of them, A Good Day to Die Hard, hits next month, followed by G.I. Joe: Retaliation in March. Bringing up the rear is Red 2,…

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  • New 'Side Effects' Trailer Is Fraught With Prescription Drug Paranoia

    Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns have spent the last couple years making genre films with prestige casts to explore modern anxieties in a unique manner. The Informant! tackled fears of impotence and mediocrity through the story of a guy who envisions himself as a powerful insder agent. Contagion charted paranoia about the ever-closer…

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  • Sequel Bits: 'The Hangover Part III', 'Fast And The Furious 6', 'Monsters University', 'Taken 2', 'Bourne', 'Star Trek Into Darkness', 'Red 2', 'Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines'

    Is it time to look ahead to 2013 already? After the jump: The Hangover 3 will shoot in Orange County, CA Paul Walker is recovering from a Fast Six injury Monsters Inc.'s Mike is Billy Crystal's favorite role Liam Neeson collected $10 million for Taken 2 Matt Damon probably won't play Bourne again Roberto Orci defends…

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  • 'Broken City' Trailer: Russell Crowe Strongarms Mark Wahlberg

    What does a high-wattage star cast and a high-concept thriller premise do for you? Broken City, from Allen Hughes (one half of the Hughes Brothers) features Mark Wahlberg as a disgraced/retired cop hired by the NYC mayor (Russell Crowe) to find the man sleeping with the mayor's wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones). When Wahlberg is successful at…

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  • 'Playing For Keeps' Trailer - Soccer Moms Love Gerard Butler

    When a holiday movie schedule is as crowded as this year's promises to be, it's actually kind of a relief to see a trailer for a year-end release that looks like lighthearted, feel-good entertainment with no apparent aspirations of picking up a little gold man come February. The romantic dramedy Playing for Keeps (formerly Playing the…

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  • Adam's 'Rock Of Ages' Review/Rant: Schlock For All Ages

    "Nothin' But a Good Time" promises the tagline of Rock of Ages, referencing one of the two dozen or so classic '80s rock songs its cast energetically deflates into innocuously pleasing sing-a-longs. It's an admirably honest proclamation of the film's limited aspirations, one which it fulfills with all the grace of a monkey hurling its…

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  • 'Lay The Favorite' Trailer - Bruce Willis And Rebecca Hall Try To Get Lucky

    Stephen Frears' record may not be flawless, but his hit to miss ratio's high enough that I generally look forward to his movies. His newest project, Lay the Favorite, started out looking as promising as any other. The filmmaker collected a likable cast, including Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall, Joshua Jackson, and Catherine Zeta-Jones for the…

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  • Rooney Mara Replaces Blake Lively In Steven Soderbergh's 'Side Effects'

    Steven Soderberg is prepping a movie called Side Effects, a film that he plans to shoot this spring and which will be one of his last two movies. The project ran into a snag recently when financier Megan Ellison and her Annapurna Pictures started to pull away. Part of the problem with the deal was…

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  • 'Rock Of Ages' Trailer: Hairpieces, Histrionics And Hysteria

    For me, the best part of the trailer for Adam Shankman's Rock of Ages is the prominent display of the Motorhead logo in the first few seconds. After that it's all downhill. The film adapts the stage 'jukebox musical' with Diego Boneta and Julianne Hough playing wide-eyed kids caught up in the mid-'80s LA rock…

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  • Casting Bits: Marion Cotillard Offered 'Arthur & Lancelot', Kyle Chandler Lands 'Broken City', Nikki Reed, Stephen Lang, And More In 'Pawn'

    Things are indeed shaping up quickly for David Dobkin's Arthur & Lancelot, which Warner Bros. fast-tracked over the summer at the cost of Bryan Singer's Excalibur remake and Guy Ritchie's King Arthur film. Last month saw the casting of Game of Thrones star Kit Harrington and The Killing star Joel Kinnaman in the two title…

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