• 'August: Osage County' Trailer #2: Is This The Year's Most Star-Studded Cast?

    Fall brings no shortage of star-studded prestige pics, but even in that crowd August: Osage County stands out. The John Wells-directed film stars Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts and Benedict Cumberbatch and Ewan McGregor and Chris Cooper and Abigail Breslin (plus half a dozen others) which means we're all but guaranteed to see it making waves…

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  • 'August: Osage County' Trailer And Poster: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, And Benedict Cumberbatch In Deep Family Drama

    August: Osage County, a Pulitzer Prize and multiple Tony award winning play, is hoping to become a multiple Oscar-winning film. Directed by John Wells (The Company Men), the film has one of the most impressive dramatic casts in recent memory: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch,Margot Martindale, Chris Cooper, Dermot Mulroney, Juliette Lewis, Abigail Breslin, and Sam Shepard. They'll bring to life…

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  • 'Stoker' Featurette Introduces A Few Extra Family Members

    I may not have been wild about Park Chan-Wook's English-language debut, Stoker, but there are definite pleasures within. Among them are the performances from the supporting cast. Jacki Weaver shows up for a bit, as does Dermot Mulroney. Neither has featured in a big way in the marketing so far, as each has a relatively…

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  • Open Road Films Buys Steve Jobs Biopic 'jOBS,' April Release Planned

    Once the initial disbelief at Ashton Kutcher's casting in Joshua Michael Stern's jOBS wore off, it became apparent that the Two and a Half Men star looked the part of late tech guru Steve Jobs, if nothing else. But there's a wide gap between mimicking Jobs' hairstyle and outfits and actually embodying his persona. Sundance…

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  • 'Stoker' Trailer: "I Can't Wait To Watch Life Tear You Apart"

    Finally! We recently saw some footage from Stoker, which is the English-language debut from South Korean director Park Chan-wook, best known for the "vengeance trilogy" of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. Stoker appears to be a thriller in the Hitchcock/De Palma vein, with a good dose of heated psycho-sexual tension,…

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  • Photos: Ashton Kutcher As Older Steve Jobs In 'jOBS'

    If you had told me a year ago that the genius co-founder of Apple Inc. and the lovable idiot from That '70s Show were dead ringers, I probably would've given you the side eye. But after Ashton Kutcher won the lead role in the indie Steve Jobs biopic jOBS (on April Fool's Day, no less),…

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  • 'Big Miracle' Trailer: Drew Barrymore And John Krasinski Save Some Whales

    In almost every actor's career there comes a time to make a clean-cut family tearjerker, and it seems that time has really come for John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore, Tim Blake Nelson, Stephen Root and many more as they take part in Big Miracle. The film finds Krasinski as a TV journalist stuck in small-town Alaska…

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  • Casting Bits: Dermot Mulroney In 'Stoker;' John C. McGinley In 'I, Alex Cross;' Tyler Posey In 'Taco Shop'

    Casting! Here's info one one potentially great project, one that will probably find an appreciative audience, and one that will perhaps just make you hungry. I'll let you figure out which is which: Wentworth Miller joins Park Chan-wook's first English-language film, Stoker, John C. McGinley will realize his destiny by playing police chief to Tyler…

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  • Casting Bits, Ensemble Comedy Edition: 'What To Expect When You're Expecting', 'Struck By Lightning', Untitled 'Knocked Up' Spinoff

    Three more have signed on for What to Expect When You're Expecting, Kirk Jones' adaptation of the classic pregnancy manual. The comedy follows several different couples, Love Actually-style, as each experiences pregnancy and the miracle of childbirth. Bridesmaids actress Wendi McLendon-Covey will play a colleague and friend of Jennifer Lopez' character; True Blood's Joe Manganiello…

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  • Joe Carnahan's 'The Grey,' Starring Liam Neeson, Is A Go

    Movie blogs like this one run so many stories about gossip, rumor and early attachments, it's nice to finally write one about that all important green light. A "green light" is the term for when financiers and filmmakers agree on a budget, script, cast and finally give the go-ahead to begin production. And in the…

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  • Logline Released For Kevin Smith's 'Red State'

    Briefly: We still don't know very much about Kevin Smith's long-gestating middle-America horror film Red State, other than that Michael Parks is tapped for a lead role and that the film is based in part on sham 'preacher' Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church. But now there's a logline for the film, which comes…

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  • Kevin Smith's 'Red State' Finds A Supporting Cast?

    For the longest time, Kevin Smith's Red State seemed like a film that would never get made, but bit by bit, the project keeps coming together. The film already has a September shooting date (as tweeted by Smith), and the lead role has been locked in place. And now, the film has a not-yet-confirmed roster…

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