For illegal downloaders, the biggest film of 2013 wasn't a 2013 film at all, but a big-budget fantasy epic from late 2012. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey topped the list of the most pirated movies of the past twelve months, beating out the likes of Django Unchained, Fast & Furious 6, and Iron Man 3.…
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Dave, Adam, and Devindra discuss this year's Oscar nominations, and explain why you should watch LA Confidential instead of Gangster Squad. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Download or Play Now in your Browser: Subscribe to the /Filmcast: SHOWNOTES What We've Been Watching David (11:42): The Incredibles (Blu-ray)…
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With Ruben Fleischer's Gangster Squad hitting theaters today, Warner Bros. is squeezing in one last extended trailer. Based on true events, the drama follows a special force of LAPD officers who are tasked with breaking the mob's iron grip on the city of Los Angeles. The new three-minute promo offers looks at Josh Brolin and…
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Walking out of Ruben Fleischer's Gangster Squad, a friend asked "was that supposed to be serious?" I thought about it, and didn't have an answer. On one hand, of course it is. It's a big budget studio film, chock full of huge names inspired by an incredible true story. But you've seen the trailers. They…
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The lightweight behind the scenes featurette is an integral part of the movie promo process, and through these small "making-of" glimpses at various films, we often get to see a bit of new footage. After the break, get some behind the scenes tastes of Jack Reacher, A Good Day to Die Hard, and Gangster Squad, all…
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In a world where the Aurora Massacre didn't take place, Gangster Squad would be now completing its theatrical run. Instead we're just getting the film's second trailer. Director Ruben Fleischer's period action film starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling was delayed after its climax was deemed too similar to July's tragedy, demanding a full-on reshoot. The…
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Warner Bros. is scrambling to rework the Ruben Fleischer film Gangster Squad in the wake of the awful movie theater murder spree that took place in Aurora, CO last week. The tipping point for the film is a climactic sequence in which a mobster fires through a movie screen into the film's audience. It's an…
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After starting life as a project that Warner Bros. was very gung-ho to make, and quickly roping in a cast that includes Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, and Sean Penn, Ruben Fleischer's film Gangster Squad is in a difficult position. The movie tells a fictionalized account of LA cops attempting to stop the incursion of organized…
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One of the most anticipated films of 2012 has officially been delayed. Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, originally set for release in November, has been moved to a not-yet-specified date in 2013. The film, which stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, recently began test screening and it's safe to assume Cuaron and the Warner Bros. executives felt it needed…
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There are a lot of big, attention-getting films in 2012, and one that I forget about once in a while is Gangster Squad, the film in which Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer follows the efforts of a squad of LA cops (Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Mackie) to stop the incursion of…
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Apparently, everyone in Hollywood returned from this past weekend with the burning desire to shift around their release date calendars. Following Monday's scheduling shuffle for Summit's Ender's Game and Paramount's The Dictator, Warner Bros. has just decided to push back its Ben Affleck thriller Argo by a few weeks -- which wouldn't really be a big deal,…
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As we head toward the Oscars and therefore the end of awards season, it's time to take a better look at some of the films we're anticipating from 2012. We have for you today an eclectic mix of photos from some of the entertainments we're most looking forward to, from Gary Ross' deadly serious YA…
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After quite a few set pictures showed up from the LA shoot of Ruben Fleischer's Gangster Squad, we've now got the first official promo photo for the film, showing Josh Brolin as an LA cop staring down Sean Penn as famed LA gangster Mickey Cohen. There's not a lot to the pic -- it's two…
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It feels like James Franco is attached to pretty much everything these days, but now there's one less Franco project we have to look forward to. According to JustJared.com, the star has pulled out of The Iceman, a biopic of Mafia hitman Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski. Franco was lined up to play Robert "Mr. Softee"…
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The theme of this Casting Bits seems to be "rising stars," as All My Children's Ambyr Childers stakes out a spot in an all-star cast, War Horse star Jeremy Irvine leads a movie starring Britain's finest, and Thor actress Jaimie Alexander signs on to co-star with the Governator himself. Read more after the jump. Ambyr…
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The past few hours saw a whole bunch of release date shuffles as both of Steven Spielberg's 2011 releases, The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse, got new US dates, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol will now open five days earlier than planned, but will only play in IMAX for those days, and Gangster Squad…
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Briefly: Here's one more reason to be excited about Ruben Fleischer's upcoming '40s-set LA 'cops vs. mobsters' story Gangster Squad. Nick Nolte is taking a role in the film; he'll be Bill Parker, "the new chief of police in Los Angeles," and a Chief who isn't in the pocket of big-time LA gangster Mickey Cohen…
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Here's a massive post-weekend catchup casting roundup, with a headlining turn from Jean-Claude van Damme. How can you resist the Muscles From Brussels? Answer: you can't. Just give in to his suave, over-confident appeal. After the break you'll find details about: JCVD taking part in a sci-fi film called UFO, Danny Glover joining the cast…
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Here's a lovers and spouses collection of casting news, leading off with a nice change of pace report of an actor being cast as the 'love interest' for a major actress, rather than the other way around. After the break you'll find: Matt Dillon will woo Anette Bening in Imogene, The Killing actress Mireille Enos…
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Glee star Darren Criss has landed a part in Imogene, a dark comedy by American Splendor directors Shari Springer Bergman and Robert Pulcini. The Michelle Morgan-penned script revolves around a New York playwright (Kristen Wiig) who fakes a suicide in order to get her ex-boyfriend's attention. Instead of winning him back, however, she winds up…
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Ruben Fleischer has assembled a fantastic cast for his third major studio feature, Gangster Squad, but recently he lost one key player. Bryan Cranston, originally cast as Texan cop Max Kennard, transplanted to LA and roped into the mob-busting gangster squad, had to drop out in order to do Ben Affleck's film Argo. So we…
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Briefly: One of Emma Stone's biggest breaks was being cast in Ruben Fleischer's Zombieland. Superbad was a good introduction for many audiences, but Zombieland led to Easy A and Spider-Man. Now she's likely to re-team with the director for his true-life 1940s LA cops and mobsters film Gangster Squad. Variety says Emma Stone is in…
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Zac Efron and Seth Rogen are set to team up for an untitled R-rated comedy based on a pitch by Judd Apatow associates Andrew Cohen and Brendan O'Brien. The pairing itself seems unlikely enough, but perhaps even more surprising is which role each actor will play -- in this film, it'll be funnyman Rogen who…
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Last season, FX's boxing drama Lights Out entered the canon of brilliant-but-cancelled television series, when piss-poor ratings brought about its demise despite plenty of critical love. Thankfully, things seem to be working out better for the series' acclaimed star, Holt McCallany, than they did for the show. The actor is now in talks for Gangster…
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We've got classic cops fighting notorious gangsters, giant mechs fighting notorious monsters, and a despot and his double fighting...um...the boundaries of comedy? Something along those lines. After the break, check out details of the following three recent casting breaks: Giovanni Ribisi joins the impressive cast of Gangster Squad. Rinko Kikuchi takes the female lead in…
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What did I just say hours ago about Bryan Cranston being on a tear? He's just in the process of taking a role in Argo, the new film that Ben Affleck will direct. And now he's in talks for Gangster Squad, a film that Ben Affleck was offered to direct before Argo came into being.…
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Briefly: Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer is just not messing around when it comes to the cast of his new film, Gangster Squad. The film, scripted by LA cop Will Beall and formerly reffered to as Tales From the Gangster Squad, is based on a series of articles in the LA Times that recounted efforts of…
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