'The Test': John Boyega Will Star In The New "Contained Thriller" From Director Gavin Hood
John Boyega and Payman Maadi will star in the Gavin Hood thriller The Test.
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'Official Secrets' Trailer: Keira Knightley Tries To Stop The Iraq War
In this true story of goverment secrets and lies, Keira Knightley tries to stop the Iraq War from happening. Watch the Official Secrets trailer for more.
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Gavin Hood Looks Back On 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine': "I Own The Mistakes I Made"
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a disastrous movie, one director Gavin Hood didn't have much creative control on. The director discusses what went wrong.
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'Ender's Game' Director Says New Orson Scott Card Novel May Power A Film Sequel
I won't go into full-on Ender's Game spoilers here above the fold, but many have wondered whether or not the film would earn a sequel, and if so how the story would work out. See, the film Ender's Game retains the basic ending of the original novel by Orson Scott Card, and that leads into…
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'Ender's Game' 2-Minute Spoiler-Free Video Review
It is difficult to believe that a big-budget version of Ender's Game is finally going to be playing at your local multiplex this weekend. It's taken 28 years for a film to finally be made based upon the beloved book. After many, many aborted attempts, false starts, and different scripts, I questioned whether the version of the…
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Watch A Visual Effects Video About Building 'Ender's Game'
Ender's Game fans have waited decades to see Orson Scott Card's classic sci-fi film on screen. Now it's less than two weeks away. Gavin Hood's adaptation, starring Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Abigail Breslin and Harrison Ford, opens November 1. The film features beautiful visual effects and plenty of practical effects as well,…
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'Ender's Game' Set Visit: 30 Things We Learned About The Film And Battle Room [Video Blog]
When meeting Harrison Ford isn’t the highlight of your day, that’s a day for the ages. On the New Orleans set of Ender’s Game, the man who played Han Solo, Indiana Jones and Rick Deckard was there and I shook his hand. Incredibly, though, that moment was topped when I realized director Gavin Hood had…
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'Ender's Game' Trailer #2: An Action-Packed Take On A Kid-Sized Story
Make no mistake, there's a lot of action in Ender's Game. In the book, young kids fly around in zero gravity blasting each other with guns to simulate war strategy. Later, they man what's basically the universe's largest video game simulation to do the same thing. Plus, the whole reason the International Fleet is recruiting…
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'Ender's Game' Poster: And The Award For Most Contradictory Tagline Goes To...
A cinematic adaptation of Ender's Game has been in development for so long, plenty of fans figured they'd never actually get to see the sci-fi classic come to life. But not only has it come together for real this time, the premiere date is now just around the corner. Close enough that we have today…
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'Ender's Game' Comic-Con Panel Turns Into Harrison Ford Comedy Hour
While I'd like to say the highlight of Thursday's San Diego Comic-Con panel for Gavin Hood's Ender's Game was new footage from the film, that would be a falsity. The footage - a new trailer that sells the movie as an epic action extravaganza - was suitably impressive, even if it's not exactly representative of…
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Orson Scott Card Hopes You Won't Hold His Anti-Gay Opinions Against 'Ender's Game'
Orson Scott Card is best known for his sci-fi writing, but over the years he's also attracted a lot of attention for his staunchly conservative political views. Among other things, he's been vocal about his opposition to same-sex marriage -- and as public opinion evolves on that issue, Card's position is increasingly becoming a problem. Earlier…
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Three 'Ender's Game' Propaganda Posters Mark Major Plot Points
The Ender's Game viral site I.F. Sentinel has been updated to include three brand new posters. They're propaganda posters for the International Fleet, and the images take us through the three stages of their approach. Those just so happen to be three major stages of the film. First is fear, and a poster promising "The…
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'Ender's Game' Teaser Trailer: A Landmark Sci-Fi Novel Finally Comes To Theaters
A day Ender's Game fans never thought would happen has arrived. The first teaser trailer for the film adaptation of Orson Scott Card's landmark sci-fi novel is finally here. For years, Hollywood told fans the age of the characters and the complicated action sequences made the story unfilmable. Enter director Gavin Hood who, along with producers…
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First Brief 'Ender's Game' Footage
As trailer teases go, this first brief bit of footage from Gavin Hood's adaptation of Orson Scott Card's sci-fi novel Ender's Game is pretty good. It shows the major cast members: Asa Butterfield as young military student Ender; Harrison Ford as his teacher Colonel Graff, and Ben Kingsley as war hero Mazer Rackham. It also gives you a…
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First Look: Ben Kingsley In 'Ender's Game'
This weekend people will be talking about Ben Kingsley, whose work in Iron Man 3 gives the film some of its most surprising and entertaining moments. (No spoilers in the comments, please.) After that, the actor will be seen in writer/director Gavin Hood’s much anticipated adaptation of Orson Scott Card's sci-fi novel Ender’s Game. The first trailer…
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'Ender's Game' Teaser Poster Dives Into The Battle Room
One of the biggest questions about Gavin Hood's adaptation of Ender's Game involves the battle room. Any fan of Orson Scott Card's classic sci-fi novel knows much of the book's excitement, character development and action takes place in a massive zero-gravity chamber where students of Battle School wage war and practices the techniques they learn about in class.…
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First Look: Harrison Ford Scolds Asa Butterfield In 'Ender's Game'
Very soon, lists of anticipated films coming in 2013 will start being posted on the internet and - spoiler alert - this one is going to be on mine. Ender's Game, based on the classic sci-fi novel by Orson Scott Card, is scheduled for release November 1. Directed by Gavin Hood, it stars Asa Butterfield,…
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'Ender's Game' Filmmakers Describe The Visual Style And Approach To War
Gavin Hood's adaptation of Orson Scott Card's classic sci-fi novel Ender's Game doesn't open until November 2013, but the filmmakers are already starting to get the word out about the film. Book and film both center on Ender Wiggin, a young boy enlisted in a military school ostensibly meant to train a new generation of…
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New 'Ender's Game' Photos Show Ender's Room And His Monitor
We all have our dream movies. Movies based on things we loved earlier in life that we never thought would see the light of day. The Avengers, out in a few weeks, is a big one. 2000's X-Men is another, and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is probably the granddaddy of them all.…
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'Ender's Game' Production Photo Shows Asa Butterfield And Co-Stars In Training
After many long years of tortured development, production is actually, finally underway on the live-action cinematic adaptation of Ender's Game under the direction of Gavin Hood (Wolverine). Asa Butterfield (Hugo) stars as young Ender Wiggin, an unusually talented child who's drafted into an elite military program that trains children to fight against an alien race…
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Viola Davis Boards 'Ender's Game' And 'Beautiful Creatures'
The Bridesmaids ladies aren't the only female ensemble cast enjoying a well-deserved career boost this awards season. Hours after we reported that Octavia Spencer had signed on for Bong Joon-ho's post-apocalyptic thriller Snow Piercer, Spencer's The Help co-star Viola Davis has booked supporting roles in Gavin Hood's sci-fi flick Ender's Game and Richard LaGravenese's fantasy…
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Harrison Ford Confirmed For 'Ender's Game,' Abigail Breslin Signs On
Harrison Ford is really back. After quite a few years in which the actor took only occasional roles, we've seen him in Cowboys & Aliens this past summer, and he just signed to play famed baseball manager Branch Rickey in the Jackie Robinson biopic 42. And now Ford is going to do another real sci-fi…
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Casting Bits: Brendan Meyer In 'Ender's Game', James Frain In 'Lone Ranger'
Casting on the long-gestating adaptation of Orson Scott Card's sci-fi YA novel Ender's Game has been falling into place over the past month, with Asa Butterfield (Hugo) signed on for the lead role and Hailee Steinfeld and Ben Kingsley in talks to join as well. Now Canadian teen star Brendan Meyer has boarded the project…
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Ben Kingsley Is Mazer Rackham In 'Ender's Game'
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is such an exciting, surprising and influential sci-fi story that even if a film version was populated with unknowns, it would have a lot going for it. Director Gavin Hood is raising the bar though, populating his film with an absolutely stellar cast. The latest addition is Ben Kingsley playing…
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'True Grit' Star Hailee Steinfeld To Play 'Ender's Game'
Writer/director Gavin Hood is having no problem landing a stellar cast for his adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel Ender's Game. He's already got Asa Butterfield, star of the Best Picture-winning Martin Scorsese film Hugo, playing the title character. Rumor has it he's looking at Harrison Ford for a major role and now True Grit…
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Harrison Ford Among Actors Sought For 'Ender's Game'
Harrison Ford might be returning to a galaxy far, far away. Sure the actor flirted with space in Cowboys & Aliens and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but Variety now reports he's among a group of actors being looked at for the role of Colonel Hyrum Graff in Ender's Game. The…
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Hugo's Asa Butterfield Will Star In 'Ender's Game'
It's not a bad week to be 14-year-old Asa Butterfield. He's the star of a brand new Martin Scorsese movie, Hugo, that hits screens in less than a week and he's just landed one of the most coveted child roles in recent memory. He'll play Ender Wiggin, the child prodigy, military leading star of Ender's…
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