• 'The Sessions' Trailer - John Hawkes' Oscar-Buzzy Turn As A 38-Year-Old Virgin

    By Angie Han June 28th, 2012

    The story of a guy trying hard to get laid for the first time has been told and told again in many an R-rated comedy, but Ben Lewin's The Sessions isn't American Pie or even The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Instead, it's a truth-based drama that's garnering serious Oscar buzz for its star, John Hawkes. The Martha Marcy May…

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  • Sundance Fave 'The Surrogate' Dated By Fox Searchlight, Now Called 'Six Sessions'

    By Russ Fischer May 21st, 2012

    We can probably blame the Bruce Willis sci-fi film Surrogates for the fact that Fox Searchlight has changed the title of the John Hawkes-starring Sundance fave The Surrogate. The Willis film was pretty forgettable, but not quite forgettable enough that Searchlight wanted to go with the original title for the film about a sex surrogate…

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  • Casting Bits: Emma Stone In 'He's F*ckin' Perfect', Michelle Monaghan In 'Fast Flash To Bang Time', Brian Cox In 'Dog Fight', Alice Eve In 'Decoding Annie Parker'

    By Angie Han November 3rd, 2011

    Emma Stone has been moving into more dramatic territory lately with parts in The Help and Gangster Squad, but she may be returning to her comedy roots soon. The actress has entered talks to star in He's Fuckin' Perfect, a comedy by first time feature writer Lauryn Kahn. The film is being produced by Will…

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  • Casting Bits: Eddie Redmayne In 'Les Miserables', Rashida Jones And Corey Stoll In 'Decoding Annie Parker', Shea Whigham In 'The Silver Linings Playbook'

    By Angie Han November 2nd, 2011

    My Week with Marilyn star Eddie Redmayne will join Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Anne Hathaway in Tom Hooper's prestige musical Les Miserables. Based on the hit Broadway show and Victor Hugo's classic novel of the same title, the film follows an ex-con named Valjean (Jackman) in 19th century France as he seeks to redeem…

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  • Casting Bits: Olivia Wilde In 'Rush', Billy Crudup In 'Neighborhood Watch', Helen Hunt, Aaron Paul, And Maggie Grace In 'Decoding Annie Parker'

    By Angie Han October 5th, 2011

    Olivia Wilde has landed the coveted role of '70s supermodel Suzy Miller in Rush, Ron Howard's Peter Morgan-scripted drama about the real-life rivalry between British Formula One driver James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Austrian racer Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl). Miller married the womanizing Hunt, but then fell in love with Hunt's friend Richard Burton. Burton…

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  • Helen Hunt And Moon Bloodgood Join John Hawkes In 'The Surrogate'

    By Russ Fischer April 28th, 2011

    The title The Surrogate, to me, immediately calls up impressions of a horror film or thriller, but the movie that has had John Hawkes attached is something else entirely. An emotional thriller, perhaps. The Surrogate is based on a true story and will feature the actor as "Mark O'Brien, a paraplegic polio victim who lived…

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  • 'Soul Surfer' Trailer

    By Peter Sciretta January 28th, 2011

    Earlier this month, a in-house promotional teaser trailer leaked for Soul Surfer, a drama about young, teenage surfer girl (played by Bridge To Terabithia/Race To Witch Mountain's AnnaSophia Robb) who "summons the courage to go back into the ocean after losing an arm in a shark attack." When I posted the teaser, I was kind of…

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