• 'Paradise' Trailer: Julianne Hough Is The Sweetest Little Girl In Las Vegas

    In Paradise, Julianne Hough stars as a young woman who renounces her faith after a plane crash leaves her scarred. She travels to Las Vegas to indulge in all the behaviors that sh has avoided in life, and runs across characters played by Russell Brand, Octavia Spencer and Nick Offerman. The film is written by Diablo Cody…

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  • Diablo Cody's 'Paradise' Debuts On DirecTV August 8

    How has the movie business changed in the past decade? For one, VOD and streaming video have changed the stigma once attached to films debuting at home before they hit theaters, and movies now routinely can be seen on the small screen before they open on the big one. But the distribution scheme for Diablo…

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  • First Look: Diablo Cody's Directorial Debut 'Paradise'

    Diablo Cody has written some of the sharpest female-led dramedies of the past several years, and now she's taken the next step by helming her own. The Juno scribe makes her feature directing debut this fall with Paradise, a comedy about a sheltered young woman (Julianne Hough) taking a walk on the wild side. Octavia…

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  • 'Won't Back Down' Trailer - Viola Davis And Maggie Gyllenhaal Fight For Your Kids

    Having tackled racism in Civil Rights-era Mississippi with the help of Emma Stone in last summer's The Help, Viola Davis is now taking on the modern public education crisis with the aid of Maggie Gyllenhaal in Won't Back Down. Directed by Daniel Barnz (Beastly) from a script he co-wrote with Brin Hill, the apparently fact-based…

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  • Casting Bits: Sacha Baron Cohen In 'Les Misérables', Selena Gomez In 'Spring Breakers', Holly Hunter In Diablo Cody's Directorial Debut

    There's still no word on who'll be playing Éponine in Tom Hooper's Les Misérables, but the project has landed yet another well-known star to play her father. According to LondonNet, Sacha Baron Cohen is set to join Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, and Eddie Redmayne in the musical, in the role of the villainous inn…

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  • Casting Bits: Keira Knightley Approached For 'Akira', Gary Oldman Wanted For 'Arthur & Lancelot', Holly Hunter And Elisabeth Moss In Jane Campion Miniseries

    As Garrett Hedlund continues his negotiations over the lead role of Kaneda in Warner Bros.' Akira remake, the studio and director Jaume Collet-Serra are wasting no time filling in the other roles as well. Buried in one report about Hedlund starring in the film was a tidbit about Keira Knightley being approached for the project.…

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  • Douglas Booth Will Be Romeo Opposite Hailee Steinfeld's Juliet

    Briefly: I get the idea that yet another version of Romeo and Juliet isn't something that people are wildly keen to see, but that isn't putting the brakes on the film that Carlo Carlei (Flight of the Innocent) will direct based on a script by Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park). The main reason to be interested…

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  • Casting Bits: Tommy Lee Jones Confirmed For 'Great Hope Springs;' Maggie Gyllenhaal In 'Voice From The Stone;' Holly Hunter In 'Still I Rise' And 'Romeo And Juliet'

    Great Hope Springs, the movie in which Meryl Streep plays one half of a married couple spending a week of marriage and sex therapy with a famous therapist (Steve Carell) has gone through a few possible male leads. Jeff Bridges was mentioned early on, and James Gandolfini looked like a possibility at one point. (Those…

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