We're getting into the full swing of the awards season for 2011, and this evening four organizations announced their picks for best achievement in film in 2011. The biggest group is the American Film Institute, which released a simple unranked list of ten 'movies of the year,' which includes Bridesmaids, The Girl With the Dragon…
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Every year during awards season, The Hollywood Reporter somehow organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress, writer and director of the year's best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty spectacular. What's even better is they release the videos of the full conversations so we can watch. For…
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As with every fall, with cooler weather comes more serious films. Two potentially award-worthy projects we've been waiting all year to see are Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the first director of the FBI, and Steve McQueen's Shame, a sex addict drama that reunites the director with his Hunger star Michael Fassbender.…
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Clint Eastwood and Warner Bros. decided to skip this fall's festival circuit with the biopic J. Edgar. While a good many of the other major fall studio releases have been seen and reviewed in the past three weeks via Telluride, Venice and TIFF, we've seen nothing from this biography of America's most powerful lawman, the…
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Here's your first studio-approved still from Clint Eastwood's latest prestige picture, J. Edgar. The shot is doesn't replicate any one classic shot of the long-time FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, but does capture his general image from the '50s. Leonardo DiCaprio still doesn't look a whole lot like Hoover, whose rounded, potato-spud face has exactly…
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Warner Bros. is going for some Oscar gold this year, and not only with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, which the studio is hoping might turn into a Return of the King-style contender. The studio also has a couple of possible prestige pictures in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar and Stephen Daldry's…
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The J. Edgar casting train keeps on chugging. Clint Eastwood is in the midst of shooting his J. Edgar Hoover biopic, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role and Armie Hammer as Hoover's colleague and reported lover Clyde Tolson, but more and more actors continue to fill out the cast. First Stephen Root was added,…
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Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar has been shooting for a while now with Leonardo DiCaprio playing J. Edgar Hoover and Armie Hammer as Clyde Tolson, but the film keeps adding actors to fill out small roles. The last was Stephen Root, and the latest is now Jeffrey Donovan of Burn Notice. The actor said today via…
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Clint Eastwood is currently shooting his J. Edgar Hoover biography called J. Edgar, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role and Armie Hammer in the key secondary role of Hoover colleague and reported lover Clyde Tolson. Even as the film shoots it is adding cast members to fill out ancillary roles. The latest addition is…
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Read More[No photo] Here's your first look at Leonardo DiCaprio in the role of Leonardo DiCaprio...er, J. Edgar Hoover, in Clint Eastwood's upcoming J. Edgar. The film started to shoot this week in LA, based on a script by Dustin Lance Black, and a few photos were shot of the lead actor. There's another shot after…
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After a couple months of speculation that Charlize Theron would join the cast of Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar as Helen Gandy, the longtime secretary to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio), the actress finally moved on. But there is a replacement: Naomi Watts will play the part instead. Now the cast for J. Edgar…
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John Hillcoat's revived project The Wettest County in the World has Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy set to appear when the film shoots later this year, and there is word that Mia Wasikowska might grab the main female role if her schedule permits. While we wait for that to be sorted out, here's word that…
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Briefly: Looks like Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar will have a solid subplot involving Charles Lindbergh and the kidnapping and murder of his child, which was dubbed 'the crime of the century' at the time. We already knew that Damon Herriman was on board as Bruno Hauptmann, the man who was convicted of the crime and…
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As the saying goes, "when one window closes, another one opens" and such is this case with both Clint Eastwood's new film J. Edgar and actress Charlize Theron. Reports were that Theron was a basically lock to star as Hoover's (Leonardo DiCaprio) longtime assistant Helen Gandy but, apparently, her agents jumped the gun and she…
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Clint Eastwood will soon be shooting J. Edgar, with Leonardo DiCaprio starring as FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, and Armie Hammer (The Social Network) as his right hand man and rumored lover, Clyde Tolson. We haven't known a great deal about the film, but now Mr. Hammer has talked a bit about the film, letting…
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Briefly: Clint Eastwood continues to pull in impressive actors for his J. Edgar Hoover biography, titled J. Edgar. Leonardo DiCaprio is playing the title role, Armie Hammer (The Social Network) is his right-hand man and reputed lover Clyde Tolson, and the Australian actor Damon Herriman has a minor role as Bruno Hauptmann, the man tried…
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Formerly titled Hoover, Clint Eastwood's next film J. Edgar is slowly but surely putting its cast together and the latest piece of casting might provide a peak into the story. We already know that Leonardo DiCaprio is locked and loaded to play the original FBI director and that both Charlize Theron and Armie Hammer are…
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Clint Eastwood's biopic about original FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, written by Dustin Lance Black and set to star Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role, is preparing to add a new actor for a significant role. Armie Hammer from The Social Network is in talks to play Clyde Tolson, Hoover's second in command and rumored…
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