'What They Had' Review: Michael Shannon Dominates A Pleasant, If Unremarkable, Debut Feature [TIFF]
In our What They Had review, we take a look at an imperfect debut feature elevated by an extraordinary cast of talented performers.
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'Stolen' Trailer: In Which Josh Lucas Tries To Beat Nicolas Cage At His Own Game
Look out, bad-film fans: Josh Lucas might be making a play to be the new Nicolas Cage, and he's doing it from within a Nic Cage movie! Stolen reunites Cage and his Con Air director Simon West (who also helmed last weekend's The Expendables 2) in a film about a criminal (Cage) whose former partner…
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TV Bits: Josh Lucas And Tricia Helfer In 'The Firm' Trailers; Premiere Dates For 'Eastbound & Down', 'Life's Too Short', And 'Luck'; 'Pan Am' Not Cancelled
Today's TV Bits offers a few things to look forward to in the not-too-distant future, including imperiled lawyers, a**hole baseball players, pretty flight attendants, and a touch of dry British humor. After the jump: NBC drops two teasers for its legal thriller The Firm HBO announces premiere dates for Eastbound & Down and Life's Too…
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TV Bits: Tricia Helfer Goes To Work For 'The Firm', Bryan Cranston To Make 'Simpsons' Guest Appearance, Ryan Reynolds Sells Comedy Script, Showtime Greenlights Three Pilots
Battlestar Galactica star Tricia Helfer has signed up for NBC's The Firm, based on the bestselling John Grisham novel of the same title. (The book was also turned into a 1993 film starring Tom Cruise.) Helfer will be playing Alex Clark, a senior partner at the central law firm of Kinross & Clark. The project…
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Filming Begins On Jack Kerouac's 'Big Sur' Starring Josh Lucas & Kate Bosworth
With an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On The Road currently awaiting release, someone is already stepping up to adapt another of the beat author's famous works. Michael Polish, the director of Twin Falls Idaho, Northfork and The Astronaut Farmer, has written and begun directing Big Sur, a film based on the Kerouac novel that tells…
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'Daydream Nation' Trailer Starring Kat Dennings And Josh Lucas
Apparently today is trailer Thursday as several brand new trailers have made their way online. The next one, and probably not the last, is Daydream Nation, an indie-rock influenced teen drama, described by Variety as "Juno as reimagined by David Lynch, or a funnier, sunnier Donnie Darko." It stars Kat Dennings (Nick and Norah's Infinite…
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Naomi Watts Joins Clint Eastwood's 'J. Edgar'
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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Josh Lucas Cast As Charles Lindbergh In 'J. Edgar'
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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Adrien Brody, Josh Lucas And Timothy Olyphant Among Those Testing For 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'
Before Daniel Day-Lewis gets his chance to don the beard and top hat, 20th Century Fox will have Honest Abe wielding axes and decapitating vampires. In October, the studio bought the rights to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter with a script by Seth Grahame-Smith, based on his novel, to be directed in 3D by Timur Bekmambetov…
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The Lincoln Lawyer Trailer #2
Lionsgate Films have released a second movie trailer for The Take director Brad Furman's big screen adaptation of author Michael Connelly's novel The Lincoln Lawyer. The film stars Matthew McConaughey as a lawyer who "conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills." The movie co-stars…
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Teaser Trailer: 'The Lincoln Lawyer'
This morning, if someone said "You're going to be reading movie news about two films with the word "Lincoln" in the title today," you would have laughed in their face. However, hot off the heels of the big news about Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, we've now got your first look at footage from The Lincoln Lawyer.…
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Movie Trailer: Kat Dennings In 'Daydream Nation'
"The year this story takes place is the year nearly everything happened to me. It was the year I spent nearly all of my time having great sex with Mr. Anderson, my by-far favorite teacher." We haven't known too much about Daydream Nation, the indie named after a Sonic Youth record, which stars Kat Dennings…
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Movie Trailer: Greg Berlanti's Life As We Know It
Warner Bros has released the first movie trailer for Everwood/The Broken Hearts Club helmer Greg Berlanti's romantic comedy Life As We Know It. Berlanti might be better known to /Film readers as the writer/producer of the Green Lantern movie, and the possible director of the big screen adaptation of The Flash. The movie stars Katherine…
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Casting Notes: Christina Ricci In Bel Ami; Maggie Grace And Salma Hayek In Faster; Kat Dennings In Daydream Nation
It's been slow on the casting front since late December, when Hollywood pretty much shut down for the holidays. Now that everyone is back to work things are picking up slowly. Christina Ricci has joined the cast of Bel Ami, which already stars Robert Pattinson and Uma Thurman. Based on Guy de Maupassant's short story…
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Casting Notes: Gael Garcia Bernal, Josh Lucas And LeBron James Join New Projects
Huh? LeBron James? Yeah, you read that right. Today might be the slowest news day I can remember in 2009, I'm still not going to break each of these into their own story. Because how much do you really need to know about romances and fantasy basketball movies? Exactly this much. Not sure we've mentioned…
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Here is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! Global Nerdy brings us the photo of the day: Speeder Dogs. Charles Grodin will cameo in Jason Segel's new Muppet Movie. [mtv] TorrentSpy already shut its doors earlier this year, and now…
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Rumor: Josh Lucas Cast As Captain Christopher Pike In Star Trek?
A couple days ago we ran a rumor that Kirk is NOT the Captain of the Enterprise in the new JJ Abrams Star Trek prequel/reboot (or at least for the first half of the film). We have yet to get a 100% confirmation on this rumor, but most people in the know believe this to…
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