After some notable success in the world of feature films, Aaron Sorkin will be making his triumphant return to television with a brand-new drama about the goings-on at a fictional cable news network. A Greg Mottola-directed pilot has already been shot, and HBO has now given the greenlight to an entire season of the hourlong show.…
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Lots of casting news has been flying about for the past few days, and in the wake of Comic Con we're still catching up on a few things. In this particular casting break you'll find: Nick Nolte will lend his wonderfully grizzled talent to Robert Redford's new film. A Stargate SG-1 actor gets a role…
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Universal and Peter Berg reportedly spent two hundred million on Battleship, and with the official trailer premiere you can start to make a dollar-per-pixel tally of just where that money went. This is more like a chunk of the first big battle sequence in the film rather than a conventional trailer -- no hiding the…
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You might have seen the footage in front of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 this weekend, or perhaps you caught one of the many bootlegs that have been circulating for the past week. But here's the real thing: the first official teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan's third and final Batman film,…
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Derek Cianfrance's been collecting quite a solid cast for his next project, the "Deer Hunter meets The Godfather" crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines. Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, and Eva Mendes are already on board, with Greta Gerwig circling another part. Now the latest addition to his cast is Aussie actor Ben Mendelsohn, who…
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Most audiences probably wouldn't recognize Josh Pence from his big role in The Social Network -- after all, his face was completely edited out of the film -- but it looks like the part's paid off for Pence all the same. Pence has just joined the cast of The Social Network writer Aaron Sorkin's upcoming…
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Briefly: Given that Christopher Nolan is now shooting The Dark Knight Rises, we probably won't see too many more notable names added to the cast. In fact, this might be the last: Josh Stewart from The Collector and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has taken an unknown role in the film. Like many of…
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Three radically different comedies are filling up with a bevy of well-known actors. Johnny Knoxville, Josh Pence and many more have joined the cast of Fun Size, a kid comedy described as a Halloween-set blend of Superbad and Adventures in Babysitting. Allison Janney has been cast by Josh Radnor for Liberal Arts, which the How…
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Speculation about the plot of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises has been running wild ever since the credits rolled on The Dark Knight, and we have for you today a few bits that may offer hints as to what we can expect to see. Although nothing's been officially confirmed, some photos and an on-set…
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Each bit of casting for Christopher Nolan's third and final Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, has told us a little more about the ultra-guarded story. This latest casting tidbit doesn't involve a huge name -- it is Josh Pence, who played the other half of the Winlklevoss twins in The Social Network, opposite Armie…
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Once upon a time creating onscreen twins using one actor was a matter of careful staging with body doubles, and controlled camera work and split-screen editing allowing one actor to play two roles. Now there are more complex, perhaps more subtle ways to achieve the same effect. So here is a pretty detailed look at…
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Here's a few casting notes for you before Page 2 hits. First up is What Boys Want, a teen-skewed reversal of the 2000 Mel Gibson film What Women Want. Selena Gomez will star as a girl who can hear what men are thinking. Reports that the film will just be Gomez hiding in a closet…
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