NO PHOTO Now that G.I. Joe: Retaliation is no longer opening next month, thanks to a late-in-the-game decision to post-convert it to 3D, we've got another ten months to keep talking about it. After the jump, read director Jon Chu's earlier comments on the decision to shoot in 2D. Also: Get a look at Shaquille O'Neal…
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One of the great pleasures of cinema is watching people live out the lives of others, and therefore the biopic thrives. It isn't enough that movies have enshrined many personalities in perpetuity; we still love seeing their lives lived again, through others. And so we have My Week With Marilyn, a film in which Michelle…
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Briefly: There's been a last-minute change of plans for Zack Snyder's Superman film Man of Steel. Julia Ormond was originally set to play Lara Lor-Van, the biological Kryptonian mother of Superman, but for reasons unknown she will no longer be in the film. Now Ayelet Zurer (Angels & Demons, Munich) will play Superman's mother instead,…
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By this point, we know a significant amount of the major casting for Man of Steel, Zack Snyder's reboot of the classic Superman tale: There's Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as the Kents, Russell Crowe and Julia Ormond as Jor-El and Lara, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, and of course, Henry Cavill as Superman himself.…
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Briefly: Zack Snyder has already got his cast to play Clark Kent's adoptive Earthly parents in his new Superman tale, The Man of Steel. Kevin Costner and Diane Lane will be Ma and Pa Kent to Henry Cavill's Clark. But in his prior life on Krypton, Clark -- aka Kal-el -- has a set of…
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One of the films at Sundance was The Music Never Stopped, which boasts a rare leading performance from beloved character actor J.K. Simmons. The story is based on a case documented by Oliver Sacks in the story The Last Hippie (published in An Anthropologist on Mars) in which a man suffers a massive brain tumor…
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Cameras began to roll this week on My Week With Marilyn, the film that adapts the diaries of Colin Clark, who showed Marilyn Monroe around London while she worked on the film The Princess and the Showgirl. Now we've got the first image of Michelle Williams playing Marilyn Monroe in the film, and word that…
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