After the jump: Lili Taylor and Barry Pepper join The Scorch Trials J.K. Rowling writes a bunch more Harry Potter stories Ewan McGregor says Trainspotting 2 will shoot in 2016 Keanu Reeves hasn't made a final decision on Bill & Ted 3 The cast of Magic Mike XXL gathers for a class photo See Natasha Lyonne…
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Guessing how a TV show will turn out before the first episode even airs is a fool's errand. Even so, some pilots boast premises or talents so promising we can't help but be intrigued, and one we've been particularly curious about is Fox's J.H. Wyman-created, J.J. Abrams-produced Almost Human. Set several decades into the future,…
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There's a great bit of stage banter from Tom Waits where he jokes about someone leaning over during a movie to insist "you know, this is based on a true story." The question from Waits is: does that really make the film any better? I've seen James Wan's new film, The Conjuring, and despite the…
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Saw, Dead Silence, Insidious and now The Conjuring. It would be very easy to assume the latest horror film from director James Wan to be another in a long string of scary films right in the director's wheelhouse. However as this new trailer shows, and as Wan said at WonderCon this past weekend, he doesn't…
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Horror director James Wan and his Insidious star Patrick Wilson are currently hard at work on Insidious Chapter 2, but first we'll see them tangling with some other spirits in The Conjuring. The fact-based haunted house tale follows a family (led by Lili Taylor and Ron Livingston) who move into an old but charming New England farmhouse. When…
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Netflix is a big topic of conversation this week as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) brings to the fore all manner of questions about digital connectivity and methods for providing content to the new technology being flogged at the show at the same time as ongoing Television Critics Association (TCA) events show off new titles…
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On the long list of professions people are surely curious to learn more about, you'd have to think "pornography" is near the top of the list. The taboo explicit sex genre has been at been the focus of interesting movies of all tones: dramatic (Boogie Nights), comedic (Zack and Miri Make a Porno) or real…
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The mantra that "sex sells" remains as true now as it ever did, but sometimes what sex is selling turns out not to be all that interesting. That appears to be the case with About Cherry, Stephen Elliott's flat-looking indie about a gorgeous 18-year-old who falls into the porn industry. Ashley Hinshaw stars as said…
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Every once in a while porn comes back around to being a subject for mainstream cinema, and we're edging towards that point again. Not quite 'mainstream,' perhaps, as both competing biopics about Linda Lovelace are indies, as is Cherry, which follows a young woman's entry into the business. Cherry premiered last week at the Berlin…
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Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor are in talks to join Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in James Wan's upcoming thriller, formerly called The Conjuring. The film, which is now going by the working title Untitled Warren Files Project, centers around a husband and wife paranormal investigation team (Wilson and Farmiga) dealing with spirits in a…
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After a promising start that included sweet, gentle About a Boy, Paul Weitz's career hasn't been doing so well these past few years. His more recent work include American Dreamz, Cirque du Freak, and Little Fockers, none of which are exactly creative smashes. But if the moving trailer for his next project, Being Flynn, is any…
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Professional tough guys Val Kilmer and Ving Rhames, along with Luke Goss and Rebecca Da Costa, are set to star in the indie thriller Seven Below. Written by Kevin Carraway and Lawrence Smith and directed by Carraway, the film centers around: ...a group of strangers brought together when a terrible storm leaves them stranded in a house in the…
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Today's second casting break -- possibly the latest in a series, given the density of news on that front lately -- has three pretty divergent stories. After the break, you'll find info on the following trio: Channing Tatum is attached to a thriller pitch called Blood Brothers. Chelsea Handler grabs a role in the teen…
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Focus Features has send out a press release announcing the start of production on the Paul Weitz adaptation of Nick Flynn's memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. The film is working without a title for now, but as previously reported it does feature Paul Dano as Nick Flynn, and Robert De Niro as his…
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AMC Television has released the first trailer for their new conspiracy theory series Rubicon. Let me first remind you that Rubicon is the third series AMC has ordered, and their track record so far is amazing: Mad Men and Breaking Bad. It looks to me like AMC might have another hit on their hands, and…
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A comedy-drama written and directed by Steve Conrad (The Pursuit of Happyness, The Weather Man, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway), The Promotion gently satirizes the insular world of grocery chains, consumerism, and, of course, the American Dream of success through hard work, hard effort, and fair play. Depending less on the broad, low-brow comedy generally associated with…
Read MoreAndrew Wagner was at Sundance two years ago with his break-out film The Talent Given to Us. In his emotional introduction to Starting Out, he explained how he sat in the huge Eccles theater wishing to someday have a film of his own on the gigantic big screen. He couldn't get anymore words out, he…
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