• 'The Imitation Game' Begins Filming With Benedict Cumberbatch And Keira Knightley

    Benedict Cumberbatch sure does love movies about technology. He stars as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate;Star Trek is based around technological advancement; and now the Sherlock star will play one of the most famous computer scientists and codebreakers in history. Leonardo DiCaprio was circling the film, The Imitation Game, a while back, but the role went…

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  • Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Joe Manganiello On Studio Lists For Batman

    It wasn't so long ago that Christian Bale donned those pointy Bat ears for the very last time. With a Batman vs. Superman movie now in the works, though, the time has come to recast the iconic superhero yet again. Last week, we got word that Warner Bros. was looking to cast an actor in…

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  • TV Bits: 'Luck', 'Arrested Development', 'House Of Cards', 'Zombieland', 'Bates Motel', Alfonso Cuaron, James Gandolfini, Chris Hardwick, Judd Apatow, And More

    The pilot casting blitz isn't over yet. Also after the jump: Kristen Wiig's Arrested Development role revealed Yeah, NBC is probably going to cancel Up All Night HBO decides not to go with James Gandolfini's pilot HBO's cancelled drama Luck finds new life as a blog Survey says House of Cards is a success for Netflix…

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  • 'Stoker' International Trailer #2: Chan-Wook Park Gets Weird, In English This Time

    To coincide with its long-awaited Sundance debut, Chan-wook Park's Stoker has just unveiled a new international trailer. The first English-language outing from the Oldboy auteur stars Mia Wasikowska as India, a teenage girl mourning the death of her father (Dermot Mulroney). The unexpected arrival of her mysterious Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode) further complicates matters, especially…

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  • 'Stoker' International Trailer: "India...Who Are You?"

    The core of the US trailer for Stoker, from Oldboy director Park Chan-wook, was a wonderfully hateful little speech from Nicole Kidman as the threatened matriarch of the Stoker family. That speech is in this new UK trailer, but thrown toward the end, truncated, and cut up with other footage. The core here, instead, is…

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  • 'Stoker' Trailer: "I Can't Wait To Watch Life Tear You Apart"

    Finally! We recently saw some footage from Stoker, which is the English-language debut from South Korean director Park Chan-wook, best known for the "vengeance trilogy" of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. Stoker appears to be a thriller in the Hitchcock/De Palma vein, with a good dose of heated psycho-sexual tension,…

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  • First Footage From 'Oldboy' Director Park Chan-Wook's English-Language Debut 'Stoker'

    It's not a proper trailer -- in fact, this is one of those irritating footage presentations on Entertainment Tonight where the talking heads yammer over the top of scenes from a film. But it is the first footage from Stoker, which marks the English-language directorial debut from acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, responsible for…

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  • 'Burning Man' Trailer - Matthew Goode Is Troubled, Popular With The Ladies

    One intriguing film that's currently making the rounds at TIFF is the grief drama Burning Man, starring Matthew Goode. Written and directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, the film centers around Tom (Goode), an English chef in Australia who falls into self-destructive behavior following a crushing personal tragedy. Trying to save Tom from himself are his 8-year-old…

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  • Casting Bits: Dermot Mulroney In 'Stoker;' John C. McGinley In 'I, Alex Cross;' Tyler Posey In 'Taco Shop'

    Casting! Here's info one one potentially great project, one that will probably find an appreciative audience, and one that will perhaps just make you hungry. I'll let you figure out which is which: Wentworth Miller joins Park Chan-wook's first English-language film, Stoker, John C. McGinley will realize his destiny by playing police chief to Tyler…

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  • Casting Bits: Bradley Cooper Back In 'Silver Linings Playbook', Reese Witherspoon In 'Wish List', Alden Ehrenreich In 'Stoker', Karen Gillian In 'Not Another Happy Ending'

    Way back in late 2010, we reported on the potential casting of Bradley Cooper in the lead role for David O. Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook. At some point, however, Mark Wahlberg emerged as the star of the film, and Cooper was no longer associated with the project. Now, it's looking like we're back to…

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  • Casting Bits: Alia Shawkat In 'He Loves Me' And 'The Brass Teapot', Jacki Weaver In 'Stoker', David Oyelowo In 'The Paperboy'

    Alia Shawkat may not be quite as ubiquitous as Arrested Development co-star Jason Bateman, but she's been quietly beefing up her film resume over the past few years. Recently, Shawkat added two more projects to her slate: He Loves Me, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' follow-up to Little Miss Sunshine; and The Brass Teapot, starring…

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  • Matthew Goode In Talks For Park Chan-Wook's 'Stoker'

    Newly-minted Oscar-winner Colin Firth following up The King's Speech with a genre vampire movie always seemed like a stretch. Now, it turns out it was. But King George's loss is Ozymandias's gain as Matthew Goode, best known for playing the rich, evil member of the Watchmen, is now in talks to star in Stoker, the…

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  • Alex Pettyfer And Matthew Goode Tapped For Pierre Morel-Produced 'Overdrive'

    Briefly: Taken director Pierre Morel is following Luc Besson in to the action thriller producing game, and he's got his first effort set up, with everyone's new favorite actor on board. Overdrive is about a couple of handsome car thieves, and will star Alex Pettyfer and Matthew Goode. Antonio Negret, who directed Transit for producer…

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  • Which Actors Did Henry Cavill Beat To Become 'Superman'? Will Superman Be All-CG?

    Early Sunday afternoon, it was revealed that Henry Cavill (Stardust, The Tudors, Immortals) had been cast as the man of steel in Zack Snyder's upcoming Superman film. But who did Cavill beat out for the roll? Find out after the jump. Warner Bros and Christopher Nolan auditioned 28-32 year old actors in Los Angeles, New…

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  • Matthew Goode Has Auditioned For The Role Of Bilbo Baggins

    The rather tremendous Matthew Goode, maybe best known round here as Zack Snyder's Ozymandias, has let slip that he auditioned for the role of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. Here's how The Telegraph reported matters: But just before we met, he’d auditioned for the role of Bilbo Baggins in Guillermo del Toro’s two-part film of The Hobbit.…

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  • Leap Year Movie Trailer

    Universal Pictures has released the first movie trailer for Leap Year, which is a romantic comedy about a woman who has an elaborate scheme to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day. Amy Adams and Matthew Goode star in Leap Year, a romantic comedy that follows one woman’s determined quest to get married to the…

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