• Evan Goldberg's 'Pulp Fiction' Live Read Celebrates Quentin Tarantino's Brilliant Film

    There's absolutely no need to touch Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Built around an Academy Award winning screenplay, the film is pretty much perfect from beginning to end. It teems with exquisite detail as performances and dialogue tell interweaving stories of crime and craziness. A reinforcement of that absolute brilliance was the main thing I took…

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  • 'High School' Trailer: Adrien Brody And Michael Chiklis Get Loco In Stoner Comedy

    Oscar-winner Adrien Brody sports a body full of tattoos, full beard, dreadlocks and a couple crazy eyes in the new stoner comedy High School. Co-written and directed by John Stalberg in his feature film debut, High School follows a valedictorian who smokes pot one day before his school begins random drug testing. So as to…

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  • TV Casting: Connie Britton In 'Nashville', Carrie-Anne Moss In 'Ralph Lamb', Sigourney Weaver In 'Political Animals'

    While some of her Friday Night Lights co-stars have made the leap into big-screen adventures, Connie Britton's still shining on the small screen. Fresh off of a single-season stint on FX's American Horror Story, Britton has now signed on for ABC's musical family soap Nashville. And yes, the "musical" part of the description indicates that we'll be…

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  • Dennis Quaid And Michael Chiklis In Talks For Nicholas Pileggi's 'Ralph Lamb', Milo Ventimiglia Joins Frank Darabont's 'L.A. Noir'

    With Goodfellas and Casino scribe Nicholas Pileggi writing and James Mangold (Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma) set to direct the pilot, it's probably not surprising that CBS' 1960s Las Vegas-set Ralph Lamb is attracting some serious acting talent as well. Dennis Quaid is now in talks for the title role, a real-life rodeo cowboy who went…

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  • Casting Bits: Marion Cotillard Offered 'Arthur & Lancelot', Kyle Chandler Lands 'Broken City', Nikki Reed, Stephen Lang, And More In 'Pawn'

    Things are indeed shaping up quickly for David Dobkin's Arthur & Lancelot, which Warner Bros. fast-tracked over the summer at the cost of Bryan Singer's Excalibur remake and Guy Ritchie's King Arthur film. Last month saw the casting of Game of Thrones star Kit Harrington and The Killing star Joel Kinnaman in the two title…

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  • Michael Chiklis And Forest Whitaker Cast In 'Pawn'

    Briefly: Attention, fans of The Shield, there is a little mini-reunion of sorts brewing. Actors Michael Chiklis and Forest Whitaker have both been cast in an indie called Pawn. The movie is, as you might hope, a crime picture, and one that features "a hostage situation that has gone terribly wrong" in which "an ex-con…

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  • Michael Chiklis Cast As The Villain In 'Parker'

    Briefly: Casting has been coming together quickly for Parker, which Taylor Hackford is directing with Jason Statham starring as the classic Richard Stark anti-hero. (As previously played on screen by Lee Marvin, Mel Gibson and others.) Jennifer Lopez is in talks for a key role, and Clifton Collins Jr. and Wendell Pierce signed to play…

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  • HIGH School Movie Trailer

    One of our most anticipated films of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival was the stoner comedy High School. I attended a midnight screening of the film, and the crowd was hysterical with laughter. That said, I thought the premise was much more clever than the actual film. What's the premise? Here is the official description…

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  • Sundance Photo Preview: HIGH School

    John Stalberg's feature directorial debut HIGH school will premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in the Park City at Midnight category. Many people are comparing the film to The Wackness, another pot dramedy that played Sundance a couple years back. Michael Chiklis plays a smarmy high school principal who suddenly institutes a zero-tolerance crusade,…

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  • Human Torch Chris Evans Says Fantastic Four 3 Will Probably Not Happen

    "Yeah, these movies are pretty dumb." Gotta love how the four actors who make up the Fantastic Four all treat a (non-) proposed Fantastic Four 3 sequel like a huge pile of lowbrow dishes in the sink. Actor Chris Evans, who plays Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch in the cornball Marvel franchise, follows up…

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  • Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer TV Trailer

    "Everywhere this thing goes, eight days later the planet dies." "How do you fight something that can eat planets?" "Leave that to me!" The first television spot for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is now available for your viewing pleasure. [quicktime width="448" height="200"]http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/ff2tvspot.mov[/quicktime] For the most part the fiilm looks cheesier than the…

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