The dysfunctional family drama gets an upgrade from the director of The Big Sick with the Succession trailer, which sets a June premiere date for the HBO series following a conflicted family's media empire.
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Several years ago we reported on a Black List script by Oren Uziel called The Kitchen Sink, a horror-sci-fi-comedy mashup that combined vampires, zombies, and aliens. Jonah Hill was originally set to direct, and then Robbie Pickering. A promising cast (including Bob Odenkirk and Patton Oswalt) was assembled, and then the updates slowed down and eventually…
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Mad Men and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows star Jared Harris has just been cast in Gil Kenan's upcoming remake of Poltergeist. That piece of information has two deeper layers of meaning. First, it's a good week to be Jared Harris. The actor was also just cast in Guy Ritchie's The Man of U.N.C.L.E.…
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Up until now, odds are Robbie Pickering's film Kitchen Sink hasn't been on your radar. That's about to change. The genre mashup written by Oren Uziel (who Sony also hired to write Men in Black 4 and 22 Jump Street 2) placed on The Black List, and was almost the directorial debut of Jonah Hill before Pickering (Natural Selection) came on…
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Community's Dan Harmon is very sorry you had to witness that nasty drama between him and Chevy Chase. Also after the jump: The first three minutes of Falling Skies' second season Target's "Little Avengers" ad is pretty cute, if you like kids HBO releases another trailer for its politica satire Veep Robert Redford will produce…
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Today brings two minor updates on Kevin Smith's Hit Somebody. The first is from Nicholas Braun, the actor who'll eventually star in the film as a hockey enforcer who dreams of scoring just one goal. We spoke to Braun on the set of his latest movie, Dylan Kidd's Get A Job, and he said the version…
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Denzel Washington has reportedly been offered the lead role in the English-language remake of The Secret in Their Eyes, which is being helmed by Billy Ray (Shattered Glass). The original Argentinian version, by director Juan José Campanella, was a critical success that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Picture in 2010. In other words,…
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As much as I enjoyed Submarine, I'm thrilled to see that director Richard Ayoade hasn't decided to forsake his acting career completely. Ayoade is probably best known for his turn as painfully awkward computer tech Moss in the Brit comedy series The IT Crowd, where he proves to be a warm, uniquely hilarious presence from…
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Breakout star Melissa McCarthy has signed up for ID Theft, which will team her with the ubiquitous but charming Jason Bateman. As suggested by the title, the comedy follows a man who becomes the target of identity theft. Bateman will play the victim, and McCarthy the thief. McCarthy's role was originally written for a man, but…
Read MoreKevin Smith and hockey go together like, well, Kevin Smith and New Jersey. The filmmaker is a huge fan of the sport and works it into his films whenever he can, such as in the first Clerks and in Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Once Smith has finished promoting and showing off his latest…
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On Tuesday, writer director Kevin Smith did a live chat with MTV News in which he discussed a variety of topics including possibly bringing back a few of his old friends for his next film, Hit Somebody. He also came armed with an exclusive clip from his upcoming film Red State. This 55 second clip…
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Kevin Smith’s new film Red State is more than just a departure from his trademark comedic style. It’s almost a complete 180. The bright colors and pop culture references have been replaced with blacks, reds and long monologues about scripture. Smith’s still very reliant on the spoken word – almost to a fault – but…
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Kevin Smith has unveiled the final credit card of his upcoming horror film Red State, which promises that "almost this entire cast will return in Hit Somebody." Based on the Warren Zevon song, Hit Somebody (The Hockey Song), the story is about an insanely passionate hockey player named Buddy who gets his chance play professional…
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When Peter recently corresponded with Kevin Smith about recent quotes concerning the future of the filmmaker's career, Mr. Smith said that he was about to announce the lead of his hockey comedy Hit Somebody. Indeed, today he posted the fourteenth episode of his Hollywood Babble-On podcast, during which he announced that Nicholas Braun, who was…
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