Everything about going to the Playboy Mansion is arguably a good idea. Except watching a movie. Properly watching a movie takes concentration, quiet and darkness. But in a place with an open bar, Playmates and a history of sex, drugs and rock and roll, watching a film is a bad idea. Last week, I was…
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Parker is a Jason Statham action movie with a crime fiction pedigree. The film puts Statham in the role of Richard Stark's principled but vengefully violent thief Parker, betrayed by partners and left for dead, and ultimately preoccupied with revenge. Stark's character has inspired one of the all-time great weird crime movies (Point Blank, with Lee Marvin)…
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Loads of new posters have hit today, and the one that you see above is the fairly disappointing first image for Parker, which, as the pic suggests, stars Jason Statham as the title character. It's a movie I've held some hope for, as it follows in a line of films (Point Blank, Full Contact, Ransom)…
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This year might be the point where studio reliance on tentpole films finally got out of hand. We've seen Sony schedule a date for the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man -- that's a sequel to a film that isn't even close to finished, and which, consequently, no one has seen. And now Lionsgate has staked…
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Here's one of several casting breaks to come your way in the next few hours, and this one is pretty damned good. Why? Because after the break you'll find info on the following: Nick Nolte takes a role in hard-boiled crime thriller Parker. Jesse Eisenberg plays dopplegangers in The Double. And Mark Ruffalo and Amanda…
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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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After the long Fourth of July weekend we don't have a lot of news on the casting front, but there are a few good stories to share, and they're all in a similar vein. Today, the theme is crime pictures. After the break you'll find info on the following: John Malkovich is taking the lead…
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Jennifer Lopez is making her way back to movie screens in a big way. She'll recently showed up in The Back-Up Plan, will voice a character in Ice Age: Continental Drift, and now she's in talks for two roles: one in What to Expect When You're Expecting (more on that in a different article) and…
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What does Jason Statham have in common with Lee Marvin, Chow Yun Fat and Mel Gibson? Soon he could be the fourth actor to play a screen version of Parker, the principled thief created by Donald Westlake (under the alias Richard Stark) in a series of pulp novels. The previous three films (Point Blank, Full…
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