Annette Bening stars as Oscar-winning actress Gloria Grahame in the Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool trailer opposite a younger lover played by Jamie Bell.
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Victor Frankenstein has been just about everything a man can be in the course of many film incarnations: inventor, scientist, madman, lover, villain. He’s not someone we often think of as a friend, however, and so the new film Victor Frankenstein might be pretty weird simply for indulging that concept. James McAvoy plays Victor in…
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Watch the first Victor Frankenstein trailer starring James McAvoy as the mad scientist and Daniel Radcliffe as his faithful friend and sidekick Igor.
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Briefly: Release dates have been given to two major films either currently in production, or about to start. The big one is David Fincher's latest, Gone Girl, based on the best-selling novel by Gillian Flynn It stars Ben Affleck as a husband accused of killing his wife, played by Rosamund Pike. Fincher is currently shooting…
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Paul McGuigan's upcoming version of Frankenstein, scripted by Max Landis, has just found its second lead. James McAvoy has been cast as Dr. Frankenstein; he'll share the screen with Daniel Radcliffe, who has long been attached to play Igor, the lead in this unique spin on the classic tale. Deadline broke the news of the casting. Landis has long…
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20th (or is it 21st?) Century Fox went on a release date rampage over the weekend, planting a stake in the ground for a few upcoming tentpoles as well as animated films through 2018. Ridley Scott's star-studded The Counselor has been moved up to October 25, a non-Pixar Day of the Dead animated film called Book…
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BBC's Sherlock is technically, a TV show. But with episodes that are the length of a film, and two stars, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, who have become major movie actors, the show might as well be a movie. The point being: it takes an unusual bit of scheduling to create. The second season aired over…
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Even before the conclusion of the Harry Potter franchise, Daniel Radcliffe was making a valiant effort to prove himself as an actor. He performed on Broadway, in independent dramas, psychological thrillers, and now he's likely to play his most different role yet. Radcliffe is in talks to play Igor, the lead character of Max Landis'…
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Director Paul McGuigan has a respectable history in features, having made films like Gangster No. 1, Wicker Park, and Push. But his best work of late has been on television, where he's done four of the existing six episodes of the BBC series Sherlock. (Only one of which was one of the series two lesser…
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Looks like Maggie Gyllenhaal will play alongside her husband Peter Sarsgaard in a biopic of bluegrass pioneer Bill Munroe. She told ScreenCrave she'd been in the film about "Bill Monroe, who invented Blue Grass music had a kind of Sid and Nancy style affair with this woman Bessie Lee Mauldin throughout his life... T-Bone Burnett’s…
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It's a good week for Stephen Fry. He was part of Craig Ferguson's successful 'experiment' to do an episode of The Late Late Show with no audience, for one. Highly recommend watching that, as their nearly hour-long chat was a great bit of television. And Fry's film Hallelujiah!, about the composer George Frideric Handel and…
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\ Some critics thought that Paul McGuigan's last film, Lucky Number Slevin (2006), was too much style over substance, and while they might have had a point, I found myself energized by the promise that that small, Tarantino-esque film showed of its director. With Push, a thriller/action(?) film about people with special abilities, McGuigan is…
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Let's face it. As far as superpowers go, the ability to move things with your brain is pretty awesome. Sure, flying is cool, turning invisible would have fun benefits, and super-strength could always come in handy. Plus it's a lot cooler than all the "problem" superpowers, like having your entire body burst into flame, turning…
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Am I the only one who's moderately looking forward to Paul McGuigan's Push? Granted, the premise is strikingly similar to Heroes, but to me, it looked like a movie version of Heroes without all the terrible campiness, dialogue, and acting. Plus, Paul McGuigan's Lucky Number Slevin, while not a great film, showed a lot of…
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We just posted a story about Julie Taymor's upcoming Spider-Man muscial in New York City. We had some fun when we found videos of the Universal Studios Hollywood production of Spider-Man Rocks on YouTube. But now we've found something even better thanks to our friends at FilmIck. The Snow Patrol's new music video for the…
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