Sony Pictures Classics has released the 12 Mighty Orphans trailer, showcasing the underdog sports drama starring Luke Wilson, Martin Sheen, and more.
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The Bum's Rush cast has added two more big names: Anne Hathaway and Bill Murray are set to star, while Robert Duvall is still in talks.
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The Widows trailer announces the directorial return of Steve McQueen. Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Ervio plays widows of criminals who band together to pull off a heist.
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Watch the In Dubious Battle trailer. James Franco directed and stars in this adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic novel about a fruit workers' strike.
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The next directorial effort from James Franco will be an adaption of the John Steinbeck novel In Dubious Battle, and he has assembled a big-name cast: Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston and Danny McBride. The film will shoot in March, and we have a few more details on Franco's In Dubious Battle…
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Watch The Judge trailer. David Dobkin directed the drama about an estranged father (Robert Duvall) and son (Robert Downey Jr.).
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Get your first look at Robert Downey Jr in The Judge, directed by David Dobkin. Downey plays a lawyer who defends his dad (Robert Duvall) in a murder trial.
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In A Night in Old Mexico there's a mini-Lonesome Dove reunion of sorts, as the film has Robert Duvall working with a script by Lonesome Dove scribe William T. Wittliff. This is a very different sort of project, however. Duvall plays an old rancher who has lost his land, and heads down to Mexico for one last drunken…
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Some months ago, before shooting his latest film Jayne Mansfield's Car, Billy Bob Thornton said that there just aren't many movies being made lately that are really of interest to him. And indeed, the first trailer for his latest, which stars Thornton, Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Frances O'Connor, Ray Stevenson, Robert Patrick, and what looks…
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The latest actor to join Christian Bale in Scott Cooper's Out of the Furnace is likely to be Zoe Saldana. She's in early talks for the film that Cooper is rewriting (based on Brad Ingelsby's The Low Dweller script) and will direct as his follow-up to Crazy Heart. Bale will be an ex-con who is…
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Is there any film project more tenacious than Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote? The film just cannot be, er, killed, no matter what happens. Casting problems? It will overcome. Funding and script issues? This movie shrugs them off. Acts of God aren't even enough. The film first came together in 2000, with…
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Last year, before The Dark Knight Rises had fully shot, there was a lot of speculation about what Christian Bale would do after his tenure as Batman ended. Turns out he planned a couple films with Terrence Malick, but another project that was mentioned as a possible one for Bale has reared its head once…
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Christopher McQuarrie's adaptation of Lee Child's thriller novel One Shot is moving forward with Tom Cruise in the lead role of hulking ex-military cop Jack Reacher, who is drawn into a strange plot involving sniper shootings in a mid-size town. To say that fans have been unenthusiastic about that casting choice is an understatement. A…
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The latest addition to Christopher McQuarrie's One Shot, an adaptation of Lee Child's novel of the same name that is already set to feature Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, David Oyelowo, Robert Duvall, and Richard Jenkins, is Michael Raymond-James. The actor had a role on the well-liked and sadly canceled Terriers, and has been a part…
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I know there are people who don't love the idea of Tom Cruise playing Lee Child's hulking and coldly/violently capable hero Jack Reacher. But with the addition of Werner Herzog to the cast of One Shot, the film that Christopher McQuarrie wrote and is directing based on Child's novel, I don't see how anyone could…
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The cast of Christopher McQuarrie's One Shot has been filling up at lightning speed over the past month. Robert Duvall, Alexia Fast, Richard Jenkins, and David Oyelowo have all boarded the project within the last few weeks, and now comes news that Spartacus: Blood and Sand star Jai Courtney has signed on as well. Based…
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The cast of Christopher McQuarrie's adaptation of Lee Child's novel One Shot is looking pretty good. Tom Cruise plays Jack Reacher, an ex-military cop who is called upon to assist the prime suspect in a series of sniper murders. Rosamund Pike plays a young defense lawyer who is also roped into the case; Richard Jenkins…
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Looks like Billy Bob Thornton is set with cast and financing for his next directorial effort, Jayne Mansfield's Car. But it also looks like neither of the recently reported additions, Dennis Quaid and Dwight Yoakam, might be in the movie. Get the full new roster after the break. We've known that Robert Duvall would have…
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Last year Billy Bob Thornton started to talk about a late '60s-set family drama called Jayne Mansfield's Car. He and Tom Epperson wrote the script, in part as a response to the fact that Mr. Thornton wasn't all that taken with a lot of the films being made lately, and he plans to direct it…
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Vanity Fair have released the cover photo for their 2011 Hollywood Issue. The cover features Oscar co-hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco (also a best-actor nominee), along with Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal. The two inside panels feature 11 more stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Jennifer Lawrence, Noomi Rapace,, Anthony Mackie, Olivia Wilde, Mila Kunis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt,…
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We haven't heard a great deal about Jayne Mansfield's Car in the couple months since the first details came out. We know that Billy Bob Thornton is directing, and that he co-wrote the script with his One False Move collaborator Tom Epperson. Now Robert Duvall has announced that he'll be in the film, and he's…
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Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has undergone quite a few changes. Since Gilliam first attempted to shoot the film in 2000 with Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort, the project has been put on hold, recast (with Ewan McGregor and Robert Duvall) and undergone at least one rewrite. We'd previously heard that the…
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If this news is true, it can be read, basically, as Warner Bros. and Joel Silver giving Terry Gilliam the finger. But that's Hollywood, right? The studio and producer are reportedly fast-tracking a tentpole film based on Miguel Cervantes' massive novel Don Quixote. Pajiba says that the WB / Joel Silver film is "described as…
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The first time Terry Gilliam tried to shoot The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, he had stars Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort. That production ran into myriad difficulties and was shut down (as chronicled by us in other articles and in the doc Lost in La Mancha) but Gilliam is about to try again. Last…
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I don't know how Brad Pitt really has time to schedule anything of late, but evidently he's trying to get The Hatfields and the McCoys made at Warner Bros. The film would cover the legendary American family feud, and now has Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper attached to direct. Jeff Wells got this info from…
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Get Low, which features Bill Murray as a scheming funeral director hired by an irascible hermit (Robert Duvall) to stage his own funeral while alive, did well at the Toronto Film Festival and was quickly bought by Sony Pictures Classics. Now there's a trailer for the odd-looking comedy. Word out of TIFF was that Duvall's…
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The /Filmcast Interview is a series of conversations with actors, directors, and other key figures from the entertainment industry. In this episode, David Chen speaks with Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper about the challenges of being a first-time director, how he achieved the film's amazing sound design, and Jeff Bridges' remarkable physical transformation. Crazy Heart…
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