In this edition, look back at the making of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, see some Godzilla vs. Kong Easter eggs you may have missed, and more.
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Russell Brand is in negotiations with 20th Century Fox to join Kenneth Branagh's Death on the Nile cast, in a film based on Agatha Christie’s 1937 novel.
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Nicolas Cage plays Gary Faulkner in Larry Charles' (Bruno) film about a man called upon by God to find Osama Bin Laden. Watcht the Army of One trailer.
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Meet the Trolls cast and characters, including Justin Timberlake as Branch and Anna Kendrick as Poppy. The animated adventure is based on the Troll dolls.
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Read about the latest Army of One casting. Nicolas Cage will be joined in the Larry Charles comedy by Russell Brand, Ken Marino, Rainn Wilson and more.
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Werner Herzog is currently out in the desert for his Gertrude Bell biopic Queen of the Desert, but soon he'll focus on some arid Americana. His next film is slated to be Vernon God Little, based on the novel by DBC Pierre that won the Booker Prize after its 2003 publication. The novel is set…
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In Paradise, Julianne Hough stars as a young woman who renounces her faith after a plane crash leaves her scarred. She travels to Las Vegas to indulge in all the behaviors that sh has avoided in life, and runs across characters played by Russell Brand, Octavia Spencer and Nick Offerman. The film is written by Diablo Cody…
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How has the movie business changed in the past decade? For one, VOD and streaming video have changed the stigma once attached to films debuting at home before they hit theaters, and movies now routinely can be seen on the small screen before they open on the big one. But the distribution scheme for Diablo…
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Diablo Cody has written some of the sharpest female-led dramedies of the past several years, and now she's taken the next step by helming her own. The Juno scribe makes her feature directing debut this fall with Paradise, a comedy about a sheltered young woman (Julianne Hough) taking a walk on the wild side. Octavia…
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What the earlier Despicable Me 2 teaser trailers lacked in information, they made up for in cuteness. The puffy yellow minions were all over those, performing "Barbara Ann" and investigating otherworldly visitors. Now a full-length trailer has arrived, and while it's not quite as adorable (that's just what happens when you shift focus away from…
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Disney fans, and /Film readers, are likely aware that major Hollywood stars have been dressing up like Disney characters. It's not as bad as it sounds. In the past few years we've seen Olivia Wilde as the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella, Jessica Biel as Pocahontas and…
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Five years ago, Fox shelled out $1 million in a bidding war over Edwin Cannistraci and Frederick Seton's raunchy Black List comedy Pierre Pierre, and quickly set Jim Carrey to star and Jason Reitman to direct. And then... nothing. The project languished, and Reitman eventually dropped out. He was replaced by Larry Charles (Borat, Bruno,…
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"Nothin' But a Good Time" promises the tagline of Rock of Ages, referencing one of the two dozen or so classic '80s rock songs its cast energetically deflates into innocuously pleasing sing-a-longs. It's an admirably honest proclamation of the film's limited aspirations, one which it fulfills with all the grace of a monkey hurling its…
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Even if you've long since outgrown summer vacation, there's just something about warmer weather that makes it tempting to put aside the heavy, thought-provoking stuff and look for a good, lighthearted laugh instead. If you're curious what the upcoming season has in store for you on that front, hit the jump to check out new…
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Let me say one thing first: this is the sort of role I think Tom Cruise does well. A variation on the arrogant, overbearing personality with a core of self-doubt has served him well in a few films here and there. So I hoped that playing big-time rock star Stacee Jaxx in Adam Shankman's '80s…
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Amy Poehler and Adam Scott have shown such fantastic chemistry in NBC's Parks & Recreation that the pair are gearing up to work together again. This time, however, they won't be romancing each other -- far from it. Poehler has entered talks to join Scott in A.C.O.D., in which he plays a man named Carter…
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As the race for the year's most coveted trophies came to a close with this weekend's Oscars ceremony, another much less prestigious awards competition was just getting started. Nominations have been announced for the 32nd Razzie Awards, handed out to the "worst achievements in film" each year. Leading the 2012 list is Adam Sandler, whose…
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Even as Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Lovelace loses one star with the exit of Demi Moore, it's gained another as Chloë Sevigny boards the cast. Sevigny will play a feminist journalist working on a piece about Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace (Amanda Seyfried) for a men's magazine. She joins a sprawling ensemble cast that…
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For me, the best part of the trailer for Adam Shankman's Rock of Ages is the prominent display of the Motorhead logo in the first few seconds. After that it's all downhill. The film adapts the stage 'jukebox musical' with Diego Boneta and Julianne Hough playing wide-eyed kids caught up in the mid-'80s LA rock…
Read MoreThere's still no word on who'll be playing Éponine in Tom Hooper's Les Misérables, but the project has landed yet another well-known star to play her father. According to LondonNet, Sacha Baron Cohen is set to join Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, and Eddie Redmayne in the musical, in the role of the villainous inn…
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Briefly: The general lack of an enthusiastic audience response to the remake of Arthur hasn't left Warner Bros. ready to cut ties with comedian Russell Brand. The stand-up comic turned actor is now set to produce and star in the comedy The President Stole My Girlfriend for WB. Matt Portenoy wrote the script, and the…
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The more people get cast in Zal Batmanglij's The East, the more interesting it sounds. The latest addition is the always excellent Patricia Clarkson, who'll play the boss of co-writer and star Brit Marling. The thriller revolves around an agent (Marling) from a private security firm who is tasked with infiltrating a terrorist group called The…
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In June, Diablo Cody's directorial debut was announced: Lamb of God, a film the writer and soon-to-be director described as "about a woman who survives a plane crash and loses her faith in everything. (Comedy gold!) Seriously though, it’s not the cynicism-fest implied by the log line. It’s a nice Christmas story." Not long afterward,…
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Two movies that have been batted around for some time have just made significant moves forward. First there's Motor City, a film that was on the 2009 Black List, has only one line of dialogue in the entire thing, and is about a crook who is framed and dead set on revenge when he gets…
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Much like the Broadway show on which it's based, you can probably guess whether or not you're going to enjoy the movie Rock of Ages long before buying a ticket. Do you like ripped jeans, big, teased hair, shoulder pads and the music of the Eighties? Then you're probably going to like Adam Shankman's in-production…
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Gary Ross' The Hunger Games isn't the only movie that can dole out individual casting breaks on a daily basis. Adam Shankman's Rock of Ages -- the movie version of the 'jukebox musical' that tells a tale of love and abition partially through the performances of anthemic '80s tunes -- seems to add a major…
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Last week there was mention that Adam Shankman's Rock of Ages film musical may have found its young leading man in the person of Diego Boneta. (He's had roles on the new 90210 and Pretty Little Liars, but may still count as an almost-unknown to some.) Now there is confirmation that he'll play Drew Boley,…
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