• 'The Past' Trailer: 'A Separation' Director Asghar Farhadi Ends Another Marriage

    Two of the brightest foreign stars of 2011 have joined forces for a new movie in 2013. The Past teams Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian director behind the brilliant domestic drama A Separation, with Bérénice Bejo, best known in the U.S. as the sweet-faced ingenue from The Artist. Given that pedigree, it's not surprising that there's Oscar…

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  • Casting Bits: Lea Seydoux In 'Grand Central', Nolan Funk In 'Riddick', Mark Webber In 'Arranged Marriage'

    Rising French stars Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol) and Tahar Rahim (A Prophet) are set to lead Grand Central, a France-set contemporary romantic drama by Rebecca Zlotowski. Rahim will play a danger-addicted man whose nuclear facility job exposes him to deadly radiation levels. He's transformed by a forbidden affair with…

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  • 'Black Gold' Trailer

    We don't know a whole lot about Black Gold, the new film from Jean-Jacques Annaud (Seven Years in Tibet, Two Brothers). It stars Antonio Banderas, Mark Strong, Freida Pinto, and Tahar Rahim, the lead of A Prophet. The film was shot on location in the Sahara, with a script based on the book South of…

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  • Antonio Banderas, Mark Strong And Freida Pinto Cast In 'Black Gold'

    It's difficult to say whether Black Gold, which seeks to tell a tale of rival Arabic rulers during the Arab oil boom of the 1930s, will be any good. But the film, which will be directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (Seven Years in Tibet) has an interesting cast: Antonio Banderas toplines, with Mark Strong, Freida Pinto…

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  • A Prophet's Tahar Rahim To Star In Emir Kusturica's Cool Water

    This is one of those articles that seems like pushing a rock uphill -- possibly unfamiliar names in the title, a movie that we don't have much info on, etc. Why should you care about Cool Water? For one, because the newly cast Tahar Rahim is amazing in Jacques Audiard's A Prophet. And because Emir…

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