This week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, Russ Fischer, and Adam Quigley discuss some of the best films at Sundance 2011, react to this year's Academy Award nominations, and deconstruct Kevin Smith's controversial remarks at the Sundance Red State screening. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us for our next live broadcast…
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The Rite is based on Matt Baglio‘s nonfiction book The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, but the film, directed by Mikael Hafstrom and starring Anthony Hopkins, Colin O'Donoghue, Alice Braga, Ciaran Hinds, and Toby Jones, looks like it has taken a few liberties with the text. I hope not too many, because the…
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A bunch of new movie posters have hit the web over the last 12 hours, including new one-sheets for Greg Mottola's sci-fi comedy Paul starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, and Bill Hader, The Mechanic remake starring Jason Statham, Ben Foster, and Donald Sutherland, the computer animated feature Gnomeo and Juliet, the…
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Since Anthony Hopkins was first cast in Mikael Hafstroem's film The Rite earlier this year, I've wondered what kind of film it might end up being. The script is based on Matt Baglio's book The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, which seeks to delve into the real-world practice of exorcism. I was afraid…
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Warner Bros, Walt Disney Pictures and 20th Century Fox have announced new release dates for a sixteen films to be released over the next three years. We have information and dates for all of the films, after the jump. New Line's follow-up to Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve will be released on December 9th 2011.…
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Since the great success of Mad Men, we've been waiting to see Jon Hamm break into movies in a huge way, but with the show still going, he's primarily taken supporting roles. He's shot parts for a couple forthcoming projects, like Ben Affleck's The Town, and Sucker Punch and Howl. Now he's in talks for…
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I'm pretty curious about the Anthony Hopkins film The Rite, which is based upon the book The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, by Matt Baglio. The book is about the real-world practice of exorcism, and the Michael Petroni script is said to be faithful to it. Hopkins will play "a priest who is…
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Anthony Hopkins is the first to board a film called The Rite, a supernatural thriller from New Line. The studio has had the property for a while, and casting Hopkins suggests that it is really moving forward. Mikael Hafstrom directs from Michael Petroni's script. But what is the film about? Read on... THR offers that…
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