With just days to go until Oscar nominations are announced, the Writers Guild of America has unveiled its list of nominees for their top screenplay awards. As expected, many of these are films that have picked up plenty of accolades already. It'll surprise no one to see that Zero Dark Thirty, Moonrise Kingdom, and Lincoln are among the…
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Cannes is a big festival when it comes to film premieres, but there are also occasionally (very occasionally) previews of titles that weren't ready for the festival. Today the Weinstein Company showed off footage from three new films: Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, and David O Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook.…
Read MoreThis Thanksgiving brings a slew of intriguing releases, from family-friendly fare like The Muppets and Hugo to possible Oscar contenders like The Artist and My Week with Marilyn, and now we have at least one reason to look forward to next year's holiday as well. The Weinstein Co. have just decided on a November 21,…
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Bradley Cooper first broke out playing a moneyed douchebag in Wedding Crashers, and then went on to cement that fame playing a somewhat less moneyed douchebag in the Hangover franchise. But he's obviously been working on branching out, landing a string of interesting roles including the lead in David O. Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook.…
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My Week with Marilyn star Eddie Redmayne will join Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Anne Hathaway in Tom Hooper's prestige musical Les Miserables. Based on the hit Broadway show and Victor Hugo's classic novel of the same title, the film follows an ex-con named Valjean (Jackman) in 19th century France as he seeks to redeem…
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Good things keep coming for the stars of Animal Kingdom, as Jacki Weaver lands a role in David O. Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook. Weaver will play Bradley Cooper's mother in the film, based on Matthew Quick's novel about a former high school teacher (Cooper) who’s just been released from a four-year stint at a…
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The career of Chris Tucker is an unusual one, as movie star careers go. He's got only eleven feature credits, three of which are for very small roles. He's primarily a star based on The Fifth Element and three Rush Hour movies. Because those three Rush Hour movies have earned an amount of money that…
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Way back in late 2010, we reported on the potential casting of Bradley Cooper in the lead role for David O. Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook. At some point, however, Mark Wahlberg emerged as the star of the film, and Cooper was no longer associated with the project. Now, it's looking like we're back to…
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Jennifer Lawrence is reportedly leading the pack of actresses vying for David O. Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook, ahead of the likes of seemingly every rising (or recently risen) starlet in town. Elizabeth Banks, Kirsten Dunst, Blake Lively, Rooney Mara, Rachel McAdams, Andrea Riseborough, and Olivia Wilde were all among Lawrence's competitors for the part. If…
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Most audiences probably wouldn't recognize Josh Pence from his big role in The Social Network -- after all, his face was completely edited out of the film -- but it looks like the part's paid off for Pence all the same. Pence has just joined the cast of The Social Network writer Aaron Sorkin's upcoming…
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When David O. Russell stepped away from Sony's tentpole Uncharted, it looked like The Silver Linings Playbook, based on Matthew Quick's novel, would be his next film. (The project had already been rumored as a possibility to be made before Uncharted.) Mark Wahlberg is set to star as "a delusional former high school history teacher…
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Here's something I expect many fans of the Uncharted video games will like: David O. Russell has quit the feature film adaptation of the game, leaving Sony looking for a new director. This is actually the second time we've reported that he wouldn't make Uncharted. It was just over a year ago, in early May…
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Lately there's a casting rumor every single day, and the latest is a one-two for Anne Hathaway, who has been mentioned as the latest possible lead for the revamped Barbarella, and for David O. Russell's possible feature The Silver Linings Playbook. But The Playlist talked to a rep for the actress who says she hasn't…
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Given the flurry of news on David O. Russell's planned adaptation of the video game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, there have been assumptions that it would be his next film. But we know he's only half done with the script at this point, which means the film can't be greenlit, so it may be premature to…
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