• 'Ruby Sparks' Trailer: From The Team Behind 'Little Miss Sunshine'

    A young, struggling author begins to fall in love with the woman he's writing about and then, one day, she manifests herself in his apartment. Is she real? Where did she come from? Is their love something that can endure? These are the questions central to Ruby Sparks, a new film by the directors of…

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  • Michael Stahl-David & Zoe Kazan Cast In Joss Whedon-Penned 'In Your Eyes'

    Last year Joss Whedon made an unexpected announcement: in addition to making Marvel's The Avengers, he had formed a company called Bellwether Pictures, intended as a 'micro-studio' that will create small indie films. The first Bellwether film is already shot; it is a Whedon-directed adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. The next Bellwether announcement…

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  • Casting Bits: Alia Shawkat In 'He Loves Me' And 'The Brass Teapot', Jacki Weaver In 'Stoker', David Oyelowo In 'The Paperboy'

    Alia Shawkat may not be quite as ubiquitous as Arrested Development co-star Jason Bateman, but she's been quietly beefing up her film resume over the past few years. Recently, Shawkat added two more projects to her slate: He Loves Me, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' follow-up to Little Miss Sunshine; and The Brass Teapot, starring…

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  • Casting Bits: Josh Pence Signs Up For 'More As This Story Develops', Annette Bening Joins 'He Loves Me', Robert De Niro Considering 'The Silver Linings Playbook'

    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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  • 'Meek's Cutoff' Trailer: A Tense Conflict Of Wills In The West

    "We're not lost, we're just finding our way." I've heard nothing but good things about Kelly Reichardt's Oregon Trail western Meek's Cutoff, which premiered at Venice last year and has gone on to do well at other festivals. Michelle Williams stars as one member of a multi-family wagon train that is led into the wilderness…

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