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Lionsgate have released the U.K. poster for Joss Whedon’s long-delayed horror-thriller The Cabin in the Woods. Directed by Drew Goddard, The Cabin in the Woods stars Jodelle Ferland, Chris Hemsworth, Amy Acker, Jesse Williams, Fran Kranz, Kristen Connolly and Bradley Whitford. Five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods. Bad things happen. After a worldwide [...]
John Cusack (Being John Malkovich) and Evan Peters (Kick-Ass) are in advanced talks to star in Adult World. Cusack and Peters will appear opposite Emma Roberts (Scream 4) in the adult themed drama. Adult World centers on a recent college graduate (Roberts) who believes she’s destined to be a great poet, instead winds up working for [...]
Sally Hawkins (Made in Dagenham), Paul Giamatti (Win Win) and Paul Rudd (Knocked Up) have signed on to star in dramedy Lucky Dog. Lucky Dog centers on two rival conmen who pair up on a get-rich-quick-scheme to sell Christmas tress in New York. Phil Morrison, the filmmaker behind the acclaimed Junebug, will direct from a screenplay [...]
Lionsgate have acquired the US distribution rights to FilmNation’s All is Lost at the European Film Market in Berlin. Set to be directed by J.C. Chandor (Margin Call), All is Lost is the exhilarating journey of one man’s fight to survive after being lost at see. Robert Redford (Lions for Lambs) is attached to play the lead [...]
Sony Pictures Classics have released a colourful new poster for Damsels in Distress. Written and directed by Whit Sillman (The Last Days of Disco), Damsels in Distress stars Greta Gerwig (Greenberg), Adam Brody (Scream 4), Analeigh Tipton (Crazy Stupid Love), Megalyn Echikunwoke (The 4400), Hugh Becker (The Assault) and Carrie MacLemore (Gossip Girl). Three beautiful girls—Violet Wister (Gerwig), Rose (Echikunwoke) [...]
Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) has signed on to topline horror-thriller In Darkness. Loosely based on Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, In Darkness centers on an American student (Winstead) who starts to work for an English tutor, only to find out that she and the children she is looking after [...]
Tom Felton (Harry Potter, Rise of the Planet of the Apes) has signed on to star in crime-thriller Therese Raquin. Felton will star opposite Glenn Glose (Albert Nobbs) and Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene) in the adaptation of Emile Zola’s novel of the same name. Therese (Olsen) and her lover Laurent murder Camille (Felton), Therese’s husband. [...]
Hitting DVD this week is Albatross, a coming-of-age comedy-drama about a Emelia (Jessica Brown Findlay), a verbose, would-be writer’s incendiary effect on a struggling author, Jonathan (Sebastian Koch), and his respective family, including wife Joa (Julia Ormond) and daughter Beth (Felicity Jones). The film, which premiered at last year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival to wide acclaim, [...]
Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right) has signed on to star opposite Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation) in Can A Song Save Your Life. John Carney, director of the charming low-budget indie musical Once, is attached to direct from his own screenplay. Can A Song Save Your Life centers on a young female singer (Johansson) whose [...]
Magnolia Pictures have issued the first official trailer for Take This Waltz. Written and directed by Sarah Polley (Away from Her), Take This Waltz stars Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine), Seth Rogen (Knocked Up), Sarah Silverman (There’s Something About Mary), Luke Kirby (Shattered Glass) and Aaron Abrams (Cinderella Man). A funny, bittersweet and heart-wrenching story about [...]
Lizzy Caplan (Mean Girls) and Michael Sheen (Midnight in Paris) have signed on as the leads in Masters of Sex. Caplan and Sheen will portray human sexuality pioneers Virginia Johnson and William Masters in the Showtime drama pilot. Masters of Sex chronicles the lives and the intriguing, unusual relationship between Masters and Johnson, the pioneers into the science [...]
Catherine Keener (Where the Wild Things Are) is in early talks to star opposite Tom Hanks (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close) in Captain Phillips. Based on true events, Captain Phillips centers on Richard Phillips (Hanks), a sea captain who allows himself to be taken hostage by Somali pirates when his ship comes under attack. Kenner is [...]
Jessica Chastain (The Tree of Life), Joel Edgerton (Warrior) and William Hurt (Into the Wild) will star in a new double feature project from Myriad Pictures. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers will explore a couple’s relationship during a difficult time in their marriage from both sides. Written and directed by [...]
David Yates and Emma Watson, who worked together on the last four Harry Potter instalments, are set to reunite for Your Voice in My Head. Written by Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head centres on a young woman (Watson) who attempts suicide before being saved by a New York-based psychiatrist who’s dying of cancer. It is [...]
Justin Timberlake (The Social Network) has signed on to star opposite Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino) and Amy Adams (Junebug) in The Trouble with the Curve. Written by newcomer Randy Brown, The Trouble with the Curve centers on an ageing baseball scout (Eastwood) who takes a road trip to Atlanta with his daughter (Adams) to take a [...]
Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road) and Catherine Keener (Where the Wild Things Are) have signed on to star in Frank or Francis. Winslet and Keener will star opposite Steve Carell (Dan in Real Life), Jack Black (Be Kind Rewind), Nicolas Cage (Kick-Ass) and Kevin Kline (French Kiss) what’s being described as a “very meta musical comedy”. Frank [...]
Shark Night 3D arrives almost a year after Piranha 3D reigned supreme on DVD/Blu-ray. Unfortunately, where Piranha 3D relished in its ridiculousness, Shark Night 3D tries to escape that by “elevating” itself to something more. Where it had the potential to be another gory-filled B-movie homage (the fact it was originally called Untitled Shark Thriller [...]
The surprise winner of last year’s Sundance Film Festival was Like Crazy: unconventional filmmaker Drake Doremus’ take on the highs and lows of love. Unlike other romantic dramas, this one is able to subvert the clichéd trends and offer a simple yet fruitful romance story that relishes in its low-key charm. Anna (Felicity Jones), a [...]
Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) and Tilda Swinton (Burn After Reading) are in talks to star in Moho Films’ Snow Piercer. Bell and Swinton would star opposite Chris Evans (Captain America: The First Avenger) in the indie drama. Co-written by Joon-ho Bong (The Host) and Chan-wook Park (Lady Vengeance), Snow Piercer centres on a train full of travellers who struggle [...]
Seth Gordon (Four Christmases) has signed on to direct Universal Pictures’ Identity Theft. Identity Theft centers on a man whose identity is stolen by a woman. Jason Bateman (The Switch) and Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) are attached to star as the central duo. The script was written by Steve Conrad, with Craig Mazen responsible for re-writes. Identity Theft [...]
