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Share/Bookmark This week MTV got to talk to Simon Kinberg about writing and producing the untitled X-Men: First Class sequel. Again to be directed by Matthew Vaughn, Kinberg told MTV that the sequel will focus largely on the character of Magneto, who is again to be played by Shame‘s Michael Fassbender, and that it would [...]
Share/BookmarkMichael Stahl-David and Zoe Kazan are set to lead in Joss Whedon’s science-fiction romantic indie film, In Your Eyes. Directed by Brin Hill with a script by Joss Whedon, the film is a metaphysical love story in which Stahl-David plays the character of Dylan who lives in a trailer in New Mexico after serving time [...]
Share/BookmarkFilm4 have announced that Steve Coogan is to reunite with director Michael Winterbottom for a biopic of infamous Soho porn man Paul Raymond in the film King of Soho. Winterbottom recently directed Coogan in the BBC series The Trip which featured a classic Caine-off between Coogan and co-star Rob Brydon ( you can see that [...]
Share/BookmarkJennifer Aniston (The Good Girl) and Dennis Quaid (Frequency) are in talks to star in Switch. Aniston and Quaid will appear opposite Ty Burrell (The Incredible Hulk), John Hawkes (Martha Marcy May Marlene) and Yasiin Bey (The Italian Job) in the adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s novel of the same name. Switch, which serves as a pseudo prequel to Quentin Tarantino’s [...]
Share/BookmarkDominic Cooper (The Devil’s Double) has signed on to star in Cities, replacing Clive Owen (Closer) in the lead role. Cooper will appear opposite Kirsten Dunst (Spider-Man), Orlando Bloom (Elizabethtown), and Anil Kapoor (Slumdog Millionaire) in the international thriller. Cities intertwines the stories of characters around the globe, including a New York hedge fund manager, a Mumbai [...]
Share/BookmarkAustralian actor Sullivan Stapleton is in final negotiations to lead in Noam Murro’s 300 prequel, it has been announced this week. The apparently untitled prequel (Or 300: Battle of Artemisia as most are naming it), will tell the story of Greek General Themistocles, who leads Athens against Persian invaders in a battle played out simultaneously [...]
Share/BookmarkJennifer Aniston, of course best known for her role as Rachel in Friends, has been doing brilliantly with her movie career in the years since the end of that iconic TV show, taking roles in much-talked about films Marley & Me, The Break-Up, Horrible Bosses, and the upcoming Wanderlust, opposite her Friends co-star, Paul Rudd. [...]
Share/BookmarkJohn 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 [...]
Share/BookmarkSally 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 [...]
Share/BookmarkAfter starring opposite each other in the brilliant and successful Wedding Crashers back in 2005, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are set to reunite for what sounds like a very promising comedy, Interns. Shawn Levy (Real Steel) will be taking the helm for this, having worked with Vaughn producing his upcoming Neighborhood Watch, with the [...]
Share/BookmarkTowards the end of last year, we heard that rising star Jessica Chastain, for whom 2011 was an incredibly impressive year, was set to play Princess Diana as the lead in the film Caught in Flight. Word now comes via Variety that Naomi Watts has been cast in the role instead, and will be directed [...]
Share/BookmarkMary 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 [...]
Share/BookmarkTom 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. [...]
Share/BookmarkWell, this is some rather cool news as everyone’s favourite Scottish Comedic legend has been announced to be joining Peter Jackson in New Zealand in The Hobbit! Connolly will play the role of Dain Ironfoot, a great dwarf warrior and cousin of Thorin Oakenshield. According to Deadline: Billy Connolly is to join the cast in [...]
Share/BookmarkWith a career that began back in 1969, Terrence Malick has become one of the best known directors in film, despite having directed just six films in the past fifty years, well known for the gaps between his films. More recently, however, the writer-director has been beyond prolific, winning the Palme d’Or at last year’s [...]
Share/BookmarkHaving become one of the best-known actors working in Hollywood in recent years, with (500) Days of Summer and then Inception introducing him to huge audiences and critical acclaim, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is now set to make his foray into feature directing, already having a number of shorts under his belt. Deadline report that Gordon-Levitt will [...]
Share/BookmarkAmy Adams’ career in recent years has seen a terrific rise, and it’s been great to see her gaining more and more recognition, already having three Oscar nominations to her name for her roles in Junebug, Doubt, and The Fighter. Her upcoming roles are most certainly numerous already, including The Muppets (which comes in the [...]
Share/BookmarkMark 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 [...]
Share/BookmarkBest known for her role as Dr. Elliot Reid in Scrubs, Sarah Chalke has signed on to star in a new ABC pilot from Claudia Lonow, the creator of Accidentally on Purpose. She’ll be taking the lead role for the show, entitled, How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life. The [...]
Share/BookmarkLizzy 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 [...]
