New Spider-Man Still Shows He’s Ready For Action

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With all of the summer’s big hitters gearing up for the home stretch of post-production, editing, looping, scoring and the like, we can expect a steady stream of stills, trailers, clips and so forth to issue out of the machine that is the Wood of Holly. Indeed, it is less than a month until Super [...]

Intoxicating First Official Images Of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby With Leonardo DiCaprio And Carey Mulligan

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Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s renowned The Great Gatsby is one of the many highly anticipated films due out next year, and we’ve already seen some great photos from the set back in August and last month. We’ve now got two beautiful first official images from the film, courtesy of SassiSam via Collider, [...]

Pictures from The Great Gatsby Set

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Set pictures of Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire for the novel adaptation of The Great Gatsby have been put online this week, showing the cast filming at Centennial Park on Friday (18th November) in Sydney, Australia. Baz Luhrmann is directing the adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel. The story follows Nick Carraway [...]

The Great Gatsby Gets An Official Synopsis And A Promise From Luhrmann

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We recently got the first photos from the set of The Great Gatsby showing Leonardo DiCaprio looking younger than ever, cruising around in a classic car with Tobey Maguire riding shotgun. With production now underway, Collider report that the official synopsis for Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s brilliant novel has been released, along [...]

Leonardo DiCaprio Has Found The Fountain Of Youth In First Set Photos From The Great Gatsby

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There are a small number of actors and actresses in Hollywood who seem to be able to defy time and stop the aging process. The list would include the likes of Jodie Foster, Matthew Fox, Morgan Freeman, and a handful of others. The first photos from the set of Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming adaptation of F. [...]

Precious Director’s Lee Daniels Takes On The Paperboy With Big Cast Attached

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THR is reporting that Lee Daniels, director of 2009’s Academy Award-winning Precious, is going to be directing Matthew McConaughey, Tobey Maguire, Zac Efron, and Sofía Vergara in upcoming thriller, The Paperboy, the film adaptation of the 1995 book of the same name by Pete Dexter. Pedro Almodóvar (The Skin I Live In, All About My [...]

Ben Affleck Leaves The Great Gatsby, Isla Fisher Approaches

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All change for Baz Lurhmann’s big screen 3D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby as a long rumoured cast member walks away while any saunters in. e Affleck’s name has been floating around the project for a while now and he was rumoured to be set to star as Tom Buchanan, and now [...]

Ben Affleck in Talks for The Great Gatsby

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Ben Affleck (The Town) is in talks to star in The Great Gatsby, Warner Bros. Pictures’ 3D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary classic. Affleck is circling the role of Tom Buchanan and, if successful in his bid, would star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio (Inception), Tobey Maguire (Spider-Man) and Carey Mulligan (Never Let Me Go). Midwesterner Nick Carraway [...]

Carey Mulligan Officially Cast In The Great Gatsby

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Carey Mulligan (An Education) has officially signed on for the female lead role in Baz Luhrmann’s forthcoming adaptation of The Great Gatsby, Deadline have confirmed. Mulligan will portray Daisy Buchanan, and joins Leonardo DiCaprio (Inception) in the role of Gatsby, with reports suggesting Tobey Maguire (Spider-Man) is expected to play his friend, Nick Carraway, who narrates [...]

Has Baz Luhrmann Found his Leads for Gatsby Adaptation?

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It would appear that the auteur from down under, Baz Luhrmann, is ready to put the memory of his much-maligned romantic epic Australia behind him and get back into the director’s chair once again. Bleeding Cool have reported on the news that Luhrmann has met with previous leading man Leonardo DiCaprio, the luminous Rebecca Hall [...]

Tobey Maguire is One of the Good People

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Whatever the perceived rights and wrongs about Sony’s decision to ditch Sam Raimi and Maguire and reboot the Spidey franchise, it has obviously left Maguire with a bit more time on his hands. How is he filling it? Well, by producing and starring in an adaptation of the Marcus Sakey thriller “Good People”. The novel [...]

Andrew Garfield Discusses The Current Status Of Spider-Man Reboot

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Andrew Garfield – those of you still scratching your heads are now officially beyond help – has, at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, spoken further on his casting in Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man reboot. With dramatic double-bill The Social Network and Never Let Me Go due for release in the next few months, Garfied will [...]

Has Spider-Man’s Day Now Passed?

It was revealed this week that Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire have been ejected from the Spider-Man series, and that the franchise is to again be rebooted. Several reasons have been cited. The ‘official’ reason appears to be creative difference, the general consensus has added in financial reasons. Raimi’s Spider-Man has been one of the [...]

Spider-Man Being Rebooted?

The enormous sound heard around the world a moment ago was the collective drop of geek jaw at the news that Sony have scrapped plans to do a fourth Spider-Man film with Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi, instead they are sending Peter Parker back to high school. No, seriously. SuperHeroHype may soon collapse with the [...]

Preview: Brothers

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About ten years ago, three promising young actors were working to secure a place amongst the Hollywood A-list. Natalie Portman had finished her first major acting role, as Mathilda in Luc Bessons Leon. She would go on to make her major breakthrough in the Star Wars prequels. Tobey Maguire had small roles in respected films like [...]

TV Spot: Brothers

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I wouldn’t say that I’m the biggest Tobey Maguire fan in the world but after seeing a bit more of the movie for Brothers from the latest TV spot, it looks like a great performance. We showed the first trailer ack in July and this one features lots of the same clips but tells more [...]

Hungry Rabbit Jumps Casting

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Some more casting news reaching us from Variety.com that the wonderfully named “Mad Men” star January Jones has joined Nicolas Cage in the bizarrely named “The Hungry Rabbit Jumps”. Being directed by Roger Donaldson, he who directed Cocktail and the Bank job at both ends of his career, and having the current hit and mostly [...]