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You.ll Never See Him Coming: Sir Ben Kingsley Talks Playing The Mandarin In Iron Man 3
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In Shane Black.s Iron Man 3, The Mandarin is a dangerous enigma. He shows his power through destruction and his leadership through numbers. He speaks in a stern, clear voice and stares at you from a distance on the other side of a monitor. He is completely immersed in his own philosophy. For his performance, Sir Ben Kingsley dove head first into the character and crafted what is certainly one of the most memorable villains the genre has ever seen. Last week I had the pleasure of sitting down with the Oscar winner one-on-one to talk about his villainous turn in the brand new Iron Man film. Check out our conversation below, in which Kingsley discusses not only his inspirations for his performance as The Mandarin, but the effect of having a character who lives in a bubble, and the value of holding on to a secret. You.re »
Bradley Cooper Forced To Drop Out Of Natalie Portman's Jane Got A Gun
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The upcoming Natalie Portman western Jane Got A Gun hit hard times when director Lynne Ramsay dropped off of the project on what should have been the first day of production. Following her was Jude Law, who had signed on to the movie simply for the chance to work with Ramsay, and the production had to scramble to find replacements. When the dust cleared it seemed like everything was going to be okay, however. Warrior filmmaker Gavin O'Connor took over as director, and Bradley Cooper took Law's place on the cast list. But this roller coaster ride isn't over yet. Deadline says that Cooper has been forced to abandon his role in Jane Got A Gun - for reasons completely separate from the production. The site says that the terrorist bombings in Boston delayed the production schedule of David O. Russell's American Hustle, which Cooper has been filming the »
Logan Lerman Going For A Tank Ride With Brad Pitt In David Ayer's Fury
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It seems Shia Labeouf won't be the only young actor soldiering up with Brad Pitt for David Ayer's World War II tank drama Fury, as Deadline is now reporting that Logan Lerman, best known for playing the titular character in the Percy Jackson movies, has also signed on for a role in the new film. According to the site he will play, "Norman Ellison, an Army typist and the youngest and most inexperienced member of the crew who is thrust into being a tank gunner." The film, written by Ayer, follows a five-man American tank squadron in 1945 who ride in to fight off the remaining Nazi forces in Germany. The writer/director previously said of the story, "What these men went through is worthy of a complex, honest portrayal. This will have incredible, visceral action and complex rich characters. I plan to bring tank combat to life in a »
See Nic Cage As Every Character In Iron Man 3
4 hours ago
The headline says it all, and if that didn't do it, the above image definitely did. Presented to the world via Film Drunk, and created by Brazilian Photoshop master Matheus Candido, this is the Iron Man 3 poster, with every human face replaced by Nicolas Cage. Here's the original poster below, for reference. So far as we know Cage has never been rumored for a role in an Iron Man movie, though I'm now deeply curious about what his take would be on Ben Kingsley's The Mandarin, especially since the aviator sunglasses seem to suit him so well. But I can also imagine Cage as a cleaned-up Aldrich Killian type, especially since when we first meet the guy in a flashback scene at the beginning of Iron Man 3, he's got some grody, Cage-like flowing long hair. But if you want to catch Cage in a superhero movie, well, »
New Hangover Part III Poster Brings Back Jade And Carlos
4 hours ago
With the Wolf Pack set to travel back to Las Vegas in Todd Phillips' The Hangover Part III, it just made sense to bring back Jade, the single mother and prostitute with a heart of gold played by Heather Graham. But what's interesting is that within the world of the movies four years have passed, meaning that Jade's baby, which Alan (Zach Galifianakis) nicknamed Carlos in the first film, is now a toddler. And looking at the tagline on this new character poster, released by Total Film, the little kid has some questions. The Hangover Part III has been rolling out strange new posters all week, the first one featuring Alan's doomed pet giraffe, and the second showing off the villainous face of John Goodman. I wonder how much of the casting process to find four-year-old "Carlos" was dedicated to finding a kid who could wear a pair of »
How China's Version Of Iron Man 3 Differs From Everyone Else's
5 hours ago
Thanks to the growing market for American films in China, it has suddenly become commonplace for Hollywood films to create a cut specifically for Chinese theaters. The most extreme example of this came earlier this year when we found out that the Asian nation was seeing a completely different version of the comedy 21 & Over. Shane Black's Iron Man 3 is the latest film to shoot extra material to help it sell in China, but now it's been revealed what that additional footage is... and it doesn't seem to add anything to the movie or change it in any significant way. Be warned: there are Iron Man 3 spoilers below! Don't continue reading if you don't want to know about the ending of the movie. The Hollywood Reporter has done some digging and has discovered that there are only two extra scenes included in the China version that weren't included »
Tony Stark's Best One-Liners: The Iron Man Supercut
5 hours ago
Who knew that superheroes could be really, really funny in movies? Sure, it seems totally plausible now, in this post-Avengers world, but when Iron Man emerged in 2008-- the same summer that Batman went darker than ever in The Dark Knight-- Tony Stark and his endless arsenal of quips seemed like a revelation. By casting the quick-witted Robert Downey Jr. and giving him a lot of good lines, Marvel created the energetic superhero that we didn't really even know we needed. As you may have heard in many rave reviews, Tony Stark's quips are better than quicker than ever in Iron Man 3, thanks to the influence of new writer/director Shane Black. So we're celebrating some of Tony Stark's best moments from all three Iron Man movies as well as The Avengers. After you've watched the above video, join us in the comments to talk about any of »
Daniel Radcliffe Will Fight The Yakuza In Thriller Tokyo Vice
5 hours ago
Daniel Radcliffe is the process of managing an almost miraculous transition out of child Harry Potter stardom, and we are really, really enjoying getting to watch it happen. After launching a solid hit with The Woman In Black and then wowing Sundance audiences with Kill Your Darlings, he's getting ready to grow up in a new way: facing a villain who might be even scarier than Voldemort. According to Deadline, Radcliffe is now set to star in Tokyo Vice, a thriller based on the true story of Jake Adelstein, an American reporter who became a target of yakuza boss Tadamas Goto, a guy so terrifying he was called the John Gotti of Japan. Adelstein is still a reporter, and will work with screenwriter and playwright Jt Rogers to shape the story. On board to direct is Anthony Madler, a guy whose name you don't know but who has come up »
A Common Man Will Hit Blu-ray And DVD Later This Month
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On May 21, Anchor Bay Home Entertainment is bringing A Common Man onto Blu-ray and DVD. The film stars actor Ben Kingsley in the role of a man planting five bombs in a large city, threatening to detonate the devices if the government doesn.t release a group of terrorists into the populace. Kingsley doesn.t seem to be a normal terrorist, however. As the title notes, and the trailer explains, he.s just an .ordinary citizen.. Well, at least an ordinary citizen with an agenda. It may not be the best time to release a bomb-based film, but the trailer for the release is a pretty fast-paced, lengthy one, covering the main plot points pretty specifically. The one big mystery seems to be why Kingsley wishes to set the terrorists free in the first place. Throughout his career, Ben Kingsley has taken a variety of roles. Some have won him »
Transformers 4 Adds Kelsey Grammer As The Main Human Villain
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The last time Kelsey Grammer starred in a big summer action blockbuster he was very much on the heroic side, playing the fuzzy, blue, brilliant Beast in Brett Ratner's X-Men: The Last Stand. Now he's ready to give the season another shot, only this time he'll be playing for the other team. Deadline reports that the former Frasier star has been cast as the main human villain in Michael Bay's upcoming Transformers 4. The star, who won a Golden Globe for his performance on the series Boss in 2012, joins a cast that also includes Mark Wahlberg and, as recently revealed at CinemaCon, Stanley Tucci. The site says that Grammer will be playing a character named "Harold Attinger, a counter intelligence guy." How he will fit into the plot is currently unknown, mostly because we don't really know anything about the plot yet - including who the robot bad guy will be. »
Monsters University Photo Features A Very Enthusiastic Mike Wazowski
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School may be out for the summer in June, but classes are in session at Disney next month when Monsters University arrives in theaters. And something tells me, kids and grown-ups alike will be happy to attend classes with Sulley, Mike Wazowski and the rest of their scary pals. Speaking of classes, the latest still from the Monsters Inc. prequel shows Mike and Sulley in school, surrounded by their fellow scaring pupils. In addition to giving us a new look at some of the colorful monsters featured in the Pixar film, the photo (via Pixar's Facebook page) also clues us into what kind of students Mike and Sulley were. Sulley (John Goodman) can be seen in the center, his hands behind his head, his posture relaxed. He's either breezing through college or he's not worried one way or the other. Meanwhile, Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) has a stack of books »
Walking With Dinosaurs Trailer Brings Prehistoric Creatures Back To Life
6 hours ago
Watching this UK trailer for Walking With Dinosaurs, which comes to us thanks to MSN, I am left with one question: is this going to be a silent movie? I don't get the impression that the dinosaur characters are going to talk in this one, and the voice over was clearly made just for the trailer, so does that leave the film to just be an experimental silent movie about prehistoric creatures? If so, I'm totally in. The film is based on a BBC series from the late 90s that had the same name, and featured Kenneth Branagh performing narration. The interesting thing about the way it was shot - as you can see above - is that the environments are real and all of the creatures are digital. The show was made to seem like a normal nature documentary - just with digitally created animals. Has anyone else noticed »
Kirk And Scotty Run For It In Chaotic Star Trek Into Darkness Clip
6 hours ago
Star Trek Into Darkness, despite the fact that J.J. Abrams really doesn't want you to know anything about it, has been blasting us so hard with marketing materials in the past few weeks that we kind of feel like we've seen the whole thing. In fact, I've written a variation on that last sentence so many times lately that I'm exhausted from talking about how exhausted I am by all this promo. Can we see the damn film already so I can stop telling you guys how ready I am to see the damn film already? At least when we're talking about clips, like the one above that premiered at Yahoo!, there's actual content to talk about-- though here I'm more interested in the snippets of Michael Giacchino's score than yet another scene focusing on the imminent destruction of the Enterprise. But below we've also got a new poster, »
James D'Arcy Will Terrorize Jake Johnson And Damon Wayans Jr. In Let's Be Cops
6 hours ago
English actor James D'Arcy is best-known Stateside for his roles in dramas like the Napoleonic War adventure Master and Commander, the sprawling romantic epic Cloud Atlas, and the cheeky showbiz biopic Hitchcock. But before long we'll get to see this captivating thespian's comedy chops thanks to the buddy-comedy Let's Be Cops. Variety reports D'Arcy and Vampire Diaries' Nina Dobrev are the most recent cast members to join the 20th Century Fox comedy penned by Nicholas Thomas and Luke Greenfield. Earlier this year, Greenfield, who is also directing, landed Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr to front this funny feature. The two will play buddies who decide to masquerade as cops, but find themselves in some very real trouble when their charade enrages a real bad guy. It was a solid pairing that had us pumped about this project early on, but this latest casting announcement offers even more intrigue. For »
Brad Pitt Out Of James Gray's Spy Thriller The Gray Man
7 hours ago
Between exciting exploits, sexy honeypots, and heaps of hi-tech gadgetry, who doesn't want to be a movie spy? Well, for now, Brad Pitt. The A-lister who has been attached to the espionage thriller The Gray Man since 2011 has dropped the project, according to film reporter Jeff Sneider, who broke the news on Twitter today. Adapted from the Mark Greaney novel The Gray Man was to star Pitt as Court Gentry (A.K.A "The Gray Man), a spy/assassin who is notorious for his stealth and pristine (read: deadly) track record. While out on a job in the Middle East, he's shocked to discover that he has been determined more dangerous than valuable, and so the team set to retrieve him also plans to annihilate him. With his life on the line, Gentry must put all his spy skills to the test to evade his captors and save his own »
42 Star Chadwick Boseman Is The Latest Name On Black Panther Shortlist
8 hours ago
These days pretty much any rumor about a Marvel character getting his or her own movie can sound legitimate-- in a world where a gun-wielding raccoon will be trotted out as movie star, anything is possible. But conversation around Marvel's Black Panther has been starting and stopping for years now, with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige hinting at it from time to time, but nothing ever moving past the rumor stage. What we have today is still technically just a rumor, and it's one of those maddening shortlist stories that don't always turn into anything real. and yet, it's pretty interesting all the same. Latino Review, who have been following Black Panther news pretty closely, say that 42 star Chadwick Boseman is the latest to join the shortlist of actors in line to play the role, thanks to that modest film's pretty major box office success ($69 million after just 2 weeks in »
How Much Would It Cost To Buy Iron Man's House? More Than You've Got
9 hours ago
Tony Stark's house isn't real. Yes, I know he gives out his home address to The Mandarin and we've seen over and over again how his house gets blown into the ocean not long after. But Tony Stark's spacious Malibu pad was the invention of director Jon Favreau on the first Iron Man, with the help of CGI wizards (to put the house on the protected Malibu cliff) and set builders (to create the actual interior). But if we can pretend Iron Man is a real hero, real estate developers can assume Tony's cliffside manor is a real place-- and, in the case of Movoto, put it up for sale. You can click over there to see the logic they used to slap a price tag on it, including known real estate adages like the value of an ocean view and looking at the sale prices of other Malibu houses »
The Wolverine CinemaCon Footages Features Leaping Ninjas And A Silver Samurai
9 hours ago
Go ahead and watch the above video, which features the .exclusive CinemaCon footage. from James Mangold.s upcoming superhero flick The Wolverine . Snikt! Snikt! . and see if you agree with me that it should have been subtitled .It.s Going Down!. A good chunk of the 40-45 seconds of actual footage shown that features someone falling, someone jumping off of something, or just objects moving in a downward motion. Claws are released, ninjas leap from buildings, bodies are thrown around, someone jumps over a car, camera movements go downward, and we even get a shot of sunglasses slowly being taken off. For a movie that features an exceedingly over-the-top fight on top of a speeding train, there.s a lot of vertical going on here. It.s an underwhelming piece of a trailer, and I.m sure the Japanese version would be better, like the trailer. But for all that »
Ender's Game Reveals Ben Kingsley As Rackham
9 hours ago
It.s been a busy day for Ender.s Game fans. Earlier, we learned that the first official trailer for Gavin Hood.s sci-fi adventure will arrive roughly a week from now, on May 7. Then, EW.com shared the first look at Sir Ben Kingsley in character as war hero Mazer Rackham in the anticipated adaptation of Orson Scott Card.s 1985 novel. On creating the character, Kingsley says: It.s alchemy. In the script, which I think is beautifully written, what come across is the authority and mystery. There.s quite a lot said about him in the story before you see him . by the recruits and by his fellow officers . and that.s useful as far as preparations.. As the story goes, Rackham was a pivotal figure in the early battles against the Formics, a race of extraterrestrial creatures that wage a protracted war with our civilzation. Rackham will »
Watch The World's Smallest Film, About A Boy And His Atom
10 hours ago
When you watch a movie like Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, it is very easy to take for granted the ridiculously daunting task of making a stop-motion animation film. Even Aardman Animation.s short films take a wealth of time, resources and creative manpower. But all that can be filed under .miniature,. and not .the smallest film ever made.. Ibm can proudly boast particular achievement. With their atomically-charged short film A Boy and His Atom, a team from the tech giant created the above film which features only a set of arranged atoms and the surface they lay upon. Not actors named Adam, but atoms, people! Magnified 100 million times! Like the first bite-sized Atari game . the film itself is only about a minute long . this represents a seemingly simplistic advancement quite unlike anything ever seen before, while still looking wonderfully rudimentary as all hell. Admittedly, its plot »
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