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Daniel Radcliffe Will Fight The Yakuza In Thriller Tokyo Vice
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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
1 hour ago
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
1 hour 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
1 hour 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
1 hour 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
2 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
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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
4 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
4 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
4 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
5 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 »
Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice Finally Shooting This Month
5 hours ago
Even after everyone had moved on to fighting over whether or not Zero Dark Thirty endorsed torture and joining the "Ben Affleck was robbed!" pity party, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master remained one of the most divisive films of awards season, the movie that even some of his die-hard fans couldn't quite love. Then its three lead actors-- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams-- all got Oscar nominations in categories we knew they wouldn't win, and Oscar season marched happily along without them. Anderson, as usual, didn't seem to pay a bit of attention to the hubbub and went on quietly preparing his adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice. Though at one point Robert Downey Jr. was set to star, he was replaced in January by Joaquin Phoenix-- and that was really the last we heard about it. Now, thankfully, well-connected Anderson fan site »
Star Wars Episode VII May Shoot And Do Visual Effects Work In London
6 hours ago
They're so firmly entrenched in pop culture legend that many of us want to believe the Star Wars films actually were shot somewhere in outer space. But even though J.J. Abrams will probably have all the money in the world to shoot Star Wars: Episode VII in the next year or so, that won't be enough to get him into orbit (yet). So how about London, England subbing for a galaxy far, far away this time? According to The Wrap, Industrial Light and Magic is looking at opening up a brand-new production facility in the United Kingdom, as they prepare for what ought to be the gargantuan task of kicking off a new Star Wars trilogy (plus assorted spinoffs). The Wrap suggests that the film may be partly shot in London, but the Ilm expansion would be strictly about the visual effects-- they're even considering installing a new fiber-optic »
Iron Man 3 Mondo Posters: You Need To Own These
7 hours ago
Mondo remains the source for the best, most creative new posters about old movies you love, but they're getting better and better at crafting remarkable art to surround new releases-- at least the new releases that stand a decent chance of becoming classics someday. The above poster you see, plus the variant and the additional design below, were all commissioned by Mondo on the occasion of Iron Man 3, and hardcore fans of the man in the suit will be able to celebrate the new movie by buying these posters on Friday. The posters will go on sale on May 3 at MondoTees.com, and you'll have to follow Mondo on Twitter to see the exact time they'll go on sale. Martin Ansin is the guy behind the gloriously old-school one that emphasizes Tony Stark's suit, and as you'll probably learn when seeing the film this weekend, nicely reflects the vibe »
Ender's Game Movie Trailer Will Arrive Next Week
7 hours ago
Those of us who weren't at CinameCon have only had a couple of glimpses at the Ender's Game movie, in the form of two stills and one peek at the zero gravity Battle Room in the first official poster for the adaptation of Orson Scott Card's popular sci-fi novel. We'll be getting another look at the movie soon enough, as the trailer is set to make its online debut in less than a week. The announcement was made on the Ender's Game Facebook page last night, that the trailer would debut in 7 days, which is May 7 (next Tuesday.) Directed by Gavin Hood, Ender's Game stars Asa Butterfield as a kid who's recruited to join other gifted children in a space-set battle school where humanity is preparing to fight a war against an alien race. Harrison Ford plays Colonel Graff and Ben Kingsley plays International Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham. Also »
Hugh Laurie Teaches Dickens In International Trailer For Mr. Pip
13 hours ago
The long-running drama series House may not have been at its best when it finally came to an end in May of 2012, but it was at least doing one valuable service: putting Hugh Laurie on television once a week. But while not being able to witness his brilliance weekly is a bummer, the show being over does open the door for Laurie to pursue more film work. For example, the upcoming drama Mr. Pip, which just released its first trailer on the Paramount New Zealand YouTube page. Based on the novel by Lloyd Jones and adapted and directed by Andrew Adamson (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), the film is set in Papua New Guinea where a young girl becomes inspired by the lead character in Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations, which she learns about from a white teacher named Mr. Watts (Laurie). Unfortunately, »
Jessica Chastain Joins Niki Caro's WWII Drama The Zookeeper's Wife
17 hours ago
If anyone in the film-watching world can possibly say, .Who is Jessica Chastain?. at this point, then it's hard to say they're part of the film-watching world. She was last in this year.s mediocre creep-fest Mama and was nominated for an Oscar in last year.s politically-charged Zero Dark Thirty, and she was in nine other films since 2011, playing characters of all different shades. And now it seems she.ll be headed back to World War II for her next film...well, one of her next films. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Chastain is set to star in the adaptation of The Zookeeper.s Wife, a 2007 novel written by Diane Ackerman. The film also found its director in Niki Caro, most famous for her 2002 family drama Whale Rider (partially due to her second film, 2009.s A Perfect Vintage, not being particularly memorable). The new film is being produced and »
Sharlto Copley To Star In Neill Blomkamp's Sci-Fi Comedy Chappie
20 hours ago
It's not too much to say that Sharlto Copley owes his entire acting career to writer/director Neill Blomkamp. The South African star had no aspirations of becoming an actor before the filmmaker put him in his 2006 short film Alive in Joburg and then made him the lead of 2009's District 9. Since his amazing debut, the actor has worked on a couple other projects, including Joe Carnahan's A-Team and the upcoming sci-fi thriller Europa Report, but this summer will once again be uniting with Blomkamp for Elysium. And their partnership won't be ending there. Entertainment Weekly has learned that Blomkamp and Copley will once again team on Chappie, the director's third feature effort. Unlike their previous collaborations, this new film will apparently be much lighter, with the star describing it as "a science-fiction comedy." Plot details about the film are being kept under wraps at the moment, but »
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