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A first look at The Fighter
14 hours ago
The first images have arrived for David O Russell's latest, The Fighter. Originally developed by Darren Aronofsky and planned for Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg, the film's been through the wringer with financial and script worries and Damon dropping out with a possible Brad Pitt replacement never working out. Aronofsky himself left the film in April, with Russell taking over for the tale of Boston boxer "Irish" Mickey Ward (Wahlberg) and his trainer/former fighter-turned-druggie Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale), plus Amy Adams as...
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- James White
Date Night trailer lands
14 hours ago
The first trailer for Date Night, starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey, has arrived online and you can see it below. A sort of middle-aged After Hours, it finds the TV comedy titans as Phil and Claire Foster, an unassuming suburban couple whose lives are these days dominated by their kids' schedules. Aiming to put a little pep back into their romance, they decide to hit New York and a swanky restaurant, but when they take someone else's reservation in order to get a table, the mix-up lands them in big trouble with crooked cops and...
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- James White
See the new Kick-Ass Poster
14 hours ago
The brand new Kick-Ass poster is available below for your gawking pleasure. It's been quite a week for Matthew Vaughn's film, which won plenty of praise for the first, fun trailer and now has a fresh image, courtesy of MySpace, to go along with it. Unlike the character pages that showcased all the characters, this is a spotlight on Kick-Ass himself, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), looking particularly rough after a night battling crime. It's in perfect keeping with the ballsy, funny tone of the movie and just makes us want to see it...
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- James White
Monopoly movie's plot is revealed
14 hours ago
We've all been wondering for a while just how you bring a seemingly story-free game like Monopoly to the big screen. Well, wonder no more - if writer Frank Beddor gets his way (and with Ridley Scott's approval, he may just), it'll involve sucking an everyday schlub Jumanji style into the world of the game to battle the evil Parker brothers for the future of the place. The La Times caught up with Beddor, who is launching the third in a series of novels which see characters from Alice In Wonderland launching a war against the...
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- James White
Harvey Keitel on for Little Fockers
14 hours ago
Harvey Keitel has decided to join the latest outing of the Fockers franchise. Obviously motivated by high artistic value and definitely not the chance to hang around with the likes of Ben Stiller, Teri Polo and Bob De Niro for a decent payday, Keitel has signed on to play a contractor employed by Stiller's Gaylord Focker. Yes, the dark powers that Universal has summoned to make sure this one keeps moving have taken another victim for Paul Weitz to direct and Keitel will join other newcomers like Jessica Alba and Laura Dern. He's...
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- James White
Extraordinary Measures trailer is here
14 hours ago
The first promo for medical drama Extraordinary Measures, starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser, can be watched below. Inspired by a true story, it follows Fraser and wife Keri Russell as the desperate parents of two very ill children. Losing hope, they decide to track down the one medical genius (Ford) who may just hold the key to prolonging the kids' lives. But it comes with a serious price tag and the doctor is not your traditional hero. How's the trailer? Well, you know those based-on-truth films where you can predict each...
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- James White
Clash Of The Titans trailer hits!
11 November 2009 12:48 AM, PST
The rock-tastic first teaser trailer for the new Clash Of The Titans has arrived online and you can view it below. This update of the stop-motion-filled 1981 classic switches things up with more mythical monsters, all brought to life using the latest CG techniques. Our new Perseus is Sam Worthington, a man on a quest to battle the evil overtaking his homelands and aiming to stop nasty old Hades (Ralph Fiennes) from usurping Zeus (Liam Neeson). Louis Leterrier's version definitely goes for more of a 300/Troy vibe than the original -...
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- Total Film
Kick-Ass trailer is here!
11 November 2009 12:46 AM, PST
The teaser trailer for Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass just won't be contained and has arrived on the magical interwebs. Yes, ever since Comic-Con, we've been waiting for something that can actually show off the brutally comic side of the film and while promo obviously can't go too far, it does give you a flavour of the Mark Millar adaptation. Playing fast and loose, the teaser introduces us to the idea running through the head of comic-obsessed lad Dave Lizewski, who figures anyone can be a superhero, even if they don't have powers. Or...
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- Total Film
The A-Team has a classic cameo
11 November 2009 12:45 AM, PST
The minute the new A-Team film became an actual, shooting reality, we were sort of hoping this would happen - one of the original cast has a cameo! The "one" in question is Dwight Schultz, who has been up in Vancouver shooting a small role in the film according to his official fan site. And he seems impressed with the man who has taken over his iconic role - District 9's Sharlto Copley. Glowing with praise, Schultz calls him "brilliant beyond words," and after getting a look at the man's screen test, he's convinced...
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- James White
Docter working on an original Pixar pic?
11 November 2009 12:44 AM, PST
Looks like Up director and Pixar brain trust member Pete Docter's next film might not feature a return to Monstropolis. For a while now, rumours have been building - despite no official confirmation, and only Docter's vague suggestion that he's pondered the concepts - that Pixar will produce a sequel to the 2001 hit. But when New York Magazine pinned him down to talk about Up, they also got him to mention the future, at least to the extent that the slippery studio bods ever fees up to upcoming movies. "That one I just...
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- James White
First official look at The Sorcerer's Apprentice
11 November 2009 12:44 AM, PST
We've seen shots from the set and pap footage of cars crashing, but now the first official images from Disney's new The Sorcerer's Apprentice have snuck out. Fanboyz.net tracked them down in an AMC catalogue which also had the more recent Alice In Wonderland material. It's also our first cleat look at Tropic Thunder's Jay Baruchel (below right) as the titular wand wannabe, with Cage is a master wizard who reluctantly agrees to train the young man when evil rises in New York. Something else that needs training? Nic Cage's hair. A real...
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- James White
New poster for Alice In Wonderland!
10 November 2009 9:48 AM, PST
Landing on the international computer link-up this afternoon is a brand new poster for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, featuring Helena Bonham Carter's Red Queen, Anne Hathaway's White Queen, Stephen Fry's Cheshire Cat, Matt Lucas' Tweedledum and Tweedledee - but no Alice. The story is set up as a sequel to Lewis Carroll's original novels, with a 19 year-old Alice (played by Mia Wasikowska) returning to Wonderland to escape a marriage proposal, and finding it in much worse shape than she left it years earlier. See the poster...
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- Total Film
Exclusive Image Of Pixar Star in Charity Campaign
10 November 2009 5:39 AM, PST
Carl Frederickson, the septuagenarian protagonist from Disney Pixar’s Up is hardly a spring chicken, but he’s putting this to good use by becoming the latest ambassador for the Hear The World campaign. Carl is in his late 70s, a retired balloon salesman, and even has his own hearing aid, but this doesn’t stop him trying to fulfil his dream to visit South America in animated motion picture Up. He is a perfect candidate to join celebrities like Jude Law, Elle McPherson, Annie Lennox, Bryan Adams, Joss Stone and...
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- Dan Goodswen
Could Rachel McAdams be Black Cat?
10 November 2009 12:34 AM, PST
The rumours surrounding Spider-Man 4 have begun to accelerate now that Sam Raimi and co are getting ready to cast the thing, with Rachel McAdams being considered. And just who might McAdams - soon to be seen in Sherlock Holmes - be playing? Step forward Felicia Hardy, better known as Black Cat. Mania's sources are saying that McAdams has met with the film's producers, and is considered a top contender for the part. Of course, nothing official has been announced, so it could all be so much rumour for now. But as the site points out,...
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- James White
Guillermo del Toro will appear in The Hobbit!
10 November 2009 12:34 AM, PST
Looks like part of Guillermo del Toro's extensive preparation for The Hobbit has stretched to finding a small, monstrous cameo in the film. Speaking on a German TV show, Gdt has talked about how he's planning to crop up as a creature, though "“not an important one, just a background guy.” And after the boards of the One Ring site dug up the interview, the ever-approachable auteur showed up to drop an extra snippet: "I had a hand on the design of the creature and I will personally sculpt the appliances that will be...
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- James White
Winona Ryder joins Black Swan
10 November 2009 12:33 AM, PST
Darren Aronofsky has been gathering more cast for Black Swan, with Winona Ryder, Vincent Cassel and Barbara Hershey. The plot finds Natalie Portman as Nina, an expert ballerina who finds herself locked into a rivalry with a fellow dancer named Lilly (Mila Kunis), who seems a lot like her. Is Nina going crazy? Having visions? Or is it something else? (Cue dramatic music sting here). Ryder will play Beth, a friend of Nina's and who is a near the end of her career, while Cassel is Yevna, the handsome-yet-creepy new director of the stage...
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- James White
Danny Elfman off The Wolfman
10 November 2009 12:33 AM, PST
There's yet more trouble in Wolfman land - composer Danny elfman is no longer working on the film. Despite an enthusiastic thumbs up from current director Joe Johnston when he signed on to write the score, Elfman is now off the project, with the official release talking up "scheduling issues". While that's a possibility, Cinemascore did a little digging and discovered that Elfman had in fact completed an entire set of tracks for the film, which will now be likely consigned to the dustbin of history. In his place? Er…...
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- James White
Will Smith taking Flowers For Algernon?
10 November 2009 12:32 AM, PST
Will Smith is apparently looking to produce and star in an adaptation of Daniel Keyes' beloved Sf novel Flowers For Algernon. Keyes' book follows Charlie, a mentally impaired man who becomes the guinea pig for an experimental surgery to boost intelligence. He's not the first test subject - the procedure is successfully used on Algernon, a lab mouse. But while Charlie's intelligence triples, he becomes estranged from those around him. And then he discovers that the procedure has a serious downside... The story has been adapted for...
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- James White
Len Wiseman directing Nocturne
10 November 2009 12:31 AM, PST
Die Hard 4.0 director Len Wiseman is considering directing Nocturne for Fox. The film is based on an unusual thing - an original idea - that follows a group of people in a post-apocalyptic world and a mystery as to how they all survived the cataclysm. While that title might be changing - the still-in-development project has no writer and is also listed as "untitled" - Fox is hoping that Wiseman will sign on, since he still hasn't picked a follow-up to John McClane's latest outing. He's got a few films bubbling...
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- James White
David Fincher on The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud
9 November 2009 12:34 AM, PST
He's only just throwing himself into making The Social Network and yet David Fincher has already started looking at new projects, zeroing in on novel The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud. Proud focuses on a college prof who starts having recurring nightmares and realises they might be part of a past life. Heading out on a mission to find the source, he tracks down a woman and her daughter who might just hold the key to his troubles. Max Ehrlich's novel has already been put on screen once before - in 1975 with Margo Kidder and Michael...
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- James White
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