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Screenwriters Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay Talk R.I.P.D., Crafting a Buddy Cop Movie in a Supernatural World, Changing the Finale, Sequels, and More
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While their previous filmography is rather diverse (Crazy/Beautiful to Clash of the Titans), screenwriters Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay tackled a whole new genre with the upcoming R.I.P.D.—a buddy cop movie. The film is based on the Dark Horse comic of the same name and stars Ryan Reynolds as a newly deceased cop who joins a group of undead officers in the “Rest In Peace Department” to help combat a rising force of nefarious corpses. Reynolds is introduced to the world of the dead by an R.I.P.D. veteran played by Jeff Bridges, and what follows is a buddy cop film of sorts with a supernatural bent as gleaned by the pic's recent trailer. Steve recently sat down with Manfredi and Hay for an extended interview, and the two talked extensively about their work on R.I.P.D. They spoke about how they were first brought on to the film adaptation, »
- Adam Chitwood
Daniel Radcliffe Stars in Crime-Thriller Tokyo Vice; Naomi Watts in Talks for While We’Re Young; James D’Arcy and Nina Dobrev Sign on to Let’S Be Cops
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Here's today's casting update: Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter series) is set to star in crime-thriller Tokyo Vice for music video/commercials director Anthony Mandler, scripted by playwright Jt Rogers. Naomi Watts (King Kong) and Adam Driver (Girls) are in talks to join Ben Stiller (Zoolander) in the Noah Baumbach-directed midlife crisis comedy, While We're Young. James D'Arcy (Cloud Atlas) and Nina Dobrev (The Vampire Diaries) have joined the Luke Greenfield-directed comedy, Let's Be Cops. Hit the jump for more on each casting announcement. First up from Deadline is word that Radcliffe will take to Tokyo Vice as real-life American reporter Jake Adelstein who covered the crime beat in Tokyo while working at the Yomiuri Shinbun newspaper. During his tenure there, he went up against the “John Gotti of Japan," Yakuza boss Tadamasa Goto. Based on Adelstein’s memoir detailing the high personal cost and sacrifice of investigating and finally exposing the notorious gangster, »
- Dave Trumbore
Terrence Malick Working on Tree Of Life Director’s Cut; Voyage Of Time Planned for 2014 Release
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As if enigmatic filmmaker Terrence Malick didn’t already have enough on his plate with post-production work on two films he shot last year, it appears that he’s also retooling one of his past films as well. The Days of Heaven director returned to the cinemas after a six year absence with 2011’s brilliant The Tree of Life, and subsequently began working at an incredibly quick pace as he shot and released this year’s To the Wonder and filmed two movies back-to-back—Knight of Cups and an untitled feature—throughout the latter half of last year. Malick is known for taking his time (usually a year or two) in the editing room on his films given that he shoots a lot of footage and crafts the finished film in post-production, but in addition to editing his two recently shot films, editor Billy Weber reveals that Malick is also »
- Adam Chitwood
Al Pacino May Lead David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn
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David Gordon Green provided a nice return to form with his latest film, Prince Avalanche. However, that was an incredibly small production that was shrouded in secrecy. Nevertheless, after the comic misfires of Your Highness and The Sitter, it looks like he's returning to thoughtful drama with Joe and now Manglehorn. According to Deadline, Al Pacino is in talks to play A.J. Manglehorn, "an aging, ordinary guy in a small town who nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conversation with the local bank teller every Friday, and eats at the same place every day." But it turns out Manglehorn is an ex-con with a dark past who deeply regrets giving up his dream girl for a big score. Green describes the picture as "a love story, the choices you make in your youth and the situations you set up for yourself," but adds "there is a beautiful humor in this. »
- Matt Goldberg
Jim Sheridan to Direct Baseball/World War II Drama, Playing With The Enemy
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Director Jim Sheridan's last film, Dream House, did not go well. It didn't go well to the point of Sheridan actually wanting his name removed from the credits. Hopefully, the In America director will have better luck with his next picture, Playing with the Enemy. Deadline reports that Sheridan has signed on to helm the drama, which is based on Gary W. Moore's non-fiction novel of the same name. The story is based on Moore's father, Gene Moore, a 15-year-old baseball prodigy who was drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1940, and used his time in the Navy to create a relationship with German POWs in Louisiana during World War II. The plot also involves the father-son relationship between the Gene and Gary Moore. It sounds like a good story, and definitely in the vein of what audiences are looking for from their baseball movies. As we've seen with 42 and Moneyball, »
- Matt Goldberg
Kelsey Grammer Cast as Transformers 4 Villain
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Kelsey Grammer (Frasier) is more than meets the eye as the new - and quite human - antagonist for Michael Bay's Transformers 4. Not too much is known about his character except that he'll be playing counter-intelligence operative Harold Attinger - a flesh-and-blood baddie - and not a voice of any villainous Decepticons. Grammer will join Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Nicola Peltz and Jack Reynor in a story that centers on “a group of powerful, ingenious businessman and scientists [who] attempt to learn from past Transformer incursions and push the boundaries of technology beyond what they can control—all while an ancient, powerful Transformer menace sets Earth in his crosshairs.” Transformers 4 opens June 27, 2014. Hit the jump for more. Deadline reported on Grammer's addition to Bay's newest Transformers movie. Grammer also stars in writer/director John Herzfeld's drama Reach Me, which is expected to open later this year. He'll »
- Dave Trumbore
2013 Los Angeles Film Festival Lineup Includes The Way, Way Back, Only God Forgives, Fruitvale Station, and More
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The lineup for the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival has been announced. Fox Searchlight’s The Way, Way Back—which marks the directorial debut of Oscar-winning The Descendants screenwriters Jim Rash and Nat Faxon—has been selected as the closing night film, while Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives and the Sundance hits Fruitvale Station and The Spectacular Now will also fill out the festival. Additionally, the fest will host the Us premiere of the sci-fi thriller Europa Report starring Sharlto Copley and there will be community screenings of Badlands, Dazed and Confused and John Waters’ Hairspray. Hit the jump for the full press release. Here’s the press release: Film Independent Announces 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival Line-up Along With Closing Night Film And Galas - Fox Searchlight Pictures’ The Way, Way Back Written and Directed by Oscar® Winners Nat Faxon and Jim Rash to Close the Festival - - »
- Adam Chitwood
First Clip from Before Midnight Starring Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke
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Sony Pictures Classics has released the first clip from Richard Linklater's Before Midnight. The new film takes place 18 years after Before Sunrise and 9 years after Before Sunset, and sees Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) navigating married life on a trip to Greece. Like the previous films, it's a lot of walking and talking, but it absolutely works because of the intimate and lived-in chemistry between the lead actors, who also co-wrote the film with Linklater. I adored the movie when I saw it at Sundance, and this clip provides a good sense of the second act as the couple reflects back on the arc of their unique relationship. Hit the jump to check out the clip. Before Midnight opens in limited release on May 24th. Via Sony Pictures Classics. Here's the official synopsis for Before Midnight: In Before Midnight, we meet Celine and Jesse 9 years on. »
- Matt Goldberg
HBO Renews Veep for a Third Season
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Good news Selina Meyer fans -- HBO's excellent, biting political satire Veep has been renewed for a third season. The show has had steady ratings thanks to a big lead-in from Game of Thrones (last year it was paired in a programming bloc with Girls), and the premium network is showing its support three episodes into the series' second season by going ahead and electing Selina for another term (maybe the President will call?) Veep, created by Armando Iannucci (In The Loop), stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the hapless Vice-President, along with Anna Chlumsky, Tony Hale, Reid Scott, Matt Walsh and Sufe Bradshaw as her staff. Veep airs Sunday nights at 10 p.m. »
- Allison Keene
Ken Jeong & Bar Paly Talk Pain And Gain, Working with Michael Bay, the Crazy True Story, and Non-stop and Hangover 3
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Now playing in theaters is director Michael Bay’s fantastic dark comedy Pain & Gain. The film is based on a crazy true story and stars Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson as two bodybuilders who get caught up in an extortion ring and kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong. Pain and Gain also stars Anthony Mackie, Rebel Wilson, Tony Shalhoub, Ed Harris, Rob Corddry, Ken Jeong, and Bar Paly. For more on the film, watch some clips or the red-band trailer. At the Miami press junket, I landed an exclusive interview with Ken Jeong & Bar Paly. We talked about what it was like to work with Michael Bay, their reaction to finding out the story was based on real events, the great work by all the actors, and more. In addition, they talked about upcoming films like The Hangover Part III and Non-Stop with Liam Neeson. Hit the jump to watch »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
See Star Trek Icons on an Atomic Scale & Watch the Guinness World Record Stop-Motion Short Film The World’S Smallest Movie: A Boy And His Atom
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If you jump ahead to watch this new short film, you might think you're watching a recently-unearthed stop-motion animation from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century's accomplished filmmaker Georges Méliès. In fact, you'd be watching a cutting edge stop-motion short created by Ibm data storage researchers who use scanning tunneling microscopes to manipulate atoms into position and then take still-frame images at 100 million times magnification. Yeah. The Guinness World Record-certified short, The World's Smallest Film: A Boy and His Atom, is simple in concept but ridiculously complex in its design. Luckily, we not only have the film to share with you but a behind-the-scenes featurette that introduces the filmmakers/researchers, the technology and their reason for making the film. As a bonus, there are also some famous Star Trek icon images and GIFs made using the same technology! Hit the jump to view it all ... for science! Check out The World's »
- Dave Trumbore
Netflix’s Ted Sarandos Says He Spoke to Ron Howard about Producing The Dark Tower
6 hours ago
Director Ron Howard’s adaptation of the Stephen King book series The Dark Tower has had an incredibly rough development process. Given the sprawling nature of the book series, Howard, producer Brian Grazer, and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman planned an ambitious adaptation that would play out over three feature films and two limited seasons of a TV series. Howard first set the project up at Universal with Javier Bardem in talks to take on the lead role of Roland Deschain, but as development progressed and the budget swelled, Universal got cold feet and pushed the production start date back just a few months before filming was poised to begin. Though Howard, Grazer, and Goldsman worked to try and make the budget for The Dark Tower manageable, Universal ultimately decided to drop the project altogether. Warner Bros. flirted with the idea of producing the project before passing as well, and last we »
- Adam Chitwood
Tuesday TV Ratings: New Girl Dips, Grimm Way Up in Timeslot Premiere, Mindy Project Matches Series Low
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Tuesday evening’s TV ratings are in. Here’s a brief rundown of the night's scripted programming: A fantastic virginity-themed episode of Fox’s New Girl slipped a bit, scoring a 2.0 rating in the 18-49 demo and 3.63 million viewers for a 9% drop from its last original episode’s 2.2 rating. Elsewhere on Fox, The Mindy Project notched a series low-matching 1.3 rating and 2.63 million viewers for a drop of 13% from its last new episode’s 1.5 rating. NBC’s Grimm performed extremely well in its new timeslot premiere, notching a 2.0 rating and 6 million viewers for a big rise of 54% from last week’s 1.3 rating. The network recently moved the genre-oriented series from Fridays to Tuesdays. Over at CBS, NCIS was up 7% from last week’s 2.8 rating with a 3.0 rating and 17.68 million viewers, NCIS: Los Angeles hit a series low 2.2 rating and 12.93 million viewers for a drop of 19% from last week’s 2.7 rating, and »
- Adam Chitwood
New Pacific Rim Poster Highlights a Jaeger Party; Carlos Returns in New Hangover Part III Poster
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New posters for two of this summer’s most anticipated films have arrived online. First up, hot on the heels of yesterday’s excellent banner comes a new poster for Guillermo del Toro’s Warner Bros. tentpole Pacific Rim. The film’s story is kicked off by the emergence of monsters (known as Kaiju) who start a war that devastates humanity. To fight back, the humans build giant robots (known as Jaegers) that are controlled by two pilots. This new poster shows a host of Jaegers assembling either for battle or one epic pool party. The film opens in 3D on July 12th. Additionally, a couple of new character posters for Todd Phillips’ trilogy closing The Hangover Part III features the return of Heather Graham’s stripper-with-a-heart-of-gold Jade and her baby “Carlos,” as well as John Goodman’s villainous character. If you missed any coverage from our set visit, you »
- Adam Chitwood
New Images from the Set of Captain America: The Winter Soldier Reveal Anthony Mackie as Falcon
8 hours ago
More new images from the set of the Marvel sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier have surfaced online, this time giving us a look at Anthony Mackie in costume as Falcon. While the character isn’t sporting wings in these particular photos, he does appear to be strung up on some sort of wire apparatus against a green screen, so the wings will likely be added in post-production. Nevertheless, Mackie gives his best “I mean business” face while firing off a few rounds from his handguns. Hit the jump to check out the images. The film also stars Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Cobie Smulders, Georges St-Pierre, Frank Grillo, Hayley Atwell, Toby Jones, Emily VanCamp, Maximiliano Hernández, Robert Redford, and Samuel L. Jackson. Captain America: The Winter Soldier opens on April 4, 2014. Via Lainey Gossip and Cbm. [gallery link="file" order="Desc" columns="1"] Here’s the synopsis for Captain America: The Winter Soldier: “Captain America: The Winter Soldier »
- Adam Chitwood
New Images from The Internship Starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn
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20th Century Fox has provided us with a number of new images from director Shawn Levy's The Internship, and a few of them are exclusive. If you’re not familiar with The Internship, which opens June 7th, the film reteams Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn as two out-of-work salesmen who attempt to reinvent themselves by competing against young up-and-comers for an internship at Google. The film also stars Max Minghella, Rose Byrne, Dylan O’Brien, and Jessica Szohr. Last year I got to visit the set when they were filming in Atlanta, and I watched the cast film a very funny scene featuring everyone getting to know one another. In take after take, I saw the way Vaughn, Wilson and Levy would slightly adjust the dialogue and reactions so they'd have plenty of choices in the editing room. In addition, it was great to see the cast and crew »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Kirk and Scotty Are in Trouble in New Star Trek Into Darkness Clip
8 hours ago
Paramount Pictures has released yet another new clip from Star Trek Into Darkness. All of the previous clips have focused on the Enterprise crew in some sort of peril, and this clip is no different as we see Chris Pine’s Kirk and Simon Pegg’s Scotty running into a bit of trouble aboard the Enterprise. As yesterday’s new poster hinted, Into Darkness will find the film’s characters facing down quite a lot of dangerous and deadly situations, but I’m looking forward to seeing how J.J. Abrams infuses humor into the story as well. Hit the jump to watch the new clip. The film stars Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, Alice Eve, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Star Trek Into Darkness opens in IMAX 3D on May 15th and in 2D and 3D in traditional theaters on May 17th. Via Yahoo! Movies. Here’s »
- Adam Chitwood
John Oliver Set to Take Over The Daily Show June 10th; Jon Stewart Will Return September 3rd
9 hours ago
Comedy Central has announced the transition dates for The Daily Show while host Jon Stewart goes off to make his directorial debut. We learned a couple of months ago that Stewart would be taking a break from the comedy news show this summer to direct the feature film Rosewater, which tells the true story of a BBC journalist’s 118 captivity in Iran’s most notorious prison. At the time it was announced that frequent correspondent John Oliver would be filling in for Stewart during his absence, and now the network has announced that Oliver’s hosting duties will begin on June 10th with guest Seth Rogen. Stewart won’t return to the show until September 3rd, making for quite the extended hiatus. While there’s simply no substitute for Stewart’s whipsmart sense of humor, Oliver should do fine in the Daily Show chair. The comedian recently filed a brilliant »
- Adam Chitwood
20 Things to Know About Shawn Levy’s The Internship From Our Set Visit
9 hours ago
Over the past few years, I've been extremely lucky as I've been able to visit a lot of movies when they've been filming around the globe. However, no matter where you get to go, visiting a movie set is usually the same: you spend hours watching from a distance, during a break in shooting you conduct interviews, and the production is always careful what you get to see while on set. But when 20th Century Fox invited me to the set of director Shawn Levy's The Internship, it was a unique opportunity, because unlike most set visits that have a number of journalists visiting on the same day, I spent the day with only two other reporters, and we had a ton of freedom to watch what we wanted and take in the production on our own terms. It turned out to be the perfect way to watch Owen Wilson »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
New CinemaCon Trailer for The Wolverine Offers Glimpse at Silver Samurai
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20th Century Fox has released a new trailer for The Wolverine. This is the footage that was shown a few weeks ago at CinemaCon, a convention for theater owners, and it’s understandably heavy on the action. Whlie the previous trailers have played up director James Mangold’s Western approach to the story, this one is very much focused on staging The Wolverine as a big summer movie with loads of action and a badass turn from Hugh Jackman. There are bits and pieces of new footage folded in, with a brief look at Wolverine fighting Silver Samurai and Svetlana Khodchenkova's Viper seemingly ripping her face off. Hit the jump to watch the CinemaCon trailer. The film also stars Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Brian Tee, Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto and Svetlana Khodchenkova. The Wolverine opens on July 26th. Via AMC. Here’s the official synopsis for The Wolverine »
- Adam Chitwood
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