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'The Way, Way Back' to close Los Angeles Film Festival; Full lineup announced
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The 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival has revealed its full lineup, including Sundance favorites The Way, Way Back, which will close the festival on June 23, and Fruitvale Station.
The Way, Way Back follows awkward teenager Duncan (Liam James) through a summer break that’s rather nightmarish whenever he’s with his mom (Toni Collette) and her boyfriend, but has bright moments whenever he’s at the local water park, where he strikes up a friendship with one of the slacker employees (Sam Rockwell). Nat Faxon (Ben and Kate) and Jim Rash (Community) co-wrote, co-directed, and appear in the film.
- Emily Rome
Laura Linney, 'Mad Men' actresses, George Lucas, and more honored by Women in Film
4 hours ago
Women in Film is once again honoring women and those who support women in an industry that tends to be more of a boys club. The Los Angeles-based organization announced the recipients of their 2013 Crystal + Lucy Awards this week, and among the honorees are Laura Linney, George Lucas, and Hailee Steinfeld.
The awards will be presented at Wif’s Annual Benefit Gala on Wednesday, June 12. The event will also celebrate the organization’s 40th anniversary.
“Our six honorees illustrate the wide spectrum of creative innovation coming from women, and it’s a privilege to be commemorating all of their successes, »
- Emily Rome
'Twenty Feet From Stardom': 'The Voice's Judith Hill sheds some light on music's unsung heroes -- Exclusive Poster
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With Twenty Feet From Stardom, director Morgan Neville wanted to direct his documentary cameras on the brilliant backup vocalists who’ve toiled in anonymity while supporting music’s most popular artists, like Stevie Wonder and Mick Jagger. But in the time since the movie premiered to wide acclaim at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, one of those “no-names” has stepped into the spotlight. Judith Hill, who’s worked with Michael Jackson and Elton John, is currently one of the stars on The Voice, where she’s one of Adam Levine’s prize pupils. Suddenly, the documentary, which is due »
- Jeff Labrecque
'The Wolverine' CinemaCon trailer: Everyone was kung-fu fighting -- Video
6 hours ago
In the new Wolverine teaser, featuring footage that exhibitors at CinemaCon previewed last month, Hugh Jackman spends the entire time flexing, sweating, and snarling. There’s not a lot of plot to dissect, but there’s plenty of quick-cut action — and a larger reveal of the Silver Samurai! — to reassure fans who feared the new movie was going to be a Malick-ian meditation on the meaning of life for a mutant immortal.
But did anyone really think director James Mangold’s take on the lone-wolf character was going to take a turn for the existential, after seeing the first few action-packed trailers? »
- Jeff Labrecque
Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige talks 'Iron Man 3' at EW's CapeTown Film Fest -- Video
6 hours ago
Entertainment Weekly subscribers and American Cinematheque members got an early peek at the beginning of Marvel’s Phase 2 on Tuesday night at a complimentary screening of Iron Man 3, kicking off EW’s inaugural CapeTown Film Festival. Now EW.com readers can see what was going on in Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre before the latest movie about the Armored Avenger started rolling — EW writer Geoff Boucher moderated a Q&A with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige.
Check out a video with select moments from Feige’s answers, including recollections of how the Mandarin was planned as the villain in the first Iron Man film, »
- Emily Rome
'Before Midnight' clip: She's balding, he's as horny as a billy-goat -- Video
7 hours ago
Even cinema’s most romantic couple has doubts. Eighteen years after a chance encounter on a train to Vienna, and nine years after reconnecting in a Paris flat, Jesse and Celine have settled into marriage in Before Midnight. As this scene demonstrates, sometimes it’s nice for a wife to be reminded that she’s beautiful — and sometimes it’s futile to expect a husband to be anything but “an American teenager.”
Watch the clip of Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke below:
Of course, once you watch that scene, you have to go back and look at their first encounter. »
- Jeff Labrecque
Quake in your boots at the red band trailer for the Eli Roth-starring disaster movie 'Aftershock' -- Nsfw
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Big screen horror overlord Eli Roth has been comparatively quiet over the past couple of years. But the writer-director-actor now seems to be spreading through pop culture like a particularly virulent, flesh-eating virus (a simile I imagine the man who brought us Cabin Fever would not complain about).
Roth recently shepherded the Netflix show Hemlock Grove to the small screen and is currently finishing up his insane-sounding, Amazon forest-shot horror movie The Green Inferno while also producing The Sacrament, the latest from much-tipped House of the Devil director Ti West.
Then there’s filmmaker Nicolás López’s Aftershock, a Chile-set »
- Clark Collis
J.J. Abrams says John Williams will do the next 'Star Wars' score, probably -- Video
9 hours ago
J.J. Abrams won’t say much about the next Star Wars film, which he is directing — though info about casting and the story has piled up in bits and pieces. Now a new bit, from Abrams’ himself: At a Berlin press conference for Star Trek Into Darkness, an entrepreneurial audience member asked the filmmaker about longtime collaborator and composer Michael Giacchino, who has provided the score for most every major Abrams work. The audience member asked: Would Giacchino also do the score for Star Wars? The short answer: No — John Williams, most famous for composing the six other Star Wars films, »
- Adam Carlson
Check out the new poster for the Toby Jones-starring 'Berberian Sound Studio' -- Exclusive
9 hours ago
In the new, 1976-set drama Berberian Sound Studio, the great British thesp Toby Jones (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Hunger Games) plays a sound engineer who finds himself far out of his comfort zone after being hired by a notorious low-budget Italian horror studio (although, to be honest, I’m not sure there are any non-notorious, high-budget Italian horror studios).
This by-most-accounts memorably nightmarish tribute to the “giallo” genre from director Peter Strickland is theatrically released on June 14, when it will also be available on VOD and iTunes. But you can exclusively check out the film’s new poster below. »
- Clark Collis
'Ender's Game': See Ben Kingsley's tattooed intensity as Mazer Rackham -- Exclusive
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“It’s alchemy,” Oscar-winning actor Ben Kingsley said of the collaborative process that brings his enigmatic character, Mazer Rackham, to life in the sci-fi epic Ender’s Gamer. (Click the photo for a larger image.)
Director-writer Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) was key, according to Kingsley, as was the make-up and costume team working with Kingsley to breathe life into the half-Maori war hero, who is an almost mythical presence in Orson Scott Card’s 1980s bestseller.
“In the script, which I think is beautifully written, what come across is the authority and mystery,” Kingsley said of Rackham, a man »
- Geoff Boucher
Bryan Singer tweets first image of Hugh Jackman on set of 'X-Men' -- Photo
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Bryan Singer is in production on his actor-, mutant-, and timeline-stuffed next X-Men movie — the one that we’re assuming stacks the franchise’s various chronologies on top of one another like a layered dip — and it appears that Hugh Jackman is officially in the house. Last night, the director tweeted a photo of a tall, hairy man in a leather jacket with the caption, “Fitting.”
Apropos of nothing but context clues (tall, hairy, leather, Singer’s tag) the photo is obviously Jackman-as-scowly-Wolverine, though there’s no other information about the who, what, or when of his role. He will »
- Adam Carlson
Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige talks 'Iron Man 3,' the Mandarin, and the future of Marvel (Daredevil?) at EW's CapeTown Film Festival
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Entertainment Weekly’s inaugural CapeTown Film Fest kicked off Tuesday night at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre with a special early screening of Iron Man 3, the first film in Phase Two of Marvel’s cinematic universe. Attendees were treated to a special Q&A between EW writer/CapeTown chieftain Geoff Boucher and Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige, the lead architect of the whole Avengers multi-movie saga. Feige (above left, with Boucher) revealed some choice bits about the series’ past and future — read on for choice excerpts!
The Mandarin was almost the villain in Iron Man 1 and 2. Feige laughed remembering how, at »
- Darren Franich
Casting Net: Jon Hamm to lend voice to 'Despicable Me' spinoff; Plus Sam Worthington, Brit Marling, more
30 April 2013 5:43 PM, PDT
• Things are about to get animated for Jon Hamm. The Mad Men actor will lend his voice to Minions, Universal’s spinoff of their Despicable Me movies that is capitalizing on the little yellow creatures that stole the show in the first film in 2010 (Despicable Me 2 comes out this summer). Hamm will voice the inventor Herb Overkill, husband of stylish super-villain Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock). His previous voice acting work includes such TV shows as Robot Chicken and Archer. [Deadline]
• Another Girls star is headed to the big screen. Allison Williams, who plays Marnie on the HBO show, is in talks »
- Emily Rome
Sharlto Copley will star in 'District 9' director Neill Blomkamp's next sci-fi film
30 April 2013 3:50 PM, PDT
Sharlto Copley is teaming up with Neill Blomkamp for a third time.
The South African actor will play the lead role in Blomkamp’s next film, Chappie, Copley’s reps tell EW. Copley first teased the news in brief Facebook post this weekend.
Blomkamp is keeping details about the project largely under wraps, but he has described it as “a science-fiction comedy” in an “unusual setting.” Details on Copley’s character are also still under wraps.
Copley scored his feature debut in Blomkamp’s District 9, an Oscar Best Picture-nominated, innovative take on the alien invasion sub-genre where the humans are the oppressive ones, »
- Emily Rome
Steven Soderbergh on the State of Cinema: Yeah, he's really retiring from Hollywood -- Video
30 April 2013 1:57 PM, PDT
It’s totally fair to call Steven Soderbergh’s keynote address on the State of Cinema at the San Francisco International Film Festival a rant. After all, he did. The filmmaker, who came of age during the halcyon Down and Dirty Pictures days of 1990′s nascent indie movement, has expressed his increasing frustration about being boxed-in by the studio’s increasing reliance on blockbuster tentpoles. “I’ve been in meetings where I can feel it slipping away, where I can feel that the ideas I’m tossing out, they’re too scary or too weird,” he told the festival audience. »
- Jeff Labrecque
'Man of Steel': Listen to clips from the score by Hans Zimmer
30 April 2013 1:45 PM, PDT
The official soundtrack for Man of Steel is now available for pre-sale on Amazon, and with the pre-sale comes clips of the score by epic movie music maestro Hans Zimmer.
Fans got an early listen to the score in the third preview for the movie, a rather nostalgic, adventure-ready trailer that brought to mind so many beloved moments in Superman’s story more so than the previous previews that highlighted the more gritty, Dark Knight-esque feel that Man of Steel seems to be introducing to the franchise. Helping evoke that tone was steadily building, triumphant music by Zimmer — that trailer »
- Emily Rome
Michael Shannon on 'The Iceman,' playing General Zod, and that Angry Sorority Girl email -- Exclusive Video
30 April 2013 6:30 AM, PDT
No one plays imposing and unsettling quite like Michael Shannon. The looming 6’4″ actor, best known for his characters in Revolutionary Road — for which he was nominated for an Oscar — Take Shelter, and HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, commands attention in every scene he’s ever done, wielding a hollowed-out stare that can even shake audiences seated in the last row of the theater. There’s always a hint of menace behind those unblinking eyes, the potential for something wild and dangerous — even when his character’s intentions are pure.
In The Iceman, which opens in theaters on May 3, Shannon plays a »
- Jeff Labrecque
Casting Net: Michael Fassbender for 'Macbeth'; Plus, Jamie Foxx in talks for 'Annie', more
29 April 2013 7:25 PM, PDT
• Michael Fassbender (Shame) is attached to play the title role in a film update of Macbeth, William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy about a scheming nobleman intent on ruling Scotland. The play has been adapted for the big screen a number of times, including Orson Welles’ 1948 version in which he also played the character of Macbeth, and Roman Polanski’s 1971 version which starred Jon Finch. Justin Kurzel (The Snowtown Murders) will direct the Fassbender update which will reportedly use the original language. The part of Lady Macbeth has not been cast yet. [Screen Daily]
• Jamie Foxx is in talks to star in Will Gluck »
- Lindsey Bahr
CapeTown Film Festival: Rare 'Iron Man 3' poster will go home with EW subscriber
29 April 2013 7:22 PM, PDT
This year is the golden anniversary of the gleaming hero called Iron Man and the past five of those 50 years have been a turbo-charged ride to the heights of American pop culture. Before Iron Man (2008) the armored avenger was a second-tier Marvel character with a clunky name. Now he’s the world’s favorite canned ham and the bright knight of the box office.
On Tuesday night, Entertainment Weekly and Disney’s Marvel Studios will mark the anniversary with a free and early screening of Iron Man 3 for 600 fans, all of them either local EW subscribers (who were contacted »
- Geoff Boucher
'Iron Man 3': Tony Stark attempts a mid-air rescue -- Video
29 April 2013 3:01 PM, PDT
Promos for Iron Man 3 tout the movie as a grimmer, bleaker tale of the billionaire playboy superhero, but the newest clip from the film shows there’s no need to worry that Tony Stark will be without some triumphant save-the-day moments and signature sarcastic quips.
In the new clip that Marvel released Monday, Tony Stark attempts a mid-air rescue of passengers and crew who have fallen out of a crash-bound Air Force One. Check it out below:
Iron Man 3 takes place after the events of last summer’s mega-hit The Avengers and pits Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr. »
- Emily Rome
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