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Casting Net: Amanda Seyfried in talks to join Noah Baumbach film; Plus, Gael Garcia Bernal to star in Jon Stewart film
6 hours ago
• Amanda Seyfried may have started out playing teenage bombshells, but she’s defied the trap of typecasting and translated those beginnings into an interesting and diverse career including the high-profile Les Miserables and the upcoming porn-star biopic Lovelace. Now, she’s in talk to join director Noah Baumbach’s (Frances Ha) next project While We’re Young, alongside Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts (The Impossible), and Adam Driver (Girls). Seyfried would play Driver’s partner in the film, about an older couple who befriends a younger, more free-spirited duo. [The Wrap]
• Jon Stewart has cast Gael Garcia Bernal (No) as the lead in Rosewater, »
- Lindsey Bahr
Box office preview: How fast will 'Fast & Furious 6' make $100 million?
9 hours ago
This weekend is the summer’s biggest box office head-to-head, with both The Hangover Part III and Fast & Furious 6 opening. Well, technically Hangover is opening on Thursday. (And we can’t forget about Epic!) Both films come out of multi-multi-million dollar franchises; both cost multi-multi millions to make. And both have a really good chance of making more than $200 million at the box office. But now that the actual weekend has arrived, it’s safe to say that one will emerge the clear winner…and it’s going to be Fast 6.
Here’s how the box office may play »
- Adam Carlson
Evan Peters joins 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' as Quiksilver
11 hours ago
Bryan Singer is at it again! The director of the highly anticipated X-Men: Days of Future Past is quickly becoming a social media mastermind. After tweeting out numerous first looks at the cast, Singer’s latest tweet confirmed that Evan Peters will be joining the film as Quiksilver, the super-fast son of Magneto, whose twin sister, Scarlet Witch, can manipulate probability.
Before he was an #Avenger, he was just a Really fast kid. Thrilled to say #EvanPeters is joining #XMen #DaysOfFuturePast as #Quicksilver.
— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) May 23, 2013
It had previously been rumored that Quiksilver would be joining the cast of The Avengers 2, »
- Samantha Highfill
Cannes 2013: Alexander Payne's 'Nebraska' is very minor Payne (but still a pleasure). Plus, my Palme d'Or prediction
13 hours ago
Alexander Payne has become one of those figures who isn’t just a film director — he’s a genre. As much as I love Election, his 1999 breakthrough film, the Payne movie that really kicked off the Payne format was About Schmidt (2002). The leisurely, semi-planted version of the road-trip structure; the classically framed images of a falling-down American middle class that Hollywood is no longer in touch with and no longer knows how to show us; the earnest, damaged heroes with their family ties and family demons; the arcs that are built not out of screenwriting-class “story points” but, rather, out »
- Owen Gleiberman
Returning to 'Jedi': Ewok down memory lane with Kevin Smith, Seth Green, Chris Hardwick, Eli Roth -- Video
22 May 2013 9:01 PM, PDT
EW approached filmmaker Kyle Newman (Fanboys) with a simple proposition: Will you make us a short film that collects famous voices talking about Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi and their feelings about the film as it reaches its 30th anniversary?After sweet-talking him with promises of no money and too-little time, we mentioned that he was our only hope and, weirdly, that worked. The result is The Return of Return of the Jedi: 30 Years and Counting, which shows elite geeks — among them Kevin Smith, Seth Green, Chris Hardwick, Jaime King, Topher Grace, Fall Out Boy, Eli Roth, »
- Geoff Boucher
'Timecop' reboot in the works at Universal
22 May 2013 6:31 PM, PDT
Universal Pictures announced Wednesday that it plans to reboot the time travel action movie Timecop in a partnership with production company Global Produce.
Based on Mark Verheiden’s Dark Horse Comics title Time Cop, the original film imagined a world where time travel would be possible and where police regulate its usage. Peter Hyams’ 1994 film starred Jean-Claude Van Damme as an officer who tries to go back in time to save his wife from being killed — and stymie the endemic corruption that has emerged as a result of time-travel technology.
The original film was one of 1994′s top R-rated hits, »
- Lindsey Bahr
'We're the Millers' trailer: Stripper Jennifer Aniston and fake family vacation antics -- Video
22 May 2013 6:25 PM, PDT
This summer’s We’re the Millers, a family vacation movie and pot comedy all rolled into one, just got its first trailer.
The movie stars Jason Sudeikis as a small-time drug dealer who gets in over his head when he has to find a way to smuggle 1,500 kilos of marijuana across the Mexican border. To make it past the officials at the border without suspicion, he hires a phony family to travel in an Rv with him and the marijuana. A stripper (Jennifer Aniston) stands in as his wife, while a homeless teen (Emma Roberts) and his dorky British »
- Emily Rome
'Don Jon' trailer: Love, porn, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt -- Video
22 May 2013 2:21 PM, PDT
What do you care about most in life? In Don Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut, Don Martello (Gordon-Levitt) leads a simple existence. He’s got his own hierarchy of needs: “My body, my pad, my ride, my family, my church, my boys, my girls, and my porn.” And it seems to be working out pretty well for Don, until he meets Barbara (Scarlett Johansson) — the bombshell of his dreams with a Jersey accent to match.
The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival under the title Don Jon’s Addiction where EW described it as “an improbably entertaining and »
- Lindsey Bahr
Vince Vaughn gets some shocking news in 'Delivery Man' teaser trailer
22 May 2013 12:36 PM, PDT
Delivery Man, starring Vince Vaughn as an unsuspecting sperm donor to the masses, is building anticipation super early by releasing a teaser trailer a full six months before its November release date.
The trailer below gives us a peek into the life of Vince Vaughn’s character — who finds out that his sperm bank donations have resulted in over 500 children who share his DNA. Writer and director Ken Scott is helming this remake of his own French-Canadian film, Starbuck. Chris Pratt and Cobie Smulders co-star in the comedy, which opens November 22.
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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost fight robots »
- Amanda Taylor
Cannes 2013: With hardly a line of dialogue, Robert Redford is marvelous as a man lost at sea. Plus, Liz Taylor's bling
22 May 2013 11:10 AM, PDT
All Is Lost is a man-stranded-at-sea movie, starring Robert Redford, in a role that has almost no dialogue, as a fellow who wakes up in his small yacht, somewhere in the middle of the Indian Ocean, only to discover that a random floating railway car — who knows how it got there? — has gashed a hole in the boat’s hull. It’s like his own miniature iceberg scrape: All of a sudden, his boat could go down, and him with it. Most movies that strand a solitary figure at sea, like Life of Pi, or on a desert island, like »
- Owen Gleiberman
Check out a fiery clip from apocalypse comedy 'Rapture-Palooza' -- Exclusive Video
22 May 2013 10:15 AM, PDT
Cinemagoers in 2013 are experiencing a veritable (and biblically-appropriate) plague of apocalypse comedies. But only one stars Craig Robinson from The Office as the Anti-Christ — and its name is Rapture-Palooza.
The film — whose cast also includes Anna Kendrick, John Francis Daley, Rob Corddry, and Thomas Lennon — is being unleashed to theaters on June 7 and will also be available on demand. But you can check out an exclusive clip from the movie featuring Kendrick and Daley below.
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‘Peeples’ stars David Alan Grier and Craig Robinson take the EW Pop Culture Personality Test — Video
‘Office’ party in Scranton — and Michael Scott attends! »
- Clark Collis
Cannes 2013: 'Only God Forgives' re-teams Ryan Gosling with the director of 'Drive.' But this one stalls
22 May 2013 7:40 AM, PDT
Drive, the deliriously bloody and overwrought Ryan Gosling art thriller that premiered two years ago at Cannes, is a movie that I found stylish in its way (it was hard not to, given that the film was nothing but style), but also luridly unconvincing. I didn’t see it, or even hear anything about it, until its opening weekend, and later, as I caught up with the ecstatic reviews and began to talk to people who thought it was some sort of nihilistic pop masterpiece, I realized that the elements of Drive that I had experienced as borderline loopy — like, »
- Owen Gleiberman
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost fight robots in 'The World's End' trailer -- Video
22 May 2013 7:23 AM, PDT
Edgar Wright, the filmmaker behind zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead and romantic gamer flick Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, has a new comedy out this summer called The World’s End. But since this is an Edgar Wright movie, it’s of course not your typical end-of-the-world apocalypse story.
When five friends reunite and attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier, the name of the final pub on their list, The World’s End, starts to take on a literal meaning. Finishing the pub crawl becomes the least of their worries, as the real struggle becomes saving mankind. »
- Emily Rome
'Man of Steel' trailer: Oh my Zod! -- Video
22 May 2013 6:55 AM, PDT
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… another new trailer for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, which combines this staticky message from General Zod with the darker tone, battle scenes, and shots of Henry Cavill’s Bearded Super-Fisherman we’ve seen in other spots. All of it, naturally, is set to Hans Zimmer’s pounding score. The fate of our planet rests on you watching this video:
Man of Steel flies into theaters June 14.
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- Hillary Busis
Casting Net: Zac Efron to play a 'college Donnie Brasco'; Plus Josh Hutcherson, Hayden Christensen, and more
21 May 2013 8:44 PM, PDT
• Zac Efron (17 Again) will play a college student-turned-police informant in Narc, described as a “college Donnie Brasco.” Efron’s character is a big man on campus type, but that’s where any similarity to his High School Musical basketball player ends. In Narc, Efron’s a frat president and lacrosse team captain until he’s busted for drugs. But then he takes a page from the books of Frank Abagnale and Neal Caffrey and puts his skills to use as a narc for the police. [Deadline]
• Josh Hutcherson has been in the mainstream spotlight lately with movies like The Hunger Games »
- Emily Rome
'Mortal Instruments: City of Bones' release date moved up
21 May 2013 2:12 PM, PDT
Fans of Clary, Jace and Simon will get to see their Y.A. faves on the big screen 48 hours earlier than expected.
The release date for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones has been moved up two days, from Friday, August 23 to Wednesday the 21st, EW has confirmed.
The book adaptation, based on the first novel in the popular Y.A. series The Mortal Instruments, stars Lily Collins as heroine Clary Fray, a normal-seeming teen who discovers that she’s part of a secret supernatural world that’s playing out in modern-day N.Y.C. Watch the trailer below:
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- Erin Strecker
'Lone Ranger' trailer: Beware the man on the pale horse -- Video
21 May 2013 10:52 AM, PDT
“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.” — Revelation 6:8
It you betrayed John Reid, the 19th-century Texas lawman left for dead by scar-faced bandits, you might be whispering passages from the Bible when a certain masked man remakes your acquaintance. The new trailer for Disney’s Lone Ranger almost seems to be evoking scripture, with the hero seeking vengeance as much as justice.
Fortunately, there’s a healthy dose of the yee-ha ridiculous to keep things playful, and the latest trailer seems to continue the »
- Jeff Labrecque
Lars von Trier's 'Nymphomaniac' will feature body-doubles for graphic sex scenes
21 May 2013 9:55 AM, PDT
It turns out that Lars von Trier’s next movie, Nymphomaniac, will use body doubles for its controversial sex scenes after all.
At Cannes this week, producer Louise Vesth said there would be graphic sex scenes between the members of the cast, which includes Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard, Shia Labeouf, and Uma Thurman, but there would also be body-doubles. “We shot the actors pretending to have sex and then had the body-doubles, who really did have sex, and in post we will digital-impose the two,” Vesth explained to The Hollywood Reporter. “So above the waist it will be the star »
- Erin Strecker
Check out the 'Divergent' Dauntless symbol -- Exclusive
21 May 2013 9:00 AM, PDT
More Divergent news! We’ve already showed you what it looks like when you’re a Dauntless initiate and now can show you the symbol for the Dauntless faction.
For those who haven’t read the Veronica Roth books, Divergent takes place in a dystopian future where all of society is divided into five factions: Abnegation (selfless); Erudite (intelligent); Candor (honest); Amity (peaceful) and Dauntless (brave). Sixteen-year-olds get to choose their faction, and our heroine, Beatrice Prior (Shailene Woodley), chooses to go Dauntless. (No easy feat.)
As you can see, Dauntless’s motto is: We believe in freedom from fear, »
- Sara Vilkomerson
Check out the trailer for 'Kill List' director Ben Wheatley's new movie, 'A Field In England' -- Video
21 May 2013 7:13 AM, PDT
Can a film be black and white and still be psychedelic? That’s one of the (many) questions raised by the first trailer for A Field In England, the latest film from prolific U.K. director Ben Wheatley, whose last movie, Sightseers, was featured on our Must List just a couple of weeks back.
A Field In England is set during the English Civil War and stars Julian Barratt from comedy duo The Mighty Boosh, Wheatley regular Michael Smiley (Kill List, Luther), and Reece Shearsmith (The League of Gentlemen). You can check out the trailer for the film, which was recently acquired by Drafthouse Films, »
- Clark Collis
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