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Comic-Con Update: 'Divergent' Preview and Panel Added to Lineup
45 minutes ago
Update: Lionsgate's Summit Entertainment will preview would-be hot new Ya franchise starter "Divergent" in Hall H on Thursday, July 18. First footage will be shown, along with a panel including cast members Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Miles Teller, Maggie Q, Mekhi Phifer, director Neil Burger and novelist Veronica Roth. (A full update on the film's cast is here.) Earlier: Summit will also preview sci-fi epic "Ender's Game" in Hall H on Thursday, July 18, complete with a panel including stars Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, director Gavin Hood and producer Bob Orci. An elaborate exhibit will also be available to fans, featuring eight rooms "representing the most iconic environments from Ender's world." They'll join the Lionsgate panel on "Hunger Games: Catching Fire" and "I, Frankenstein," below. Check out the three new posters for the film below. The first poster, released back in March, didn't hit the right chord with us. »
- Anne Thompson
Il Cinema Ritrovato: Alexander Payne Talks Influential Films, Cinephilia, Screenwriting and More
59 minutes ago
I blush to admit that, last night, I skimmed the portable printed program for the festival and felt disenchanted. After looking forward to returning to Bologna all year long, I decided that this year's program was not as well-suited to me as last year's had been, that I would be hard-pressed to put together a full day's worth of screenings for each of the next eight days, and that I had flown over 6000 miles on a fool's errand.What a difference a day makes. The good news is that, miracle dictu, I eventually went to bed after seeing the excellent "Vera Cruz" in the cool Pizza Maggiore on the huge screen and slept for a solid unbroken 8 1/2 hours. The bad news is that I missed breakfast. But I had the rest of the morning to relax and peruse the program at my leisure. I wasn't completely seduced, but it began to open up to me. »
- Meredith Brody
Review: Sensational True-Crime Doc 'The Cheshire Murders' Asks All the Right Questions
1 hour ago
“The Cheshire Murders,” airing on HBO July 22, is, in part, a blow-by-blow account of the unspeakable 2007 Connecticut home invasion that left a mother and her two daughters dead, and made Dr. William Petit his state’s leading advocate for the death penalty (which was abolished there nonetheless).But as the film also indicates, no one needed to have died at all.Directed by Kate Davis (“Southern Comfort”) and David Heilbroner, the documentary offers a thorough review of the crimes, and the attendant controversy regarding the death penalty -- both defendants offered to plead guilty in exchange for life without parole; state prosecutors insisted on a $7-million death-penalty trial.The filmmakers also assembled a dream cast of interviewees: The husband and parents of the slain Jennifer Hawke Petit; the brothers and daughter of killer Steven Hayes; the family and even the ex-girlfriend of Josh Komisarevsky, who details, among other things, aspects »
- John Anderson
'Ray Donovan': The Next Big Thing?
13 hours ago
The terrific new series "Ray Donovan" is premiering on Showtime Sunday night -- and you should be watching it rather than reading this. If the show fulfills the promise of its pilot episode it could turn out to be one of the great ones, an ideal anecdote for those of us who expect to be suffering from "Breaking Bad" withdrawal in a few months. Its credential could scarcely be more promising: Writer-creator Ann Biderman ("Southland") and founding director Alan Coulter ("House of Cards") are top drawer television drama veterans. Still, a couple of the early reviews have been truly clueless, knocking the show for getting the details wrong in its portrait of the title character, a ruthless and amoral Hollywood fixer, played by Liev Schreiber with the most charismatic barely-audible growl this side of the all time grandmaster of the form, Clint Eastwood. To our great relief, "Ray Donovan" turns »
- David Chute
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