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Kato Being Re-Cast in The Green Hornet?

12 July 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | From WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news

It's looking more and more likely that we're never going to see Seth Rogen's "The Green Hornet" movie, mostly because of all the complication revolving around Stephen Chow. Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle) first signed on to direct the film and star opposite Rogen as Kato, the role originated in the TV series by Bruce Lee. Then it was announced that due to creative differences Chow has decided not to direct the film, but will still stay on as an actor. The studio started searching for a replacement and ended up hiring Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) to helm. Soon after, the Associated Press learned that Chow was considering not starring in the film either. And now, thanks to SpoilerTV, the studio has sent out a casting call to replace Chow as Kato. Casting Call: "[Kato] All Asian Ethnicities, Male, 20's - early 40's. Brit Reid's

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Foster and Gibson Leave it to Beaver

10 July 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news

- Cross out Steve Carell. Put an X on Jim Carrey's name. Insert Mel Gibson who might not be the first actor when you think comedy, but the director's chair has Jodie Foster in it and she probably knows his skill set since they once teamed on 1994's The Maverick. The lucky director and actor get to work on last year's Blacklist's top vote-getter for the best unproduced sceenplay. Anonymous Content's Steve Golin (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and Keith Redmon will produce The Beaver and are looking to get this into production right away – as early as this September in New York city. A couple of pages into Kyle Killen's screenplay and you think of Lars and The Real Girl. Both scripts feature men who are in a depressive-like state and who somehow find refuge in fake accompaniment. Gibson will play Walter Black, a father

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Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster Teaming for 'The Beaver'

10 July 2009 3:08 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Casting news out of the trades has become a sketchy deal lately as everything seems to jump the gun with "in talks," "circling" or "in negotiations" attached to every casting and directorial announcement. The most interesting one today can't even get Variety or The Hollywood Reporter to agree on who is doing what as Jodie Foster has apparently signed on to direct and co-star with Mel Gibson in The Beaver with Anonymous Content's Steve Golin and Keith Redmon producing. Variety's report says it's a done deal while THR says Foster is "in negotiations" and Gibson is "in talks". Who has it right? Who cares? We'll act as if it's a done deal for now... The script was written by Kyle Killen and apparently topped the 2008 Black List (the most popular unproduced screenplays) and will center on a grown man (Gibson) who wears a beaver puppet on his hand that

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Cameron Diaz Considers Seth Rogen’s ‘Green Hornet’

9 July 2009 10:37 AM, PDT | From newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news

Cameron Diaz is considering an offer to play the female lead in The Green Hornet, Seth Rogen’s comedy take on the action hero.  A deal hasn’t been made yet, but the actress is up for a role written by Rogen and his writing partner Evan Goldberg.  Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) is directing for a July 9, 2010 release.

The Entertainment Weekly story doesn’t have further details on what type of part it might be.  A love interest?  A villain?  Kato’s adopted sister?  Either way she has proven her ability to keep up with comedy in There’s Something About Mary, her first movie The Mask with Jim Carrey, and to a certain extent her voice work in the Shrek trilogy.  I’m personally not the biggest fan of hers and I would rather see a newcomer helped in her career over Diaz’s Joker smile.

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Jeff Leins

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Cameron Diaz in Talks for The Green Hornet

9 July 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | From WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news

According to Entertainment Weekly, Cameron Diaz has been offered a role opposite Seth Rogen in the upcoming "Green Hornet" film. A deal has yet to be signed, but talks are already on their way. In "Hornet," a debonair newspaper publisher Britt Reid fights crime as a masked superhero known as The Green Hornet. At his side is martial arts expert Kato. Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) is directing the new film, which is set to go into production shortly. It is scheduled to appear in theaters on July 9th, 2010. Click here to read more about "The Green Hornet."

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NYC Summer Screenings

7 July 2009 10:50 AM, PDT | From The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news

Its expensive to see movies here in New York City, or pretty much anywhere these days. I did an about face a couple weeks ago when the price of admission to see Up in 3D was sixteen dollars.  I’m sorry, but I just don’t understand the reason behind 3D, and I don’t see why I need to be charged another 4 dollars to see a movie in 3D.

I come from a small town in upstate New York where going to the movies has been, for years, six dollars.  Since living in Manhattan, I’ve had to initiate something called “The 12 Dollar Rule,” as in is the movie actually worth 12 dollars? Sure, for movies like Star Trek, The Dark Knight and others, its worth that kind of money.  However, there is a solution! During the summer there are all kinds of outdoor screenings of classic movies for free around New York City.

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David Press

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Top 50 Hottest Young Actresses - Top 20

5 July 2009 4:22 AM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Not only are they capable of lighting up the silver screen, they are also some of today's most talented young actresses, commanding huge fees - in some cases, in the millions. Many have won multiple awards, while others have starred in some of today's biggest box office hits. In short, we're listing down the cream of the crop!

Just like our recent Top 50 hottest young actors, we've narrowed down our list from 88 to 50, and set an age limit. If you miss seeing some of your favorites, so do we - including Maggie Gyllenhaal (31 years old) and Amy Adams (34 years old). Definitely some of the names you'll see on the list are emerging talents - the ones you will see getting the big roles in the near future - and some of them already have, with awards and nominations to boot.

# 20 - Emma Roberts - Acting runs in the family. While

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Top 50 Hottest Young Actresses - Top 20

5 July 2009 4:22 AM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Not only are they capable of lighting up the silver screen, they are also some of today's most talented young actresses, commanding huge fees - in some cases, in the millions. Many have won multiple awards, while others have starred in some of today's biggest box office hits. In short, we're listing down the cream of the crop!

Just like our recent Top 50 hottest young actors, we've narrowed down our list from 88 to 50, and set an age limit. If you miss seeing some of your favorites, so do we - including Maggie Gyllenhaal (31 years old) and Amy Adams (34 years old). Definitely some of the names you'll see on the list are emerging talents - the ones you will see getting the big roles in the near future - and some of them already have, with awards and nominations to boot.

# 20 - Emma Roberts - Acting runs in the family. While

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Top 50 Hottest Young Actresses - Top 20

5 July 2009 4:22 AM, PDT | From The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news

Not only are they capable of lighting up the silver screen, they are also some of today's most talented young actresses, commanding huge fees - in some cases, in the millions. Many have won multiple awards, while others have starred in some of today's biggest box office hits. In short, we're listing down the cream of the crop!

Just like our recent Top 50 hottest young actors, we've narrowed down our list from 88 to 50, and set an age limit. If you miss seeing some of your favorites, so do we - including Maggie Gyllenhaal (31 years old) and Amy Adams (34 years old). Definitely some of the names you'll see on the list are emerging talents - the ones you will see getting the big roles in the near future - and some of them already have, with awards and nominations to boot.

# 20 - Emma Roberts - Acting runs in the family. While

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Green Hornet Moved Back by Two Weeks

1 July 2009 3:30 PM, PDT | From WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news

ErcBoxOffice is reporting that even though Seth Rogen's "The Green Hornet" was the only film scheduled for June 25th, 2010, Sony still decided to move it back by two weeks to July 9th, 2010. The move puts "Hornet" in direct competition with Steve Carell's animated film "Despicable Me" and Robert Rodriguez's "Predators" reboot. And the old "Hornet" date has now been filled by Adam Sandler's "Grown Ups," which Sony moved from Spring to Summer. In "Hornet," a debonair newspaper publisher Britt Reid fights crime as a masked superhero known as The Green Hornet. At his side is martial arts expert Kato. The new film is directed by Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Click here to read more about "The Green Hornet."

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‘The Matrix’ To ‘The Dark Knight’: Oscar Best Picture Near-Misses Of The Past Decade

25 June 2009 1:30 PM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news

Yesterday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that the Best Picture category centerpiece at the yearly Oscar awards show will be expanded to include 10 nominees. We MTV Movies Team staffers were not amused.

In the wake of the announcement, many accusations surfaced that this move is nothing more than a ratings ploy. For many, the allegations spring from the fact that “The Dark Knight” — a universally regarded hit and currently the fourth-highest grossing film of all time — was snubbed for a Best Pic nomination. That got me thinking about all of the other incredible films which have fallen victim to Oscar politics over the years…

2008 — Is anyone really going to dispute that “The Dark Knight” should have taken home a statue? Or at least gotten a shot at taking home a statue? No? I didn’t think so. Moving on…

2007 — There are plenty to choose from in

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Adam Rosenberg

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Nyaff 09: Review of Wai Ka-fai's Written By

25 June 2009 9:47 AM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

Year: 2009

Directors: Wai Ka-fai

Writers: Wai Ka-fai / Kin-Yee Au

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: agentorange

Rating: 6.3 out of 10

Written By is the sinuous story of a family who lose their father in a car accident and write a novel as a way to grieve. In this novel, they die in the crash and their dad lives on in the story where he writes his own novel in which he dies and they live on. All these narratives manage to co-exist and sometimes even overlap in a loopy, sometimes incomprehensible fable about life, love, death and recovery.

Despite utilizing one of the most interesting narrative framing devices I've seen in a film in years, Written By is a surprisingly flatlined viewing experience that is hampered by some poor pacing, and a tone that treads a little too close to kids fantasy for my taste. It's too bad too, because Written

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Shocking Oscar News: And Then There Were Ten

24 June 2009 12:41 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

In one of the strangest developments in decades of Oscar watching, AMPAS has suddenly decided to change the number of Best Picture nominees back to 10, statingAfter more than six decades, the Academy is returning to some of its earlier roots, when a wider field competed for the top award of the year,” said Ganis. “The final outcome, of course, will be the same – one Best Picture winner – but the race to the finish line will feature 10, not just five, great movies from 2009.” Ganis assumes that all ten nominees will be great. Ha ha. What an optimist!

We haven't seen 10 Best Pictures nominess since 1943 (Casablanca won... definitely one of Oscar's smartest moments). They settled on the traditional five for the 1944 film year and it's stayed that way ever since.

I fear this means that anything remotely Oscar-baity will get nominated each year. We're in for whole lineups of Frost/Nixons, Seabiscuits,

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NATHANIEL R

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Cold Souls Trailer Starring Paul Giamatti

21 June 2009 9:29 PM, PDT | From FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news

Another Sundance hit is coming to select theatres this summer, and yes, I think the most obvious word to describe it is "Kaufman-esque". Cold Souls is the directorial debut of Sophie Barthes, a "metaphysical comedy" about a man who undergoes an experimental procedure and has his soul removed in order to reduce anxiety. But when he soon finds that he can't live without it, he discovers that his soul has already been transplanted into another body: the body of a soap opera actress living in Russia, to be exact. When I first heard about this movie, I immediately thought it sounded a bit like The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but now that I've seen the trailer... man, it's even more derivative of Charlie Kaufman than I originally suspected. Paul Giamatti playing an actor named Paul Giamatti?! Come on, that's just shameless. I'm still curious to see it, and the cinematography looks gorgeous,

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Sean

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Trailer - Paul Giamatti as Himself in the Kaufman-esque 'Cold Souls'

20 June 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Paul Giamatti is Paul Giamatti in the new film Cold Souls. This is a very Kaufman-esque idea. Actually, it's kind of like two Charlie Kaufman ideas, Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

There is the presentation of the famous actor as a fictionalized version of himself a la Being John Malkovich, plus the concept of physically removing from one's body something that isn't physical. In this case, it's Giamatti's soul, kind of like the erasing of memories in Eternal Sunshine.

But Giamatti is one of the best and this film got good reviews at Sundance, so I'll give it a shot. Here's the first trailer for the very odd Cold Souls:

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Trailer for Sophie Barthe's 'Cold Souls'

19 June 2009 2:36 PM, PDT | From Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news

In the surreal sci-fi/fantasy/comedy Cold Souls, Paul Giamatti plays Paul Giamatti and high-tech companies extract, deep-freeze and store people’s souls despitye complications arising from “soul-trafficking.” Cold Souls is directed by Sophie Barthes and is being compared to Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. throw in a little bit of Vanilla Sky and I think we've got it. The film will be in theaters in the Us in August. Trailer after the break...

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Reel Talk Mixtape: Monday, June 15th

15 June 2009 10:10 AM, PDT | From ReelTalkTV.com | See recent ReelTalkTV.com news

The poster for “Cold Souls” is just as freaky as its plot. Paul Giamatti stars as an actor who decides to store some of his soul so he can really get into a new role. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and many likened it to “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Being John Malkovich.” Check out this new poster from Cinematical.

Thomas Haden Church may have dropped by the Reel Talk set to talk “Imagine That,” but he had something else on his mind: “John Carter of Mars.” During his interview with Jeffrey Thc revealed he probably will be joining Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins on the set of the Disney film about Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “A Princess of Mars.” Click here to see the video!

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Exclusive: 'Cold Souls' Poster Premiere!

15 June 2009 8:05 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Click image below to view entire poster

Cinematical has just received this incredibly freaky exclusive poster for Cold Souls, which premiered at this past Sundance Film Festival and stars Paul Giamatti as an actor (appropriately named Paul Giamatti) who decides he wants to put some of his soul in storage in order to help better tackle a new role. Folks are already making comparisons to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich, though this isn't a Charlie Kaufman film -- it was written and directed by first-timer Sophie Barthes, and it also stars Emily Watson and David Strathairn.

Reporting for Cinematical at Sundance, James Rocchi had this to say about the film: "Cold Souls is a beautifully shot film, and it also becomes more than a little bit moving, as Giamatti struggles with a question we've all asked ourselves: Is it possible to remove the burden of

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Review: Synecdoche, New York

11 June 2009 3:45 PM, PDT | From The Cinema Post | See recent The Cinema Post news

/ 5

Synopsis: A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Written and Directed by Charlie Kaufman. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Tom Noonan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michelle Williams, Samantha Morton, Hope Davis and Emily Watson.

Review:

Charlie Kaufman is a genius.

Many people shared this view long before they would or will have watched “Synecdoche, New York” but the deeply layered, emotional and sometimes frustrating storytelling behind his work can only fairly be described as genius at this point. Never before has Kaufman delved so deeply into the human psyche, than in this film. That may sound like a grand statement about the man who has made such exploratory films as “Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind” and “Adaptation”, but I feel it is true.

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Likely Story Chooses a Graphic Novel that is 'Too Cool to be Forgotten'

10 June 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news

- Known for having great taste in film and for producing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Thumbsucker, Synecdoche, New York, and Nicole Holofcener's three last works, Anthony Bregman's Likely Story has (according to MTV's Splashpage via The Playlist) optioned the rights to Top Shelf Productions' Alex Robinson's graphic-novel "Too Cool To Be Forgotten." I can't think of too many independent film producers grabbing graphic novel properties - got to keep in mind this is Art School Confidential sort and not a tale spun with superheroes and super villains kind. Robinson seems to have a cult following or sorts that stems from his previous graphic novels titles Box Office Poison and Tricked.  The graphic novel which was released back in July of 2008, tells the story of a 40-year-old man who undergoes hypnosis therapy to quit smoking, only to wake up in the body of his 15-year-old self. Since

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