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Emily Browning Joins Cooper, Stevens in “Summer in February”

Emily Browning has her months and seasons mixed up. We have news from Deadline today that Emily Browning has joined Dominic Cooper and Dan Stevens in the cast of “Summer in February,” an adaptation of Jonathan Smith’s novel. Smith wrote the screenplay and Christopher Menaul is directing. Ophelia Lovibond was originally supposed to play the...
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Critics Choice Awards Announced

Can anyone beat “The Artist?” Here we have a warm up to this weekend’s Golden Globes which themselves are a warm up to the Oscars. What did we learn from the awards given out by the Broadcast Film Critics Association? Well, “The Artist” is a heavy favorite for Best Picture, as are Mr. Clooney and...
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Branagh, Winslet Join “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”

Kate will do 1940s romance and fashion.  Variety reports that Kenneth Branagh will direct Kate Winslet in an adaptation of “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society,” a 2008 novel by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Burrows. When I first saw that title, I thought, “Oh god, did Kate say to herself, ‘You know, I...
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James Franco to Play Robert Mapplethorpe

James Franco will play another real person. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that James Franco will play photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in a biopic of the controversial photographer, whose sexually explicit and religion-defying photos often brought the wrath of censors down on him. Mapplethorpe died of AIDS in 1989. Documentary director Ondi Timoner will make his...
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Nolans Talk Inaudible-ness of Bane

Bane says something. Last month, when the prologue for “The Dark Knight Rises” debuted in front of “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” audiences were left asking themselves one big question: “What did Bane say?” In the aftermath of that, we heard lots of stories about how Warner Brothers has been worried about that for weeks,...
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James Badge Dale in Talks for “The Lone Ranger”

James Badge Dale could be heading out west to get killed. James Badge Dale is one of those actors whose name I know but I have trouble picturing or associating with any particular movie. So when Deadline reported that he was in talks to join the cast of “The Lone Ranger” as the titular ranger’s...
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Rob Marshall to Venture “Into the Woods”

I wish… I love the ’80s indeed–the long planned, often stumbled over film adaptation of 1980s mega musical “Les Miserables” is finally actually in the works. Now we have word from Deadline that Disney is set to adapt the 1987 Stephen Sondheim musical “Into the Woods,” with Rob Marshall directing. “Into the Woods” takes a...
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“Avatar 2″ Is Four Years Away

Do you like waiting? Then you’ll love “Avatar 2″! “Avatar” rocked the movie world in 2009, breaking box office records and spawning a raft of inferior 3D movies. As always, when a movie earns that much money, a sequel is a must, and director James Cameron happily obliged, promising not one, but two sequels–in 2014...
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“The Dark Knight Rises” Sells Out NY/LA IMAX Opening Shows

Tickets are going fast–in a very few places. Hey, were you planning to brag to everyone you know that you were going to be the first one to see “The Dark Knight Rises” this July? Well, if you were aiming to see it at 12:01 am at the IMAX theaters at New York’s AMC Loew’s...
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Alexander Talks “Nebraska,” His Next Film, Not the State

Look, actors who may get Oscar nominations by being in an Alexander Payne film. Pay attention when you get one of his scripts. As the title says, ComingSoon talked to Alexander Payne about his next film, which is currently titled “Nebraska.” Just like the old gloomy Springsteen album. After that, though, it appears there is...
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Jim Carrey Plans “Bruce Almighty” Sequel

Oh God.  And here’s something for the “Things We Do Not Really Need” category. Variety says that Universal in in talks with Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel (“Hot Tub Time Machine”) about writing a sequel to the long ago Jim Carrey hit, “Bruce Almighty”(2003). The original film, which co-starred Jennifer Aniston, earned $484 million worldwide....
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Garrett Hedlund In Talks for Coens’ “Llewellyn Davies”

Garrett Hedlund checks out the swinging ’60s folk scene. Variety tells us that Garrett Hedlund is in talks to join the cast of Joel and Ethan Coen’s next project, “Inside Llewellyn Davies.” Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman and Jeanine Serralles are already in the cast. The film is loosely based on the...
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“The Hunger Games” Tickets Sale Date Announced

If viewing is mandatory, you better make sure you get your ticket on 2/22. For you calendar watchers, apparently today is 74 days from the release of “The Hunger Games,” one of the most eagerly anticipated movies of the year. For you non-calendar watchers, that date is March 23rd. Why is 74 important? The bestselling...
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Lively, Tatum, Law Get Soderbergh’s “Side Effects”

Blake Lively gets cast in something. Steven Soderbergh has continued his march towards retirement by scaling ba–oh, well, actually he’s busier than ever, churning out one movie after another. The Playlist reports that Soderbergh has cast Blake Lively, Channing Tatum, and Jude Law in “The Side Effects,” a prescription drug addiction drama by Scott Z....
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Directors Guild Nominations

  Contender. I think this must be one of our last list of nominees before the Oscars, but it’s a big one–the Directors Guild of America announced their nominations today; they give out the award on January 28th. The DGAs are important because there have only been six years where the DGA winner didn’t also...
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