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Paranormal Activity creator Oren Peli’s latest horror outing follows a group of tourists trapped in an abandoned city near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and despite rumors before the first trailer was released, the film is decidedly not found footage. EW chatted with Peli and co-producer Brian Witten about what we can expect from their newest chillfest (released May 25), how they kept the plot secret, and what scares them.
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Look out, most prestigious and glamour-drenched international movie showcase/market in the world! The Americans have taken over the 65th Festival de Cannes. They have rolled out the big guns and the big talent — and no, I don’t mean that the festival has been anchored to the premiere of some e-ticket popcorn showpiece like Robin Hood or Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, as happened in recent years. (This year, the token Hollywood vulgarity is Madagascar 3, which has so nothing to do with this festival that no one has to pretend it does.) I mean that the films with the featured slots, the ones generating the most buzzy energy in the competition roster, the ones that most everyone is excited to see because they may truly be good movies, lean toward brash and brawny American subjects and/or sexy American talent. READ FULL STORY »
Some people regard 3D as the future of cinema. And some think its only useful purpose is to enhance the kind of low budget horror movie in which people say things like, “There’s a twelve foot great white shark in here!” Those of the latter persuasion are unlikely to change their view any after seeing the new red band trailer for the Australian movie Bait 3D, not least because someone actually does say, “There’s a twelve foot great white shark in here!”
Who is responsible for what appears to be a gloriously shlock-tastic fusion of Jaws and The Mist? The credit for the film must in large part go to cowriter Russell Mulcahy, who most recently helped oversee MTV’s Teen Wolf but back in the day directed cult classic monster-pig flick Razor Back (for more on which I would encourage you to check out the terrific Ozploitation documentary Not Quite Hollywood).
This is happening, people. On the heels of the Anchorman II teaser that began playing before screenings of The Dictator last night, Paramount has released a teaser poster for its highly anticipated comedy sequel. Like that one-minute clip, the new image doesn’t reveal anything about the film’s plot — but seeing it might put fans in a glass case of emotion anyway. And if nothing else, it does seem to indicate that the new film’s official title is Anchorman: The Legend Continues. Click through to see Ron, Brick, Brian, and Champ once more… or, at least, part of them.
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Aaron Sorkin has officially signed on to adapt Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s biography of the late Apple co-founder, Sony Pictures announced late Tuesday.
Sorkin, of course, won an Academy Award for his screenplay for The Social Network about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, which led to speculation as far back as last October that he might take on the task of marshaling Jobs’ formidable life story into a workable feature-length film. ”Steve Jobs’ story is unique: he was one of the most revolutionary and influential men not just of our time but of all time,” said Sony Pictures co-head Amy Pascal in a statement. “There is no writer working in Hollywood today who is more capable of capturing such an extraordinary life for the screen than Aaron Sorkin; in his hands, we’re confident that the film will be everything that Jobs himself was: captivating, entertaining, and polarizing.”
Sorkin’s plate is quite full these days. His HBO series The Newsroom is set to debut June 24. And he is still committed to adapt and direct The Politician, about the undoing of Sen. John Edwards’ promising political career as seen through the eyes of his former aide Andrew Young.
No director is attached yet to Steve Jobs, which is being produced by Mark Gordon, Scott Rudin, and Guymon Casady. Meanwhile, actor Ashton Kutcher is playing Jobs in an unrelated indie film about the technology guru.
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Steve Jobs: 9 Ways He Changed the Movie Biz
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• Chris Pine will star in Mantivities, a comedy he co-wrote with pals (and fellow actors) Will Greenberg (Modern Family), Robert Baker (Grey’s Anatomy), Ian Gotler (The LXD), Anthony Liebetrau, and Drew Howerton, about an ex-child star spurred into taking hold of his life by a bunch of his buddies. Michael Patrick Jann (Drop Dead Gorgeous) will direct. [Screen Daily]
• Amy Adams is in talks to star in Dark Places, an adaptation of Gillian Flynn‘s best-seller about a woman who is confronted by a group of amateur crime investigators about the murder of her family when she was seven years old. (Flynn is a former Entertainment Weekly writer and TV critic.) Director Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Sarah’s Key) also penned the adaptation. [Variety]
• Pierce Brosnan will produce and star with Dominic Cooper in November Man, based on the spy thriller There Are No Spies by Michael Finch. Roger Donaldson (The Bank Job, Thirteen Days) will direct. [TheWrap]
• Director Alexander Payne is keen on casting Bruce Dern and Will Forte as an irascible father and his son in Nebraska, his presumptive follow-up to The Descendants. No deals are in place. [Deadline]
• Isabelle Fuhrman (The Hunger Games, Orphan) will headline Suspiria, a remake of the 1977 Daria Argento horror film about a girl who learns her European school is a coven of witches. Director David Gordan Green co-wrote the script with Chris Gebert, who’d worked as a sound mixer on several of Green’s films. [Variety]
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The trailer for Hit and Run opens with an adorable intro from real-life couple Dax Shepard (who co-wrote, co-directed, and stars in the road comedy, out this August) and Kristen Bell (who costars as Shepard’s girlfriend). It’s got buffoonery from Tom Arnold as the federal officer overseeing Shepard’s witness protection, and it features Bradley Cooper in blond dreadlocks, barging in on a senior-citizen swinger party.
But your feelings about the film likely hinge on how funny you find prison rape.
Check out the trailer below: READ FULL STORY »
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As the preening teenage reveler Costa in Project X, Oliver Cooper certainly proved adept at getting in too deep — his performance even won him two MTV Movie Award nominations. But now the 22-year-old actor will get a taste of what it really means to go too far, signing on to star opposite Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck in the gambling thriller Runner Runner.
Timberlake plays Richie Furst, a Princeton student who gets pulled into the world of online gambling in order to help bankroll his expensive education. Cooper will play Andrew Cronin, a twentysomething Ivy League computer nerd who gets hired along with Furst to work for Ivan Block (Ben Affleck), an online gambling billionaire who works out of Costa Rica and whose business is even less legitimate than it first seems. “He’s kind of the young guy in this crazy world,” Cooper tells EW. READ FULL STORY »
Now that director Ridley Scott and co-writer Damon Lindelof have addressed vexing questions about Prometheus, the much-anticipated science-fiction adventure that shares more than a little DNA with Scott’s original Alien film, 20th Century Fox is eager to reveal the movie’s most horrifying secrets. In the newest international TV spot, the original film’s most grotesque scene — a vicious E.T. busting out of John Hurt’s chest — gets revisited in new and unsettling ways. “Get it out of me! GET IT OUT OF ME!” screams Noomi Rapace. Take a peek at the promo, and then watch some other recent clips that help fill in the blanks. READ FULL STORY »
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Though the plot of Anchorman II is still just an evolving idea in the delightfully delirious minds of Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, the return of Ron Burgundy and the Channel 4 news team will take an enormous step towards reality tonight when a teaser for the 2013 sequel debuts in front of The Dictator. Filming the top-secret minute-long clip “was like the Manhattan Project — except without the possibility of destroying all of mankind,” writes McKay, in an e-mail. The teaser reintroduces Burgundy and his news team, and McKay writes that reuniting the gang was an afternoon delight. (No, not that “Afternoon Delight.”) READ FULL STORY »
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