Archive: September 2011 (1-10 of 178)

Sep 30 2011 09:26 PM ET

Kurt Russell in talks to replace Kevin Costner in Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained'

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Categories: Casting, Movie Biz, Movies, Quentin Tarantino
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Looks like Kurt Russell’s ready to play the heavy for Quentin Tarantino for the second time. EW has confirmed that the 60-year-old actor is in talks to take on the role of Ace Woody in Tarantino’s period slavery spaghetti Western Django Unchained, a role that Kevin Costner was set to play until he dropped out earlier this week. (TheWrap first reported the story.)

In the film, Ace works for Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), a cruel slaveowner who pits his male slaves, trained by Ace, against each other for sport, and forces his female slaves to work as prostitutes. Jamie Foxx will play the titular Django, a slave-turned-bounty-hunter whose (as yet uncast) wife is being held captive by Candie. Samuel L. Jackson will play Candie’s plantation manager, and Christoph Waltz a German bounty hunter who comes to the aid of Django. (Waltz recently injured himself training for the film, but is expected to make a full recovery.)

Russell last worked with Tarantino in 2007′s Death Proof – part of the Grindhouse double-feature — as the sociopathic killer Stuntman Mike.

Django Unchained is due to start filming this January.

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Kevin Costner drops out of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’
‘Django Unchained’ gets Christmas 2012 release date

Sep 30 2011 08:53 PM ET

'The Other F Word' trailer: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blink-182 rockers talk being dads

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Categories: Documentary, Movies, Music, SXSW Festival

How can you be punk rock and a parent? The Other F-Word explores that question by examining the lives of a bunch of famous dudes who are giving it a go. In the rather touching trailer for this documentary, which arrives in theaters this fall, you’ll see The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, Blink-182′s Mark Hoppus, Black Flag’s Ron Reyes, and more than a dozen other musicians dealing with the challenges of raising a child — “homework, bath, bed” — in their line of wild work. “The two dominatrixes on my arm,” says NOFX’s Fat Mike while pointing to his tattoos, “how do you explain that to a four year old?” Ponder that one as you press play.  READ FULL STORY »

Sep 30 2011 07:04 PM ET

CBS Films in talks to finance, distribute Colin Farrell film 'Seven Psychopaths'

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Categories: Movie Biz, Movies
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CBS Films is negotiating a deal to co-finance and domestically distribute writer/director Martin McDonagh’s next project, an action-comedy called Seven Psychopaths, EW has confirmed. This will be McDonagh’s first film since 2008′s In Bruges, and it will re-unite him with Bruges star Colin Farrell.

Farrell will star as Marty, a screenwriter who struggles to find inspiration for his latest project, Seven Psychopaths. He soon finds all of the psycho drama he needs when his offbeat buddies Billy (Sam Rockwell) and Hans (Christopher Walken) draw him into a potentially deadly dognapping heist involving the Shih Tzu of a psycopathic gangster.

Graham Broadbent (In Bruges, Millions) and Peter Czernin (In Bruges) are set to produce, and Tessa Ross will serve as executive producer.

CBS Films’ EVP of Acquisitions, Scott Shooman, will oversee the project when it begins shooting in Los Angeles this Fall.

Sep 30 2011 06:32 PM ET

'Norman' trailer: 'Cougar Town' and 'Revenge' stars highlight a sarcastic and sad coming-of-age tale

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Categories: Fall Movies, Movie Trailers, Movies

What if the best thing that ever happened to you came at the worst possible time?

So asks the (pretty depressing) trailer for the new independent release, Norman (out Oct. 21), starring Couger Town and Easy A’s Dan Byrd and Revenge’s Emily VanCamp.

Byrd plays Norman, a sardonic and sarcastic outcast in what looks to be a darker coming-of-age tale than typical movie fare. The trailer starts with off-hand comments and pithy insults, much like fellow loner Juno, but Norman’s torture becomes much more real with the cutaways to his daily self-harm. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 30 2011 05:52 PM ET

AMC bringing back 'Inception,' 'Fast Five,' 'Star Trek' in IMAX for one week only -- starting today

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Categories: Fast Five, IMAX, Inception, Movies, Star Trek

INCEPTIONImage Credit: Stephen VaughanFeeling disoriented from this image of Inception — at a key moment when logic and proportion had fallen sloppy dead? That’s not good enough! AMC Theatres want you to relive the in-theater experience of Inception — along with Fast Five and Star Trek — in IMAX on the cheap. They’ll be offering all three titles in IMAX for just $7 for the next week. (Sept. 30 through Oct. 6.) Get in on that action here. I’d forgotten how much the Star Trek poster looks like a relatively benign ghost.

It just started raining in Los Angeles for the first time since June. This siren call to spend the entire weekend at the movies can’t be a coincidence….

Oh wait, of course it can, because L.A. is not the center of the universe!

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Sep 30 2011 12:25 PM ET

Harvey Weinstein documentary: Who will talk?

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Categories: Documentary, Movie Biz, Movie Trailers, Movies

How do you create a documentary when no one with real answers will talk to you? That’s the difficult question the filmmakers behind the new movie, Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, struggled with. Why? Well, Matt Damon once told author Peter Biskind that Weinstein was like the scorpion who bites the frog who is ferrying him across the river, dooming them both to die. “‘Why did you do that?’ asks the dying frog. The scorpion just looks down at him and says, ‘Because I’m a scorpion, it’s my nature.’”

The co-founder of Miramax (with his brother, Bob), Weinstein is co-chairman of The Weinstein Company, the production company responsible for such recent Oscar hits as The Reader, Inglourious Basterds, and The Kings Speech. It’s been nearly decades since Pulp Fiction, but Weinstein is still the loudest voice in the room. Still, it seems like a few peers talked. Watch the trailer below: READ FULL STORY »

Sep 30 2011 11:22 AM ET

New York Film Festival ready for 'Carnage' tonight

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Categories: David Cronenberg, Kenneth Branagh, Kirsten Dunst, Martin Scorsese, Melancholia, Michael Fassbender, Movies
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Tonight, Roman Polanski’s adaptation of the Tony-winning play, Carnage, raises the curtain on the 49th New York Film Festival, a 17-day event that showcases some of the most promising films of this awards season. Like many of the other high-profile films set to screen in New York, Carnage, which stars Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly, and Christoph Waltz, had its world premiere elsewhere — in Carnage‘s case, Venice — but the New York reception to it and other such films as Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In, Steve McQueen’s Shame, and David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method could help set the board for Oscar season. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 30 2011 10:51 AM ET

Steve Carell inks 'Foxcatcher' deal

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Categories: Biopics, Movie Casting
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EW has confirmed that Steve Carell has signed on to star in Foxcatcher, Bennett Miller’s follow-up to Moneyball about paranoid schizophrenic John du Pont, the heir to the du Pont dynasty who was convicted of murdering Olympic wrestler David Schultz. The story of du Pont, who died in prison last year, is shrouded in intrigue as police never discovered a motive for the attack. Miller’s friend and frequent contributor Dan Futterman (Capote) will pen the script with E. Max Frye (Band of Brothers, Amos & Andrew). Production on the film is set to begin in March. Variety initially reported the casting news.

Sep 29 2011 10:08 PM ET

Box office preview: 'The Lion King' defends its throne against four newcomers on busy weekend

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Categories: 3-D, Animation, Box Office, Brad Pitt, Horror Movies, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Moneyball, Movie Biz, Seth Rogen
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Simba always said, “I’m gonna be a mighty king, so enemies beware!” I always figured he was talking about Pride Rock — who knew he was actually talking about the box office?!

For the last two weekends, The Lion King 3D has been an unstoppable force at theaters, and it has racked up an impressive $66.4 million in just 13 days. Despite the arrival of four new releases last frame, Lion King managed to retain its box office throne, but will it be able to do the same thing this weekend, when four more new releases – 50/50, Dream House, What’s Your Number?, and Courageous — hit theaters? It could be a very close battle, as six different films have a legitimate shot at coming in first place. Who will reign supreme?

Check out my weekend box office predictions after the jump: READ FULL STORY »

Sep 29 2011 09:52 PM ET

New 'Mortal Kombat' movie 'needs to feel brutal,' says director

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Categories: Movie Biz, Movies, Videogames
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It’s very difficult to address this topic without, you know, saying, erm, uh…MOOORRRTAAALLL KOMBAAAAAT!

Ahh, much better.

New Line, in conjunction with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, is producing a new Mortal Kombat film, 14 years after their last adaptation of the popular video game franchise. Kevin Tancharoen, the man responsible for the popular web-series Mortal Kombat: Legacy (pictured), will be directing. “I’ve always been a huge fan of the games,” Tancharoen tells EW. His first Mortal Kombat project was a proof-of-concept video meant to be shown only to studios, but which was accidentally posted to YouTube by none other than himself. “I was mortified at first because I thought I was going to be in a mess of trouble with Warner Bros.” (You can check out the video below.) READ FULL STORY »

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