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Audiences expecting to return to the swords-and-sandals-and-CGI ancient Greece of 300 this summer will have to wait until next March. Warner Bros. has pushed the release date of sequel/side-quel 300: Rise of an Empire from Aug. 2, 2013 to March 7, 2014. READ FULL STORY »
After next year’s Oblivion, Tom Cruise will continue his sudden sci-fi kick with a film called All You Need is Kill, a March 2014 release wherein he plays a man named Bill Cage who has to fight a battle against an alien race. The twist: Bill keeps on dying and then being reborn to fight the same battle, kind of like a videogame character replaying the same level until he gets it right. The first image from All You Need is Kill has just hit the Internet. Check it out below, and treasure this beautiful moment in time when the movie is still actually officially titled All You Need is Kill. READ FULL STORY »
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Loved Looper? Then you might want to mark March 14, 2014, on your calendar. Warner Bros. has announced its futuristic thriller All You Need Is Kill, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, will hit theaters that day. Doug Liman (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Jumper) is directing.
Like a sci-fi-tinged Groundhog Day, the 2010 Black List pick finds Cruise’s Lt. Col Bill Cage battling against a race of aliens called the Mimics. Though he’s quickly killed, he wakes up moments later and is forced to relive the day of his death repeatedly, even as he grows closer to defeating his foes. Blunt plays a tough Special Forces fighter who goes into the fray alongside Cruise.
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• Bill Paxton is in talks to join Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt in the sci-fi thriller All You Need Is Kill, playing the head of a platoon of soldiers that includes a man (Cruise) who re-lives the day he dies over and over again — so, Groundhog Day, but with aliens. (Perhaps not surprisingly, it’s based on a Japanese graphic novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.) Doug Liman (Mr. and Mrs. Smith) is directing from a script by Dante Harper (the upcoming Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters) and Joby Harold (Awake). [Variety]
• Melissa Leo will costar with Hugh Jackman in Prisoners, about a man who struggles to find his kidnapped daughter and best friend in spite of the police’s inability to help. Denis Villeneuve (Incendies) is attached to direct from a script by Aaron Guzikowski (Contraband). [Variety]
• Gong Li (Memoirs of a Geisha) will star in The Last Empress, a U.S.-China co-production about the infamous Empress Dowager Cixi, who ruled China from 1861 through 1908. No director has been announced. [Variety]
• Taryn Manning (Hustle & Flow, FX’s Sons of Anarchy) will star in The Shallows, a thriller about a group of friends who fight to survive in the wilds of the Florida Everglades. Rupert Smith will direct. [Variety]
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