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Aug 15 2011 06:55 PM ET

Brad Pitt in talks to star in 'The Gray Man' assassin thriller

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After being targeted by zombies in World War Z, Brad Pitt is going to face down a worldwide cabal of assassins.

The actor is in talks to make his next project The Gray Man, an adaptation of the thriller novel by Mark Greaney, playing a CIA assassin on missions in the Middle East who learns that the extraction team coming to relieve him is actually being sent to eliminate him.

The New Regency film is aiming for a March/February start next year, according to a source close to the project. James Gray (We Own the Night) is on board to direct, and Pitt’s production company, Plan B, and his partner Dede Gardner would produce along with the Shine Group.

No date for the film’s release has been set yet, and it’s unclear who will distribute.

Aug 10 2011 01:44 PM ET

Johnny Depp's 'Lone Ranger' and Brad Pitt's 'World War Z' will face off in December 2012

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Yesterday, Paramount announced that World War Z, their thriller starring Brad Pitt, would be released on Dec. 21, 2012, the same date as Disney’s upcoming Johnny Depp vehicle, Lone Ranger. The two A-listers have never debuted movies on the same weekend before, but even this far in advance, it’s not hard to see that this match-up will be a holiday box office showdown. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 26 2011 02:42 PM ET

Toronto International Film Festival announces 2011 line-up

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The Toronto International Film Festival, which has become an increasingly important platform for awards-seeking titles in recent years (Both The King’s Speech and Black Swan played there last year), announced its 2011 line-up this morning.

The 11-day festival, set to kick off on Sept. 8, will feature the world premieres of Moneyball, a baseball drama starring Brad Pitt; 50/50, a cancer dramedy with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen; Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, a drama starring George Clooney; Butter, a butter-carving satire featuring Jennifer Garner and Hugh Jackman; Albert Nobbs, an Irish-set period drama starring Glenn Close; and Francis Ford Coppola’s murder-mystery Twixt, among others.

Other notable pictures playing at TIFF: Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan; Marc Forster’s religious drama Machine Gun Preacher, starring Gerard Butler; David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, which features Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung and Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud; Madonna’s W.E., a romantic drama; George Clooney’s directorial effort The Ides of March; and Cameron Crowe’s music doc Pearl Jam Twenty.

Check out the full slate below. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 16 2011 01:47 PM ET

Trailer: 'Moneyball' aims for 'The Blind Side' sweet spot

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The Blind Side proved that Michael Lewis’ non-fiction books about a sport’s intricacies could be successfully sold at the box-office if they are wrapped in an old-fashioned underdog tale. In Moneyball, out Sept. 23, general manager Billy Beane, played by Brad Pitt, attempts to pull the cash-strapped Oakland A’s out of mediocrity with a contrarian new philosophy on scoring talent. Clearly, that alone won’t draw in folks who don’t yet know what WHIP stands for, so Aaron Sorkin’s script delves deeper into Beane’s homelife and his relationship with his awkward baseball-geek assistant, the blandly-named Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) instead of the real-life Paul DePodesta. Watch the trailer: READ FULL STORY »

May 25 2011 10:04 AM ET

'Tree of Life' IMAX 'spin-off' still in the cards

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There are always several Terrence Malick films that get left in the editing room for every movie the director actually releases. Adrien Brody thought he was the star of The Thin Red Line during production, until he saw the finished film that had nearly eliminated his performance as Corporal Fife. But for The Tree of Life, Malick has ambitious plans for some of the extra footage: The Voyage of Time, a long-in-the-works IMAX documentary about the history of man and his planet.

“It is still a possibility,” Tree of Life producer Bill Pohlad told EW at last night’s premiere of the Cannes prize-winner. “We are still working on it. Some of the footage we shot for it is in The Tree of Life but there is so much more … We have all talked about it and still want to push forward on it. It is about finding the time to get it finished. It is not done by any means but what we learned from Tree of Life and the footage that we had, that stuff is all there. It just needs to be put together … We envisioned it as a separate release … We have some amazing footage in the can. It would be beautiful.”

(Reporting by Carrie Bell)

Read more:
Cannes’ top prize goes to ‘Tree of Life’
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: Two very different parenting movies
Jessica Chastain on the Cannes red carpet: ‘I was shaking’

May 22 2011 02:43 PM ET

Cannes Film Festival: Top prizes go to 'Tree of Life,' Kirsten Dunst, 'The Artist'

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The jury righted some wrongs.

After the 64th annual Cannes Film Festival was fraught with controversy and bad behavior, it concluded Sunday with a distribution of awards that — whether this was the intention or not — helped smooth over some of the trouble spots, with prizes going to The Tree of Life, Melancholia, and The Artist.

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May 22 2011 08:55 AM ET

Cannes Film Festival: Lisa's Palme d'EW awards before the real event (and news of a last-minute contender for top prize)

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Juries at the Cannes Film Festival have confounded betting odds over the years by picking one of the very last entries in the competition schedule as their Palme d’Or winner. (Exhibits A, B, and C: Taste of Cherry in 1997, Rosetta in 1999, and last year’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall Past Lives.)

As it happens, the very last entry I saw before returning home on Saturday (I missed the final competition entry, having seen 18 out of the 20 on the ballot) is, I think, a real contender for this endearingly Cannes-ish distinction: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, by READ FULL STORY »

May 18 2011 06:49 PM ET

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: Two very different movies about parenting and violence

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Could Kung Fu Panda 2 and The Tree of Life have anything in common?

Well, they each star half of the world’s most famous mom and dad duo — Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt – but they also share surprisingly similar themes of parenthood and violence, though each approaches those ideas from wildly different directions.

One is a slapstick animated comedy about a martial-arts bear, the other a cosmic art-house musing on the origins of the universe and soul. You wouldn’t expect them to have much in common, but each is about mercy, and when to strike back — if ever.

Raising six little ones, it’s natural for Pitt and Jolie to have parenthood on their minds, and while discussing their movies at the Cannes Film Festival they acknowledged how family influences their work.

“I was a little hesitant about playing the oppressive father,” Pitt said. READ FULL STORY »

May 16 2011 09:15 AM ET

Cannes Film Festival: Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life' is part luminous evocation of boyhood, part cosmic woo-woo

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His abiding Cannes audience may not have been waiting as long as the cosmic eons translated on screen in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. But even a year’s delay probably felt like eternity for some in the throng that began queueing up at 7:30 a.m. today on a classically sunny Cote d’Azur morning for the first screening of  Malick’s avidly anticipated new movie.

What this pro-Malick, 7:30 a.m. queue participant saw: A (typically) fascinating but confounding jumble of two works in one. Under the circumstances, I’ll call them the microcosmic and the macrocosmic. Or maybe the luminously precise and the woo-woo spiritual-lite. READ FULL STORY »

May 16 2011 06:27 AM ET

Cannes Film Festival: Terrence Malick and Brad Pitt's 'Tree of Life' draws boos, but also counter-applause

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It’s daunting to describe Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, but scattered audience members at its first screening in Cannes needed only one syllable: boo.

The many supporters of the movie pushed back with counter-applause, but it was a shocking way for the movie to debut.

The Tree of Life is an elegiac litany of images and memory-like scenes more than a traditional narrative. Let’s see — in brief, it’s the origin of time and infinity through the lens of one troubled, 1950s-era Texas family, and stars Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain, though they share copious screen time with evolving galaxies, nebulae, and surreal, symbolic representations of the world beyond.

Call it a coming of age story about the universe.

Here’s how the chaos — on screen and off — unfolded today … READ FULL STORY »

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