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Sep 6 2012 08:49 PM ET

Casting Net: Bruce Willis aiming to play CIA agent in 'American Assassin.' Plus: Chris Evans, Michelle Monaghan, Christopher Plummer

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• Bruce Willis is in talks to star in American Assassin, playing a CIA spook who mentors a young recruit whose girlfriend died in a terrorist attack. Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Traitor) will direct the thriller from a script by Mike Finch. [Variety]

• Chris Evans will try to woo Michelle Monaghan in the oddball romantic comedy A Many Splintered Thing. The meet-cute premise: Evans (who is also exec producing) masquerades as a well-heeled benefactor at a charity event, and falls for Monaghan, already engaged to another man. Commercial director Justin Reardon will helm the film from a Black List script by Christ Shafer and Paul Vicknair. [Deadline]

• Christopher Plummer and Rosamund Pike (Wrath of the Titans) have joined Hector and the Search for Happiness, an adaptation of the François Lelord novel about the titular psychiatrist (Simon Pegg) and, well, his search for happiness. Pike will play the love interest; Plummer will play a professor in Happiness Studies. Peter Chelsom (Serendipity, Shall We Dance) will direct from a script he co-wrote with Tinker Lindsay. [Variety]

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Aug 30 2012 07:35 PM ET

'Looper' clip: Joseph Gordon-Levitt would like Bruce Willis to 'do what old men do, and die'

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In anticipation of its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next week, the first clip from the sci-fi thriller Looper hit the Web today, featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis as the same man, 30 years apart. The younger man (Gordon-Levitt) is one of the titular Loopers, a class of mob assassin tasked with offing marks zapped from the future — until their loop is “closed” when they have to kill their future self (in this case, Willis).

Confused? Don’t sweat it too much. As Willis himself makes clear in this clip, trying to figure out the metaphysics of time travel is an exercise in futility. Much more important, to the characters and to the film: What would happen if you had to face down your future self?

Check out the clip below:  READ FULL STORY »

Aug 24 2012 03:59 PM ET

Movie Talk with Owen and Lisa: If 'The Expendables 2' were better, 'It wouldn't be as good'

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The Expendables 2 isn’t exactly the sort of movie that gets critics rallying to its defense. It’s neo-’80s schlock featuring a team of action stars who, at this point, can barely even move. Yet the film has a couple of defenders this week: Lisa and I both enjoyed the honest cheesiness with which it returns you to the era before action films — even bad ones — came layered with a certain post-9/11 gravitas. The Expendables 2 may be trash, but it has the courage of its own irresponsibility, along with a cast we still like a lot (in part because they are so old). You can see us chat about it below in the latest installment of “Movie Talk with Owen and Lisa.”

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Jun 28 2012 09:09 PM ET

'Looper' U.S. trailer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis face off as the same man

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Yesterday, writer-director Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom) noted on Twitter that if you are already planning on seeing his next film — the sci-fi time-travel thriller Looper — it’s likely best to skip watching the film’s trailers. Johnson’s concern was that certain moments in Looper‘s story of a mob assassin (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) tasked with killing himself from 30 years in the future (Bruce Willis) could be spoiled for you if you know too much about them going in.

Does he have good reason to worry? Well, the new domestic trailer for the film was released today, and it is indeed markedly different from yesterday’s international trailer thanks to an extended look at a crackling diner scene between Gordon-Levitt and Willis. Taken together, the two previews manage to paint a rough picture of the film’s main storyline and tone without taking us through every major beat of the plot.

Still, Johnson is right. If you have already decided to see Looper, there’s no need to see any more of it before you step into a theater. But if you remain unconvinced, perhaps this trailer will push you over the edge. Check it out below:   READ FULL STORY »

Jun 27 2012 05:30 PM ET

'Looper' international trailer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt hunts himself, a.k.a. Bruce Willis

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On the one hand, the new international trailer for Looper looks damn cool: Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a Mob assassin called a Looper who kills people sent to him from the future, and one day, he’s sent himself, 30 years older, played by Bruce Willis.

On the other hand, writer-director Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom) had this to say today about the trailer on Twitter: “If you’re already set on seeing Looper, I’d avoid any trailers from here on out. They don’t ruin the movie, but they tip a few little things.” He later added, “Just to clarify – I approved all the trailers, they’re great and they won’t ruin anything big. But the small things they tip are fun to discover in the movie.”

What to do, what to do? Oh, just check out the trailer below:  READ FULL STORY »

May 23 2012 05:34 PM ET

'G.I. Joe: Retaliation' pushed to 2013, will be converted to 3-D

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Just over a month before its original premiere date of June 29, Paramount Pictures has pushed G.I. Joe: Retaliation to March 29, 2013, in order to convert the film into 3-D, EW has confirmed. (Deadline first broke the story.)

Starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Bruce Willis, and Channing Tatum, the sequel just had a splashy showcase at the movie exhibitor confab CinemaCon, and posters for the film have been appearing in movie theaters for weeks (although the film is touted only as “Coming Soon,” with no release date listed). READ FULL STORY »

May 15 2012 10:00 AM ET

Cannes 2012 preview: Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman, and Kristen Stewart bring Hollywood glitz to the French Riviera -- VIDEO

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Since its inception in 1947, the Cannes Film Festival has been the ne plus ultra of international cinema, but rarely has the festival featured quite so many American filmmakers and Hollywood movie stars. The 2012 Cannes festival gets underway on Wednesday with the opening film, Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, and over the course of the subsequent 11 days, the festival will premiere films starring (deep breath) Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Kristen Stewart, Zac Efron, Shia LaBeouf, Robert Pattinson, Kirsten Dunst, Tom Hardy, Amy Adams, Viggo Mortensen, and Matthew McConaughey (in two movies!), with filmmakers like Anderson, Lee Daniels, and John Hillcoat screening their films in competition for the first time. Meanwhile, DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted and the HBO TV movie Hemingway & Gellhorn are both premiering out of competition.

EW’s Owen Gleiberman will be detailing all his thoughts on the great and not so great at Cannes, but here’s a quick primer on what’s likely to light up the famed Croisette, in chronological order of their big premieres inside the cavernous Grand Théâtre Lumière.  READ FULL STORY »

May 14 2012 06:04 PM ET

New Wes Anderson film 'Moonrise Kingdom' -- four behind-the-scenes videos released

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A clever send-up of behind-the-scenes fluff? We wouldn’t expect anything less from Wes Anderson.

In these just-released promos for the director’s new film Moonrise Kingdom, out May 25, viewers can see all the twee Anderson hallmarks in four clips featuring Bill Murray, Bruce Willis and others.

The featurettes play as on-location DVD extras: Narrator Bob Balaban notes via voiceover,  “Bill [Murray] isn’t really angry. His character is,” in one video; in another, Balaban describes Bruce Willis: “We’ve all seen Bruce Willis playing some really tough policemen. Here he is playing a really nice cop. He’s laughing. I don’t think that was part of the scene.”

Learn more facts about New Penzance (80 percent of the people on the island have Lyme disease!) and check out the videos below: READ FULL STORY »

May 10 2012 07:08 PM ET

'RED 2' gets greenlight, Catherine Zeta-Jones joining cast, including Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren

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The geriatric gang is getting back together — and getting some new (i.e. young) blood. Summit Entertainment announced today that Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, and Mary-Louise Parker have all signed on for RED 2, a sequel to the studio’s modest 2010 hit. (It grossed $199 million worldwide according to Box Office Mojo.)

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Byung-Hun Lee (G.I. Joe: Retaliation) have joined the cast, and Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest) will take over directing reins from the first film’s director, Robert Schwentke. (SPOILER ALERT: RED co-star Morgan Freeman isn’t returning due to the vexing fact that his character died in the first film.) Screenwriters Erich and Jon Hoeber are officially returning for the second installment; they began penning the script last year.

As is often the case with franchise sequels, RED 2 will take place largely in Europe. It’s set for release on Aug. 2, 2013.

Read more:
EW’s review of ‘RED’
‘RED’: Action Mathematics?
‘RED’ writers working on a sequel. I’m okay with that.

Apr 25 2012 02:26 PM ET

'Moonrise Kingdom' clips confirm new Wes Anderson movie will be colorful, wry

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Moonrise Kingdom is Wes Anderson’s first live-action movie in five years, but a gaggle of new clips that just hit the internet confirm that the director hasn’t lost his keen eye for visuals. If anything, Anderson’s candy-coating machine has gone into overdrive: A sequence with Bruce Willis in an open field looks like an advertisement for Instagram. I guarantee this clips will excite you, or at least remind of when you dated that girl back in freshman year who cried every time she watched Royal Tenenbaums. READ FULL STORY »

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