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Apr 18 2013 03:53 PM ET

Will Smith in final talks to star in 'Focus'

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Will Smith is in final negotiations to star in the upcoming Warner Bros. comedy Focus, about a grifter who takes a young woman under his wing, from the writing-directing team of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (I Love You Phillip Morris). The news was first reported by Variety.

Ficarra and Requa co-directed 2011′s Crazy Stupid Love, and, according to the report, the studio had originally hoped for Crazy co-stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling to reteam in Focus, but they couldn’t get their schedules to line up. Kristen Stewart boarded the pic in late 2012, and for a while there it looked like Ben Affleck was going to play the conman/love interest, but the Oscar-winner had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. The Will Smith casting is somewhat revelatory and breaks up his current trend of sequels and sci-fi flicks.

But as it goes in Hollywood casting, it turns out Smith will not be starring alongside Stewart. Warner Bros. confirmed to EW that the Twilight actress dropped out of the film some time ago.

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Apr 18 2013 11:10 AM ET

Interview with director Joseph Kosinski: 5 things to know before you see 'Oblivion'

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In the year 2072, all that’s left of earth is a lot of dust, the remnants of our cities and structures, and Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) and Jack (Tom Cruise), the maintenance team just awaiting permission to come join the rest of humanity on a space station before they relocate to another planet. But, not all is as it seems in director Joseph Kosinski’s (Tron) latest sci-fi dystopia Oblivion. When a mysterious stranger crash lands on earth, Jack Harper begins to question everything he knows.

EW spoke with Kosinski about the world creation behind Oblivion, the state of the art technologies he used, and his love of Indiana Jones. Check out the interview below before you see the film, which opens in the US on Friday.

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Apr 17 2013 08:03 PM ET

'The Kings of Summer' trailer: Nick Offerman is just your average suburban dad

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Summer in suburbia is what you make of it. For some, it’s a parent-controlled prison. For Joe Toy, it’s an opportunity for freedom.

In the trailer for The Kings of Summer (which premiered at Sundance as Toy’s House), we meet Joe (Nick Robinson), a not-completely-gawky teenage boy, delivering a shoddy-looking project to his teacher, who casually informs him that his final was due a week earlier and that school is in fact over for the year. Who is this kid who doesn’t realize it’s summer?

At home, Joe is at the disposal of his father, Frank (played by the always delightful Nick Offerman) who authoritatively takes the cell phone out of his son’s hand to end his conversation with a cute blonde girl so that he can go clean up the tools in the garage. “My house, my rules,” Frank tells Joe. Ah, the authority of fathers!

In the sweet, whimsical-looking trailer, we follow Joe and his two friends as they escape to the woods to build a house and create their own kingdom, set to the uplifting We Were Promised Jetpacks song “Keeping Warm.” Co-starring Megan Mullally (Offerman’s real-life spouse), Alison Brie, and Mary Lynn Rajskub, The Kings of Summer hits select theaters on May 31.

Check out the trailer below.

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Apr 17 2013 06:41 PM ET

'The Lone Ranger': Final theatrical trailer -- VIDEO

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“All I know is that a man killed my brother,” says the Lone Ranger (Armie Hammer) in the new “final” theatrical trailer for Gore Verbinski’s summer blockbuster, which seems out to prove that sometimes you don’t need anything more than some trains and horses to make a thrilling adventure movie.

Up until this point, the trailers for The Lone Ranger seem to have assumed that everyone would know the basic story of the 1950s television series, or at least want to know why a dirt-covered Armie Hammer would be waking up on top of some very unstable looking scaffolding. Disney’s taken a different approach for the final theatrical trailer, teasing a little bit of back story before getting to Johnny Depp’s Tonto, the Lone Ranger’s disenchantment with the law, and all those epic train sequences.

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Apr 17 2013 03:00 PM ET

Check out a teaser poster for the new Ryan Gosling thriller 'Only God Forgives' -- EXCLUSIVE

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Director Nicolas Winding Refn and actor Ryan Gosling’s first collaboration Drive was one of this writer’s three favorite movies of 2011. (The other two? The Muppets and Hobo with a Shotgun, so feel free to make of that what you will.) The pair have now reteamed on the Bangkok-set thriller, Only God Forgives, in which Gosling plays a drug kingpin tasked with avenging his brother’s death. The film, whose cast also includes Kristin Scott Thomas, arrives July 19, but you can exclusively check out the movie’s new teaser poster below. (And you can follow @RadiusTWC on Twitter to see an animated version, which will be released later today.)

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Apr 16 2013 09:10 PM ET

Casting Net: 'Walking Dead' actor joins 'Guardians of the Galaxy; Plus Vince Vaughn, more

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• Missing Merle Dixon already? Walking Dead actor Michael Rooker has just signed on to play the part of Yondu in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, meaning he’ll have to trade in his zombie killing tools for a bow and arrow to portray the expert game hunter. With Chris Pratt already on board to play Star Lord, and Zoe Saldana in talks for Gamora, director James Gunn still needs to fill a slew of key roles including Rocket Raccoon and Groot. Gunn is expected to begin shooting this summer for an August 1, 2014 release. [Deadline]

• Vince Vaughn is currently in talks to star in Business Trip, a new comedy penned by Steve Conrad (The Pursuit of Happyness). According to the report, the concept is similar to the classic Steve Martin and John Candy comedy Planes, Trains & Automobiles, only this movie will take our traveler to Europe. The recent Saturday Night Live host has a number of big projects in the pipeline, including The Internship, out June 7, 2013. [The Wrap]

• James Caan (Elf) and Louis Gossett, Jr. (Stargate SG-1) have joined the cast of Fighting Man — a boxing drama. Directed by Damian Lee (A Dark Truth), the film also stars Famke Janssen (X-Men) and Dominic Purcell (Prison Break). [Deadline]

• Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas) will play a sheriff who starts looking into the suspicious death of a wealthy investment banker (played by Dermot Mulroney) in the indie thriller Careful What You Wish For. The cast currently includes Nick Jonas, Isabel Lucas, and Revolution’s Graham Rogers. [Deadline]

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Apr 16 2013 08:32 PM ET

'Star Wars' actor Richard LeParmentier dead at 66

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Actor Richard LeParmentier, best known for portraying Admiral Motti in Star Wars, died suddenly at the age of 66 while visiting his family in Austin, Texas. The Pittsburgh-born actor worked regularly throughout the 70s and 80s, appearing in such films as Octopussy and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. 

“Every time we find someone’s lack of faith disturbing, we’ll think of him,” the official statement from his family reads, referring to the actor’s famous scene in Episode IV: A New Hope in which Darth Vader chokes Admiral Motti for doubting the power of the Force.

Read the family’s statement in full below.

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Apr 16 2013 11:41 AM ET

Tribeca: The National documentary set to open film festival -- Watch the trailer

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When the members of indie rock band The National set out on tour, the last thing they expected was for the brother of frontman Matt Berninger to tag along with his camera. But that’s exactly what Tom Berninger did for his directorial debut, Mistaken for Strangers, a “self-mockumentary” that follows the members of band around in every aspect of their lives on tour. From the stage to the shower, Tom spares no expense (or privacy) in his film. He also asks the hard-hitting questions: “How famous do you think you are?” “How fast can you play [the guitar]?” “What kind of drugs and how many drugs have you done?”

The result is a film just as much about Tom’s journey to complete a project as it is about the band. As Tom puts it in the film’s trailer, “I just want to make something good for him [his brother] as well as myself.”

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Apr 15 2013 05:41 PM ET

'Jurassic Park' writer to adapt 'Brilliance' for the big screen

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Imagine a world where one percent of all humans are born with extraordinary powers. Forget the X-Men. In Marcus Sakey’s novel Brilliance, these rare beings are called the Brilliants. Some can read minds, some can turn invisible, and some can get rich by just “sensing” stock market pattens. In the novel, Federal Agent Nick Cooper is a Brilliant who has the very job appropriate power of hunting terrorist. The suspense story follows Cooper as he tracks down a fellow Brilliant who is intent on provoking civil war.

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Apr 14 2013 03:44 PM ET

'The Lone Ranger': 'Metaphorical universe' or just 'Wild Wild West' without Will Smith?

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Tom Wilkinson grew up in England but, of course, like any child of the 1950s, he could see the Old West just fine thanks to the powerful and focused lens of Hollywood. The two-time Oscar nominee plays a rapacious railroad baron named Latham Cole (that’s him in the new poster above) in Disney’s The Lone Ranger, the most expensive western in history and a bold bid to revive that once-dominant screen genre. READ FULL STORY »

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