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Bill Hader briefly talks about more abuse in the Les Grossman movie

Posted 16 years ago

Bill Hader spent most of TROPIC THUNDER getting belittled and browbeaten by portly and profane producer Les Grossman, but he’s more than happy to come back for more. As we heard a couple weeks back, Tom Cruise’s blustery Hollywood mogul...

Updated: From Joburg to the Shire? Neill Blomkamp now rumored to direct The Hobbit

Posted 16 years ago

UPDATE to below: Not quite, says Vulture. They claim “an insider at his agency, William Morris Endeavor, confirms to Vulture that not only is Blomkamp not doing the movie, no one from MGM/United Artists or Warner Bros. has even contacted...

Daniel Radcliffe goes from Hogwarts to WWI trenches in All Quiet on the Western Front

Posted 16 years ago

Where do you go once you’ve finally put away your magic broom and wand? If you’re kid-wizard Daniel Radcliffe, you follow the colossally successful HARRY POTTER franchise with some grim but potentially award-winning material. Radcliffe will star in ALL QUIET...

David Mamet meets Stephen Colbert and comic writer Brian Michael Bendis; interviews happen

Posted 16 years ago

David Mamet can write like hell (see for yourself, though you really shouldn’t need to), but who knew he could also… doodle? Mamet has collected some of his art into a graphic novel called “The Trials of Roderick Spode, The...

By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth! The Dr. Strange movie has a script in the works

Posted 16 years ago

Marvel’s master of the occult has cast the Eye of Agamotto on a pair of screenwriters — Thomas Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer are conjuring up a script for DR. STRANGE. The outlandishly garbed sorcerer supreme is getting his own movie,...

James Franco writes about the art of acting and the value of soap operas

Posted 16 years ago

In between showcasing his chiseled features and surprising comic timing, James Franco enjoys waxing philosophical about working in “the biz”. In an essay called “The Limits of Control” over at Lapham’s Quarterly, the future ape-fighter addresses the perception of actors...

The Aussies do their own Red Dawn in the new trailer for Tomorrow, When the War Began

Posted 16 years ago

The release of the RED DAWN remake may currently be in limbo, but the Australians have gone ahead with their own (shamelessly derivative?) version. Well, TOMMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN may not be an official remake of the gung-ho 80s...

Imogen Poots is the Fright Night remake’s female lead. Imogen Poots.

Posted 16 years ago

Imogen Poots. Imogen Poots. A name I can’t stop repeating, like Leo at the end of THE AVIATOR. Imogen Poots is, in fact, a lovely young British actress who will be playing the part of Anton Yelchin’s lady friend in...

True Blood’s vamp-hunk Alexander Skarsgard tries to keep Battleship afloat

Posted 16 years ago

Alexander Skarsgard, dreamy and devious vampire sheriff of HBO’s hit “True Blood”, is swapping his fangs for a uniform in Universal’s big-budget BATTLESHIP. Director Peter Berg is taking the classic pegs-and-guesses board game into “a contemporary story of an international...

X-Men: First Class cast starts to get firm: Magneto, Beast, etc.

Posted 16 years ago

Matthew Vaughn’s prequel X-MEN: FIRST CLASS is dashing toward production faster than Quicksilver (or Northstar, or some other speedy Marvel mutant), so the cast is coming together quickly. As was previously reported, actor Michael Fassbender (300, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS) was being...

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