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Olivier Assayas Will Head to America for Action-Packed Mob Thriller

We want our best and brightest to take their time. If this requires more than a few years between features — as this year’s Cannes lineup would exhibit a few times over — so be it; two outstanding films per decade is better than four pretty good ones, right? Despite all that, it’s a real [...]

12 Years Later, Richard Linklater Plans ‘Boyhood’ Release; Fall Shoot In the Works For ‘Dazed and Confused’ Spiritual Sequel

When it comes to the career of Richard Linklater, one never quite knows that to expect next. Constantly changing genres and styles, just last year he surprised us with the secret shoot for Before Midnight and with that film hitting limited release this weekend, we’ve got updates on two of his long-gestating projects that we [...]

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Scarlett Johansson & Chris Pratt Added To Spike Jonze’s ‘Her’ Ensemble

Nowadays rarely does a film head into production without the public knowing the majority, if not all, of the cast members. Even rarer is the occasion when a project is nearly a year out of production and we’re just now getting new actors being announced in the ensemble. Just last night we got the wonderful news that Spike [...]

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Todd Haynes Will Direct Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska In ‘Carol’

All the promise in the world couldn’t yet bring about one Todd Haynes project, so if settling for something other than what had been announced is the required price — well, we still get another Todd Haynes movie. This is a deal we can all agree to. Almost six years out from I’m Not There [...]

Francis Ford Coppola’s Paramount Epic Picks Up Steam With New Details

The (alleged, arguable) wreckage of Twixt pretty much behind him, Francis Ford Coppola is, for the first time since the ’90s, back with a studio. This news had somehow gone under the radar back in December: his script, an “ambitious” thing, spans from the ’20s to the ’60s; work was being conducted on the Paramount [...]

Zac Efron Goes Undercover For ‘Narc’

Actor Zac Efron failed to wow audiences with his performance in the poorly received thriller The Paperboy, but that hasn’t stopped the Disney heartthrob from seeking out more “edgy” projects. According to TheWrap, The Lucky One star has taken the lead Fox’s true-crime drama, Narc, which is described as a “collegiate take on Donnie Brasco.” Garrett [...]

Dennis Lehane to Script ‘Travis McGee’ for Leonardo DiCaprio and Fox

When you adapt a quality text, it doesn’t matter how good your director, screenwriter(s), and lead actors may be: all their efforts aside, the voice of the novelist can never be translated to its full extent. But, if you know you’re adapting a strong piece of work, you’ll translate it closely enough — speaking in [...]

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Release Date Finally Set For Spike Jonze’s ‘Her’ With Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams & More

Without a peep regarding the movie in nearly a year, we’ve finally got word on when we’ll be able to see the next work from Spike Jonze. Picked up by Warner Bros., the studio revealed today that the drama will land in limited release on Wednesday, November 20th, 2013, near Friday releases of Vince Vaughn‘s Delivery [...]

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Graphic Sex Scenes In Lars von Trier’s ‘Nymphomanic’ Will Feature Body Doubles

Hollywood studios are usually in a mad rush to finish their effects-heavy tentpoles in time for release, but for Lars von Trier, his visual effects worries are in an entirely different ballpark. We recently got word that his two-part erotic drama Nymphomaniac would not be ready to unveil until the very end of the year [...]

First Stills of Atom Egoyan’s ‘Devil’s Knot’ With Reese Witherspoon & ‘Queen of the Night’ With Ryan Reynolds

Despite it being four years since his last film, Canada’s Atom Egoyan has been hard at work at not one, but two new dramas. Today brings our first look at both and first up, above, one can see Ryan Reynolds in Queen of the Night, a psychological thriller that follows our lead as a father who [...]