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‘Wrong’ - Man Loses Dog, Hilarious And Weird Stuff Happens [Sundance 2012] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 23, 2012 6:00 am EST Quentin Dupieux’s 2010 film Rubber starts off with a monologue explaining that many things in the world, or more specifically in the world of movies, happen for no reason. His follow-up feature Wrong, which had its world premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, is 90 minutes proving that statement. The film is non-stop ’no reason....

300 Producers Developing Caesar Trilogy By David Chen/May 17, 2010 7:26 am EST According to Deadline, Gianni Nunnari and Mark Canton, the men behind 300, are producing a new historical drama based on Conn Iggulden’s Emperor series of books. If the film does well, it’s likely that it will be the first in a trilogy. Nunnari and Canton are currently working on Tarsem Singh’s The Immortals, which will see Greek warrior Theseus fighting against Titans....

Antonio Banderas To Direct ‘Solo’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 25, 2010 11:19 am EST Briefly: In the US Antonio Banderas is thought of as an actor rather than a director. But he’s already made two features (Crazy in Alabama and Summer Rain) and is about to embark upon his third. Solo will be produced by and likely star Mr. Banderas as well, and it is a thriller with some sort of sci-fi element....

Brad Bird Set To Direct Damon Lindelof’s Mysterious Sci-Fi Project ‘1952’ By Angie Han/May 3, 2012 12:00 pm EST Update from /Film editor Peter Sciretta: Ryan Stewart points out on Twitter that “1952 is big in UFO lore. It’s the year Project Blue Book started.” This might give us some clues to what the project is about. According to wikipedia: The 1952 Washington D.C. UFO incident, also known as the Washington flap or the Washington National Airport Sightings, was a series of unidentified flying object reports from July 12 to July 29, 1952, over Washington D....

Casting Bits: John Cusack Replaces Tobey Maguire In ‘The Paperboy’, More For ‘He Loves Me’ By Angie Han/July 13, 2011 4:00 pm EST Last month, Nicole Kidman came in as a replacement for Sofia Vergara on The Paperboy, after Vergara and Tobey Maguire dropped out of the project due to scheduling issues. Now, a new actor has stepped up to fill Maguire’s role: John Cusack. Based on a 1955 novel by Pete Doctor, The Paperboy follows a reporter and his brother as they investigate a murder that put the suspect on death row....

Casting Bits: Kristen Bell, Lily Collins, Logan Lerman, And More In ‘Writers’, Leslie Mann And More In ‘Bling Ring’ By Angie Han/March 7, 2012 8:30 am EST I don’t know how she’s doing it, but Kristen Bell’s been booking roles almost faster than we can write them up this week. Hot on the heels of news that she’d been cast in Disney’s Frozen and the Neil LaBute adaptation Some Girls, Bell has also landed a part in the dramedy Writers....

Cinematic TV Bits: Hulu And IFC Eyeing ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Mr. Ed’ Heads To Big Screen, ‘Universal Solider’ Coming To Small Screen By Angie Han/Oct. 5, 2011 11:00 am EST Vulture writes that Arrested Development episodes, clips, and other related videos have been streamed about 100 million times on Hulu since the site premiered in 2008 — and that’s without online exclusivity, as Netflix also offers the series on its streaming service....

David Gordon Green To Write And Direct Time-Traveling Romance ‘Q’ By Angie Han/Nov. 15, 2011 9:00 am EST Fans of David Gordon Green’s early work can breathe a sigh of relief. After making his name with well-received dramas like George Washington and All the Real Girls, the director took a sharp left turn into R-rated comedy in 2008 with the stoner flick Pineapple Express. He’s stayed in funny territory ever since, helming Your Highness, the upcoming The Sitter, and episodes of HBO’s Eastbound and Down....

First Look: ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Stars Bradley Cooper And Jennifer Lawrence Reunite For Period Drama ‘Serena’ By Angie Han/April 12, 2012 9:00 am EST It was just last month that we watched Jennifer Lawrence playing a scared but tough teenager in The Hunger Games, but the talented young actress is already moving on to more grown-up fare. This fall will see her starring opposite Bradley Cooper in David O. Russell’s The Silver Linings Playbook, and the pair have now reunited for Susanne Bier’s Serena....

First Look: James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence And Rose Byrne In ‘X-Men: First Class’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 4, 2010 10:43 am EST There have been quite a few set pics from X-Men: First Class floating about in the past few days. Most of them, however, haven’t been very good; the first images to come out showed James McAvoy and some of the rest of the cast, but they were blurry and details were difficult to distinguish....

First Official Photo: Charlize Theron In Jason Reitman’s ‘Young Adult’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2011 3:00 pm EST Paramount Pictures has released the first official photo of Charlize Theron in Jason Reitman’s upcoming film Young Adult. In the film Theron plays Mavis Gary, “a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart.” The movie costars Patton Oswalt and Patrick Wilson....

Flashback: The Movie Machine - Redbox Of The 1980’s? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 31, 2010 2:23 pm EST A couple weeks ago, I was walking around a yard sale in Hollywood when I stumbled across a bookshelf full of folders — press releases and press kits for movies from the 1970’s to the 1990’s. As it turns out, the yard sale was being held be the family of a former Hollywood foreign press member (one of the critics who voted on the Golden Globes)....

Guy Ritchie To Direct ‘Treasure Island’ By Russ Fischer/June 1, 2012 4:00 pm EST Briefly: Guy Ritchie and Warner Bros. have done well together with the Sherlock Holmes films, and the studio has now set the director to tackle Treasure Island.Lionel Wigram, the producer who set up Sherlock, has been developing Treasure Island for some time, and since he’s taking the same sort of ‘period + modern style’ approach to the Robert Louis Stevenson story that worked for Sherlock, it makes sense that Ritchie would take the director’s chair....

IFFBoston Interview: Amber Benson, Co-Director Of Drones By David Chen/April 26, 2010 11:02 am EST Most of you probably know Amber Benson as Tara Maclay from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but in recent years, while Benson has continued to rack up acting gigs, she’s also parlayed her clout into a thriving indie film career. Her newest film, Drones, premiered at Slamdance and is currently making the film festival circuit. It recently screened at the Independent Film Festival of Boston....

Johnny Depp Would Do Fifth ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean;’ Screenwriter Already Hired By Germain Lussier/Jan. 14, 2011 4:00 am EST Despite The Tourist performing well-below domestic expectations, no one would argue the drawing power of Johnny Depp. The famously reclusive actor generally stays out of the spotlight long enough to pick and choose whatever projects he wants to do and then he usually does them incredibly well. A few years back, Depp had a reputation for being so choosy with his roles that he probably never would have agreed to a big budget sequel, let alone two of them....

Jude Law Offers Brief Hugo Cabret Info, Teases Sherlock Holmes 2 Shoot Date By Russ Fischer/July 6, 2010 8:15 am EST Briefly: I was surprised to see Jude Law’s name pop up in the late-breaking cast list for Martin Scorsese’s Hugo Cabret, which has just begun filming in 3D. Possible spoiler: Now we know that Law plays the father of Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield), which, given that the story is about Hugo being an orphan stranded in a train station, probably means it’s a rather small role....

Keith Richards Returns For Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 16, 2010 6:38 pm EST Many of you will recall that star Johnny Depp credited Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards for inspiring his character in the original Pirates of the Caribbean movie, and Disney had the guitarist written into the last installment, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, as Sparrow’s father: Captain Teague. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is expected to be a stand alone adventure following Jack Sparrow’s quest for the Fountain of Youth....

Lars Von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’ Begins Shooting Today; Jamie Bell And Connie Nielsen Join Cast By Russ Fischer/Aug. 28, 2012 9:06 am EST Today, Lars von Trier begins shooting his new film(s) Nymphomaniac, which tell “the wild and poetic story of a woman’s erotic journey from birth to the age of 50.” If things go as planned, the final release will be split into two films, with hardcore and softcore versions of each....

LOL: M Night Shyamalan’s Escalation By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2010 3:00 pm EST When the trailer for the M Night Shyamalan-scripted/produced movie Devil was screened at Comic-Con, people began laughing and booing when M Night’s name appeared on screen. I’ve seen the same thing happen to a much lesser extent at a normal Friday night screening in at the Hollywood Arclight. The M Night backlash seems to be in full effect....

Mark Ruffalo Teases Solo ‘Hulk’ Film And ‘Avengers’ Sequels By Germain Lussier/Oct. 5, 2010 2:00 pm EST The day after we reported on the first hint to the future of Marvel’s master movie plan, someone a bit more authoritative is talking about it too. Mark Ruffalo, who will be taking over Edward Norton’s role as The Hulk/Bruce Banner via mo-cap in The Avengers, has teased a few things that he probably heard meeting with Kevin Feige and the Marvel brass....