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The superstar comedian, who is about to go supernova with next month’s release of her comedy
Trainwreck, has apparently had conversations with ABC about starring in the next iteration of the popular reality series. But, she has some ground rules, including an interesting “no turds” policy, which might end up being a deal breaker.
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John Heard, Cloris Leachman, Jacinda Barrett, Dash Mihok and Jessica Collins have been cast in road-trip drama, joining Alfre Woodard and Talitha Bateman in the adaptation of Sarah Weeks’ young adult road trip novel. Stephen Gyllenhaal is directing from a script by Garry Williams, with Branded Pictures Entertainment’s J. Todd Harris and Orien Richman producing. Production is set to begin July 13 in Los Angeles.
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Michael Landes will appear in the Matthew McConaughey mining drama, which will star McConaughey and Edgar Ramirez in a story based on the real-life Bre-X scandal, about a massive stock fraud involving an Indonesian gold mine. Landes will play a Wall Street banker who travels to the mine to assess the company behind it. The Weinstein Co. purchased the U.S. rights for $15 million this spring, with a marketing spend valued at $20 million.
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Filmmaker whose credits include
Beau Travail and
White Material, is poised to make her English-language debut with a space-set sci-fi adventure. The movie will take place beyond our solar system, “in a future that seems like the present.” The project is based on an original idea by Denis and writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau, but Denis is penning the screenplay with novelist Zadie Smith and Smith’s writer husband Nick Laird.
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Meera Menon is directing
Equity, which is being described as the first female-focused look at the Wall Street world. Gunn will play an investment banker whose future is threatened by a huge financial scandal. As she looks deeper into what’s going on, she discovers a massive, tangled web of corruption and has to re-examine the fast-paced, no-holds-barred world she’s always loved. Broad Street Pictures is producing the film, which will shoot before the end of the year.
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Once in the hands of Kathryn Bigelow, who with screenwriting partner Mark Boal moved onto other projects, Chandor is in early talks to direct this thriller set at the titular organized crime crossroads of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. The project surfaced at Paramount in 2010, when Bigelow and Boal first came aboard, but then the duo it aside for
Zero Dark Thirty. Tom Hanks and Will Smith were originally targeted for roles and might still appear in the film.
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As expected, the movie will be called
Star Trek: Beyond, and will again feature the return of Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin and John Cho along with Idris Elba as the film’s villain and Sofia Boutella in a mystery role. Director Justin Lin confirmed the title yesterday with a tweeted image from the set, showing off the franchise’s familiar delta shield on some form of Starfleet uniform.
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After much speculation, director Paul Feig tweeted out a photo revealing the costumes for the highly anticipated, female-led reboot that is scheduled to hit theaters next summer on July 22nd. With a message that included the hashtag whatyougonnawear, Feig gave fans an inside look at what is to come. The movie stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Chris Hemsworth.
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STX Entertainment has released the first look at the upcoming remake of the Oscar-winning Argentinian film, starring Chitwetel Ejiofor, Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman, and adapted from the original and directed by Billy Ray. It hits theaters October 23rd, smack dab in the middle of awards season.
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In the opening sequence to
F For Fake, Orson Welles lays his cards on the table. “This is a film about trickery, fraud … about lies.” But Welles also calls himself a “charlatan,” and he’s introduced performing magic tricks — and magicians use truth as a kind of misdirection — they tell you something true while pretending to saw a woman in half. There might be a similar kind of misdirection in Welles’ explanation.
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