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James McAvoy (Atonement, X-Men First Class) will star opposite the previously announced Jessica Chastain (The Help, The Tree of Life) in the double-feature film project The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers, Myriad Pictures announced today. The project was previously set to star Joel Edgerton in the role.

Ned Benson (In Defiance of Gravity) wrote the two scripts and will direct both films.

The love story explores how a married couple in New York City deals with an emotional, life-altering experience, from the two different perspectives of the husband, Conor, (McAvoy), a restaurant owner, and of the wife, Eleanor, (Chastain), who goes back to college.

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Cameras have started rolling on Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut, now officially titled Don Jon’s Addiction. The news comes from Gordon-Levitt himself, who also shared the below image from the set on his Twitter feed, @hitRECordJoe.

Also written by and starring Gordon-Levitt, Don Jon’s Addiction also stars Scarlett Johansson and Tony Danza and tells the tale of a present-day Don Juan and his quest to become a better person.

The behind-the-scenes photo marks the first update from the production’s official Tumbler, which also has a corresponding Twitter account at @donjonsaddict.

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Tom Cruise is planning to headline a big screen remake of John Sturges’ The Magnifcent Seven, Variety reports.

The 1960 film, itself a loose remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai starred Charles Bronson, Yul Brynner, Horst Bucholz, James Colburn, Brad Dexter, Steve McQueen and Robert Vaughn as seven gunfighters-for-hire tasked with protecting a small Mexican village. It spawned three sequels, 1966′s Return of the Magnificent Seven, 1969′s Guns of the Magnificent Seven, 1972′s The Magnifcent Seven Ride Again and a television series, simply called “The Magnificent Seven”, that ran two seasons beginning in 1998.

Cruise most recently starred in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and can soon be seen back on the big screen in Adam Shankman’s Rock of Ages… Continue Reading…

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Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood, Being Flynn) has joined the cast of Steve McQueen’s upcoming 12 Years a Slave, Deadline reports. He’ll star opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender.

Based on the 1853 autobiography of Solomon Northrup, 12 Years a Slave tells of Northrup’s tragic kidnapping in Washington DC in 1841 where, despite being born a free man, he was forced into slavery at a Louisiana cotton plantation until his rescue 12 years later.

McQueen co-wrote the adaptation with John Ridley (Red Tails) and will produce through Brad Pitt’s company, Plan B. Ejiofor, best known for roles in Children of Men and Redbelt, will portray Northrup while Dano will play a villainous slave owner.

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With his The Five-Year Engagement now in theaters, Nicholas Stoller has lined up his next project with the Universal Pictures comedy Townies. The Hollywood Reporter says that Stoller will direct with Zac Efron and Seth Rogen attached to star.

Written by Andrew Cohen and Brendan O’Brien, Townies will feature a rivalry between a the member of a college fraternity (Efron) and a local family man (Rogen).

Stoller, who also directed Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek, also co-wrote The Muppets and is currently working on that film’s still-untitled sequel.

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A brand-new poster for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises has just debuted at the film’s Facebook page. Check it out below!

Opening in theaters and IMAX on July 20, the final chapter in Nolan’s trilogy stars Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Morgan Freeman.

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Warner Bros. Pictures starts Memorial Day weekend early by opening the new film Chernobyl Diaries at midnight on Thursday, May 24th in over 1,300 theaters in 184 U.S. and Canadian markets. Oren Peli fans who want to be the first to take an “extreme” tour of the forbidden area surrounding the infamous Chernobyl reactor can kick-off the holiday weekend by seeing the movie at the stroke of midnight on Thursday.

Chernobyl Diaries is an original story from Peli, who first terrified audiences with his groundbreaking thriller, Paranormal Activity. The film follows a group of six young vacationers who, looking to go off the beaten path, hire an “extreme” tour guide. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl… Continue Reading…

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A brand-new poster for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises has just debuted at the film’s Facebook page. Check it out below!

Opening in theaters and IMAX on July 20, the final chapter in Nolan’s trilogy stars Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Morgan Freeman.

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AMC announced today its summer programming slate, including the highly-anticipated premiere of the first part of “Breaking Bad’s” final season on Sunday, July 15 at 10pm ET/PT. The final season of the Emmy Award-winning and critically acclaimed drama, produced by Sony Pictures Television, consists of 16 episodes, with the first eight episodes beginning July 15 and culminating with the series’ final eight episodes next summer 2013.

Also this summer, the network debuts its newest unscripted series, “Small Town Security,” on Sunday, July 15 at 11pm ET/PT and season two of the epic western “Hell on Wheels” Sunday, August 12 at 9pm ET/PT.

Over four seasons, “Breaking Bad” has garnered a total of six Emmy wins; a Peabody Award; it has been named… Continue Reading…

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The first poster for Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly is now online, courtesy of Moviefone. Check it out below!

Hitting theaters on September 21st, Killing Them Softly stars Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Sam Rockwell, Richard Jenkins, Bella Heathcote, Vincent Curatola, Ray Liotta, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn and Linara Washington and adapts George V. Higgin’s novel, following a professional enforcer, Jackie Cogan (Pitt), who investigates a heist that occurs during a high stakes, mob-protected, poker game.

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Following appearances this year in Man on a Ledge, Casa de mi Padre and What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Genesis Rodriguez has joined the cast of Universal Pictures’ Identity Thief. Deadline has the news, saying that she’ll join Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Amanda Peet, John Cho, Clark Duke, Maggie Elizabeth Jones, Mary-Charles Jones and Jon Favreau in the Seth Gordon film.

The film features Bateman’s character as the victim of an identity theft by McCarthy’s character. Originally written for a male character on the criminal end of things, the script was reportedly rewritten specifically for McCarthy. Steve Conrad (The Weather Man, The Pursuit of Happyness) wrote the first draft with subsequent rewrites by Craig Mazin (The Hangover Part II).

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The Weinstein Company has released the first look at Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Jesse Plemons, David Warshofsky, Amy Adams and Rami Malek.

Scheduled to hi theaters on October 12, the film is set in America in the years following World War II. A charismatic intellectual (Philip Seymour Hoffman) launches a faith-based organization and taps a young drifter (Joaquin Phoenix) as his right-hand man. But as the faith begins to gain a fervent following, the onetime vagabond finds himself questioning the belief system he has embraced, and his mentor. Continue Reading…

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Twentieth Century Fox has released a new international poster for director Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which is based on the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, who also wrote the screenplay.

Coming to theaters on June 22nd, the supernatural thriller stars Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jimmi Simpson, Robin McLeavy, Alan Tudyk and Rufus Sewell. In the film, President Lincoln’s mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

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Four new behind-the-scenes photos from The Amazing Spider-Man have surfaced and feature Andrew Garfield and stunt double William Spencer.

Also, a silly video has come online in which Garfield and Emma Stone sing a little song. Talking to Vulture, Garfield explained that they “were given these things to do for different stations and websites, and we said, “This one doesn’t make sense.” We can’t say, “This is so amazing,” so we sang it to make fun of it, and we didn’t even think they would use it. We were so hyper and we had just gotten our second wind, so we were being just completely stupid and ridiculous.”

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Following the first trailer for Skyfall earlier today, it was announced that the “Bond 50″ Blu-ray set will hit stores in the UK on September 24 and in North America on September 25. Here’s the press release:

All the Bonds. All the girls. All the action. All in high-definition. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment mark James Bond’s monumental golden anniversary with the release of BOND 50, the complete Bond experience showcasing all 22 classic films on Blu-ray together for the first time ever, neatly packaged into one cool, sleek collectable box-set. The collection will be available beginning September 24 in the United Kingdom and September 25 in North America with additional international markets to follow that week. BOND 50… Continue Reading…

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Peter Weir (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World , The Truman Show) will direct the contemporary gothic thriller The Keep, reports Variety. The film is based on Jennifer Egan’s 2006 best-seller, which is described as follows:

Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep –the tower, the last stand –is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive.

Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as… Continue Reading…

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Hugh Jackman revealed to his Twitter followers this weekend that The Wolverine starts shooting in August.

Stage work for the film will be done in Australia and location shooting will take place in Japan.

“It’s set in Japan,” Fox CEO Tom Rothman said previously. “A great number of Japanese actors will be in it and it’s based on the very famous run of the comics… I can just tell you on behalf of [Jackman], his goal is to make the ultimate, bad ass, berserker rage Wolverine.”

To be directed by James Mangold with a script by Christopher McQuarrie and Mark Bomback, The Wolverine is scheduled to hit theaters on July 26, 2013. Continue Reading…

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Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy are teaming to headline an untitled new project from Bridesmaids director Paul Feig. The Hollywood Reporter has the news, saying that the comedy arrives from Katie Dippold (“Parks and Recreation”).

In the film, Bullock will play an FBI agent who forms an uneasy partnership with McCarthy’s Boston police officer.

Bullock previously played an FBI Agent in both 2000′s Miss Congeniality and its 2005 sequel Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous. She most recently starred in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and will soon headline Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity. McCarthy, meanwhile, was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Bridesmaids, soon appears in Judd Apatow’s This is 40 and will star opposite Jason Bateman in… Continue Reading…

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Rachel McAdams has joined the cast of A Most Wanted Man, says a story at The Hollywood Reporter. She’ll star opposite Phillip Seymour Hoffman in John le Carré adaptation.

To be directed by Anton Corbijn (The American, Control), A Most Wanted Man features an adapted screenplay by Andrew Bovell (Edge of Darkness, Lantana).

The film takes place in present day Hamburg, Germany where a mysterious, tortured and near-dead half-Chechen, half-Russian man on the run arrives in the city’s Islamic community desperate for help and looking to recover his late Russian father’s ill-gotten fortune. Nothing about this young man seems to add up; is he a victim or a thief or, worse still, an extremist intent on destruction? Drawn into this web of intrigue is a private British banker… Continue Reading…

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The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with studio estimates for the weekend. Click here for the full box office estimates of the top 12 films and then check back on Monday for the final figures based on actual box office.

If you’re sick of all of our box office reporting on the mega-blockbuster Marvel’s The Avengers (Walt Disney Pictures) then you probably should stop going to see it so much, because it once again dominated the box office with another $55.1 million to take first place, defeating three new movies all which did disappointing business. The Avengers ‘ domestic gross is estimated at $457.1 million after three weekends, putting it just behind Star Wars as the sixth-highest grossing movie of all time domestically.

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BBC Films has announced their upcoming slate at the Cannes Film Festival, and it includes The Golden Lady a new movie for My Week with Marilyn director Simon Curtis (left), as well as a number of other projects, some already in production and some on the way, including new movies for Saoirse Ronan, Jude Law and Tom Hanks, as well as a new movie starring Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge.

Simon Curtis’ drama The Golden Lady, written by playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell, takes place in the art world, telling the true story of Maria Altmann, who fought to reclaim paintings by Gustav Klimt that were stolen from her family by the Nazis during World War II.

They also announced that Irish actress Saoirse Ronan (Hanna) will star in Juliette Towhidi’s Testament of Youth, adapting Vera… Continue Reading…

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Radiant Films International announced today an impressive cast that’s been assembled for actor and artist Andrew Levitas’ directorial debut, the dramatic comedy Lullaby, headlined by Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy) and Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins (The Visitor, joined by Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls), “Downton Abbey” star Jessica Brown Findlay and Oscar nominees Amy Adams and Terrence Howard with plans to start filming this June in New York City.

Based on Levitas’ own original screenplay, the film explores the “power of life, its transformative moments and reconnections between loved ones” with the official plot summary being, “Estranged from his family, Jonathan (Hedlund) receives word that his father, Robert (Jenkins), who has been… Continue Reading…

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Barry Malzberg’s controversial award-winning sci-fi novel Beyond Apollo is being adapted to the screen as a sci-fi thriller by writer/director Michael Grodner with actors Scott Speedman and Bill Pullman attached, who were recently joined by Ali Larter from “Heroes.”

Produced by Aaron Ockman (Children of the Corn: Genesis, Hellraiser: Revelations), the project now has the support of sales company Stealth Media Group with Cloverfield director Matt Reeves taking on an executive producer role with plans to start principal photography in the fall.

The project has been in development for a number of years with a website that offers more information on the project including the official synopsis:

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More casting is being announced out of the Cannes Film Festival today as sales an financing company The Solution Entertainment Group has announced that British comic actor Simon Pegg has been cast in the lead role of Peter Chelsom’s dramatic comedy Hector and the Search for Happiness.

Based on the bestselling novel by François Lelord and adapted by Chelsom with Tinker Lindsay, Pegg will play Hector, “an eccentric yet irresistible London psychiatrist in crisis” because his patients are getting happier.

The official plot synopsis from the press release goes on to say, “He’s going nowhere. Then one day, armed with buckets of courage and an almost child-like curiosity, Hector breaks out of his sheltered vacuum of a life into a global quest to find out if happiness… Continue Reading…

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NBC’s cult favorite series “Community” completed its third season this week with fans delighted to have already learned that Greendale Community College will be reopening its doors for a 13-episode fourth season. Tonight’s news is a bit more grim, however, as The Hollywood Reporter brings word that creator Dan Harmon has been replaced by David Guarascio and Moses Port (“Just Shoot Me”) as the series’ co-showrunners and executive producers.

Though the trade suggests that Harmon will remain aboard as a “consulting producer”, Harmon took to his own Tumblr with a decidedly less-encouraging update.

“You may have read that I am technically ‘signed on’ by default, to be an executive consulting something or other,” Harmon writes,… Continue Reading…

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With James Bond celebrating 50 years on the big screen and gearing up for a third Daniel Craig led outing, Skyfall on November 9th, K5 Films, PalmStar Media Capital and Liberty Films are planning a biopic of his creator, Ian Fleming, which Variety reports that Duncan Jones is now attached to direct.

Planned in conjunction with the Fleming estate, the film (currently operating under the working title of Fleming) will be based on the 1996 biography “Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond”, officially described as follows:

Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world-traveler, and spy, the creator of the Cold War’s archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complex and interesting than his iconic fictional character, Agent 007. Fleming’s wide-ranging and exciting… Continue Reading…

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D.V. DeVincentis has been brought aboard Walt Disney Pictures’ big-screen version of The Night Stalker, says a story at The Hollywood Reporter. Produced in conjunction with his Infinitum Nihil, Johnny Depp is attached to headline with Edgar Wright directing.

The Night Stalker originally aired as a TV movie in 1972 and featured Darren McGavin as a Carl Kolchak, a reporter who, while tracking down a serial killer, finds that he’s really going toe-to-toe with a vampire. A sequel, The Night Strangler, aired in 1973 with a television series “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” airing the following year. While the “Night Stalker” of the title referred to the Vampire, the term became associated with protagonist instead. Coincidentally, the same is true of another upcoming… Continue Reading…

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Robin Williams, Mila Kunis, Peter Dinklage, Melissa Leo and James Earl Jones will star in the comedy The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, reports Screen Daily.

The Cargo Entertainment, Landscape Entertainment and Force Majeure project is “the story of a stand-in doctor who mistakenly tells an obnoxious patient he has 90 minutes to live. The medic tries desperately to locate the man after her comments sends him on a contrite tour of the city to right all the wrongs in his life.”

Filming is expected to star in Brooklyn, New York this September.

Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams, Sneakers, The Sum of All Fears) will direct from a screenplay by Daniel Taplitz. Continue Reading…

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Universal Pictures has acquired Tyler Marceca’s spec script The Disciple Program, with Mark Walhberg attached to star and produce, reports Variety.

Headhunters helmer Morten Tyldum is set to direct the film, which Wahlberg and Steve Levinson will produce through Leverage Entertainment.

According to the trade, the “story revolves around a man investigating his wife’s mysterious death only to find out it goes much deeper than he imagined.”

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jOBS, which chronicles the life of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, starts filming in June, it was announced today. The movie is one of two Steve Jobs projects in the works, the other being Sony Pictures’ Steve Jobs, which will be written by Aaron Sorkin. Here’s the press release on the Ashton Kutcher-starrer jOBS :

The film chronicling the life of Steve Jobs, the Apple Inc. co-founder and charismatic master of innovation, begins principal photography in June and in keeping with the project’s commitment to accuracy and authenticity, will film early scenes in the actual Los Altos home where Jobs grew up and in the historic garage where he and Steve Wozniak founded Apple.

Titled jOBS, the biopic stars Ashton Kutcher as the iconic Silicon Valley visionary, and will shed new… Continue Reading…