| Go Behind the Scenes of Monsters With Filmmaker Gareth Edwards |
British filmmaker Gareth Edwards created his new sci-fi movie, Monsters, on a budget of only $15,000, an amount that is unlikely to even cover the cost of craft services on a typical movie set. With only a sound tech, his two principal actors—Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able—a producer and a translator, Edwards set out on the road in Central America with one goal: "To make the world?s most realistic monster movie." In this new featurette for Monsters, Edwards offers up a behind-the-scenes look at some of the locations in which the movie was shot and offers up a perfect synopsis of the movie that could become the surprise hit of the year.
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| Paula Patton Chooses to Accept Mission: Impossible 4 |
With Jeremy Renner now officially on board Paramount's Mission: Impossible 4, Production Weekly used their Twitter to announce the latest casting for the upcoming sequel.
Updated: 10:02 AM
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| New Trailer for Due Date Starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Zach Galifianakis |
Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for director Todd Philips' follow-up to The Hangover, Due Date. Written by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland, Due Date stars Robert Downey Jr. as Peter Highman, an uptight father-to-be who misses his flight home and is forced to hitch a ride with annoying aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis). The odd couple embark on a mad-dash cross-country trip to make it to the birth of Peter's child in time, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. Juliette Lewis, Michelle Monaghan, Alan Arkin, RZA, and Jamie Foxx also star.
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| Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper to Buddy Up in Action Comedy |
Ryan Reynolds' busy schedule keeps ballooning. Not satisfied with having five projects already lined up, THR reports that Reynolds will join Bradley Cooper in a buddy cop movie that will have "an updated Lethal Weapon flavor that plays into edgier R-rated territory." The movie, still untitled, will see Cooper and Reynolds as friends and San Francisco cops whose fathers, once partners in the force as well, are forced out of retirement to help the pair solve a crime. The movie was written by Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air), and currently has no director attached.
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| Recount Results: Takers Steals the Weekend from The Last Exorcism |
Horror fans had to rejoice when they saw that the Eli Roth-produced The Last Exorcism ended its opening weekend in the top spot at the box office. It's not often that a horror movie is number one across the country, but unfortunately for horror fans, last weekend wasn't one of those rare occurrences.
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| Kick-Ass 2 to Start "In Nine Months" |
Scottish comic book writer Mark Millar premiered a few panels from the upcoming comic book sequel to Kick-Ass in his new, monthly comic book magazine CLiNT. The comic book picks up right where the last one left off. Millar described the plot of the sequel, titled Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall, to MTV.
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| Marvel's Runaways Changes Start Date and Casting Requirements |
Marvel's first post-Avengers movie, the teen superhero team Runaways was poised to start shooting in January, but Production Weekly reports, via their Twitter account, that the date has been changed.
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| Sam Worthington to Star in Indie Surfing Movie Drift |
Australian actor Sam Worthington was virtually unknown in America until his appearance in Terminator Salvation, in which he practicaly stole the show from Christian Bale. Worthington?s subsequent roles in the box office sensation Avatar and the reboot of Clash of the Titans firmly cemented him as Hollywood?s go-to actor for big budgeted action spectacles. In spite of this, or perhaps because of this, Worthington has decided to buck the trend by signing on to star in an indie surfing drama with a micro-budget called Drift, set to be shot in his own backyard of Perth, Australia.
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| Creator Daniel LuVisi Updates Last Man Standing Movie Adaptation |
Daniel LuVisi's Last Man Standing (LMS) was one of the surprise hits of July?s San Diego Comic-Con. His 230-page graphic novel "bible" of the LMS universe sold out at Kevin Eastman's (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) Heavy Metal Publishing booth and Paramount Pictures swooped in and purchased the rights to adapt the property as a "multiplatform franchise." Set in future "Amerika," the story follows Gabriel, a genetically engineered Paladin soldier who is framed and imprisoned in the treacherous Level-9 Prison Facility. After nine years of torture, Gabriel escapes, but as he attempts to track down the reason why he was framed, he is relentlessly pursued by dozens of highly-skilled bounty hunters. In a recent interview with GeekChicDaily, LuVisi updated the status of the graphic novel adaptation, teasing that Gabriel?s story is only part of the plot of the upcoming movie.
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| New Stills and Set Photos of Ryan Reynolds from Buried |
A series of new still images and set photos from Spanish director Rodrigo Cortés? (The Contestant) independent thriller, Buried, has just been released. Considering the movie is basically a one-man-show starring Ryan Reynolds as a private contractor in Iraq who wakes up to himself buried alive with only a cell phone and a lighter, it should come as no surprise that virtually every image is basically Reynolds in a box. Still, if you?re a fan of Reynolds, or just curious about how Cortés shot those "underground" scenes, you?ll want to check these out.
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| The American Reviews |
Besides the notable exception of Roger Ebert, who gives the movie 4 stars, George Clooney's The American is being tagged somewhat as an art-house bummer. The exception being, apparently, an often naked Violante Placido.
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| Piranha 3D Producer Responds to James Cameron's Criticism |
James Cameron has always been an outspoken director, but in a recent interview he took the time to mention movies he thinks are belittling the great artistry that is the 3-D format. Cameron targeted Piranha 3D as an example of "what we should not be doing in 3-D" because the movie "cheapens the medium and reminds you of the bad 3-D horror films from the '70s and '80s."
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| Robert Rodriguez Talks Machete, Spy Kids 4, and Deadpool |
Most are likely familiar with the genesis of Machete, but for those who've missed it, the movie began as a faux-trailer for the 2007 double feature Grindhouse, and posited Danny Trejo as a double-crossed former Mexican Federale bent on revenge. Turned into a feature length movie by Robert Rodriguez and co-director Ethan Maniquis, Machete opens September 3 with an impressive ensemble cast which includes Robert DeNiro, Steven Seagal, Jeff Fahey, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Don Johnson, and Lindsay Lohan. Rodriguez told Latino Review that DeNiro's involvement helped bring the rest of the cast.
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| Rami Malek Cast in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn |
The first new cast member has been announced for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn. Rami Malek, a 29-year-old actor of Egyptian descent, will be playing vampire Benjamin in Breaking Dawn Part 2. If he looks familiar, you may have seen him (in headdress and mummy wrap) as Ahkmenrah in both Night at the Museum movies.
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| Stephen Moyer Knows "Nothing" About Fantastic Four Casting Rumors |
Rumors began circulating last week that True Blood and Priest actor Stephen Moyer was offered the role of Victor Von Doom, a.k.a. Doctor Doom, in the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. ComicbookMovie reported the rumor, citing an "inside source at Fox," though according to Moyer, he was unaware of it.
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| New The Devil Clip Takes the Lights Out |
Ever been stuck on an elevator with someone you weren't sure about? Try being trapped on an elevator with an incarnation of the devil. That's the plot of Devil, a movie based on an idea from M. Night Shyamalan, and directed by John Erick Dowdle (Quarantine). The first clip of the movie, released by MTV, shows perhaps the first signs that the strangers in the elevator are in more peril than they likely first conceived.
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| New The Town Clip Out for Blood |
Ben Affleck's latest movie, The Town, finds Affleck in the familiar territory of Boston and unfamiliar territory as the co-writer, director and star of the movie. Affleck's last directorial effort, Gone Baby Gone saw brother Casey Affleck take the lead role, leaving Ben to concentrate on matters behind the camera.
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| Jonathan Liebesman Officially Hired to Direct Clash of the Titans 2 |
After a few months of flirtation, THR reports that Warner Bros. has officially hired director Jonathan Liebesman for the sequel to Clash of the Titans. In June, Liebesman was reported to be Warners' top choice for the job after Louis Leterrier declined to return despite taking the remake and turning it into a blockbuster that earned over $491 million in worldwide box office.
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| Machete: Revenge Is Best Served at Point-Blank Range |
If there's one thing we've learned from the movies, it's this: If you're aiming to screw over a colleague, you'd better pick the screwee carefully. It's best to avoid people who hold a grudge and are awesome in a fistfight. And definitely take a pass if that colleague has an uncanny facility with guns, rifles, and large bladed tools. Just like in this week's Machete, a group of unfortunate Los Angeles criminals learned that same lesson in the late '60s, courtesy of John Boorman and Lee Marvin.
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| Charisma Carpenter and Ty Olsson Join Indie Thriller Crash Site |
Charisma Carpenter, best known for her role as mean-girl-turned-demon-hunter Cordelia Chase in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, has joined the cast of upcoming indie thriller Crash Site. The 40-year-old actress will play part of a couple recovering from a jeep crash in the woods, trying to make their way back to civilization and encountering unlikely animals and strange goings-on.
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