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New Welcome to Marwen Trailer – Steve Carell creates a miniature world for Robert Zemeckis

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Director Robert Zemeckis returns with Welcome To Marwen, which some think may be in the award season running next year (although it’s way too early to say). It’s certainly being lined up for an awards run with a late 2018 release planned. The new trailer shows it could be powerful if done right, showcasing Zemeckis’ love of bringing effects and technology to stories you might not initially think would need them.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Welcome to Marwen tells the miraculous true story of one broken man’s fight as he discovers how artistic imagination can restore the human spirit. When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carell) and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation—a testament to the most powerful women he knows—through his fantasy world, he draws strength to triumph in the real one.

‘In a bold, wondrous and timely film from this revolutionary pioneer of contemporary cinema, Welcome to Marwen shows that when your only weapon is your imagination…you’ll find courage in the most unexpected place.’

Welcome To Marwen also stars, Leslie Mann, Diane Kruger, Eiza González, Gwendoline Christie, and Janelle Monae. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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The Infiltrator (Blu-ray Review) – Bryan Cranston goes undercover laundering drug money

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Bryan Cranston is US Customs Official Bob Mazur, who specialises in going undercover to take down the bad guys. Following a successful sting where he gets injured, he’s told he’s eligible to retire. Instead he takes on a new job, going back undercover as shady business Robert Musella.

While his partner, Emir (John Leguizamo), infiltrates the lower ranks of the drug world, Bob works his way into the trust of those higher up the narcotics chain, posing as a man capable of laundering millions of dollars for Pablo Escobar’s Medellin drug cartel. The further into this world he goes the more dangerous it gets, necessitating the need for a fake fiancée (Diane Kruger), and having to pretend his wife is his secretary to help ensure his real family is kept safe, all while knowing that if he’s found out he’ll get a bullet in the brain. [Read more…]

Octavia Spencer & Quvenzhane Wallis Up For Fathers And Daughters

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octavia-spencerAaron Paul, Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried have been attached to Fathers And Daughters for a few months, and now the cast has grown once more, as the news has come out of Berlin (via Variety) that Octavia Spencer, Quvenzhane Wallis And Diane Kruger have joined the movie.

The film is set in two different time periods, 25 years apart, in New York City. Crowe plays a famous novelist who is struggling to raise his five-year-old daughter, largely because he is battling mental illness. Amanda Seyfried is playing the adult daughter in present-day Manhattan, who is still coming to grips with her troubled childhood.

According to Variety, ‘Spencer will play the spirited head of the psychiatric clinic where Seyfried’s character counsels troubled children. Wallis will play a patient who hasn’t spoken a word for a year since her mother was murdered while Kruger will play the sister-in law of Crowe’s character, who blames him for the death of her sister.’

Gabriele Muccino is set to direct.

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The Host (Blu-ray)

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After the success of Twilight, it was little surprise that a movie version of Stephenie Meyer’s The Host was put into the works. It seemed to bode well when Truman Show and In Time scribe Andrew Niccol was hired to write and direct, as he’s got a good track record when it comes to somewhat cerebral sci-fi. However the end result is rather underwhelming – not bad, but far from great. [Read more…]

Jesse Eisenberg & Emile Hirsch Take On Midnight Sun

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Jesse Eisenberg, Emile Hirsch and Diane Kruger are teaming up for Midnight Sun, according to Screen Daily, and it seems they’re going to help create the atomic bomb! Actor turned filmmaker Chris Eigeman is set to write and direct, with the movie currently looking for backers at the European Film Market.

The reports says the film is ‘Set in 1943, the drama follows two young post graduates recruited by the US Government to work on a top-secret project in New Mexico. Along with one of the students’ new wife, they drop their jazz-filled lives in New York and move to a secret community of scientists in the desert.’

It’s not a huge leap from their to assume they’re working on The Manhattan Project, the programme that resulted in the atom bomb and the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Richard Rhodes, winner of the Pulitzer prize for book The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is an advisor on the project, so hopefully it’ll stick fairly close to the truth of the project. The current plan is to shoot the movie this summer.

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Anton Yelchin & Diane Kruger Will Have An Affair In 5 To 7

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People having affairs is usually more the preserve of drama and thriller than romantic comedies, but that’s what 5 To 7 is about, despite being designated as a rom-com. It’s been announced that Anton Yelchin and Diane Kruger have signed on to star in the film, which will be written and directed by Victor Levin.

Yelchin will play a young novelist living in New York who begins an affair with the wife of a French diplomat (Kruger). The makers of the movie suggest, “Cultures, world views, personal ethics and dietary preferences clash as love deepens, with remarkable results in this romantic comedy.”

Levin’s previous writing credits include the film Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!, and episodes of shows such as Mad Men, Mad About You and The Larry Sander’s Show However this will be his first feature film as a director. Production on the new film is planned for late February 2013. (Source: Variety)

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Wes Bentley & Brit Marling Join Young Lincoln Biopic Green Blade Rises

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A few weeks ago it was revealed Terrence Malick is set to produce the directorial debut of AJ Edwards, who worked with Malick on The New World, The Tree Of Life and To The Wonder. The film is all about Abraham Lincoln’s youth and already has Diane Kruger and Jason Clarke attached to play Lincoln’s step-mother and father.

Now it’s been revealed that Wes Bentley and Brit Marling will also star, with Bentley playing the future President’s first teacher and Marling as Nancy, his biological mother who withstood the challenges of pioneer life.

The Green Blade Rises tells the untold story of the youth of America’s greatest hero. It chronicles the hardships that shaped him, including abandonment by his father in the harsh winter wilderness, the tragedy that marked him forever and the two women who guided him to immortality, putting him on the path to becoming one of the most influential Presidents in United States history.

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The Host Teaser Trailer

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While Stephenie Meyer’s book, The Host, wasn’t as well received as her Twilight novels, it has the potential to make a very intriguing movie. Now the first teaser trailer for the film version of The Host has arrived and tells us that in the future, we’ll all have creepy eyes! In The Host, our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy. Humans become hosts for these invaders, their minds taken over while their bodies remain intact. Most of humanity has succumbed, including Soarise Ronan’s main character, Melanie Stryder. However while normally the human is completely subdued by their host, in Melanie’s case, her personality flashes through, intriguing her Host, known as The Wanderer, and setting them off on a quest to find the last free humans. The film is due out in the UK March 2013.

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Diane Kruger, Boyd Holbrook & Chandler Canterbury Join The Host

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When Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 hits cinemas at the end of the year, it won’t be the end for adaptations of Stephenie Meyer’s books on the big screen, as The Host is gearing up to shoot, with Andrew Niccol directing.

Saoirse Ronan, William Hurt, Max Iron and Jake Abel have already been cast, and they’ve now been joined by Diane Kruger, Boyd Holbrook and Chandler Canterbury, according to Variety.

The film is about parasitic alien creatures called Souls who can take over a human body. Saoirse Ronan stars as a young human soldier who is taken over by a Soul dubbed The Wanderer. While human personalities are normally subdued by their hosts, Ronan’s character puts up a fight, refusing to let go of her identity.

The Wanderer becomes obsessed with the soldier’s memories, and sets out to find her boyfriend and lost brother. Diane Kruger will portray another human with a soul inside called The Seeker, who tracks down The Wanderer. Chandler Canterbury will play Ronan’s younger brother, while Holbrook will be Jake Abel’s macho brother.

The film is due to start shooting at the end of the month, with a release already set for March 2013.

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Beckinsale, Atwell, and Kruger Eyed for Horizons

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Joseph Kosinski’s sci-fi flick, Horizons, already has Tom Cruise and Jessica Chastain attached to star, but according to Deadline, there is one more female lead role open, and actresses Kate Beckinsale, Hayley Atwell, and Diane Kruger are vying to land it.

The European actresses will all read for the role in Pittsburgh this weekend, where Tom Cruise is shooting One Shot (when you get to be as big as Tom Cruise, the world comes to you rather than the other way around). The role is a female pilot who crash lands on Earth, which is now only inhabited by drones after the planet became too toxic for humans. Tom Cruise plays one of the last men on Earth, a drone mechanic who discovers the wreckage and goes on a journey of discovery with the woman.

Joseph Kosinski (Tron: Legacy) will direct Horizons from a screenplay by Karl Gajdusek, who rewrote William Monahan’s initial draft. The project is based on the graphic novel Joseph Kosinski co-created for Radical Publishing.

 

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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