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American Horror Story: Asylum (DVD)

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Rather than having a continuing story, American Horror Story has decided to go the more interesting route of telling a completely different tale each season, although with many of the same actors (but playing new character). So while the first season was set in a haunted house in LA, Asylum takes us to the Briarcliff asylum.

We start out in the present day, when a man (Maroon 5’s Adam Levine) and his girlfriend are poking around the ruins of Briarcliff when they are confronted by an incarnation of the psychotic serial killer, Bloodyface. We then flash back to the 1960s, when Briarcliff in still in operation, presided over by the terrifying nun, Sister Jude (Jessica Lange). [Read more…]

American Horror Story’s Lily Rabe Joins The Hunger Games: Mockingjay

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Lily-RabeLionsgate has announced in a Tweet from the official Hunger Games account that American Horror Story star Lily Rabe has joined The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2.

They said: ‘It’s official! Please welcome Lily Rabe as Commander Lyme to the cast of @TheHungerGames: Mockingjay Parts 1&2’

Commander Lyme comes from District 2 and is a previous Hunger Games tournament, who becomes an important part of the rebellion against the Capitol that has been brewing even since Katniss and Peeta went into the brutal arena.

The talented Rabe joins a cast that includes Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss Everdeen), Josh Hutcherson (Peeta Mellark), Liam Hemsworth (Gale Hawthorne), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Plutarch Heavensbee), Julianne Moore (Alma Coin), Natalie Dormer (Cressida), Stef Dawson (Annie Cresta), and Evan Ross (Messalla).

Francis Lawrence is set to direct the movies, with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 due out November 21st, 2014, with Part 2 coming almost exactly a year later on November 20th, 2015. Before that we have Catching Fire this November.

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All Good Things (DVD)

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We’ve had to wait a while for All Good Things. Shot in 2008 it was slated for US release in 2009, but various issues with the distribution meant it didn’t actually hit American cinemas until late 2010 (and even then it only got a small release). It’s take another two full years for it to arrive in the UK, despite the presence of Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst.

Based on a true story, Gosling plays David Marks, who in the early 1980s is the heir to a mega-rich empire. However he massively dislikes his father (Frank Langella) and would prefer to have little to do with the family business. He meets and marries the lower-middle class Katie (Kirsten Dunst), fleeing the city to a place in rural Vermont. However they’re lured back to New York by David’s father. [Read more…]

Julia Stiles Joins Michael Pitt & Lily Rabe In Mary Pickford Biopic The First

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julia-stilesHollywood loves to delve back into its past for a bit of a biopic, but it doesn’t often go back as far as the silent era. However Mary Pickford is definitely worth making a movie about, as she’s often regarded as the first true movie superstar.

Ryan Simpkins has already been cast to play a young Pickford, with American Horror Story’s Lily Rabe playing the more grown up version. Michael Pitt meanwhile is Owen Moore, Pickford’s first husband, before they divorced and she married the much more famous Douglas Fairbanks.

Now Variety reports that Julia Stiles has joined the cast, playing Frances Marion who was one of the top screenwriters of the early 20th Century. She won Oscars for The Big House and The Champ, and collaborated with Pickford on numerous projects.

Jennifer DeLia is set to direct. The movie is currently looking for distributors at the Berlin Film Festival. The hope is to shoot later this year, by which time the roles of Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith, Jack Pickford (Mary’s brother), Charlotte Hennessy (Mary’s mother) and Lillian Gish will also have been cast.

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