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Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows hits cinemas on December 16th, which isn’t very long at all! Now a quartet of new character posters for the movie have emerged, showing off Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock, Jude Law as Watson, Noomi Rapace as the gypsy Sim and Jared Harris as the evil Professor Moriarty. Take a look at them above and below. (Image via Yahoo!)
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It seems Denzel Washington is still as much bigger deal that Ryan Reynolds, as the first image and poster for Safe House have arrived, neither of which seem to care much that Reynolds in also in the movie. There’s little doubt they’re doing a good job of making Washington look moody!
In Safe House, a CIA-operated safe house is targeted by a group of bad guys, and the facility’s house-sitter is tasked with the dangerous job of moving the criminal who is being hidden there to another secure location, without getting either of them killed.
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Warner Bros must be confident their Clash Of The Titans follow-up, Wrath Of The Titans, is going to be a hit, as they’ve already started work on a third film in the franchise. They’ve hired Dan Mazeau and David Johnson, who also wrote the second movie, to pen Clash of the Titans 3, even though Wrath of the Titans doesn’t hit theaters until March 30th, 2012.
Little is known about the story of Clash of the Titans 3, although THR says insiders claim Toby Kebbell’s Agenor, a sidekick to Sam Worthington’s Perseus in Wrath of the Titans, may feature heavily in Clash of the Titans 3. It is also believed that Wrath of the Titans director Jonathan Liebesman will return for Clash of the Titans 3, although no deal have been worked out quite yet.
However a third film is dependent on the seoncd movie becoming a hit. The first Clash flick grossed nearly $500 million worldwide, and Warner will be hoping Wrath does at least the same.
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Back in 2006, director John Carney made a bit of a splash with the musical Once, which won the Audience Award at Sundance amongst many other gongs (including an Oscar for one of the songs). However he’s been fairly quiet since, probably because rather than going Hollywood, he’s continued to make small Irish movies.
However that may change as the LA Times reports he’s in final talk to direct Dogs of Babel, which has Steve Carell onboard as producer and star. Jamie Linden wrote the screenplay, which is adapted from Carolyn Parkhurst’s novel of the same name. It centres on Paul Iverson (Carell), a linguistics professor who returns home and finds his wife dead in their back yard.
Although the police rule the death an accident, Paul is still skeptical. He tries to teach his dog Lorelei, the only witness to his wife’s death, how to speak, in hopes of determining what really happened that day. Hmm, let’s hope it’s better than it sounds, but thankfully Carney is the sort of guy who could pull this off. It isn’t known when production may begin on Dogs of Babel.
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The sequel to 300, once called Xerxes and now 300: Battle of Artemisia, has been very slowly moving forward ever since the first film was released. Frank Miller has been hard at work creating the graphic novel on which the movie will be based, and while Zack Snyder was supposed to direct, he’s busy with Superman and so Noam Murro has taken over. However Snyder has been working on the script with Kurt Johnstad, and they’ve now completed work.
The next step is casting, and while one producer has teased the cameo returns of Gerard Butler and Lena Headey, Battle of Artemisia needs a new leading man to play Themosticles, a Greek general who led the defense against Persia’s invasion in 480 BC. According to Vulture, they may have found their man, as Joel Edgerton, recently seen in The Thing, Animal Kingdom and Warrior, is reportedly in talks to star. Let’s hope he looks good in a leather nappy, which will presumably be his costume, as it was for the guys in the first 300 movie.
Battle of Artemisia producers Mark Canton and Gianni Nunnari recently said of the Snyder/Johnstad script, “Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad, his writing partner, have killed it. They’ve done a tremendous job making a highly intelligent, epic story that will stand on its own. But it’s not a conventional sequel and, for what we do, that’s what you hope and pray for. That you can be original and authentic at the same time.”
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With the US Presidential elections next year, its seem Hollywood feels it’s high time for some political comedy, as Warner Bros.’ Dog Fight, starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis is due to start shooting this month, ready for release around the time the Yanks go to the polls.
Now the star duo have some more company, as Variety reports that Brian Cox has joined the movie. Ferrell and Galifianakis play two rival politicians running for a congressional seat in a small North Carolina district election. Cox will play Zach Galifianakis’ father, a former Senator who has always been distant toward his family, especially his son.
Jason Sudeikis, Dylan McDermott, Sarah Baker and Katherine LaNasa will also being in the movie, with Jay Roach directing.
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A few weeks ago some images popped up online of Terrence Malick (The Tree Of Life) shooting a film with Christian Bale at the Austin City Limits festival. It was a bit of a surprise as nobody knew anything about the movie, and Bale was supposed to be shooting Dark Knight Rises at the time.
Now it’s been revealed what they were up to, well, sort of. While Malick is renowned for his slow pace of work – five films in 38 years – he’s speeding up massively as Variety says he’s planning to make two movies, both starring Bale and Cate Blanchett (that’s in addition to The Burial, which features Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Javier Bardem and Rachel Weisz, which he’s already shot).
The film that was partially filmed at the festival will be called Lawless and has a great cast besides Bale and Blanchett, with Ryan Gosling in the lead role, alongside Rooney Mara and Haley Bennett. The other movie is titled Knight Of Cup, and will also feature Isabel Lucas.
That’s all the info we’ve got unfortunately, which leaves a lot of questions open. There’s no news on the plots, but the most intriguing possibility is that the movies will be linked together. The films will shoot back-to-back next year, and it would seem more than possible therefore that Bale and Blanchett will be playing the same characters in both movies. Whether that true is yet to be revealed.
Malick loves dripping everything in secrecy, and the only reason we know this much is because the company behind the films is looking for sales at the American Film Market. So while it’s all incredibly intriguing, don’t expect everything to become clear for a while yet.
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Shame has certainly got a lot of buzz surrounding it, both from enthusastic film festival audiences and from the fact its US distributor has taken the unusual step of embracing the movie’s NC-17 rating (due to sexual content), rather than trying to cut it or release it unrated. In the movie Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister (Carey Mulligan) moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon’s insular life spirals out of control. It’ll be in UK cinemas January 12th, but take a look at the new trailer.
Will Stifler’s mom get it on with Jim’s dad? That’s the question people will be asking after they watch this new trailer for American Reunion! However it also reintroduces us to all the rest of the old American Pie gang, most of whom are now all grown up and more staid than in their teen years, but that’s all likely to change when they get back together for a high school reunion. The film will be in UK cinemas April 6th, 2012.
There seems something rather fitting about the idea of the free-spirited and experimental James Franco signing up to star in a movie by the slightly nutty Harmony Korine (Gummo, Mister Lonely, Trash Humpers). That said, with Emma Roberts also possibly coming on-board, it would appear Korine’s got a slightly bigger budget this time around and presumably therefore won’t be making anything quite as strange as some of his earlier work.
Variety has the news and says the film is about, ‘four college-aged girls who rob a fast food restaurant to afford spring break in Florida, only to get arrested upon their arrival… Alien, a rapping drug and arms dealer, bails them out and entices them to kill his arch-rival, a murderer who is appropriately named Arch.’ For most people that would be edgy, but for Korine it’s actually a little tame!
Franco would play the rapping drug dealer (a part he’s mentioned before, while not giving away any more details than that) while Roberts, who’s in early talks, would be Candy, a Southern brunette who feeds off danger.
Is Korine going mainstream? It happens to a lot of edgy directors as the get older, but hopefully he’ll be able to get a wider audience without completely giving up on the edge that made people take notice of him in the first place.
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