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Johnny Knoxville Will Take A Sick Day In A New Comedy

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johnny-knoxvilleA few years ago Johnny Knoxville seemed to be in everything. He’s a bit more discerning nowadays though, with Deadline reporting he’s set to star in the Universal Pictures comedy Sick Day.

Knoxville will play one of three friends who have an tradition of calling in sick one day every year. They use it to take the opportunity to fulfill their wildest fantasies, hopefully without getting caught.

It’s being described as being in the vein of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

Jordan Cahan (My Best Friend’s Girl) is rewriting the original script by Jeremy Garelick. It’s not known when the film will shoot.

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Tomas Alfredson Will Make The Snowman, Replacing Martin Scorsese

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tomas-alfredsonBack in 2011 Martin Scorsese confirmed that he wanted to direct a film version of Jo Nesbo’s novel, The Snowman. However he’s now moved on and the movie has a new helmer in the form of Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One in, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), according to Variety.

Scorsese is still attached as an executive producer on the film, which follows Oslo detective Harry Hole, a loose cannon who is investigating the disappearance of a woman, whose pink scarf is found wrapped around a sinister-looking snowman.

Matthew Michael Carnahan wrote the initial version of the script, but now Tomas Alfredson will work on a new draft of the screenplay with Sø Sveistrup.

Harry Hole has been part of 10 of Jo Nesbø’s novels, so there’s plenty of room for a franchise if The Snowman is a success.

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The Fault In Our Stars Extended Trailer – High drama and romance for Shailene Woodley & Ansel Elgort

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Adaptations of young adult novels are very popular at the moment, but the ones that have generated the most interest have generally been sci-fi and fantasy property.

However there’s a lot of buzz building around The Fault In Our Stars, not least because John Green’s novel has a huge amount of fans. Now an extended trailer has arrived to give us a better look.

The movie follows Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley), a teenager who joins a support group after being diagnosed with cancer. Hazel begins to fall for another cancer-stricken teenager Augustus (Ansel Elgort) from her group. Sam Trammell and Laura Dern play Hazel’s father and mother, with Nat Wolff as Isaac, Augustus’ best friend.

The film, directed by Josh Boone, is due out in June. [Read more…]

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Zack Snyder Confirmed To Direct Justice League

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zack-snyder-slideThere’s been a presumption that the planned Batman Vs. Superman movie will lead to a Justice League film. However until now Warner has officially confirmed that. Now though they’ve not just said it’s going to happen, they’ve announced Zack Snyder will direct.

Batman Vs. Superman begins production next month, and there’s some suggestion that Justice League will shoot back to back with that movie, although that’s not been confirmed.

It appears if they’re shooting separately we’ll get Justice League in 2018, but if it’s back to back it’ll be 2017.

Specific plot or casting details have not been revealed, but it is almost certain that Henry Cavill will return as Superman, Ben Affleck as Batman and Gal Gadot as Wonderwoman. Ray Fisher is expected to make a cameo in Batman Vs. Superman as Cyborg and then appear in Justice League.

There’s no confirmation on what other DC superheroes might appear in the movie.

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Boyhood Trailer – Richard Linklater’s coming of age drama filmed over 12 years

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We’ve been waiting a long time for Boyhood – 12 years to be precise. Director Richard Linklater has been shooting a few scenes a year of the movie over more than a decade, which has allowed him to work with the same boy from his childhood and follow him through his adolescence.

The resulting film has already premiered to much acclaim at film festivals, and now we get to take our first look with a trailer.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘The film tracks 6 year-old Mason (Ellar Coltrane) over life’s most radically fluctuating decade, through a familiar whirl of family moves, family controversies, faltering marriages, re-marriages, new schools, first loves, lost loves, good times, scary times and a constantly unfolding mix of heartbreak and wonder. But the results are unpredictable, as one moment braids into the next, entwining into a deeply personal experience of the incidents that shape us as we grow up and the ever-changing nature of our lives.

‘As the story begins, dreamy-eyed grade-schooler Mason faces upheaval: his devoted, struggling single mom Olivia (Patricia Arquette) has decided to move him and older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) to Houston – just as their long-absent father Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke) returns from Alaska to re-enter their world. Thus begins life’s non-stop flux. Yet through a tide of parents and stepparents, girls, teachers and bosses, dangers, yearnings and creative passions, Mason emerges to head down his own road.’

The film’s due out July 11th. [Read more…]

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Jonah Hill & Channing Tatum Get Their Spring Break On In A New New 22 Jump Street Poster

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22-jump-street-quad-2It’s only a couple of months until 22 Jump Street arrives, which looks like it’s going to be as much fun as the first film. Now a new quad poster has arrived which suggest Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are going to be getting their Spring Break on in the film.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership.

‘Now they don’t have to just crack the case – they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.’

22 Jump Street is due out in June.

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Steven Spielberg Attached To Direct Roald Dahl’s The BFG

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Steven-SpielbergSteven Spielberg has had a busy few weeks while he’s been deciding what movies he wants to make in the future. Earlier this week he signed up to direct a currently untitled Cold War thriller, which will reunite him with Tom Hanks.

Now he’s lining up another movie, as THR reports he’s officially come onboard an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG.

The 1982 book is about a young girl who one night is snatched from her bed by a giant and taken to him faraway land. However it turns out the giant isn’t a bad guy – he’s a BFG, Big Friendly Giant – who blows dreams through children’s windows.

However the other giants are indeed bad and like nothing better than eating little kids – and they need to be stopped.

Melissa Mathison is writing the script, which bodes well considering she also wrote Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.

The Cold War movie will apparently shoot first, with The BFG coming afterwards.

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James Badge Dale & Ben Kingsley Will Reach For The Clouds Alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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james-badge-daleBack in January is was revealed Robert Zemeckis was working on To Reach For the Clouds, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt rumoured to star. The project is now coming together fast with the hope it will shoot this summer.

THR reports that Gordon-Levitt will indeed star and now he has some company as Ben Kingsley, James Badge Dale, and Charlotte Le Bon are set to join the cast.

The film will be based on the memoirs of Philippe Petit, who walked on a tightrope strung between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on August 7, 1974. Zemeckis is planning to direct from a script he is co-writing with Christopher Browne.

The actual tightrope walk won’t be featured until towards the end of the movie, with the bulk of the film looking at on how Philippe Petit and a group of friends meticulously planned what was later called the ‘artistic crime of the century.’ It took six years from conception to execution. Eventually in 1974 they snuck up to the top of the towers to string a 450-foot cable from one building to the other, using a custom-made 26-foot balancing pole. The heist elements of the story are (inevitably) being compared to Ocean’s Eleven.

A documentary about the event, Man on Wire directed by James Marsh, won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2009.

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Jude Law Will Replace Michael Fassbender In Genius

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jude-lawBack in late 2012 it was announced that Colin Firth and Michael Fassbender were set to star in Genius. The film is still in development, but Fassbender is no longer involved, with Deadline reporting Jude Law has taken over his role.

The film is based on A. Scott Berg’s book, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, which concentrated on the life-changing friendship between iconic author Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) and his longtime editor, Max Perkins.

Perkins is a bit of a legend in publishing, having helped discover authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.

Nicole Kidman is also attached, although it’s not clear who she’ll be playing.

Michael Grandage (The Madness of King George) is directing from a screenplay by John Logan (Skyfall). Filming she to kick off this autumn in the U.K.

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Betty White Doesn’t Care If You’re Gay, ‘What Kind Of Human Being Are You?’

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Betty-WhiteBetty White has long known be known as a gay ally. She’s been happy with everything LGBT for a long time, even admitting she’d been happy to act as Liberace’s beard on several occasions when she was younger.

Now she’s reaffirmed her support in an interview with Larry King, where the 92-year-old (yes, one of the funniest women on the planet really is now 92)  was asked about how the gay community impacted on her career.

She said, “I don’t care whom you sleep with. It’s ‘what kind of human being are you?’ I don’t understand [why people are antigay], it’s such a personal private business and it’s none of mine.”

It echoes the sentiments she expressed in a 2010 interview with Parade, where she said, “I don’t know how people can get so anti-something. Mind your own business, take care of your affairs, and don’t worry about other people so much.”

Anyone else thinking Betty White is so awesome we ought to set up a religion based around here (and perhaps the other Golden Girls too)?

Take a look at what Betty had to say below.

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