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Sherlock Holmes’ Guy Ritchie Takes On Empire Rising

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guy-ritchieGuy Ritchie is set to start shooting The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in a few weeks time, but he’s already looking to the future. Warner Bros. has snapped up the rights to Thomas Kelly’s 2006 novel Empire Rising, with Ritchie set to produce and possibly directing, according to THR.

The description of the book says, ‘It is 1930, and ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building. One of the thousands of men who will come to work high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire to make a new life in America and his pledge to gather money and arms for the Irish republican cause. When he meets Grace Masterson, an alluring artist who is depicting the great skyscraper’s rise from her houseboat on the East River, Briody’s life suddenly turns exhilarating — and dangerous – -for Grace is also a paramour of Johnny Farrell, Mayor Jimmy Walker’s liaison with Tammany Hall and the underworld.’

Author Kelly will also write the screenplay adaptation. Don’t expect it to shoot for a while yet, as not only does Ritchie has Man From U.N.C.L.E., he’s also pondering another Sherlock Holmes and a new take on Treasure Island.

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Rachel McAdams Joins James Franco In Every Thing Will Be Fine

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rachel-mcadamsThe cast of Wim Wenders’ Every Thing Will Be Fine has grown with James Franco being joined by Rachel McAdams, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Robert Naylor, according to THR.

Franco is set to play a grief-stricken man who is responsible for the accidental death of a young boy. He uses his guilt to launch a successful writing career, although as he becomes more and more famous, he ‘represses and rejects the emotional connection he has to the boy’s brother and mother in the years after the accident’.

Rachel McAdams is playing the writer’s girlfriend, who is trying to deal with his crumbling mental state. Charlotte Gainsbourg plays the boy’s mother, with Robert Naylor portraying his brother, who reaches out to the author 10 years after the accident.

Wim Wenders is directing from a screenplay by Bjorn Olaf Johannessen, with shooting already under way in Montreal.

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Idris Elba Takes The Leads In Beasts Of No Nation

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Idris-ElbaIdris Elba’s star continues to rise, with the news that he’s scored the lead role in Cary Fukunaga’s (Jane Eyre) upcoming adaptation Beasts of No Nation, according to Deadline.

Based on Uzodinma Iweala’s novel, the movie centres on a young boy named Agu. After facing the death of his father and disappearance of his mother and sister, he is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters during a civil war in West Africa. He finds a friend in a mute boy named Strika and they team to face the hardships of the civil war. Idris Elba is playing the lead role of the Commander.

Cary Fukunaga is directing, although it’s not clear when the movie might shoot.

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Christina Hendricks Is Going To Dark Places With Charlize Theron & Nicholas Hoult

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Christina-HendricksGilles Paquet-Brenner already has Charlize Theron, Chloe Moretz, Corey Stoll and Nicholas Hoult attached to star in his upcoming drama Dark Places, and now he’s added another, as Deadline reports that Mad Men star Christina Hendricks has signed up for the movie.

The movie is about Libby Day (Charlize Theron), who at the age of seven witnessed her mother and two sisters being murdered in The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas. After surviving this horrific ordeal, she testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben (Corey Stoll), was the killer. However, as an adult she begins to believe that someone else may have been responsible.

Christina Hendricks play Krissi, a stripper with a dark secret.

Gilles Paquet-Brenner is directing from a script he wrote. The project is based on a novel written by author Gillian Flynn.

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Lucas Cruikshank, Better Known As Nickelodeon’s Fred, Comes Out As Gay

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Lucas-CruikshankThis probably won’t come as too much of a shock to anyone who’s watched Lucas Cruikshank’s journey from Youtube star as his alter-ego Fred Figglehorn, through that character getting a series of movies and a Nickelodeon TV show, that he is gay.

Now the 19-year-old has officially come out, suitably enough in a Youtube video, where he sits on a bed with friend (and Disney star) Jennifer Veal, where they answer questions from fans. One of those questions is, “Are you gay?” Veal says “He’s gay!”, before Cruikshank laughs, throws up his hands and agrees, “I’m gay!”

He adds, “I’m gay. It feels so weird to say it. My family and friends have known this for like three years I just haven’t felt any need to announce it on the internet. I feel awkward!”

Take a look below.

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Lily Tomlin May Marry Her Partner Jane Wagner While Dressed Like A Chicken!

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jane-wagner-lily-tomlinLily Tomlin may have spent much of her career halfway out of the closet, but she’s out and proud now. She’s also been with the same woman, Jane Wagner, for 42 years. Now the latest movements in the gay marriage debate in the US seem to have gotten her thinking about her own potential nuptials.

She tells E! that she never expected same-sex marriage to become legal in her lifetimes. Now that the Supreme Court has struck down Prop. 8, the California-living couple are considering their options.

“You don’t really need to get married, but marriage is awfully nice,” Tomlin said. “Everybody I know who got married, they say it really makes a difference. They feel very very happy about it.”

However she certainly doesn’t want anything to be traditional. “No rings, no bridal dresses,” she added. “Maybe we’ll be dressed like chickens.”

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Fresh The Counselor Trailer – New look at Fassbender, Diaz & Pitt in Ridley Scott’s movie

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The Counselor certainly has a great cast, including Michael Fassbender,  Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, Brad Pitt and John Leguizamo. It also look like Ridley is channelling some of his late brother’s heightened visual style for the movie, as you can see in this new trailer.

Based on the first original feature script by Cormac McCarthy, The Counselor tells the story of a lawyer (Fassbender), who finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking.

The film is due to hit cinemas this October. [Read more…]

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Kit Harington Shows Off His Abs In A First Look At Pompeii

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Kit Harington is going from TV’s Game Of Thrones from the movies with Pompeii, Paul WS Anderson’s film centred on the fateful volcanic eruption. Now the first image from the movie has arrived, via EW, showing Harington and his rather impressive abs.

“This is the first scene you see me in,” commented Harington. “It’s set in London, in fact, and it’s a scene where my character is a gladiator fighting in an arena. That’s his gladiator look. It’s a great little fight against three masked gladiators and sets up who he is and where he’s going. You see me display my skills quite early on. It’s a costume I don’t actually wear for the rest of the film, but it’s an establishing one.”

That last sentence is likely to upset some.

The movie is set days before the historic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. It centres on former slave Milo (Harington), who must race to save his true love Flavia (Emily Browning). Jessica Lucas is playing a slave who is a confidante to Flavia. Jared Harris, Kiefer Sutherland, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje also star.

Janet Scott Batchler and Lee Batchler wrote the original screenplay, which was recently revised by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. It’s due out early next year.

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First Look At Steve Carell (& His Prosthetic Nose) In Foxcatcher

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Foxcatcher has been in the works for a long time, and even when they had a cast including Steve Carell and Channing Tatum lined up they had to wait ages to shoot until the funding came together. Now it’s in the can and on its way to US cinemas later this year.

EW has debuted the first picture from the film which, as you can see, features Steve Carell sporting a prosthetic honker.

The drama is based on the true tale of Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo), who was murdered by his paranoid schizophrenic friend Jon Du Pont (Steve Carell) in 1996. Du Pont was an heir to the Du Pont chemical company, who teamed up with Dave’s brother Mark (Tatum) to build a wrestling training facility known as ‘Team Foxcatcher’ on his sprawling Pennsylvania estate. The Schultzes tried to get Du Pont help for years before the murder. Sienna Miller plays Nancy, Doug Schultz’s wife

Bennett Miller directs from a screenplay by Dan Futterman and E. Max Frye.

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Nick Frost & James Marsden Going On A Business Trip With Vince Vaughn

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nick-frostA few months ago Vince Vaughn signed up to star in Delivery Man. Now he’s been joined by Nick Frost and James Marsden according to TheWrap, who should make a great comedy team.

Steve Conrad (The Pursuit of Happyness) wrote the script, which follows an American businessman (Vaughn) who travels to Europe where inevitably he gets into all manner trouble. The film has been described as being in the vein of Planes, Trains & Automobiles.

It’s not clear what Frost and Marsden will be doing in the film, although they join Dave Franco in supporting roles. It’s not clear exactly when the Ken Scott directed movie will shoot.

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