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Pixar Announces Finding Dory – Ellen Degeneres Is Getting Lost

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For a while we’ve known that Pixar has been developing a sequel to Finding Nemo, but it’s not going to be called Finding Nemo, it’s now officially been announced that it will be called Finding Dory. Ellen DeGeneres, the voice of Dory, revealed the news on her chat show.

“I have waited for this day for a long, long, long, long, long, long time,” said DeGeneres. “I’m not mad it took this long. I know the people at Pixar were busy creating ‘Toy Story 16.’ But the time they took was worth it. The script is fantastic. And it has everything I loved about the first one: It’s got a lot of heart, it’s really funny, and the best part is—it’s got a lot more Dory.”

Director and Pixar veteran Andrew Stanton will take audiences back to the underwater world created in the original film. “There is no Dory without Ellen,” said Stanton. “She won the hearts of moviegoers all over the world—not to mention our team here at Pixar. One thing we couldn’t stop thinking about was why she was all alone in the ocean on the day she met Marlin. In ‘Finding Dory,’ she will be reunited with her loved ones, learning a few things about the meaning of family along the way.”

You can understand why Pixar wants to concentrate on Dory, as Finding Nemo has more than 16 million Likes on Facebook, and Dory – with more than 24 million – is the most Liked individual character from a Disney or Disney•Pixar film.

Finding Dory comes to US cinemas on Nov. 25th, 2015, with a UK date still to be set.

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Rita Moreno Joins LGBT-themed Film, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

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rita-morenoA couple of weeks ago the news emerged that Cheyenne Jackson had replaced Sean Hayes in the movie Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks. Now comes news that Broadway legend Rita Moreno has joined the cast. Also recently signed on, according to Variety, are Kathleen Rose Perkins, Anthony Zerbe and Simon Miller, who join the previously cast Gena Rowlands and Ann-Margret.

Rowlands is set to star as Lily Harrison, a retiree who hires high-spirited dance instructor Michael Minetti (Jackson) to give her private dance lessons in her St. Petersburg Beach, FL condo. The unlikely pair soon develop a friendship apart from dance.’ The relationship starts with lies – she pretending her husband is still alive, him pretending he isn’t gay and saying he’s married to a woman – but soon deepens into something more, with both coming to understand things about the other beyond the stereotypes.

Unfortunately there’s no news on who the other cast members will play, but it’s certainly a great ensemble. Filming starts April 8th in Budapest with Arthur Allan Seidelman directing from Richard Alfieri’s adaptation of his own play.

Moreno is one of the the world’s few EGOTs, people who’ve won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. She picked up her Academy Award for West Side Story, while her Tony came for the 1975 Broadway show, The Ritz. She’s only hispanic performer who’s ever managed the EGOT.

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New The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Trailer – Can this fantasy capture the young adult market?

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Twilight and The Hunger Games have been licenses to print cash, but as the likes of Beautiful Creatures and The Host have shown, the young adult fantasy market is very fickle – there’s no middle ground, it either breaks the bank or flops badly. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones will certainly be hoping for the former on it August release. Now we have a new trailer to see if it looks like it’ll be worth a look.

Here’s the synopsis for Cassandra Clare’s novel: ‘In the series’ first book, the #1 New York Times bestseller “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones,” set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray, discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother, Clary must join forces with a group of Shadowhunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures.’

Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kevin Zegers and more star, with Harald Zwart (The Karate Kid) directing. You can also see a couple of new character posters below.

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Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters Trailer – Logan Lerman returns for more Greek mythlogy

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It took a while for Fox to decide to make a sequel to Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, as it didn’t exactly set the box office on fire. However DVD sales convinced them it was worth it, and so now Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters is set to arrive in cinemas in August.

Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario and Brandon T. Jackson are back, and this time Percy Jackson, the son of Poseidon, continues his epic journey to fulfill his destiny, as he teams with his demigod friends to retrieve the Golden Fleece, which has the power to save their home and training ground, Camp Half-Blood.

Check it out when it’s released August 16th. It actually look quite fun.

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Fresh This Is The End Red Band Trailer – More fun from Seth Rogen’s star-studded directorial debut

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It’s tough to tell whether This Is The End is going to be as fun as it looks, or if the whole thing will be a giant in-joke that it’ll be tough for general audiences to get into.

The likes of James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson play versions of themselves in the film, who are trapped in Franco’s house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.

As this new red band trailer reveals, there’s also room for Emma Watson, and Hermione is going to steal all their shit! The movie arrives in cinemas this June.

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New Greetings From Tim Buckley Trailer – Penn Badgley takes on Jeff Buckley

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When it was announced that Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley was set to acts and sings as the late musician Jeff Buckley in Greetings From Tim Buckley, a lot of people thought this was the worst casting anyone had ever heard of. However the first trailer showed he might actually be a very good choice.

Now a new promo has arrived, backing up the idea Badgley could be very good in this film, which is due out in the US later this month and will hopefully reach the UK later this year.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘In 1991, a young Jeff Buckley rehearses for his public singing debut at a Brooklyn tribute show for his father, the late folk singer Tim Buckley. Struggling with the legacy of a man he barely knew, Jeff forms a friendship with an enigmatic young woman (Imogen Poots) working at the show and begins to discover the powerful potential of his own musical voice. Greetings from Tim Buckley is filled with stirring musical performances and the memorable songs of a father and son who were each among the most beloved singer/songwriters of their respective generations. A presentation of Focus World, the alternative distribution label of Focus Features, and Tribeca Film.’ [Read more…]

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Chloe Moretz Going To Dark Places With Charlize Theron

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chloe-moretzChloe Moretz is certainly one of the busiest teen actresses around, and now she’s in discussions to star in Dark Places, according to Deadline. The news comes a few weeks after Charlize Theron replaced Amy Adams in this adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel.

The movie is about a woman called Libby (Charlize ) who, 25 years ago, survived the brutal massacre of her entire family in what appeared to be a Satanic cult ritual, and then testified in court that her brother was the killer. However she is forced to reopen old wounds when a secret organisation known as The Kill Club look into the case and begin to believe that the brother is actually innocent. Libby stars to investigate too and uncovers some new suspects. Chloe Moretz will portray Diondra, who knows Libby’s brother, Ben.

Gilles Paquet-Brenner is directing from his own adapted screenplay. Chloe Moretz will next be seen in the superhero sequel Kick-Ass 2 and the horror remake Carrie.

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Jennifer Garner Picked For Draft Day Alongside Kevin Costner

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Jennifer-GarnerJennifer Garner spends more time being a mom than an actress nowadays, but when she finds a project she likes, she’s more than happy to sign on. Now she’s in talks to star alongside Kevin Costner in the upcoming football drama Draft Day, according to Variety.

Kevin Costner is set to star as the general manager of an American football team, who’s struggling to find the right player to select with their top overall pick. Jennifer Garner will play Costner’s secretary.

Ivan Reitman is directing from a screenplay by Rajiv Joseph and Scott Rothman. The project was initially set up at Paramount, but the option ran out and the studio put it into turnaround. When the script landed the top spot on the 2012 Black List of the best unproduced screenplays, Summit Entertainment entered negotiations for the distribution rights, and Kevin Costner became attached. it hasn’t been announced when it will shoot.

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Selena Gomez, Anton Yelchin, Billy Crudup & Laurence Fishburne Are Rudderless

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Anton Yelchin in Like CrazyIt’s been revealed that Billy Crudup, Anton Yelchin, Selena Gomez and Laurence Fishburne are set to star alongside William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman in the music drama Rudderless, which will also mark Macy’s directorial debut.

Rudderless is described as a musical drama about the power of a parent’s love. When a grieving father in a downward spiral stumbles across a box of his deceased son’s original music, he forms a band, hoping to find peace in the wake of his tragic loss.

Casey Twenter and Jeff Robison adapted the screenplay from the original story they wrote with William H. Macy. Shooting will this April in Oklahoma.

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Trailer: Luke Macfarlane Gets An Erection (At least that’s what his short film is called)

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Many of us fell a little bit in love with Luke Macfarlane as Matthew Rhys’ on-again, off-again boyfriend Scotty. Now the openly gay actor is back with ‘Erection’, a short film he’s made, about a man who has problems getting it up the night before he leaves town.

A trailer for the short has now emerged, and as you might expect for a film about bedroom issues, there’s plenty of Macfarlane shirtlessness.

However it looks like a pretty dramatic film, with the man not taking his flaccidity very well, as sex may be the only way to save the relationship. The short has been doing the rounds of the festivals, but take a look at the short trailer above.

And although you don’t see it in the promo, there does seem to be a little downstairs action going on in the still from the film below. [Read more…]

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