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Charlie Hunnam May Reunite With Guillermo Del Toro For Crimson Peak

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Charlie-HunnamGuillermo Del Toro must be impressed with Charlie Hunnam’s work on the upcoming Pacific Rim, as he’s already hoping to reunite with the British Son Of Anarchy actor for his next movie, Crimson Peak, according to Variety.

A few days ago it was revealed that Emma Stone is in early talks to star, although neither acting has signed on the dotted line. De Toro is trying to get the main cast set early, as he doesn’t plan to shoot the movie until early 2014.

No story details have been released for the movie, although Del Toro has previously described it as “A very set-oriented, classical but at the same time modern take on the ghost story. It will allow me to play with the conventions of the genre I know and love, and at the same time subvert the old rules.” He has also compared it to Robert Wise’s The Haunting.

Guillermo del Toro is rewriting the screenplay with Lucinda Coxon, working from an original draft by Matthew Robbins.

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Lance Armstrong Film Coming From JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot

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lance-armstrongAfter spending years denying it, seven-time Tour de France winner (although those titles have been stripped) Lance Armstrong has admitted to Oprah Winrey that he used performance-enhancing drugs.

Hollywood is wasting no time trying to turn the tale into a film – something that’s legally a bit easier now that he’s admitted doping. Deadline reports that Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot production company have acquired the screen rights to Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong, the title of Juliet Macur’s book proposal that was just acquired by publisher HarperCollins.

J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are producing for Bad Robot. No screenwriter has been set to adapt the material as of yet.

Juliet Macur is a sports journalist for The New York Times who has covered Armstrong for more than a decade following his recovery from testicular cancer and return to cycling to capture a record seven Tour de France titles.

Back in June 2009 Columbia Pictures signed up to develop an Armstong biopic with Gary Ross writing the screenplay, based on Lance Armstrong’s 2000 book It’s Not About the Bike. Perhaps luckily for them it didn’t go forward, seeing a much of the movie would have been based on lies.

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Ray Liotta, Juno Temple & Jeremy Piven Join Sin City: A Dame to Kill

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ray-liottaMost films finalise their cast before they shoot, but due to the green screen nature of the Sin City films – where actors don’t even need to be in the same room at the same time to shoot a scene together – Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller seem to be going for an approach which is to see who’s free and then add cast members when they’re needed.

So despite it having already been shooting for quite a while, The Playlist has revealed Ray Liotta, Juno Temple, and Jeremy Piven have joined the ever-growing cast of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. However, no details have been released regarding their characters.

This follow-up to Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s Sin City features returning cast members as well as a number of new actors, some taking on previously established roles. Mickey Rourke (Marv), Jessica Alba (Nancy), Rosario Dawson (Gail), and Jaime King (Wendy) are reprising their original roles. Jamie Chung is replacing Devon Aoki as Miho, Dennis Haysbert takes over for the deceased Michael Clarke Duncan as Manute, and Josh Brolin steps in for Clive Owen as Dwight.

The film will hit cinemas this autumn.

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God Loves Uganda Trailer – How anti-gay views get exported from the west to Africa

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The recent documentary Call Me Kuchu was a terrifying look at what it’s like to be gay in Uganda – the country where the so-called ‘Kill the gays’ bill is currently being debated by parliament and could see the death penalty attached to the ill-defined offence of ‘aggravated homosexuality’.

Thile Call Me Kuchu looked at the people affects, the new documentary God Loves Uganda, which premieres today at Sundance, is more interested in why homosexuality has become such a hot button issue in Africa, with several countries saying they want to strengthen laws against what is already a criminal offence. Director Roger Ross Williams suggests, as several have before him, that much of the impetus comes from anti-gay American preachers, who head to Africa and whip up hatred there.

In a statement he says, ‘I thought about following the activists-brave and admirable men and women-who were fighting against these policies. But I was more curious about the people who, in effect, wanted to kill me. (According to the provisions of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, I could be put to death or imprisoned.) Notably, almost every evangelical I met – American or Ugandan – was polite, agreeable, even charming. Yet I knew that if the bill passed, there would be blood on the streets of Kampala.

‘What explains that contradiction? What explains the murderous rage and ecstatic transcendence? In the well-known trope about Africa, a white man journeys into the heart of darkness and finds the mystery of Africa and its unknowable otherness. I, a black man, made that journey and found – America.’

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Red 2 Trailer – Bruce Willis and co. are back in action

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Red was a surprise success in 2010, attracting an older audience to an action film than would normally go to the multitude of young guy oriented flicks we get each year. Now a sequel is on its way and the trailer is here.

The likes of Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich are back, this time joined by the likes of Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anthony Hopkins and David Thewlis.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘In RED 2, the high-octane action-comedy sequel to the worldwide sleeper hit, retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. To succeed, they’ll need to survive an army of relentless assassins, ruthless terrorists and power-crazed government officials, all eager to get their hands on the next-generation weapon. The mission takes Frank and his motley crew to Paris, London and Moscow. Outgunned and outmanned, they have only their cunning wits, their old-school skills, and each other to rely on as they try to save the world-and stay alive in the process.’

The film hits cinemas in the UK on August 2nd.

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Spring Breakers Trailer – Harmony Korine teams up with James Franco and goes a little girls gone wild

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Everything is about James Franco at the moment – this is the third story I’ve posted about him today! He stars in this one, teaming up with Gummo and Trash Humpers director for Spring Breakers.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Brit (Ashley Benson), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Cotty (Rachel Korine), and Faith (Selena Gomex) have been best friends since grade school. They live together in a boring college dorm and are hungry for adventure. All they have to do is save enough money for spring break to get their shot at having some real fun. A serendipitous encounter with rapper “Alien” (James Franco) promises to provide the girls with all the thrill and excitement they could hope for. With the encouragement of their new friend, it soon becomes unclear how far the girls are willing to go to experience a spring break they will never forget.’

While the movie itself is getting mixed reviews, there’s been a lot of praise for Franco, who really seems to throw himself into the hair-braided role.

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kink Trailer – James Franco looks into the world of BDSM

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James Franco sure is getting kinky in the next couple of weeks at Sundance. He appears in porn star Linda Lovelace biopic Lovelace, co-directs the gay S&M art film Interior Leather Bar and presents the documentary kink (the lack of capital letters is deliberate), about the BDSM website kink.com.

The trailer for kink has now arrives, which suggests the doc will largely be about how behing the ball gags, ropes and whips, those involved in the site are just normal folks.

Here’s the synopsis, ‘Director Christina Voros and producer James Franco pull back the curtain on the fetish empire of Kink.com, the Internet’s largest producer of BDSM content. In a particularly obscure corner of an industry that operates largely out of public view, Kink.com’s directors and models strive for authenticity. In an enterprise often known for exploitative practices, Kink.com upholds an ironclad set of values to foster an environment that is safe, sane, and consensual. They aim to demystify the BDSM lifestyle, and to serve as an example and an educational resource for the BDSM community. In kink, we discover not only a fascinating and often misunderstood subculture, but also, in a career far from the mainstream, a group of intelligent, charismatic, and driven people who really, truly love what they do.’

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Emperor Trailer – Tommy Lee Jones turns army general

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emperor-tommy-lee-jonesTommy Lee Jones is currently waiting to see if he will win an Oscar for playing for playing Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln, and it appear he may be trying to line up next year’s Oscar nom with The General.

Peter Webber’s film follows General Douglas MacArthur who found himself in the unusual position of being the de facto ruler of Japan at the end of World War II. However while he’s good at fighting the Japanese, he doesn’t known all that much about their culture, so he brings in an expert, General Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox), to help determine whether Japanese emperor Hirohito, should be hanged for war crimes. Fellers opinion may be coloured by memories of a relationship with Aya (Eriko Hatsune), a Japanese exchange student he met in the US before Pearl Harbor.

There’s no news on when we might see the film, but you can watch the trailer below.

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Adjustment Bureau’s George Nolfi & Last Stand’s Andrew Knauer Team For Sci-fi Project

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George-NolfiUniversal Pictures has picked up a currently untitled sci-fi project from The Adjustment Bureau director George Nolfi, with The Last Stand’s Andrew Knauer co-writing the script, according to THR.

Unfortunately there aren’t any details about the plot details are being held under wraps, but Knauer and Nolfi are getting together to rewrite the secrective script, based on Knauer’s spec screenplay. The director is also producing with Michael Hackett.

It’s not their first project together, as Nolfi and Knauer were both involved in The Last Stand, with Nolfi doing a rewrite of Knauer’s original script. It’s not known when it might shoot.

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Ewan McGregor Will Be Our Kind Of Traitor In John Le Carre Adaptation

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ewan-mcgregorTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy got a huge amount of praise when it was released in 2011, so it’s little surprise filmmakers have been sniffing around other John Le Carre novels. Now it seems one of the author’s latest could be coming to the screen, with Ewan McGregor attached to star.

The Daily Mail has the news, saying Ewan is attached to star in Our Kind of Traitor, based on Le Carre’s 2010 espionage novel. Here’s the synopsis from Amazon, ‘An English couple, Perry and Gail, are taking an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis.

‘What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain’s Intelligence Establishment.’ The problem is that the Russian believes Perry is a spy, but he isn’t, which causes issues when the Rusky confesses to being the world’s biggest money launderer who want to turn himself in.

Justin Kurzel, who directed the excellent Aussie thriller The Snowtown Murders, is set to helm the project.

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