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Terrence Howard Joins Hugh Jackman & Jake Gyllenhaal In Prisoners

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The cast for Prisoners is getting incredibly good, with Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Melissa Leo, Paul Dano, Viola Davis, and Maria Bello already attached to the film, and they’ve now been joined by Terrence Howard, according to Deadline.

Denis Villeneuve (Incendies) is set to direct, with Hugh Jackman as a distraught father who takes the law into his own hands to find his kidnapped daughter, when he think the authorities aren’t doing enough. He clashes with a big city detective (Jake Gyllenhaal) who is assigned to the case.

Aaron Guzikowski (Contraband) wrote the screenplay, with filming on the movie set to begin in February. An autumn 2013 release is being eyed.

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Ric Roman Waugh To Direct Sci-fi Thriller Tipping Point

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Former stuntman turned director Ric Roman Waugh (Felon, Snitch) has signed up to direct and rewrite the sci-fi thriller Tipping Point for Relativity Media, which is based on the original screenplay from Todd Stein.

Tipping Point is described as ‘a tense, riveting sci-fi thriller that paints an ominous picture of the world 100 years into the future. With the world’s population approaching 10 billion, the penalty for having children without a license is death – no questions, no excuses, and no mercy. Ruthless Population Control Officer Solomon Cage lives only for his job, until the day he discovers two fugitives he’s been pursuing are the love of his life who mysteriously disappeared years ago and the 12-year-old son he never knew he had.’

So essentially it’s like Logan Run’s but a told from the perspective of the people in charge of tracking down the runners. Waugh’s next film, Snitch, the action-thriller starring Dwayne Johnson, Barry Pepper, Melina Kanakaredes, Benjamin Bratt, and Susan Sarandon opens in a few months time. (Source: Variety)

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Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart Get Hard

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Will Ferrell has got a new comedy up his sleeve and for this one he’s teaming up with Kevin Hart, as Deadline reports that they’ve both signed on to star in Get Hard for Warner Bros.

The movie is about a wealthy investment banker (Ferrell) who gets sentenced to a maximum security prison for a crime that he didn’t commit (in movie land, nobody get locked up for something they actually did). He enlists the help of the man who usually washes his car (Kevin Hart), in order to prepare him for doing hard time before he has to report to prison in 30 days.

Ian Roberts and Ian Roberts, who serve as executive producers and showrunners on Comedy Central’s Key & Peele, wrote the screenplay, with Gary Sanchez attached to produce. The project does not have a director attached as of yet.

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Skyfall Rises Back To The Top Of The US Box Office

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The couple of weeks after Thanksgiving always tend to be dominated by holdovers at the US box office, but this year it’s been particularly light on new entries, seemingly because everyone is running scared of The Hobbit, which is expected to completely take over cinemas this coming weekend.

This has allowed Skyfall to rise back to the top of the US box office on its fifth weekend, taking $11.4 million over the three days. It’s not a huge amount to make it to the top of the chart, and indeed overall it’s been the third worst weekend at the boox office this year. However it’s good news for Skyfall, as no movie has toped the box office on its fifth weekend since 2010.

The only major new release tanked, with the Gerard Butler soccer themed rom-com Playing For Keeps taking just $6 million on its first three days.

Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend of December 7th-9th.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 Skyfall $11.4 $261.6
2 Rise Of The Guardians $10.5 $61.9
3 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 $9.2 $268.7
4 Lincoln $9.1 $97.3
5 Life Of Pi $8.3 $60.8
6 Playing For Keeps $6.0 $6.0
7 Wreck-It Ralph $4.9 $164.4
8 Red Dawn $4.2 $37.2
9 Flight $3.1 $86.2
10 Killing Them Softly $2.7 $11.7
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New Pics Of Michael Douglas & Matt Damon In Their Liberace Biopic

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Back in August, we got a few set pics from Steven Soderbergh’s biopic of Liberace, Behind The Candelabra, which sees Michael Douglas as the man himself, with Matt Damon playing his younger lover, Scott Thorson. While you wouldn’t expect this starry line-up to be making something for TV, it’s actually an HBO Films production and is due to debut on US television next year (although it may still get a theatrical release in Europe).

Now Bleeding Cool has grabbed some of the first shots from the film, which were included in HBO’s 2012 ‘Yearender’ video (which now seems to have been made private, so we can’t post it here, sadly). They show Michael Douglas looking suitably flamboyantly and pretty much a dead ringer for the real Liberace. And It has to be said Matt Damon’s also looking pretty good with bouffant hair and 70s style, even if he is about 10 years too old to play Thorson, who was in his teens and 20s when he knew Liberace.

The movie follows the relationship between Liberace and the far younger Thorson, which started after they met when latter was just 17, in 1976. Thorson became his companion and is said to have had a five-year relationship with Liberace, which ended due to the entertainer’s alleged promiscuity and Scott’s drug problems.

Although the pianist and showman went to his grave swearing he wasn’t gay, this front was challenged after Liberace and Thorson split up and the younger man sued the entertainer for palimony. They settled out of court and are said to have reconciled their differences shortly before Liberace died of AIDS in 1987.

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Oblivion Trailer Lands – Tom Cruise takes on a ruined Earth

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Just this morning we posted the first poster for Oblivion and said we’d heard that the first trailer was due on Sunday. However the promo has slipped out early, or at least a Spanish subtitled version has, which you can see right here.

In the movie the Earth is a ruined shell, with nearly all of the human population now living off the surface. Cruise plays a man who services the drones that ensure humanity can still get the natural resources it craves. However as we discover, some strange things are going on, including Morgan Freeman kidnapping him, some strange beasts and people in pods plummeting to earth. As he tries to figure out what’s happening, he becomes a target himself.

It all looks pretty stylish and the visuals are certainly impressive, with what seems like a well conceived look at a world that’s been trashed so much people can barely survive on the surface any more. Joseph Kosinski’s film hits cinemas next April.

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Bilbo Finds Treasure In First The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Image

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Yesterday the first pic from the final Hobbit Movie, There & Back Again, arrived, showing us the return of Legolas, as well as Luke Evan’s human warrior character, Bard the Bowman. Now EW, has debuted our first look at the second film, The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug, which you can see above.

The image sees Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), sitting atop of massive pile of gold coins, which as fans of Tolkien’s book will know, is the treasure of the terrifying dragon Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch).

Writer/producer Philippa Boyens commentes, “The dragon is a huge, wonderful, amazing part of the story, but it doesn’t end there. Everyone can suspect there’s a rather large battle in film three.”

That fight is the Battle of Five Armies, which it would appear is going to be what most of the final film concetrates on, while the second focusses on the attempts to destroy Smaug. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug opens December 13, 2013, with There & Back Again coming the following summer.

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Kevin Smith To Make Clerks III His Last Movie, With Hit Somebody Going To TV

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Ever since Red State, Kevin Smith has said he’s only going to direct one more movie – the hockey film Hit Somebody. However it seems all that’s changed as Hit Somebody is now going to TV, and so Smith is now planning something else as his big screen swan song.

Hit Somebody had at one point become two films, but Smith said a few months that doing a two-parter was going to be difficult to pull off and so he was trying to get the massive screenplay down to a sensible length for a single film. That proved far more difficult than expected and so now he’s tweeted, ‘HIT SOMEBODY now a mini-series? Get the scoop on GET OLD: smodcast.com/episodes/i-mel…‘

He then added, ‘Since HIT SOMEBODY is now gonna be a mini-series, yes – that leaves room for a new final flick before I retire from directing feature films.’

But what will that movie be? Well, fans of the director had better prepare to be excited, as Kevin has said, ‘So with the HIT SOMEBODY shift, the minute Jeff Anderson signs on, my last cinematic effort as a writer/director will be CLERKS III.#TaDa’

No story details have been given for Clerks III, but it seems logical as Smith debuted as a director with 1994’s Clerks, which showed Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randall (Jeff Anderson) in their 20s. 2006’s Clerks II caught up with the characters in their 30s. Now Smith wants to round out his big screen directing careers looking at the men in their 40s.

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Mark Wahlberg & Dwayne Johnson Get Patriotic In Pain & Gain Poster

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Michael Bay is leaving behind giant special effects and explosions for Pain & Gain, his new thriller starring Dwayne Johnson & Mark Wahlberg. However it appears the director still wants a bit of a ‘go USA’ backdrop, literally, as this new poster sees his stars (but not stripes) in front of an American flag.

The film is based based on a true story, and sees Wahlberg & Johnson as a pair of Florida bodybuilders who get caught in the middle of an extortion and kidnapping scheme. They plan to take a rich man hostage, but things don’t exactly go to plan. Ed Harris, Rebel Wilson, Anthony Mackie, Ken Jeong and Tony Shalhoub also star.

It’s due out in the UK May 2013.

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Nicolas Winding Refn To Helm The Equalizer

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A film version of the 80s TV series The Equalizer has been in the works for years, with various people coming and going from the movie, but it’s never actually made it to a film set. Now a bit more momentum has built up behind it with the news, via Variety, that Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn is in talks to helm for Sony Pictures.

Denzel Washington is still attached to star in the film, based on The Equalizer TV series that debuted back in 1985. It starred Edward Woodward as a former spy who decides to help those in need, free of charge. The feature version will alter the premise slightly, with Washington as a lone recluse, determined to stop helpless people from being victimised.

Back in 2010, Oscar winner Paul Haggis was writing the screenplay, but it seems he is no longer involved. Instead Refn will be working from a draft by Richard Wenk (The Expendables 2). Shooting should begin in the spring of 2013.

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