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Sienna Miller Set For Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher

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A few years ago it really seemed Sienna Miller’s movie career was taking off with the likes of GI Joe and Stardust, but since then we haven’t heard a huge amount from her (at least in mainstream movies). However now Deadline reports Miller has joined the cast of Foxcatcher for director Bennett Miller (Moneyball).

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 built a wrestling training facility known as ‘Team Foxcatcher’ on his sprawling Pennsylvania estate. Schultz tried to get Du Pont help for years before the murder. Sienna Miller will play Nancy, Doug Schultz’s wife. Channing Tatum is set to star as Schultz’s younger brother.

Bennett Miller will direct from a screenplay by Dan Futterman and E. Max Frye. The film has been in development for years (it got delayed by Miller taking the Moneyball gig), but will finally start shooting later this month in Pittsburgh.

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Kim Basinger Up For Paul Haggis’ Third Person

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It’s difficult to know whether Kim Basinger’s rather sporadic film appearances over the last few year are more to do with choice or simply because not that many people have roles for her. She was last seen in 2010’s Charlie St. Cloud, but has now signed up for a part in Crash writer/director Paul Haggis’ new drama, Third Person.

The movie is about three couples living in New York, Rome, and Paris. THR reports that the actress will portray the wife of Liam Neeson’s character, a writer in Paris. Back in April Olivia Wilde signed up to play Neeson’s girlfriend, which suggests the plot will revolve around some extramarital shenanigans.

Mila Kunis and James Franco are playing an estranged New York couple, while Casey Affleck and Moran Atias will be a new couple taking a road trip through Italy. Each couple and city represent the beginning, middle, and end of a relationship.

Paul Haggis will direct from his own screenplay, with shooting starting on October 17th in Rome.

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Christian Bale Reuniting With Director David O. Russell

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The last time Christian Bale made a movie with David O. Russell – The Fighter – he won an Oscar, so he certainly has plenty to thank the director for. Now Bale has signed up for another Russell movie, joining Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, and Amy Adams in the director’s currently untitled new ensemble drama, which used to be known as American Bullshit.

The film marks the director’s first time working with Renner, and his second collaborations with Bale (The Fighter), Adams (The Fighter) and Cooper (The Silver Linings Playbook). The movie based on the true story of a notorious financial con artist (Bale) and his mistress/partner in crime (Adams), who were forced to work with an out of control federal agent (Cooper) to turn the tables on other con artists, mobsters, and politicians. At the centre of the entire tale, is the passionate and volatile leader of the New Jersey state assembly (Renner) who is also the local hero and mayor of impoverished Camden. Russell is currently writing the film’s screenplay alongside Eric Singer, based on Singer’s original script.

Producer Charles Roven commented, “David has put together an incredible ensemble of actors for what is going to be a powerful and emotional drama about one of the most memorable cast of characters in recent history.”

The tentative plan is to have the movie ready for release in late 2013. (Source: Variety)

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Battlestar’s Katee Sackhoff Heads For Female Expendables

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Katee Sackhoff is revered in sci-fi circles for playing Starbuck in Battlestar Galactics and now she’s bringing her action skills to the big screen, as Variety reports that she has joined the cast of what’s being described as an all-female Expendables.

Sackhoff joins Haywire’s Gina Carano in the movie, which is being steered to the screen by producer Adi Shankar. Dutch Southern is writing the screenplay, although no details on the plot of the movie has been released, other that it’ll feature an all woman action team.

Shankar commented on the Sackhoff’s casting, “If you spend five minutes with Katee it becomes blatantly obvious that she would pwn (sic) most male action stars.”

It isn’t currently known when the movie might shoot.

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First Star Trek Into Darkness Footage Debuts – Blink and you’ll miss it (literally)

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It may be a bit ridiculous, but it’s still oddly exicting. The first footage from Star Trek Into Darkness has arrived, but before you wet yourself too much, it’s only three frames long! JJ Abrams swung by Conan O’Brien’s show to unveil the footage, which gives us a very brief look at Spock inside a volcano wearing a ‘crazy suit’. We’re sure fanboys will be trying to unravel the entire plot from these frames, but to be honest I doubt they tell us all that much. It’s still good to see these frames though.

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A Good Day To Die Hard Teaser Trailer – McClane and son go to Russia

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We don’t get much plot on the teaser for A Good Day To Die Hard, but it certainly suggests playful humour, plenty of action and a little bit of sexiness. The film sees John McLane being a fish out of water once again, this time is Russia, where he teams up with his estranged son (Jai Courteney) to take down some bad guys. The film’s due out February 14th, 2013, so it’ll be a Valentine’s movie for the guys.

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Broken City Trailer – Mark Wahlberg investigates a corrupt Russell Crowe

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Personally I don’t think I’ll be queueing up for Broken City as Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe are two of my least favourite actors, but a lot of people like them and the trailer for Broken City does make the movie seem like it might be okay. The film follows Billy Taggart (Wahlberg), a former cop who is hired to tail the cheating wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) of the city’s corrupt mayor (Crowe). Taggart successfully finds the man that the woman is sleeping with, but it’s not until after the man has been murdered. The movie’s supporting cast includes Barry Pepper, Kyle Chandler, Jeffrey Wright, Griffin Dunne, James Ransone, and Justin Chambers. The movie is currently set for UK release on January 25th, 2013.

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Sacha Baron Cohen Takes On The Lesbian

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A story has been doing the round recently about Hong Kong billionaire Cecil Chao, who’s offered a hefty $65 million reward to any man who marries his daughter, even though she’s a lesbian who lives in France with her wife (and has even has the relationship blessed by a French church).

Sacha Baron Cohen thinks this is prime material for a comedy, as Variety reports he’s teamed up with Paramount to produce and potentially star in a movie about it, currently called The Lesbian.

One of the more interesting things about the tale is that Cecil Chao has never even married himself, so it’s not like he’s an avid believer in the institution, it appears he just doesn’t want his offspring to be gay. It’s also known that despite the massive dowry, his daughter remains on good terms with him. It is believed that Sacha Baron Cohen is looking to play the billionaire father, so it’s likely there’ll be some racial changes from real life to the movie.

The film is in the very early stages at the moment, as no screenwriter has yet been attached. It is of course not Cohen’s first brush with gay-themed films, as he starred as the flamboyantly homosexual Bruno in the movie of the same name.

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Demian Bichir And Emilia Clarke Join Don Hemingway

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Game Of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is having a busy week, as she’s in the running for the female lead in Captain America 2 and has also just signed on to star in Don Hemingway. Deadline reports that Clarke & Savages star Demian Bechir have signed up to appear alongside Jude Law and Richard E. Grant in the movie.

Dom Hemingway will follow the titular character (Law), a larger than life safecracker with a loose fuse who is also funny, profane and dangerous. Freshly released from prison, he’s looking to collect on what he thinks he’s owed thanks to him keeping quiet about what he knew on his last job. Bichir will play a crime boss who’s based in the south of France, who Law’s character goes to visit. It isn’t clear who Clarke will play, although every movie needs a love interest (well, they don’t, but people insist on having one anyway), so we wouldn’t be surprised if that’s her role.

Richard Shepard (The Hunting Party, The Matador) will direct, who’s previously worked with Emilia on Game Of Thrones.

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Jack Reacher International Poster Debuts

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I wonder if there’s a clause in Tom Cruise’s contracts that ensures that at least one poster for each of his films is a giant close-up of his face. The one for his upcoming Jack Reacher has now arrived via Yahoo!, with Cruise looking suitably brooding and slightly bloodied.

The movie hits cinemas in December and sees Cruise as Lee Childs’ Jack Reacher, an ex-military investigator, who looks into the case of a trained military sniper who shot five random victims, which turns out to be far deeper and darker than he expected.

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