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Hanks Wants Michel Hazanavicius For In the Garden of Beasts

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Director Michel Hazanavicius is in talks to direct Universal Pictures’ adaptation of Erik Larson’s non-fiction book In the Garden of Beasts, with star Tom Hanks apparently keen to get The Artist helmer onboard. Natalie Portman is also being eyed for the project, according to Deadline.

The film will star Tom Hanks as a Chicago professor, William Dodd, who becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany before the dictator became a threat to the world. On his first trip to Berlin, the professor soaks in the scenery with his daughter Martha (Natalie Portman), who becomes involved with some high ranking members of the Third Reich. Soon after he realises the evil intentions of the Reich and alerts the State Department, only to be met with a cold shoulder.

If Hazanavicius does come onboard, he will rewrite the script, with the hope they can shoot next year.

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Buffy Comic Adds Billy The Gay Slayer

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When it was on TV, Buffy was always very gay-friendly, and now it’s living on in comic form, it’s getting moreso, as Dark Horse Comics, which also produces Hellboy and Star Wars comics, has announced that they’re adding a gay slayer character in the next issue, due out in October, according to Out.

Drew Z. Greenberg, the comic’s producer said: “It’s a very honest, very sweet story (well, a sweet story with a fair amount of death and mayhem, but still sweet!) about a young man who wants to be a hero”

He adds, “I have no problem telling a story about a boy who’s always felt more comfortable identifying with what society tells him is more of a feminine role. So much crap gets heaped upon us as gay men — crap from straight people and, frankly, crap from other gay people — about how it’s important to be masculine in this world, how your value is determined by your ability to fit into masculine norms prescribed by heterosexual society and, sadly, co-opted by gay society as a way to further disenfranchise and bully those who don’t meet those norms,”

“And those attitudes are a reflection of not just our own internalized homophobia, but of our misogyny, too, and that’s something I’ve never understood. So if this is a story that causes people to examine traditional gender roles and think of them as something more fluid, I’m thrilled.”

Jane Espenson, who wrote the newest issue, titled, Billy the Vampire Slayer: Part 1, said: “We’re hardly pandering when we make a comic book. There’s always growing pains when making progress, but I think cycnicism in the face of inclusion may not be a profitable route in making progress.” Espenson, who was a producer on the Buffy TV show, is also behind the gay web series Husbands, which recently started its second season (with a Joss Whedon cameo, no less).

It’s also rumoured that Billy may be joined by another gay male character in an upcoming issue. It’s been a big years for gay characters in comics, with gay weddings in both Archie Comics and X-Men, while the latest incarnation of Green Lantern was revealed to be gay back in June.

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Chris Crocker & Josey Greenwell Join Matt Riddlehoover’s New Film

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Scenes From A Gay Marriage director Matt Riddlehoover is busy putting together his new movie, and he’s now added two names from the world of the internet to the cast list, Chris Crocker & Josey Greenwell.

Crocker first found fame with his ‘leave Britney alone’ Vlog, and has since become a internet celeb, producing music, flirting with gay porn (including some very revealing photographs) and managing to gets fans and haters in equal measure. Josey Greenwell meanwhile is a singer-songwriter who got national attention when he was dropped by his Nashville-based record label because he was gay. Since then he’s continued to perform, as well as getting into modelling, Youtube vids and now the movies.

The two internet stars will appear alongside Charlie David, Enrique Sapene, and Riddlehoover in the as-yet-untitled comedy, which is slated to shoot in Georgia next year. The cast also includes Maria Conchita Alonso and Jared Allman, who appear in Riddlehoover’s upcoming releases Return to Babylon and Scenes from a Gay Marriage.

In the coming weeks, a crowd source funding campaign will be launched on IndieGoGo for the production, at which time the film’s plot will be revealed.
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The Oranges Red Band Trailer – Hugh Laurie has a problematic May-December relationship

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It’s over two years since they filmed The Oranges, but its only now a trailer has arrived, ahead of a US release this autumn, with a UK debut currently set for December 7th. The movie sees Hugh Laurie as a middle-aged man who falls for the daughter (Leighton Meester) of a family friend, with the May to December romance causing all sorts of problems. Check out the new, ruder red band trailer.

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New Wreck-It Ralph Trailer – The videogame bad guy wants to turn good

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While for the last few years, Disney’s homegrown animation hasn’t always been that great, it looks like they could be on to a winner with Wreck-It Ralph. Here’s the synopsis: ‘Walt Disney Animation Studios and Emmy®-winning director Rich Moore (TV’s “The Simpsons,” “Futurama”) take moviegoers on a hilarious, arcade-game-hopping journey in “Wreck-It Ralph.” Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly, “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” “Step Brothers”) is tired of being overshadowed by Fix-It Felix (voice of Jack McBrayer, “30 Rock”), the “good guy” star of their game who always gets to save the day. But after decades doing the same thing and seeing all the glory go to Felix, Ralph decides he’s tired of playing the role of a bad guy.He takes matters into his own massive hands and sets off on a game-hopping journey across the arcade through every generation of video games to prove he’s got what it takes to be a hero. On his quest, he meets the tough-as-nails Sergeant Calhoun (voice of Jane Lynch, TV’s “Glee”) from the first-person action game Hero’s Duty. But it’s the feisty misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman, “The Sarah Silverman Program”) from the candy-coated cart racing game, Sugar Rush, whose world is threatened when Ralph accidentally unleashes a deadly enemy that threatens the entire arcade. Will Ralph realise his dream and save the day before it’s too late? “Wreck-It Ralph” crashes onto the big screen in February 2013, in Disney Digital 3D™ in select UK cinemas.’

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Universal Takes Black Box From Safe House Writer Marc Guggenheim

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After the success of Safe House, there’s been a bit of a bidding war for Marc Guggenheim’s latest script, with all the major studios (barring Disney) showing interest in his screenplay Black Box, according to Variety.

While DreamWorks put up a spirited fight (having just lost out on Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick’s script Epsilon), Universal, who backed Safe House, picked it up, although there’s no news on how much they paid. The script ‘finds Air Force One crashing on American soil and an investigator who discovers technical difficulty wasn’t to blame, but rather, the plane was shot down.’

If the movie goes ahead, the US President isn’t going to be having a great time on screen in the next couple of years, as we’ve already got two films about terrorists taking over the White House due for release next year, and now his plane is in trouble.

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Zombieland Writers Take Epsilon To Sony

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Zombieland and G.I. Joe Retaliation writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have sold their futuristic spec screenplay Epsilon to Sony Pictures, according to THR, which is good news for them, as in the current economic climate, studios aren’t picking up many original scripts at all.

The story is set in a future where a robot uprising failed, causing the remaining machines to take refuge on a space station where they use humans as their guinea pigs. The plot focuses on a man who comes to realise he is more human than he once thought. The script was described as “ambitious” by one anonymous studio executive.

The script was sent out to studios on Monday, with Warner Bros. and DreamWorks also expressing strong interest. The writers’ deal with Sony is said to be in the $1 million range.

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Brad Pitt Takes On IBM And The Holocaust

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This probably won’t be good news over at IBM, as they don’t exactly trump their links to Nazi Germany in their press releases, but Brad Pitt’s Production Company is backing an adaptation of Edwin Black’s 2001 non-fiction tome, IBM and The Holocaust, according to Vulture.

While IBM is now known as a computer giant, back in the Nazi era it dealt in pre-computer business technology and in 1933 IBM CEO Thomas Watson formed an alliance with Nazi Germany and created a punch card system that allowed the fascists an easier way to sort through German census information and learn which of the citizens were of Jewish descent. It’s believed that the technology that Watson gave the Nazis allowed them to cross-reference data about 66 million people living in Germany, and quickly and ruthlessly identify, tax, ghettoize, deport, and ultimately exterminate six million Jews.

Of course, Watson didn’t know that would be the final outcome, but it’s certainly a terrible black mark against the company. Pitt is currently just attached to produce, but may also star. While the project was previously set up at HBO (before Pitt became involved), it’s currently looking for a new home.

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Ewan McGregor Added To August: Osage County

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August: Osage County, may not have the catchiest of names, but it’s certainly got a good cast, with the news that Ewan McGregor is joining Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Abigail Breslin, Chris Cooper, Juliette Lewis, Sam Shepard and Benedict Cumberbatch in the movie.

John Wells is directing the adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tracy Letts (who’s also adapted the screenplay). It’s about the dysfunctional Weston family and the daughters who have gone their separate ways, until a crisis brings them back to their Midwestern home. Meryl Streep stars as the mother, Violet Weston, with Julia Roberts and Margo Martindale playing her daughters, Barbara and Mattie Fay.

McGregor will play Bill Fordham, who is Streep’s son-in-law. It’s a complicated part, as Fordham left his wife for one of his students – a college hottie – but still wants to be around to support his family. Indeed half the play is about unpacking the complicated lives of the characters.

The movie should hit cinemas next year. (Source: THR)

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Harry Potter Producer David Heyman Picks Up Shadow and Bone

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DreamWorks Studios has acquired the feature film rights to Leigh Bardugo’s debut novel Shadow and Bone, with David Heyman, who produced the Harry Potter films, set to help guide the adaptation to the screen. Shadow and Bone is the first of a planned three book series, called the Grisha Trilogy.

In the novel, a young woman must learn to control her newly discovered power in order to save her country from the Shadow Fold, a creature-filled darkness that threatens to overrun the land. David Heyman commented, “Shadow and Bone is a riveting and wholly original adventure set in a breathtakingly imaginative world. I am thrilled to be working with the DreamWorks team and incredibly grateful to Leigh Bardugo for giving us the opportunity to bring her work to the screen.”

Shadow and Bone debuted on the New York Times’ Best Sellers list with Bardugo being one of the few first-time authors to make that list this year. The book has been selling consistently since its June 5th publishing date and Macmillan recently went back for a third printing at the end of July. Amazon also selected Shadow and Bone as both an adult and children’s Book of the Month pick and is the only title to have that distinction. The next book in the series, Siege and Storm, is scheduled for release in June 2013 with the third installment coming in summer 2014. (Source: Deadline)

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