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John Boorman Plans Hope & Glory Sequel

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It’s not often a sequel is planned 25 years after the original, but John Boorman is planning a follow-up to his 1987 movie Hope And Glory, with Actor Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men: First Class, Contraband) is in negotiations to star, according to Variety.

The original drama followed nine-year-old Bill Rowan growing up in London during the blitzkrieg of World War II. The sequel, which will be called Queen And Country, follows a grown-up Rowan (Caleb Landry Jones) who gets shipped off to serve in the Korean War.

John Boorman has also written the screenplay and plans to shoot the movie in London, although an exact start date hasn’t been determined yet. This will be John Boorman’s first directorial effort since The Tiger’s Tail in 2006.

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DreamWorks Plans All of Me Remake

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DreamWorks Pictures is planning to mount a remake of the 1984 comedy All of Me, according to THR. The Vow screenwriters Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein wrote the screenplay, which is being developed by producer John Davis (Chronicle).

Lily Tomlin & Steve Martin starred in the original movie, directed by Carl Reiner, with Tomlin as a dying millionaire who tries to transfer her soul into a younger woman. Things go awry when she actually transfers herself into the body of her attorney (Martin). The remake would flip the premise, having the man’s soul enter the body of a woman.

Back in April 2007, New Line Cinema was developing this remake as a starring vehicle for Queen Latifah. It doesn’t look like she’s involved anymore as DreamWorks picked up the remake rights out of turnaround last year.

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Nicolas Cage On For I Am Wrath, With William Fridkin Possibly Directing

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Nicolas Cage goes for the splattergun approach to making films – sign up for as many as humanly possible in the hope that at least a few will hit their mark. Now he’s adding another to the lengthy roster of movies he has planned.

Deadline reports that Cage is now set to star in the new thriller I Am Wrath, with William Friedkin circling the project to direct as a follow-up to his successful (for him at least) Killer Joe. Paul Sloan wrote the screenplay which follows Stanley (Nicolas Cage), a man who becomes frustrated with the cops when they fail to find his wife’s killer. When he uncovers widespread police corruption, he becomes a vigilante, sworn to take down these crooked cops.

The hope is to start shooting next February.

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Notebook Director Nick Cassavetes Compares Gay Marriage To Incest

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While support for gay causes is always welcome, there are times when it would be nice if someone could support it quietly. That’s especially true if what they’re going to say both puts their foot in their mouth and may be used by the type of bigots who devour any badly phrased comment to try and prove their point.

That’s what’s happened with Nick Cassavetes, director of The Notebook, My Sister’s Keeper and the upcoming Yellow. He seems to be in favour of gay marriage, but when saying so, he’s managed to equate it with incest, one of the favoured targets of the rabidly anti-gay (i.e., if gays can marry, it’ll lead to incest being acceptable).

Yellow partially deals with incest, and when talking to The Wrap about it, Cassavetes says, “I have no experience with incest. We started thinking about that. We had heard a few stories where brothers and sisters were completely, absolutely in love with one another. You know what? This whole movie is about judgment, and lack of it, and doing what you want.

“Who gives a shit if people judge you? I’m not saying this is an absolute but in a way, if you’re not having kids – who gives a damn? Love who you want. Isn’t that what we say? Gay marriage – love who you want? If it’s your brother or sister it’s super-weird, but if you look at it, you’re not hurting anybody except every single person who freaks out because you’re in love with one another.”

Well, when shagging your sibling, the possibility of genetic mutations if you should have any children (even accidentally), does make it rather different. We do kind of know what he means, but it’s not a particularly fair comparison as there are some very different aspects to take into consideration than gay relationships. Hopefully he can phrase it better when doing more publicity for the film.

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First Clips Of Gosling & Cooper In From Place Beyond The Pines Debut

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Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond The Pines debuted at TIFF the other day to a response that varied from the slightly underwhelmed to the utterly rapturous. Now a couple of clips have arrived, to give us our first taste of the movie. In the film, Luke (Ryan Gosling) is a professional motorcycle rider who turns to bank robberies to support his newborn son. But when he crosses paths with a rookie police officer (Bradley Cooper), their violent confrontation spirals into a tense generational feud. It should be out early next year.

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A Late Quartet Trailer – Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken get musical

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Quartet seems to be the title of the moment, as that’s the name of Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut, and there’s also A Late Quartet, which has just debuted its first trailer. The film follows four members of a world-renowned string quartet who struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust. Christopher Walken is a man dealing with a Parkinson’s diagnosis, Philip Seymour Hoffman wants to move forward with his career, while Imogen Poots has issues with her mother (Catherine Keener).

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First Tease For Spielberg’s Lincoln Arrives

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The full trailer for Lincoln will hit the net on Thursday, but before then we get a tease and an epic tone in this brief look at the movie. Daniel Day Lewis certainly look very Lincoln-y as we hear a few lines from the Gettysberg address. The movie concentrates of the final years of Lincoln’s life, around the time of the Civil War and his efforts to ensure that once the conflict ended, slaves would remain free. The films currently due for UK release on January 25th.

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First Pic Of Elijah Wood In Grand Piano

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Speed at a piano? Sounds a bit odd, but that’s basically the sell for Grand Piano. The first pictures from the movie has now debuted over at Twitch, and you can see it above. Here’s the synopsis: ‘Forced into early retirement because of crippling stage fright, Wood is a piano virtuoso who returns to the stage where the recital turns deadly and he is forced to literally play for his life in the tense and twisted psychological thriller.’ Apparently if he doesn’t give the performance of a lifetime, someone will kill him and his wife. Agora’s Eugenio Mira directs, with a release likely to come next year.

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First Look At Wahlberg, Crowe & Zeta-Jones In Broken City

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EW has debuted the first images from Broken City, which stars Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones, under the direction of Allen Hughes. Based on a screenplay by Brian Tucker, 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. 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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Cynthia Nixon Takes On Emily Dickinson For Terence Davies

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Emily Dickinson is one of America’s famous poets, although she’s never quite had as much impact over here in the UK as she has in the States. That’s a shame, as her work is wonderful, and now British director Terence Davies is hoping to bring her life on the screen, with THR reporting that he’s lined up Cynthia Nixon to play Dickinson in A Quiet Passion.

The poetess was famously reclusive, publishing only a few poems during hre lifetime. Most of her work was only found and published after her death, and as it was written just for herself, it has an intensely personal quality that’s rare. There are also rumours she was a lesbian and had a female lover, although whether this will be included in the movie isn’t known (as homosexuality has been one of the main themes of Davies work, it may well be). All THR says is that it will ‘trace Dickinson’s life from precocious schoolgirl to tortured recluse’.

“I wrote the screenplay with Cynthia in mind,” Davies says. “It was the kind of dream casting you hope for. I never, for a moment, imagined my wishes would materialize. Cynthia has such a strong feeling for the work – and now she is our Emily Dickinson. I’m over the moon.”

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