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Lucas Till Joins the Cast of Wolves

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X-Men: First Class star Lucas Till will presumably be heading back to the world of mutants for the sequel later this year playing Havoc, but he’s got another project to slot in beforehand, as Variety reports he has signed on for the lead role in Wolves, for writer-director David Hayter.

Till will play a young man who transforms into a werewolf after he is falsely accused of murdering his parents. He goes on the run and discovers a small town named Lupine Ridge, where he discovers secrets about his true identity.

X-Men and Watchmen screenwriter David Hayter will make his feature directorial debut with Wolves, working from his own screenplay. Shooting will begin next month in Toronto.

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Gets Lynn Cohen as Mags

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With The Hunger Games: Catching Fire featuring a Games where former champions must go up against one another, there’s a lot of new cast members who need to be cast. Now the movie has its Mags, as Variety reports that Lynn Cohen has been cast in the role. Mags is an eighty year old Hunger Games victor from District 4, and also a former mentor to the dashing Finnick Odair.

Known to New York theatre audiences for decades, Cohen has also appeared in films such as Steven Spielberg’s Munich and Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York, as well as Sex and the City and its sequel. She can next be seen in They Came Together, with Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler.

Mags in one of the more interesting of the former champions, as she wasn’t actually chosen for the new Games, but essentially decided to sacrifice herself to save others, as she knows she far too old to win another Hunger Games. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire will be directed by Francis Lawrence. It’s set to shoot later this year, ahead of its release on November 22nd, 2013.

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Matthew McConaughey Up For Scorsese’s Wolf of Wall Street

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Matthew McConaughey has had a good year with well received turns in Magic Mike and Killer Joe, and now the actor has joined the cast of The Wolf of Wall Street for director Martin Scorsese, according to Variety.

The actor will portray Mark Hanna, the mentor of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort. The based-on-a-true-story movie is about Belfort’s meteoric rise, where he made making millions selling phony stocks before he was arrested and sentenced to 22 months in prison for securities fraud. Jonah Hill, Kyle Chandler, Jean Dujardin, Margot Robbie, Jon Bernthal, Rob Reiner, and Jon Favreau also star.

Martin Scorsese is directing from a screenplay by Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter, adapted from Jordan Belfort’s memoir. Shooting will begin later this month in New York City.

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Mary Elizabeth Winstead & Kyle Chandler Join The Spectacular Now

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The cast of The Spectacular Now has certainly grow, with Variety reporting that Kyle Chandler, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Bob Odenkirk, and Andre Royo have joined director James Ponsoldt’s film.

Miles Teller stars as a popular high school senior, who tries to save an intellectual introvert (Shailene Woodley) from a life as an outcast. No character details were given for any of the new cast members. Brie Larson, Kaitlyn Dever, Masam Holden, and Dayo Okeniyi also star.

James Ponsoldt is directing from a screenplay by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber ((500) Days of Summer), which landed on the Black List in 2009. No production schedule was released.

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Killing The Softly Trailer – Brad Pitt turns enforcer

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Brad Pitt reunites with Assassination Of Jesse James director Andrew Dominik for Killing Them Softly. It debuted at Cannes and reaches UK cinemas on September 21st, and now the trailer is here! Adapted from George V. Higgins novel and set in New Orleans, Killing Them Softly follows professional enforcer, Jackie Cogan (Pitt), who investigates a heist that occurs during a high stakes, mob-protected, poker game. The film also features Scoot McNairy (Monsters), Ben Mendelsohn (Animal Kingdom), Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins (The Visitor), with James Gandolfini, Vincent Curatola, Max Casella and Sam Shepard among others.

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The Paperboy Trailer – Zac Efron dances in his underpants!

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Lee Daniel’s The Paperboy debuted at Cannes, but it’s only now we’re getting a trailer, ahead of its US release in October (no UK date is yet set). The film is about a directionless young man (Zac Efron) who helps his reporter brother (Matthew McConaughey) investigate the possible wrongful conviction of a man on death row (John Cusack), and in the process, falls for the woman whom the convict has been romancing through prison correspondence. It should be out later this year. And as promised in the title of those post, Zac Efron dances in his undies (and therefore it perhaps shouldn’t be too surprising that Lee Daniels is gay).

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Fanboys Helmer Kyle Newman Plans Star Wars-Themed Chewie

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With Fanboys, director Kyle Newman explored people’s love of Star Wars, and now he’s planning to stay in the galaxy far far away, as he’s developing Chewie, a movie based on the life of Peter Mayhew, the actor who played the iconic Wookie sidekick in the original Star Wars films.

The story focuses on the actor’s struggle with juggling his career as a hospital worker and chasing his dream to become a Hollywood star. Kyle Newman acquired the actor’s life rights, to further develop the spec screenplay. However, finding an actor of play Mayhew, who’s famous over seven feet tall, may be tough, and Newman may also have to do a deal with Lucasfilm if he wants to use the Chewbacca costume.

The script was written by Evan Susser and Van Robichaux, and made the 2011 Black List. Jess Rosenthal and D.J. Gugenheim are producing. (Source: THR)

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X-Men: First Class Sequel Confirmed As Days Of Future Past

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A couple of weeks ago it was rumoured that Fox planned to base the sequel to X-Men: First Class on the classic Uncanny X-Men story Days of Future Past. Now that’s been confirmed by producer Bryan Singer in an interview with IGN, where he told them, “I can say it’s being written right now, and we’ll start shooting in a couple of months. It’s going to be very ambitious. It’s called Days of Future Past, and it deals with aspects of not only that comic, but some very new things.”

The Days of Future Past storyline from the Marvel comic books deals with the idea of an alternate future, where mutants are hunted down by Sentinels, after the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants killed an important Senator. When asked if the sequel may cross over into past X-Men movies, the producer revealed they plan on expanding this universe, “I think there’s a strong desire to broaden out the universe. The X-Men universe, on its own, is just as big as the Marvel universe. I think it’s time to reach out and explore it, and perhaps even bring some connectivity between the films. You may see some of that.”

Shooting on the sequel will begin production in January, after Jennifer Lawrence wraps on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

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Knightley, Jones & Lilly Up For Female Lead In Jack Ryan Reboot

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After years of rewriting, jiggling around, scheduling issues and various other problems, it seems Paramount’s planned reboot of the Jack Ryan franchise, starring Chris Pine, is finally moving forward. A shortlist has now been drawn up for the female lead in the movie – Jack’s future wife – so who could be playing it?

Well, while shortlists don’t always lead to the person who’ll finally play the role, at the moment Deadline says that Paramount and director Kenneth Branagh are looking at Keira Knightley, Felicity Jones and Evangeline Lilly for the role. Knightley is considered to be the frontrunner, though the other two are still very much in the mix. Total Recall co-stars Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel were both in the running for the part as well at one point, but that seems to no longer be the case.

Anne Archer played Jack’s wife in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, but the planned film returns Jack to his early day, before he was married, with Ryan as an ex-Marine who takes a job in Moscow and works to take down his boss(probably played by Branagh), who turns out to be a terrorist working to destroy the United States economy. It still isn’t clear when the movie might shoot, although it’s hoped it’ll go into production before the end of the year.

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Paz Vega Joins Nicole Kidman In Grace Of Monaco

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Spanish actress Paz Vega has signed up for Olivier Dahan’s planned Grace Kelly biographical drama Grace of Monaco, according to Variety. The actress joins Nicole Kidman, who is already attached to play the iconic Kelly.

The film concentrates on the time when Monaco was in a conflict with France and Grace Kelly, who by then had given up acting and was the small country’s princess, worked to prevent a coup. Vega is set to be opera singer Maria Callas, who was having an affair with wealthy Aristotle Onassis at the time.

Olivier Dahan is directing from a script provided by Arash Amel. It isn’t clear when it might shoot.

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