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Jeremy Renner In Talks To Replace Christian Bale In American Bullsh*t

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Jeremy Renner is now in negotiations to star in American Bullsh*t for Sony Pictures and director David O. Russell, replacing Christian Bale, who was in talks for the movie but was forced to drop out due to scheduling issues. Renner will join Bradley Cooper, who’s been attached for a while and is now officially in negotiations to star.

Eric Singer (The International) wrote the screenplay, based on the true story of a con artist and his mistress, who were forced to work with the FBI to take down other grifters, mobsters, and politicians involved in a vast conspiracy. Jeremy Renner will be Jimmy Boyle, the FBI agent who busts the con artist, Mel Weinberg (Bradley Cooper), and forces him to help solve the Abscam corruption case, which spans from Philadelphia to Washington D.C.

Shooting is scheduled to begin in February. Bradley Cooper also stars in David O. Russell’s latest, The Silver Linings Playbook, which hits cinemas latest this year. (Source: Variety)

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Gary Ross Set To Direct Peter & The Starcatchers

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Director Gary Ross stepped away from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire saying he had a more personal, better paying project he wanted to work on. That project seems to have been put on the backburner, as he’s now in talks to take on Disney’s Peter and the Starcatchers, according to THR.

The film is a prequel to J.M. Barrie’s classic Peter Pan, following Peter, who meets a young girl named Molly on a Neverland ship. Molly tells Peter about a trunk of magical ‘starstuff’ that must never be retrieved by ‘Black Stache’, the name Captain Hook went by before losing his hand. Peter and Molly set off on an adventure to keep this mystical substance out of the nefarious pirate’s hands.

The project was first set up at Disney way back in 2005, when Jay Wolpert was hired to adapt the book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. After years of languishing in development, in May Jesse Wigutow was hired to write the screenplay. The tale has already become a Broadway play, which took home five Tony Awards earlier this year.

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Andrew Stanton Signs Up For Finding Nemo 2

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A few years ago Pixar was very ambivalent about making sequels to its most popular movies, but following a third Toy Story, a second Cars and the upcoming Monster’s Inc. prequel, they certainly seem to have changed their mind. Now John Carter director Andrew Stanton has signed on to direct Finding Nemo 2. It’s not surprising Pixar would like to make a sequel, as when Finding Nemo was released it became the highest grossing animated movie ever.

It is believed that part of Stanton’s deal is the promise that he will get to direct another live-action feature, despite the box office failure of John Carter. No story details have been released for this animated follow-up, although Stanton has always said he wouldn’t sign up for a sequel unless their found the perfect story, and he now apparently has a concept the studio loves. Newcomer Victoria Strause is writing the screenplay, with Lindsey Collins on board as a producer.

The original Finding Nemo is slated for a 3D re-release September 14, although it isn’t known if this sequel will be released in 3D. (Source: Deadline)

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Catching Fire May Get Sam Claflin as Finnick Odair, Plus More Hunger Games News

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There’s been quite a bit of Hunger Games news in the last 24 hours, starting off with the news, via Variety, that casting for the coveted role of Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has come to an end, with Pirate 4 and Snow White & The Hunstman’s Sam Claflin chosen for the role.

Melissa Leo and Tony Shalhoub have also been mentioned as front runners to play fellow Hunger Games winners Mags and Beetee. Lionsgate hasn’t confirmed any of these, but they have said Amanda Plummer will play Wiress.

Back in May, it was rumoured that Armie Hammer, Taylor Kitsch, and Garrett Hedlund were the front runners for Finnick, although it seems now that Sam Claflin has won the role. Odair is the District 4 tribute who won the 65th Annual Hunger Games, and returns to the battlefield for the Quarter Quell, where past Hunger Games victors battle each other.

Mags was Finnick’s mentor when he first won The Hunger Games at the age of 14, one of the youngest winners in Panem history. She volunteers to join the Quarter Quell in the place of Finnick’s lover, Annie Cresta. Beetee is an inventor nicknamed Bolts by Johanna Mason (Jena Malone), due to his electrifying weapons. Wiress meanwhile is from District 3. She’s a smart but odd woman who has a hard time communicating her ideas to the other tributes.

Lionsgate is also looking ahead to who will direct the final two Hunger Games movies, based on Mockingjay, as Francis Lawrence, who is making Catching Fire, apparently won’t be back. There’s no news on who it might be, but Anne Thompson says “Summit’s Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger, producers Nina Jacobson and author Suzanne Collins are currently vetting the right directors” for the final two films.

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Daniel Radcliffe Lets Loose With The F Word

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It still doesn’t seem quite right that Daniel Radcliffe is signing up for movies that don’t start with ‘Harry Potter and the…’ but he’s added another, this time heading for his first romantic comedy, called The F Word. Zoe Kazan has also signed up for Goon director Michael Dowse’s movie.

Depite what you may think, the title doesn’t refer to a rude word. Daniel Radcliffe stars as Wallace, a young man who meets Chantry (Zoe Kazan) at a party where they hit it off. The problem is, Chantry has a long-term boyfriend, and the duo must navigate through a tenuous friendship (that’s the F word), while keeping their feelings at bay.

Elan Mastai (The Samaritan) wrote the screenplay, which landed on the 2008 Black List, based on the play Toothpaste and Cigars by T.J. Dawe and Michael Rinaldi. Production is scheduled to begin August 15 in Toronto, with casting for supporting roles already under way. (Source: Variety)

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After Earth Viral Video – New hints at M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming movie

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M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth doesn’t hit cinemas until June 7th, 2013, but the viral campaign in starting early with a video that gives us some backstory for the sci-fi flick. The movie itself is set a thousand years after cataclysmic events force humanity’s escape from Earth, and Nova Prime has become mankind’s new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige (Will Smith) returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai (Jaden Smith). When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai’s craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. However this new video takes us back to the beginning and an alien craft that give mankind the hints they need to head into space.

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Grabbers Trailer – Richard Coyle & Russell Tovey have monster troubles

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The first trailer has now arrived for the British/Irish creature feature Grabbers, which follows Ciarán O’Shea, a charming but heavy-drinking local Garda who is tasked with greeting Lisa Nolan, a straight-laced young officer who has just arrived at a small fishing village off the West coast of Ireland. Strange doings are afoot though: the crew of a fishing boat disappears, whales start appearing dead on the shore, a local lobsterman catches a strange tentacled creature in his trap. Soon it becomes clear to Garda O’Shea and Nolan that there’s something big out there, and that it’s hungry.

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Richard Jenkins Up For White House Down

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The battle of the movies about bad guys taking over the White House continues apace, with Variety reporting that Richard Jenkins is in talks to star in Roland Emmerich’s White House Down, which should start shooting fairly soon (Antoine Fuqua’s rival Olympus Has Fallen, started filming last week).

The movie is about a young Secret Service agent (Channing Tatum) who gets put to the ultimate test when a paramilitary group invades the White House and takes everyone hostage. Jamie Foxx, James Woods and Maggie Gyllenhaal also star.

Jenkins is in talks to play the Speaker Of The House of Congress, the man who’s next in line for the Presidency if both the President and Vice President can’t fulfill their duties. There’s a good chance therefore that Jenkins may be somehow involved in the hostage situation.

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Ouija Gets Directors Juliet Snowden and Stiles White

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Ouija has been through the development ringer. Initially planned as a medium budget family friendly film, it was then turned into a mega-expensive action adventure (with McG directing), before that fell through. Then it appeared to have been canned completely, before re-emerging earlier this year in the form it should have been all along, as a small-budget creep-fest.

Now The Possession and Knowing writers Juliet Snowden and Stiles White have signed on to rewrite and direct Ouija for Universal Pictures. The budget has been slashed from $100 million to $5 million, so it’s not likely we’re going to be getting anything too spectacular here, but it’s enough to play with the creepiness of the Ouija board, with reports they’re hoping to follow the high-concept, low-budget philosophy that’s worked so well for Paranormal Activity.

It isn’t known when production will start, although the producers are aiming for a 2013 release. (Source: Variety)

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier Adds Anthony Mackie As Falcon

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If you need some solid support in a movie, Anthony Mackie is the go to guy at the moment, having popped up in films such as Adjustment Bureau, Real Steel, Man On A Ledge and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Now THR reports Mackie is in talks to play Sam Wilson, a.k.a. The Falcon, in the newly fully titled Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Falcon was first introduced in 1969 and is one of the first African-American superheroes (Marvel’s Black Panther debuted before Falcon, although he hailed from the fictional African country of Wakanda). The character’s power comes from a suit that gives him super strength and allows him to fly, along with the telepathic ability to communicate with birds. It’ll be interesting to see if this is an attempt to ignite interest in Falcon, so that Marvel can add him to their movie pantheon with his own films.

The new title also hints that Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes will be brought back to life as The Winter Soldier, with some reports suggesting Stan is already onboard.

Joe and Anthony Russo are directing from a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. Shooting will commence after production wraps on Thor: The Dark World later this year.

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