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Dermot Mulroney & Josh Henderson Up For Swelter

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Dermot Mulroney and Josh Henderson (who’s recent got a bit of heat thanks to starring in the reboot of TV’s Dallas), have signed on to star in the indie action flick, Swelter, from writer-director Keith Palmer (Mob Rules), according to Variety.

The movie is about four violent, escaped criminals who arrive in a dusty Californian town, where it’s incredibly hot and everyone knows one another’s business. The convicts are in search of a fifth man, who took off with over $10 million in cash, and the men want their share.

The movie is set to start shooting in August.

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James Marsden On For 2 Guns

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Enchanted and Hop star James Marsden is going a little darker, as Variety reports that he’s signed on to join Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington in Baltasar Kormakur’s upcoming thriller, 2 Guns.

Based on the comics by Steven Grant, 2 Guns follows a DEA agent and a Naval Intelligence officer (Wahlberg and Washington) who unknowingly go undercover to investigate each other. The pair find themselves involved with a heist and are told they are stealing from the mob, but the truth is that they have actually stolen from the CIA. Paula Patton will play the project’s female lead, while Bill Paxton is a high ranking CIA operative.

Marsden has signed up to be a naval commander, although there’s no news on exactly how he will fit into the plot.

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Will Arnett Will Play Batman (In A Lego Movie At Least)

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Comic book fans have long pondered what it would be like for Batman and Superman to appear in a movie together – well, they won’t have to wonder much longer (as long as they don’t mind that it’s in CG Lego form).

The iconic DC Comics superheroes – who will hopefully also join live action forces in the recently resurrected Justice League movie – will get animated in the upcoming CGI adventure, LEGO: The Piece of Resistance.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller (21 Jump Street, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs) are taking the helm of this unique project, which will be made almost entirely of LEGO bricks and men (in CGI form). They have locked in Will Arnett as Batman, and are currently courting their former leading man Channing Tatum to take on the role of Superman. It is not known how the two characters play into the plot of the film, or how much screen time they will share.

Chris Pratt headlines the voice cast of the film, playing Emmet, a LEGO mini-figurine who is mistaken for a ‘Master Builder’. He is soon drafted into a fellowship of strangers and sets out on a quest to stop an evil force from gluing the world together. (Source: Variety)

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James Woods Joins Ashton Kutcher In Jobs

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Ron Eldard, John Getz, Lesley Ann Warren and James Woods have joined Ashton Kutcher in Jobs, the biopic about the iconic Silicon Valley visionary which started shooting a couple of weeks ago. The cast also includes Josh Gad, Lukas Haas, Matthew Modine and Dermot Mulroney.

Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote, Neverwas) directs, from an original screenplay by Matt Whiteley, with the film chronicling Steve Jobs’ transformation of character from the enthusiasm and self-discovery of his youth, to the personal demons that clouded his vision, and finally to the ultimate triumphs of his later life.

Ashton Kutcher plays the title role, with Josh Gad portraying Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Ron Eldard is Apple designer Rod Holt; John Getz portrays Jobs’ father, Paul Jobs; Lesley Ann Warren plays Jobs’ adoptive mother, Clara Jobs; and James Woods is Jobs’ former Dean of Students, Jack Dudman. Lukas Haas is Apple engineer Daniel Kottke; Matthew Modine portrays former Apple CEO John Sculley; and Dermot Mulroney is investor and second Apple CEO Mike Markkula.

The movie should be out this winter. (Source: Variety)

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Sleepless In Seattle Helmer Nora Ephron Passes Away

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After a battle with leukemia, writer-director Nora Ephron has passed away in hospital, aged 71. Ephron started out as a writer, with her first movie script being 1983’s Silkwood, starring Meryl Streep and Cher.

She soon established herself as an original female voice with movies like Heartburn, Cookie and most particularly When Harry Met Sally, before moving into directing with 1992’s This Is My Life. She followed that up with the massively successful Sleepless In Seattle. Suddenly one of the few commercial female directors, she followed Sleepless with the likes of Michael, You’ve Got Mail, Bewitched and most recently Julie & Julia. Ephron earned Oscar nominations for the screenplays for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless In Seattle.

Ephron had writing in he blood, as she was the daughter of stage and screen-writing team Henry Ephron and Phoebe Ephron, best know for scripting the film versions of There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954), Carousel (1956). Formerly married to novelist Dan Greenburg and investigative journalist Carl Bernstein (of Watergate fame, and with whom she had two kids), at the time of her death Ephron was wed to crime journalist and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, who wrote such films as Goodfellas.

Nora Ephron – 19th May, 1941-26th June 2012 – RIP

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Magic Mike’s Matt Bomer Talks About Coming Out

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With Magic Mike out on the US this Friday (don’t worry, us Brits only have to wait until July 11th, and you can read our review of Magic Mike here), actor Matt Bomer is busy promoting his sexy role in the movie.

While chatting to EOnline! he touched on his coming out earlier this year, or rather the public acknowledgment of his sexuality – as he was essentially out anyway. “I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.”

Since he mentioned his partner and kids publicly at an awards ceremony, there have been plenty of positives though.”I had somebody from the military approach me a few weeks ago,” he says, “Just saying how this helps people, affects people. It brought me to tears.”

He adds, “What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title – whether it’s ‘black actor,’ a ‘gay actor’ or ‘anything actor. Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that’s not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are. I hope the media and the press catches on to that because it’s time to move out of 1992.”

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New Keith Lemon: The Film Trailer

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Love him or loathe him, there’s no doubt Keith Lemon is popular. Now he’s going big screen and he’s got a new trailer to prove it. It certainly shows the movie is going to be packed with cameos, from Gary Barlow, Ronan Keating and Mel C, to Verne Troyer, David Hasselhoff and Jedward. The movie’s due out August 24th. Here’s the synopsis: ‘KEITH LEMON THE FILM is a comedy about Keith following his dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur, just like his hero Richard Branson. He comes to London from Leeds, becomes an overnight billionaire then an over day failure before finding the road to redemption.’

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Studiocanal Signs On For Alan Partridge Movie

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For a few months now there’s been much talk about plans for an Alan Partridge movie. Now it’s been announced that it’s officially moving forward, with Studiocanal signed up to distribute the movie, and shooting and release dates set. Here’s the press release announcing the news:

June 26 2012: STUDIOCANAL today announced their acquisition of UK theatric rights to THE ALAN PARTRIDGE MOVIE, set to shoot from January 7 next year, and confirmed an August 16 2013 opening date for the film in the UK.

Alan Partridge commented, “I’m simultaneously gladdened and pleased to see a British film being co-funded by the French dudes at STUDIOCANAL. This is without doubt the greatest Anglo-French co-operation since the Normandy landings. This time, the heroes aren’t Allied servicemen – they’re motion picture financiers, who are equally brave.

I’d also like to add that ‘canal’ – or, in English, ‘canal’ – is a transportation system close to my heart. In the late 18th century, this new method of logistics halved the price of coal in many English cities. If STUDIOCANAL’s investment can achieve even a fraction of that, I will be delighted.”

A Baby Cow/STUDIOCANAL production, backed by BBC Films and supported in development by the BFI Film Fund, THE ALAN PARTRIDGE MOVIE stars Steve Coogan, soon to be seen as renowned club proprietor and porn publisher Paul Raymond (aka the king of Soho) in a STUDIOCANAL Production.

THE ALAN PARTRIDGE MOVIE is written by Peter Baynham, Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Neil and Rob Gibbons. Declan Lowney directs his second feature after Wild About Harry, with his TV credits including many episodes of Little Britain and Father Ted. Producers are Kevin Loader and Henry Normal, with Armando Iannucci, Danny Perkins, Joe Oppenheimer and Christine Langan as Executive Producers. Embankment Films are handling international sales.

Alan Partridge has had many ups and downs in his life. National television broadcaster. Responsible for killing a guest on live TV. Local radio broadcaster. A nervous breakdown in Dundee. His self-published book, ‘Bouncing Back’, subsequently remaindered and pulped.

THE ALAN PARTRIDGE MOVIE portrays the events of the greatest low-to-high-ebb spectrum in his life to date – specifically how he tries to salvage his public career while negotiating a potentially violent turn of events at North Norfolk Digital Radio.

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Olympus Has Fallen For Angela Bassett

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Just yesterday, Aaron Eckhart signed up to play the President in Olympus Has Fallen, and now the film has another star as Variety reports that Angela Bassett will also appear in the movie, which Antoine Fuqua is directing.

The film centres on Gerard Butler’s former Secret Service agent who tries to save the White House after terrorists attack the presidential residence. The plot has been described as Die Hard in the White House. Bassett is due to play the head of the Secret Service, in charge of protecting the President.

The movie is quite similar to Roland Emmerich’s White House Down, which is also racing into production with Jamie Foxx as the President and Channing Tatum as the Secret Service Agent who must take the White House back. Both movies will shoot later this year for release in 2013.

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Alex Cross Trailer & Poster Debut

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James Patterson’s detective Alex Cross has already hit cinemas in the form of Morgan Freeman in Kiss The Girls and Along Came A Spider, but now he’s returning with Tyler Perry taking on the role in Alex Cross. After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem. As the trailer shows, it sets off a bit of a showdown with Matthew Fox’s scary bad guy.

 

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