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Luke Wilson, Zachary Quinto & Topher Grace Accept The Invitation

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It’s been announced that the thriller The Invitation will begin principal photography in Los Angeles in the summer of 2012. Directed by Karyn Kusama (Jennifer’s Body, Girlfight), the film has a great cast including Luke Wilson, Zachary Quinto,Topher Grace and Johnny Galecki.

On a dark night, Will (Luke Wilson) is invited to his estranged ex-wife’s dinner party. Over the course of the evening, he is gripped by mounting evidence that something insidious has taken hold of his ex-wife, and that she and her new friends have a mysterious and horrifying agenda. By the end of the night, the ramifications of what happens in this house will spread far beyond its doors.

The film will be shopped to distributors at Cannes.

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Avengers Becomes First Film To Make $100 Million In Its Second Weekend

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After its record-breaking $207 million opening in the US last week, The Avengers isn’t done with setting firsts, as it’s become the first movie to ever make $100 at the North American box office in its second weekend, taking $103 million. On the way to that it became the fastest film ever to reach $300 and $350 million.

The film had plenty to cheer worldwide too, and globally its take now stands at $1.03, equalling Avatar and Harry 8’s record of getting there in only 17 days, an achievement made more impressive by the fact those film opened pretty much everywhere on the same day, while Avengers didn’t reach the US until a week and a half after its first openings in some other countries.

While Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows had been expected to open in the $35 million range, it ended up disappointing with only $25 million. It’s a lot softer than Warner Bros. would have been hoping and won’t be helped by relatively poor word of mouth over the coming weeks.

The only other new entry in the top 10 was the Eva Mendes comedy-drama Girl In Progress, which took $1.35 million to place 10th on the chart. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel also made its first appearance in the top 10, after expanding onto more screens following its limited opening last week. The movie took $2.6 million to place eighth.

Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend of May 11th-13th.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 The Avengers $103.1 $373.1
2 Dark Shadows $28.8 $28.8
3 Think Like A Man $6.3 $81.9
4 The Hunger Games $4.4 $386.9
5 The Lucky One $4.0 $53.7
6 The Pirates! Band Of Misfits $3.2 $23.1
7 The Five-Year Engagement $3.1 $24.3
8 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel $2.6 $3.7
9 Chimpanzee $1.6 $25.5
10 Girl In Progress $1.3 $1.3
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First Look At The New Normal, Ryan Murphy’s Gay Themed TV Comedy

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Those who been pining for a gay-centred US TV comedy ever since Will & Grace ended (there’s Modern Family and Glee, but they’re not quite the same), will be pleased to hear that Glee creator Ryan Murphy’s new sitcom, The New Normal, has been picked up and will start airing this autumn.

According to THR, The New Normal ‘revolves around a blended family of a gay couple (Andrew Rannells, Justin Bartha) and the woman (Georgia King) who becomes a surrogate for them as they grow their family. Ellen Barkin co-stars with Nene Leakes on board as recurring characters.’

Quite frankly we’re happy with anything that the sexy Justin Bartha appears in, and if he’s playing gay, all the better. Let’s hope it all works out and the show becomes a hit.

There’s still another rather gay show that may be arriving later this year, but while US network CBS is said to have liked the pilot for Partners, they’ve yet to announce whether they’re going to order a full series or not (we should find out in the next few days). The show, from Will & Grace creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, is about architects Charlie (David Krumholtz) and Louis (Michael Urie), whose friendship has lasted longer than either of their romantic relationships and almost seems like a weird marriage. When Charlie decides to propose to his girlfriend, the gay Louis’ neurotic attempts to be supportive nearly result in the breakup of his own relationship. Brandon Routh plays Louis’ boyfriend.

Take a look above and below for the first shots from the New Normal.

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Neil Marshall Directing The Last Voyage of Demeter

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For nearly a decade now, producers have been trying to get The Last Voyage Of The Demeter to the screen, with a seemingly endless list of directors coming and going from the movie, but no movie ever coming of it. They’re not giving up though, as after Robert Schwentke (Red), Marcus Nispel (Conan the Barbarian), Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters),and David Slade (Hard Candy) have all left the project, THR reports that Neil Marshall (Centurion, The Descent) has signed on to helm.

Bragi F. Schut wrote the original screenplay, which expands on a small portion of Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel. The Demeter was the ship that transported the vampire from Transylvania to London, except the ship washes up on shore with only one survivor left. This story tells the tale of that voyage, where one undead passenger murdered the ship’s crew, one by one.

When David Slade was attached to the project, Noomi Rapace and Ben Kingsley were set to star. It isn’t known if the actors are still involved. There’s no news on when it might shoot (or giving it’s history, when the next director will come onboard).

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Sam Claflin Joins Jared Harris In The Quiet Ones

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On Stranger Tides wasn’t quite the star making turn that hottie Sam Claflin must have been hoping for, but it certainly raised his profile and he’s got another chance to really make an impact next month in Snow White and the Huntsman. Now it’s been announced that Claflin has signed on to star opposite Jared Harris in Hammer Film’s The Quiet Ones.

Claflin will play Bryan McNeil in the supernatural thriller/horror, which will be directed by John Pogue (Quarantine 2: Terminal) from and original screenplay by Tom de Ville, with revisions by Craig Rosenberg, Oren Moverman and most recently John Pogue. The movie will start shooting in June 2012 in the UK.

Inspired by true events (hmm, yeah right), The Quiet Ones tells the story of an unorthodox, but charismatic Professor (Harris) who uses controversial methods and leads his best students off the grid to take part in a dangerous experiment: to create a poltergeist from negative human energy.

The Quiet Ones marks Hammer’s next production after the worldwide box office hit, The Woman in Black, starring Daniel Radcliffe, which has taken over $130 million at the box-office worldwide to date.

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Alfonso Poyart Eyes Anthony Hopkins’ Solace

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Despite the fact he feels a bit like he’s been coasting for the past decade, Anthony Hopkins is still a name to conjure with. Now he’s putting together a supernatural thriller called Solace, and Variety reports Brazilian director Afonso Poyart is now in talks to direct.

The film centres on a doctor (Hopkins) with psychic abilities, who hunts down a serial killer. No production start date has been set. The Queen’s Peter Morgan is currently revising his script, with Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson producing.

This project will mark Poyart’s English-language debut, after gaining attention for his Brazilian hit 2 Coelhos (a.k.a. Two Rabbits), which he starred in, directed, wrote and produced.

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Paying For Gay Sex Allegations Mount Against John Travolta

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It’s not been a good week for John Travolta. Two lawsuits have been launched in the last few days by male masseurs, one saying Travolta touched his penis without asking and masturbated in front of him, while another said he got an erection and tried to make the masseur touch his anus.

Now Radar Online reports that Fabian Zanzi, who was apparently in charge of VIPs on a 2009 Royal Caribbean Cruise Line that Travolta took, says the actor offered him $12,000 for sex. Zanzi says that, “He had something on his neck. I thought it was a fuzz. As I approached, he took off his white coat and was naked. He hugged me and asked me to do a massage.” The former cruise employee says he turned down the $12,000 offer for sex.

It’s not clear if Zanzi has launched a lawsuit too, or if he’s just going public with his accusations.

Travolta has adamantly denied the first two allegations (he’s yet to publicly respond to this new one), and some evidence has been released which seems to suggests the Pulp Fiction star was in New York when the first incident is supposed to have taken place in LA. Whatever the truth of all this, Travolta certainly isn’t having a lot of fun at the moment.

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First The Paperboy Clip – Lee Daniels’ follow-up to Precious

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It’s been an uphill struggle for gay director Lee Daniels to make a follow-up to Previous, but now he’s got The Paperboy, which will debut in competition at Cannes later this month. The first clip has now been released, with Matthew McConaughey’s reporter talking to John Cusack about a murder. The film is about a directionless young man (Zac Efron) who helps his reporter brother (McConaughey) investigate the possible wrongful conviction of a man on death row (Cusack), and in the process, falls for the woman whom the convict has been romancing through prison correspondence. It shoulld be out later this year.

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New The Odd Life Of Timothy Green Trailer

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If a child just turned up on your doorstep, would you keep him, or would you phone child services? While 99.9% of the population would do the latter, Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton just decide to keep him, believing he’s the embodiment of a wish they made to have a child. Presumably their right, as this is a Disney movie and not some hard-hitting tale about weird, delusional parents. Now a new trailer for the film has arrived. It’s out in the US in August, but no UK date is set yet.

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Rachel McAdams Up For Richard Curtis’ About Time

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For a while now, Richard Curtis has been working on his next directorial venture, a time-travel comedy called About Time. A few weeks ago Zooey Dechanel was in talks for the female lead, but it seems she’s moved on, as THR reports that Rachel McAdams is now in discussions to take on the role.

Domhnall Gleeson is set to play a young man who discovers he has the ability to travel back in time. While this might sound like a rather cool power, but it begins to cause more trouble than it’s worth when he meets the woman of his dreams (McAdams). Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Lydia Wilson and Vanessa Kirby are also set to star.

You’d have thought McAdams might have had enough of temporally problematic lovers in The Tim Traveller’s Wife, but if things pan out, she’ll shoot About Time this summer.

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