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First Pics Of Joseph Gordon-Levitt In Looper

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Rian Johnson made a big splash in movie circles with Brick, although his follow-up, The Brothers Bloom, failed to excite the same attention. However he’s now reteaming with Brick’s Joseph Gordon-Levitt for the time-travel thriller, Looper, and the first images from the actor in movie have now shown up online.

The time travel movie follows a hitman, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who is sent victims from the future so that he can kill them in the past, and then there’s absolutely no trace of the crime in the present. When the hitman’s older self (Bruce Willis) arrives with orders to be killed, things get difficult. To be honest, you’d have thought they’d have found another hitman, as asking someone to kill themselves is a bit of a big ask (although Joe’s victims are normally sent hooded, so he doesn’t known who he’s killing).

The film’s currently due out September 12th in the UK, but take a look at the new pics above and below.

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21 Jump Street Tops The US Box Office

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Thanks to great reviews and strong word of mouth (as well as a lack of other major new openers), 21 Jump Street got off to a great start at the US box office with $35 million, which is one of the biggest openings ever for an R-rated comedy and Jonah Hill’s career best start.

If Disney had been hoping that John Carter would have long legs at the box office after a weak start, they’re going to be disappointed. The movie dropped 55% in its second outing to $15 million. The House Of Mouse is now going to have to cross its fingers that the international box office can make up for its weak US showing.

The only other new entry in the top 10 was Will Ferrell’s Spanish-language outing, Casa De Mi Padre. It opened on 382 screens, but only managed a relatively soft per-screen average, making $2.2 million. That would suggest it won’t see much of an expansion over the coming weeks.

Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend of March 16th-18th.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 21 Jump Street $35.0 $25.0
2 Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax $22.8 $158.4
3 John Carter $13.5 $53.1
4 Project X $4.0 $48.1
5 A Thousand Words $3.7 $12.1
6 Act Of Valor $3.6 $62.3
7 Safe House $2.8 $120.2
8 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island $2.4 $95.0
9 Casa De Mi Padre $2.2 $2.2
10 This Means War $2.1 $50.5
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Trailer

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With its teaser trailer, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter turned from a movie that looked like it might be kinda fun to something far more exciting, and that continues with this new full trailer, which shows the famed American President (played by relative movie newcomer Benjamin Walker) kicking supernatural ass in Timur Bekmambetov’s movie. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter reimagines the American president as an axe-wielding, highly trained vampire hunter. Seth Grahame-Smith’s book, on which the movie will be based, gives new context to Lincoln’s rise to the presidency as well as the American Civil War (which was fought because the vampires were in league with the slave owners), suggesting these events were a lot more paranormal than history tells us, and stemmed from Lincoln’s mother’s murder by a vampire when he was a child. The film hits UK cinemas August 2nd.

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Olympus Has Fallen For Gerard Butler

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Gerard Butler seems to love signing up for action movies that sound like they’re a little over the top, but might be good fun.That’s certainly true of Olympus Has Fallen, which despite the title won’t take him back into the Greek mythology world of 300, but will have him battling terrorists!

Variety reports that Butler has signed up to playa down-on-his-luck ex-Secret Service agent who ends up having to save the White House from a group of terrorists. The screenplay comes from first-timers Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt.

The film is being sold as being in the same vein as Die Hard, which kinda makes sense, as you do get the impression Butler would really love to be an 80s action star, but was born a couple decades too late. Filming is set to begin this September.

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Brett Ratner Producing Film About Early Days Of MTV

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Is it worth making a film about setting up MTV? Brett Ratner and Sony Pictures apparently think so, as they’re teaming up for a big screen adaptation of Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum’s non-fiction book, I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, which delves into the history of the iconic music video cable network.

Brett Ratner is producing I Want My MTV alongside Jimmy Miller, and according to Variety Ratner may direct the project as well, but he’s waiting to make a decision on that until the project is a bit further developed (plus he’s got Hercules to make, which’ll keep him busy for a while). Jody Lambert, who wrote the upcoming dramatic comedy Welcome to People, will adapt the book into a screenplay.

The book follows MTV’s inception in the early 80s, its growth throughout the late 80s and 90s, and its place as a power player in our current world of pop culture and entertainment. It’s believed the film will concentrate of the network’s very earliest days.

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Warrior Helmer Gavin O’Connor Flies To Neverland

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One of several Peter Pan projects doing the round in Hollywood is Neverland, which has Channing Tatum producing (although it doesn’t appear at the moment that he will star). Now the movie has a director, as Variety reports that Warrior helmer Gavin O’Connor is in talks to helm.

The project is an origin story about J.M. Barrie’s Pan and Captain Hook. The original tales followed a boy who never grew up living in the fantastical Neverland. The three children of the Darling family receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Neverland, where an ongoing war between Peter’s gang of rag-tag runaways and the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place. This new film will look at how all of that got started.

The idea for the film was originally hatched by Channing Tatum, his producing partner Reid Carolin, and Eric Bromberg. While the film now has a director, there’s still no guarantee it’ll be made as it’s just one of about half a dozen Pan movies in various stages of development. Not all will make it to the screen, although Neverland seems like it has a good chance.

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Harald Zwart Directing Mortal Instrumentals

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With Twilight raking in millions and The Hunger Games looking like it’s going to break the bank, everyone in Hollywood is looking for the next big young adult franchise, and one that’s being slowly put together is The Mortal Instruments, based on Cassandra Clare’s best-selling book series.

A few months ago it was reported that Lily Collins was in talks to play the lead role. That’s now been confirmed by Constantin Film and Unique Features, who have also signed Harald Zwart (The Karate Kid, Agent Cody Banks) to direct the movie.

The series’ first book, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, is set in contemporary New York City and follows a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray (Collins), who discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother, Clary must join forces with a group of Shadowhunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures.

Principal photography is expected to begin August 15 in Toronto, but whether this will be the new Twilight is yet to be seen.

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Prometheus Trailer – It’s looking epic!

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After an almost farcical amount of hype, the full trailer for Prometheus has arrived, and it’s epic! While Ridley Scott has been keen to say it’s not an Alien movie, the trailer makes it clear that this is a full-on prequel to the famed series, even if it doesn’t feature the creatures themselves. It also gives us a better hint at the plot, with clues in ancient Earth civilisations hinting at the existence of an alien species the spaceship Prometheus sets off to find, only to discover things are more dangerous than they expected. Take a look at the trailer below and prepare to be impressed! We’ve also includes a new viral below, about growing your own Michael Fassbender!

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Scorsese & DiCaprio Move Forward With Wolf Of Wall Street

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After every new Martin Scorsese movie the internet likes to play a game called ‘What will Martin make next?’. Scorsese even seems to like to join in with this, as one moment he favours one project, and the next a different one seems to be the one he’ll move forward with, but as he likes to keep numerous projects in development, often for years, it’s tough to know which one he’ll actually shoot until he makes an official announcement.

However it appears we may now know which film Scorsese will go for, as Variety reports he’s in official talks to direct The Wolf Of Wall Street, with an August shoot date already pencilled in. Leonardo DiCaprio has long been attached to the project, and has been working on getting Scorsese to direct (the project will be their fifth collaboration), with Martin coming and going from the project, and nearly making it several times before moving on to something else.

Now it seems Scorsese is keen to finally make the film, which is an adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s memoir about 1990s stockbroker decadence. The Wolf Of Wall Street is said to be funny, dramatic and fast paced, and makes a sympathetic character out of a stockbroker who supervises a cadre of brokers who squeezed clients to buy stocks that paid off – for the brokers at least – who used the funds to live extravagantly until they were brought down by the feds.

It was believed Silence might be next for Scorsese, but it seems Wolf Of Wall Street has now taken precedent.

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Hugh Jackman Taking Prisoners

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Prisoners is one of those projects that lots of people in Hollywood seems excited about, but for various reasons it’s ended up being passed from director to director and actor to actor and never actually going into production.

Leo DiCaprio, Michael Fassbender, Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg have all been attached at one point or another, while the likes of Bryan Singer and Antoine Fuqua have flirted with directing. The latest to come on board to helm is Incendies director Denis Villeneuve, and now THR reports that Hugh Jackman is attached to star.

Aaron Guzikowski’s much praised script follows a small-town man whose daughter is kidnapped and he responds in vigilante fashion by imprisoning a neighbour he suspects committed the crime. Hopefully with Jackman on board it’ll actually happen (the original plan should have seen Prisoners in cinemas Autumn 2010!), although with Hugh busy on Les Miserables and Wolverine, it’s not certain when the film might shoot.

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