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The Lucky One Poster – Just imagine yourself snogging Zac Efron

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Zac Efron’s still busy trying to transition from teen sensation to grown up movie star, and whether he eventually succeeds or not, he’s certainly going to be very pretty while he tries. So that’s good news for us!

Now the first poster for his new romantic movie The Lucky One has appeared, and it’s a great one for Efron fans, as you can just imagine yourself in the place of Taylor Schilling. In fact, we’ve helped you out with that below!

Underneath our pretending-to-snog-Efron efforts you can watch the first featurette about the Nicholas Sparks adaptation, which sees Zac as a soldier who, after surviving the war in Iraq, travels to North Carolina to find the woman he believes was his good luck charm. It’ll be in cinemas in the UK on May 4th, 2012 (the April 20th date on the poster is the US release).

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Mickey Rourke Training With Gay Rugby Team To Play Gareth Thomas

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It’s still difficult to believe Mickey Rourke will really play Welsh international Rugby star Gareth Thomas in a film, not only because it’s a surprise Rourke is a fan of rugby, but the Hollywood star is 22 years Thomas’ senior. However, as Rourke announced earlier this year, he wants to star in a movie about Thomas, who became the first professional rugby player to come out as gay.

Now the Daily Express reports that to truly get to grips with his role, Rourke has been training with a gay rugby team in LA. The actor says, “I’ve been training with them for six months. I can’t wait to do the best job in the world I can.”

Rourke’s inspiration for the film came after he ended up having an arm wrestling match with the Huddersfield Giants rugby team. They gave him a magazine about their club, which contained an article about Thomas coming out. Rourke then saw a TV programme that spoke about the player’s decision to announce his sexuality, which led the actor to setting up a meeting with Gareth and from there, Rourke managing to tie up the rugby player’s life rights for a movie.

Rourke says, “We’re gonna do this movie now. Thomas announced his retirement [October 25th]. I’ve been writing the script for the past year. Hopefully we’ll do it in March.”

Whether Rourke will make a believable rugby player struggling with his sexuality is yet to be seen – although perhaps more pertinent is whether he’ll make a believable professional rugby player at the age of 59. It’ll be worth a watch whatever the results.

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AIDS Documentary We Were Here Shortlisted For Oscar

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We Were Here, the moving look back at the terrifying early years of the emergence of HIV and AIDS, has been shortlisted for the Best Documentary Oscar and will now be considered for an Academy Award nomination.

The film, which hits DVD in the UK on December 5th courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures, focusses on the residents of San Francisco and how the advent of AIDS had a cataclysmic effect on many people’s lives. Especially at a time when new HIV diagnoses have reached a record high (as we reported earlier today, 3,000 gay and bi men in the UK were diagnosed for the first time in 2010), it’s a timely reminder for a younger generation who probably have little firsthand experience of AIDS, of the terrible effects the disease had on a generation of gay men in the the 1980s.

Now the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Documentaries Screening Committee has chosen We Were Here as one of the 15 movies on the shortlist for the Best Documentary Oscar. We’ll find out if it gets nominated on January 24th.

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Watch Five Minutes Of Puss In Boots

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It may already be out in the US, but Puss In Boots doesn’t reach UK cinemas until December 9th. Before than an extended, five-minute clip from the film has popped up over at MSN, and you can watch it embedded here. Here’s the synopsis: ‘Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero when he sets off on an adventure with the tough and street smart Kitty Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his town. This is the true story of The Cat, The Myth, The Legend…The Boots.’ The films had good reviews, so get a feel for it with this lengthy clip.

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New John Carter Poster Surfaces

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Disney really is pushing John Carter hard now, with several new pics released in the last few week, another trailer arriving this Thursday and now Apple debuting a new poster for the movie. It’s a bit retro to be honest, and wouldn’t have been out of place on a 1970s paperback – but Disney will be hoping that it helps get people excited about their $200 million sci-fi gamble, which hit cinemas next March.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes John Carter–a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). John Carter is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present. The film tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins). In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.’

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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Chiklis & Whitaker Reunite For Pawn

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Actors Michael Chiklis and Forest Whitaker worked together on quite a few episodes of The Shield. Now it seems they’re reuniting as Deadline reports they’ve both signed on for the indie thriller Pawn. Ray Liotta and Common have also signed on, although it isn’t known what roles these actors will play.

The story centres on an ex-con who gets caught up in a hostage situation gone terribly awry, where he has to fend off the local police, FBI agents, and the mob. David A. Armstrong will make his directorial debut with Pawn, working from a screenplay by Jay Anthony White.

Michael Chiklis will also make his feature producing debut, working alongside Brad Luff, Jeff Most, and Michael Becker. Production is slated to begin December 1.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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Tom Hanks Going In The Garden Of Beasts

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While there have been endless movies about the Second World War, the period in Germany leading up to the conflict has been covered a lot less, except for a few movies like Cabaret. Now it seems Tom Hanks wants to delve into that era with In The Garden Of Beasts.

THR reports that Hanks is eyeing the lead role in Universal’s adaptation of Erik Larson’s nonfiction best-seller and that he and Gary Goetzman will produce the film via the duo’s Playtone banner.

The book tells the true tale of William Dodd, the United States’ reluctant and mild-mannered ambassador to Berlin in 1933, as well as his daughter Martha, a vivacious socialite who had romantic affairs with a Gestapo official and a Soviet spy. Dodd and his family at first naively navigated life in Nazi Germany (Dodd’s daughter was excited when Adolf Hitler kissed her hand) but they slowly gained awareness of the mounting brutality around them.

No director or screenwrite is attached at the moment, so don’t expect to see the film for a while yet.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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Simon West Plans Dust & Glory

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After success with the likes of Con Air and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, director Simon West disappeared off the radar for several years, but he’s returned recently with The Mechanic and is currently shooting The Expendables 2. Now he seems to have found his next movie, as THR reports he is now in negotiations to direct the car racing movie Dust and Glory.

Based on a novel by Evan Green, the independent, romantic action-adventure project is set during the 1950s’ Redex trials, which covered more than 10,000 miles of some of the toughest racing terrain in Australia. Described as being a cross between Mad Max and The Jewel of the Nile, the Robert Lewis Galinsky-written script follows the rivalry between an American hotshot and an Australian legend.

Production is being eyed for a summer start in Australia, with casting beginning in the next few weeks.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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Tony Scott To Direct Narco Sub

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While most people in Hollywood were busy tucking into Turkey over the Thanksgiving holiday, it seems some people were working, as Tony Scott (who is admittedly British so doesn’t necessarily feel the need to join the festivities) has added another movie to his ever-growing list of potential projects.

According to Variety, Scott signed up over the weekend to helm Narco Sub for 20th Century Fox. Little is known about the script, which was written on spec by David Guggenheim, although it is said to be reminiscent of Tony Scott action-dramas such as Crimson Tide and Man on Fire. The title refers to smaller submarines that drug cartels use to smuggle their product into the United States (and so it’s not exactly a shock it might be a bit reminiscent of Crimson Tide).

The project is considered a priority for Fox, which has put Narco Sub on the fast track. However, Scott is well known for lining up more projects than he’d have time to helm, so we’ll have to wait and see if he’s the one who does actually end up behind the camera.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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Kyle Chandler Heads For Broken City

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Broken City recently started shooting in New Orleans, but it seems they haven’t finished filling out the cast, as Variety reports that Super 8 and Firday Night Lights star Kyle Chandler has signed up to take a role in the movie.

A few weeks ago Barry Pepper joined the film as a mayoral candidate, and Chandler will play his campaign manager. The story centers on Mark Wahlberg’s character, a private investigator hired by the mayor (Russell Crowe) to find his wife’s lover. The detective comes to learn dark secrets about the mayor during the course of his investigation, which puts his life in danger.

Allen Hughes is directing with the thriller due out next year.

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