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Kurt Russell In Talks For ‘Fast And Furious 7’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 30, 2013 12:50 pm EST First Tony Jaa signed on; now a classic action legend has joined James Wan’s Fast and Furious 7. This one is a little more recognizable for a wide range of audiences. His name is Kurt Russell. Russell, best known for roles in The Thing, Escape from New York and Tombstone, is in talks to play the leading role which was originally offered to Denzel Washington....

Margot Robbie Enters Talks For ‘Tarzan’ And ‘Z For Zachariah’ By Angie Han/Jan. 20, 2014 8:30 am EST Warner Bros.’ Tarzan has found its Jane. Margot Robbie is in talks to play the female lead in the big-budget Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation, opposite Alexander Skarsgard as Tarzan. David Yates is directing. Meanwhile, she’s also entered talks to star in Craig Zobel’s Z for Zachariah, replacing previously cast star Amanda Seyfried. In that one, she’ll be starring alongside Chris Pine and Chiwetel Ejiofor....

Naomi Watts Joins ‘Insurgent’ By Russ Fischer/June 4, 2014 2:15 pm EST The new wave of YA films is turning into a great way for a set of well-established women to find a new audience and collect a solid payday at the same time. Meryl Streep is in The Giver; Patricia Clarkson has a part in The Maze Runner; and Julianne Moore shows up in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. The film Divergent already counted Kate Winslet among its cast, and the sequel, Insurgent, had locked in Octavia Spencer....

Nick Cave Really Wants To Score A Horror Film By Russ Fischer/Aug. 26, 2014 4:30 pm EST Nick Cave is a killer rock songwriter, and he and creative partner Warren Ellis have crafted a significant identity as a film scoring duo. Their music for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is among the great western film scores, and they’ve done excellent music for films such as The Proposition and Lawless....

Page 2: Ron Howard, Captain Planet, Tim And Eric, Star Wars, Dark Shadows, Michael Giacchino, Akira, Bambi, Todd Phillips, E.T., Doctor Who, Totoro, By Peter Sciretta/March 6, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: Peter Griffin Tattoo Cosplay Matt Singer wonders if Certified Copy is The Best Film (To Write About) of 2011?Ron Howard continues to tweet behind the scenes photo from his new movie.IndieWire wonders if ‘Luck’ Would Go Down Easier When You Can Watch a Whole Season At Once?...

POTD: Page One Of The ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Treatment By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2014 12:05 pm EST Will Angel, and his eventual alter-ego Archangel, will be in X-Men: Apocalypse? Part of the first page of the treatment for the next film in the X-Men series has been posted by producer and likely director Bryan Singer, and one of the few things that can be explicitly seen on the page is a reference to the Four Horsemen....

Rumor: ‘Unbroken’ Star Jack O’Connell Up For ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ By Angie Han/Dec. 10, 2013 7:00 am EST Star Wars: Episode VII rumors have cut through a wide swath of Hollywood, touching everyone from Saoirse Ronan to Michael B. Jordan to Chiwetel Ejiofor. Now the latest actor to get caught up in the chatter is Jack O’Connell, a Brit up-and-comer who stars in Angelina Jolie’s Louis Zamperini biopic Unbroken. More about him and his possible role after the jump....

Rumor: Marvel Wants Leonardo DiCaprio For Captain America. Or Brad Pitt. By Hunter Stephenson/June 12, 2008 5:47 pm EST If this rumor(s) seems like it originated in the mind of Captain Obvious, we see your point, but it arrived just minutes ago via a very reputable source/friend site, Latino Review. It seems that Marvel has a shortlist of names for their 2011 tent pole, The First Avenger: Captain America, and at the top is Leonardo DiCaprio followed by Brad Pitt (whose name has previously circulated for 2010’s Thor)....

The Best Quasi-Science Fiction Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen By Jordan Hoffman/March 2, 2012 11:00 am EST I’m also a tremendous science fiction fan, as this is the safest way, usually, to get audiences in “the zone.” (note – I hate the expression “the zone,” but sometimes cliches, even if they are the names of fad diets, work best.) When a movie dabbles on the edge of sci-fi and is able to take you in unexpected directions, that’s when I really start to get excited....

TV Bits: ‘Parks & Recreation’, ‘Downton Abbey’, ‘The Newsroom’, ‘The Americans’, ‘The Mindy Project’, ‘New Girl’, ‘Game Of Thrones’, And More By Angie Han/Feb. 22, 2013 9:06 am EST And in the world of casting for things that aren’t pilots… Downton Abbey has just bumped up recurring guest star Lily James to series regular status for Season 4, presumably to help make up for some of the characters we lost this past season (R....

Universal Confirms ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Sequel, Wants More Bourne, ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ For Mid-2014 By Russ Fischer/Feb. 20, 2013 4:30 pm EST Universal is in an interesting position now. The studio is free of the contract with Hasbro that had it dedicated to developing board-game properties for some time, and has started to settle into a place where it floats on the performance of big comedies (Ted), the occasional well-chosen pop-culture adaptation (Les Miserables), and affordable franchise installments (Fast & Furious, Bourne) rather than massive tentpoles....

VOTD: Behind The Scenes With The Live Action Brachiosaurs From ‘Jurassic Park’ By Germain Lussier/March 26, 2013 9:00 am EST Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park comes back to theaters on April 5 in 3D and IMAX. Even if you aren’t a fan of those formats, it’s a trip well worth taking simply because in the twenty years since its release, most of the times you’ve seen the film has been at home....

‘Birth Of The Dragon’ Will Merge Bruce Lee’s Life Story With A Dose Of Action Movie Hyperbole By Russ Fischer/Feb. 19, 2013 2:00 pm EST More than one version of Bruce Lee’s life story has hit the screen, with the most notable dramatized biopic being Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, starring Jason Scott Lee. (There is no relation between the men, despite the common name.) Now QED International and banner Groundswell Productions plan to re-tell the “origin story” (gag) of Lee through a new film, Birth of the Dragon....

‘Blurred Lines’ Model Emily Ratajkowski Cast In David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 16, 2013 10:00 am EST Odds are if you own a computer and were alive in the past six months, you likely saw Robin Thicke’s music video for the hit song “Blurred Lines.” Pushing 200 million views on YouTube, it was one of the most talked about clips of the year, thanks in part to a model named Emily Ratajkowski....

‘Hannibal’ Renewed For Third Season; ‘The Goldbergs’ Also Coming Back [Updated] By Russ Fischer/May 10, 2014 1:00 pm EST Two very different shows with geek appeal are coming back for another season. NBC has just renewed Hannibal, which brings us one step closer to the fulfillment of producer Bryan Fuller’s vision of a seven-season run. And The Goldbergs got the nod for a second season from ABC. But all isn’t well everywhere....

‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Trailer: Joss Whedon Does William Shakespeare By Angie Han/March 7, 2013 10:40 am EST Joss Whedon’s last directorial effort, The Avengers, was a massive affair all around. The culmination of Marvel Studios’ ambitious years-long Cinematic Universe effort, the summer blockbuster boasted an all-star cast, a $220 million, and, eventually, a $1.5 billion box office take. So as a palate cleanser, he went super-duper-small for his next film....

‘Rosemary’s Baby’ TV Teaser: See The First Footage From NBC’s Remake By Angie Han/April 3, 2014 10:00 am EST Plenty of movies have taken inspiration from Rosemary’s Baby over the decades, including, recently, Hell Baby and Devil’s Due. But NBC is going the direct route by simply adapting Ira Levin’s original novel into a four-part miniseries. Zoe Saldana and Patrick J. Adams play Rosemary and her husband Guy, a young couple who’ve just moved from New York to Paris....

‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Alternative Extended Ending By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2010 11:00 am EST /Film reader Luis R sent me an e-mail containing the extended alternative ending to Steve Barron’s live-action 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. The ending was never released theatrically, and has only yet to surface on the German DVD release of the movie. It involves April O’Neil trying to pitch the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle story as a potential idea for a comic book series....

‘The Search’ Trailer: Michel Hazanavicius Follows ‘The Artist’ With A Wartime Drama By Angie Han/May 20, 2014 12:53 pm EST 2012 Best Picture winner The Artist was a lighthearted and joyous celebration of cinema. But for their next project together, The Artist director Michel Hazanavicus and star Bérénice Bejo are foraying into much heavier, grimmer territory. The Search is a remake of the 1948 film of the same title, with the setting changed from post-WWII Berlin to the Second Chechen War....

A Cast Of Kings S3E10 - Mhysa Part 1 By David Chen/June 11, 2013 10:58 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Joanna and Dave discuss the season finale of Game of Thrones, “Mhysa.” This is part 1 of a 2 part discussion. Thanks to our sponsor for this week, Greg Kiser’s Insyte E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at acastofkings@gmail....