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This is a collection of news form 21st to 27th May.
Movie News:
Ryan Renolds may be attached to Highlander remake.
Marvels and Edgar Wright‘s Ant-Man movie has been Green-lit
An English language remake of John Woo’s The Killer is pressing ahead.
First trailer for Skyfall arrives!!!
The Wolverine starts shooting this August.
Saorie Ronan to star in a movie based on Vera Brittian Memoir
First teaser for Anchorman 2 arrives:
First trailer for The Master:
Samuel Goldwyn films pick up Gilles Bourdo’s Renoir.
Fight Club producer Arnon Milchan to receive Best Producer honor at Locarno.
Care Blanchett to star in a Lesbian Drama ‘Carol’.
Ben Kingsley, Tom Payne and Stellan Skarsgard have joined the cast of the medieval period drama The Physician, based on the best-selling novel by Noah Gordon about a healer traveling across Europe in the 11th century.
Payne, a regular on the HBO series Luck, will star as the physician Rob Cole, who searches for the scientific truth of illness and healing in a medieval world dominated by religion and superstition.
Oscar-winner Kingsley will play Ibn Sina, the so-called “doctor of all doctors” while Skarsgard, seen most recently in Disney/Marvel blockbuster The Avengers, will play Barber, Rob Cole’s first mentor.
French actor Olivier Martinez has also signed up to play the Shah Ala ad-Daula.
German director will helm Philipp Stoelzl The Physician, which Jan Berger is adapting for the screen.
The Oscar-winning post-production house Pixomondo (Hugo) will handle visual effects for the film.
Shooting on The Physician is set to start in Morocco and Germany next month.
Beta Cinema is co-producing The Physician with Ufa Cinema. Beta is handling world sales and selling the project to buyers at Cannes’ Marche du Film.
An awesome scary trailer for The Possession arrives:
Bill Murray and Laura Linney star in Hyde Park on Hudson which is about The love affair between Franklin D Roosevelt and his distant Cousin Margaret Stuckley. Here’s the trailer:
New Poster arrives for The Dark Knight Rises:
Rachel McAdams has signed on to join Phillip Seymour Hoffman in A Most Wanted Man, director Anton Corbijn’s adaptation of the 2008 novel by John le Carre
Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy are teaming for a buddy cop comedy about the strained working relationship between an uptight FBI agent and an unconventional Boston cop.
Colin Firth Playing Noel Coward In Upcoming Las Vegas Drama
The Night Stalker has gotten one step closer to production. Walt Disney Pictures has hired D.V. DeVincentis to pen the script. Edgar Wright will direct his biggest project to date, on this starring vehicle for Johnny Depp. Depp and his Infinitum Nihil partner Christi Dembrowski are producing, and David Kennedy will serve as exec producer.
Anthony Bourdain’s Bone In The Throat Heading to Big Screen
Quentin Tarantino still has more than two months left of shooting on Django Unchained – and yet already, a trailer for the western revenge tale (which is actually set in the pre-Civil War South) premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
Some 7-8 minutes of footage from Django Unchained was screened for the media in attendance at this year’s Cannes – along with material from such titles as P.T. Anderson’s The Master and David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook.
Tekken prequel gets Ong Bak’s director Prachya Pinkaew.
Duncan Jones to direct Ian Flemings Bio pic.
Here’s the teaser for Ek Tha Tiger:
Morgan Freeman is set to join Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro in Last Vegas.
The Jon Turteltaub directed film follows four ageing gents as they hit Las Vegas for one final hurrah. It’s believed that Christopher Walken will be the final member of the gang in what is being described as a “Hangover-style comedy.”
Amy Adams is in negotiations to star in an adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel Dark Places.
John Cusack will join Elijah Wood in the thriller Grand Piano. Wood plays a pianist with stage fright who receives a note saying that his wife will die – if he doesn’t play the greatest show of his career.
Anthony Mackie will join Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake in the gambling thriller Runner, Runner.
Simon Pegg will lead Peter Chelsom’s dramady ‘Hector and the Search for Happiness.’
Pegg will star in the movie adapted for the screen by Chelsom and Tinker Lindsay from the bestselling novel of the same name by François Lelord.
It details the story of an eccentric yet irresistible London psychiatrist in crisis — largely because his patients are just not getting any happier — who decides to go on his own quest to find a smile.
Jackie Chan retires from action movies saying that he is to old for stunts.
TV and theater director Matt Shakman’s turn at the big screen with Cut Bank, starring Armie Hammer, John Malkovitch, Ben Kingsley, Michael Sheen and Teresa Palmer, is proving a hot draw at the Marche du Film.
Tom Roth stars in Jane Lynch’s new movie ‘ A Fall From Grace’.
Nicholas Stoller to direct Seth Rogen and Zac Efron in Townies.
Tom Cruise may star in Magnificent Seven remake.
Amitabh Bachan to make a cameo in The Great Gatsby.
James McAvoy will star opposite Jessica Chastain in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, a unique double-feature project from Myriad Pictures.
The story is an exploration of how a married couple in New York City deals emotional, life-altering experience, but it is being told in two movies and from two perspectives: one from the husband (McAvoy), a restaurant owner, and the wife (Chastain), who woman who goes back to college.
The title of the two movies are The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers.
Ned Benson (In Defiance of Gravity) wrote the two scripts and will direct both films.
Paul Dano joins Michael Fassbender in Twelve Years a Slave.
First trailer for The Great Gatsby in 3D arrives.
Peter Weir, the director of films such as Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Truman Show and Dead Poets Society is set to direct a contemporary gothic thriller called The Keep, which is based on the 2006 novel written by Jennifer Egan. The story is set in a mysterious medieval castle somewhere in Central Europe, and it follows two estranged American cousins who reunite to set up an alternative resort, stirring childhood traumas and phobias in a haunted castle.
Saoirse Ronan set to act in World War 1 drama ‘Testament of Youth’ based on Vera Brittain’s Memoir.
New poster for ‘Killing them Softly’, Brad Pitt’s Hitman movie.
The Wolverine (or Wolverine 2) has a July 2013 release date..
‘jOBS’ based on Steve Jobs’ life starring Ashton Kutcher starts shooting in the real Apple Garage.
Jessica Biel, Chloe Grace Mortez & Jeffery Dean Morgan star together in The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea. Justin Timberlake will compose the soundtrack and serve as Music Supervisor.
Rupert Everett to make directorial debut with Oscar Wilde Biopic.
Six new awesome Character poster for The Dark Knight Rises have been released.
Zach Galifianakis is the latest actor attached to ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’
Trailer for new Brendan Fraiser comedy ‘Whole Lotta Sole’ arrives:
Trailer for The Apparition horror film starring Ashley Green and Tom Felton:
Bruce Willis says Looper is better than anything he’s ever done.
Gary Oldman cast in Robocop reboot.
Seth MacFarlane’s Ted moves release date to June 29th.
Scott Waugh has been offered to direct Need for Speed movie.
‘G.I. Joe 2’ pushed back to March 2013 for 3D Conversion. It was to be released next month. Some scenes are being re-shot for 3D effect.
The Hunger Games DVD/Blu Ray releases this August
Mel Gibson’s Passion of Christ prequel Mary Mother of Christ gets Sanctum director.
Guillermo Del Torro’s Pacific Rim gets Plot description. It’s about humans driving massive robots in order to
fight massive monsters who are invading earth. It will star Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi and Charlie Day. It’s original release date was May 2013 but now it has been pushed back to July 12th 2013.
New trailer for new Alien Invasion Comedy “The Watch”:
Seth MacFarlane’s Ted takes G.I. Joe 2’s release date.
Charlize Theron says ‘Mad Max’ starts shooting in June.
Universal bringing Lego Toy Franchise Hero Factory to the big screen.
Jon Favreau returning to ‘Iron Man 3’ as Happy Hogan.
Ashley Hamilton may be playing Firepower in Iron Man 3.
Thor 2 villain to be played by Mads Mikkelsen.
Bradley Cooper to produce and probably star in American Sniper.
Vin Diesel’s The Machine to be directed by Peter Segal.
Red-Band trailer for ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’:
Official trailer for ‘Bol Bachan’.
‘Modern Family’ star Eric Stonestreet joins comedy ‘Identity Thief’.
Anthony Hopkins to play villain in RED 2.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower gets a release date: September 12th 2012.
The Hunger Games sequel officially titled The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Thanos is not the villain in Thor 2.
Emma Stone to recieve first-ever MTV Trailblazer Award.
Red-Band trailer for Maniac starring Elijah Wood.
First trailer for ‘Django Unchained’ trailer running before Prometheus June 8th
An awesome fan trailer for The Expendables 2:
Ahna O’Riley to star opposite Ashton Kutcher in ‘jOBS’.
Judy Greer signs on to Carrie remake as The Gym Teacher.
William Sadler joins Iron Man 3.
Russian Sci-Fi novel ‘Amphibian Man’ to be adapted for the big screen.
Owen Wilson and Olivia Wilde have been cast in ‘Squirrels to the nuts’.
Two secret Sci-fi Films being developed by J.J. Abrams and David Koepp.
TV News:
Season 5 premiere date for Breaking Bad has announced. July 15th 2012
House just aired their Series finale. The last episode to such a wonderful series.
Sanctuary has been cancelled after 4 seasons.
Charlie Kauffman and Catherine Keener to star upcoming in HBO Comedy Series
Poster for The Newsroom arrives:
The Simpsons to get a short film in front of ‘Ice Age 4: Continental Drift’.
Seth Gabel will not return as a series regular for the fifth and final season of Fringe
Brian d’Arcy James, Raza Jaffery, Jamie Capero and Will Chase will not return for the Second Season under the showrunner Josh Safran.
The Walking Dead Season 3 Promo arrives:
Larry King enters the Cable Hall of Fame
In Treatments’s Gabriel Bryne to Star in History drama Vikings.
ABC releases ‘Bunhead’ pilot early.
ABC to debut Afternoon America this July
CBS renews Rule of Engagement for Seventh Season
Kristen Wiig is no longer a cast member of Saturday Night Live.
Smash will introduce three new series regulars for Season 2
Toby Keith and Kristen Bell to host CMT Music AwardsDan Sterling and Brent Forrester are the Executive
Producers on NBC’c ‘The Office’
Sarah Wynter joins Showtime’s Californication as a recurring cast member.
‘ER’ ‘Army Wives’ actors to guest star on USA’s ‘Suits’
Will Arnett and Jason Bateman make branded Digital Shorts for TBS.
Mark Hudis lined up to replace Alan Ball as True Blood Show runner.
Amazon and Sony in talks to continue cancelled ABC series ‘Pan Am’
Fringe sells in off-network syndication to Discovery Communication’s Science Channel
Sony Pictures Television issues a talking-point memo in an effort to minimize media backlash over Dan
Harmon’s exit as showrunner of Community.
Mason Cook to play Eddie Munster in NBC’c ‘Mockingbird Lane’ pilot.
Samuel L. Jackson to host BET awards, Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj to perform
JoAnna Garcia joins NBC’s comedy ‘Animal Practice’.
‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’ director to adapt ‘The Exorcist’ for a TV miniseries..
Grant Bowler to play Richard Burton opposite Lindsey Lohan’s Elizabeth Taylor.
Mason Cook cast as Eddie in NBC’s Munsters reboot.
Promos Charlie Sheen’s new comedy show on FX called Anger Management:
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