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First Look at Bale, Cooper and Adams in David O. Russell's AMERICAN HUSTLE

Check out the first pair of pictures from David O. Russell‘s American Hustle featuring Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper and Amy Adams. In his recent past, David O. Russell has directed three actors to Academy Award-wins (Christian Bale and Melissa Leo in The Fighter and Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook), earned four of his actors Academy nominations (Amy Adams in The Fighter, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver in Silver Linings Playbook) and taken home two directing nominations for himself. Whether this will be the year the O. Russell finally takes home his first golden statute, there is no doubt that he will guide himself and his talented troop of actors to many, many nominations.

American Hustle is the story of a con artist (Bale) and his partner in crime (Adams), who were forced to work with a federal agent to turn the tables on other cons, mobsters, and politicians – namely, the volatile mayor of impoverished Camden, New Jersey. Take a peek at these greatly costumed pics of Bale, Adams, and Cooper. If I was a betting man, I would take out a wager now that all three are nominated this year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

American Hustle is directed by David O. Russell and stars Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Robert De Niro, Michael Peña, Louis C.K. and Amy Adams. It opens in limited theaters on December 13 and opens wide on December 25.

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New Ensemble-Based ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT To Return to Netflix?!

 

Although reactions to the fourth season of Arrested Development were admittedly mixed, many people, myself included, found fault in the new format which saw characters taking on their own episodes, doing a “Where are they now? routine rather than the ensemble comedy we all knew and loved. Well it looks like we haven’t seen the last of the Bluths and, even better, they will most likely be returning in the old ensemble format.

Creator Mitch Hurwitz has expressed interest in doing a fifth season with Netflix headrunner Reed Hastings claiming that that decision was in the hands of the talent. Screen Rant now reports that Hurwitz has now confirmed that it’s “definitely” happening, one way or another.

“I keep thinking about it, and why don’t we do the movie version of this and then do the series, because this series kinda peaks with the story? I kinda go back and forth between that and a series. But here’s the most important thing, whatever we do, I want to get the cast all together and not do another anthology thing, and that’s why I keep thinking about kicking off with a special or a three-part show and then going into a series.”

So, take this news with a grain of salt, and don’t forget that it was nine years between the last seasons, but who knows, maybe we will get at actually see more Arrested Development back in its prime.

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Toronto International Film Festival Announces Full Line Up

This year’s TIFF certainly has a loaded playlist and I’m starting to consider just bucking up and attending, but we’ll see if those dreams actually come into fruition. The event will launch with their opening night film The Fifth Estate, the Wikileaks feature starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Also included in the Gala Presentations, there is the much anticipated August: Osage County with Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, Kill Your Darlings which premiered at Sundance with Daniel Radcliffe and Dane Dehaan, Justin Chadwick‘s Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom starring Idris Elba and Jonathan Teplitzky‘s The Railway Man starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman.

In the Special Presentations department, we have Cannes Palme D’or winner Blue is the Warmest Color, Steve McQueen‘s 12 Years a Slave, Dallas Buyers Club starring Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto, Alfonso Cuarón‘s Gravity with George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, Prisoners starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Glazer‘s Under the Skin with Scarlett Johansson Devil’s Knot with Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon, Dom Hemingway starring Jude Law, Jim Jarmusch‘s Only Lovers Left Alive and Asghar Farhadi‘s The Past.

Take a look at the full list below.

GALAS

  • American Dreams in China (dir. Peter Ho-Sun Chan) – Hong Kong/China
  • The Art of the Steal (dir. Jonathan Sobol) – Canada
  • August: Osage County (dir. John Wells) – USA
  • Cold Eyes (dir. Cho Ui-seok and Kim Byung-seo) – South Korea
  • The Fifth Estate (dir. Bill Condon) – USA [Opening Night Film]
  • The Grand Seduction (dir. Don McKellar) – Canada
  • Kill Your Darlings (dir. John Krokidas) – USA
  • Life of Crime (dir. Daniel Schechter) – USA [Closing Night Film]
  • The Love Punch (dir. Joel Hopkins) – France
  • The Lunchbox (dir. Ritesh Batra) – India/France/Germany
  • Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (dir. Justin Chadwick) – South Africa
  • Parkland (dir. Peter Landesman) – USA
  • The Railway Man (dir. Jonathan Teplitzky) – Australia/United Kingdom
  • The Right Kind of Wrong (dir. Jeremiah Chechik) – Canada
  • Shuddh Desi Romance (dir. Maneesh Sharma) – India
  • Supermensch The Legend of Shep Gordon (dir. Mike Myers) – USA

 

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

 

  • 12 Years a Slave (dir. Steve McQueen) – USA
  • All Is By My Side (dir. John Ridley) – United Kingdom
  • Attila Marcel (dir. Sylvain Chomet) – France
  • Bad Words (dir. Jason Bateman) – USA
  • Belle (dir. Amma Asante) – United Kingdom
  • Blue Is the Warmest Color (dir. Abdellatif Kechiche) – France
  • Burning Bush (dir. Agnieszka Holland) – Czech Republic
  • Can a Song Save Your Life? (dir. John Carney) – USA
  • Cannibal (Caníbal) (dir. Manuel Martín Cuenca) – Spain/Romania/Russia/France
  • Dallas Buyers Club (dir. Jean-Marc Vallée) – USA
  • Devil’s Knot (dir. Atom Egoyan) – USA
  • The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her (dir. Ned Benson) – USA
  • Dom Hemingway (dir. Richard Shepard) – United Kingdom
  • Don Jon (dir. Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – USA
  • The Double (dir. Richard Ayoade) – United Kingdom
  • Enough Said (dir. Nicole Holofcener) – USA
  • Exit Marrakech (dir. Caroline Link) – Germany
  • Felony (dir. Matthew Saville) – Australia
  • Gloria (dir. Sebastián Lelio) – Chile/Spain
  • Going Away (Il est parti dimanche) (dir. Nicole Garcia) – France
  • Gravity (dir. Alfonso Cuarón) – USA/United Kingdom
  • The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) (dir. Paolo Sorrentino) – Italy
  • Hateship Loveship (dir. Liza Johnson) – USA
  • Ida (dir. Pawel Pawlikowski) – Poland
  • L’intrepido (dir. Gianni Amelio) – Italy
  • The Invisible Woman (dir. Ralph Fiennes) – United Kingdom
  • Joe (dir. David Gordon Green) – USA
  • Labor Day (dir. Jason Reitman) – USA
  • Like Father, Like Son (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda) – Japan
  • MARY Queen of Scots Thomas (dir. Imbach) – France/Switzerland
  • Night Moves (dir. Kelly Reichardt) – USA
  • Omar (dir. Hany Abu-Assad) – Palestine
  • One Chance (dir. David Frankel) – USA
  • Only Lovers Left Alive (dir. Jim Jarmusch) – USA
  • The Past (Le Passé) (dir. Asghar Farhadi) – France/Italy
  • Philomena (dir. Stephen Frears) – United Kingdom
  • Pioneer (Pionér) (dir. Erik Skjoldbjærg) – Norway/Germany/Sweden/France/Finland
  • Prisoners (dir. Denis Villeneuve) – USA
  • Quai d’Orsay (dir. Bertrand Tavernier) – France
  • REAL (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – Japan
  • Starred Up (dir. David Mackenzie) – United Kingdom
  • Third Person (dir. Paul Haggis) – Belgium
  • Those Happy Years (Anni Felici) (dir. Daniele Luchetti) – Italy
  • Under the Skin (dir. Jonathan Glazer) – USA/United Kingdom
  • Violette (dir. Martin Provost) – France/Belgium
  • Visitors (dir. Godfrey Reggio) – USA
  • Walesa. Man of Hope. (Walesa. Czlowiek z nadziei.) (dir. Andrzej Wajda) – Poland
  • We are the Best! (Vi är bäst!) (dir. Lukas Moodysson) – Sweden
  • Le Week-End (dir. Roger Michell) – United Kingdom
  • You Are Here (dir. Matthew Weiner) – USA
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DC Announces BATMAN/SUPERMAN Movie as Next Project, THE FLASH and JUSTICE LEAGUE to Follow

DC certainly seems to have stolen the thunder over at the San Diego Comic Con by announcing that the next project on their slate will be a team up film featuring Batman and Superman. Following the success of Man of Steel, this first step towards the eventual Justice League will start building the larger DC universe. This is definitely an unexpected move considering that most were expecting a strict sequel in the form of Man of Steel 2 or a Justice League movie but no one really saw the two man super team up coming. This currently unnamed film will release in 2015, aka, the biggest year for movies in the history of histories (Star Wars 7, Avatar 2, The Avengers 2, etc.)

 

Man of Steel crew Henry Cavill, director Zack Snyder and writer David S. Goyer will all return but what is not clear is who exactly will be filling the batshoes. Christian Bale has said multiple times that he will not be donning the cowl again as Batman but, in his many insistent denials, he said always stated that he is not interested in it purely because Christopher Nolan, director of the Dark Knight trilogy wouldn’t be involved. But hold your horses Bale because Nolan is signed on as a producer here and will probably work in a similar capacity to his involvement with Man of Steel. Does that assure the return of Bale? Absolutely not but it is a step in the right direction.

While DC can probably get away with recasting Batman, there is obvious power in continuing the much beloved Dark Knight franchise and I can’t deny that I would be super-duper stoked if they did continue that particular iteration of the character.

After the Batman/Superman film releases, DC will push forward movie featuring Barry Allen, aka The Flash, which will release in 2016 followed by a Justice League movie in 2017. I’m glad to see that DC is willing to do some world building before launching right into Justice League and with Flash, Batman and Superman established, they will stand on pretty good ground in terms of mass familiarity with the characters. What is unclear is how Green Lantern will factor into the equation. Whether they omit him entire, reboot him or recast him, it’s clear that they need to scrub the bad taste that the Martin Campbell/Ryan Reynolds tanker in some way or another.

While I am naturally skeptical about any kind of superhero news, this is actually a pretty thrilling set up and one I’m hoping with pay off immensely. Luckily, we only have two years to wait to see the product. More casting news and other info is sure to follow.

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Avengers 2 Earns Nerdy Title THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

Up until now, the follow up to The Avengers has been a largely unknown quality outside the fact that writer/director Joss Whedon would return but with the title treatment, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, legions of Marvel fans are taking to speculation as to what this next installment would entail.

 

 

Culled straight from the pages of Wikipedia Ultron is Marvel supervillian whose “common powers include superhuman levels of strength, speed, stamina, durability, and reflexes; flight at subsonic speeds; and various offensive weapons such as concussive blasts of energy fired from its optical sensors and hands, and an “encephalo-ray”, which places victims into a deathlike coma. The latter ray also allows Ultron to mesmerize and mind-control victims, or implant subliminal hypnotic commands within their minds to be enacted at a later time.”

The Ultron story arc is a limited comic series written by Brian Bendis but Whedon has insisted that this will be an original story and not adapted directly from the comic pages. Per Whedon,

“Well, because there was a book called ‘Age of Ultron’ quite recently, a lot of people have assumed that is what we’re doing, but that is not the case,” Whedon reportedly reveals in the interview. “We’re doing our own version of the origin story for Ultron. In the origin story, there was Hank Pym, so a lot of people assumed that he will be in the mix. He’s not. We’re basically taking the things from the comics for the movies that we need and can use. A lot of stuff has to fall by the wayside.”

“We’re crafting our own version of it where his origin comes more directly from The Avengers we already know about.” Whedon reportedly continues. “It’s a little bit darker than the other film because Ultron is in the house. There’s a science fiction theme that wasn’t there in the other one. Ultron is definitely something that evolves, so we’re going to get together a couple of different iterations. Nothing can be translated exactly as it was from the comics; particularly Ultron.”

As far as I’m concerned, I’ll trust the man but boy, oh boy is that a nerdy title.

The Avengers: Age of Ultron is directed by Joss Whedon and stars Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo and Samuel L. Jackson. It hits theaters May 1, 2015.

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Nifty Promo Teaser and First Look at Caesar in DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Roundup

Following up on the unexpected success of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes, this second, or seventh (or eighth if you count the Tim Burton version) installment in the 45 year-old franchise, entitled Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, goes 15 years into the future to see how well the apes and humans are getting along. Above, you see Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his ape tribe brought to life by the technical wizards over at WETA.

While director Rupert Wyatt stepped out, Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In) has stepped in as director to tell the story of Caesar, the apes and the last stand of humanity.Serkisreturns as Caesar but otherwise the cast is entirely new with James Franco stepping out of the lead role that he filled in the first installment. Joining Serkis are newcomers Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Judy Greer, Jason Clarke and Kodi Smit-McPhee

Similar to the mid-credits sequence in the conclusion of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, this promo video takes the stance of a PSA, warning humans about the risks of Simian Flu. It’s a pretty nifty little piece of marketing and I appreciate the novel approach that they’re going after.

 

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is directed by Matt Reeves and stars Andy Serkis, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Judy Greer, Jason Clarke and Kodi Smit-McPhee. It hits theaters July 18, 2014.

First Posters for X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Splices Old and New Characters

With an absolutely massive cast that takes actors from both Bryan Singer‘s original trilogy and Matthew Vaughn‘s X-Men: First Class, this first poster from X-Men: Days of Future Past splices together the old and new Professor X and Magneto.

With both Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy playing Professor X and Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender playing Magneto, Days of Future Past involves a time-traveling plot where mutants from the future travel back in time to help past X-Men characters stop malevolent machines, known as Sentinels, bent on destroying mutants once and for all.

 


Patrick Stewart/James McAvoy as Professor X

Ian McKellen/Michael Fassbender as Magneto

X-Men: Days of Future Past is directed by Bryan Singer and stars Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Ian McKellen, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Nicholas Hoult, Peter Dinklage, Ellen Page, Anna Paquin, Shaun Ashmore, Omar Sy and Evan Peters. It hits theaters on May 23, 2014.

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Toronto International Film Festival Announces Lineup

This year’s TIFF certainly has a loaded playlist and I’m starting to consider just bucking up and attending, but we’ll see if those dreams actually come into fruition. The event will launch with their opening night film The Fifth Estate, the Wikileaks feature starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Also included in the Gala Presentations, there is the much anticipated August: Osage County with Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, Kill Your Darlings which premiered at Sundance with Daniel Radcliffe and Dane Dehaan, Justin Chadwick‘s Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom starring Idris Elba and Jonathan Teplitzky‘s The Railway Man starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman.

 

In the Special Presentations department, we have Cannes Palme D’or winner Blue is the Warmest Color, Steve McQueen‘s 12 Years a Slave, Dallas Buyers Club starring Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto, Alfonso Cuarón‘s Gravity with George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, Prisoners starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Glazer‘s Under the Skin with Scarlett Johansson Devil’s Knot with Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon, Dom Hemingway starring Jude Law, Jim Jarmusch‘s Only Lovers Left Alive and Asghar Farhadi‘s The Past.

Take a look at the full list below.

GALAS

  • American Dreams in China (dir. Peter Ho-Sun Chan) – Hong Kong/China
  • The Art of the Steal (dir. Jonathan Sobol) – Canada
  • August: Osage County (dir. John Wells) – USA
  • Cold Eyes (dir. Cho Ui-seok and Kim Byung-seo) – South Korea
  • The Fifth Estate (dir. Bill Condon) – USA [Opening Night Film]
  • The Grand Seduction (dir. Don McKellar) – Canada
  • Kill Your Darlings (dir. John Krokidas) – USA
  • Life of Crime (dir. Daniel Schechter) – USA [Closing Night Film]
  • The Love Punch (dir. Joel Hopkins) – France
  • The Lunchbox (dir. Ritesh Batra) – India/France/Germany
  • Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (dir. Justin Chadwick) – South Africa
  • Parkland (dir. Peter Landesman) – USA
  • The Railway Man (dir. Jonathan Teplitzky) – Australia/United Kingdom
  • The Right Kind of Wrong (dir. Jeremiah Chechik) – Canada
  • Shuddh Desi Romance (dir. Maneesh Sharma) – India
  • Supermensch The Legend of Shep Gordon (dir. Mike Myers) – USA

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

  • 12 Years a Slave (dir. Steve McQueen) – USA
  • All Is By My Side (dir. John Ridley) – United Kingdom
  • Attila Marcel (dir. Sylvain Chomet) – France
  • Bad Words (dir. Jason Bateman) – USA
  • Belle (dir. Amma Asante) – United Kingdom
  • Blue Is the Warmest Color (dir. Abdellatif Kechiche) – France
  • Burning Bush (dir. Agnieszka Holland) – Czech Republic
  • Can a Song Save Your Life? (dir. John Carney) – USA
  • Cannibal (Caníbal) (dir. Manuel Martín Cuenca) – Spain/Romania/Russia/France
  • Dallas Buyers Club (dir. Jean-Marc Vallée) – USA
  • Devil’s Knot (dir. Atom Egoyan) – USA
  • The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her (dir. Ned Benson) – USA
  • Dom Hemingway (dir. Richard Shepard) – United Kingdom
  • Don Jon (dir. Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – USA
  • The Double (dir. Richard Ayoade) – United Kingdom
  • Enough Said (dir. Nicole Holofcener) – USA
  • Exit Marrakech (dir. Caroline Link) – Germany
  • Felony (dir. Matthew Saville) – Australia
  • Gloria (dir. Sebastián Lelio) – Chile/Spain
  • Going Away (Il est parti dimanche) (dir. Nicole Garcia) – France
  • Gravity (dir. Alfonso Cuarón) – USA/United Kingdom
  • The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) (dir. Paolo Sorrentino) – Italy
  • Hateship Loveship (dir. Liza Johnson) – USA
  • Ida (dir. Pawel Pawlikowski) – Poland
  • L’intrepido (dir. Gianni Amelio) – Italy
  • The Invisible Woman (dir. Ralph Fiennes) – United Kingdom
  • Joe (dir. David Gordon Green) – USA
  • Labor Day (dir. Jason Reitman) – USA
  • Like Father, Like Son (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda) – Japan
  • MARY Queen of Scots Thomas (dir. Imbach) – France/Switzerland
  • Night Moves (dir. Kelly Reichardt) – USA
  • Omar (dir. Hany Abu-Assad) – Palestine
  • One Chance (dir. David Frankel) – USA
  • Only Lovers Left Alive (dir. Jim Jarmusch) – USA
  • The Past (Le Passé) (dir. Asghar Farhadi) – France/Italy
  • Philomena (dir. Stephen Frears) – United Kingdom
  • Pioneer (Pionér) (dir. Erik Skjoldbjærg) – Norway/Germany/Sweden/France/Finland
  • Prisoners (dir. Denis Villeneuve) – USA
  • Quai d’Orsay (dir. Bertrand Tavernier) – France
  • REAL (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – Japan
  • Starred Up (dir. David Mackenzie) – United Kingdom
  • Third Person (dir. Paul Haggis) – Belgium
  • Those Happy Years (Anni Felici) (dir. Daniele Luchetti) – Italy
  • Under the Skin (dir. Jonathan Glazer) – USA/United Kingdom
  • Violette (dir. Martin Provost) – France/Belgium
  • Visitors (dir. Godfrey Reggio) – USA
  • Walesa. Man of Hope. (Walesa. Czlowiek z nadziei.) (dir. Andrzej Wajda) – Poland
  • We are the Best! (Vi är bäst!) (dir. Lukas Moodysson) – Sweden
  • Le Week-End (dir. Roger Michell) – United Kingdom
  • You Are Here (dir. Matthew Weiner) – USA
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Comic Con's GAME OF THRONES "In Memorium" Video Honors the Many Dead

 

Over in San Diego, Comic Con is in full siege and has lead to a blogtastrophe. After earning a whopping 16 Emmy nominations a mere three days ago, beloved HBO series Game of Thrones has showed up to footnote the last season as well as tease what is to come in George R.R. Martin‘s Westeros epic.

In attendance were Michelle Fairley, Richard Madden, Peter Dinklage, John Bradley, Kit Harington, Rose Leslie, Richard Madden, Emilia Clarke, author George R.R. Martin, alongwith showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff. However, to introduce their roundtable appearances was this amusing but somber video that recounts the death of the characters in GoT.

From the minor characters to the host of Baratheon soldiers who lost their lives on the battle of Blackwater to the truly tragic losses of great, major characters, this three minute video has got it all. If you’re a fan of the series, and up to date with the show, give it a watch. Otherwise, avoid at all costs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo8L1TTVKqU

 

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More Character Posters for THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Than You Could Dream Of


With a total of no less than 11 character posters, Liongate is really amping up the marketing for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in preparation for its November 11 release. Following up on the wild success of the first installment, Catching Fire brings us back to Panem for the Quarter Quell where 11 previous winners of the Hunger Games are forced back into the arena to duke it out again. Why? you ask. Well because Katniss totally showed up President Snow and now he’s gotta snuff that flame. Cue Bane: “The fire rises.”

For this first batch of character posters, we’re only getting a look at the contestants in the Quarter Quell. Included are Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta, Jena Malone as Johanna, Alan Ritchson as Gloss, Sam Claflin as Finnick, Amanda Plummer as Wiress, Jeffrey Wright as Beetee, Stephanie Leigh Schlund as Cashmere, Meta Golding as Enobaria, Lynn Cohen as Mags and Bruno Gunn as Brutus.

But don’t expect this to be the end of this marketing blitz as there are many characters who aren’t even yet included such as Donald Sutherland‘s President Snow, Elizabeth Banks‘s Effie, Liam Hemsworth‘s Gale and Woody Harrelson‘s Haymitch.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is directed by Francis Lawrence and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Hemsworth, Sam Claflin, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Stanley Tucci, Toby Jones, Jefferey Wright and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. It hits theaters on November 22, 2013.

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