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Nolan Adds John Lithgow and Ellen Burstyn to INTERSTELLAR Cast List

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Just when the Interstellar cast is looking as stacked as it could possibly be, nerd-god Christopher Nolan goes and adds John Lithgow (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) and Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream) to his already massive cast. Burstyn’s work in Requiem is one of the most overlooked, and absolutely best, performances of all time and Lithgow, though know most for his leading role in Third Rock From the Sun and his villain in Cliffhanger, put in an Emmy-winning performance on Dexter‘s glorious fourth season.

Additionally, Timothée Chalamet (Homeland) and Mackenzie Foy (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2) hoped on board this morning as well. Joining a cast that already includes Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Casey Affleck, Bill Irwin and Michael Caine, Lithgow and Burstyn are just more welcome talent into a project that really seems to be shaping up to be undeniably epic.

Nolan is noted for returning to cast members such as Christian Bale, who has starred in four films with him, Cillian Murphy, also in four, Ken Watanabe, four again, with Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy and Joseph Gordon Levitt all having boarded The Dark Knight franchise after working with Nolan on Inception. This time around though, Nolan seems to be dropping his troupe of regulars and working with a whole new slew of talent. Most notably in Nolan’s stable though is Caine, who has been in all of Nolan’s films but one, who will continue that streak here again alongside fellow Dark Knight Rises cast member Anne Hathaway.

Interstellar is directed by Christopher Nolan and stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Casey Affleck, Bill Irwin, Michael Caine, John Lithgow, Ellen Burstyn, Timothée Chalamet and Mackenzie Foy. It hits theaters November 7, 2014.

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Free Man Enslaved in 12 YEARS A SLAVE Trailer

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With a massively talented cast that includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Quvenzhane Wallis, Sarah Paulson and Paul Dano, director Steve McQueen‘s 12 Years a Slave tells the true story of Solomon Northup. Born a free man, Northup was captured, drugged and then enslaved for 12 years.

McQueen’s two prior films, Hunger and Shame, have been slow moving character studies that don’t quite pedal to the mainstream 12 Years a Slave promises to. With an October 18th release date, it’s lined up to be a major Oscar contender that may just lead to multiple nominations. Considering that this year is particularly loaded in terms of talent, it may end up skating on the outskirts rather than breaking into the inner circle.

Take a look here and see if you think this will get any serious Oscar play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EYbEuq-_bk

 12 Years a Slave is directed by Steve McQueen and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Quvenzhane Wallis, Sarah Paulson, Paul Dano, Scoot McNairy, Garrett Dillahunt, Alfre Woodard, Dwight Henry, and Michael K. Williams. It hits theaters on October 18.

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Christian Bale is Pissed in the Trailer for OUT OF THE FURNACE

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With an all-star cast that includes Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana, Woody Harrelson, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker and Casey Affleck, Out of the Furnace follows Bale as Russel Baze, an ex-convict lured into a confrontation with a powerful crime ring. When his brother (Affleck) comes back from war, gets involved with the wrong people and mysteriously disappears, Bale’s Baze will do anything to find his brother and get revenge.

Scott Cooper of Crazy Heart directs what looks like it could be either an award-garnishing drama piece or a more straight-forward genre thriller. Take a look at the trailer and see if you think this is more awards-bait of pure, genre fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClzRVlMhU2E

Out of the Furnace is directed by Scott Cooper and stars Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana, Woody Harrelson, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker and Casey Affleck. It hits theaters December 6.

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Fly High with HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 Trailer

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How to Train Your Dragon is one of the greatest animated movies of the past ten years. Had it not gone head-to-head against Toy Story 3, I don’t doubt that it would have walked away with Best Animated film but 2010 was a year on fire for animated films, a year that also included Coraline and Despicable Me in it’s stacked roster. After the overwhelming critical and box-office success, it was no shocker than a sequel was in the cards but from the get-go, writer and director Dean DeBlois promised to expand the world while  maintaining the close focus on the characters that made the original great.

Retuning cast members Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Jonah Hill,  Christopher Mintz-Plasse, America Ferrera, Kristen Wigg and Craig Ferguson will be joined by Game of Thrones alum and newcomer Kit Harington as the Dragon Prince. 

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How to Train your Dragon 2 is directed by Dean DeBlous and stars Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Jonah Hill,  Christopher Mintz-Plasse, America Ferrera, Kristen Wigg, Craig Ferguson andKit Harington.

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Idris Elba is Nelson Mandela in MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

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Nelson Mandela, international icon of non-violent resistance and anti-apartheid leader, has been represented on film before, last by Morgan Freeman in the tepid rugby movie Invictus, but no-one has taken a stab at the most challenging part of his life like Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom looks to. Starring Idris Elba as Mandela, this biopic covers his life from childhood to his 27-year-long imprisonment to his inauguration as South African President. 

At 94 years old, Mandela was recently stricken ill but, luckily, it looks like he is in the clear for now. Directed by English filmmaker Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl), Mandela is expected to garnish some awards for Elba.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYlcZC0GIn0

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom is directed by Justin Chadwick and stars Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Mark Edlerkin, Robert Hobbs, Grant Swanby and Theo Landey. It opens in the US on November 29.

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Walt Disney is Played by Hanks in SAVING MR BANKS Trailer

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Lullabying us in with the iconic whimsical ballad of “chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim charoo”‘s, this trailer for Saving Mr. Banks “promises” to deliver the real, unfiltered view of Mr. Walt Disney. With two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks filling the shows of Disney and Emma Thompson co-starring as author P. L. Travers, this biopic chartering the 1964 production of Mary Poppins is sure to get huge Oscar play at year’s end.

What’s curious about this endeavor is the fact that Disney is infamous for being a totally d-bag. Not so fondly described as “a paranoid hater of Jews and gays, a merciless exploiter of his animation staff, and an artistic pioneer whose vision surpassed uncompromising and headed straight into dictatorial,” Mr. Walt Disney’s legacy may stand for something family-friendly and pure but those definitely do not seem to be the tenants he lived by. Seeing that the House of Mouse itself is behind the production, it’s hard to imagine that they won’t sugarcoat this icon rather than pointing to his plenitude of flaws.

Have a look at the trailer and see if you think this will really be the unadulterated peek we’ve been promised or a family-friendly ordeal glorifying a man unworthy of said glorification.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5kYmrjongg

Saving Mr Banks is directed by John Lee Hancock and stars Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, Colin Farrell, Ruth Wilson, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Rachel Griffiths, Bradley Whitford and B.J. Novak. It floats into theaters in the thick of Oscar potential season on December 13.

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Out in Theaters: PACIFIC RIM

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“Pacific Rim”
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Starring Charlie Hunnan, Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Rinko Kikuchi, Diego Klattenhoff, Burn Gorman, Ron Perlman
Action, Adventure, Fantasty
131 Minutes
PG-13

Going in to this Guillermo del Toro-stampedcreature feature, there are clearly two routes we could be embarking down. Accepting the staunch inevitability that this sky-scraping blockbuster will most likely be dumb is key but, at the same time, we can’t help but hope that it will be more than a mere spectacle-driven showdown between robots and monsters. It is with a heavy head that I tell you, Pacific Rim is not very good. Read More

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Bloody Red-Band Trailer for OLDBOY

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On the heels of the first official poster, Spike Lee‘s remake of Chan Wook-Park‘s Korean cult classic Oldboy gets a entrail-smattered red band trailer. Hoping to win over newcomers to the film and hopefully capture the attention of purists, Lee’s film is already divisive in nature. Personally, I hold no grudge against remakes of foreign films. They’ve given us the likes of The Departed, 12 Monkeys, The Ring, Let Me In, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, amongst many others.

Josh Brolin stars and the synopsis is as follows:

“An advertising executive is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAPHmgz4fok

Oldboy is directed by Spike Lee and stars Josh Brolin, Samuel L Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen and Michael Imperioli. It hits theaters on October 25.

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Bret Easton Ellis Penned THE CAYNONS With Lindsay Lohan and a Real Life Pornstar and You Can Watch the Trailer

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Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, Less Than Zero) is famous for digging up dirt and tossing it in his audience’s face. He may not be the most commercial or popular write, in fact he’s openly trounced by legions of authorial purists, but he definitely has a staunchly original voice. His name alone generates my interest in The Caynons, an indie film starring Lindsay Lohan and real life pornstar James Deen, that debuted at SXSW and Sundance earlier this year.

Described as “a violent, sexually-charged tour through the dark side of human nature,” The Canyons seems like classic Ellis territory. Even though it’s hard to look past the fact that Lohan is playing front and center, the floozy Hollywood-spoiled girl that she’s playing her does fit her perfectly and, who knows, it might even be a role that is seen as career-defining for her. Oh and it definitely looks like she’s gonna be stripping down for this one alongside James Deen, a pornstar known for onset masochism. I don’t know about you but I, for one, am titillated…and a little repulsed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5uTtNLUmCA

The Canyons is directed by Paul Schrader and written by Bret Easton Ellis. It stars Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Nolan Gerard Funk, Gus Van Sant, Amanda Brooks and Tenille Houston and hits limited release on August 9.

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Cap's Shield Needs a Paint Job in Teaser Poster for CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

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Apparently the little kerfuffle back in The Avengers where Thor leaped through the air and brought his Godly-powered magical hammer down on Captain America’s shield was horseplay compared to the carnage going down in this sequel, Captain America: The Winter Solider, as the All-Americano custom job on Cap’s shield is chipping away like bargain-bin paint. While this teaser hardly gives us much to go on in terms of character or plot, it seems pretty congruous with the dark-horse sophomore picture that superhero films seem to be so fond of nowadays.

If the first films in a planned franchise are now exclusively origin stories, the follow-ups seem to be finding their own pattern where the hero is faced with a breed of “darkness” that they never could have imagined. Since Batman Begins, the whole genre has undergone a categorical shift in tone with everyone and their mother trying to emulate the dark, gritty nature of Nolan’s franchise. But up to this point, Marvel has done a good job at keeping things light (almost too much at times) so we’ll see have deep down the rabbit hole they plan to take us with this second installment.

Captain America: The Winter Solider is based on the popular comic line in which Cap’s old friend and war buddy Sebastian Stan returns as his arch-nemesis; an assassin also frozen in time, the Winter Soldier. So long as he’s not spouting off lines like “Ice to meet you*,” or “You are not sending me to the cooler*” or worst of all, “What killed the dinosaurs? The ice age! (proceed to blast freeze ray)*” then I’ll give this a shot.

*These are all actual lines from Batman and Robin‘s Mr Freeze, as is “Allow my to break the ice,” “Stay cool, bird boy,” “Let’s kick some ice,” “Cool party,” and the classic “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is directed by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo stars Chris Evans, Anthony Mackie, Frank Grillo, Cobie Smulders, Samuel L. Jackson, Sebastian Stan, Scarlett Johansson, Toby Jones, Emily VanCamp and Robert Redford. It hits theaters April 4, 2014.