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Jackie Chan Quits Action Movies

Jackie Chan
bleedingcool.com – Sad news coming out of Cannes today is Jackie Chan’s announcement that he will be retiring from the world of action movies. The 58 year-old actor has had an impressive run, having starred in over 100 films, most of which were in the action genre. The decision, he says, is a combination of wanting to take on more serious acting roles, and simply becoming tired of starring in films that revolve around violence.

1 hour 13 sec ago via theothersenhman
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Ryan Reynolds To Star in 'Highlander' Reboot?

Ryan Reynolds
screencrush.com – 20th Century Fox Ryan Reynolds has not had an easy time with franchises. He’s the kind of handsome, charismatic and blandly likeable actor you’d think would be leading his own action franchise by now but despite a few attempts – his ‘Blade’ spinoff went nowhere, ‘Deadpool’ continues to go nowhere and the less said about ‘The Green Lantern’ the better – has come up empty.

59 min 56 sec ago via donnieyen
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Trailer for Hyde Park on Hudson , Starring Bill Murray and Laura Linney

Hyde Park on Hudson
comingsoon.net – Focus Features has debuted the trailer for Hyde Park on Hudson , the December 7 release directed by Roger Michell and starring Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Samuel West, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Wilson, Elizabeth Marvel and Eleanor Bron. 1 hour 18 min ago via theothersenhman
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Julianne Hough in talks for Relativity's 'Haven'

Julianne Hough
variety.com – "Rock of Ages" star Julianne Hough is in negotiations to star opposite Josh Duhamel in Relativity Media's "Safe Haven," based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks. 2 hours 5 min ago via theothersenhman
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'Lawless' Character Posters Feature A Sexy (& Eventually Naked) Jessica Chastain, Plus New Shia LaBeouf Image

fb.indiewire.com – Also, Get Ready Kids, Jessica Chastain Has A Nude Scene In The Film Character posters. They're apparently not just for super hero films and tentpoles anymore. The Weinstein Company are getting in on the action and have delivered character posters for everyone in the cast. Set in the depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, "Lawless" centers on a bootlegging gang of brothers who are threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits. 2 hours 15 min ago via theothersenhman
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Exclusive: Tommy Lee Jones on Playing General Douglas MacArthur

Emperor
screencrush.com – Recently, HeyUGuys ran the first official image of Oscar-winner Tommy Lee Jones in character as General Douglas MacArthur for Peter Webber’s ‘Emperor’ (above). Recently, we asked Jones about playing the iconic military figure during a recent interview, and were somewhat surprised by his response. Jones next will appear in ‘Men In Black 3,’ where he once again plays curmudgeonly Agent K alongside the charismatic Will Smith. 2 hours 16 min ago via brucelee
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Paranoia Begins Shooting This Summer with Harrison Ford and Liam Hemsworth

movieweb.com – Relativity Media announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights to market and distribute IM Global's currently-titled Paranoia, directed by Robert Luketic (21) and starring Liam Hemsworth, Oscar-nominee Gary Oldman, Oscar-nominee Harrison Ford and Lucas Till. Production is targeted to begin this summer and the film will release in theatres on September 27, 2013. 2 hours 17 min ago via theothersenhman
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'The Avengers' is now the highest grossing Disney film of all time!

The Avengers
joblo.com – Ah, echoes of 2008 are ringing in my ears, as I bask in the glory of a kick ass movie not only kicking ass, but also taking names and chewing bubble gum at the box office. THE DARK KNIGHT was such an epic, deserving success and it felt like, for the first time, one of "our" movies was taking the taco.

2 hours 18 min ago via brucelee
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4 Pixar Movies Returning to AMC Theaters Memorial Day Weekend

comingsoon.net – With the summer movie season heating up, four popular Disney•Pixar movies are returning exclusively to AMC Theatres for the Memorial Day holiday weekend. From May 25 through May 28, Toy Story 3 , Ratatouille , Up and WALL•E will be featured at AMC locations around the country. Each film will be accompanied by a classic Pixar short film and an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming movie, Brave . 2 hours 49 min ago via theothersenhman
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Michelle Monaghan and Susan Sarandon to Star in 'Still of Night'

Michelle Monaghan
comingsoon.net – Exclusive Media will finance and produce the new thriller Still of Night , written and to be directed by Jonathan Mostow ( Terminator 3 , U-571 , Breakdown with Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon ( Dead Man Walking ) in final negotiations to star, it was announced today by Exclusive Media Co-Chairmen, Nigel Sinclair and Guy East. 4 hours 20 min ago via jetli
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Second Magic Mike Trailer Has More Abs And More Of The Actual Plot

cinemablend.com – Though Channing Tatum has been the centerpiece of the Magic Mike marketing so far, thanks to his dual hits of The Vow and 21 Jump Street and his all-around awesomeness, his story isn't actually the center of Magic Mike, at least as far as we know 4 hours 33 min ago via jackiechan
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Who is This Ripped Madman Threatening Alex Cross?

I Alex Cross
screencrush.com – James Patterson’s iconic private investigator Alex Cross is a legend among the author’s rabid fan base. The character transitioned to the big screen once with Morgan Freeman (for two films). He’s about to come back to the big screen with Tyler Perry in the role. Yet we can’t take our eyes off his lunatic adversary in these early promo images for the upcoming thriller ‘Alex Cross.’ Believe it or not, that’s ‘Lost’ lead Matthew Fox in these images (courtesy of The Film Stage). 4 hours 45 min ago via jackiechan
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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Hired to Help Aaron Sorkin on Steve Jobs Biopic

Steve Wozniak
feedproxy.google.com – The screenwriter also said that his script will not be a traditional "cradle-to-grave" biography. 5 hours 33 min ago via theothersenhman
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Cannes 2012: Rebekah Brooks to Get Film Treatment

feedproxy.google.com – The project is one of the first for BiteSize Entertainment, a multi-platform studio unveiled by Mevio CEO Ron Bloom and producer Gene Kirkwood. 5 hours 34 min ago via jackiechan
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Bruno Wu To Finance John Woo-Produced Remake Of ‘The Killer’: Cannes

The Killer
deadline.com – Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Film Studios (SSFS) has agreed to finance John Woo and Terence Chang’s Lion Rock Productions ‘THE KILLER’, the English language retelling of John Woo’s iconic 1989 action film. John H. Lee (A MOMENT TO REMEMBER, 71: INTO THE FIRE) will direct the script by Josh Campbell (ONE SQUARE MILE). 9 hours 48 min ago via jackiechan
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Elizabeth Banks To Star In Alan Ball's ‘What’s The Matter With Margie’: Cannes

Elizabeth Banks
deadline.com – Elizabeth Banks has been cast in the title role of writer-producer Alan Ball’s new dark comedy What’s The Matter With Margie? Myriad Pictures announced today. Banks plays a downtrodden office-worker who after years of abuse finally snaps and resorts to murdering her tormenters. Daniel Minahan (True Blood, Series 7: The Contenders) will direct from Ball’s original screenplay, and Anthony Bregman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Savages) and Ball will produce. 11 hours 1 min ago via jetli
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Zaillian's Film Rites Banner Signs with Fox; Whither 'The Girl Who Played with Fire?'

feedproxy.google.com – There's no reason why Oscar-winning screenwriter Steve Zaillian ("Schindler's List," "Gangs of New York") and his Film Rites banner with Garrett Basch shouldn't sign a... 11 hours 1 min ago via jetli
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Wasikowska, Blanchett In Highsmith's "Carol"

Mia Wasikowska
darkhorizons.com – Aussie actresses Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska are set to head up the cast of a new adaptation of "Talented Mr. Ripley" author Patricia Highsmith’s "Carol" (aka "The Price of Salt") says Deadline. Phyllis Nagy adapted the tale about the complex relationship between two very different women in 1950s New York. 11 hours 1 min ago via brucelee
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Exclusive : Kristen Stewart to appear in Adrian Lyne's next steamy thriller?

Kristen Stewart
moviehole.net – Kristen Stewart is rumoured to have been offered a role in director Adrian Lyne’s (“Fatal Attraction”) next, “Back Roads”. The thriller, starring Chloe Moretz, is based on the New York Times Best Seller about a young man who is forced to care for his three sisters after his mother is convicted of killing his abusive father.

12 hours 18 min ago via jetli
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Past Superman Scripts by J.J Abrams and Andrew Kevin Walker were used for Man of Steel?

moviehole.net – ThinkMcFlyThink, who seemed to have their ear to the pine wall of the WB “Man of Steel” offices, are reporting some interesting story rumours about the upcoming ‘Superman’ reboot. Seems many of the plot points have been lifted from unused scripts for “Flyby” and “Batman Vs. Superman”. Rumblings we hear is another vital Flyby component is being used; the revelation Supes/Clark/Kal is a lost Kryptonian prince prophesied to save the world.

14 hours 31 min ago via brucelee
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