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Lasse Hallström To Direct Nicholas Sparks' 'Safe Haven'

By Kevin Jagernauth
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June 1, 2011 12:33 PM
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No author since perhaps Danielle Steel has served as the foundation for such a run of increasingly wishy washy movies, but at least those were mostly made for TV. "Message In A Bottle," "A Walk To Remember," "The Notebook," "Nights In Rodanthe," "Dear John" and "The Last Song" have all be made from the works of Nicholas Sparks, the Mad Lib author who has a found a good formula that more or less remains unchanged with each book. So who better to deliver his latest batch of pablum than Lasse Hallström who has already tackled the author's material before with "Dear John."

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Jennifer Hudson Will Play A Nun In 'The Three Stooges'

By Kevin Jagernauth
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June 1, 2011 10:06 AM
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Singer, Grammy and Oscar, Weight Watchers spokesperson and actress, Jennifer Hudson's career has certainly moved in many different directions in front of the camera and behind the microphone, and she's added another interesting project to her CV.

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Brian Helgeland's Jackie Robinson Biopic Finds A Home At Legendary Pictures

By Kevin Jagernauth
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June 1, 2011 9:46 AM
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Baseball films are generally regarded as one of the hardest sells in Hollywood. They traditionally don't do well at the box office but even worse for studios, they don't play well internationally at all. However, Legendary Pictures is banking on one of the most well known stories in sports history in general to be a catalyst for box office success.

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Get Your Oscars Ready: 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' Will Hit Theaters On November 18th

By Kevin Jagernauth
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June 1, 2011 8:52 AM
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All star cast? Check. Promising director? Check. Great story? Check. Frankly, it would take one helluva cock up to mess this one up, but "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" is one of our most anticipated films of the fall and with good reason.

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Johnny Knoxville & More Round Out Cast Of 'Fun Size'

By Kevin Jagernauth
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June 1, 2011 8:29 AM
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Are you the parent of some tweenagers who desperately want to see "The Hangover Part II" but aren't yet old enough to see the raunch of the film? Not to worry, something more age appropriate is around the corner.

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Susan Sarandon Sexes Up 'I Hate You, Dad'

By Kevin Jagernauth
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June 1, 2011 7:48 AM
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On the one hand, Adam Sandler comedies have become nothing more than big paycheck gigs for the actor to make funny voices and fart noises while someone films him doing stuff for a month and then cobbles it together later into something resembling a "movie." On the other hand, the cast of his next effort, "I Hate You, Dad," is so willfully bonkers we know we're going to end up watching it anyway.

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Amy Adams Joins Paul Thomas Anderson's 'The Master'

By Kevin Jagernauth
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June 1, 2011 7:16 AM
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The wheels are now turning very fast on Paul Thomas Anderson's untitled religious flick, aka "The Master." Yesterday saw Jesse Plemons, David Warshofsky and Laura Dern and earlier today we confirmed Swedish actress Lena Endre joined the cast. Now another long-linked name has signed on the dotted line.

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Review: 'Super 8' Is A Summer Blockbuster Just Like You Always Remembered

By Leah Zak
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June 1, 2011 7:01 AM
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The first teaser for “Super 8” debuted in front of “Iron Man 2” way back in early May of 2010, featuring a single sequence of a violent train collision and a mystery car containing something ominous, large, strong and very scary. The helmer behind such box office hits as the “Star Trek” reboot as well as some of the more intriguing fare to show up on television in the last few years, throw the name J.J. Abrams onto a project and speculation – and excitement – begins to run rampant. Was it a monster movie? A sequel to “Cloverfield”? Some even broke down the ending shot of this first teaser, frame by frame, in hopes of some clue as to what was to come. Now, just over a year later, we’re closing in on the film’s debut, and while newer trailers indicate that early speculation of a moody, more fierce film might have been a little off base, Abrams still delivers an edge-of-your-seat thriller with heart and humor that we predict will have audiences buzzing.

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Halle Berry Is Looking For Some 'Higher Learning' (On TV)

By Kevin Jagernauth
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June 1, 2011 6:43 AM
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In case you haven't heard, television is where it's at these days in terms of diverse, ambitious and complex material and we don't need to run down the myriad of stars and shows that have gravitated to the small screen format (in fact, we did a feature about it which you can read right here if you want to know where to start). So no big surprise that another big star is looking to go serial.

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