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Dwayne Johnson To Produce & Star In Biopic About Black Country Music Legend Charley Pride

By Kevin Jagernauth
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April 29, 2011 1:43 AM
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Dwayne Johnson's acting career has pretty much vacillated between two opposite poles: his skull cracking ways that you can check out this weekend in "Fast Five" and his softer, more family friendly persona that he's displayed in films like "The Tooth Fairy" and "The Game Plan." But we have to admit, this news threw us for a loop and actually, is a pretty big gear change for the muscle heavy star and we're kind of rooting for him to nail it.

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Oscar Winning 'Inside Job' Director Charles Ferguson To Direct HBO's Julian Assange Film

By Kevin Jagernauth
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April 29, 2011 1:20 AM
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Alex Gibney Already Four Months In On His Assange Project For UniversalWhile he may have fallen off the front page of newspapers around the world -- at least for now -- there hasn't been a character as fascinating as Julian Assange in quite a while. The man behind Wikileaks has singlehandedly caused government leaders to sweat by leaking classified cables and documents that in many cases have shown politicians bending the truth, lying or covering up facts about a number of diplomatic issues. Hardly surprising. But in an era when fewer journalists seem willing to kick down doors and more complacent to simply report what's handed to them by Washington PR teams, the actions were a severe wake up call. The fact that as a personality, Assange is equally as interesting certainly didn't hurt and as the heat around the shadowy figure grew, so did Hollywood executives' interest, with a number of competing projects now in the works. And two of them are now pulling ahead with documentary filmmakers at the helm.

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New Posters For 'Bridesmaids,' 'Green Lantern,' 'X-Men: First Class' & More

By Kevin Jagernauth
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April 28, 2011 12:57 PM
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Also 'Swinging With The Finkels' & 'A Good Old Fashioned Orgy'A batch of posters to get your day started, so let's get right to these then shall we?

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'The Skin I Live In' Gets Official Synopsis & November Release; 'Take Shelter' Set for October 7th

By Kevin Jagernauth
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April 28, 2011 12:10 PM
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Aside from a series of increasingly creepy stills not much is known about Pedro Almodóvar‘s “The Skin I Live In” except that it's based on a pretty intense book by crime novelist Thierry Jonque‘s 2005 book, “Tarantula.” The film has a competition slot at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival and with buzz continuing to build, Sony Pictures Classics set the film a rather plum and perhaps Oscar baiting release in November (an exact date hasn't been specified).

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'Jack Ryan' Reboot Film, 'Moscow,' Getting David Koepp Rewrite (How Many Writers Has This Had Now?)

By Edward Davis
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April 28, 2011 11:41 AM
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Jesus, how many screenwriters does it take to screw in a lightbulb, errr, get a screenplay to a proper place that studio and stars are happy with? In the case of the Jack Ryan reboot -- you remember that franchise, "The Hunt For Red October," "Patriot Games," "Clear and Present Danger," "The Sum Of All Fears," that saw Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and less successfully, Ben Affleck play CIA agent Jack Ryan as written by Tom Clancy -- it evidently takes a lot of writers.

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Joss Whedon's 'Cabin In The Woods' Pulled Out Of MGM Mire By Lionsgate

By Kevin Jagernauth
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April 28, 2011 11:33 AM
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While "Red Dawn" goes through some drastic changes to the point of who exactly the villains are in the film, another film stuck on the MGM bankruptcy shelf is "Cabin In The Woods," the horror flick co-written by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard -- whose geek cred between them boasts "Lost," "Alias," "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" and "Cloverfield" -- and directed by Goddard, is now being saved.

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Jeff Bridges To Basically Reprise Rooster Cogburn For 'R.I.P.D.'?

By Kevin Jagernauth
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April 28, 2011 11:01 AM
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With Zach Galifianakis unable to commit to the uncertain schedule of Ryan Reynolds for "R.I.P.D.," a replacement seems to have been found and it's a pretty big switch up.

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Watch: Japanese Trailer For 'Thor' Has Some New Footage

By Kevin Jagernauth
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April 28, 2011 10:49 AM
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So, with the "Transformers: The Dark Of The Moon" trailer finally here, this latest Japanese "Thor" spot looks positively subtle by comparison. And in a bit of a way, "Thor" seems like old news. It's already open in Australia, and over the weekend it will hit more foreign territories. By the time it gets here the buzz will seem a bit dated.

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Ben Kingsley Reportedly Joins Sacha Baron Cohen's 'The Dictator'

By Kevin Jagernauth
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April 28, 2011 10:31 AM
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It looks like funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen and knighted, respected actor Ben Kingsley got along smashingly on the set of Martin Scorsese's "Hugo Cabret" as the duo are set to follow that up with another film together.

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LOUD NOISES! 'Transformers: The Dark Of The Moon' Trailer Arrives In All Its Clanging Glory

By Kevin Jagernauth
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April 28, 2011 9:57 AM
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Oof. We know there is a huge subset of the geek set that are going to go bonkers for this trailer, but it's probably worth noting: remember how great that "Battle: Los Angeles" trailer looked and how much of a turd burger that turned out to be? Yeah, just keep that in mind.

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