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'Recount' Director & Writer Jay Roach & Danny Strong Reteaming For Political Drama 'Game Change'

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • February 14, 2011 2:14 AM
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Perhaps the least well-known script ever to top the Black List and still get made, "Recount," from former "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" actor Danny Strong (who most recently penned "The Butler," which is set to team Lee Daniels and Denzel Washington), went behind the scenes of the drama of the 2000 election, and the controversial series of recounts in Florida that (eventually) saw George W. Bush defeat Al Gore for the Presidency.
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Updated: Marion Cotillard Confirmed To Be In Discussions For 'The Dark Knight Rises'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • February 14, 2011 1:56 AM
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Nothing Confirmed Just YetUpdate: THR confirms that Marion Cotillard is in discussions for "The Dark Knight Rises" but that "nothing has been confirmed yet." Christopher Nolan is apparently on the hunt for a love interest for Bruce Wayne with Kate Winslet and the previously linked Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts all reading/meeting with the director in recent weeks. Should Cotillard sign on she would start shooting in June and wrap in November. So this writer's guess that it might be a smaller role is way off -- has Bruce Wayne found his love?
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More: Films, Actresses, Christopher Nolan, Super Hero Films, Marion Cotillard, The Dark Knight Rises

Spike Jonze/Arcade Fire Short 'Scenes From The Suburbs' Set For May Release

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • February 14, 2011 1:52 AM
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With their return-to-form record "The Suburbs" winning a surprise victory for Album of the Year at the Grammys last night, Arcade Fire are pretty much at the top of the world right now, and as longtime fans of the band, we're delighted. But the band's ambitions clearly don't stop here: they're going for part two of the EGOT, with a short film collaboration with Spike Jonze that was announced last year, making our filthy hipster brains explode.
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More: Musicians, Short Films, Spike Jonze, Arcade Fire, Scenes From The Suburbs

'The King's Speech' Takes 7 BAFTA Awards Including Best Picture; David Fincher Wins Best Director

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • February 14, 2011 12:25 AM
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Tom Hardy Honored With Orange Wednesdays Rising Star AwardThe awards season train for "The King's Speech" keeps on going this weekend with the film picking up 7 BAFTA Awards on Sunday including Best Film, Best Original Screenplay and a trio of trophies for the film's lead actors, Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter. However, it wasn't an entire clean sweep of the major categories as "The Social Network" fans will be pleased to know that David Fincher took home Best Director; the film also won Adapted Screenplay and Editing honors.
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Weekend Box Office: Romance Dies A Little, Adam Sandler RomCom At #1

  • By Gabe Toro
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  • February 13, 2011 6:38 AM
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Bark all you want about how the early months have become a viable period for movie going in terms of both box office and quality, this past January was the least-attended opening month in 29 years. This February weekend seemed actively spiteful towards anybody who sought challenging fare, with the main attractions being yet another low-energy Adam Sandler programmer and a concert film featuring an adorable moppet running into the double digits in his fifteen minutes of fame.
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More: Films, Just Go With It

Julien Temple To Direct Marvin Gaye Film 'Sexual Healing' Based On Comeback LP 'Midnight Love'

  • By The Playlist
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  • February 13, 2011 6:02 AM
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.This news may disappoint several people including Cameron Crowe. A long awaited Marvin Gaye biopic starring "Law & Order" star Jesse L. Martin called, "Sexual Healing," was set to begin shooting in April of 2008. Focusing on the last years of the soul singer's life, "Sopranos" actor (and producer on that version of the project) James Gandolfini was set to play Belgian promoter Freddy Cousaert who helped Gaye back on his feet to record his comeback album, Midnight Love which spawned the monster hit, "Sexual Healing." Relatively untested director Lauren Goodman was set to direct, but April 2008 came and went and basically none of us heard a peep about this project since.
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Magnolia Gets Apocalyptic, Picks Up Lars Von Trier's 'Melancholia'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • February 13, 2011 4:10 AM
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After Von Trier's outrageous and divisive "Antichrist," when the director announced he would make an ambitious psychological disaster film about the end of the world, it seemed like a logical (and awesome) next step. And one we are greatly looking forward to seeing. Well, Magnolia Pictures have quickly snapped up the North American rights to "Melancholia" and if you've been following the progress of the film, you know it's going to be a doozy.
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More: Films, Foreign Directors, Melancholia, Lars von Trier

Watch: Tricia Helfer, Corbin Bernsen, Sean Patrick Flanery & More In New 'Black Keys' Video

  • By Cory Everett
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  • February 13, 2011 3:03 AM
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Todd Bridges Receives KnighthoodHopefully everyone has heard The Black Keys latest album Brothers by now. Released last May, the sixth album from this rock duo was something of a breakthrough for them, appearing on countless year end lists as well as in countless commercials. (Their participation in “The Sell-Out-Off” on The Colbert Report with Vampire Weekend was a pretty hilarious way to acknowledge their omnipresence last year.) But despite their straightforward music the Keys have proven themselves to be quite playful when it comes to making music videos. Their latest, for “Howlin’ For You” is no exception.
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Watch: Willem Dafoe Stars In ‘Being John Malkovich’-Style Ad For Jim Beam

  • By Cory Everett
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  • February 13, 2011 2:32 AM
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Wow, where was this during the Super Bowl? In this new 90 second spot for Jim Beam, character actor Willem Dafoe stars as a dozen or so different versions of himself in this “Being John Malkovich”-style clip. The campaign, about making “bold choices,” illustrates the different types of lives one might lead depending on those decisions and Dafoe stars as each of these versions. Appearing as a circus acrobat, fashion designer, skinhead, and sumo wrestler, it has to be seen to be believed. It sounds silly (and it is), but it’s also surprisingly affecting. We’re not sure what this has to do with liquor but it’s really an impressive spot.
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Rachel Weisz Joins Nicole Kidman In 'The Danish Girl'

  • By The Playlist
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  • February 13, 2011 2:12 AM
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Actress Also Loosely Attached To The Child Kidnapping Drama 'Snatch Back'The gestating transgendered drama "The Danish Girl," with Nicole Kidman has had several false starts since it was announced in September 2009. Originally, Tomas Alfredson, the filmmaker behind the lauded Swedish vampire drama, "Let The Right One In," was going to make the picture his English-language directorial debut with Kidman and Charlize Theron in the lead roles. But for one reason or another, talent kept dropping out of the picture. First Theron bowed out, only to be replaced with Gwyneth Paltrow. Then Alfredson left to direct "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," evidently exiting the project after being refused more time to develop the script written by Lucinda Coxon. Another Swede, Lasse Hallström took over the directing reins last year and then, delaying things even further, Paltrow exited the project in April of 2010.
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