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First Look: Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch & Chiwetel Ejiofor In '12 Years A Slave'
- By Edward Davis
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- June 18, 2013 8:43 PM
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A movie by U.K. helmer Steve McQueen is always cause for celebration, but this one sounds like it's going to be his most brutal. And it's not like "Hunger" or "Shame" were easy walks in the park either. Based in a true story, McQueen's latest, "12 Years A Slave," is just what it sounds like, a harsh slave drama set in the South. In fact, someone on Twitter the other day says a friend saw it and described it as "Django Unchained" without the comedy. Sounds like a bundle of laughs, right? Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, the actor plays Solomon Northup, a free man tricked, captured and sold into slavery in the film based off of Northup's autobiography. The rest of the cast is rather stellar too and features Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson and Alfre Woodard.
Watch: Planes & Trains In New Clips From 'World War Z' & 'The Lone Ranger'
- By Kevin Jagernauth
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- June 18, 2013 2:00 PM
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Yes, "Man Of Steel" is now in theaters and still inspiring fierce debate (check out our The Best & Worst Of 'Man of Steel' feature), but there are still two whole months left in the summer to go, and more blockbusters hoping wring some super-dollars out of your wallet.
Watch: Brad Pitt Escapes The Undead In New Clip For 'World War Z'
- By Kevin Jagernauth
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- June 16, 2013 11:06 PM
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Because 11 PM on a Sunday night is the perfect time to drop a new "World War Z" clip because everyone is awake and on the net, Paramount has gone ahead and unleashed a brand new promo for the upcoming undead blockbuster with less than a week to go before it hits theaters. Are you convinced?
Watch: Brad Pitt Has Some Bad News About The Zombie Apocalypse In Clip From 'World War Z'
- By Kevin Jagernauth
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- June 13, 2013 2:19 PM
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Guys, there's good news and bad news. The bad news is the world has been consumed by a zombie apocalypse that threatens every living person on the planet. The good news? Brad Pitt is here to save the day. Oh but wait, he has more bad news....
Over 20 New Photos & 7 TV Spots For 'World War Z'
- By Kevin Jagernauth
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- June 10, 2013 5:25 PM
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So will Brad Pitt's troubled, big summer movie manage to bounce back from the all the rumors and speculation and make the $400 million it needs to break even? Early reviews can't break away from that narrative and movie, for better or worse, is being judged both on what it is and what it could have been. But Paramount, and particularly Pitt -- who hit four cities in one day to pop in and wave to crowds at advance screenings -- are pushing this one with all the muscle they've got, which leads us to...
Review: 'World War Z' Starring Brad Pitt
- By Oliver Lyttelton
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- June 7, 2013 8:56 AM
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"World War Z" was always going to be a difficult nut to crack. The book of the same name, by son-of-Mel Max Brooks, was a bestseller a few years back, and a somewhat atypical one; a brainy, grim faux oral history of a zombie apocalypse that wiped out most of the world's population. It made enough of a dent in pop culture to warrant a movie adaptation, but it wasn't going to be an easy translation with no main character and a documentary-like format. So it's no surprise that the film was several years in development, and that even once filming got underway, it had one of the more publicly troubled shoots in memory, with reports flying of budget overages, script triage and extensive pick ups.
6 A-List Stars With Greenlight Power: Do They Wield It For Good Or Evil?
- By The Playlist Staff
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- June 3, 2013 2:45 PM
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The process by which movie A gets made while movies B-Z end up as so much shredded paper and shattered dreams is an arcane and mysterious one. While it seems as though most scripts, if they’re not just ignored, are simply fed into the enormous, clogged-up machine of the Hollywood system to be pawed over, derided or defended by the assistants to various junior executives at endless meetings about meetings, the accepted wisdom still runs that if you can get your script in front of one of maybe twenty or thirty specific pairs of eyes, the odds tip dramatically in your favor. These godlike beings with ”greenlight power,” however, are fewer now than in previous eras, in part because of a shift in the type of movies that make the big moneys these days (it’s not like “The Hangover Part III” or “Fast And Furious 6” were little sure-to-be-overlooked gems in need of a Selznick-type saviour to rescue them from the turnaround pile.) This casts the opening weekend disappointment of “After Earth” in an interesting light in a couple of ways.
First 'World War Z' Reviews Land Plus New Pics & TV Spot
- By Kevin Jagernauth
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- June 3, 2013 9:19 AM
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In just a couple of weeks, Paramount will finally be unleashing "World War Z" into theaters, and it will be up to audiences to decide if the movie was a multi-million dollar folly that even extensive reshoots or rewrites couldn't save, or a thrilling summer movie that delivers the goods, no matter its troubled history. Over the weekend, London held the premiere for the undead movie and the first reviews for the film have dropped online, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the verdict is mixed.
Watch: New 'World War Z' Clip Advises You To Stay In Your Car Plus New Pics
- By Kevin Jagernauth
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- May 30, 2013 6:27 PM
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The teaser are now coming hard for "World War Z," but thus far, it merely seems to be extended moments we've seen in the trailer. Earlier today we got a look at Brad Pitt debating leaving his family to go fight zombies, and we get the same moment we've been watching year now, with The Riddle That Will Never Be Solved...
Casting: Neil LaBute Enlists Ethan Hawke, Vera Farmiga For New Thriller; Logan Lerman Joins Brad Pitt For ‘Fury’
- By Edward Davis
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- May 6, 2013 7:06 PM
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Logan Lerman might be known for the forgettable “Percy Jackson” films (a sequel arrives this summer), but he almost scored the coveted lead in “The Amazing Spider-Man” a few years ago and he impressed with his acting chops in “The Perks Of Being A Wallflower.” Casting directors and filmmakers have noticed. He’s getting called up into the big leagues and will join Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf in the WWII tank thriller “Fury” that “End of Watch” filmmaker David Ayer is writing and directing for Sony Pictures. The movie is already set for a Fall 2014 release and it’s an interesting one because it will be Ayer’s first non police-centered movie. Let’s hope unlike the almost great “End Of Watch,” the visual material doesn’t stand in the way of a good story and strong dynamic.
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Lena's rhetoric is rather flawed, I think one can make similar comparisons between Northup and
@Lena. Are you trying to brush off slavery as a pointless subject just because you think it
Couldn't agree more about the dialogue...it was cringe-worthy. It completely disengaged me
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This article has clearly been written by a woman. Much of it simply doesn't hold water.
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Goyer is the weak link within the Nolan-Snyder-Goyer team. The tone and goal for Man of Steel was