by Matt Goldberg Posted: April 20th, 2011
Justin Long, Jess Weixler (Teeth), Tyler Labine (Reaper), and Addison Timlin (Californication) will star in the indie Lumpy. Deadline reports that the story “begins with a wedding in Arizona, where the groom (Long) and bride (Weixler) find their nuptials heightened by their life of the party best man, Lumpy (Labine). That’s until he dies at the end of the evening.” Which I suppose would then make him the death of the party. Either way, the newlyweds cancel their honeymoon and head to Minneapolis to arrange a funeral, but slowly they discover that perhaps they didn’t know Lumpy as well as they thought.
Michael Landes, Evan Jones, and Shelley Long will co-star in the film, which is the feature directing debut of Ted Koland who also wrote the script. Filming is currently underway in Minnesota.
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by Matt Goldberg Posted: April 20th, 2011
Catherine Zeta-Jones scored an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her work in 2002’s Chicago and now it looks like she’ll be making a return to the musical genre. THR reports that Zeta-Jones has joined Adam Shankman’s adaptation of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages. Zeta-Jones will play the film’s villain, a character who isn’t in the Broadway version, but is described by Shankman as “if Tipper Gore and Anita Bryant had a love child. She is this hardcore, moral majority, arch-conservative who wants to shut down rock’n roll in the great city of Los Angeles.” Shankman says the character was devised as a way to streamline various storylines.
Zeta-Jones, who has been absent from screens the past several years, is a welcome addition to the cast since she can hit the trifecta of acting, singing, and dancing. She also recently joined Lay the Favorite starring Bruce Willis and Rebecca Hall, as well as the comedy Playing the Field starring Gerard Butler. Rock of Ages’s cast includes an interesting mix of famous faces (Tom Cruise, Mary J. Blige, Alec Baldwin, Paul Giamatti, Russell Brand) as well as up-and-comers Diego Gonzalez Boneta and Julianne Hough. Hit the jump for a synopsis of Rock of Ages, which is set to open on June 1, 2012.
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Trailer for X-MEN: FIRST CLASS
by Matt Goldberg Posted: April 20th, 2011
A UK trailer for X-Men: First Class has gone online. There’s not much in the way of new footage, but it does provide a first look at Banshee (Caleb Landry Jones) in flight and Havok (Lucas Till) using his sonic blasts.
Hit the jump to check out the trailer. The film stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, January Jones, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon. X-Men: First Class opens in the UK on June 1st and in the U.S. on June 3rd.
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http://collider.com/x-men-first-class-uk-trailer/86843/Poster for THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE Starring Dominic Cooper UPDATED
by Matt Goldberg Posted: April 20th, 2011
Lionsgate has released an eye-catching poster for Lee Tamahori’s upcoming action-drama The Devil’s Double. The film stars Dominic Cooper in the dual roles of Saddam Hussein’s sadistic son Uday and Uday’s body-double Latif Yahia. The film played at Sundance and speaking to people who saw it, the general consensus seemed to be that it’s fun and excessive in a Scarface kind of way. Steve caught the film and thought it was great, saying “if you’re a fan of gangster films, excessive violence, and a crazy story that’s never been told on screen, I definitely recommend The Devil’s Double.” I’m looking forward to seeing it when it hits theaters this summer.
Hit the jump to check out the poster, which I like but think it could use more gold. The Devil’s Double opens July 29th. Click here for Steve’s interview with Cooper about the film.
[Update: We've updated the article with the high-resolution version of the poster. Hit the jump to check it out.]
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