**Kirsten Dunst, Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan and Casey Wilson to Star in Will Ferrell-Produced Comedy **Anna Faris Circling THE DICTATOR; Greta Gerwig and Orlando Bloom Join LOLA VERSUS **Paul W.S. Anderson to Direct Volcanic Disaster Flick POMPEII

Kirsten Dunst, Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan and Casey Wilson to Star in Will Ferrell-Produced Comedy

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: May 2nd, 2011

A quartet of actors are set to star in a new indie comedy being produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. Kirsten Dunst, Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan and Casey Wilson are all attached to star in a comedy written and directed by Leslye Headland (TV’s Terriers) that has the working title of Bachelorette (which is most likely going to change). The story centers on three best friends who are asked to be the bridesmaids of a woman they called “Pigface” in high school. THR reports that Dunst and Caplan will play two of the best friends, with Wilson taking on the role of the bride-to-be. The character breakdown describes Dunst’s character as “your best friend and your worst enemy,” whereas Caplan’s role is characterized as “having a Playboy bunny body with a Larry David brain.”

This marks a reunion of sorts for Caplan and Scott, who both starred in Starz’s fantastic comedy Party Down. Scott is set to play Caplan’s high school crush, who “shows up to the wedding with a beautiful and much younger date.” The project was previously an off-Broadway play that caught the attention of McKay, who decided to set it up as a film at his and Ferrell’s Gary Sanchez production company. The budget is set at around $3 million with filming hoping to get underway this summer in New York. Scott is currently killing each week on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, and Casey Wilson is starring on ABC’s Happy Endings.

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Anna Faris Circling THE DICTATOR; Greta Gerwig and Orlando Bloom Join LOLA VERSUS

by Jason Barr   Posted: May 2nd, 2011

We have a few casting tidbits to bring you tonight. First up, Deadline reports that Anna Faris has been offered the female lead in director Larry Charles’ (Borat) comedy The Dictator. Already starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley, the film tells the story of a dictator who risks his life to keep democracy out of his finely oppressed country. Cohen will take on dual roles in the film as both the dictator and a goat herder whereas Faris’ character would be the owner of an organic food store who begins to turn around Cohen’s dictatorial outlook. You may remember that Faris faced competition in the form of Kristen Wiig and Gillian Jacobs for the role. The Dictator is scheduled to be released by Paramount on May 11th, 2012.

Next up, Variety confirms that both Greta Gerwig (Arthur) and Orlando Bloom are settling in for roles in the romantic comedy Lola Versus. Per the report, Gerwig has already accepted the starring role of a girl who is dumped only weeks before her wedding by her college sweetheart. Bloom is still in final negotiations to join the film for an unspecified role (perhaps Gerwig’s aforementioned college sweetheart?). Daryl Wein (Breaking Upwards) is set to direct the script he co-wrote with Zoe Lister-Jones. Production on the film is scheduled to begin in New York next month.

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Paul W.S. Anderson to Direct Volcanic Disaster Flick POMPEII

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: May 2nd, 2011

Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil: Afterlife) has signed on to direct Pompeii, an disaster film set in ancient Rome as Mt. Vesuvius erupts and destroys the titular city.  The vaguely Romanic Constantin Filmwill finance a reportedly large budget as scripted by Lee Batchler and Janet Scott Batchler (Batman Forever). Summit will distribute the film in America with plans to auction off Pompeii to foreign buyers at the Cannes Film Festival later this month.  Pompeii reunites Summit, Constantin, and Anderson after The Three Musketeers.  Anderson is in post-production on Musketeers preparing for release on October 14.  Sources suggest Pompeii will shoot in spring 2012.

Hit the jump more details on the plot.

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***New Images from Paul W.S. Anderson’s THE THREE MUSKETEERS ***New Poster for DRIVE ANGRY 3D Starring Nicolas Cage

New Images from Paul W.S. Anderson’s THE THREE MUSKETEERS

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: January 20th, 2011

New images from the remake of The Three Musketeers have hit the web.  Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (AVP: Alien vs. Predator), this umpteenth version of Alexandre Dumas’ classic stars Orlando Bloom, Christoph Waltz, Mila Jovovich, Matthew Macfayden (Frost/Nixon), Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson), Luke Evans (Tamara Drewe), and Ray Stevenson (Punisher: War Zone).  The film will be released in 3D on October 14^th.

Hit the jump the check out the images. [Updated: We've updated the article with high-resolution images sent to us from the studio]

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New Poster for DRIVE ANGRY 3D Starring Nicolas Cage

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: January 20th, 2011

When he’s not busy punching women/screaming about bees, Nicolas Cage stars in movies. With each new Nicolas Cage movie, comes a new hairstyle. I’m sorry, did I say hairstyle? I meant awesome hairstyle.  Next up for Cage is Patrick Lussier’s (My Bloody Valentine 3D) revenge thriller Drive Angry 3D, featuring a brand-new awesome hairstyle. The film stars Cage, Amber Heard (Zombieland), David Morse (Disturbia) and William Fichtner (Black Hawk Down).

We previously brought you the first images from the film, which look decidedly bad ass. Cage stars as Milton, the tough as nails criminal who breaks out of Hell on a quest for redemption. Fichtner plays a character simply named “The Accountant”, a mysterious demonic agent sent to retrieve Milton and return him to the fiery depths from which he came.  Hit the jump to check out the full poster. Drive Angry 3D will be released on February 25^th.

(Via IMP)

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***First Official Image from Paul W.S. Anderson’s THE THREE MUSKETEERS ***First Images of Zac Efron in THE LUCKY ONE ***Photos from the Set of X-MEN: FIRST CLASS

First Official Image from Paul W.S. Anderson’s THE THREE MUSKETEERS

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: December 24th, 2010

Summit has released the first image from Paul W.S. Anderson’s 3D adaptation of The Three Musketeers.  In the image we see (from left to right) Matthew Macfadyen (Frost/Nixon) as Athos, Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson) as D’Artagnan, Ray Stevenson (Punisher: War Zone) as Porthos, and Luke Evans (Tamara Drewe) as Aramis.  The film also stars Christoph Waltz, Milla Jovovich, Mads Mikkelsen, and Orlando Bloom.

Hit the jump to check out the image.  The Three Musketeers opens in 3D on October 14, 2011.

Here’s the official synopsis for The Three Musketeers:

The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas’  story.  They must stop the evil Richlieu (Christoph Waltz) and face off with Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) and the treacherous Milady (Milla Jovovich).  The action adventure is given a state of the art update in 3-D.

Click on the image to see it in high-resolution.

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First Images of Zac Efron in THE LUCKY ONE

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: December 23rd, 2010

The first images have surfaced of Zac Efron on the set of The Lucky One, the latest film adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks book. Directed by Scott Hicks (No Reservations), the film tells the story of a Marine who carries a photograph of an anonymous woman in his pocket during his three tours in Iraq as a good luck charm.  Upon returning home, the soldier seeks out his picturesque dream girl.

Efron stars opposite Taylor Schilling (Mercy), with Blythe Danner, Riley Thomas Stewart (90210), and Adam Lefevre (Fair Game) rounding out the supporting cast.  The flick was shot in New Orleans, where the story takes place. Hit the jump for more, and to check out the images.

Though Charlie St. Cloud was a bit of a misfire for Efron, it did mark a sort of step towards more dramatic fare. The guy’s got talent, and I had hoped that after Me and Orson Welles the actor was favoring smaller independent films, but he doesn’t seem to be taking that track at the moment. The involvement of Hicks is intriguing, though there’s no telling whether this Sparks adaptation will be more The Notebook (refreshingly well-done) or more The Last Song (sappy cheese-fest).

As you can tell, Efron spent a tiny bit of time at the gym to prepare for the role. In addition, the actor buzzed his head, and once shooting wrapped offered to make a donation to Kingsley House for each crew member that shaved their head as well. Apparently some 30 crew members took the generous actor up on his offer.

Here’s the images from The Lucky One. The film currently has no stated release date.

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Photos from the Set of X-MEN: FIRST CLASS

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: December 23rd, 2010

Crane technician Joe Cuzan has taken a few photos on the set of X-Men: First Class which give some insight into the size of the production.  The images give you a look at the Blackbird (the aircraft of the X-Men seen in previous set photos) in ruins, plus a storyboard that a source more knowledgeable than myself suggested looks like “Riptide involved in some sort of fight scene.”

X-Men: First Class stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, and January Jones.  The film opens on June 3, 2011.  Hit the jump to check out the images.

Via Comic Book Movie:

Here’s some more information on the Blackbird courtesy of Wikipedia:

When the X-Men were first introduced, they were portrayed as travelling in Professor Xavier’s private jet and helicopter, advanced but fairly conventional aircraft with remote autopilots (i.e., the Professor flew them from home). When the series resumed in 1975, the X-Men were shown using a new strato-Jet, that was visually based on a modified, scaled-up version of the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” spy plane (hence the name), but was modified to carry several passengers, as well as for Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL). Some writers have referred to this design as the “SR-73″ or the “SR-77″, and is known to be canon in most plotlines of the Marvel Universe, including X-Men: Evolution, where it is referenced by Scott as the SR-77 in the first episode. The original X-Men Blackbird has been destroyed and rebuilt numerous times in the course of the team’s many adventures. The later versions incorporated technology created by the mutant inventor Forge, as well as alien (Shi’ar) technology, including weapon systems, holographic active camouflage, and engines capable of hypersonic speeds. One version of the Blackbird possessed an experimental cockpit windshield that was infused with traces of the same ruby quartz material used in Cyclops’ visor, allowing him to project and amplify his optic blasts through the windshield.

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