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Casting Bits: Lily Cole And Sam Spruell In ‘Snow White And The Huntsman;’ Ben Barnes In ‘Seventh Son’ It’s a rather slow Friday, leaving us plenty of time — too much time, probably — to think about thepassingof Peter Falk and Pixar’sfall from the pedestal of perfect reviews. But there are a few bits of casting info out there, and after the break you’ll find the following: This week has seen abonanza of casting decisionsfor Universal’sSnow White and the Huntsman....

Conan Producers Reportedly Have Three Actors In Mind; Only One Is From Twilight Hey, remember that newConanmovie?Marcus Nispelisdirecting, and it is meant to begin shooting in about two months. Funny, though…we haven’t heard anything about who’s playing Conan. Evidently the right actor isn’t so easy to find, which is why production is currently slated for March after being bumped twice, first from August ‘09 to February of this year, then from February to March....

Cowboy Bebop Books And Comics Will Explore The Netflix Show’s Universe (And How It Was Made) Get ready for the “Cowboy Bebop” blitz to begin in late 2021. After giving us afirst lookat its live-action series starring John Cho, Mustafa Shakir, and Daniella Pineda, Netflix and Titan Publishing have announced details of some companion books and comics that will be coming your way, starting in November and December. The comics, especially, are all too appropriate since “Cowboy Bebop” began life as a manga tie-in circa 1997 before it debuted as an anime series on Japanese television in 1998....

Craig Robinson To Play The Antichrist In Comedy ‘Rapturepalooza,’ Part Of Lionsgate’s New ‘Microbudget’ Slate When Paramount picked upParanormal Activity, which turned out to be a smash hit, the company helped push forward the idea of major studios making films on shoestring budgets. Paramount has been developing a program to make microbudget movies, and now Lionsgate has announced a ‘microbudget’ initiative that will ideally generate up to ten films per year....

Cyrano De Bergerac Review: James McAvoy Is A Charismatic Cyrano In Brooklyn James McAvoy’s Cyrano is introduced as a sullen statue facing the sole mirror upstage, back turned from the audience and the ensemble before he blazes as a one-man stampede into someone else’s soliloquy. By estranging Cyrano outside the chorus and fixating on his reflection, the blocking cements his preoccupations with his imagined ugliness and his ego. He abhors imperfections, but he abhors his own perceived imperfections the most....

David Fincher Attached To Pawn Sacrifice, Circling The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Ah, spring, the season when we hear about a whole bunch of possible newDavid Fincherprojects that he’ll very possibly never end up actually making. We love it when Fincher does make a movie, but between each one there’s always that long span of time where he’ll be attached to one feature after another. Place your bets now on which of the following we’ll see in a cinema within the next couple years: the revamped, 3D version ofHeavy Metal(discussed a couple days ago), the Bobby Fischer moviePawn Sacrifice, or a US adaptation ofThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo....

Disney Considering ‘Muppets’ Stage Show The Mouse House has had great success turning their big-screen hits into Broadway smashes in the past, with shows likeBeauty and the Beast,The Lion King,Tarzan,Mary Poppins, andThe Little Mermaid. Now Kermit and Miss Piggy could be headed to the Great White Way as well. Disney Theatrical Productions is quietly exploring the possibility of a stage production centered around theMuppets, and has gone as far as staging a 15-minute presentation at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City....

Elisabeth Moss To Star In Neo-Noir Series ‘Black Match’ For Hulu Hulu is now officially in theElisabeth Mossbusiness. The powerhouse actress has signed a joint first-look deal with Fox 21 Television Studios and Hulu, the latter of which continues to be the home of Moss’s highly-acclaimed current seriesThe Handmaid’s Tale. Moss has also launched her own production company called Love & Squalor Pictures, and as part of this new deal, she’s developing a new neo-noir series for Hulu calledBlack Matchwhich she will produce and star in....

First Look At ‘The Leftovers’ Final Season: The Garvey Family Goes To Australia The co-creators ofThe Leftovers,Damon LindelofandTom Perrotta,recently announcedthe third and final season of their drama premieres next April. Season two brought the Garvey family to Texas, but some of them are picking up and moving again this upcoming season. Most of season three takes place in Australia, where Kevin Gary Jr. (Justin Theroux) goes to see his father (Scott Glenn) and to experience more of the unexplainable, probably....

Hawkeye Showrunner Jonathan Igla Was Inspired By Mad Men And … Hallmark Movies? The first two episodes of"Hawkeye"are now streaming on Disney+, which means that we can probably expect no shortage of “Hawkeye”-related news in the coming weeks as the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to dominate the movie and TV water cooler. MCU newcomer Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), is front and center for the show’s first episode, so much so that it almost plays like The Kate Bishop Show (not a bad thing, for fans of Steinfeld’s Apple TV+ series, “Dickinson,” which is also streamingnew episodesnow....

Jordan Peele’s ‘Candyman’ Reboot Will Be Directed By Nia DaCosta TheJordan Peele-producedCandymanreboot has found its director.Nia DaCosta, who helmed the 2018 indie filmLittle Woods, will bringCandymanback to life with a new film that will both reboot the character and serve as a spiritual sequel. The originalCandyman, released in 1992, was inspired by a short story fromClive Barker. Bernard Rose directed that take, starringTony Toddas the hook-handed Candyman, and Virginia Madsen as a grad student studying the Candyman legend....

Kirk Douglas, Star Of ‘Spartacus’ And A Hollywood Icon, Dead At 103 He was Spartacus. And a military officer. And a boxer. And an icon of Hollywood history.Kirk Douglas, who left an indelible mark on Hollywood and cinematic history with his portrayal of chiseled, noble-browed heroes inSpartacus, The Bad and the Beautiful, andChampion, has died. He was 103. Kirk Douglas, a Hollywood legend and one of Classic Hollywood’s last living movie stars, died Wednesday in Los Angeles, his son and fellow actor Michael Douglas announced....

Leonardo DiCaprio Producing And Possibly Starring In ‘Truevine’ For Paramount Leonardo DiCapriois currently in talksto produceaCaptain Planetmovie. Another project the actor and producer is possibly working on is an adaptation ofBeth Macy’sTruevine: Two Brothers, A Kidnapping, And A Mother’s Quest; A True Story Of The Jim Crow South, based on a true story that begins in 1899 in Virginia. DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Paramount are in the middle of securing the rights to Macy’s non-fiction tome....