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Tobey Maguire Too Famous For Ang Lee’s ‘Life Of Pi’; Replaced By Rafe Spall At a time when some studio projects (ahem,New Year’s Eve) seem less about telling a good story than about cramming together as many celebs as possible, it’s surprising to hear of an actor getting cut because he wastoofamous for a film. But that’s what exactly happened toTobey Maguire, if recent reports are to be believed. Last year, Maguire nabbed the role of a writer inAng Lee’s literary adaptationLife of Pi....

Tom Hanks Taps Into His Inner Grumpy Old Guy In ‘A Man Called Ove’ Remake Cantankerous andTom Hanksaren’t two things you think would go together, but it looks like they will soon. America’s Dadis going to become America’s Grumpy Next Door Neighbor inThe Man Called Ove,an English-language remake of a 2015 Swedish comedy film that Hanks will produce and star in. The story is based onFredrik Backman’s best-selling novel of the same name....

We’ve Been Failing Our Most Imaginative Blockbusters (Welcome toThe Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: people say they want original and fresh movies and, well, they seem to be lying.)How many times have you heard people complain about Hollywood not having any new ideas? In my case, it’s “a lot.” You hear it especially in the context of blockbusters, where everything’s the third or fourth or ninth entry in a long-running franchise....

Willem Dafoe Has Heard Your Joker Fancasting, Is Happy To Have That Sociopath Vibe The world doesn’t need any more Jokers, but if it did, it’s nice to know the right actors are ready to step up to the plate. In his first-ever appearance hosting “Saturday Night Live” this past weekend, Willem Dafoe joked about how strangers approach him to tell him he’d make a good Joker. The topic came up during the show’s opening monologue, in which Dafoe spoke at length about his particular style of acting: “People tell me that my acting is over the top, but to me, one man’s over-the-top is another man’s engaged performance....

Without Scarlett Johansson, The Avengers' Plot Would Have Looked Very Different Nobody needs to tell movie lovers that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has become one of the most successful franchises in the history of film. While there have been bigger movies, in terms of raw box office dollars,2012’s assembly of “The Avengers"remains arguably the most important movie in the franchise, if not one of the most pivotal blockbusters of all time....

Y: The Last Man Teaser: Fans Are Another Day Closer To A New World Ahead of its September 13 premiere date, FX has released a new teaser for the upcoming series “Y: The Last Man.” The show has been a long time coming and every piece of new footage is a welcome gift to the many fans who havewaited years for this world to hit screens. The series is based on the DC Comics Vertigo post-apocalyptic comic series of the same name, from creators Brian K....

‘21 Bridges’ Trailer: Chadwick Boseman Shuts Down Manhattan To Solve A Murder Chadwick Bosemanis a cop on the hunt in the21 Bridgestrailer. The thriller, produced byAvengers: Endgamedirectorsthe Russo Brothers, finds Boseman shutting down every exit to Manhattan to find out who murdered eight cops in one location. But the more he digs, the more he starts to suspect things aren’t as they seem. Watch the21 Bridgestrailer below. 21 Bridges Trailer Some clunky exposition and forcedNew Yawkaccents aside,21 Bridgeslooks like the type of mid-budget thriller that Hollywood doesn’t make too often these days, and that’s promising....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Will Feature The Guardians Of The Galaxy, Confirms Vin Diesel Marvel Studios likes to keep its cards close to the vest, doling out only the sparest bits of information early on, and then at a very carefully controlled pace. Marvel starVin Diesel, on the other hand, loves to share. TheGuardians of the Galaxyactor is famous for divulging details to fans on social media; in fact, that’s how we learned he was circling the MCU to begin with....

‘G.I. Joe 3’ Was Almost Going To Be A ‘Transformers’ Crossover TheG.I. Joefranchise makes money, but it doesn’t make Michael Bay money. While we’ll seeTransformersnumber five this summer, we continue to wait for aG.I. Joe3, which may havebeen delayeddue to scheduling. DirectorD.J. Carusowas attached to direct the film, but he moved on to makexXx: Return of Xander Cage. When Caruso was developing the Hasbro film, he had it end with theG....

‘Gotham’ Photo: Ben McKenzie As Commissioner Gordon Fox’s upcoming television seriesGothamhas been releasing photos of the cast in character for the upcoming show set in DC Comics’Batman-universe. So far we’ve seenDonal Logueas Detective Harvey Bullock, Catwoman aka Selina Kyle,Played ByCamren Bicondova,Sean Pertweeas Bruce Wayne’s butler Alfred Pennyworth, andRobin Lord Tayloras the Penguin. TodayFox televisionhas released a new photo featuring our first look at Ben McKenzie as young and future Commissioner Gordon....

‘Knives Out’ Director Rian Johnson On The Beauty Of A Killer Monologue And Crafting A Mystery Evocative Of 2019 [Interview] When I sat down to speak with directorRian Johnsonthe day after his new murder mystery thriller,Knives Out, closed Fantastic Fest 2019, I had one question on the top of my tongue. That question: “What defines a Rian Johnson movie?” After all, Johnson has spent his career leaping between genres, from grim modern noirs likeBrickto quirky comedies likeThe Brothers Bloomto serious-minded science fiction likeLooperand even giant blockbusters likeStar Wars: The Last Jedi....

‘Leap!’ Trailer: Elle Fanning’s Dreams Take Flight In 19th Century Paris “Follow your dreams” may not be the theme ofeveryanimated movie ever made, but it is a common message for a bunch of them, fromMoanatoSing. And next year brings yet one more in the same mold,Leap!directed byEric SummerandÉric Warin. Elle Fanningvoices the lead, a plucky young orphan named Félicie in Belle Époque France. She dreams of training at the Opera Ballet School and becoming a dancer, so she runs off to Paris with her BFF Victor (Dane DeHaan), an aspiring inventor, to make her dream a reality....

‘Ricky And The Flash:’ Jonathan Demme, Diablo Cody And Meryl Streep Team Up Three Oscar winners are hoping to team up for a brand new project.Jonathan Demme(The Silence of the Lambs) is attached to directRicky and the Flash, a new script byDiablo Cody(Juno) which will starMeryl Streep. No studio is attached but reports are several are salivating at the possibility. The Wrapbroke the news of the potential Jonathan Demme, Diablo Cody, and Meryl Streep project, describing its plot as follows:...