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Interview: Adam Scott On His Buzzing, Dark Performance In The Vicious Kind, Party Down Season 2, Shaming Kenny Powers, And Memories Of His First Kiss In recent times,Adam Scotthas sparkled in pop-culture for two masterful performances as manicured, modern cornholios in the Will Ferrell-endorsed comediesStep BrothersandEastbound & Down. In the former, his character coached an obnoxious wife and kids in a caravan acapella of “Sweet Child of Mine,” while faithfully rocking a Bluetooth headset....

John Travolta Reportedly Circling Lead Role In John Gotti Biopic Directed By Nick Cassavetes A biopic of mafia donJohn ‘The Teflon Don’ Gottiand his sonJohn Gotti Jr.has been in the works for a while. Earlier this yearNick Cassavetesstarted negotiating to direct, and with that deal close to completion there’s word from enthusiastic exec producerMarc FiorethatJohn Travoltais in ‘serious talks’ to play the senior Gotti. Speaking toEW, the producer says, We would love to have him… He’s a terrific actor....

Lars Von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’ Gets Two U.S. Release Dates One thing that’s remained unclear through all the chatter about thetwo different cutsofNymphomaniacin existence, andLars von Trier’s feelingsabout the shorter version, andpotential distribution plansfor the longer version, is when, exactly, U.S. audiences would get to see this gloriously NSFW sexual epic. Magnolia’s been set to distribute for some time now, but has only now gotten around to setting a Stateside premiere date....

Matt Damon Offers An Update On ‘Bourne 5’, Will Be Tearing Things Up In Las Vegas Right nowMatt Damonis on a break from shootingBourne 5, which has reunited the actor with directorPaul Greengrassafter they both stepped away from the franchise afterThe Bourne Ultimatum. Originally, Jeremy Renner was going to inherit the mantle with his spin-off franchiseThe Bourne Legacy, but a follow-up to that film has been put on hold in favor of this new flick....

Michael Shannon Will Play Infamous Red Scare SOB Joseph McCarthy U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin led a series of investigations and hearings in the 1950s in an attempt to expose the supposed communist infiltration of the U.S. government. In the time since, “McCarthyism” has become a term for “a campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations and investigations.” McCarthy frequently (and fraudulently) claimed that communists had invaded various departments of the government....

New Hellraiser Movie Will Feature A Femme Take On Pinhead Played By Jamie Clayton The entire legacy of the “Hellraiser” franchise has been fraught with issues ranging from slapdash sequels made to continue holding on to the rights, and production intervention so strong that the directors have requested their names be taken off the final product. It’s natural that fans would be hesitant following the announcement that director David Bruckner (“The Night House,” “The Ritual,” “Southbound”) would be remaking the beloved property with a script from a writing team that includes “The Night House” screenwriters Luke Piotrowski and Ben Collins in addition to producer David S....

Peak TV Is Giving People Anxiety, Because We Can’t Have Nice Things TV is so good right now, folks. In fact, it’stoogood, to the point where people are overwhelmed. At least that’s what a new survey has found, with those polled confessing there’s so many TV shows on right now they don’t even know where to start. It’s official: peak TV is giving people anxiety. Thanks a lot, peak TV....

Peter Jackson’s ‘Hobbit’ Trilogy Will Conclude July 28, 2025; Second Film Gets New Title Peter Jackson’s newly announced third film in his trilogy of films adaptingThe Hobbitwill be released July 07, 2025 and it’ll be calledThe Hobbit: There And Back Again. That was originally the title of the second film, but that’s now been re-titledThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.The first film is still calledThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Whenthe third film was announced, we knew it would be the first of the six films based on theJ....

Real Life Weirdness: Back To The Future Marriage Proposal, Spider-Man Traps Comic Book Thief, Actors Almost Shot By Real Police During Robbery Scene When news gets slow in Hollywood, we like to turn our eye to the even stranger stories in the real world. This week we bring you aBack to the Futuremarriage proposal, the story and video of a man dressed asSpider-Manwho trapped a comic book thief during Free Comic Book Day with the help of a couple Jedi knights andThe Flash, and the story and video of a bunch of actors shooting an independent film who were almost shot by real Police Officers who thought the robbery scene was real....

Ridley Scott And Leonardo DiCaprio Could Re-Team For ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ So are films about financial disaster and malfeasance going to be the new thing for a few months? We’ve got Oliver Stone’s sequel toWall Streethitting soon, and the cast forMargin Calleither means that it’s a good piece of work or that it’s just the best gig going in New York right now. That’s to say nothing of the many documentaries that are covering the action and aftermath of the recent financial crisis....

Ridley Scott’s ‘Exodus’ Coming In 2014; Rik Barnett Rumored For ‘Prometheus 2’ Ridley Scotthasn’t even finished post-production onThe Counseloryet, but Fox already has an eye on awards season for his next project. The studio has set aDecember 12, 2014release for Scott’s Moses movieExodus. That doesn’t leave Scott with a whole lot of room to do much else before jumping intoExodusfromThe Counselor. It’s probably a safe bet, then, thatPrometheus 2won’t land before 2015 or so....

Russell Crowe Attached To Play The Equalizer, Based On The ’80s TV Show Depending on how closely you’ve paid attention to TV to film developments in the past few years your reaction to that headline is either going to be “um…what?” or “so, it finally happened.” Regardless, I guess that whole thrust towardsdeveloping original ideashasn’t kicked in yet (obviously) because out of nowhere comes word thatRussell Croweis attached to play theEdward Woodwardrole in a big-screen revival of the ’80s TV showThe Equalizer....

San Diego Comic-Con 2012 Is Sold Out; Here Are Some Tips If You Didn’t Get A Badge That didn’t take long.If you signed upfor a Member ID forSan Diego Comic-Con 2012, you likely knew that badge sales were Saturday morning at 8 a.m. PST. Minutes later, four day badges were sold out and soon after that, so were single day badges. Like the headline says, San Diego Comic-Con 2012, taking place July 12-15, is now officially sold out....