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			<title>Joel Edgerton Joins Johnny Depp in BLACK MASS</title>
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Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby, Zero Dark Thirty) is set to co-star alongside Johnny Depp in the Barry Levinson-directed crime thriller Black Mass.
The story revolves around mob boss Whitey Bulger, a ruthless Boston kingpin who inspired movie characters such as the one Jack Nicholson played in The Departed and the one Pete Postlethwaite played in The Town. The movie is based on the 2001 Dick Lehr/Gerald O’Neill New York Times bestseller Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob.
Bulger was also an FBI informant so he could help discreetly take down a rival gang. In the end, the tables were turned on him, and he was double crossed and prosecuted by the Feds, along with his partner in crime and the original FBI agent working with him. Edgerton will play John Connolly, the &quot;FBI agent and childhood pal of Bulger and his brother. Connolly was tasked with bringing down the Italian mob, and he was aided by Bulger, who burnished his own position as Boston crime kingpin by getting rid of the competition for his Winter Hill gang.&quot;
Edgerton is a fantastic actor, and I have no doubt that he and Depp are going to be great together in the movie. I love mob films, and this one has potential to be great.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 19:01:36 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>1st Trailer for Jean Pierre Jeunet&#039;s THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS SPIVET!!! Joy Follows...</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hey folks Harry here...   Jean Pierre Jeunet is very much one of my favorite filmmakers working in the world today.   His films play like discoveries of something precious and unique.   Complicated Rube Goldberg device-like films, where each shot leads to another each more delightful than what you&#039;d just seen.   This film is set to debut in France this October, but as of yet, it does not have a U.S. Distribution date.   I&#039;m looking at you Hollywood, c&#039;mon, get it together, Jeunet has a new film and we need to see it.   It&#039;s salve for the soul!   Joy is to often missing in our cinemas, this looks to be a pure undiluted dose of the happies.   Take a look and see for yourself.
 



In case you don&#039;t happen to be aware of Jeunet - check out the following movies and be a better human for it:  DELICATESSEN, CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, AMELIE and MICMACS are my faves, I hope this film can be held next to those!]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 18:30:02 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>New ANCHORMAN 2 Teaser Trailer - &quot;Just Say Hello&quot;</title>
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Paramount Pictures has released a new teaser trailer for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues featuring Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, and Steve Carell. The Adam McKay directed film is currently in production and is set to be released on December 20th!
The film also stars Harrison Ford, Christina Applegate, Kristen Wiig, and more. Enjoy the new teaser trailer! 
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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 16:01:34 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>New Photo From The Godzilla Set Hints At An Iconic Moment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Patrick Dane writes for Bleeding Cool
It seems Gareth Edwards is running around a little, as you do when you are shooting a major movie picture. Just the other day we got a more-than-meets-the-eye video blog marking a year until release.
Today, Legendary Pictures posted this photo on their facebook.

The 1954 Godzilla by Ishirō Honda is one of my favorites, and Edwards is a director I am excited about, so my expectations are high for this one.
Also, you may or may not know that there is a scene in the original that features Godzilla destroying a train line, swinging a train car around in his mouth. Sure, you could say destroyed trains are the norm for cities under attack by massive monsters, but I’ll be damned if this isn’t referencing that scene.
While it will take a little more than call back to satisfy me, I must say that I am excited by this nonetheless.
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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 14:30:03 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>New Teaser Trailer For Anchorman 2 Wants You To Stay Classy</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Patrick Dane writes for Bleeding Cool
Remember that teaser trailer from last year? Yeah, it is kind of like that.
Click here to view the embedded video.
Hopefully the crew can catch lightening in a bottle twice, instead of…you  know, looking like they are trying to catch lightening in a bottle again.
Anchorman 2 will be hitting December 20th.
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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 14:01:31 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Amazon Cancels ZOMBIELAND Series - &quot;Hated out of Existence&quot;</title>
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Amazon has unsurprisingly cancelled their Zombieland series. I watched the pilot episode and, unfortunately, it was just a poorly made series. So we won&#039;t be getting a full series, which I&#039;m fine with. It&#039;s a show I won&#039;t miss. 
Zombieland co-writer/executive producer Rhett Reese took to Twitter to vent a bit upon hearing the news of the series&#039; demise, stating...

Our Zombieland series will not be moving forward on Amazon. Sad for everyone involved. I&#039;ll never understand the vehement hate the pilot received from die-hard Zombieland fans. You guys successfully hated it out of existence. Anyway, we did our best, and we&#039;re very proud of our team.

Fans hated it out of existence? I wouldn&#039;t blame the fans for hating it out of existence. I would blame the team of people that made a mediocre show. It could have been a great series, but it wasn&#039;t. It had a couple of fun moments, but nothing that would make me want to sit through a full season. I was even looking forward to this.
What did you think of the Zombieland series? Do you care that Amazon cancelled it? Source: JoBlo (http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/amazons-zombieland-cancelled-executive-producer-claims-it-was-hated-out-of-existence)]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 11:01:42 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Sharlto Copley’s sci-fi thriller Europa Report new trailer</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Millenium Trilogy&#039;s Michael Nyqvist and District 9&#039;s Sharlto Copley star in sci-fi thriller Europa Report]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 11:01:42 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Cannes 2013: An Impressive Miele With An Unsavoury Stranger By The Lake</title>
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Peter Willis writes for Bleeding Cool
Arriving a little late to the party, I got my 2013 Cannes Film Festival underway today, with the double treat of an actual on-screen birth and enough non-simulated sex scenes to fill the seediest backstreet sex tavern. And this without the presence of outcast Lars Von Trier.
Nestled between these less than savoury moments, however, came the day’s highlight - Miele.
Assisted suicide is not a topic but for the most daring of filmmakers in their first outing as director, but in Miele, Valeria Golino not only takes on the subject, but comes out deserving much praise for a highly accomplished, mature, piece of work.
Jasmine Trinca (Irene) seeks to help those who are suffering with terminal illness find peace in death, but her conscience takes a battering when encountering a new “client” who simply feels depressed and tired of life.
With heavy emphasis on character, and given the subject matter at hand, the movie leaves a lump in the throat on more than one occasion, though not to any solely manipulative agenda. There is balance thanks to a smart alignment with moments of dark humour courtesy of Carlo Cecchi, who plays the depressed Signor Grimaldi.
At times it feels a little like we’re treading into Lost In Translation territory, with moments of clear emotional connection between our two leads, and the irresistible whiff of strong chemistry, though this never actually leads to anything physical.
The eclectic soundtrack takes us from despair to relative joy in a heartbeat, and helps frame Irene’s personal battle with her job as she tries to remain as removed from the reality of her work as possible.
The movie could easily have swayed into politicised territory, falling on either side of the euthanasia divide, but it never leans in either direction explicitly, which is to the benefit of the final product, as it swerves the urge to preach. Movies at Cannes often have agendas beyond the screen, yet Miele tackles this difficult subject without any obvious underlying pretense.
Given the relatively short 96 minute run-time, there could certainly have been additional development of some of the key themes, including Irene’s increasing concern for her own fate, but despite this and other minor shortcomings, Miele will doubtless prove popular on the arthouse circuit, with Valeria Golino certain to find directorial success on a wider scale in the not so distant future.
Miele was not, unfortunately, the first of my screenings today. That honour goes to the less than pulsating Stop The Pounding Heart.
Never really getting out of first gear, the film follows a few weeks in the life of the 14-year-old daughter of a goat farmer Sara, who finds herself falling for the barely audible Colby, an amateur bull-rider from a neighbouring family in the American bible belt, despite her family’s staunch religious leanings.
Clearly working with a team of non-actors to fit in with his neo-realist style Texas trilogy, director Roberto Minervini has ended up delivering a movie which verges on being more documentary than feature film, with creative choices that straddle both camps, to mixed success.
There is no score to speak of, which further emphasises the need to explore more deeply our key characters and their backgrounds, but this is largely ignored and even seemingly key moments crawl by relatively unexplained. The result is a remarkably demanding experience, alienating all but the most patient of audience members, and leaving precious few rewards even for those who persevere. There are some interesting comments to be made here, and some are flirted with, but there’s very little engagement, and it’s difficult not to feel like a slightly bewildered passenger all the way through.
Stop The Pounding Heart may have lacked some necessary detail, but Stranger By The Lake offered far more than most could wish to see.
Directed, and introduced on-stage, by Alain Guiraudie, Stranger By The Lake is eventually a “thriller”, though it is initially packaged as nothing more than relatively graphic pornography.
Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps) is a “cruiser”, heading down to a lake where he strips down to join fellow gay men swimming and cavorting in the nearby woods. He soon falls for the muscular, Freddy Mercury-esque, Michel (Christophe Paou).
Things take a turn for towards more sinister waters when Franck witnesses Michel murdering his former partner, but Franck remains undeterred and continues his pursuit of Michel, culminating in some of the most graphic sex scenes to have graced the big screen, even on the notoriously provocative Croisette.
Scratching below the surface, there are several complex issues tackled in Stranger By The Lake, but I couldn’t help but feel the entirely unnecessary ejaculation scene and on-screen felatio overshadowed anything that proceeded. That definitely didn’t affect the majority of the rather sycophantic audience, who evidently took them as the cue for an extended and (one suspects) disingenuous bout of ovation once the credits rolled.
The final 15 minutes felt somewhat rushed and largely unrealised, with a lack of atmosphere built up to justify the supposed suspenseful conclusion.
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Peter Willis, reporting from the Cannes Film Festival 2013, is one of the co-founders of WhatCulture and can be followed here.
Cannes 2013: An Impressive Miele With An Unsavoury Stranger By The Lake ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 10:01:51 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Joss Whedon Talks Iron Man &amp; New Characters In ‘The Avengers 2’</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Immediately after credits rolled on ‘The Avengers’ last year, fans have been speculating on what would happen and who would be appearing in the sequel. After his appearance in the post-credits scene, Thanos was a safe bet, but there definitely had to be more new heroes popping up here and there. Director Joss Whedon even [...]
Read original article at: Joss Whedon Talks Iron Man &amp; New Characters In ‘The Avengers 2’

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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 09:02:04 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>‘Star Trek Into Darkness’: Benedict Cumberbatch enjoys being villain</title>
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							Benedict Cumberbatch at the Bowery Hotel in New York on May 13, 2013. (Jennifer S. Altman / For The Times)http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/star-trek-into-darkness-benedict-cumberbatch-enjoys-being-villain/attachment/1424177_et_0517_benedict_cumberbatch-3/1Link
									Benedict Cumberbatch at the Bowery Hotel in New York on May 13, 2013. (Jennifer S. Altman / For The Times)http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/star-trek-into-darkness-benedict-cumberbatch-enjoys-being-villain/attachment/1424177_et_0517_benedict_cumberbatch-4/2Link
									Benedict Cumberbatch stars in &quot;Star Trek Into Darkness.&quot; (Zade Rosenthal / Paramount Pictures)http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/star-trek-into-darkness-benedict-cumberbatch-enjoys-being-villain/attachment/stark-trek-into-darkness/3Link
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									Benedict Cumberbatch, left, and Karl Urban in a scene from &quot;Star Trek Into Darkness.&quot; (Zade Rosenthal / Paramount Pictures)http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/star-trek-into-darkness-benedict-cumberbatch-enjoys-being-villain/attachment/stark-trek-into-darkness-2/5Link
									Benedict Cumberbatch attends the London premiere of &quot;Star Trek Into Darkness&quot; on May 2, 2013. (Stuart C. Wilson / Getty Images)http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/star-trek-into-darkness-benedict-cumberbatch-enjoys-being-villain/attachment/star-trek-into-darkness-uk-film-premiere/6Link
									Chris Pine, left, Alice Eve, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and Benedict Cumberbatch attend the London premiere of &quot;Star Trek Into Darkness&quot; on May 2, 2013. (Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images)http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/star-trek-into-darkness-benedict-cumberbatch-enjoys-being-villain/attachment/bestpix-star-trek-into-darkness-uk-film-premiere/7Link
									Benedict Cumberbatch at the Bowery Hotel in New York on May 13, 2013. (Jennifer S. Altman / For The Times)http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/star-trek-into-darkness-benedict-cumberbatch-enjoys-being-villain/attachment/1424177_et_0517_benedict_cumberbatch/8Link
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Settle in and make yourselves comfortable. Benedict Cumberbatch is taking off his tie.
Only a few minutes into an interview about his villainous turn in “Star Trek Into Darkness,” the English actor was all apologies for the distraction. But a painful pinched nerve required some tending to before he walked the red carpet at the New York premiere of J.J. Abrams’ highly anticipated sequel.
A pinched nerve in the left shoulder? Perhaps Cumberbatch has been spending too much time in the company of angry Vulcans of late?
“Ah, I see what you did there,” Cumberbatch said with a laugh. “Those who pay attention to these things will notice that’s the one that Zach grabs in the film.”
Benedict Cumberbatch. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
Zach, of course, is Zachary Quinto, who, in reprising his role as Mr. Spock for “Into Darkness,” spends considerable time pursuing, punching and, yes, Vulcan nerve-pinching his wily foe.
Set roughly one year after the events depicted in Abrams’ 2009 “Star Trek” reboot, “Into Darkness” sees Capt. Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock and the rest of the USS Enterprise crew reunite in the face of a new enemy who turns out to be one of the most memorable villains in all of “Trek” lore.
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The true identity of Cumberbatch’s character, who’s introduced as John Harrison, has been the subject of widespread speculation since the film headed into production. Abrams is famous for guarding the details of his projects, but “Into Darkness” took the cloak-and-dagger mystery to a new level.
As the film beams into theaters this weekend on a course toward a roughly $100-million opening, the secret is out — the twist has been revealed publicly in at least one film review, on Wikipedia and on the Internet Movie Database. Though as recently as late last week, Cumberbatch, speaking by phone from New York, was keeping mum.
“I think [being surprised by what&#039;s in a film is] a rare thing in our day and age where you have a super saturation of media over-publicizing every detail or spoilers in adverts or trailers,” he said. “That’s what it should be about, going to the movies. It shouldn’t be about ticking off a list of, ‘Yeah, I heard that was going to happen.’”
Q&amp;A: J.J. Abrams talks ‘Into Darkness’
If anyone should understand the ephemeral nature of mysteries, it’s Cumberbatch. His portrayal of Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective in the BBC’s “Sherlock” has brought him considerable acclaim and has helped catapult him into a variety of high-profile film roles.
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in “Star Trek Into Darkness.” (Zade Rosenthal / Paramount Pictures)
Later this year he’ll appear opposite Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender in Steve McQueen’s historical drama “12 Years a Slave”; he’ll take the screen with Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep in “August: Osage County”; and he’ll play Julian Assange in the fact-based drama “The Fifth Estate” from director Bill Condon.
He’ll also take center stage as an ancient, powerful dragon in “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” when Peter Jackson’s second installment in his planned trilogy opens in December.
Cumberbatch said he tries to trip up expectations in “the politest ways” when choosing roles. “Into Darkness” certainly sees him wearing the mantle of action antihero more overtly than ever before, though it’s the sequences in which he attempts to manipulate Kirk and Spock with his cool intellect and seductive baritone that perhaps most directly capitalize on the actor’s signature skill set.
“Mr. Cumberbatch, pale and intense, has become the object of a global fan cult, and it’s easy to see why,” the New York Times’ A.O. Scott wrote in his review of the film. “He fuses Byronic charisma with an impatient, imperious intelligence that seems to raise the ambient I.Q. whenever he’s on screen.”
Just a few weeks after landing his part (originally offered to Benicio del Toro), Cumberbatch found himself fighting with Vulcans and Klingons, jumping through exploding glass doors on spaceships and running through the streets of Los Angeles, which stood in for the San Francisco of the future where Starfleet Headquarters is based in the film.

“There was one particular moment where I was being dragged along the floor of Playa Vista, the famous Howard Hughes studio, the birthplace of the Spruce Goose, at 60 miles per hour at 1 o’clock in the morning in a spacesuit. My character’s in control, but as an actor, the minute after I did my thing as a character I stood up and said, ‘Did everyone see that? That was amazing, can we do it again?’”
It was an interesting experience for an actor who doesn’t profess to be overly studied on “Trek” canon, though he does have a healthy respect for the creative legacy of “Star Trek” godfather Gene Roddenberry.
“‘Star Trek’ works in subtle ways,” he said. “There’re such condensed, incredibly beautifully drawn characters that are very now even though it’s a future-scape with loads of rich imaginative detail for fans to obsess over. The actual core content of the story is universal in time and place.”
Cumberbatch certainly could have a future with the franchise, though little is clear about what specific shape a third “Trek” film might take. Paramount has said Abrams will at least produce another “Trek” movie, though he’ll next direct a new “Star Wars” film that Disney intends to release in 2015.
For his part, Cumberbatch simply seems to be enjoying his newfound status as a larger-than-life Hollywood heavy. Apparently, evildoing has its own unique rewards.
“I’ve just driven past a phone booth, with my face, the poster they use of me for the film, it’s amazing,” he said. “To be in the middle of New York, a city I’ve always loved, and going to the premiere and seeing myself on a side of a phone booth, I think you’d have to be made of stone not to feel something.”
– Gina McIntyre | @LATHeroComplex
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