Looks like Ben Affleck won't get to flirt with Isla Fisher after all. Deadline reports that Affleck can't star as Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby for Baz Luhrmann because of a scheduling conflict with Argo, the Iran hostage crisis film that Affleck will direct. Suggestions for a replacement Tom Buchanan are welcome in the comments. Perhaps Bradley Cooper? [Deadline]
25 years after Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer bumped and spiked their way into box office history, Top Gun is returning to a slew of AMC theaters on Sunday, April 30 at 12:30 p.m. and Monday, May 2 at 7 p.m. Somehow, the only actually gay component of this movie is Kelly McGillis, but that's not stopping us from revisiting Maverick and Iceman on the big-screen. Watch the re-release trailer after the jump, in the danger zone.
With Lionsgate milking its casting announcement roll-out as much as possible (today's news: All My Children's Leven Rambin and Meg Ryan/Dennis Quaid progeny Jack Quaid are your new District 1 tributes, Glimmer and Marvel!) it's time to play the speculation game with one of the series' most important supporting characters: Haymitch. Which veteran actors could fill the Hunger Games winner-turned-alcoholic mentor's shoes?
The upcoming summer season is loaded with enough blockbusters to fill out two summers, but that doesn't mean there aren't any highly anticipated indie films headed to theaters as well. Like the Sundance favorite The Art of Getting By (formerly Homework), with Scream 4 star Emma Roberts and Freddie Highmore playing a couple of coming-of-age New York teens. Fox Searchlight announced the title change on Tuesday and sent along a new still from the film, too -- click ahead to see Roberts and Highmore enjoy a quiet Manhattan stroll past Cinema Village.
The untitled film Woody Allen will shoot this summer in Rome with Jesse Eisenberg, Penelope Cruz, Ellen Page and Alec Baldwin apparently has a title. In an interview with Le Journal du dimanche, it was revealed that the project is called The Wrong Picture. Whether that's a working title or the actual title remains to be seen, but, good start, Woody! [Le Journal du dimanche via The Playlist]
Disney-Pixar has released five new character images from this summer's Cars 2, in which Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) meet new international friends and foes. Like in England, where they'll bump into none other than The Queen herself (Vanessa Redgrave), along with her son, Prince Wheeliam. Yes, you read that right! Wheel-iam. Question is, will royal daughter-in-law-to-be Kate Middleton get her animated due?
Michael Sarrazin, the actor best known for his role in the dance marathon epic They Shoot Horses, Don't They? with Jane Fonda -- as well as for turns in The Flim-Flam Man with George C. Scott, For Pete's Sake with Barbra Streisand, The Sweet Ride with longtime girlfriend Jacqueline Bisset, and the TV movie Frankenstein: A True Story -- died in a Montreal hospital at age 70 after a short bout with cancer. In tribute, let's revisit his greatest film scene.
January Jones's '60s-style Victoria's Secret Emma Frost get-up is nice and fluffy and all, but what many X-Men fans were really waiting for was a good look at Mystique, the blue-skinned, shape-shifting mutant played in X-Men: First Class by Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence. After the jump, behold Lawrence in full scaly-skinned mode, sporting the chic, body-hugging X-Men team uniform in her very own still from the film -- and with the rest of the cast in two new posters.
That 3-D adaptation of The Great Gatsby that director Baz Luhrmann pretended to be unsure about making continues to staff up. THR reports that Isla Fisher is in discussions to join Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and Ben Affleck in the film. Fisher would play Myrtle, the lover of Tom Buchanan (Affleck), who -- spoiler alert for anyone who didn't read this in high school -- doesn't fare all that well at the end. [THR]
To the surprise of no one, Warner Bros. officially announced on Tuesday that the long-rumored two-some of Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have been added to the already-bulging cast of The Dark Knight Rises. What may surprise, however, is just which characters the Inception co-stars are playing.
· Radio professional Tommy Edison reviews movies in his spare time. He's also blind. What did he think of the much-discussed Scream 4? "The girls in this movie, all they seemed to do was complain and scream. That's it." No arguments here! Click ahead to watch Tommy's incredibly charming and funny review, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
This is a big box office week for elephants. Not only do the world's largest land mammals finally get the screen time they deserve in Francis Lawrence's Water For Elephants, but they also share the screen with Robert Pattinson and Oscar-winning actors Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz. In celebration of this momentous achievement, let's take a look back at some other significant screen work done by our pachyderm friends.
As you may recall, it's unofficially Harry Potter Week at Movieline, and in the latest installment of this apparent celebration, author JK Rowling reveals how her initial apprehension at handing screenwriter Steve Kloves the proverbial keys to her kingdom in the lead up to the adaptation of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was washed away with one simple word.
You haven't been Jeff'd. Oscar winner Jeff Bridges will team up with T Bone Burnett to produce an untitled album for Blue Note Records that is scheduled for release this summer. Bridges will reportedly write original music for the album, which will feature appearances from artists like Roseanne Cash and Sam Phillips. Sounds great! Just as long as Gwyneth Paltrow stays far away, of course. [EW]
Surprise, haters! Kevin Smith's big Red State gamble has paid off. A report last week cited Smith as having announced that his film was "in the black" during a keynote address at a National Association of Broadcasters event last week -- a vague phrase that suggested that somehow Red State had earned back its $4 million budget through Smith's 15-city screening and speaking tour. Yet Box Office Mojo lists a mere $851,832 box office take to date. How does Smith's math work out, exactly?
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