Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) has been announced as the helmer of Relativity Media's planned reboot of The Crow, the 1994 cult film starring Brandon Lee that spawned three subsequent sequels. Fresnadillo, who directed the Oscar-nominated short film Esposados and the 2001 thriller Intacto, will co-script once a writer is signed to the project and aims to begin filming this fall. You know what that means, Crow fans -- time to get your casting caps on!
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Yowza! A full slate of films rolls into multiplexes and art houses alike this weekend, driving fresh, harrowing wedges in family moviegoing allegiances and/or date-night politics. But! Deep breath! Movieline's Weekend Forecast is here to break down the glut and maybe help you win a little pocket change in your office box-office pool.*
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It's hard to believe but people are still talking about this year's Academy Awards -- not because of the upsets or moving acceptance speeches but because of the abysmal hosting abilities of James Franco and Anne Hathaway. Even a month and a half later, Matt Lauer couldn't resist asking Hathaway just how bad she thought that really bad experience was. Click through for her answers, which sound similar to all trauma victims' responses.
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Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal said that David O. Russell is considering directing an adaptation of former Providence mayor Buddy Cianci's book Politics and Pasta, which follows the author's years of busting mobsters and landing in jail on racketeering charges. Could Rosenthal partner Robert De Niro, who reportedly made a deal with Cianci back in 2008 and may appear in Russell's Uncharted, help seal the deal -- and, perhaps, star as the notorious politician?
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Penelope Cruz, who will be starring in yet another Woody Allen film, thanked the director during her 2009 Oscar acceptance speech for creating a number of great roles for women. She could've thanked him for creating great roles for a certain type of star: the thinking, compulsively relatable thespian who can balance with sophisticated ease with exasperation. Here are nine who deserve a spot in Woody Allen's magnificent oeuvre.
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Gone are the days when Hailee Steinfeld had to define ridiculous words like "blingatude" in Kmart commercials. The Oscar nominee is in talks to play the lead in a new adaptation of Romeo and Juliet from Gosford Park screenwriter Julian Fellowes. The movie, budgeted at $15 million, will shoot in Italy later this year. Steinfeld will also revisit the classics in a "revisionist" Sleeping Beauty from screenwriter Linsday Devlin. [THR]
More Breaking Dawn images have hit the web, you ask? Well, kind of; EW's snagged exclusive peeks at the classic, chic wedding dress Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) will wear in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn. Oops, spoiler alert: Bella Swan gets married in Breaking Dawn. And then more stuff happens, the repercussions of which are also highlighted in a second new peek after the jump.
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· The two most surprising things you'll notice about this first look at John Singleton's upcoming thriller Abduction: That star Taylor Lautner has his shirt on (this thing is called Abduction after all), and that new Snow White Lily Collins looks really, really young. Click ahead for the shirted Lautner fun run, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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As the stars of Your Highness learned this week, one of the occupational hazards of starring in a stoner comedy is that you will inevitably be asked about drugs during the press rounds. Fortunately for Natalie Portman, the recent Oscar winner was able to dodge these questions thanks to a pregnancy that kept her far away from inquisitive reporters. Still, EW dug up this quote from a December interview Portman gave weeks before she announced her pregnancy: "I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years. I'm too old. I wish I was that cool, but I'm like an old lady now. I'm in bed by 10 p.m. I can't do that anymore." [EW]
Maybe it's a sign of the times. When I first read the headline about the To Catch a Thief remake, my first thought wasn't, "You bastards!" but instead, "At least it's not Vertigo!" This reaction may have less to do with supporting the remake, and more to do with selectively choosing which completely futile mental battles I wage against remake announcements, but still! Since this movie is probably still several rewrites away from production, I'd like to suggest a few simple guidelines to follow in order to avoid completely ruining everything that made the original work.
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While your kindly Movieline editors are rummaging through old coats to find some change to help fund a remake of Once Bitten, the marketing machine on the remake of Fright Night has begun to rev up in earnest. The first image of a blood-thirsty Colin Farrell arrived online Thursday morning, and while cool, there isn't much to sink your teeth into. (Groan!) Click ahead for your first look at the fright.
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When it was revealed last week that Warner Bros., Universal, Twentieth Century Fox and Sony were teaming up with DirecTV for a new on-demand service that would give potential moviegoers the option to watch recently released films from the comfort of their IKEA couches, you didn't have to be a media reporter to assume that certain people would be upset. Namely: Theater owners and filmmakers, both of whom feel Home Premiere could ruin their respective careers. Which it could, if it weren't so expensive.
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Back in 2002, documentarian Nick Broomfield released the documentary Biggie & Tupac, theorizing that Death Row Records exec Suge Knight and members of the LAPD may have been involved in the still-unsolved 1997 murder of rapper Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace. This week, the FBI released eight years' worth of heavily redacted files on the case, including confirmation of some of Broomfield's theories.
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Another one for the timeline! According to THR, Sofia Vergara may co-star in The Three Stooges opposite Will Sasso, Sean Hayes and a stooge to be named later. The Modern Family Emmy nominee would appear in the second of three vignettes in the film, and play a "devious woman." Expect much eye bulging on the part of the Stooges. [THR]
Also in this Thursday edition of The Broadsheet: Tina Fey is expecting... The Governator isn't polling very well... Clive Owen lines up another sturdy thriller... and more ahead.
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