Three years after he shot to fame by terrorizing Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in Twilight, Cam Gigandet finds himself once again in a vampire flick -- only this time the bloodsuckers are really nasty, and Gigandet is one of the good guys. As a young sheriff in the upcoming Priest, Gigandet plays foil to Paul Bettany's Jedi-like warrior, both searching for a missing girl in the vampire-infested wasteland. Gigandet met with Movieline to discuss Priest and more after he and his fellow filmmakers debuted first look 3-D footage from the film at WonderCon.
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It seems like only yesterday (or two years ago) that Chloë Moretz was wearing baseball caps and playing the tomboy kid sister in 500 Days of Summer and now -- well now, the 14-year-old is either cursing and raising pig-tailed hell against her on-screen assailants or running down the street with voluminous hair, six inch heels and a mini-skirt alongside her Hick co-star Blake Lively. Kids these days.
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Saucy Borgias star Jeremy Irons revisited his Oscar-winning role in Reversal of Fortune with the L.A. Times Magazine recently, talking about meeting the real-life man behind the harrowing story, Claus von Bülow. Irons spoke with the British socialite -- who was accused (and acquitted) of administering an insulin overdose to his wife Sunny, who lived in a vegetative state for 28 years -- at the quaintest possible locale: a cricket match.
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A Three Stooges feature film has long been one of Hollywood's more desirable yet elusive projects in development. As such, it comes with a long, illustrious and occasionally baffling tail of names attached to star. The Farrelly Brothers have ridden this process out for years -- first at Warner Bros. (which picked them up from Columbia), then at MGM, and now at Fox, where their adaptation is finally ready to go... just as soon as the cast is.
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· Between his cameo at the Oscars, the seemingly constant reports about Monsters University, and a new Funny or Die video debuting on Wednesday, Billy Crystal is having quite the comeback year in 2011. The legendary comedian visited with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show on Monday night to discuss Twitter, his career, and how Rob Reiner has an orgasm. Um, yeah. Click through to lose your appetite.
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You might want to add Trash to your list of 2013 Oscar contenders. Thrice Oscar-nominated director Stephen Daldry and screenwriter Richard Curtis (who only has one Oscar nomination; loser), will adapt Andy Mulligan's young adult novel about three kids who support themselves by looking through trash, until they stumble upon something that puts their lives at risk. Think Slumdog Millionaire, without the game show. [Variety]
Sixteen-year-old Saoirse Ronan earns her action star stripes this week as the titular assassin of Joe Wright's thriller Hanna, a hyper-charged, globe-trotting fairytale about a feral teen sent out into the world on a mission of vengeance. With an infectious score by the Chemical Brothers to punctuate her journey, Ronan fights through droves of enemies with a fierce precision that belies her youth and petite stature -- and, as Hanna discovers friendship for the first time in her life, so too does Ronan convey a blend of preternatural maturity and childlike naiveté rarely found in performers her age.
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The most shocking thing about the recently released trailer for The Hangover Part II -- beyond the fact that the MPAA allowed a monkey to pantomime fellatio in a green band trailer -- was that it stuck so close to the original film's set-up. Will the sequel to your favorite R-rated comedy from the last two years be a stale retread of worn out jokes, or was the trailer holding things back? Director Todd Phillips has an answer.
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"When I was a kid, I thought I was Dorothy. I had a little apron that I called my put-it-on, and I would run around being Dorothy. That was on a good day. [...] There are these incredible videos of me doing that. I was running around in my put-it-on, and then my dad would be in the back, by the pool with a scotch, just sort of staring at me, jaw dropped." And now we can all be at our desk with a coffee, staring at the screen, jaw dropped. Some things never change. [VF]
If George Clooney's first trip behind the camera in three years wasn't reason enough to be excited for The Ides of March (based on the play Farragut North by Beau Willimon) perhaps a first look at the Barack Obama-inspired campaign posters his presidential candidate character employs in the film will do the trick. Click ahead for more. (You'll see.)
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Also in this Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: Tyler Perry does a good deed for Lionsgate... Warner Bros. saddles up with Wyatt Earp... The Hobbit adds a Conchord... and more ahead.
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Hesher has now played Sundance 2010 and SXSW 2011, bu it's still not entirely clear when the rest of us will get to see Joseph Gordon-Levitt play a pyromaniac nihilist who reunites a family. The official site still just says "coming soon," while Imdb lists the release date as April 2011. That's pretty much right now, so I guess we'll see. In the meantime though, we've got an appropriately ragged and sleazy final poster. It appears that Metallica not only let the film use their music, but also their logo. Throw the devil-sign in the air and click through to check it out.
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To no one's surprise, president Barack Obama formally announced that he will be running for re-election in 2012, complete with a new campaign video. Only, as John Stewart already pointed out, that new video could use some improvement. But fortunately, it's still early! And who better to win over an entertainment-hungry nation than tested Hollywood directors? We've got five great candidates for the job after the jump!
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The James Brown biopic has been in the works for some time now. Back in 2006, Spike Lee joined the Paramount project to direct and rewrite a script that had already been revised by Feeling Minnesota scribe Steve Baigelman and Jezz and John-Henry Butterworth (Fair Game). In the most exciting (and recent) development yet though, producers have begun meeting with actors about the lead part -- including Eddie Murphy and one recording artist that will definitely surprise you.
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