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2015 Film Independent Spirit Award nominations announced: Birdman, Boyhood, Nightcrawler among leaders

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The Film Independent Spirit Awards are back with their list of the 2015 nominations. Leading the pack is the existential comedy Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) with a whopping six nominations, including one for actor Michael Keaton and one for director Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Closely following with a solid five nominations are Boyhood, […]

Jeff Goldblum, Bryan Cranston, Ed Norton & more to voice Wes Anderson’s forthcoming stop-motion animated dog film

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Details of Wes Anderson’s next film are beginning to come to light and let’s just say they sound promising. We learned last week that the project will be a stop-motion animated feature and that its central protagonist will be a dog. Now, thanks to none other than Mr. Jeff Goldblum, we know the cast will […]

James Gunn intended to kill off Stan Lee in Guardians of the Galaxy

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To say Stan Lee got off easy in the Guardians Of The Galaxy would be an understatement. The man apparently narrowly escaped death! James Gunn has already explained how he wanted Lee to appear in a glass case as part of The Collector’s gallery in his film Guardians Of The Galaxy, but in talking with […]

Rob Zombie and Mila Kunis producing Starz horror comedy series Trapped

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Rob Zombie and Mila Kunis have teamed-up to produce a horror comedy series with Starz. The project, entitled Trapped, will see Zombie (The Devil’s Rejects) not only producing but also sitting in the director’s chair. Trapped centers on a rich family who is attack by a murderous cult. The series, created and written by Joey Slamon (Arrested Development), will […]

Paul Thomas Anderson has supposedly directed a Radiohead video

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Film auteur Paul Thomas Anderson has been taking, making and then sometimes even dropping from a host of atypical projects since his last feature Inherent Vice. He shot two music videos, Sapokanikan and Divers, for Joanna Newsom, he filmed a highly-secretive music documentary Junun and he was even attached to direct the live-action Pinocchio remake […]

St. Vincent making directorial debut in female-helmed horror film XX

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Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalists Annie Clark, better known as St. Vincent, is about to make a horror film. Yes, you heard that correctly, the brilliant mind behind “Digital Witness” is set to make her directorial debut in an all female-helmed horror anthology film called XX. Clark has officially just boarded the genre film anthology to be […]

Rainn Wilson & Christopher Backus join Cameron Crowe’s Roadies

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The forthcoming hour-long comedy series Roadies just picked up a couple more cast members. The Office star Rainn Wilson has officially signed on for a recurring role, as has Christopher Backus. Roadies is the new series, written and directed by Cameron Crowe, expected to air on Showtime in June. The show follows a group of […]

Michael Rapaport, Lewis Black & more join cast of Woody Allen’s untitled Amazon Series

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Woody Allen’s new Amazon series has just added some more talent. The untitled series has now cast Michael Rapaport, Lewis Black, Becky Ann Baker and a handful of others. According to Deadline, little details are known about Allen’s new project, other than its being set in the ‘60s, its six half-hour episode makeup and — […]

Megan Mullally boards cast of Why Him co-starring alongside Bryan Cranston and James Franco

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John Hamburg’s forthcoming comedy Why Him has just added Megan Mullally to its cast. The film, which is slated for release later this year, already boasts the likes of Bryan Cranston and James Franco. According to Deadline, Why Him follows Ned (Cranston), a good old American Midwestern dad, as he ventures out on a trip […]

Edgar Wright to write and direct movie based on shadows for DreamWorks Animation

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Edgar Wright has just signed on to co-write, as well as direct, an animated feature based on the concept of shadows. The project, which will be co-written by David Walliams, will be in collaboration with DreamWorks Animation. This yet-to-be-titled forthcoming shadow-based project will mark the Hot Fuzz director’s first fully animated feature film. As Deadline […]