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Michael Sheen and Michelle Monaghan set for The Price of Admission

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Deadline has revealed that Michael Sheen (Passengers) and Michelle Monaghan (The Path) have signed on to star in writer-director Peter Glanz’s (The Longest Week) next project, the dramedy-thriller The Price of Admission. The film will centre on “a middling playwright (Sheen) amidst a mid-life crisis and failing marriage. His wife (Monaghan) is tired of being […]

Michael Sheen set to join Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence in Passengers

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Variety has revealed that Michael Sheen (Masters of Sex) is in talks to join Sony’s big-budget sci-fi drama Passengers. The Brit actor will join Chris Pratt (Jurassic World) and Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle) in the film, which is being directed by Morten Tyldem (The Imitation Game) from a script by Jon Spaihts (Prometheus). Here’s the […]

Second Opinion – Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

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Far from the Madding Crowd, 2015. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Starring Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge, Juno Temple and Jessica Barden. SYNOPSIS: In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and […]

Movie Review – Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

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Far from the Madding Crowd, 2015. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Starring Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge, Juno Temple and Jessica Barden. SYNOPSIS: In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and […]

Laurence Fishburne joins Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence in Passengers

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Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix) has joined the cast of the upcoming sci-fi space film Passengers, a new report from The Hollywood Reporter confirms. Fishburne, whose role in the film is unknown, will be acting alongside Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games) and Chris Pratt (Jurassic World), two of Hollywood’s biggest stars. They are set to play […]

Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes and Tom Holland join The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle

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It looks like the long-gestating The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle is finally staring to pick up some steam, with Deadline reporting that director Stephen Gaghan has started assembling his supporting cast to join Robert Downey Jr. in the title role. Deadline is reporting that Antonio Banderas will play the main antagonist, a pirate called Rassouli, […]

Movie Review – Brad’s Status (2017)

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Brad’s Status, 2017. Directed by Mike White. Starring Ben Stiller, Austin Abrams, Jenna Fischer, Michael Sheen, Jemaine Clement, Luke Wilson and Mike White. SYNOPSIS: A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life’s choices. Though once upon […]