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Fox Searchlight Will Release Fassbender-Mulligan Pic Shame This December

Well, lookie who just officially entered the Oscar race! Fox Searchlight excitedly Tweeted today that they’ll release filmmaker Steve McQueen’s hot festival pickup Shame on December 2, 2011. That means two things: A) Rejigger those early Oscar charts to allow for stars Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, and B) get ready for some erotic, angsty December sexytime. Just in time for the holidays! [ @FoxSearchlight ]

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Be Brave! New War Horse Trailer Will Run Off With Your Heart

“Can there be an Oscar nomination for a horse?” asks Sasha Stone at Awards Daily, providing her initial thoughts about the new trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-bait behemoth War Horse . I mean, it’s a great question! At this point I’m wondering if there anything this film can’t be nominated for.

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24 Movie Almost Has a Script, and 5 Other Stories You’ll be talking About Today

Happy Tuesday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Warner Bros. wants a Leonardo DiCaprio franchise… David Cronenberg has The Fly and Eastern Promises sequels on the brain… Fox fires back at those litigious Black Swan interns… Are you ready for some football nonsensical racist celebrity spewage?… and more.

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Nick Swardson to Bucky Larson Critics: Drop Dead

Porn-star guest critics notwithstanding: “It’s a lot of work and a lot of reviewers aren’t going into that movie to like it. They don’t want to like it. None of those reviewers was psyched to see Bucky Larson and laugh. They go in with the mentality, fuck these guys for making another movie. They go in there to kind of headhunt. It makes me laugh because it’s just so embarrassing. It makes them look like such morons. You can’t review Avatar then review Bucky Larson . Comedy is so subjective, you know what I mean? To sit there and technically pick it apart is so stupid. We’ve never made movies for critics, so we could give a fuck.” Clearly. [ Splitsider ]

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Stare at New Avengers Images of Avengers Staring at Things

The perfect way to gloss over a particularly terrible EW cover ? Let a bunch of new set pics slide their way onto the interwebs! Oh, Disney. So smart. Let’s take the bait and dive into the new, gloriously (seemingly) Photoshop-free Avengers images to salivate over hard bodies poured into superhero spandex! I’m talking about you, Chris Evans . And I guess you too, ScarJo .

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Sam Shepard on Blackthorn, His Hollywood Years and Why He’ll Never Write a Memoir

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor Sam Shepard doesn’t take a lot of lead film roles, but when he does, he makes them count. Take this week’s Blackthorn , the sweeping epic tale of what might have happened if — as some historians believe — legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy wasn’t gunned down by Bolivian forces in 1908, and instead went on to live a quiet, reclusive existence in that country under the pseudonym James Blackthorn.

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Johnny Depp Admits He Does the Pirates Films for ‘Stupid Money,’ Compares Photo Shoots to Rape

Today’s real talk from Johnny Depp , speaking with Vanity Fair about his lucrative Pirates of the Caribbean franchise: “Basically, if they’re going to pay me the stupid money right now, I’m going to take it… I have to. I mean, it’s not for me. Do you know what I mean? At this point, it’s for my kids. It’s ridiculous, yeah, yeah. But ultimately is it for me? No. No. It’s for the kids.” And, on the subject of being photographed: “Well, you just feel like you’re being raped somehow. Raped … It feels like a kind of weird — just weird, man.” [ Vanity Fair , THR ]

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Exclusive: Can You Guess Samuel L. Jackson’s Favorite Quentin Tarantino Film?

Samuel L. Jackson has contributed indelible performances to the oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino , most notably as the cool Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction , which nabbed him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod, and as the unhinged L.A. gun-runner Ordell Robbie (“O-R-D-E-L-L R-O-B-B-I-E”) in Tarantino’s follow-up, Jackie Brown , which garnered him a Golden Globes nomination. Jackson even lent his voice to 2009’s Inglourious Basterds and will appear in the upcoming Django Unchained . But which film does the frequent Tarantino player consider the director’s best, in which “the action plays out suddenly and completely for every character?”

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Watch Ellen Barkin Strangle Demi Moore, Battle Ellen Burstyn in Emotionally-Charged Another Happy Day Trailer

Imagine Rachel Getting Married , but instead of one emotionally unpredictable family member silently threatening to upset a family wedding, there are multiple. Enter Another Happy Day , the directorial debut of Sam Levinson (son of Barry) which features Ellen Barkin in a juicy comeback role as the volatile mother of the groom, Ellen Burstyn as her mother, Thomas Haden Church as her ex, Demi Moore as her ex’s new wife, recent Verge designee Ezra Miller as her drug addict son and Kate Bosworth as her cutter daughter. If your head’s not yet spinning, click ahead to see the family member-on-family member emotional crimes on display in the trailer for the messy matrimonial movie event of the year.

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The Most Sensitive and Insightful Review of 50/50 You’ll Read By a Guy Talking Like the Incredible Hulk

If you haven’t joined the cult of Film Crit Hulk , the anonymous blogger who writes astoundingly observed film musings in the character and voice of The Incredible Hulk, now’s as good a time as any to start reading with his recent post on Jonathan Levine and Will Reiser ‘s cancer dramedy 50/50 .

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