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Kerry Washington To Star In “Django Unchained”

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Kerry Washington will reunite with Jamie Foxx in Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film “Django Unchained.” According to deadline.com, Kerrry will play Broomhilda, the wife of Django (Jamie Foxx), making this the second time she plays the spouse of a Jamie Foxx character (she portrayed Della Bea Robinson in ‘Ray). The actress joins a cast that already includes Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz, Don Johnson, Kurt Russell and Samuel L. Jackson. Deadline notes that while she was Tarantino’s choice from the beginning, the possibility of “making a discovery in the role” appealed to him, and he did perform “a long casting search before settling on Ms Washington for what is essentially the film’s female lead. Bistro Chez Lucienne: French in the Heart of Harlem Nice to see black actresses getting work! Kerry Washington Steals The Shine On Emmy’s Red Carpet [PHOTOS] Kerry Washington Stars In New ABC Series “Scandal” [TRAILER]

Kerry Washington To Star In “Django Unchained”

Fox Developing a Zombieland TV Series and 5 Other Stories You’ll be Talking About Today

Zombies are primetime draws in 2011, dear friends, and that means Zombieland is coming back as a TV series. Hooray? Also in the Broadsheet: Shia LaBeouf gets into a street fight on camera (yikes!) and eyes a “giant” new film role (awww), the Octomom becomes an actress, and a Scrabble competitor plays dirty.

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Fox Developing a Zombieland TV Series and 5 Other Stories You’ll be Talking About Today

5 Suggestions for Amazing, 3-D Adaptations of Victorian Novels

Remakes often suck — but when they’re total stylistic upheavals of the source material, I’m more optimistic. Would you see a whacked-out, space-age remake of a classic period piece like Little Dorrit ? I would! Or better yet, this weekend’s ridiculous, steampunk The Three Musketeers in 3-D? It puts the “rich” in Richelieu and the “dumbass” in Dumas. I dig it! Ahead, we investigate five other Victorian novels worth revisiting in a fulgent 3-D experience. Put on your special glasses, Heathcliff.

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5 Suggestions for Amazing, 3-D Adaptations of Victorian Novels

Carnage Trailer: Three Oscar Winners, One Nominee Bicker Like Children

What happens when you let Academy Award winner Roman Polanski confine three Oscar winners (and one lonely nominee) in a single house to film an entire argument-driven black comedy? Carnage , the upcoming feature from the controversial filmmaker which stars, on one side, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz, and on the other side, Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly, as two sets of parents who meet to calmly discuss — and then outright argue — over their sparring school children.

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Carnage Trailer: Three Oscar Winners, One Nominee Bicker Like Children

Yup, Shaquille O’Neal is Attending Film School

Today’s entry in the annals of Hollywood dilettantism can be found on the back lot at Universal, where recently retired NBA legend and erstwhile rapping genie Shaquille O’N eal has taken up… film school.

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Yup, Shaquille O’Neal is Attending Film School

Who Has the Oscar-Worthiest Anger in These New Carnage Pics?

The four-actor cast of Roman Polanski’s Carnage (Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet, and Christoph Waltz) is an Oscar-friendly bunch: Together they’ve acquired 12 nominations in their collective careers, four wins, and enough actorly cred to warrant accolades for the rest of their lives. In new stills from Carnage — which is based on Yasmina Reza’s Tony award winning play — the esteemed quartet grimaces and smirks like their director just made an off-color joke about Valley of the Dolls . Who’s facial expressions deserve the Oscar most?

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Who Has the Oscar-Worthiest Anger in These New Carnage Pics?

Roman Polanski’s Carnage Set to Open 49th New York Film Festival

Word just over the Movieline transom reports that the 49th New York Film Festival will open Sept. 30 with Carnage , Roman Polanski’s screen adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning play God of Carnage .

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Roman Polanski’s Carnage Set to Open 49th New York Film Festival

Rupert Grint Got His Harry Potter Part the Hard Way

Ah, memories: “I was a fish in Noah’s ark in the school play, and now I’m in Harry Potter. It’s a big step. I first found out about the auditions in Newsround. They said to send in some information about yourself and a photograph. So I sent one in and waited weeks and weeks and weeks, and nothing happened. I really wanted this part because I was the biggest Harry Potter fan at the time. I went on the website of Newsround, and some of the kids had been sending in videotapes of themselves reading from the book. So I made a videotape. First, I dressed up as my drama teacher, who’s a girl, so that was kind of scary. Then I made this rap song of how much I wanted to be in the film.” [ Moviefone ]

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Rupert Grint Got His Harry Potter Part the Hard Way

Kevin Costner In Talks for Sadistic Baddie in Django Unchained

It wouldn’t be a Quentin Tarantino film without some kind of reclamation project (see: John Travolta, Robert Forster, Pam Grier, David Carradine, Michael Parks), and so Django Unchained finally feels complete. Deadline reports that Kevin Costner is in talks to play the villainous sidekick of Leonardo DiCaprio in QT’ s latest genre potboiler, a role that goes wildly against Costner’s all-American wolf-dancing ’90s-era type.

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Kevin Costner In Talks for Sadistic Baddie in Django Unchained

Universal Puts Brakes on Ron Howard’s Dark Tower Adaptation

Perhaps the ambitious three-film-two-television-series plan that Ron Howard and Universal had to adapt Stephen King’s sprawling novel series The Dark Tower was a bit too ambitious. Deadline reports that the studio has put the pre-production Dark Tower team on hiatus, four months before shooting was set to begin.

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Universal Puts Brakes on Ron Howard’s Dark Tower Adaptation