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Who is the Most Surprising Omission on the Forbes List of Highest-Earning Actors in Hollywood?

In a similar fashion with what they did with actresses , Forbes has released a list of the 15 highest-earning actors in Hollywood (caveat here for the perhaps inexact figures). Topping the list? Not Johnny Depp (No. 2) or Will Smith (No. 4), but Leonardo DiCaprio, who — thanks to his one-two 2010 punch of Shutter Island and Inception — has earned upward of $77 million in the last year. Kudos, Leo! The rest of the list is populated with familiar faces like Adam Sandler, Tom Cruise and Tim Allen. Wait, what is Tim Allen doing here?

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Who is the Most Surprising Omission on the Forbes List of Highest-Earning Actors in Hollywood?

Finally: Aliens, 3-D, Sarah Jessica Parker, Brendan Fraser and the Weinsteins Join Forces

This just in from The Weinstein Company: Sarah Jessica Parker, Brendan Fraser, Jessica Alba, James Gandolfini and Rob Corddry are among the voice talent joining the studio’s 3-D animated family flick Escape From Planet Earth . Says co-writer/director Cal Brunker: ” Escape From Planet Earth has got it all… explosions, romance and a cast of hilarious aliens….what more could you ask for?” Oh, I dunno. A flow chart ? A shotgun? Let’s check out the full announcement and consider alternatives in the comments.

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Finally: Aliens, 3-D, Sarah Jessica Parker, Brendan Fraser and the Weinsteins Join Forces

Cameron Crowe Believes He Got the Definitive Performance from Crystal the Monkey in We Bought a Zoo

This December, Cameron Crowe returns with We Bought a Zoo — his first feature film since 2005. According to a new article in USA Today , the writer/director is not relying on performances from stars Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson to recover the critical reputation he damaged with Elizabethtown — but the groundbreaking work of Crystal, the capuchin monkey from The Hangover Part II .

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Cameron Crowe Believes He Got the Definitive Performance from Crystal the Monkey in We Bought a Zoo

VIDEO: Agent Coulson Bridges Marvel Gaps in One-Shot Short The Consultant

Here’s a treat for Marvel fans who live for the film-bridging post-credits scenes and cameos that have connected The Incredible Hulk , the Iron Man films, Thor , and Captain America : a short starring S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) that begins to fill in the space between the different Marvel films leading into The Avengers . After the jump, watch the deadpan Agent Coulson hatch a plan to dispatch a superhero code-named “The Consultant” — described as “arrogant and abrasive, with an utter disdain for authority.” Sound familiar?

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VIDEO: Agent Coulson Bridges Marvel Gaps in One-Shot Short The Consultant

The Change-Up: ‘No Dumber Than a Movie About Talking Apes’

Judging from Twitter buzz, The Change-Up is either a really funny (and really dirty) R-rated comedy with marketing that does it a great disservice, or the terrible body swap disaster that the marketing points toward. Perhaps that’s why this new promotion for the Universal laugher gets right to the core of things: Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds are funny and handsome, and you probably really like them. Translation: let them sell the movie! And sell they do: “It’s no dumber than a movie about a bunch of talking apes.”

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The Change-Up: ‘No Dumber Than a Movie About Talking Apes’

Check Out the Poster for Apollo 18: In Spacesuit, No One Can Hear You Scream

Another day, another hair-raising poster that terrible parents let their kids see. This one’s a closeup of an astronaut presumably waiting to perish in Apollo 18 , a disturbing “found-footage” mockumentary in the style of The Blair Witch Project and The Real Housewives of New Jersey . Handle it?

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Check Out the Poster for Apollo 18: In Spacesuit, No One Can Hear You Scream

Great Movie Apes: Ella from Monkey Shines

Rumor has it that this week the apes will rise . So in honor of our primate cousins and their varied achievements on film, Movieline will honor one great movie ape/monkey/chimp each day who embodies an admirable quality found in monkeykind. Today, we look to the fearsome potential in the primate race, as embodied by Ella in George Romero’s 1988 horror pic Monkey Shines . Who is at fault when a monkey kills… for her master?

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Great Movie Apes: Ella from Monkey Shines

Ben Foster Cast as John Gotti Jr. Opposite John Travolta and Al Pacino in Gotti Biopic

Big news on the Gotti front of the non-legal variety : Fiore Films has just announced that Ben Foster has signed on to star in Barry Levinson’s star-studded crime family biopic, Gotti: In The Shadow Of My Father as John Gotti Jr. opposite John Travolta and Al Pacino. The project will be a reunion for Levinson and Foster, who worked together on the 1999 period drama Liberty Heights .

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Ben Foster Cast as John Gotti Jr. Opposite John Travolta and Al Pacino in Gotti Biopic

Jayma Mays on the Joy of Smurfs and Future of Glee

Not counting her miniscule blond counterpart Smurfette, Jayma Mays is the female lead in what may yet turn out to be the past weekend’s number one film. And yet, as a phenomenon, the movie adaptation of The Smurfs pales in the long shadow of Mays’s other gig: As the germophobic guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury on the megahit series Glee . Talk about hitting a Daily Double.

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Jayma Mays on the Joy of Smurfs and Future of Glee

Lars von Trier’s Upcoming Nymphomaniac ‘Will Not Be Porn’ Despite Hardcore Sex

It’s unofficially Lars von Trier day here at Movieline. First, the controversial director revealed that he somewhat regretted making Dogville , since it was hailed as a favorite film by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. Now, the director is again making news by explaining how his sexually-charged upcoming project Nymphomaniac will carefully avoid entering porn terrain. Sorta.

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Lars von Trier’s Upcoming Nymphomaniac ‘Will Not Be Porn’ Despite Hardcore Sex