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Black Swan Ballerina Says Natalie Portman Basically Didn’t Dance

I was almost positive we’d never have to talk about awful-ass Black Swan again, but here comes a kick-ass, scorned ballerina with a tale to tell: Sarah Lane, a 27-year-old American Ballet Theater soloist who worked as a body double on Black Swan , tells EW that there’s a “cover-up” to prevent people from knowing she performed 95% of the cygnet moves in the movie. Now, I can’t guarantee that Sarah isn’t wearing black wings and circling her house right now like a crazed Sean Young type, but her quotes sound legitimate.

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Black Swan Ballerina Says Natalie Portman Basically Didn’t Dance

Notting Hill Director Casting the Sexiest FDR Movie of All Time

You may never become the President of the United States, declare war on Nazi Germany or revive the economy from a Great Depression, but now you can play someone who has done all three things onscreen. Notting Hill director Roger Michell is searching for U.S. actors to play Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his distant cousin Daisy and his wife Eleanor for the film Hyde Park On Hudson , about the romantic relationship between FDR and Daisy. Michell hopes that the film, being developed by the UK’ s Film4, will begin shooting later this year. Casting suggestions encouraged below. [ Deadline ]

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Notting Hill Director Casting the Sexiest FDR Movie of All Time

Movieline’s Week in Review: Farewell, My Lovely

Our emotions got the best of us this week at Movieline HQ, where devastating losses, frightening feuds and more than a couple wild cultural developments took their tolls. But now it’s Friday, and we have weekend editor Dixon Gaines’s stabilizing influence to look forward to. Rejoice, and drop back by Saturday and Sunday as the healing begins. Have a good one!

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Movieline’s Week in Review: Farewell, My Lovely

Don’t Worry, the Years-Off Spider-Man Sequel Has a Screenwriter Attached

Barely two months have past since Sony unveiled the first glimpse of Andrew Garfield wearing his ribcage-flattering Amazing Spider-Man leotard, and already Columbia has given the thumbs up to the sequel ‘s screenwriter. Who is the mystery scribe? Is it Michael Arndt, fresh off of Toy Story 3 ? Jane Campion? Paddy Chayefsky? Click through for the fresh scandal.

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Don’t Worry, the Years-Off Spider-Man Sequel Has a Screenwriter Attached

Michael Shannon Might Be Your Next Superman Villain

Sorry, Latino Review . Just hours after the publication floated Edgar Ramirez as the villain in Zack Snyder’s upcoming Superman reboot, Deadline has singled out Oscar-nominated Revolutionary Road actor Michael Shannon as the forerunner for Superman: Man of Steel bad guy. [ Deadline ]

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Michael Shannon Might Be Your Next Superman Villain

Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman Will Melt Your Computer in Clip from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman Will Melt Your Computer in Clip from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

First Look: Shia LaBeouf Gets His Prohibition On in The Wettest County in the World

For a lot of film aficionados, The Wettest County in the World is one of the most highly anticipated projects currently in production. The adaptation of Matt Bondurant’s Prohibition-set novel has attracted a host top-line talent — including Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Gary Oldman — and director John Hillcoat, meaning it should be equal parts gritty and violent. Not this first image from the set though, which features LaBeouf grinning alongside some youngsters in their best period-appropriate wardrobe.

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First Look: Shia LaBeouf Gets His Prohibition On in The Wettest County in the World

First Look: Shia LaBeouf Gets His Prohibition On in The Wettest County in the World

For a lot of film aficionados, The Wettest County in the World is one of the most highly anticipated projects currently in production. The adaptation of Matt Bondurant’s Prohibition-set novel has attracted a host top-line talent — including Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Gary Oldman — and director John Hillcoat, meaning it should be equal parts gritty and violent. Not this first image from the set though, which features LaBeouf grinning alongside some youngsters in their best period-appropriate wardrobe.

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First Look: Shia LaBeouf Gets His Prohibition On in The Wettest County in the World

TIMELINE: The Hobbit’s Troubled 75-Year Journey From Page to Screen

On Monday, somewhat incredibly, The Hobbit finally started filming . Amid the seemingly weekly reports of turmoil and lawsuits surrounding the two-part Hobbit film over the last few years, it’s easy to forget just how long this movie has been in production — and the minor miracle it is that not only is The Hobbit being filmed, but Peter Jackson is behind the camera. So let’s take a quick look back — a “Dummy’s Guide,” if you will — at the timeline associated with the long, torturous journey that finally got us to where we are today.

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TIMELINE: The Hobbit’s Troubled 75-Year Journey From Page to Screen