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Marverlously Animated Illusionist Brings a Little Long-Gestating Magic to Toronto

Seven years in the actual assembly and about 50 more in the making, The Illusionist is a labor of love that achieves an increasingly rare phenomenon in feature animation: timelessness. Eager to brand their efforts with some new shiny technology or unparalleled verisimilitude, animators often turn to of-the-moment developments, and their films mark that moment as a result. And yet a growing number have either stuck with or retreated to a kind of slow animation, trusting story and style to carry the day.

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Marverlously Animated Illusionist Brings a Little Long-Gestating Magic to Toronto

Andrew Garfield Talks to Movieline About Never Let Me Go, Spider-Man, and ‘Death Around the Corner’

Andrew Garfield’s lunch arrived before he did this afternoon in Toronto: a light salad with chicken and broccoli, vinaigrette on the side, and six slices of tomatoes. Digging into the greens, one of the journalists gathered to discuss Garfield’s new film Never Let Me Go asked if this was actually the Spider-Man diet. “It’s food that I’m eating,” the actor replied. “So yes.” And so continued the enduring push-pull between the 27-year-old’s smoldering, carefully cultivated dramatic presence and his future as the Great White Blockbuster Hope.

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Andrew Garfield Talks to Movieline About Never Let Me Go, Spider-Man, and ‘Death Around the Corner’

First Look: Julie Taymor’s Insane Spider-Man Costume Designs

With all this talk about Marc Webb’s bigscreen Spider-Man reboot, you may have forgotten that Julie Taymor is still working on her troubled Broadway adaptation of the property, Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark . After seeing her costumes, though, you’ll never forget it again.

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First Look: Julie Taymor’s Insane Spider-Man Costume Designs

James Cameron’s Movieline Interview: Cameron Takes on Bad 3D, Inception, and Spider-Man

Last Thursday, I had a lengthy, terrific interview with James Cameron in advance of the special edition of Avatar (rereleased to theaters August 27), and all this week, Movieline will bring you pieces of that wide-ranging talk. Before its release last December, Avatar was touted as a 3D game-changer, and it certainly has been — though not always in ways James Cameron intended. What does he think of the trend of post-conversion 3D, the push for 3D television sets, and mega movies like Inception (which resisted a 3D conversion) and the Spider-Man reboot (which will be shot natively in 3D)? Cameron told Movieline.

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James Cameron’s Movieline Interview: Cameron Takes on Bad 3D, Inception, and Spider-Man

EXCLUSIVE: Why Zac Efron Doesn’t Want to Play a Superhero: ‘You Have to Earn the Right to Shoot Web’

Zac Efron is a huge comic book geek, but he knows that other comic book geeks won’t believe that. As he told Movieline this weekend, that’s exactly why he hasn’t accepted any of the superhero roles he’s had first pick of.

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EXCLUSIVE: Why Zac Efron Doesn’t Want to Play a Superhero: ‘You Have to Earn the Right to Shoot Web’

Aaron Johnson Enters X-Men, Fatherhood

Sure, Aaron Johnson didn’t get that Spider-Man role. He didn’t want it anyway! At least the 20-year-old actor has two nifty consolation prizes: a rumored role as Cyclops in X-Men: First Class (where he’d reunite with his Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn), and a new baby daughter, Wylda Rose , birthed by his 43-year-old Nowhere Boy director Sam Taylor-Wood. It is safe to say that no one loves his directors more than Aaron Johnson. [ AICN , Daily Mail ]

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Josh Hutcherson: ‘Everybody Has Roles They Wanted and Didn’t Get’

What a difference a few months make. When we profiled Josh Hutcherson in The Verge last August , he was a promising young actor in two low-profile films that failed to do much business. This year, though, his career has taken off with a bang: not only was he heavily considered to play the title character in the reboot of Spider-Man , but the 17-year-old has supplanted Brendan Fraser as the star of their franchise, Journey to the Center of the Earth . And then there’s Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right : as Laser, the young son who spurs his mothers (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) to meet the sperm donor who fathered him, Hutcherson turns in a winning performance in one of the best films of the year. Last month, I sat down with the up-and-comer to discuss how shocked he was that people found Kids to be a comedy, what exactly is going on with the troubled remake of Red Dawn , and how he feels when he loses out on a major role (in what turned out to be a prescient conversation).

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Josh Hutcherson: ‘Everybody Has Roles They Wanted and Didn’t Get’

Buzz Break: Zach Galifianakis Has a Funny Story for You

When Is Color-Blind Casting Okay And When Is It Not?

It seems like The Last Airbender has at least 99 problems — excruciatingly bad 3D, thuddingly clumsy dialogue, sub-Jake Lloydian acting and more — but should the color of its cast really be one of them? When io9 proffered Community actor Donald Glover as a possible new Spider-Man , the internet seized on it as its new favorite meme. Sure, Glover is black while Peter Parker in the movies, TV shows and comic books has always been white, but Glover is hilarious, as Spidey should be, and could have easily played the part. So why was this move lauded while Airbender has been met with protests and picket lines ?

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When Is Color-Blind Casting Okay And When Is It Not?

Behold: First Pictures of Andrew Garfield at the Spider-Man Press Announcement

These just came over the wire from Cancun, where the big announcement was made. He looks as surprised as you are. Two more (including one with director Marc Webb), after the jump.

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Behold: First Pictures of Andrew Garfield at the Spider-Man Press Announcement