Josh Pence, better known as the actor who was shafted in The Social Network when producers superimposed Armie Hammer’s visage on his, has been cast in The Dark Knight Rises . The actor will play a young Ra’s Al Ghul (Batman’s mentor-turned-enemy) in flashback scenes. Here’s to hoping that the actor gets, quite literally, the face time he deserves. [ THR ]
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Faceless Social Network Actor Finds Redemption in Dark Knight Rises
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Confession time: I love Justin Timberlake. Not his music career, mind you — though who doesn’t love a little ” Rock Your Body ” every once in a while — but his acting one. You can grumble that he jumped the shark with endless appearances on SNL and his performance as himself — er, Sean Parker in The Social Network , but for my money, Timberlake constantly hits it out of the park. He even makes something as disposable as Bad Teacher look moderately watchable in a “Let’s wait to see it on a Wednesday night on HBO2 !” sort of way. All of which is a long way around saying that his presence in Friends with Benefits is key to making this summer rom-com look positively charming.
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TRAILER: Could Friends with Benefits Be the Movie No Strings Attached Wished It Was?
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When I was a little kid, I really, really, really loved the Oscars. For a wee gay movie-obsessed lad growing up in the suburbs of Atlanta, it was the sort of annual event to be anticipated with both excitement and reverence. Every year when we’d get the TV Guide issue with the full-page “Close-Up” box on the Oscars, featuring thumbnail pictures of the ten Best Actor and Actress nominees, my heart would race. Before I was old enough that my parents would let me stay up late and watch the whole thing (this was back when the show began at 9 p.m. on the East Coast), I somehow convinced them to nudge me awake at midnight, tell me who won in the major categories, and then I’d roll over and go back to sleep.
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Alonso’s Oscar Picks: The Kids Are All Right, The Oscars Are Not
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Twilight fans who flock to see Drive Angry 3D this weekend in support of Billy Burke are in for a bit of a surprise, as the actor — who plays the calm, mustachioed father to Kristen Stewart’s Bella in Summit’s Twilight Saga films — swaggers his way through the South as a sexually-charged Satanic cult leader. To put it plainly, Burke’s Jim Jones-meets-Jim Morrison villain gives co-star Nicolas Cage a run for his money in the anti-subtlety department, and Burke clearly relished every second of the departure from Charlie Swan.
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Billy Burke on His ‘Tasty’ Turn in Drive Angry 3D and the Red Riding Hood/Twilight Connection
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Were I a betting man, I’d probably stick to the the conclusions of the exhaustively-researched Movieline Oscar Index . More to point: I know in my mind that The King’s Speech will probably win most of the awards, but I just don’t feel it in my heart! And here in Paris , where Speech has only been out for a few weeks and everyone’s obsessed with David Fincher, the cultural climate is still screaming The Social Network ! So here it goes: I’m still predicting a “Facebook movie” sweep.
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Brian’s Oscar Predictions: The King’s What?
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As we race toward O-Day, Movieline’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics has worked tirelessly to parse the latest input, insight and insanity to arise in the build-up to the 83rd Academy Awards. It hasn’t always been pretty, but it’s as close to empirically accurate as you’re going to get without a peephole at PricewaterhouseCoopers. And this week we’ve been especially busy. To the Index!
Apparently director David Ellis’ victory with the Snakes on a Plane title just wasn’t enough. Now the director has hit the internet with a campaign to title his upcoming 3-D shark thriller… Untitled 3-D Shark Thriller . As the director tells it , “The title says everything you need to know: ‘We’ve got sharks.’ ‘It’s in 3D.’ and, ‘It’s a thriller.'” Fair enough! In honor of what will surely become a hot Hollywood trend, let’s see how some other upcoming movies fare with literal, reductive titles.
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As Director Fights to Call Movie Untitled 3-D Shark Thriller, Here Are Literal Title Ideas for 11 More Movies
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Looks like reduction is the name of the game today! Variety has just asked all five Best Director nominees to sum up their entire film with a one word theme. Well, all of the nominees except David Fincher, who, true to form , had his editors chime in instead. Anyway, just to get your brains fired up in the morning, take a shot at matching each one word theme to the films, which actually have quite a bit overlap… you know, when they are reduced to one word.
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Game: Match the ‘Big’ One-Word Theme to the Film of the Best Director Nominee
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That was fast ! Barely three hours after it began circulating that Queen Elizabeth II saw — and apparently loved — The King’s Speech , The Weinstein Company released a press release trumpeting her royal approval. But will the quick response wind up backfiring?
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The Weinstein Company Already Using Queen Elizabeth II’s Endorsement of The King’s Speech
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Technically speaking, Nicolas Cage’s ridiculous medieval actioner Season of the Witch has earned the worst reviews of the year thus far, currently simmering at a robust 4 percent over at Rotten Tomatoes . But there’s a difference between a cheesy period B-movie that’s simply silly and a wannabe heartwarming film whose protagonist actively inspires revulsion, alarm, and twee murder fantasies among the critical mass. World, meet Waiting for Forever : the most despised movie of 2011!
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Is Waiting for Forever the Most Hated Movie of the Year?
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