Valentine Wiggin actress Abigail Breslin is set to star in Peste, a contagion thriller produced by Sheryll Clark (Cloverfield) and financed by IM Global. According to The Hollywood Reporter, she will play a teenage girl whose family is quarantined during a viral epidemic that turns people into monsters. It seems, however, that the quarantined might not be safe after all. Production on Peste is set to begin in September.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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According to Variety, Hailee Steinfeld’s upcoming film Romeo and Juliet (out July 26 in the UK) has found a US distributor with Relativity Media. The company will release the film in the United States on September 6, 2013! See a new still of Hailee as Juliet above and watch the trailer for the film below.
The film was shot early last year in Italy in Mantua, the Northern Italian city to which Romeo was banished in the play, and at Rome’s Cinecitta Studios. Producers have been touting “Romeo and Juliet” as an ageless story reimagined for the 21st Century and told in the traditional setting it was written.
Hailee has done several projects since Ender’s Game and Romeo and Juliet will be her first appearance on the big screen since her Academy award nominated performance in 2010’s True Grit.
Source: Variety
Moises Arias talked with The Hollywood Reporter about The Kings of Summer and Ender’s Game, which is out on a wider release today and briefly talked about how to portray a character from a book. “You read the book, you read the script, they’re two different art forms.”
He also had great things to say about his time on set. “That was probably one of the most memorable experiences for me. I do believe that I’m going to be very different from what people were predicting, but I think it’s going to be a different flavor to what Bonzo is. I’m just happy that I got the opportunity.”
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Check out the trailer for Paranoia, a new movie starring Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and Liam Hemsworth.
Synopsis:
The high stakes thriller Paranoia takes us deep behind the scenes of global success to a deadly world of greed and deception. The two most powerful tech billionaires in the world (Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman) are bitter rivals with a complicated past who will stop at nothing to destroy each other. A young superstar (Liam Hemsworth), seduced by unlimited wealth and power falls between them, and becomes trapped in the middle of the twists and turns of their life-and-death game of corporate espionage. By the time he realizes his life is in danger, he is in far too deep and knows far too much for them to let him walk away.
Paranoia hits theaters August 16, 2013.
AOL has posted a 30 minute interview with Moises Arias in which he talks briefly about Ender’s Game and Bonzo.
Right before this film, I was doing Ender’s Game and they shaved my head on the last day of shooting, which led to that weird haircut in the film [Kings of Summer] and previously the director was like, “Don’t cut it before you come to set.” and I showed up with that in between stage of it actually growing out and it just being buzz cut and it ended up working. I look very sexy.
So while it’s a small little tidbit, it is interesting that they’d shave his head on the last day of filming. It would mean that he’s got a full head of hair (which we’ve seen in set pictures) for basically the whole movie and then for whatever reason, they suddenly wanted him to have a buzz cut.
What do you guys think this could mean? Does Bonzo shave his head because Ender drives him over the edge? Does he do it just before his fight with Ender? Or does the Battle School do it after the fight as a result of the fight?
Moises also talks about his career and about how grateful he is to his parents and family for the support they’ve always given him in pursuing his dreams. He then talks to two fans about the evolution of his career.
Source: AOL
Moises Arias went to the Young Hollywood studio to talk about his upcoming projects and being called a young Dustin Hoffman. When the conversation switched to Ender’s Game, he said to expect “the doucheyest character ever” (yeah, I have no idea how to spell that either) and that there’s not one ounce of nice in Bonzo. He also mentions again how all the extras were scared of him on set.
Source: Young Hollywood
Check out Viola Davis (Anderson), in the first trailer for her new movie ‘Prisoners’ which also stars Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhal.
Synopsis:
A Boston man kidnaps the person he suspects is behind the disappearance of his young daughter and her best friend.
Prisoners will hit theaters on September 20, 2013.
Sadly, I’ll have to skip this one. If there’s one thing I can’t handle, it’s kidnapped kids. Or dead kidnapped kids. Or just dead kids. Shutter Island scarred me for life.
If you live in the LA or NY areas, Moises Arias’ (Bonzo) much talked about film, The Kings of Summer, is out on limited release today.
The movie, which is about three young boys who run away from home and build a house in the woods, has gained a lot of critical acclaim recently at film festivals. Watch the trailer below and find out where you can get tickets for a wider release next week on June 7.
Let this be a lesson to me that the next time I hit the snooze button on my phone alarm, I should check email first. Haha!
Empire Online has just released a new still from Ender’s Game showing Ender in the Battle Room with Graff watching nearby. We get a really amazing look at the gate from the inside along with a better idea at just how massive the Battle Room is.
Empire spoke with Asa about the Battle Room scenes. Some of it we’ve heard before, some of it we haven’t, including the Battle Room scene he’s most proud of.
During their training, Ender and his unit take on a lot of other teams in the Battle Room. Any stunts you’re particularly proud of pulling off?
There’s a really cool sequence where I’m sort of spinning over backwards and I let go of my guns. They’re floating by my side just going along. As I push myself through these two stars, I spin back over and grab the guns, then shoot the people around me. I loved doing that.
He also mentions that they spent a month and a half filming scenes in the harness, which should be comforting for fans that were concerned by something author Orson Scott Card said last year at a book signing that one scene in the Battle Room is too many.
Source: Empire
RedCarpetNewsTV spoke with Sir Ben Kingsley last week and chatted a bit about Ender’s Game and working with Gavin Hood. Here’s a transcript as well:
Ender’s Game is a project that fans are so excited about. What can fans expect from the film adaptation of that? Of course you play a major part.
I’ve only seen some tiny clips of it, but I loved working with the director and I think it’s going to be an absolutely spectacular film. Beautiful.
Working with Asa again, an astonishing young talent. What makes him such a promising young star?
Intelligence and application and a well-brought up boy. He has a lovely mother.
Harrison Ford as well, the cast is littered with greats. What’s it like working with him?
He’s a delight, we got along really well. Yeah. Really well.
Here’s a video of Khylin Rhambo (Dink) and Aramis Knight (Bean) doing a video review of the PSiO, which is a pair of audiovisual stimulation glasses that provide audio and color therapy.
Khylin and Aramis do mention Ender’s Game a bit, saying that there were some really emotional scenes that they had to do and that these glasses really would have helped them to get into character.
Unfortunately, these glasses cost $399, so unless PSiO wants to send a pair to a sci-fi movie fansite called EnderWiggin.net for review, I don’t think I’ll get to try them. *cough cough*
Watch the trailer for Abigail Breslin’s new movie August: Osage County, a film adaptation of a popular Broadway play of the same name. August: Osage County will be in theaters one week after Ender’s Game on November 8, 2013.
Asa Butterfield will be working with Chloe Moretz again next year as Variety reports that the two young actors are now tied to a film called ‘The White Circus’.
“Circus” is an adventure-romance that takes place on a snowy New Year’s Eve, when a young pilot crashes his plane into a war-torn town on his first mission. There, he falls in love with a beautiful cabaret singer, befriends a talking circus bear and incites the townsfolk to liberate themselves from a despot.
The film will begin shooting in Germany in February 2014.
With schedules for both Asa and Hailee filling up, it makes an Ender’s Game fan start to worry about the stars having time for filming sequels, should there be any…
Source: Variety