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Actress Emma Roberts is getting witchy on FX. The actress, no stranger to horror after starring in Scream 4, is in talks to join the cast of Ryan Murphy’s witch-themed TV creeper American Horror Story: Coven. Roberts would play a narcissistic party animal called Madison.
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The Hunger Games star Josh Hutcherson is set to star in psychological thriller Ape from Atomic Owl Pictures and Jet Lag Productions. The film tells the story of a young man’s struggle with mental illness, love and a deep family secret. It is set to be directed by Miguel Sapochnik from a screenplay by Jon Johnstone.
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When Marvel’s The Avengers 2 hits theaters in May 2015, The Host actress Saoirse Ronan may be painting the town red as the character the Scarlet Witch.
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Call it the show where everything is so crazy, it’s just about as brilliant as it seems. Orphan Black is BBC America’s first series, shot in Ontario and from Ginger Snaps director John Fawcett and Grame Manson (who wrote Vincenzo Natali’s Cube). The series has cult-hit written all over it, but its Tatiana Maslany’s performance that has us swooning at the series, playing Sarah, a woman who steals the identity of another woman who commits suicide. The twist? They look exactly the same.
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The Joaquin Phoenix-led film Her, directed by Spike Jonze, has been fairly silent since last fall, but the film has now been set to hit theaters November 20 and will likely gain some awards-season momentum for Annapurna Pictures (studio behind last year’s The Master and Zero Dark Thirty). The film has also added Scarlett Johansson and Chris Pratt.
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The handsome High School Musical star Zac Efron is going back to high school again, but this time as a narc. The actor will be playing the big man on campus, with many roles as a college student, fraternity president and lacrosse team captain who gets busted for drugs that were meant for a party in Fox’s film Narc. The police offer to let him go free if he becomes a narc, secretly helping the police catch the bad guys while carrying on the usual campus activities.
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In what seems like an endless string of siblings coming to Hollywood, Liam Hemsworth is looking to achieve star-status similar to his Thor brother Chris Hemsworth, mainly thanks to Hunger Games franchise and now adding Aurora Rising. Which has hints of a Point Break star-making role.
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How did we get here? The turbulent production of Natalie Portman’s upcoming Western Jane Got a Gun is finally stumbling into town, but with a much different posse than had originally rode out. To see how this shootout played out, read on:
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Emily Blunt and Christine Baranski are the stars currently in talks with Disney to join their upcoming musical adaptation of Into the Woods. If signed, the two actresses will join Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep, and potentially Chris Pine and Jake Gyllenhaal, who are also in talks to join the film.
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Kate Hudson is joining Zach Braff’s new film, Wish I Was Here. The film, written by Zach and his brother, Adam Braff, tells the story of a struggling actor in his thirties who reconnects with his family as he seeks purpose in life.
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In an exclusive for Cigarette and Red Vines, Sean Penn is set to board Paul Thomas Anderson’s next much-anticipated project Inherent Vice. Already starring Joaquin Phoenix, Benicio Del Toro, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, Jena Malone, Kevin O’Connor and Martin Short you have to wonder who’s next.
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Honestly, this lineup will make cinephiles scream at the top of their lungs, but it has me at odds. Robert De Niro is set to join Leonardo DiCaprio’s JFK assassination conspiracy film, Legacy of Secrecy with David O. Russell on board to direct. The film was announced way back in 2010 by DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company and has finally landed some forward momentum.
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The talented Philip Seymour Hoffman has been signed to star in a film called God’s Pocket. The film is set in a working-class neighborhood called God’s Pocket. Hoffman plays a man named Mickey, whose mentally unbalanced stepson, Leon, is killed in what appears to be a construction accident.
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That “great Scot” and recent action hero Gerard Butler is in negotiations to take flight as the lead in The Raven. The sci-fi conspiracy thriller is based on a 2010 short film by Ricardo de Montreuil and Antonio Perez. Butler recently established his role as an action star in Olympus Has Fallen.
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After years of speculation, mobile video game sensation Angry Birds is to become a feature film. Sony Pictures recently won the worldwide distribution rights to produce an animated film based on the spectacularly popular video game by Rovio Entertainment. Despicable Me producer John Cohen and Iron Man producer David Maisel have both signed on to produce the film. No director or cast has yet been selected.
