Taylor Lautner Going Indie with Gus Van Sant

As the case with teen heart-throbs, they get older and interest begins to wane. Not right off but slowly all those fainting teenage girls standing in line for hours to see the object of their desire/lust give an autograph migrate to someone else. Sometimes said idol has the talent and drive to prove their more than a pretty face rocking Teen Beat. Tom Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio are prime examples.

Taylor Lautner is hoping he can following in that direction.

THR reports Lautner is teaming with helmer Gus Van Sant on a low-budget affair with the sole information being a non-fiction The New Yorker magazine as the film's source.

He's beginning to face the twilight (errr, no spun intended, I swear!) of his career after the failure of his first non-Twilight solo endeavor Abduction. It was shit as was his performance. He might be a nice kid but severely lacking in the thespian department, he is. The hope is Van Sant, a hit-and-miss director let's be honest, can reach in and get something outta him we've yet to see onscreen. The script, for which a writer is expected to be announced later in the week, will help too.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt In Action On The TDKR Set

Yesterday we saw the pics of Bane's mercs on motorbikes with hostages strapped to the backs, today comes video of them bursting out of a building with John Blake (JGL) taking aim at them. Apparently the hostages are Gotham City stockbrokers.

This is a risky sequence in my view, it's certainly inventive and I have faith in Nolan pulling it off, but there is the slight danger it could come off as unintentionally comical.

darkknightrisesrumors.com got the vid via Splash news.

The Dark Knight Rises With Joseph Gordon-Levett

"Shame" Trailer

The drama stars Michael Fassbender as Brandon, a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control

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"We Need To Talk About Kevin" Trailer

Always an ambivalent mother, Eva and Kevin have had a contentious relationship literally from Kevin's birth. Kevin (Ezra Miller), now 15 years old, escalates the stakes when he commits a heinous act, leaving Eva to grapple with her feelings of grief and responsibility, as well as the ire of the community at large. The film explores nature vs. nurture on a whole new level as Eva's own culpability is measured against Kevin's innate evilness, while Ramsay's masterful storytelling leaves enough moral ambiguity to keep the debate going.

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The "American Reunion" Trailer

It was summer 1999 when four small-town Michigan boys began a quest to lose their virginity. In the years that have passed, Jim and Michelle married while Kevin and Vicky said goodbye. Oz and Heather grew apart, but Finch still longs for Stifler's mom. Now these lifelong friends have come home as adults to reminisce about—and get inspired by—the hormonal teens who launched a comedy legend.

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Henry Cavill Is Still Excited That He's Playing Superman

New Superman Henry Cavill sits down with Chris Van Vliet of CBS-19 in Cleveland about the feeling of awe when putting on the Superman suit for the first time. Looks like "The Immortals" press junkets are turning over to Superman talk just like we figured it would.

"I got to see it through various prototypes and stages of development, but still, the first time I had it all on with the cape, I deliberately didn't look in the mirror as it was going on. I wanted to have that sort of turnaround moment. Probably one of the best moments of my life, to turn around and realize that I'm Superman. There's no other feeling like it. That still hasn't gone, either. Still, when I'm in the trailer, I'm going, 'this is so cool!'"

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What Jason Voorhees Does Before & After Friday The 13th

Chatting with Co-Owner/Co-Creator of the site Jamie Williams this morning and of course the talk turned to film, horror films in particular. I was talking about the storm related Halloween cancellations or postponements on the East Coast due to massive storms. I wondered allowed what Michael Myers would do with himself if Halloween was canceled.

I started creating scenarios where Michael Myers was sitting on a bench at the mall people watching. Maybe he hit up the drive thru for a #4 at McDonalds. Jamie informed me that the people over at Robot Chicken broached that particular subject using Jason Voorhees as their subject matter. See below.

Happy Happy Halloween...Silver Shamrock

For most fans of the Halloween franchise, "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" is the ugly stepchild of the series. Although it shares the same name as those films that came before and after it, it literally has nothing to do with Michael Myers or his universe that we know and love.

The one great thing that did come out of this installment of Halloween were those fantastic Silver Shamrock commercials advertising those devious masks. That jingle gets me every time. Check out the commercial below. "It's almost time kids..."

James Mangold Talks About His Plans For 'The Wolverine'

I know some are sick of Wolverine and some hardcore X Men fans felt he was too dominant in the 3 X Men movies, but I don't care as I've always been more of a Wolverine fan than an X Men fan and he's my second favourite comic book character after Batman, so as you can imagine his solo movie was a let down.

However it made enough money to get a sequel and give Fox the chance to do justice by the character, and after this summers 'X Men: First Class' and 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' I remain cautiously hopeful.

James Mangold talked to Indie Wire about his vision for the movie and it sounds great to me, referencing Clint Eastwood's classic 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' and the use of the Yakuza and Ninjas!

Mangold also said he was keenly aware of the conventions of the genre he would be exploring, and felt he's been able to turn it into a more unique story than most other superhero movies demand. "I think part of the reason I'm doing this picture has been because it isn't to me a conventional superhero movie. It isn't an origin story, so I’m freed from that burden, and it also isn’t a save-the-world movie, which most of them are. It’s actually a character piece; I actually think it has more in common with 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' and 'Chinatown,' what we’re doing, than the conventional, 'will Wolverine and his compatriots save the world from this thermonuclear device' question."

Following the success of the first "Wolverine," fans speculated – and in fact hoped - that the second film would examine the comic book story lines written by Chris Claremont, in which Wolverine spent time in Japan. Mangold said that he wants to take advantage of those fish-out-of-water opportunities, and then combine them with storytelling, and of course, action sequences which maximize the influence of the world around the characters. "I think that this movie is much more an intense psychological and action-packed character piece, that’s much more about Logan getting lost in this very unique and insulated world of Japanese culture, gangster culture, and ninja culture," he said. "The fighting is going to be unique because it's all influenced by Japanese martial arts."

Michael Shannon Talks TWO Zod Costumes!

One day Michael Shannon's on the "Man of Steel" set wearing what looks like rejected "Peter Pan" spandex rocking those black & white mo-cap dots. By those pictures, everyone deduced Henry Cavill would be the only actor in the "Superman" reboot wearing an actual suit. Days later, there's Shannon again this time wearing an all black suit akin of Cavill's Supes threads.

What's the deal? Entertainment Weekly kneeled before Zod for answers and got the scoop:

Do you have a costume? A Krypton outfit?
There's two different modes. There's something that I have to wear a motion-capture suit for, because if I actually wore it, I wouldn’t be able to move. It’s a very big…thing. I actually don’t know what it’s going to look like, I just know that it’s very cumbersome. There’s another thing that I wear that’s an actual costume. It’s pretty simple. There’s no paisley or anything.

You don’t get to wear a flowing cape or anything like that?
I don’t know. That’s the thing about these movies. I could have an elephant head.

That would certainly be a new interpretation of the character.
Like Ganesh, right? Isn’t that the god that has the elephant head?

Could we be seeing something like this onscreen in 2013?