That Johnny Depp is a fan of writer and journalist Hunter S. Thompson is not a secret in 1998 embodying one of his alter-ago, Raoul Duke, in the adventure drama “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” directed by Terry Gilliam in 2008 narrating the documentary “Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson” of the director Alex Gibney and being so good a friend of Thompson in real life that he funded his extravagant private funeral, during which the mortal remains the author were dumped into a canyon, while on the sky were projected fireworks.

On October 28, 2011, U.S. moviegoers will have the opportunity to see Johnny Depp, along with Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jenkins and Giovanni Ribisi, another adaptation of a novel by Hunter S. Thompson, in the drama adventure “The Rum Diary”, which is written and directed by Bruce Robinson (“How to Get Ahead in Advertising”, “Jennifer Eight”).

Johnny Depp enters the skin of the charismatic freelance journalist Paul Kemp, who is full of noise and madness of New York and the social conventions of the American President Eisenhower and travels to Puerto Rico to write articles in local newspaper in San Juan, led by the editor Lotterman (Richard Jenkins).

Eating plenty of rum and LSD and adopting a lifestyle similar to the “lost generation” of Hemingway, Paul Kemp knows the North American native of Connecticut Chenault (Amber Heard) and its fiancé Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart) A businessman involved in the land vero business. Moving in this world, Paul Kemp discovers his inner voice as a writer and found his integrity as a man.

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Since Jaden Smith became famous in 2010 thanks to the movie “The Karate Kid” producers Will Smith and Jay-Z now strive to promote his sister Willow Smith and introduce the earliest possible stage musical production “Annie” in which she holds the lead role.

A few months ago, there was speculation that Ryan Murphy will assume the duties of director fir this musical remake of the one from 1982, which was directed by the late John Huston and starred Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters and Aileen Quinn, but since the Overbrook Productions producers were not able to provide the creator of the television show “Glee” a scenario by which to work, it is unlikely that it will manage to slip in his busy program the filming of the “Annie”, in this fall is launching the third season of the series.

Slash Films editors still let us know that Jay-Z and Will Smith have made progress on this musical, proposing Emma Thompson (52 years) to take over the tasks of writer, the more as you see in the movies “Love Actually”, “Last Chance Harvey”, “Brideshead Revisited” and “Stranger Than Fiction” he has previously made scripts signature from “Nanny McPhee”, “Nanny McPhee Returns” and “Sense and Sensibility” and has sufficient experience. It is possible that Will Smith and Emma Thompson have discussed the details of this commitment on the set of the sequel’s “Man in Black III”, but the double Oscar winner has not yet provided an answer.

The musical “Annie”, which inspired the 1982 film, played on Broadway since 1977 and was based on Harold Gray’s comic books since 1924.

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Avox girl from the “The Hunger Games” was found, but don’t expect know who is the actress distributed by Lionsgate film because she is unknown. Amber Chaney joined the team that will adapt the novel “The Hunger Games” and will launch a movie on March 23, 2012. The announcement was made by Lionsgate microbloging platform Twitter, where producers have posted the new picture of the actress.

In the book “The Hunger Games” written by Suzanne Collins, an Avox is someone who was punished for rebellion against the Capitol.  The punishment for the Avox is that they cut their tangue. In “The Hunger Games”, Katniss – the main character, knows how to recognize an Avox of he was going hunting in the woods outside of District 12 with his best friend, Gale.

Amber Chaney has also appeared in “Meet the Browns” and “Somebodies”. Recently, Toby Jones has also been distributed in “The Hunger Games”, which will play a sports arena announcer, Claudius Templesmith. The actors from the lead role are: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Stanley Tucci, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Wes Bentley and Lenny Kravitz. The film is directed by Gary Ross and it will be released on 23 March 2012. But don’t worry, until then we will keep you up-to-date with the most newest rumors.

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Filmofilia.com editors inform us that the North American actor Richard Jenkins (64), Oscar-nominated in 2009 for the role of Walter from the drama “The Visitor” was included in the distribution of the independent romantic comedy “Liberal Arts” by the director, writer and protagonist Josh Radnor (36 years), with whom he collaborated in 2010 to the drama “Happythankyoumoreplease”.

Although this new film project will focus on the tribulations of an immature man, unable to assume specific responsibilities for his 35 years of age named Jesse Fisher (Josh Radnor), who still longs for the carefree years after college and becomes involved during an affair with a 19-year-old student named Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen), who has a crush on him and put in mind to seduce him. Although sharing the same passion for music and literature and try to disregard the 16-year age difference between her, Jesse and Zibby face all sorts of obstacles and problems that jeopardize their relationship and the man must accept the idea that he has matured and that he cannot behave like a student anymore. Richard Jenkins (“The Cabin in the Woods”, “Let Me In”, “Friends with Benefits”) will play Ohio’s favorite teacher Jesse Fisher, depicting Zibby and her family during the party organized on the occasion of his retirement.

Distribution of the romantic comedy “Liberal Arts” it has been completed with John Magaro (“Twylight Zones”, “My Soul to Take”), Michael Weston (“Garden State”, “The Last Kiss”) and Elizabeth Reaser (“Twilight”, “Young Adult”), the first one enters in the skin of a depressed student who befriends with Jesse Fisher, the second one giving life of a friend in New York, and the third playing as an employee at a bookstore on Jesse like.

Filming on “Liberal Arts” is scheduled to begin in June of 2011, when the sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” broadcast on CBS television will enter pause.

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Australians have bring to Cannes this year one of the worst stories that their history have – “Snowtown” – the story of serial killer named John Bunting, a charming and charismatic man that killed 11 people. The killings occurred in the town of Snowtown in South Australia from 1992 to 1999.

The film is told from the perspective of Jamie Vlassakis, a boy of 16, who lives with his mother in a suburb of the city, where the violence dominates, unemployment and sexual abuse. Jamie befriends with John Buntig that fascinate the kid, because it’s exactly how he wanted to be the father that Jamie has not met before.

Jamie’s mother, Elizabeth Harvey, is also drawn by Bunting and marries him, so he becomes the father of Jamie. Completely fascinated, Jamie will find after a long time that his mentor is a serial killer, the most dangerous that ever lived in Australia.

The “Snowtown” movie of the debutante director Justin Kurzel focus more on Jamie the teenager – played by Lucas Pittaway, and the way that Bunting manages to make him an accomplice to murder. Australian murderer now serving 11 life sentences in prison was a keen observer of people and knows how to handle them great. Among his victims he believed there are only pedophiles or homosexuals.

The film has a dark picture with attenuated colors that give the top restlessness, Dan Goodswen writes for Total Film Cannes. Most are amateur actors, including Lucas Pittaway, who was recruited for the cast from the Australian city shopping mall where they filmed “Snowtown”. Pittaway plays great, but thrills are given by Daniel Henshall who manages to portray the twisted and evil serial killer with a charm and an awful look at the same time.

Goodsween wrote that the audience was in full in the projection room at Cannes. But some of them have left because of grotesque scenes with extreme violence, the film is not for the faint of heart. But those remaining at the Cannes screening, broke out into applause at the end. The film is “an intelligent dissection, stratified, human psychology and a map of the fall of an emotionally disturbed young man, influenced by the father figure that he wanted desperately” notes Total Film.

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Since the date 08/07/2011 is approaching fast, when it launched the comedy “Horrible Bosses” in U.S. theaters, Warner Bros. officials. thought that the time is right to publish four new character posters which will embody Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis, with the aim of keeping the public interest alive for this project and to increase the fan curiosity.

Directed by Seth Gordon (“Four Christmases”, “The King of Kong”), the film is at the heart of three friends named Nick Hendricks (Jason Bateman), Dale Arbus (Charlie Day) and Kurt Buckman (Jason Sudeikis), which are humiliated and bullied every day in their jobs for some bosses unbearable even for the most tolerant and nice personnel, and they decide to take revenge on those who turn their jobs into a hell existences to improve the quality of life.

After a night when consuming too much alcoholic beverages are badly advised by a former convict who calls himself Motherfucker Jones (Jamie Foxx) and accumulated frustrations remembering how they were shamed in front of colleagues or in front of the loved ones by a sex-obsessed head that misses no opportunity to harass employees (Jennifer Aniston), a boss who manipulates his employees and causes them to undermine their own careers (Kevin Spacey) and a boss who hates more subordinate people because for him they are simple tools and that he believes would not hesitate to dismiss them all (Colin Farrell), the three buddies decide no more and no less than to kill their superiors to finally get rid of them and their machinations evil. But because they aren’t killers, and our heroes do not have any criminal instincts so they fail to put their plans into effect.

“Horrible Bosses” is directed by Seth Gordon (King Kong) and will premiere on July 8, 2011.

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According to BeyondHollywood.com, although in the present on the desk in the City Film producer there are a lot of projects on the confrontation between humans and zombies and “Warm Bodies”, “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, “Zombies Vs. Robots “,” Maggie” or “World War Z”, Matthew Butler thought it would be time for him to feature directing debut in a horror comedy with zombies on “The Curse of the Buxom Strumpet”, an adaptation of his short film “E’gad, Zombies!” from 2010, in which he played himself along with Ian McKellen and Tori Hart.

Director and co-writer Matthew Butler has been busy lately with the purchase of 2 million pounds of which still needs to complete the project, trying to sell international distribution rights at Cannes, however, given the fact that he managed to persuade Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Gillian Anderson and Mark Williams to be part of the distribution, perhaps there will be plenty of companies interested in investing in this comedy. After he narrated the short film “E’gad Zombies!” the English star of the trilogy “Lord of the Rings” franchise and “X-Men” Ian McKellen (71 years) has agreed to narrate and to hold a leading role in “The Curse of the Buxom Strumpet” filming in advance the scenes for the protagonist, not to affect the work on “The Hobbit”.

The Action of the short film underlying the film is set in early eighteenth-century in England, the city Upper Trollope in Oxfordshire, where lives a poor and romantic poet named William Filth, who is in love with the beautiful Vanity Banks and wants to marry her. Only now, the rich and haughty Vanity decides to marry Richard Filth instead of him, more wealthy brother of the poet who recites his corny poems under the balcony, and William is so distressed by the betrayal of the beloved woman that wants to leave England and live like a monk, turning back the from the love and secular life. But in the morning in which the poet had to go, it starts an epidemic that turns bizarre locals into living dead, human meat eaters, which is why William decided to remain in Upper Trollope to save Vanity from the carnage.

Filming on “The Curse of the Buxom Strumpet” is scheduled to begin in late 2011 in Scotland, the horror comedy will be released in theaters during 2012.

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Neil Jordan wants to make also a vampire movie and has chosen his stars: Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton. Saoirse will be the daughter of the actress Gemma Arterton in this horror movie named “Byzantium”. The vampire mother will be the one who will turn her daughter into a creature of the night, according to the scenario. The two actresses will be the protagonists of this production, the daughter and mother often claim that they are sisters in order to lure their victims. In the small British town, the mysterious and deadly duo is part of the community. The mother works in a bar, and the girl goes to school. With time, things take a dangerous turn, strange stories appear about the two of them, and the townspeople begin to disappear.

Byzantium is a play adaptation by Moira Buffini, author of film scripts and Dewe Tamara Jane Eyre. Director will be Neil Jordan (Interview With the Vampire), and filming is scheduled for October.

Jordan’s film will enjoy the presence of Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter and Jeremy Irvine. The producer of this amazing movie will be the British Stephen Woolley, with whom Neil Jordan worked at the movie “The Crying Game”, “Interview With The Vampire” and “The Company Of Wolves”.

“I love the kind of horror film and I worked on this for about three or four years. I’ve sent Neil the script and he liked it. We recently reread the book written by Angela Carter – which was based on the movie “The Company of Wolves” and I was lucky that I called on Jordan to be together on the same frequency” said Stephen Wooley, cited by Total Film.

Vampire movies do not take a break after the Twilight series and continues the adventurous and exciting march with productions like the recently launched “Priest”, the next film “Fright Night” – with Colin Farrell as the protagonist – and recently announced “Byzantium”, who has these two familiar names in the cast: Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton.

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The third feature film directed by Jodie Foster, “The Beaver”, was presented out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday at the Grand Théâtre Lumière, and saw about 2000 people (not all places have been filled). Each of the 2,000 people went, more likely, with a dose of tolerance to this drama movie.

So face it, the first two films directed by Jodie Foster have gathered too many praised, and – if you look on the poster of “The Beaver”. Furthermore, The Beaver distributes a persona non grata leading role in Hollywood today, with domestic violence (against the girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, with whom he has a daughter, Lucia) and anti-semitic remarks: Mel Gibson. A few hours before submitting the red carpet, Gibson was photographed without a shirt and with the belt disposed on the balcony of the hotel Eden Roc in Cap d’Antibes.

Three big names appear on the movie poster of “The Beaver” – Jodie Foster (as director and actress), Mel Gibson and Jennifer Lawrence, an Oscar nominee this year. Moreover, Gibson has a tough role, that of a man with bipolar personality, but fails to draw attention to the interpretation. At a press conference in Cannes were present only Jodie Foster and the screenwriter Kyle Killen. Mel Gibson preferred to hide from the journalists, but he walked the red carpet Tuesday night. Asked if the movie might save the wrinkled image of Mel Gibson, Foster said at Cannes that “the completion of the film makes you look deeper into yourself, in the people around you and the consequences of what you did, that has an objective cathartic, therapeutic end”. Foster wishes to stress that Gibson “was ready to show in the movie that he is going through this struggle, presents something that he had to do himself in real life”.

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According TotalFilm.com after the fiction thriller “I Am Number Four”, and the romantic drama with fantasy elements “Beastly” were launched, the  sci-fi thriller “Now” of the director Andrew Niccol has entered into post-production ,the English actor Alex Pettyfer (21 years) is a free agent and can focus on the role of a striptease dancer in the “Magic Mike” by Steven Soderbergh, a role inspired by the real life of the actor Channing Tatum (31 years), which used to dance naked in clubs for some amounts of money to be able to live a decent life, back when he was 18 years with no hope to be Hollywood star.

Alex Pettyfer will play in this comedy as the younger version and less experienced of Channing Tatum, an aspiring dancer who is initiated into the mysteries of the profession by his coach and mentor Mike (Channing Tatum) and is introduced abruptly into the wild world of parties, sexual orgies, women and striptease.

The screenplay of the comedy “Magic Mike” is signed by Reid Carolin and has as theme the friendship of male striptease dancers in a world without sexual connotations, inspired from the romantic drama with elements of musical “Saturday Night Fever” from 1977 of the director John Badham, who has as a title role John Travolta.

Talking about “Magic Mike” as the one of the last film projects of Steven Soderbergh because he intends to retire, has stirred more interest and curiosity of the fans after he confessed that the situation is sexy, funny and shocking and revealed that they are on track for using as a source of inspiration the “Saturday Night Fever” movie.

The comedy “Magic Mike” is scheduled to begin in August of 2011, in Los Angeles, Channing Tatum, Nick Wechsler, Gregory Jacobs and Reid Carolin assuming producer duties.

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