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Alden Ehrenreich Up For Hail Caesar – The Coen Brothers starry cast grows bigger

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Alden Ehrenreich is one of those young actors where it feels like they should have broken out bigger, but unfortunately the likes of Beautiful Creatures and Twixt haven’t quite done it for him. Now he’s joining a very starry ensemble, as Variety reports that he’s up for the Coen Brothers’ Hail Caesar.

The likes of George Clooney, Josh Brolin, Channing Tatum, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Scarlett Johansson and Jonah Hill are already onboard for the movie, which is about a 1950s Hollywood fixer called Eddie Mannix, who works for the movie studios to help their major stars from avoiding scandals and to keep their dirty laundry under cover.

As with many of the other actors involved, there’s little info on exactly who Ehrenreich will play. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen are directing from their own original script, with filming expected to begin this autumn.

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The Riot Club Clip – Sam Claflin is ready for his initiation

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The play Posh was a huge success after it premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2010, before transferring to the West End. Now it’s getting the movie treatment, under the title The Riot Club, with a cast full of bright young things including the likes of Sam Claflin, Max Irons and Douglas Booth.

Now a new clip has arrived which shows Claflin getting initiated into the titular club with a very nasty drink.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Set amongst the privileged elite of Oxford University, THE RIOT CLUB follows Miles (Max Irons) and Alistair (Sam Claflin), two first year students determined to join the infamous Riot Club, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening. THE RIOT CLUB is directed by Lone Scherfig, who most recently helmed ‘One Day’, and the Best Picture Academy Award nominee ‘An Education’. It is produced by Pete Czernin and Graham Broadbent of Blueprint Pictures (‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’, ‘Seven Psychopaths’).Screenwriter Laura Wade has adapted her critically-acclaimed play, ‘Posh’, with development support from the BFI Film Fund and Film4.’

The Riot Club premieres at TIFF this Sunday before it’s UK release on September 19th.

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New Monsters: Dark Continent Trailer – The world had better watch out for the beasties

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After the success of 2010’s micro-budget movie Monsters it’s perhaps surprising it’s taken this time to get a sequel up and running, but despite the first film’s director Gareth Edwards heading off to make Godzilla, a follow-up is now on the way and a full trailer has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Ten years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have now spread worldwide. In the Middle East a new insurgency has begun. At the same time there has also been a proliferation of Monsters in that region. The Army decide to draft in more numbers to help deal with this insurgency…’

Edwards didn’t completely abandon the film though, as he supported filmmaker Tom Green in the making of the film.

Gareth Edwards says, “Monsters was a very personal film to me, so it’s been a surreal honour to have such talented filmmakers and actors work so hard to create such a beautiful and heartfelt sequel. Tom Green has taken the organic filmmaking spirit of the original and created something very unique and incredibly bold. I think people will be very surprised by the film. It is uncompromising in its storytelling and as a result creates a very realistic and believable world. The visual effects and cinematography are impeccable; there isn’t a bad frame in the movie. This combined with such soulful performances from the main cast, makes for a really impressive debut film… Think I better watch my back!”

Take a look at the new trailer below. It’s due in UK cinemas on November 28th.

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Magic Mike XXL Starts Shooting – Steven Soderbergh gets his clapperboard out

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‘It’s ON!’

Those are the words of Steven Soderbergh as he announced the start of shooting on Magic Mike XXL with a tweeted picture of the movie’s clapperboard.

You might be wondering what Soderbergh is doing there, seeing as he’s ‘retired’ from directing and has passed the helming reins for the male stripper sequel to his longtime Assistant Director, Gregory Jacobs. Unusually Steven’s not just there for moral support, but as one of the staff. The cinematographer’s name on the clapperboard, Peter Andrews, is a pseudonym for Soderbergh, and he will also edit the movie.

But while the shoot has started, there are still plenty of unanswered questions. For a start we don’t know much about the plot, other than what Channing Tatum told MTV a few months ago when he said, “This one will be a road trip movie. Without giving a lot away, we don’t wanna make it a really serious, slice-of-life movie. We want to have reality in it, but we don’t want to make it some dark drama. There was some darkness in the last one that I think surprised people and shocked people. This one, we want there to be a lot of conflict and a lot of struggle, but we also want there to be a shit-ton of fun. A shit-ton of just ridiculous stuff that you would never see in a movie.”

Tatum and Joe Manganiello are both definitely back, and while it’s previously been suggested Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer and Matthew McConaughey were also likely to reprise their roles in one way or another, they’ve still not been officially announced.

Channing also co-wrote the movie alongside collaborator Reid Carolin. The film’s due out July 2015.

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It’s Me Before You For Emilia Clarke & Sam Claflin – The young Brit stars are up for the drama

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After the success of The Fault In Out Stars and decent business for If I Stay, it’s not too surprising that Hollywood is looking around for other tearjerking novels they can cast pretty young people in and then make them go through romantic trials and tribulations.

Now MGM is lining one up, based on Jojo Moyes novel Me Before, with Variety reporting that they’ve signed Hunger Games’ Sam Claflin and Game Of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke to star.

The book revolves around a young woman at a crossroads in her life, who’s feeling stuck in a rut and unsure of her feelings for her boyfriend. However he life begins to change when she starts to care for a recently paralysed young man, with the connection changing both their lives.

Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber are set to write the script, with Thea Sharrock directing. There’s no news on when it will shoot.

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Vince Vaughn Will Be The Politician – With What If’s Michael Dowse directing

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Michael Dowse’s What If may not have become a massive hit on its US release, but it nevertheless impressed many in Hollywood. It’s helped him snag a new gig, with the helming signing up to direct The Politician, which THR says Vince Vaughn attached to star.

The film is about ‘a politician in Washington D.C. who is caught in a scandal with some hookers. The man and his underachieving accomplice go on the run from the FBI, U.S. Marshals and a gang of drug dealers.’

Matthew Bass and Theodore Bressman wrote the script, which landed on last year’s Black List of the best unproduced screenplays. There’s no news at the moment on when the film will head into production.

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