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Three new names have been added to Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight.

Lee Horsley, Craig Stark and Belinda Owino have joined the western, which began filming yesterday (January 23), according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The film is set around a decade after the Civil War and features a group of eight people, including bounty hunters and fugitives, who are forced to bunk up in a stagecoach stopover when a storm hits.

The Hateful Eight is made up of Django Unchained's Samuel L Jackson as the Bounty Hunter, Kurt Russell as the Hangman and Jennifer Jason Leigh playing Daisy Domergue.

Walton Goggins plays the Sheriff, Demián Bichir as the Mexican, Tim Roth as the Little Man, Michael Madsen as the Cow Puncher and Bruce Dern as the Confederate.

Tarantino originally shelved plans to go ahead with the film after the script leaked and Gawker published it online.

He then held...

Kerry Washington is killing it these days. But you already knew that. She’s become a cultural icon as Scandal‘s Olivia Pope, and consequently one of the most visible actresses in Hollywood. But where was she before she was a card-carrying member of Shondaland?

For the most part, she was “that girl in that movie.” You couldn’t really place her. But now, her small roles in movies you’ve seen but never recognized her in mean so much more. In fact, now she has the clout to retroactively add star power to any movie. Namely, these five movies you forgot Kerry Washington was in. (Note: we’re skipping the ones no one you know has probably ever heard of.)

Little Man (2006)

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Surely the project Kerry Washington is most proud, Little Man tells the story of a tiny convict named Calvin (played by Marlon Wayans) who’s adopted by an incredibly aloof couple,...

Kerry Washington is killing it these days. But you already knew that. She’s become a cultural icon as Scandal‘s Olivia Pope, and consequently one of the most visible actresses in Hollywood. But where was she before she was a card-carrying member of Shondaland?

For the most part, she was “that girl in that movie.” You couldn’t really place her. But now, her small roles in movies you’ve seen but never recognized her in mean so much more. In fact, now she has the clout to retroactively add star power to any movie. Namely, these five movies you forgot Kerry Washington was in. (Note: we’re skipping the ones no one you know has probably ever heard of.)

Little Man (2006)

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Surely the project Kerry Washington is most proud, Little Man tells the story of a tiny convict named Calvin (played by Marlon Wayans) who’s adopted by an incredibly aloof couple,...

Writer-director Matthew Bate.s documentary Sam Klemke.s Time Machine will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, further strengthening the Oz presence at the fest. The profile of American caricature artist Klemke, who filmed and narrated nearly 40 years of his life, will be featured in the New Frontier section. That.s the third title from Adelaide-based Closer Productions to be showcased at the Park City event. Bate.s Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure screened in competition in 2011. Sophie Hyde.s 52 Tuesdays took the best director prize in the world cinema dramatic section this year. New Frontier champions films that .expand, experiment with, and explode traditional storytelling.recognizing the crossroads of film, art, and media technology as a hotbed for cinematic innovation.. In 1977 Klemke started obsessively documenting his entire life on film, from an optimistic teen to a self-important 20-year-old, morphing into an obese, self-loathing 30-something and onwards into his philosophical 50s.

Almost like a stagecoach making its way across the deadly landscape of the American West, Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight has endured many twists and turns on the way to its 2015 release, but it's finally passed a comforting landmark. The movie officially has a cast now, which means it's going to be way harder to cancel again.The eponymous eight are: Samuel L. Jackson as Major Marquis Warren, "The Bounty Hunter"; Kurt Russell as John Ruth, "The Hangman"; Jennifer Jason Leigh as Daisy Domergue, "The Prisoner"; Walton Goggins as Chris Mannix, "The Sheriff"; Demáin Bichir as Bob, "The Mexican"; Tim Roth as Oswaldo Mobray, "The Little Man"; Bruce Dern as General Sanford Smithers, "The Confederate"; and Michael Madsen as Joe Gage, "The Cow Puncher." Channing Tatum will also make a cameo, which has become something of a hobby for him. A few of these castings were known before, but...

Fans of Oscar-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino know that the writer/director has had a very eventful 2014 as he begins work on his newest Western, The Hateful Eight. An infamous script leak caused the auteur to consider shelving the project entirely, but he thereafter had a change of heart and is now prepping his new movie for release sometime in 2015.

The movie’s teaser trailer provided nicknames for the titular group (i.e. “The Bounty Hunter,” “The Little Man,” etc.) and it is expected ...

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Looking for what's new on Netflix streaming for October 2014? You've come to the right place.

We've rounded up the best TV shows and movies arriving soon. So take some time to peruse this list, and maybe block off a weekend or two so you can binge-watch Season 5 of "The Vampire Diaries" or something.

Here's a much larger rundown of what subscribers can expect in September, courtesy of Netflix. All title dates are subject to change.

Available October 1

"Annie" (1982)

Based on the Depression-era comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," this adaptation of the smash Broadway musical follows America's favorite urchin (Aileen Quinn) as she captures Daddy Warbucks' (Albert Finney) heart with her unquenchable optimism. In the meantime, Annie must try to dodge the treacherous head of the orphanage (Carol Burnett). Directed by John Huston, Annie features the hit song "Tomorrow."

"Annie: A Royal Adventure" (1995)

Annie, the charming orphan with a head full of red curls,...

Everybody says, bring back those great, gritty 70s adult thrillers. Scott Frank makes one with Liam Neeson in A Walk Among The Tombstones, and not enough people show up to launch it into a franchise. With $13 million in ticket sales so far, it’s $5 million short of what it is needed to trigger more films based on the Matthew Scudder character from Lawrence Block’s mystery novels. I can sit here and wonder if the results would have been better had Universal opened it after Denzel Washington’s turn in The Equalizer this Friday, when appetites will be whetted for challenging adult films and heroes without capes. Or I can point to the squeamishness of some critics who blasted Frank for faithfully adapting a novel about Scudder’s hunt for two serial killers preying on the girlfriends and daughters of drug dealers. It is hard to pretty that up, but one normally smart,...

Summer movie season is a magic time of year when Hollywood traditionally rolls out its most appealing merchandise. It’s true that some summer movie seasons are better than others. This is our ranking of all the summer movie seasons since 1980 from worst to best.

On January 20th, 1975, Steven Spielberg and Universal Studios released Jaws. The movie landscape would be forever changed from that date. Jaws is widely credited as being the first blockbuster film because it was the first movie to make over $100 million (non-adjusted). The fact that the film had a meager $8 million budget meant that it was a huge cash cow for the studio and rocketed Spielberg to the the forefront of a new generation of filmmakers for a new era of movie mass-consumption. George Lucas and Spielberg followed up in 1977 with Star Wars, which became a sensational and very profitable hit. It helped to convince production...

Quentin Tarantino’s new gunslinging saga just keeps getting mugged.

First, the script for The Hateful Eight leaked online, prompting the Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained Oscar-winner to file a copyright infringement lawsuit and threaten never to make the movie. He eventually changed his mind, and although not a frame of film has been shot, there’s now a teaser tagged to the front of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.

Of course, that has also been bootlegged online …

Tarantino has already hosted a public reading of The Hateful Eight script, and the pages for Django Unchained were...

My, how time flies. The latest leak in Quentin Tarantino's ship is the teaser for his next movie, "The Hateful Eight." It's running before screenings of "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For," but somehow it's made its way to the Internet. Imagine that! Who would do such a thing? Guess we'll have to wait and see if anyone forces this anonymous user to choose between taking it down and facing the auteur's litigious wrath.

If you'll remember, Quentin Tarantino was threatening to shelve "The Hateful Eight" for the indefinite future after a mysterious script leak last January. In April, he held a three and a half hour live reading of the script in Los Angeles with a cast of his favorite actors. A few weeks ago, the poster for "The Hateful Eight" appeared in Empire, complete with a release date - well, a release year, anyway.

"The Hateful Eight...

Following the news last week that a teaser trailer for Quentin Tarantino's upcoming western "The Hateful Eight" would hit cinemas with "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" this week, a description of said trailer has gone online over at Collider.

As filming hasn't begun, there's understandably no footage. Instead there's text and graphics which give a break down of the characters and their nicknames:

Major Marquis Warren: "The Bounty Hunter"

John Ruth: "The Hangman"

Daisy Domergue: "The Prisoner"

Chris Mannix: "The Sheriff"

Bob: "The Mexican"

Oswald Mobray: "The Little Man"

Joe Gage: "The Cow Puncher"

General Sandy Smithers: "The Confederate"

The clip itself opens on snow dunes as a western-style ballad plays. The title cards indicates strangers have been stranded together in a blizzard, and "they soon discovered they shared a deadly connection".

Up comes "The New Film by Quentin Tarantino," followed by that character list above,...

Last week, we reported that fans who buy a Sin City: A Dame to Kill For ticket will be the first to see a teaser trailer for Quentin Tarantino's upcoming Western The Hateful Eight. The catch is, it will not be debuting online. We know that this trailer won't contain any actual footage, since production hasn't even started yet, but Collider has a description of this teaser, which confirms the Western is being shot in 70Mm Super CinemaScope.

The story is set after the Civil War in Wyoming, and centers on a group of stagecoach passengers who get stranded together during a blizzard, with a majority of the story taking place in a dive bar. The trailer opens in typical Western fashion, with an unidentified ballad and title cards that set up these strangers being trapped together, followed by, "They soon discovered they shared a deadly connection." After...

Last week, we reported that fans who buy a Sin City: A Dame to Kill For ticket will be the first to see a teaser trailer for Quentin Tarantino's upcoming Western The Hateful Eight. The catch is, it will not be debuting online. We know that this trailer won't contain any actual footage, since production hasn't even started yet, but Collider has a description of this teaser, which confirms the Western is being shot in 70Mm Super CinemaScope.

The story is set after the Civil War in Wyoming, and centers on a group of stagecoach passengers who get stranded together during a blizzard, with a majority of the story taking place in a dive bar. The trailer opens in typical Western fashion, with an unidentified ballad and title cards that set up these strangers being trapped together, followed by, "They soon discovered they shared a deadly connection." After...

Tom Rothman’s TriStar Productions has acquired the worldwide rights and given the go ahead to Money Monster, a fast-paced, character-driven thriller written by Jamie Linden. Daniel Dubiecki, who worked with George Clooney on Up In The Air, and Lara Alameddine developed the script along with Jodie Foster, who will direct the film. Dubiecki and Alameddine’s The Allegiance Theater will produce together with Clooney and his Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov. Alan Difore and Jim Kouf wrote the original draft of the script.

Principal photography is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2015.

Clooney stars as Lee Gates, a bombastic television stock huckster, whose program (the titular “Money Monster”), and life, are taken hostage by an outraged gunman. As much of the world watches live, Gates must keep himself alive and, with help from the woman who produces the show, uncover the truth behind a tangle of big money lies.

In the highly anticipated sequel, Think Like A Man Too, which was inspired by Steve Harvey’s best-selling book Act Like a Lady, Think Like A Man, all the couples are back for a wedding in Las Vegas. But plans for a romantic weekend go awry when their various misadventures get them into some compromising situations that threaten to derail the big event.

All the original comedy’s stars return––La La Anthony (“La La’s Full Court Life,” Baggage Claim), Michael Ealy (“Almost Human,” About Last Night), Jerry Ferrara (“Entourage”), Meagan Good (Anchorman 2, “Deception,”), Regina Hall (Best Man Holiday, Scary Movie), Kevin Hart (Ride Along, Let Me Explain), Taraji P. Henson (“Person of Interest,” No Good Deed), Terrence J (“E! News,” Baggage Claim), Jenifer Lewis (Baggage Claim), Romany Malco (The 40 Year Old Virgin), Gary Owen (Ride Along, Little Man) and Gabrielle Union (“Being Mary Jane,” Cadillac Records). Adam Brody (Lovelace,...

Shaquille O'Neal is on the giving end of a huge real estate deal ... ya feel? TMZ Sports has obtained official documents which show Shaq recently sold a 3,904 square foot home near Orlando, Fl to a man named Yves Paul Demesmin for a cool Ten Dollars. Seriously. Shaq signed the trustee's deed -- which was filed in California -- on March 6, 2014 ... giving Demesmin control of the 5-bedroom, 4-bathroom property. According to public records, Shaq bought the home in 2012 for $235k.

Little man Lachey is growing up fast! Nick, Vanessa and Camden Lachey are gracing the cover of the June issue of Parents magazine, where the proud parents are talking everything from sleep schedules to baby no. 2.The couple was together five years before sharing "I do’s." Six months later, Vanessa found out she was pregnant. "It was fun to have the honeymoon phase before bringing the little guy in," she tells the mag."My wife’s maternal side is a new dynamic to her personality—and it’s definitely made her even sexier," Nick reveals, while Vanessa says that Nick wasn’t too shabby to begin with. "The man I knew I was going to marry was not only a great man, a good friend, and a family guy, but he was going to respect and treat me well and be an amazing father and role model to our children,...

A strangely lost and not yet found film (Reel finds, G2, 2 May) is Fritz Wendhausen's Little Man What Now (1933), with Hertha Thiele and art direction by Caspar Neher. This film co-scripted by the author of the novel, Hans Fallada was originally to be directed by Berthold Viertel, with music by Kurt Weill, prominent Jews who had to leave Germany. The novel was an international bestseller and was filmed in Hollywood by Frank Borzage a year later, in a sentimentalised version rejected by Fallada. A poster exists for the 1933 version, but the film itself seems to have been wiped off the face off the earth. Fallada was dubbed "undesirable", by the Nazis. Was the film perhaps too intolerable for them? It it followed the book, it does contain a comically stupid Nazi oaf. There will be a prize for anyone who can track down a copy of this film.

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Little man Lachey is growing up fast! Proud parents Nick and Vanessa Lachey (nee Minnillo) told Us Weekly about their baby son Camden's latest milestones at the Spring Sound Sessions event in NYC on Tuesday, April 29. "He's becoming a little man," Nick, 40, boasted to Us of the 19-month-old tot. "It's crazy. He's growing fast. He's running around and dancing. It's a good time." Though the parents have yet to pinpoint their son's career path, papa Lachey has high hopes for baby Camden. "He's going to be [...]...

Amongst other things, this weekend’s release of A Haunted House 2 might make you wonder: Why are the Wayans brothers? That's not an incomplete thought, but a reflection of the existential malaise the barely-were comedians now inspire. Between this movie, its predecessor, a pair of Scary Movies, White Chicks, Dance Flick, and Little Man, Marlon, Shawn, and Keenen Ivory have racked up an embarrassment of embarrassments. Still, at least one Wayans has produced a good movie. 1988’s I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, written, directed by, and starring Keenen Ivory, is everything their recent efforts are not. While both Scary Movies and both A Haunted House movies look down on the horror genre they send up, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka lovingly sends up tropes used in blaxploitation films like Shaft, Dolemite, and Super Fly. In his film, Keenen Ivory broke the genre down to a main theme: black protagonists'...

Actor/writer Marlon Wayans is best known for his frequent collaborations with his older brothers Keenan, Damon, and Shawn in successful comedies such as Scary Movie, White Chicks (where he dressed as a Caucasian female), and Little Man (as a baby with Marlon Wayan’s head) and The Wayans Bros TV show. Marlon has had the opportunity to flex his acting chops in roles for more acclaimed directors such as Darren Aranofsky in Requiem For A Dream and the Cohen Brothers in The Lady Killers. He’s even tried his hand at action stardom with GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra. Last year Wayans wrote, produced, and starred in the spoof A Haunted House which cost just 2 ½ million dollars and grossed over 40 million. A Haunted House 2 opens nationwide this Friday, April 18th. Wayans was in St. Louis promoting the sequel and hosted a screening here on March 16th. I...

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Rey Mysterio is on his literal last legs as well as his metaphorical last legs. After his multiple knee surgeries Rey is probably going to have to hang up his mask soon. He only has three months left on his current contract, and many feel that he will not sign another deal. He will leave WWE as a genuine legend, and is a probable future Hall of Famer.

Rey has held a myriad of Championships, holding 8 different belts over his time in WCW and WWE. The jewels in his crown would be his runs as World Heavyweight Champion and WWE Champion. He is also a former Royal Rumble winner, Triple Crown Champion and has possibly the most famous mask in wrestling history. This is an incredible career, especially for a man still in his 30′s.

Rey has filled a unique slot in the WWE...

Radkey is a band from a place far off in the mid-west and they perform an almost forgotten brand of rock music known as punk. They first stirred up some buzz at SXSW 2013 playing an official showcase. Now they're set to play the 2014 SXSW festival at the illustrious Spotify House. Every year a crop of artists/bands is meant to break out at the Austin-based festival in March, but few of them actually do. I’ve got my money on these guys and you should, too. This insanely good live video for their single 'Start Freaking Out' should be all the evidence you need. The group is made up of three teenaged brothers from the maybe not so far off town of St. Joseph, Missouri. They made huge waves the last two years playing the aforementioned SXSW showcase as well as the 2012 Afro-Punk Festival in Brooklyn, New York. The trio...

The first weekend of the New Year began with a bang - weddings, new couples, adorable babies and more. Here's what you missed: 5. Alexa Vega Experiences Her Very Own Big Time RushOn Saturday, the Machete Kills actress tied the knot with Big Time Rush singer Carlos Pena, Jr. at the Grand Velas Riviera Nayarit in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The bride-to-be took to Twitter to share her excitement in the form of hashtags: "Wow ... I'm getting excited nervous!!!! Ahhhh!!! #CountDownToAisle," she wrote. More about their destination wedding. 4. No Hangover Here: Justin Bartha Says "I Do"Aloha newlyweds! The New Normal actor...

"Hey - you've got a call?" Another short new teaser trailer has debuted for The Double, the second feature from comedian-turned-filmmaker Richard Ayoade, adapting this time from a twisted Fyodor Dostoevsky novella. Jesse Eisenberg stars in the film as Simon, and also as James, his doppleganger who shows up at his work doing his tasks even better than him. It's a wacky, fun, but still wholly unique experience that I enjoyed quite a bit, since the film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and will also play Sundance in January. The cast includes Mia Wasikowska, Sally Hawkins, Wallace Shawn, Noah Taylor and Yasmin Paige from Ayoade's Submarine. This is another solid teaser trailer, using the song "Little Man" by Sonny & Cher. Here's the second teaser trailer for Richard Ayoade's The Double, debuted by Total Film: The Double is directed by Richard Ayoade (watch our Tiff interview with him...

If last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live were an edition of The Hunger Games, then host Josh Hutcherson would have been one of those poor kids who dies in the melee outside the Cornucopia — just minutes after the Games begin.

I’m not trying to imply that Hutcherson bombed. Quite the opposite is true: he had the sort of on-camera ease that any first-time host would envy, never visibly suffering from nerves or being too obvious about reading cue cards. The problem is that after Hutcherson’s monologue, he largely faded into the background, playing a succession of...

In celebration of country music’s top songwriters, the industry’s biggest stars stepped out for the 2013 Broadcast Music, Inc. Country Awards in Nashville on Tuesday (November 5).

Luke Bryan showed off his dapper smile, while Miranda Lambert showed off her slim figure and struck a pose with the night’s guest of honor Dean Dillon.

Other attendees included newcomer Kacey Musgraves and powerhouse trio The Band Perry. In addition, aspiring country singer/actress Lucy Hale made an appearance and is expected to be at tonight’s (November 6) Cma Awards.

There were quite a few winners last night, including Hunter Hayes taking home Song of the Year for “Wanted.”

Check out the full list of winners below!

Song Of The Year

“Wanted”

Hunter Hayes

Troy Verges

Happy Little Man Publishing

Songs From the Engine Room

Songs of Universal, Inc.

Songwriter Of The Year

Rodney Clawson

“Did It for the Girl”

“Drink...

If you’re like me, you learned way too much of your history from comic books. That’s how I first learned about Orson Welles and his infamous Mercury Theater “War Of The Worlds” broadcast which took place seventy-five years ago today, when the Atom went back in time and… well, why tell you when I can show you? From December 1974, here’s the back-up story from Action Comics #442, written by ComicMix columnist Martin Pasko and drawn by Mike Grell, here’s The Atom, or as he’s known here, “The Little Man From Mars!”

Here’s a thought that shocked me when I realized it: it’s been a longer amount of time from the time this story was published to today than it’s been from when this story was published back to the time when the War Of The Worlds radio broadcast happened.

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When I was around six, I was asked what kind of haircut I wanted.

This was big deal because up until then I had no say over anything in my life. This was my very first grown up decision and I had to weigh it carefully.

Even at six I knew this was a life changing moment. My mother told me to think about it while we were on the bus going to the barber shop. We lived in South Jamaica Queens at the time and except for church there was no place, no place as honored in the black community.

For me there were no two places I hated going to more than church and the barbershop.

What was there to like at the barbershop?

It smelled horrible from all the cigarette and cigar smoke mingled with the distinct smell of snuff being spat into a spittoon. For all...

I’ve often maintained that the best fantasies are ones that have one foot firmly set in reality. We need something to which we can relate. We are asked to enter into a “willing suspension of disbelief,” as coined by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. However impossible or implausible in reality an event in literature is, we accept it. Quite simply, we’re being told a story and we concede reality to get on with the story – up to a point.

When Superman first appeared in 1938 he was a fantastic character but, in those early stories, he fought real-life villains and situations – slums, gangsters, crooked politicians, corrupt cops and so on. The United States, like most of the world, was still deep in the Great Depression. World War II was looming. For so many people, the reality was that the banks had failed them, the courts had failed them, the police failed them,...

Though Netflix’s Emmy-nominated political drama House of Cards recently lost one acclaimed director, David Fincher, for its second season, don’t feel too bad for the show. After all, it just gained another supremely talented filmmaker to direct an upcoming episode – Oscar winner Jodie Foster.

Foster, who has won two Academy Awards for Best Actress for her leading performances in The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs, previously worked with Netflix when she helmed a first-season episode of the streaming giant’s acclaimed prison dramedy Orange Is the New Black. Now, with the news that Foster will team with Netflix again for one episode of House of Cards‘ second season, it seems clear that the company is very interested in keeping the A-lister around. According to sources, Foster is already prepping for her episode on location in Baltimore, where House of Cards films.

This won’t be Foster...

If you’re one of the few poor souls who live in complete isolation or without access to the news then you most likely missed the news that a baby was born on the 22nd of July. This, my friends, is no ordinary baby. This is a baby that was delivered by the almighty God to us mere plebs; this baby was draped in golden ivory and was caressed by the angels of the echelons of the heavens. That’s the reaction you would have made upon hearing the news of the birth of Javier Bardem’s and Penelope Cruz’s second daughter who was born on 22 July 2013.

No? Oh, it’s most likely your reaction to the birth of “The Royal baby”. I use quotation marks to signify the importance of this boy by the media coverage he received. I must stress the importance of this child, this is...

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The Killing is the kind of show that requires patience. It’s a slow burner, very much in the style of Swedish and Danish films and television (it’s based on the Danish hit Forbrydelsen). Dark and gloomy, The Killing is various shades of grey and it’s backdrop of Seattle makes for a fitting setting. Seasons 1 and 2 of The Killing, centered around the mystery of who killed Rosie Larson, a sweet but troubled teenage from a loving family. When the mystery of Rosie’s murder wasn’t solved by the end of Season 1, fans of the show were left frustrated. Season Two was a bit of a slog, the tension seeping out of the story like an old air mattress with a mysterious leak. There were too many characters whose motivations were unclear, and too many subplots that just weren’t all that interesting.

Open Road Films has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to A Haunted House 2 (working title) - the sequel to this year's hit film A Haunted House - to be co-written by and starring Marlon Wayans. The film will be financed and produced by Im Global's genre label Octane. The announcement was made today by Tom Ortenberg, CEO of Open Road Films and Stuart Ford, CEO of Im Global.

A Haunted House, released in January 2013, opened to $19 million at the U.S. box-office and has taken in over $40 million to date.

Open Road Films will release A Haunted House 2 - which will star Marlon Wayans - nationwide in Winter 2013-14. A Haunted House will be released by Universal Studios Home Entertainment on DVD, Blu-ray, and VOD on April 23, 2013. Production on A Haunted House 2 is scheduled to take place this summer.

Marlon Wayans' co-writing and acting credits include: Dance Flick,...

There’s more Haunted House on the way. Open Road Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Im Global's sequel to the 2013 box office hit A Haunted House. The film has been fast-tracked to hit theaters in the winter. The sequel – with a working title of A Haunted House 2 – will be co-written by and star Marlon Wayans. Wayans, who co-wrote the first installment with Rick Alvarez, has co-written and acted in several films including Dance Flick, White Chicks, Little Man and Scary Movie 1 and 2. Film Review: A Haunted House The

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After the box office success of A Haunted House, it’s no surprise that a sequel is moving forward. Today, Open Road Films announced that they acquired Us distribution rights to the sequel, which is expected to begin filming later this year:

Los Angeles, CA, April 8, 2013 – Open Road Films has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to A Haunted House 2 (working title) – the sequel to this year’s hit film A Haunted House – to be co-written by and starring Marlon Wayans. The film will be financed and produced by Im Global’s genre label Octane. The announcement was made today by Tom Ortenberg, CEO of Open Road Films and Stuart Ford, CEO of Im Global.

A Haunted House, released in January 2013, opened to $19 million at the U.S. box-office and has taken in over $40 million to date.

Open Road Films will release A Haunted House 2 – which will star Marlon Wayans...

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No matter what you thought of Jodie Foster's Golden Globes speech, you have to admit the woman is an all-star actress. She's been in more than 40 films and over 25 TV series, so it was hard to decide what her best role ever could be. It wasn't hard, though, to discuss how good she was in every single one.

Group, what's your favorite Jodie Foster film?

Dorothy Snarker: I absolutely, positively cannot pick just one because she was my very first crush. So there. Rules be damned. For sentimental reasons, Stealing Home because it came out during my formative years and I watched it on a seemingly endless loop on our family's contraband HBO feed. Those blue eyes mesmerized me. For action reasons, Flightplan because she took a role originally written for a male lead and helped to, again, show that women...

Chicago – When it comes to the art of spoofing the current movie culture, few have done it with more success than Marlon Wayans. As a sibling member of the Wayans Brothers, he has spent his career doing take-offs in films such as the “Scary Movie” franchise, “Dance Flick” and his current spooky satire, ‘A Haunted House.’

Marlon Wayans is the youngest of the Wayans comedy clan, which includes Keenan Ivory, Shawn, Damon and Kim. After attending Laguardia High School of the Performing Arts and Howard University, he joined his rising star siblings in the family business of comedy. After appearing in the film “Mo’ Money” (1992) – written by brother Damon – he joined the cast of Fox TV’s “In Living Color” (1990-94) produced by Keenen Ivory and Damon. He morphed from there to “The Wayans Bros” (1995-99), a sitcom on The WB. In 2000, he took a dramatic turn with a notable...

The South Australian Film Corporation (Safc) is set to put its $1.1 million FilmLab scheme on hiatus and close several smaller development programs.

The proposed changes form part of a Safc strategic review prompted by the end of the government.s four-year funding commitment to its Film Sa screen attraction program.

.We realised that the chances of getting anything [funding] in the immediate term were pretty tough...,. Safc chief executive Richard Harris said, .and so we had to be really tough about what decisions we were going to make in the short to medium term..

The $1.24 million Film Sa funding cut represents 20-25 per cent of the Safc.s annual program and investment funding, according to the screen agency. However, the bulk of Film Sa activities - marketing Sa locations, crew and infrastructure to attract film, television, commercial, and Pdv (post, digital and visual effects) work to the state - will be...

While January holds the potential for a fun action flick with Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Last Stand and recycled horror with Texas Chainsaw 3D, there's also some raunchy comedy coming your way, even if it does look dreadful. A Haunted House is a parody of found footage films like Paranormal Activity, The Devil Inside and The Last Exorcism written by and starring Marlon Wayans, and a red band trailer for the film is here. There's plenty of sex jokes, and while I'll admit to being amused by David Koechner quoting Samuel L Jackson in Snakes on a Plane (since he also starred in that film), this just looks gross. Here's the red band trailer for Michael Tiddes' A Haunted House from Vibe (via ComingSoon): Michael Tiddes (Dance Flick) directs A Haunted House written by Marlon Wayans (Scary Movie) and Rick Alvarez (producer of Scary Movie 2 and Little Man...

Richard Armitage, star of Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit', confesses he fell so much in love with New Zealand during his time filming the epic, he nearly gave his agent palpitations by declaring he was staying put.

"My agent told me, 'You'll never work again, or only with Peter Jackson.' It's weird, it was like falling in love with England all over again, but a country I remember from my childhood. I was always on my bike, or running by the water..."

Life was blissful work and play for Richard Armitage, filming Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit'

Lest we be thinking it was all an 18-month nostalgic rural romp, Armitage - full of good humour, a million miles away from his 'Spooks' double-crossing spy Lucas North and or even his brooding John Thornton in Mrs Gaskell's 'North and South' - is quick to point out the challenges...

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The production company behind the ABC series Rake and a new film starring Tom Hanks has been named Independent Producer of the Year at the 2012 Screen Producers Association of Australia awards in Melbourne over night.

The Awards were presented at a gala event during the Spaa Conference, currently being held at Docklands in Melbourne.

Essential Media and Entertainment had a strong year in 2012, not only delivering a second series of Rake but also producing two Jack Irish tele-movies starring Guy Pearce and securing Hanks and Emma Thompson to star in Saving Mr Banks, about the Australian author of Mary Poppins.

Essential Media’s CEO Chris Hilton said of the win: “It’s a great honour to be receiving this prestigious industry award. We would like to thank all our production partners, the writers, actor, directors and fantastic crews who have contributed to this success.”

Spaa executive director Geoff Brown said:...

Fans of Van Diemen's Land, Balibo and Cop Hard rejoice! Larry Hard himself, Mark Leonard Winter, is returning to the big screen, this time in a well-deserved leading role, in the upcoming thriller One Eyed Girl. With filming starting this week in Adelaide, South Australia, One Eyed Girl is a dark thriller about a psychiatrist (Winter) who follows a mysterious teenage girl named Grace into a Doomsday cult.Written by Craig Behenna and Nick Matthews, and directed by Matthews, One Eyed Girl is the third Sa Film Lab project to take off - following in the footsteps of Shut Up Little Man and 52 Tuesdays. The Sa Film Lab is a low budget film initiative run by the South Australian Film Corporation that aims to support amazing...

Los Angeles — Jodie Foster is adding a new trophy to her collection – a lifetime-achievement honor at the Golden Globes.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Thursday that Foster will receive the group's Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 70th annual Globes ceremony on Jan. 13.

Foster, 49, is a two-time Globes and Academy Award winner. She was honored with leading actress trophies at both ceremonies for 1991's "The Silence of the Lambs" and 1988's "The Accused," which she won in a three-way tie at the Globes with Sigourney Weaver for "Gorillas in the Mist" and Shirley MacLaine for "Madame Sousatzka."

DeMille Award winners are chosen by the board of directors for the foreign press group. It includes about 90 reporters who cover Hollywood for overseas outlets.

"Jodie is a multifaceted woman that has achieved immeasurable amounts of success and will continue to do so in her career," said HFPA president Aida Takla-o'Reilly. "Her ambition,...

They grow up so fast.

Former child star Jodie Foster is now claiming a lifetime achievement award.

The two-time Academy Award-winning star of The Silence of the Lambs and The Accused will received the Cecil B. DeMille trophy at the upcoming Golden Globe Awards.

Past recipients of the honor include Barbra Streisand, Al Pacino, Warren Beatty, and — last year — Morgan Freeman.

At age 50, Foster will be the fourth youngest person to ever claim the award, edging out Kirk Douglas (1968), producer Darryl F. Zanuck (1954) and Walt Disney (1953) who were all tied for that spot at 51-years-old. There are a few who...

It’s Monday, yup, we all got the Monday blues except for the Wayans who have a new movie that’s spoofing Paranormal Activity. And while part of me feels like the best bits are in the trailer, it’s certainly very funny. Synopsis: Michael Tiddes (Dance Flick) directs A Haunted House written by Marlon Wayans (Scary Movie) and Rick Alvarez (producer of Scary Movie 2 and Little Man). Sending up found footage horror films likeParanormal Activity movies, The Devil Inside and more, the film follows young couple Malcolm (Marlon Wayans) and Kisha (Essence Atkins), who have just moved in to their dream house until Malcolm’s possessed girlfriend starts ruining things, including his sex life Released: Jan 11th (USA)...

Little Man Porter showed up a little earlier than scheduled in this week’s Revenge, but fortunately he arrived after his mom’s impromptu, stripper-filled baby shower. Also, given these preview pics, I was prepared for another all-out Jack breakdown – little did I know, we’d also see some waterworks from Nolan and I-have-no-tear-ducts Emily. But whose big emotional moment resonated the most? Read on as we review the major developments in “Intuition.”

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It's been almost a decade since the Wayans Brothers have been involved in the Scary Movie series, having moved on to bigger and better things like White Chicks, Little Man and Dance Flick. However, apparently Marlon Wayans has been itching to deliver another cutting edge parody of the latest wave of horror flicks and now he is striking out on his own with a new comedy called A Haunted House. It's basically just Scary Movie under a different name, but it's aiming to beat the upcoming Scary Movie 5 to theatres by at least a few months. Wayans co-wrote the script and stars in the movie along with Nick Swardson and Cedric the Entertainer. Based on the trailer, it appears to be drawing the most inspiration from Paranormal Activity, but it also spoofs other recent found footage movies like The Last Exorcism and The Devil Inside. As you might expect, fart jokes and stoner humour abounds.