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★☆☆☆☆Showing out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, Joe Dante's zom-com Burying the Ex (2014) is an unfunny undead comedy that in harking back to the days of the classic B-movie would be flattered to be classified as an E-movie. Max (Star Trek's Anton Yelchin) lives with his beautiful but irritating girlfriend Evelyn (Twilight's Ashley Greene). He works in the Bloody Mary Costume Shop while she's a blogger on environment issues and a vegan - the villains du jour of this year's festival following Hungry Hearts. Max's brother Travis (Oliver Cooper) (correction half- brother, and that counts for a running gag) occasionally comes round - one of those less convincing lotharios - and gets the lion's share of the laughs.

Last seen on the Venice Lido in 2009 with his acclaimed 3D horror The Hole, Joe Dante returns to the festival with the disappointing schlock fest that is Burying the Ex. All I wanted to bury was my head in my hands during the screening of this tired, cheap and cliché-ridden film.

Our hero is Max (Anton Yelchin), a shop assistant at Boo Mary’s, selling Halloween costumes and horror gimmicks while classic horror movies play on a loop on a TV screen. His girlfriend Evelyn (Ashley Greene) is an eco-blogger who – despite being up for skipping work to have sex with Max when a consignment of naughty nurse costumes arrives – is not actually that much fun.

She hates it when Max’s lothario half-brother Travis (Oliver Cooper) shows up, though to be fair he does have a threesome with a couple of good-time girls on her nice paisley sheet. She...

With the fall film festival circuit imminent, the 2014 Venice Film Festival has start to unveil images from some of the films that will screen in Italy later this month. We previously shared new images from Good Kill, Your Right Mind, and Hungry Hearts, as well as James Franco’s The Sound and the Fury, and now we have new images from another trio of films slated to screen in Venice. Briefly: She’s Funny That Way – Previously titled Squirrels to the Nuts, director Peter Bogdanovich’s (Paper Moon) ensemble comedy stars Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson, and Imogen Poots. The Humbling – Star Al Pacino reunites with director Barry Levinson (You Don’t Know Jack) for the story of a famous retired stage actor in decline who becomes reinvigorated by moving in with a much younger woman. Olive Kitteridge – Director Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right) helms the HBO miniseries adaptation...

Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tina Fey, John Goodman, Josh Holloway, Pauley Perrette, and Jeremy Renner are confirmed to present at the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, Executive Producer/Director Jeff Margolis and Executive Producer Kathy Connell announced today.

They join a growing list of actors who will honor their colleagues at the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, including Ben Affleck, Sasha Alexander, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Garner, Clark Gregg, Tom Hanks, SAG-AFTRA President Ken Howard, Mindy Kaling, Jennifer Lawrence, Jared Leto, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Marsden, Matthew McConaughey, Ewan McGregor, Lupita Nyong’o, Sarah Paulson, Julia Roberts, Elisabeth Röhm, Kevin Spacey, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Kerry Washington, Forest Whitaker, and Oprah Winfrey.

Amy Adams has been nominated for six Actor® statuettes — including one this year for David O. Russell’s “American Hustle” as a member of the film’s cast.

Rumors swirled last week that "Girls" star Adam Driver was being looked at for the role of Dick Grayson in the upcoming "Batman vs. Superman" film at Warner Bros. Pictures.

Doing some press this weekend, Driver was very clear about the fact that the reports aren't true, telling Collider: "No. Not that I know of, no. If you find out, let me know, then I'll know."

He goes on to say: "[It's] intensely flattering as you can imagine. I mean, it's Batman and Superman, who doesn't want to be involved in something not only of that scale but of who those characters are. That's an incredible world to be able to be in for a bit. Like who wouldn't want to do that?"

The original story at The Wrap was the one that mentioned two other actors are in the mix for the role, this now calls into question all of that talk.

Mumbai, May 25: The sequel to controversial Bollywood drama film "Dunno Y...Na Jaane Kyun", which released in 2010, will be light, breezy and romantic, unlike the original.

The sequel is directed by Tonje Gjevon, a Norwegian.

Made by a Norwegian production house The Hungry Hearts, the film will be shot in Norway, and it will be made in Norwegian, English and Hindi. The genre of the sequel will be unlike the original, which was a serious drama, said a statement.

Actors Kapil Sharma and Yuvraaj Parashar, who played the lead characters in the original film, will act in the sequel too. This version will also have a melange.

Kapil Sharma and Yuvraaj Parashar have shot a music video for Nowegian group The Hungry Hearts Pin-Up Performance Band.

The Dunno Y… Na Jaane Kyun stars were approached to appear in the promo for the lesbian music group’s new track ‘Captain in the Sky’, following the screening of their debut release at an Israeli film festival.

Tonje Gjevjon, the artistic leader of the group reveals, “Our latest single ‘Captain in the Sky’ is a song about women dreaming of attention and love from unreachable men. We have actually never considered using men in our performances or videos before.”

“But when we saw Dunno Y… Na Jaane Kyun in Israel we were stunned by the guys’ exotic looks with a combination of beauty, innocence, tenderness and masculinity.”

Model-turned-actor Yuvraaj, on his experience of working with them says: “It was wonderful to work with international crew, they are so quick and organised.

Kapil Sharma and Yuvraaj Parashar have completed work on a music video for a Norwegian lesbian pop group. The Dunno Y... Na Jaane Kyun actors star in the video to The Hungry Hearts pin-up performance band's latest track 'Captain in the Sky'. ''Our latest single 'Captain in the Sky' is a song about women dreaming of attention and love from unreachable men. When we saw Dunno Y... Na Jaane Kyun we were stunned by the guys' exotic looks with a combination of beauty, innocence, tenderness and masculinity," said Tonje Gjevon from the group. Sharma and Parashar were approached to act in the promo following a recent screening of their debut release at an Israeli film festival. "It was (more)...

Australian production company Bigger and Better Productions is looking at bringing a .large-scale Hollywood production. to Australian shores, the company has announced. The local production company, which is relatively new in the independent film industry, has optioned supernatural thriller, The Highwayman, and is looking at filming in May, 2013, if the project goes ahead. The film will be written by Glenn M. Benest (who co-wrote Wes Craven.s 1981 film Deadly Blessing) and his writing partner Dale K. Pitman. It will be their third project together. Benest and Pitman will join Ramona Rai on producing duties and negotiations are continuing for a director. According to IMDb, Benest produced and co-wrote.independent dark comedy Hungry Hearts..He has also...

Dunno Y... Na Jaane Kyun actors Kapil Sharma and Yuvraaj Parashar have been asked to appear in a music video by a Norwegian lesbian band. The stars were given the opportunity to collaborate with the band The Hungry Hearts, after the screening of their 2010 film at the Tel Aviv Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Sharma told Digital Spy: "A member of a top Norwegian lesbian band The Hungry Hearts posted on a social network site that although the festival had films from all over the world, our Indian film was the most touching and beautiful. "They liked our work so much that they have even offered me and (more)...