Friday, April 13, 2012 8:57AM - By Travis Woods
Try saying that headline three times fast. Then wrap your head around Looper’s premise: Mobsters from the future, in an effort to properly dispose of evidence, send their victims 30 years into the past to be executed by hired assassins called ‘Loopers.’ One such Looper is Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who one day arrives at the job to find himself with tasked with killing his future self (Bruce Willis), which is where the wackiness (including Gordon-Levitt doing his best Willis drawl under some subtle makeup FX) begins.
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Thursday, March 1, 2012 4:11PM - By Laura Aguirre
Being Flynn is Paul Weitz’s version of A Better Life, so to speak. In the past few years, the Weitz brothers have individually (and literally) gone from big blockbusters (Little Fockers, The Twilight Saga: New Moon) to more personal projects about the complications between father and son relationships. Adapted from Nick Flynn’s acclaimed 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night In Suck City, Being Flynn tells the story between Nick, played by Paul Dano, and his estranged father of 18-years, Jonathan Flynn, played by Robert De Niro.
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Friday, February 25, 2011 10:55AM - By Krystal Clark
We’ve known for a while that Universal is planning a prequel/spin-off to their highly successful Jason Bourne franchise, but they’ve yet to find an actor to play the lead. According to several sources, director and screenwriter Tony Gilroy has cast a very wide net on potential candidates for the primary role in The Bourne Legacy. They include everyone from 20 year old Alex Pettyfer to Australian actor Joel Edgerton. Check out the complete shortlist below…
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Saturday, July 24, 2010 8:16PM - By Brendan Walsh
Update: Watch video of Harrison Ford and the rest of the cast’s dramatic entrance for their Hall H panel
According to the Comic-Con rules, we at ScreenCrave could not record any of the footage Jon Favreau shared with us from his latest flick Cowboys and Aliens, but suffice it to say that it looked awesome! With writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, and the film’s enormously talented cast 0f actors, including Daniel Craig, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, and Harrison Ford, this could prove that Favreau is the new king of the big budget action flick! Check out the description of the footage, after the jump…
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:00PM - By Mali Elfman
The Extra Man premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival’s largest venue to fairly solid reviews (check out our Sundance Review). It is the story of idealists who exist just outside of the commonly accepted reality of New York City, who come together to find themselves and accept one another. It’s somewhat of a hard pitch to sell, but luckily the lead performances make it worthwhile.
Check out our full review (and our Sundance Review) for The Extra Man…
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Friday, May 14, 2010 2:36PM - By Krystal Clark
Watch out everybody the creepy guy from There Will Be Blood and Little Miss Sunshine has landed a new gig. According to Deadline, Paul Dano has been cast in Jon Favreau’s film Cowboys & Aliens. The actor will join Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, Harrison Ford, Noah Ringer, and Sam Rockwell in the sci-fi/western.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:27PM - By Brendan Walsh
The Extra Man
Dir.: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Wr.: Jonathan Ames
Starring: Paul Dano, Kevin Kline, Katie Holmes, John C. Reilly
Last night, The Extra Man premiered at the Eccles Theater, the Sundance Film Festival’s largest venue (over 1,000 seats). It is the story of idealists who exist just outside of the commonly accepted reality of New York City, attempting to justify their idiosyncrasies to each other and themselves. The film is directed by co-directors Shari Springer Bergman and Robert Pulcini whose previous collaboration was the Harvey Pekar biopic/documentary American Splendor, and written by novelist and scribe of HBO’s Bored to Death Jonathan Ames. The films co-directors and principal cast were in attendance and indulged the audience with a brief Q&A after the screening. Check out the full review, after the jump…
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Thursday, October 1, 2009 11:31AM - By Craig Sternberg
Despite the movie being dropped from Columbia’s schedule, THR reports that actors Shia LaBeouf, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Dano and Ryan Gosling are all spreading the word to keep The Wettest Country in the World up and running. The film is based on a novel written by Matt Bondurant, and is a period piece that covers one of the most significant times in American history.
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Friday, September 25, 2009 9:32AM - By Krystal Clark
The other day we brought you several photos from the the upcoming James Mangold project, Wichita. It’s an action comedy led by Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Production is currently underway for the film and according to Variety, another actor has been cast. If your familiar with Little Miss Sunshine or There Will Be Blood you should know where I’m going with this. Paul Dano has just signed on to star as a very peculiar character.
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