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--- The Dwarf & The Director - A Brazilian actor named Wagner Moura is going to play Italian genius Federico Fellini in a bio-pic about his first trip to America in 1957 for the Oscars when he disappeared for a couple of days. The movie is being written and directed  the producer of the television show Homeland, which I totally adore. (He also produced Rubicon, which we were just talking about.) Naturally, this being a movie about Fellini, there's a role for Peter Dinklage too. Anyway this Moura guy looked familiar to me so I checked and yup, we've posted about him before - he's playing the bad guy in Elysium, director Neil Blomkamp's follow-up to District 9. 

--- Crazy Chloe - Chloe Sevigny has joined the second season of American Horror Story's cast, apparently as a main adversary for whoever the hell Jessica Lange is playing. I love Chloe but never got into Big Love so this is the first thing I'll be seeing her in in like fourteen years or whatever.

--- Stoner Show - We now have official word that HBO has picked up that nine-episode series True Detective starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as detectives on the trail of a serial killer that will be directed by Jane Eyre's hot piece of a director Cary Fukunaga. We heard about this a few weeks back, but now it's for sure and shit. Awesome.

--- Public Displays of Violence - Las Vegas is the lucky recipient of Eli Roth's Goretorium, a splatterriffic haunted house of sorts that'll be opening up in time for Halloween this year. Last year he had a Hostel-themed maze that was a big hit at Universal Studios, so I guess he's found a niche you know, other than making movies. Also look there to the right a shot of his furry boobs that I'd never seen, hooray.

--- Dead Kid Haunting - Henry Selick, the wonderful stop-motion artist who gave us The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline, is heading back into Neil Gaiman territory with an adaptation of Gaiman's recent wonderful dark kid's tale The Graveyard Book. Have you read it? It is terrific. I was going to complain that I wished I'd been able to have Neil Gaiman writing when I was a kid, but then I realized I had all the Roald Dahl I could ever want and that was pretty freaking great, so no complaints. Selick is also doing some kind of top-secret project for Pixar.

--- Gone Batty - Oh and I guess there's a new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises too? I've actually totally watched it but am I totally weird for not being driven all that mad with enthusiasm over it? In comparison to the coolness every frame of Prometheus is emanating, TDKR just isn't making me go too wow. Still I suppose I'm psyched to get my Tom Hardy fix, if nothing else. And the hour's worth of IMAX footage will surely be something. That shot of the bridges collapsing is cool. But yeah these positives are totally half-assed compared to the endless stream of exclamation points I can't help hollering about Prometheus. Ridley seems to be winning the Summer hype, at least round these parts, which is... unexpected, to put it mildly.


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