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--- Turing's Tale - Benedict Cumberbatch is going to play Alan Turing, the mathematician turned code-breaker in WWII who should have been hailed as a war hero but instead got arrested for being gay, and was chemically castrated by the government. Two years later he killed himself with cyanide. So, you know, a happy story! Definitely one that's overdue being told, though.

 

--- Stripper Seconds - Matthew McConaughey says that he thinks a Magic Mike sequel is still in the works, but it might be a little while since Channing Tatum's taking off some time what with his wife being pregnant.Why do I feel like this movie won't happen? Please guys, prove me wrong.

--- Dead Wood - Looks as if Guillermo Del Toro's stop-motion Pinocchio is dead as a boy-donkey - the co-director tweeted that it doesn't seem to be the right time for the dark take on the material that they wanted to go for. It's always the right time for that, dumb Hollywood execs.

--- A Rim For Rian - Speaking of Del Toro, there are a couple new pictures from Pacific Rim over here, most enticingly of Charlie Hunnam in his weird tight cod-pieced robot outfit. I approve! So does director Rian Johnson, who says the movie will make us all pee our collective pants.

--- Hello Copter - Nifty movie nugget of the day - here's Stanley Kubrick's camera operator for The Shining talking about that shot at the start of the movie where you see the shadow of the helicopter, which has become a thing thanks to the weird spazzes who spazz over Kubrick so thoroughly.

--- Devil's Return - When The House of the Devil came out, star Jocelin Donahue sort of got ignored since we were all so busy falling in love with Greta Gerwig, but I thought she was great too, so I'm happy to hear she's joined the cast of the second Insidious movie - she's playing the young version of Barbara Hershey's character, so I guess we're getting some backstory.
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--- Hero's Lady - Revenge star Emily VanCamp has won the lead chick role in the Captain America sequel - because she isn't fortunate enough in real life to get to mash her face on Josh Bowman, now she gets to push herself up on Chris Evans as Cappy. Damn you, woman! Seriously though, I like her, so this will be nifty.
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--- This Is Crappy - That's it, I give the fuck up on Judd Apatow (as a director, at least - he can keep on producing stuff like Girls) - he wants to make a third film in his increasingly unbearable Knocked Up / This is 40 series, which would follow the daughters, aka his own two daughters, some years later. UGH times a million. He is so far up his own ass he doesn't even know it. I will not be seeing that movie.

--- Rock Chicks - Toni Collette and Broadway sensation Nina Arianda are starring in a comedy about a rock journalist (Collette) who is chasing down her musician ex-boyfriend (played by Thomas Haden Church) for a story. Arianda plays Toni's bff.

--- There For Brad - I've been so busy hating the trailer for The Call (that Halle Berry is a 911 operator movie) that I've totally missed the fact that it's directed by the super talented Brad Anderson - he made Session 9 and The Machinist. Ugh, it looks awful, and the trailer is the entire movie, but now I'll have to see it on DVD at least.

ETA Oh and you must read this lovely little piece on the movies of Wes Anderson from the writer Michael Chabon. It's wise to Wes and what makes him so tremendously special.