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--- 50 Shades Of Gay - People have been getting quotes left and right from Charlie Hunnam about 50 Shades of Grey now that he's been cast in the lead, but my favorite is this one, where he says that "I had such a baptism of fire with regards to sexuality on camera at the beginning of my career..." Is that what we're calling having Littlefinger up your bum these days? Trial by fire?

--- Bro Power - There's a really terrific chat with the Coen Brothers in the Times from this weekend, mostly about their upcoming folk-sploitation flick (I have no reason to call it folk-sploitation, except that word is hysterical) Inside Llewyn Davis, but also touches on how they work with each other, and how they've done so over all these years.

--- Pegg Me - This interview is a few weeks old but I only just read it yesterday and it's totally worth a look - here's HuffPo talking to Simon Pegg about the Trekkies turn on the latest Star Trek movie, as well as a wonderful story about him showing the original Star Wars movies to his daughter.

--- Human Heroes - I'm seeing ads for Marvel's Agents of SHIELD everywhere here in NYC - on the sides of buses, plastering entire subway cars; they're really going all out pushing the show. The Times talks to the folks behind the show, including Joss, and gets at where they're going to try and go with it. Have we heard anything about any of the big names showing up on it at all, ever? I want Chris Evans, dammit. (How many times have I uttered that sentence in my life?) Anyway that picture is of Brett Dalton, who I'm already prepped for major crushing upon.

--- Jungle Boogie - THR talks to Eli Roth about the making of his cannibal flick The Green Inferno out in the python-riddled wild, which played at Toronto this weekend (I haven't read nay reviews yet, have you?), and then gets the news that they're already set to make a sequel; Eli will only be producing, while his Aftershock director Ncholas Lopez will be directing.

--- Sex and the Cannibal - Cynthia Nixon has joined the second season cast of Hannibal! She's playing an FBI agent up the totem pole investigating the fall-out from the first season, I say trying to remain vague and non-spoilery for those of you who need to catch up, and you really should do that already, I mean really.

--- Desert Queen - Naomi Watts has been replaced by her best friend Nicole Kidman in Werner Hezgog's Queen of the Desert, that Gertrude Bell bio-pic (think the female Lawrence of Arabia) that he's been talking about making for the past couple of years. It co-stars Robert Pattinson and James Franco. And Nicole Kidman crosses one more auteur name off on her Auteur Bingo card.
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--- And finally, the first trailer for True Detective is out - that's the HBO series that Jane Eyre's director Cary Fukunaga is behind that follows Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as detectives on the trail of a killer over a long span of years.The antlers shot is some straight up Hannibal stuff, right? Anyway it looks good, watch it:

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