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Before Treasure, pairing Tiny Furniture and Girls auteur Lena Dunham with legendary British comedian and intellectual Stephen Fry might have seemed odd or random at best. But seeing them as father and daughter in the new film, you realize how important casting really is. They're a brilliant pairing, erudite but huggable, cantankerous in different ways appropriate to their respective generations.

Matt Bomer claims to have been the directors choice to portray Superman back in the day, but the studio allegedly didnt want him for the role because he is gay. Following the disastrous box office returns resulting from Christopher Reeves well-meaning Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), and before Bryan Singers Superman Returns (2006) took flight, there were attempts to make a new movie featuring the DC Comics superhero.

Look up in the sky! Its a bird, its a plane its Jude Law? As most fans already know, the actor had the opportunity to don the famous blue-and-red tights he even tried them on of the Man of Steel. Laws version of Kal-El/Clark Kent would have appeared in screenwriter J.

A movie adaptation of the beloved children's book by Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, is now in development. The new movie reunites Gaiman with director Henry Selick, who helmed the 2009 adaptation of Gaiman's beloved children's novel Coraline. While The Ocean at the End of the Lane is not connected to Coraline narratively, Selick is regarding the new project to be the perfect companion piece to the Oscar-nominated stop-motion hit.

The late great Carl Weathers, best known for his roles in the likes of Rocky, Predator, and Happy Gilmore, is being honored by the Directors Guild Foundation (DGF), who have revealed that their premier annual fundraising event will be renamed as a tribute. Releasing a statement on the official website, it is revealed that the DGF will honor the esteemed DGA member and DGF officer Carl Weathers by renaming their premier annual fundraising event in his honor.

Prepare to witness a movie so risqu and bizarre that even its filmmakers are surprised they were allowed to make it. Titled Spermageddon, this animated musical follows two awkward teenagers, Jen and Lisa, who have sex for the first time. Co-directed by Tommy Wirkola (Violent Night) and Rasmus A. Silversten (Louis & Luca: The Big Cheese Race), the film takes the perspective of Simon the Semen, one of Jen's sperm, as he undertakes a perilous journey to find Lisa's egg.