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It's Official: Hugo Weaving Is 'Captain America's' Red Skull

By Audrey Fine (Subscribe to Audrey Fine's posts), Posted May 4th 2010 2:00PM
Filed under: Movie News
'Iron Man 2' hasn't even opened stateside yet and already Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury has new playmate.

As had been rumored, it's now been made official that Australian actor Hugo Weaving has signed on to play Johann Schmidt, aka the Red Skull, in the upcoming 'Captain America: The First Avenger' movie.

As Marvel comics aficionados know only too well, the Red Skull has had three incarnations -- none of whom you'd want to introduce to take to prom. And, while his differing alliances range from Nazis to communists, it's safe to say that this "great threat against humanity" has it in for Captain America (Chris Evans). Big time.
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Shia LaBeouf Signs on for 'Death'

By Audrey Fine (Subscribe to Audrey Fine's posts), Posted Apr 29th 2010 3:28PM
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Shia LaBeouf, who, in a matter months, seems to have, well, transformed from plucky young gun to certifiable leading man, has just signed on to star in 'The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman,' for Lionsgate.

According to a press release issued today, the "romantic actioner," set to be helmed by noted commercial director Dante Ariola in his feature film debut, is about a regular guy, LaBeouf's Charlie, whose love for the (as yet uncast) impossibly charming Gabi almost gets him killed -- over and over again. Seems that a crazy-violent crime boss already has set his sights on Gabi and isn't going to let some kid swoop in and steal her affections.
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Warner Bros., IMAX Sign 20-Picture Deal

By Audrey Fine (Subscribe to Audrey Fine's posts), Posted Apr 28th 2010 1:15PM
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Fasten your seatbelts, Hobbit fans: Warner Bros. and IMAX just closed a deal that's going to send you on quite a ride.

As part of their new agreement to release as many as 20 movies in the IMAX format over the next three-and-a-half years, Warner Bros. announced that Guillermo del Toro's highly anticipated adaptation of 'The Hobbit' will be hitting the big -- and very big -- screen in December 2013.

UPDATE: According to Heat Vision, Warner Bros. is scheduling 'The Hobbit' for a two-part release, in December 2012 and December 2013.
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'Dog Day Afternoon' Scribe Prepares for 'Winter'

By Audrey Fine (Subscribe to Audrey Fine's posts), Posted Apr 27th 2010 12:45PM
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Frank PiersonHollywood may be run by young guns, but there's a pedigreed old-timer who's poised to make a big splash -- again.

According to Variety, Oscar-winning scribe Frank Pierson will write the script for '17 Days of Winter,' a 3-D Korean War epic. And, oh yeah, he's going to be 85 on May 12.

Pierson, who won the original screenwriting Oscar for 'Dog Day Afternoon' in 1975 and was nominated for 'Cat Ballou' and 'Cool Hand Luke,' told Variety that he's been busy writing for the last 20 years but just hasn't sold anything. "I've been like everybody else in the movie business," he said. "I've been doing scripts that just didn't get made."
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