Ansel Elgort Is Augustus Waters in "The Fault in Our Stars" Opposite Shailene Woodley

From siblings to star-crossed lovers! EW reports rising star Ansel Elgort has been offered the male lead in "The Fault in Our Stars" opposite Shailene Woodley - who plays his sister in the currently-filming dystopian adaptation "Divergent." The two Read more

Dylan O'Brien Lands "The Maze Runner" Lead; Ki Hong Lee Also Joins

UPDATE: Director Wes Ball tweets that Ki Hong Lee has also joined the cast as Minho, a fellow Glader and ally to Thomas throughout the series. Lee is probably best known as a regular on short-lived ABC Family Read more

Shailene Woodley Confirmed for "The Fault in Our Stars"

I mean, duh, we called it. It has now been officially confirmed with glowing quotes from director, producer and author in tow that the increasingly in demand Shailene Woodley will play the lead role of Hazel Grace Lancaster Read more

Up and Comers Presents: 20 Faces to Watch in 2013

After a somewhat unpredictable year in which the stars we expected to break out largely didn't but fresh faces came out of nowhere to surprise us all, we are ready to look ahead to the new talent waiting to Read more

Up and Comers Presents: The Breakout Stars of 2012

Another year, another new crop of fresh talent. Just like last year, the hardest part is narrowing down which of the dozens of the year's rising stars shone the brightest. This year we heralded the arrival of the unlikeliest Read more
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David Oyelowo joins Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln”

November 18, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting 1 Comment

Fast rising British actor David Oyelowo has added another huge project to his increasingly busy upcoming slate. Deadline reveals Oyelowo has joined the cast of Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln”, a biopic of the 16th – and arguably most popular – President of the United States, starring Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role. Oyelowo and Day-Lewis are joined by a sprawling A-List cast that includes Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, John Hawkes, Hal Holbrook and David Strathairn.

Oyelowo will play a cavalryman in the film, which is based on definitive Lincoln biography “Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin, and which will center around the last four months of Lincoln’s life. Filming has commenced in Virginia and the film is already poised to be a major player in next year’s Oscar race, already set for a December 2012 release date. Of course, it’s not the only Lincoln picture to come out next year. Timur Bekmambetov directs Benjamin Walker as a very different 16th President of the United States, in “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, out next June. It’s like the battle of Snow Whites all over again!

Oyelowo has been steadily working in the UK for years but his career has been on an upward swinging trajectory for the past several months after appearing in summer blockbusters “The Help” and “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” He’s currently filming thriller “One Shot” opposite Tom Cruise and has wrapped up Lee Daniels’ legal drama “The Paperboy.”

Watch: Mystery preludes Andrew Garfield’s transformation into “The Amazing Spider-Man” in first trailer

July 20, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Videos Leave a comment

Peter Parker’s rarely mentioned, usually presumed dead parents play a large role in the first teaser trailer for Marc Webb’s 3D reboot “The Amazing Spider-Man”, which sees Andrew Garfield take over the web slinging crimefighting from Tobey Maguire. The young Peter is left with his Uncle Ben and Aunt May (played by Martin Sheen and Sally Field) by his parents in the middle of the night without explanation, and as he grows up, it’s a mystery that still haunts him. Will he discover their retconned status as S.H.I.E.L.D. agents?

Though we have seen the new Spidey suit many times by now, the trailer plays coy with revealing Spider-Man in costume and in action, choosing instead to show us his POV as he slings and swings across skyscrapers. While it may frustrate fanboys, we can already imagine how awesome the footage will look on the big screen and in 3D.

Garfield, Webb and Emma Stone, who plays Peter’s first love Gwen Stacey, will be on hand to showcase this new trailer and perhaps more at the highly anticipated Sony panel at Comic-Con this Friday. “The Amazing Spider-Man” opens in theaters July 3, 2012.

Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone in new stills and costume shots from “The Amazing Spider-Man”

July 14, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images 1 Comment

It’s the week before Comic-Con and studios are bringing out the big guns in promoting their upcoming big budget blockbusters. More and more will be revealed in the lead up to next Thursday and then even more over the course of next weekend, but Sony gets a jump on the competition by being out of the gate first, releasing to this week’s cover of Entertainment Weekly some brand new shots of Andrew Garfield in costume and in action as Peter Parker, aka “The Amazing Spider-Man.”

EW also reveals the first stills taken from the movie itself, featuring Peter out of his Spidey costume hanging upside down on a subway, getting close to Emma Stone as first love Gwen Stacy and hanging out with Sally Field and Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Also featured is Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors, who transforms into formidable Spidey villain The Lizard after an experiment goes awry.

Said to be “more gritty, more contemporary”, director Marc Webb tells EW how this reboot differs from the Sam Raimi-Tobey Maguire adaptations of the classic Marvel superhero: “Ultimately what this movie is about is a kid who grows up looking for his father and finds himself. And that’s a Spider-Man story we haven’t seen before.”

“The Amazing Spider-Man” recently wrapped up filming and is set for release on July 3, 2012. Garfield, Stone and Webb are set to headline one of the most anticipated panels at Comic Con next Friday.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays son to Daniel Day Lewis in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln”

May 5, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting 1 Comment

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is about to get historical, as THR reports the increasingly in demand actor has signed on to Steven Spielberg’s biopic of the 16th President of the United States, “Lincoln”. Daniel Day Lewis is on board to play Lincoln and Gordon-Levitt will be taking the role of Robert Todd Lincoln, his eldest son and the only one out of the four Lincoln sons to live past the age of 18.

In addition to Day Lewis and Gordon-Levitt, Sally Field is also on board to play Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady, and they are also joined today by a massive influx of new cast members including Tommy Lee Jones, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, Joseph Cross, David Costabile, Byron Jennings, Dakin Matthews, Boris McGiver, Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong and David Warshofsky. Phew!

Spielberg’s vampire-free “Lincoln” is based on “Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin and adapted by Tony Kushner and chronicles Lincoln’s quest to abolish slavery and overseeing the Civil War to accomplish that goal.

Gordon-Levitt will head to Virginia for the planned fall shoot, presumably after completing work on “The Dark Knight Rises”. “Lincoln” is aiming for a late 2012 release.