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

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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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Watch: Benjamin Walker dominates new trailer for “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”

March 17, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Videos Leave a comment

Honest Abe speaks! We’ve already seen plenty of montage footage from “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, but in the new trailer released today, Benjamin Walker finally gives voice to the axe-wielding, vampire killing 16th President of the United States. Through narration, Abe explains why exactly you and I have only heard the squeaky clean, vampire-less history of his life and why he just hates vampires so damn much. Brief glimpse here of Australian actress Robin McLevy as Lincoln’s mother, whose death when he was young sets off his quest, and Rufus Sewell as Adam, one of Lincoln’s main vampire nemeses.

Tim Burton produced and Timur Bekmambetov directed the sprawling, CGI filled 3D revisionist biopic that will be released on June 22nd. Watch the new trailer below.

Watch: Bella Heathcote and Chloe Moretz join Johnny Depp in first trailer for “Dark Shadows”

March 16, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Videos 1 Comment

Just brief glimpses of our favorite up and comers in this first teaser trailer for Tim Burton’s remake of 1960s vampire soap opera “Dark Shadows”, but it’s a fun one nonetheless. Johnny Depp – who else? – stars as Barnabas Collins, a man cursed by a jilted ex – Eva Green as Angelique, who happens to be a witch – into becoming a vampire, and then buried underground for centuries. When he’s dug out, it’s the 1970s and his beloved Collins family has deteriorated from the town leaders they once were to town outcasts, with a crumbling business. Michelle Pfeiffer is the matriarch of the family, with Jonny Lee Miller as her brother, Gulliver McGrath as his young son and Chloe Moretz as her rebellious teenage daughter. Aussie newcomer Bella Heathcote gets her first big break into American film here and plays the children’s governess, who happens to bare a striking resemblance to Barnabas’ lost love Josette (who may or may not be still hanging around as a ghost, too).

The trailer goes for big laughs, focusing on Barnabas encountering such modern oddities as lava lamps, cars instead of horses and “tiny songstresses” inside televisions, and it worked for me. “Dark Shadows” will be released on May 11, 2012. Watch the first trailer below.

Watch: First look at Dominic Cooper and Mary Elizabeth Winstead in “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” international trailer

February 14, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Videos 1 Comment

Just yesterday we saw the American teaser trailer for “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” and like all good first trailers, it teased and tantalized without giving away too many secrets of Benjamin Walker’s axe-wielding, almost superhuman action hero of a 16th President. For international audiences though, Fox is going full out exposition, chocking it full of explanatory dialogue and closer looks at the bloodsucking monsters Walker’s Honest Abe will be fighting. One good thing about the new trailer is that we are given our first look at two key characters left out of the initial teaser: Mary Elizabeth Winstead as love interest Mary Todd (eventually Lincoln) and Dominic Cooper as Henry Sturgess, the vampire who seeks Abe’s help in defeating his own species.

“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, produced by Tim Burton and directed by Timur Bekmambetov, will be released on June 22nd. See the new international trailer below.

Watch: Benjamin Walker kicks ass as “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” in first trailer

February 13, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Videos 3 Comments

One of our favorite risings stars, Benjamin Walker had some bad news last week as it was announced that Alex Proyas’ ambitious 3D action epic “Paradise Lost” – in which Walker had been attached as one of the two main leads – had been halted for good. The good news for Walker is that epic action looks to be in his future still, as the first trailer for “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” looks as fantastic as its previous promo materials and makes us even more excited for its summer release. Tim Burton produced and Timur Bekmambetov directed the sprawling, CGI filled revisionist biopic on the 16th President of the United States, and Walker in the title role is joined by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Anthony Mackie, Dominic Cooper and a slew of other up and comers.

“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” will be released on June 22nd. Have we mentioned how excited we are for this movie?? Get on the bandwagon and watch the new trailer below.

First official look at Bella Heathcote, Chloe Moretz and the whole cast of “Dark Shadows”

September 22, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images 1 Comment

We’ve already seen one set of unofficial photos from the set of Tim Burton’s highly anticipated vampire saga “Dark Shadows” which was, well, a bit out there. So, as if to appease the outcry of fans and bloggers, the first official photo from the film has been released via Entertainment Weekly and we can all breathe a sigh of relief, the whole cast looks not nearly as crazy as those first set photos would have us believe. Johnny Depp’s skintone in particular looks much more manageable.

The whole cast appears strikingly doll-like, standing in a giant dollhouse, especially a couple of our favorite up and comers, Aussie breakout Bella Heathcote as governess Victoria Winters and Chloe Moretz, who looks more grownup than in any of her previous roles, as the rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard. Director Burton felt inspired to snap this shot of his entire cast by the original soap opera on which his film is based. “I remember seeing a group photograph of the cast of the original series,” he tells EW. “For me it captured the weird Dark Shadows vibe in a single image. I had a brief window of opportunity to have our cast present at the same time, the day before principle photography began. We decided to stage a similar picture instead of rehearsing, to see if we captured the Dark Shadows feeling.”

Check out the larger version of the pic below and head to EW for detailed descriptions of each actor and character represented. So has Tim Burton captured the Dark Shadows feeling? Let us know what you think!

First Look: Bella Heathcote on the set of “Dark Shadows” with Johnny Depp

September 13, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images 2 Comments

Aussie up and comer Bella Heathcote is seen above in costume and in character as governess Victoria Winters on the set of Tim Burton’s remake of 1960s soap opera “Dark Shadows”, which chronicled the adventures of vampire Barnabas Collins, played by Johnny Depp (also pictured). The all-star cast also features Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley and Helena Bonham Carter as well as up and comer Thomas McDonell as young Barnabas.. In our first look at the film on location in London, Heathcote looks appropriately garbed in Victorian era dress while Depp, well… yes.

We’ll forgive you if Depp is drawing most of your attention. Sure he’s playing an outrageous soap opera vampire who probably doesn’t get much sun, but the white face paint and drawn on sideburns seem quite over the top, to say the least, especially when compared to Barnabas in the original series, which was already highly dramatic. [

First look: Benjamin Walker as “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”

May 9, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images 3 Comments

As Steven Spielberg preps his Abraham Lincoln biopic “Lincoln”, filming is already underway in Louisiana on a very different sort of film about the 16th President of the United States, and The New York Times has the first look. In “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, rising star Benjamin Walker plays a highly trained axe-wielding warrior whose mission in life is to rid the world of the undead, after one of the creatures attacked and killed his mother when he was a child. And if he has to become President, end slavery and preside over the Civil War to accomplish that singular goal, so be it!

Screenwriter and author of the novel on which it’s based, Seth Grahame-Smith likens Abraham Lincoln as a vampire hunter to the topical subject of Barack Obama’s recent killing of Osama Bin Laden. “There’s something in the American psyche, we want our presidents to be warriors. We’re giving that to Abraham Lincoln, sort of posthumously in this case.”

Joining Walker in the titular role are a slew of up and coming actors, including Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Mary Todd (eventually Lincoln), Dominic Cooper as Henry Sturgess, Lincoln’s vampire mentor and Anthony Mackie as Will, Lincoln’s best friend. Filming began in March and continues as director Timur Bekmambetov and producer Tim Burton aim for a summer blockbuster release date of June 22, 2012.

See the first still taken by the NYT of Walker bearded up, in costume and looking eerily like the real Lincoln, below.

“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” gains a villian in Rufus Sewell

April 12, 2011 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Casting Leave a comment

The cast for Tim Burton’s adapatation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is finally coming together after the process began back in Janaury this year. Benjamin Walker, Anthony Mackie, Dominic Cooper, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Robin McLeavy are all already in New Orleans for the start of filming, and today Variety have announced that President Lincoln finally has a bad guy to fight!

English actor Rufus Sewell has signed on to play head vampire Adam opposite Walker’s President Lincoln in the adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel, in which the death of President Lincoln’s mother by vampires sets young Abe’s life in motion. The novel follows the true events of President Lincoln’s life but with the twist that everything President Lincoln ever did was in an attempt to rid the world of the vampire.

Sewell has been absent from the big screen for a few years, apart from a small role in last year’s The Tourist, sticking mostly to TV mini-series, including the award winning John Adams.

Produced by Tim Burton and Jim Lenley, Timur Bekmambetov will direct and the film, set to be shot in 3D, currently has a tentative release date of June 22, 2012.

Chloe Moretz joins Tim Burton’s “Dark Shadows”

March 31, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting Leave a comment

And here’s another mystery that resolved itself fast, and just to toot our own horn here, we totally called it. Chloe Moretz’s “huge, crazy” project is indeed Tim Burton’s adaptation of “Dark Shadows”, from the 1960′s soap opera of the same name, reports Deadline. Johnny Depp stars as Barnabas Collins, a vampire searching for fresh blood and his lost love, Josette. Being a serial television series, Collins had many trials and tribulations while running into various ghosts, werewolves and other mythical creatures throughout his life, though presumably the film would have a more concentrated storyline.

A large and still growing cast already includes Bella Heathcote as Victoria Winters, a young governess who catches Collins’ eye because she reminds him of his dead love, Eva Green as a powerful witch who shares a love-hate relationship with Collins, Michelle Pfeiffer as Elizabeth Stoddard, the matriarch of the Collins clan, Helena Bonham Carter as Hoffman, a specialist in psychology and rare blood disorders who moves into Collinwood and Jackie Earle Haley as Willie Loomis, a con artist who arrives on the scene hoping to swindle some cash and jewels from the estate but ends up a victim of Collins instead.

We did make an incorrect guess on the character Moretz would play. While we logically deduced she might play Sarah Collins, the younger sister of Barnabes who dies at age 11 but sticks around as a ghost, Deadline reports she will instead play Carolyn Stoddard, the daughter of Pfeiffer’s Elizabeth, traditionally a 19-year-old who eventually marries and is widowed. That character will presumably be aged down for 14-year-old Moretz.

The young star of “Kick-Ass” and “Let Me In” had a tremendous breakout year in 2010 and her career continues on an exponentially upward trajectory, following up her two critically acclaimed performances with a turn in Martin Scorsese’s 3D fantasy epic “Hugo Cabret”. “Dark Shadows” is gearing up for a summer shoot, after Moretz completes the currently filming gritty indie drama “Hick”.

Thomas McDonnell to play young Johnny Depp in “Dark Shadows”

March 28, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting Leave a comment

An actor from Disney’s upcoming “Prom”, deeply rooted in the tween market, is making a quick turn into legit adult territory with a pivotal role in Tim Burton’s highly anticipated big screen adaptation of “Dark Shadows”. Deadline reports that Thomas McDonnell will be playing the younger version of lead character/vampire Barnabes Collins, played by Johnny Depp in eternal adulthood.

The long-gestating passion project for Burton and Depp, “Dark Shadows” centers around a centuries old vampire searching for fresh blood and his lost love, Josette, and his many adventures involving ghosts, werewolves, time travel and other weird stuff, has finally begun making solid strides towards becoming a reality, with filming now firmly slated to begin this May. A large and still growing cast already includes Bella Heathcote as a young governess who catches Collins’ eye because she reminds him of his dead love, Eva Green as a powerful witch who shares a love-hate relationship with Collins, Michelle Pfeiffer as Elizabeth Stoddard, the matriarch of the Collins clan, Helena Bonham Carter as Hoffman, a specialist in psychology and rare blood disorders who moves into Collinwood and Jackie Earle Haley as Willie Loomis, a con artist who arrives on the scene hoping to swindle some cash and jewels from the estate but ends up a victim of Collins instead.

McDonnell has only appeared in a total of 5 acting projects since making his onscreen debut in 2008′s “The Forbidden Kingdom”, but is already garnering buzz as a “young Depp”. “Prom” releases on April 29th and he is attached to another high school drama, “The Spectacular Now”, based on the novel by Tim Tharp.

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