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Jan 10, 2009 09:48


International trailer for The Young Victoria starring Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, and Jim Broadbent. From director Jean-Marc Vallée and writer Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park), a dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's (Blunt) rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert (Friend). [imdb]

Peter Weir's (Master and Commander, The Truman Show) next film, The Way Back has brought on board Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess and Saoirse Ronan (Atonement). They are in final negotiations to star in the fact-based story of a group of soldiers who engineered a grueling escape from a Siberian gulag in 1942. The film is based on the memoir by Slavomir Rawicz. Farrell plays a tough, tattooed Russian; Harris an American; and Sturgess portrays a young Polish inmate. Ronan will play a Russian on the run who meets up with the fugitives. (Coming Soon) [imdb]

Kristin Scott Thomas has joined the cast of the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy, directed by visual artist Sam Taylor-Wood. Aaron Johnson (Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging) will play the young Lennon while Anne-Marie Duff (Shameless) will play his mother. (THR)

Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell are in talks to star as villains Whiplash and Justin Hammer in Iron Man 2. (THR)

International trailer for Kathryn Bigelow's action thriller The Hurt Locker, featuring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce and Ralph Fiennes. [imdb]

Being Human cast interviews. Now this is more like it. Not sure what Mitchell's doing in a bright yellow t-shirt though.

From the AMC press tour: Mad Men is getting a third season and will be back next summer; The Prisoner reimagining, starring Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellan, will premiere in November. (via Alan Sepinwall)

5 seasons of The Wire in a 5-minute rap.

nowhere boy, iron man 2, [tv] mad men, [tv] the wire, [tv] being human, [tv] the prisoner, movie news 09, the way back

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