Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge) has announced that Carey Mulligan will play Daisy Buchanan in his film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. She joins Leonardo Dicaprio, who plays Jay Gatsby, and Tobey Maguire, who stars as Nick Carraway. Deadline was given this atmospheric photo of Mulligan which was taken by Luhrmann during the workshop rehearsals.

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I saw Jane Campion's Bright Star a couple of weeks ago with calculare, and loved it as much as I was expecting to. It's a delicate yet ravishing film, with brilliant performances from leads Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish, as the doomed lovers John Keats and Fanny Brawne, as well as the supporting actors (Kerry Fox, Paul Schneider, Thomas Sangster, and Edie ( Read more... )

It's official: Ryan Reynolds is The Green Lantern. (THR)

Matt Singer's introduction to Bollywood reinventions of Hollywood films. (IFC)

Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, now filming, adds Danny Huston to its cast. He'll play King Richard, the Lionheart. (THR)

Mary Louise Parker bakes a pie and reads a bedtime story in Esquire.

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International trailer for Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces. [imdb]

Let us spare a moment to consider the awesome potential of British actor Michael Fassbender (you may know him as blood-thirsty Stelios in 300, or that really skinny dude in Hunger, and he also has a lead role in Inglorious Basterds) playing a SUPERHERO. No, he's not a frontrunner ( Read more... )

New photos from Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams. (RopeofSilicon)

Former Alias star Bradley Cooper is rumoured to be the frontrunner to play the title role in Green Lantern. (Hitfix)

Tom McCarthy (Sundance winning The Station Agent) will direct the David Benioff and D.B. Weiss scripted HBO pilot A Game of ( Read more... )