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Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner will star in 'Wind River'. The 26-year-old actress and 45-year-old actor previously teamed up for Marvel Studios movie 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' and will be seen together in the upcoming 'Captain America: Civil War' a...

Ben Affleck has hinted that he would like to direct a superhero movie.
The Oscar winner is set to appear on screen as Batman in upcoming movies 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice', 'Suicide Squad' and 'Justice League' and says working with director Zack Snyder on 'Batman v Superman' has inspired him.
He told USA Today: "I'll just say going through the process, I would never have imagined that I could or would direct a movie like this. And in working with Zack Snyder and seeing what he did and watching him every day, I got really inspired by that and by seeing the scope on which he was telling the story, by seeing what he was able to do with this kind of mythic story on a grand scale."
Meanwhile, Ben previously admitted he is feeling a "ton of pressure" ahead of the release of 'Batman v Superman'.
He said: "I think there is a ton of pressure on it. I mean I would be bull****ing you to say there isn't. If it doesn't do well that will be extremely disappointing."
The 'Gone Girl' star also praised the CEO of Warner Bros., Kevin Tsujihara, for "caring" about the production.
He said: "I was really impressed by ... the fact that he cared. It was not like some guys, especially at that level, where it would be, 'We need a franchise movie ... we just need a movie with the names 'Batman' and 'Superman' on it and it doesn't matter what it is.
"For him, that wasn't it. He was willing to take longer to make the movie to get it right to make it a movie of higher quality."

Bruce Willis will have a big part to play in the plot for the 'Die Hard' "prequel/sequel".
The 60-year-old actor starred as troubled detective John McClane in all five 'Die Hard' films and will feature heavily in the new movie titled 'Die Hard: Year One' - which is described as the origin story - and director Len Wiseman revealed the story will move between the past and the present.
The filmmaker - whose other work includes 'Total Recall' and 'Underworld' - teased: "The reason I say prequel/sequel is because I wasn't going to do it without Bruce. I'm also not going to do it with Bruce being a cameo bookend gimmick. It's really working into the plot, with the 70s having ramifications on present-day Bruce. It inter-cuts in a very fun, imaginative way with present-day John McClane."
The sixth film will be set in New York City in 1979 Wiseman, 42, says the film will ask the question "what created" McClane.
He admits he has discussed the topic with Bruce many times since the fourth film in the franchise the 2007 film 'Live Free or Die Hard'.
He told website Collider: "After doing the fourth one, there were so many conversations that Bruce [Willis] and I were having about what he put into the character for 'Die Hard 1'. That character comes in with so much baggage, emotionally, and experience. He's already divorced, he's bitter, his Captain hates him and doesn't want him back. So, what created that guy?"
'Die Hard: Year One' will be released in 2017.

Judd Apatow used his appearance at the Critics' Choice Awards on Sunday (17.01.16) to mock the Golden Globes success of Matt Damon's 'The Martian'.
The 48 year-old director is unhappy that the sci-fi film beat his movie 'Trainwreck' to the Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical prize at the Golden Globe Awards and that Damon took home Best Actor - Motion Picture Comedy for his performance as astronaut Mark Watney when he doesn't consider 'The Martian' to be a comedy movie.
During a speech to honour Trainwreck's star Amy Schumer with the MVP Award, Judd - who directed-and-produced 'Trainwreck' - spotted Damon in the audience and aimed a series of barbed jibes at the actor.
He said: "I got Matt Damon staring at me right now, right after that whole Golden Globe Comedy thing. We only have one award, Matt. That's all we get. I'm like a nerd on the schoolyard, and you stole my milk money."
Continuing his light-hearted moan about drama films dominating the comedy categories at awards shows, he added: "Can we just pick whatever category we want to be in? We have an Asian man in our film, can I go foreign film now?
"I don't mean to be weird about it, but to all the dramas out there, go f**k yourself. And your period costumes and your concussions and your bears and your sexuality. Go f**k yourself!"
Apatow - whose previous work includes movies such as 'Knocked Up', 'The 40-year-old Virgin', 'Superbad' and 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' - then got back to business and presented the "funniest person in the world" Schumer with her MVP Award.
The director - who attended the Critics' Choice Awards with his wife, 'The Vacation' star Leslie Mann - said: "They made up an award to get her here. That's how valid these awards are."

Bryce Dallas Howard thinks recognising women in action films is "important".
The 'Jurassic World' star - who was nominated for Best Actress in an Action Movie at last night's (17.01.16) Critics' Choice Awards - lost out to the gong in favour of Charlize Theron but is feeling positive about the success of the category itself in the future.
She told Entertainment Tonight: "I love that there's a category like this. It's very cool, it's important. When I said it's important, what I mean is that in films today, 31 per cent of speaking roles go to women, where 69 percent go to men. In action films, it's 23 percent. The fact that there's a category that acknowledges that, female actors in an action film, it's cool."
Meanwhile, the 34-year-old actress previously revealed she is proud of herself for running away from dinosaurs whilst wearing high heels.
She shared: "If too much attention is called to it, it's like, 'Oh, man - maybe I did something wrong, because they're paying attention to the thing that they really shouldn't be paying attention to', but in this case, I loved it because I was like, 'Yeah! Damn right I ran in heels!'"

Judd Apatow thinks 'Girls' would make a great movie.
The TV show - created by and starring Lena Dunham, with Judd as Executive Producer - will end after its upcoming sixth season and while the focus is on the finale right now, Judd, 48, admitted he would be open to making a big screen version of 'Girls' in the future.
He told Variety: "I think the show would work well as a movie. I don't think that's something [Dunham] wants to do immediately, but it would be a great movie. It feels like they've all been movies."
Lena, 29, previously insisted she would love to make a 'Girls' movie, explaining: "I have fantasies of us all coming back and making a movie when we're 40. I think we'd want to wait long enough for something to have really gone down."
While Judd would not give any hints on the season finale of the show, he admitted that Lena has something special in mind.
He recently said: "We just started kicking it around. There are ideas, but they could go out the window once we start typing. But there is an idea [Lena Dunham] has wanted to do for a few years."

Connie Nielson has joined the cast of 'Wonder Woman'. The 50-year-old actress - who rose to prominence when she played Roman queen Lucilla in 'Gladiator' alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Russell Crowe - will play the titular superhero's mother in the War...

Kevin Hart experienced a "world of rejection" before making it in Hollywood.
The 36-year-old star has being doing stand-up comedy since he was 18 and has been appearing in movies for almost 16 years but he feels as though it has only been the last few years that have yielded any career success for him.
He said: "I've been doing stand-up since I was 18; I'm 36 now. I went through a world of rejection. My last four years have been the hot years. I'm more than capable of handling any level of success because I've handled the ultimate levels of failure. So now that I'm here, I'm motivated to stay here because I don't want to go back to where I was."
Hart can currently be seen in 'Ride Along 2' with Ice Cube and has starred in many successful films such as 'Get Hard' with Will Ferrell and 'The Wedding Ringer'.
But he knows his big screen roles have only come up about because of his stand-up shows and he has no intention of turning his back on live comedy.
Discussing his acting career, Hart told The Guardian Guide: "None of this stuff happens without stand-up comedy. If I turn my back on that, I feel like I'm doing a disservice to my fans. I love the fact that I have the ability to say 'no' to certain things because of how strong this stand-up is. Regardless of the success of all these films, I'm never going to stop doing it. Even if I don't do it on the scale I'm doing it now - arenas and stadiums - I'll go and do comedy clubs."

Adam McKay is desperate for mainstream America to see 'The Big Short'.
The director's latest effort centres on the financial crisis in the late 2000s and McKay - who is better known for helming comedy movies like 'Anchorman' and 'Talladega Nights' - is keen to reach a new audience with the film, which stars the likes of Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling.
He shared: "Boy oh boy, would I love for mainstream Americans to go and see this movie.
"That would be incredible. Hopefully with these stars in it, maybe they'll show up."
Although the economic downturn was triggered by a range of different factors, McKay thinks the movie's audience will easily be able to follow its plot.
He told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper: "At the root it's actually not so tricky.
"They just repackage mortgages and debt and give it strange names. Once I knew that I could understand it, I knew you can explain this to people.
"We've gone to malls to test the movie and there'd be 20 people explaining to the person running the focus group afterwards how a CDO works. So that was encouraging."