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Charlie Hunnam will star in the 'The Lost City Of Z'. The 34-year-old actor has taken over the lead role in the mythical adventure from Benedict Cumberbatch and is expected to start filming this summer, reports Empire Online. The movie - which was al...

David Oyelowo has revealed US President Barack Obama is a fan of 'Selma'.
The British actor stars as Martin Luther King in the movie about the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and has confirmed that the current President and his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama, enjoyed watching the movie.
Oyelowo revealed the pair were treated to a screening of the film at the White House, and he said: "Thankfully, both [the president] and his wife love the film, I guess that's why we got the invite!"
Oyelowo observed that the film has extra significance for Obama, who is America's first black President.
He told Digital Spy: "To show this film in that building, the White House, with this president in power, was really something quite extraordinary.
"We talk about Dr King's dream - the most dramatic demonstration of some of that dream being realised is Barack Obama being president. There was something very significant about taking the film there to show it to him."
Meanwhile, the film's director, Ava DuVernay, claimed recently that 'Selma' reinforces the idea that "you're never too small to make a difference".
She explained: "The Selma marches are just extraordinary. It was just a small, sleepy southern town, which no-one was paying attention to.
"They bounded together, they raised their voices, they amplified and they changed the world. This film is about that - you're never too small to make a difference. Hopefully, people check it out and feel the same."

Bradley Cooper is surprised by the controversy surrounding 'American Sniper'.
The 40-year-old actor stars in the Clint Eastwood-directed movie, which tells the story of the deadliest marksman in US military history - and has argued that "any discussion" about the "plight" of the nation's military should be welcomed.
He reflected: "You never know when you make a movie if anybody's going to see it, so to have the audacity to think that it would cause any sort of effect at all would be pretty presumptuous.
"Any discussion that sheds light on the plight of the soldiers and the men and women in the armed services, for that discussion to occur is fantastic."
Cooper has earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Chris Kyle, but the film has also attracted criticism from the likes of Michael Moore and Seth Rogen.
Rogen compared the movie to Inglourious Basterds's Nazi propaganda film-within-a-film 'Nation's Pride'.
He explained: "American Sniper kind of reminds me of the movie that's showing in the third act of Inglorious Basterds (sic)."
Meanwhile, Moore - an Oscar-winning filmmaker - said: "We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse (sic)."

Milla Jovovich is in final negotiations to star in 'In the Lost Lands'.
The 39-year-old actress is set to feature in the fantasy-adventure movie, which is based on short stories by George R.R. Martin, the author of 'Game of Thrones'.
The Constantin Werner-directed movie, which will also feature 'Shameless' actor Justin Chatwin, connects three female-centric Martin short stories together, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
An official synopsis explained: "In one thread, the desperate queen of a city built into a towering mountain hires the sorceress Gray Alys (Jovovich) to travel into the ghostly wasteland called the Lost Lands, to obtain the gift of shape-shifting into a werewolf, but she doesn't realise that the fulfillment of her wish will come at a terrible price.
"Meanwhile, warrior girl Sharra must fight a dragon that serves as the gatekeeper of seven worlds to reunite with her lost lover Kaydar. During this quest she meets the mysterious lord of a deserted castle, Laren Dorr, who seduces her so completely that she forgets her quest and stays with him, unaware that he is the real gatekeeper.
"And in the futuristic tale Bitterblooms, a young barbarian girl gets spellbound by a lonely witch in a spacecraft, who shows her beauty and love, which turns out to be a net of lies and deceit."

E.L James and Sam Taylor-Johnson clashed over S&M scenes in 'Fifty Shades of Grey'.
The director of the film adaptation, Taylor-Johnson, has conceded that she and the best-selling author disagreed over some of the scenes in the movie, as well as the creative direction of the film.
Reflecting on her relationship with James, the director told Porter magazine: "It was difficult, I'm not going to lie.
"We definitely fought, but they were creative fights, and we would resolve them. We would have proper on-set 'barneys,' and I'm not confrontational, but it was about finding a way between the two of us, satisfying her vision of what she'd written as well as my need to visualise this person on-screen, but, you know, we got there."
Meanwhile, Taylor-Johnson admitted recently that she was forced to remove jellyfish from a sex scene in 'Fifty Shades of Grey'.
The 47-year-old director revealed she wanted to use images of the sea-dwelling creatures in a fantasy scene with lead character Anastasia Steele.
However, the scene was scrapped by Universal studios bosses, who decided it was too odd for audiences.
She said: "We went to a beautiful aquarium and there were these jellyfish. They're so sexual, jellyfish, when you look at them in tanks - just the way they move, the fluidity. So there was a scene when we go into Anastasia's world and her head, and we just had these jellyfish on the screen. It was beautiful, very impressionistic. Everyone went, 'What the f**k are those jellyfish doing there?'
"After a while the studio realised, 'OK, we've hired a slightly anarchic artist. How are we going to rein her in a bit?'"

Joanna Lumley is the driving force behind the 'Absolutely Fabulous' movie.
Jennifer Saunders is currently re-writing the script for the much-anticipated movie, but has revealed it was her co-star who been encouraging her to transform the iconic sit-com into a film.
Jennifer - who played Edina Monsoon in the BBC show - explained to the Radio Times: "I think I have everyone [from the original cast] back on board.
"It was Joanna's idea, so she will have to buckle down. She's the one who told me I had to write it, so it's all her fault!"
The 56-year-old star recently revealed the movie, titled 'Edina and Patsy' - after the show's central characters - is her focus for 2015.
She shared: "I've finished the first draft. I'm feeling euphoric.
"My proper New Year's resolution is to do the film, otherwise it'll be a pointless year of procrastination."
Jennifer also confirmed Julia Sawalha and June Whitfield will both be returning to their original roles for the movie.
However, the writer has also conceded the creative process has been creating stress.
She joked: "I am actually having treatment, hypnotherapy, for procrastination. It's true, What my hypnotist said was to get rid of the backpack of negativity."

Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny will star in 'Love & Friendship'. The 'Underworld' actress and the 'Boys Don't Cry' star will appear in the upcoming screen adaptation of Jane Austen's novella 'Lady Susan'. The movie - which will be helmed by W...

David Oyelowo wants to "enrich" lives through acting.
The 'Selma' star has revealed that money doesn't mean anything to him when it comes to choosing which films he will appear in.
He said: "I'm in this for the long haul. I truly believe in cinema's potential for cultural impact. I have a clear idea what I want to do - to enrich people's lives.
"Now I know not everything is the same as playing Dr King. 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' is not a film I walk away from thinking, 'OK, that's fundamentally about the enrichment of people's lives.' But it is thought-provoking.
"And the fact that it smuggles elements of the civil rights movement into the story of an ape uprising - well, that has value. For me, it's a very conscious decision to follow my heart rather than the dollar."
The 38-year-old actor also revealed that he "hunts" down parts which could be played by any actor, in a bid to stop the racial prejudices of the film industry but admits that with the way the business is now, he is likely to lose out if he was up against a Caucasian actor.
He told The Guardian newspaper: "When I looked to heroes I wanted to emulate, I constantly found myself mentally jumping over the pond. I had read that Denzel Washington had told his agent early on: 'Give me everything that Harrison Ford is turning down.' That stuck with me.
"I hunt those kinds of roles down. The only way I get a leading role in a studio picture is if Ryan Gosling can't play it, which is clearly the case with 'Selma'. If this was a non-colour-specific character, it wouldn't be

Robert Pattinson thinks 'Maps to the Stars' is a movie that "defies genre".
The 28-year-old Brit plays the role of limousine driver Jerome in the David Cronenberg-directed movie and says it's hard to fit the film into a specific category.
He explained: "Within the first two pages of the script, I was like, 'Oh, my god.' I don't know what people are going to make of this, but it feels dangerous.
"It kind of defies genre. I mean, I guess it's sort of satirical, but it's also sort of a ghost story and sort of a thriller. I don't know what it is but it's exciting.
"It's an incredibly weird comedy about crazy people, I think. It's people who just lie to themselves and have no idea."
In the film - which also features Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska and John Cusack - Pattinson plays an aspiring actor who is in denial about his career prospects.
He reflected: "Jerome is basically like 95 percent of people who live in LA. He's basically in denial of his own reality, he'll keep saying he's an actor. Even though he'll never get an acting job, he's still an actor."
'Maps to the Stars' is available on Blu-ray and DVD now, courtesy of Entertainment One.