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Amy Poehler watches a new film with her kids every Thanksgiving.
The 42-year-old actress - who has five-year-old son Archibald and three-year-old Abel with actor Will Arnett - celebrated the last festive holiday, which fell November 28, while watching 1971's 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' and has already started planning what the children will watch this year.
She said: "Well I started a new thing with my kids that we would watch a movie on thanksgiving that we've never seen before. That's always fun to show your kids movies they've never seen. Last year we watched the original 'Willie Wonka' on Thanksgiving, which is great. And so maybe this year we will watch 'Free Birds'."
The actress voices Jenny, a turkey, in 2013's 'Free Birds' and where she stars alongside Woody Harrelson who plays fellow bird Reggie.
Harrelson - who has daughters 20-year-old Deni, 17-year-old Zoe and seven-year-old Makani with Laura Louie - insists the animated comedy has become a favourite for his youngest child.
He added: "This the first movie I've done that my kids can watch, so uh ... even the 20-year-old. The weird thing was the other day I was with my seven-year-old rascal, Makani and asked her what her favourite movie was, not tryna lead her toward anything but really wanting to know and she goes 'Free Bird!' "
'Free Birds' is released on DVD, Blu-ray and Digital Download in the UK on March 24.
Amy Poehler watches a new flm every Thanksgiving
Amy Poehler watches a new film with her kids every Thanksgiving.
The 42-year-old actress - who has five-year-old son Archibald and three-year-old Abel with actor Will Arnett - celebrated the last festive holiday, which fell November 28, while watching 1971's 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' and has already started planning what the children will watch this year.
She said: "Well I started a new thing with my kids that we would watch a movie on thanksgiving that we've never seen before. That's always fun to show your kids movies they've never seen. Last year we watched the original 'Willie Wonka' on Thanksgiving, which is great. And so maybe this year we will watch 'Free Birds'."
The actress voices Jenny, a turkey, in 2013's 'Free Birds' and where she stars alongside Woody Harrelson who plays fellow bird Reggie.
Harrelson - who has daughters 20-year-old Deni, 17-year-old Zoe and seven-year-old Makani with Laura Louie - insists the animated comedy has become a favourite for his youngest child.
He added: "This the first movie I've done that my kids can watch, so uh ... even the 20-year-old. The weird thing was the other day I was with my seven-year-old rascal, Makani and asked her what her favourite movie was, not tryna lead her toward anything but really wanting to know and she goes 'Free Bird!' "
'Free Birds' is released on DVD, Blu-ray and Digital Download in the UK on March 24.
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Ellen Page will play John Belushi's wife in the new biopic about the late comic.
The 'Inception' actress has entered negotiations to star as Judith Jacklin in the Emile Hirsch fronted film, which recounts Belushi's rise to fame from his debut on comedy show 'Saturday Night Live' to his movie career, as well as depicting his fatal battle with drug abuse, according to the Wrap.com.
The project has been in the works for years, but 'The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty' writer Steve Conrad is finally reworking the script for a release in the near future.
Judith Jacklin was Belushi's high school sweetheart and was left devastated when the 'Blues Brothers' star passed away aged just 33 from a drug overdose at the Chateau Marmont in 1982.
His ex-wife, now known as Judy Belushi-Pisano, is a producer on the film alongside Belushi's old friend and colleague Dan Aykroyd, so will be at hand to offer Page advice on her role.
Miles Teller is set to play 'Ghostbusters' actor Aykroyd in the biopic, with Hirsch outing the news to reporters at a film event in January.
He said: "A shout-out to Miles Teller! We're going to be working together soon. He's playing Dan Aykroyd in the Belushi movie."
Filming is expected to begin later this year in New York.
Ellen Page to play John Belushi’s wife in biopic
Ellen Page will play John Belushi's wife in the new biopic about the late comic.
The 'Inception' actress has entered negotiations to star as Judith Jacklin in the Emile Hirsch fronted film, which recounts Belushi's rise to fame from his debut on comedy show 'Saturday Night Live' to his movie career, as well as depicting his fatal battle with drug abuse, according to the Wrap.com.
The project has been in the works for years, but 'The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty' writer Steve Conrad is finally reworking the script for a release in the near future.
Judith Jacklin was Belushi's high school sweetheart and was left devastated when the 'Blues Brothers' star passed away aged just 33 from a drug overdose at the Chateau Marmont in 1982.
His ex-wife, now known as Judy Belushi-Pisano, is a producer on the film alongside Belushi's old friend and colleague Dan Aykroyd, so will be at hand to offer Page advice on her role.
Miles Teller is set to play 'Ghostbusters' actor Aykroyd in the biopic, with Hirsch outing the news to reporters at a film event in January.
He said: "A shout-out to Miles Teller! We're going to be working together soon. He's playing Dan Aykroyd in the Belushi movie."
Filming is expected to begin later this year in New York.
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John Singleton says Tupac Shakur's "spirit" encouraged him to helm a biopic on the late rapper.
The 46-year-old filmmaker is on board to write, direct and produce the forthcoming film which is based on the life of the star - who he worked with on 1993 romantic drama 'Poetic Justice' - and although he found it difficult to take on the project initially, he insists something "clicked" recently.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, Singleton said: "Only recently because it was always there and I had been approached different times. I wasn't emotionally ready to do that. I couldn't even think about it. Several people were involved to do it. I was privately disappointed when I heard other people were doing it but I wouldn't express that. And then it came up three years ago on and off, on and off, and then something clicked in me, which I feel is possibly his spirit, like don't do this. You bet me do this, they're going to f**k my movie up. Literally. I pursued it."
Singleton is working on penning the script for the project and still hasn't decided who he'd cast as Shakur - who was killed during a Las Vegas drive-by shooting in 1996.
He explained: "I don't know [who I'd cast]. I have no idea. I'm not even worried about that right now. I'm trying to get the purest vision possible of who he was, good, bad, whatever, on paper, visual. I'm crying over writing it."
Singleton "couldn't cope" when he learned of Shakur's death and escaped the country for a brief period to come to terms with the devastating news.
He recalled: "I was in my home office. The lady I was dating at the time told me that he had passed, he had been shot days before but he just passed. It set my life on a whole other trajectory. There are things that I did, I went and left the country for about a month. I just couldn't cope. It was something. "
John Singleton: Tupac Shakur’s spirit came to me
John Singleton says Tupac Shakur's "spirit" encouraged him to helm a biopic on the late rapper.
The 46-year-old filmmaker is on board to write, direct and produce the forthcoming film which is based on the life of the star - who he worked with on 1993 romantic drama 'Poetic Justice' - and although he found it difficult to take on the project initially, he insists something "clicked" recently.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, Singleton said: "Only recently because it was always there and I had been approached different times. I wasn't emotionally ready to do that. I couldn't even think about it. Several people were involved to do it. I was privately disappointed when I heard other people were doing it but I wouldn't express that. And then it came up three years ago on and off, on and off, and then something clicked in me, which I feel is possibly his spirit, like don't do this. You bet me do this, they're going to f**k my movie up. Literally. I pursued it."
Singleton is working on penning the script for the project and still hasn't decided who he'd cast as Shakur - who was killed during a Las Vegas drive-by shooting in 1996.
He explained: "I don't know [who I'd cast]. I have no idea. I'm not even worried about that right now. I'm trying to get the purest vision possible of who he was, good, bad, whatever, on paper, visual. I'm crying over writing it."
Singleton "couldn't cope" when he learned of Shakur's death and escaped the country for a brief period to come to terms with the devastating news.
He recalled: "I was in my home office. The lady I was dating at the time told me that he had passed, he had been shot days before but he just passed. It set my life on a whole other trajectory. There are things that I did, I went and left the country for about a month. I just couldn't cope. It was something. "
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Darren Aronofsky wanted to replicate the Bible's version of Noah's Ark for 'Noah', according to visual effects supervisor Ben Snow.
The 45-year-old director first became interested in the story when he penned a poem based on the tale for a writing contest and won an award to read it in front of the United Nations, and when it came to making the film he wanted it to be as similar to the original as possible.
Snow said: "Darren wanted to avoid clichés. No elephants or things that you get in children's play sets. He sent us a reference book that had [drawings of] animals from Victorian times, when they'd heard about platypuses and dodos but hadn't seen them, so they're imagining what they'd look like."
The 'Black Swan' director also wanted to ensure that the movie - which stars Russell Crowe, Emma Watson and Anthony Hopkins - was more humanistic than children's versions.
Snow told the New York Post newspaper: "One of the things that Darren wanted to do was anchor it in reality, give it a grittiness. That's only achieved by going out there and filming on location."
Darren is also said to have kept the design of the ark simple in order to maintain a sense of realism, and Ben claims it ended up looking like a "large coffin".
He added: "One of the things we discussed early on is that the ark isn't a cruise ship. It's a life raft."
'Noah' is set to be released in the United States later this week and in the United Kingdom next month.
Noah to replicate the Bible story
Darren Aronofsky wanted to replicate the Bible's version of Noah's Ark for 'Noah', according to visual effects supervisor Ben Snow.
The 45-year-old director first became interested in the story when he penned a poem based on the tale for a writing contest and won an award to read it in front of the United Nations, and when it came to making the film he wanted it to be as similar to the original as possible.
Snow said: "Darren wanted to avoid clichés. No elephants or things that you get in children's play sets. He sent us a reference book that had [drawings of] animals from Victorian times, when they'd heard about platypuses and dodos but hadn't seen them, so they're imagining what they'd look like."
The 'Black Swan' director also wanted to ensure that the movie - which stars Russell Crowe, Emma Watson and Anthony Hopkins - was more humanistic than children's versions.
Snow told the New York Post newspaper: "One of the things that Darren wanted to do was anchor it in reality, give it a grittiness. That's only achieved by going out there and filming on location."
Darren is also said to have kept the design of the ark simple in order to maintain a sense of realism, and Ben claims it ended up looking like a "large coffin".
He added: "One of the things we discussed early on is that the ark isn't a cruise ship. It's a life raft."
'Noah' is set to be released in the United States later this week and in the United Kingdom next month.
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David James Kelly will pen the next installment of 'The Wolverine'.
Hugh Jackman will reprise his signature role as the titular character and James Mangold will helm the film, according to deadline.com.
Lauren Shuler Donner is being lined up to return and produce again, after her work on 2009's 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' and 2013's 'The Wolverine'.
The storyline for the upcoming project is being kept under wraps, but some believe the plot could follow on from the character's antics in the hotly anticipated 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'.
Jackman recently said Wolverine is going to have "fun" with Michael Fassbender's character, Magneto, in the forthcoming American superhero film when his alter-ego travels back in time to save the mutant race.
He said: "It's fair to say we don't get on that well. I get sent back to the past and he has no idea who I am, but you can imagine Wolverine has a bit of fun with that."
'X-Men Origins: Wolverine', released in 2009, was the fourth installment in the X-Men film series, and grossed over $373 million worldwide, while last year's 'The Wolverine'made $414.8 million.
'The Wolverine 3' is set for a March 3, 2017, release.
David James Kelly to pen Wolverine 3
David James Kelly will pen the next installment of 'The Wolverine'.
Hugh Jackman will reprise his signature role as the titular character and James Mangold will helm the film, according to deadline.com.
Lauren Shuler Donner is being lined up to return and produce again, after her work on 2009's 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' and 2013's 'The Wolverine'.
The storyline for the upcoming project is being kept under wraps, but some believe the plot could follow on from the character's antics in the hotly anticipated 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'.
Jackman recently said Wolverine is going to have "fun" with Michael Fassbender's character, Magneto, in the forthcoming American superhero film when his alter-ego travels back in time to save the mutant race.
He said: "It's fair to say we don't get on that well. I get sent back to the past and he has no idea who I am, but you can imagine Wolverine has a bit of fun with that."
'X-Men Origins: Wolverine', released in 2009, was the fourth installment in the X-Men film series, and grossed over $373 million worldwide, while last year's 'The Wolverine'made $414.8 million.
'The Wolverine 3' is set for a March 3, 2017, release.
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'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' may crossover with 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'
Jeph Loeb, who executive produces the TV spin-off of Marvel's movie franchise, has teased there could be a tie-in between the upcoming superhero blockbuster and the TV series.
Speaking at a PaleyFest panel discussion in Los Angeles yesterday (23.03.14), he said: "It wouldn't surprise anyone if [events from] the movie you mentioned were to happen in the show we're talking about."
'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' has previously featured a crossover episode which saw the team of covert operatives deal with the aftermath of last year's 'Thor: The Dark World'.
'Thor' character Sif, played by Jaimie Alexander, also guest starred in an episode of the action series earlier this year.
'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' stars Chris Evans, reprising his role as the patriotic protagonist, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff and Samuel L. Jackson as S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury.
Evans previously spoke of the injuries he sustained working on the film.
He said: "There are always injuries. Whether you end up in a cast or not doing stunt work, it's physical stuff. Even when you block a punch, that punch lands somewhere. So you're always going home with bumps and bruises and we are all getting older so it has lasting effects."
Captain America 2 for Agents of SHIELD crossover?
'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' may crossover with 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'
Jeph Loeb, who executive produces the TV spin-off of Marvel's movie franchise, has teased there could be a tie-in between the upcoming superhero blockbuster and the TV series.
Speaking at a PaleyFest panel discussion in Los Angeles yesterday (23.03.14), he said: "It wouldn't surprise anyone if [events from] the movie you mentioned were to happen in the show we're talking about."
'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' has previously featured a crossover episode which saw the team of covert operatives deal with the aftermath of last year's 'Thor: The Dark World'.
'Thor' character Sif, played by Jaimie Alexander, also guest starred in an episode of the action series earlier this year.
'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' stars Chris Evans, reprising his role as the patriotic protagonist, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff and Samuel L. Jackson as S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury.
Evans previously spoke of the injuries he sustained working on the film.
He said: "There are always injuries. Whether you end up in a cast or not doing stunt work, it's physical stuff. Even when you block a punch, that punch lands somewhere. So you're always going home with bumps and bruises and we are all getting older so it has lasting effects."