POSTERS & TRAILERS FOR "RUNNER, RUNNER" WITH JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, BEN AFFLECK, GEMMA ARTERTON & "PARANOIA" WITH LIAM HEMSWORTH, HARRISON FORD, GARY OLDMAN, JULIAN MCMAHON, JOSH HOLLOWAY

RUNNER RUNNER WITH

 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, GEMMA ARTERTON & BEN AFFLECK

Two movies about conmen and plots, people, today! First new posters and a trailer for RUNNER, RUNNER with Justin Timber- lake, Ben Affleck, Anthony Mackie and Gemma Arterton! Tones of unbelievably gorgeous people in a tropical heaven! They say you need to know when to walk away, and when to run. You also need to know when to play, or you'll be played cause the house always wins. When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur. Opening in theatres September 27th, RUNNER RUNNER follows a Princeton grad student Richie who, believing he’s been swindled, travels to Costa Rica to confront online gambling tycoon Ivan Block. Richie is seduced by Block’s promise of immense wealth, until he learns the disturbing truth about his benefactor. When the FBI tries to coerce Richie to help bring down Block, Richie faces his biggest gamble ever: attempting to outmaneuver the two forces closing in on him!

DID YOU KNOW?

Four time Emmy winner and six time Grammy winner Justin Timberlake will also star in THE LAST DROP as a charming alcoholic working as a restaurant critic for New York Magazine who falls for a young woman and realizes he must overcome his addiction in order to have a relationship with her. Meanwhile, Gemma Arterton will star in THE VOICES in which Ryan Reynolds plays a disturbed factory worker (who hears advice from his pet dog and cat) who is implicated in the accidental death of his co-worker.

  PARANOIA WITH

 LIAM HEMSWORTH, HARRISON FORD AND GARY OLDMAN

The second movie for today has something for my ladies too since it seems that the whole marketing done for PARANOIA consists of Thor's tasty little brother Liam Hemsworth walking around shirtless and revealing his breathtaking physique! Just like the above movie, this one also describes a cat and mouse struggle that takes place between an entry-level employee and his boss' former mentor. Joining young Liam are Hollywood stars Harrison Ford (looking older than ever), Richard Dreyfuss and Gary Oldman alongside Hollywood hunks Josh Holloway and Julian McMahon and Johnny Deep's lesbian lover beautiful Amber Heard! Liam plays an entry-level  employee at a powerful corporation who finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price: he must spy on his boss's old mentor to secure for him a multi-billion dollar advantage! This one is out in cinemas August 16th and is directed by ever so charming Robert Luketic!

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HOLLYWOOD SPY EXCLUSIVE SPOTLIGHT ON "THE WOLVERINE" WITH HUGH JACKMAN, WILL YUN LEE, SVETLANA KHODCHENKOVA, RILA FUKUSHIMA! AMAZING NEW PICS FROM THE FILM!

  THE WOLVERINE

GOES TO JAPAN

Are you ready for the premiere of mutant action adventure THE WOLVERINE which should open up in cinemas around the world this July? As a separate instalment in the famous X-MEN saga it will follow what happened after X-MEN THE LAST STAND with Hugh Jackman taking the lead role of the hairy mutant with sharp claws.

 WOLVERINE STORY

 VULNERABLE & IMMORTAL 

Some time after the events in X-MEN THE LAST STAND, Logan travels to Japan, where he engages a figure from his past in a fight that has lasting consequences. Vulnerable for the first time, and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel, but also his inner struggle against his own immortality, emerging more powerful than ever before.

  WOLVERINE CAST

 HUGH VERSUS RUSSIAN & JAPANESE STARS

The lead role of Logan, the immortal mutant known as WOLVERINE who is a member of X-MEN team, is again in the hands of Australian superstar Hugh Jackman. It is interesting that Hugh Jackman contacted Dwayne Johnson for an advice on how to bulk up for the role. Dwayne recommended him a 6,000 calories daily diet! Hugh stuck with the diet for six months and he gained mindblowing muscles!  Hiroyuki Sanada plays Shingen Yashida, a Yakuza crime boss and also Wolverine's nemesis! Tao Okamoto is Mariko Yashida, Shingen's daughter, who is torn between her love for Logan and her duty to her father. Logan is hired to protect Mariko when she is threatened by a gangland war between law enforcement and the Yakuza. But Mariko herself isn't helpless since she is proficient in karate and knife-throwing! Rila Fukushima plays Yukio, one of the deadliest assassins in Shingen’s clan who helps WOLVERINE a lot. Will Yun Lee portrays Silver Samurai, Shingen's illegitimate son who possesses the ability to charge his katana with "tachyon energy", which can then cut through almost anything. The lead female role went to Russian beauty Svetlana Khodchenkova who plays Viper: a one-time peer of Wolverine's as well as an enemy, who has an immunity to toxins. She is very snakelike and views Logan as a huntress would. Famke Janssen reprises her role of Jean Gray, Logan's love. She died in THE LAST STAND but will appear as some kind of presence in THE WOLVERINE too.

 WOLVERINE TIDBITS

A $100 MILLION MOVIE 
It is interesting that the film took almost five years in the making since the first scripts were ordered back in 2009. Darren Aronofsky was originally supposed to direct, but his departure and the tsunami and earthquake in Japan  caused a delay in production. James Mangold took over the helm in 2011. Jessica Biel was first supposed to play Viper. The music in the film is composed by Oscar nominated Marco Beltrami who recently scored WORLD WAR Z! It is estimated that the budget of THE WOLVERINE was around $100 million!

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BRENDAN GLEESON, SAM KEELEY JOIN CHRIS HEMSWORTH, CILLIAN MURPHY, BENJAMIN WALKER "IN THE HEART OF THE SEA"! VIRGINIA MADSEN, MILO VENTIMIGLIA, PETER FACINELLI, WILLIAM H.MACY IN "WALTER"! LOVELY NEW "FROZEN" DISNEY TRAILER

  IN THE HEART OF THE SEA

 CHRIS HEMSWORTH, CILLIAN MURPHY, BRENDAN GLEESON, BENJAMIN WALKER

Even more stars are lining up for the male cast of the upcoming adventure movie IN THE HEART OF THE SEA. The latest one to join Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy and Tom Holland are Brendan Gleeson and MISFITS' star Sam Keeley. The story, which inspired Melville to write MOBY DICK, will be directed by Ron Howard following famous ship Essex! Cillian Murphy will play Matthew Joy, second mate on the whale ship Essex. Citing reports of cannibals in the Society Islands in 1820, Joy and first mate Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth) convince first time Captain Pollard (Benjamin Walker) to sail to South America after an enraged sperm whale rams and sinks the Essex, leaving 21 crew members adrift in small boats, 3,000 miles from land. Adrift at sea for 90 days, they suffer through disease, starvation and, eventually, cannibalism. Brendan Gleeson will play one of them in older age while being interview by Melville. Sam Keeley will be one of the crew members.

  'WALTER' DRAMEDY

  VIRGINIA MADSEN, MILO VENTIMIGLIA, PETER FACINELLI, WILLIAM H. MACY

Quite a strong cast will also be seen in indie dramedy WALTER which has Virginia Madsen, William H. Macy, Peter Facinelli, Milo Ventimiglia, Neve Campbell and Justin Kirk in the cast. Andrew J. West takes the lead role of a young man who believes that he is actually the son of God. As such, the eternal destiny of everyone he encounters is his responsibility — which is a lot to manage along with his job at a movie theater, his loving but neurotic mother, and his growing but unspoken affection for his co-worker. Life becomes even more complicated when a mysterious figure appears who forces Walter to examine the true meaning of life.

  DELIGHTFUL "FROZEN"

 JAPANESE TRAILER

The only trailer I have for you in the dry holiday week is the Japanese trailer for Disney's animated movie FROZEN which hits cinemas this Winter! It's certainly funny watching a trailer with Japanese voice-over :) but the clip shows us what we haven't seen in recent US teaser for the film.  The movie follows fearless optimist Anna (Kristen Bell) who teams up with mountain man Kristoff in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, and a hilarious snowman named Olaf in a race to find Anna's sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom in eternal winter.

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CATHERINE ZETA JONES IS DEADLY RUSSIAN AGENT IN "RED 2" TRAILER! STEVEN SPIELBERG TO ADAPT "GRAPES OF WRATH"! JAMES O'BARR JOINS LUKE EVANS' "THE CROW"! BRENTON THWAITES IS "THE GIVER" AND PRINCE IN "MALEFICENT"

  BRENTON THWAITES IS

THE LEAD IN DYSTOPIAN "THE GIVER"

And here's a new face you will be seeing much more in the future: young Australian star Brenton Thwaites, has just accepted the lead role in the movie adaptation of Lois Lowry's dystopian saga THE GIVER! He will play a young man who is selected to become the next Receiver of Memory in the heavily ordered and seemingly perfect society. He bonds with the previous Receiver (Jeff Bridges) and discovers the lies that dominate their society and a more independent way of living. The movie will be directed by Philip Noyce. We shall also watch Thwaites in Angelina Jolie's MALEFICENT in which he plays the prince of Elle Fanning's Sleeping Beauty. He will also join Ewan McGregor in SON OF A GUN crime movie.

  LUKE EVAN'S "THE CROW"

CASTS THE COMIC BOOK'S AUTHOR JAMES O'BARR

Meanwhile, the new movie adaptation of famous comic book THE CROW, which will have Welsh superstar Luke Evans in the lead role of a man who rises from the grave to avenge the murder of himself and his lover, has added James O'Barr, who wrote the comic book, to their team. He will be promoting the film at Comic Con and will be an advisor in forming the visuals of the film. As you know you will watch Luke Evans as Bard the Bowman in THE HOBBIT THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG this  winter and next year in DRACULA, the epic movie on Vlad Tepes, the historical prince who served as the inspiration for the creation of the famous vampire. The film will also have Sarah Gadon and Dominic Cooper.

  STEVEN SPIELBERG TO

ADAPT "GRAPES OF WRATH" 

According to "Deadline" Steven Spielberg and his Dreamworks company are planning a movie adaptation of famous classic novel GRAPES OF WRATH by Pulitzer Prize winning John Steinbeck. The book, which was already adapted into a film back in the 1940 with Henry Fonda and seven Oscar nominations, is set in the Depression Era and follows a poor family of tenant farmers forced to move off its land in Oklahoma because of drought and hopeless economic conditions. Spurred by the promise of high wages for farm workers, the Joads head to California, but are beaten down by poverty and hunger in the Great Depression.

  CATHERINE ZETA JONES IS

 DEADLY RUSSIAN SPY IN "RED 2" BRAND NEW TRAILER

Your trailer for today is a new clip from upcoming action comedy RED 2 which focuses on Catherine Zeta Jones as a Russian secret agent Miranda Wood who sets out to infiltrate Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) and his team of retied CIA agents as they go on a desperate mission to retrieve a nuclear warhead. The sequel to RED blockbuster is ready to hit cinemas July 19th with Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins and John Malkovich portraying a group of retired CIA agents who are forced back into action.The tagline of the movie is THE BEST NEVER REST! The trailer also shows Catherine Zeta Jones driving a car in the most seductive of ways :)

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BEN CHAPLIN & MICHAEL PALIN IN BBC WW1 SERIES "THE WIPERS TIMES"! ERIC MABIUS IN "DEAD LETTERS" NEW SUPERNATURAL SHOW! DELIGHTFUL "THE BOXTROLLS" ANIMATED TRAILER

  BEN CHAPLIN IN

 'WIPER TIMES" WW1 SERIES

Since we're having a dry week when it comes to Tinseltown news, just like yesterday we shall focus on some of the upcoming British projects. I already wrote about BBC preparing new historical mini series THE WIPERS TIMES. It will be set in the backdrop of the World War One and now we know that the cast will include Ben Chaplin, Emilia Fox, Michael Palin and Julian Rhind Tutt. Described as a story of the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity, the mini series will follow two soldiers who created a satirical magazine that was published in the trenches during World War I! Ben Chaplin plays Captain Fred Roberts who discovered a printing press in the ruins of Ypres, Belgium in 1916 and began publishing the blackly comic WIPERS TIMES for troops on the Western Front. Ben Chaplin has had great roles on TV recently from MAD DOGS to WORLD WITHOUT END.

  ERIC MABIUS IN

'DEAD LETTERS' NEW SHOW 
And here's an interesting piece of television news: "The Hollywood Reporter" writes that Hallmark Channel has in mind a new scripted series: titled DEAD LETTERS it will first air in October as a TV movie and it will then be decided whether it will be produced further on into a show. Charming Eric Mabius from UGLY BETTY will head the cast  in the story of a group of postal detectives whose mission is to deliver letters and packages from the past - which (naturally) arrive when they're needed the most.  Mabius will play Oliver, leader of the group, while Kristin Booth will appear as Shane, the newest member of the DEAD LETTER Office. The script has been penned by TOUCH BY AN ANGEL writer.

  THE BOXTROLLS TRAILER

 TONI COLLETTE & BEN KINGSLEY

Here's a delightful trailer for the new film coming from the creators of CORALINE and PARANORMAN. New stop motion animation THE BOXTROLLS will open up in cinemas later this September. With Ben Kingsley and Toni Collette leading the voice cast this 3D animated adventure is based on Alan Snow's novel in which the story follows a group of monsters who live underneath the idyllic town of Cheesebridge. While the townsfolk think they come out at night to steal their beloved children and cheese, they aren't actually dangerous at all, trying to raise an orphaned human named Eggs. When The Boxtrolls are targeted by a villainous exterminator who is bent on eradicating them, Eggs must venture above ground to save them, where he teams with an adventurous young girl to save not only The Boxtrolls but the soul of Cheesebridge.

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FIRST TEASER FOR 007 AUTHOR "FLEMING" MINISERIES WITH DOMINIC COOPER, LARA PULVER. MANISH DAYAL JOINS HELEN MIRREN IN "THE HUNDRED FOOT JOURNEY"! PICS FROM "BELLE" PERIOD DRAMA WITH MATTHEW GOODE, EMILY WATSON, TOM FELTON, SAM REID

  THE HUNDRED FOOT JOURNEY

MANISH DAYAL JOINS HELEN MIRREN

According to "Deadline" dame Helen Mirren has found herself a partner in the upcoming movie adaptation of Richard Morais' bestselling and heartwarming novel THE HUNDRED FOOT JOURNEY. Dreamworks project will see Helen Mirren playing eccentric and famous chef Madame Mallory who enters the culinary competition between an Indian restaurant and a three Michelin star joint which are placed literally across the street from each other in Southern France. BH90210 and SWITCHED AT BIRTH star Manish Dayal will play a young man from the Indian restaurant with whom Madame Mallory forms a mentoring bond. Outstanding director Lasse Hallstrom (CHOCOLAT, SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN) is helming the film which, set in France, has Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey as producers!

  FIRST PICTURES FROM

'BELLE' STAR STUDDED PERIOD DRAMA MOVIE
Today, you can also check out the first pictures from the period set drama BELLE which should open up in theatres sometime next year.  The movie, which fillows the trials and tribulations of a mixed-race girl from the 18th century, has a rather stellar cast filled with stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw is in the lead role joined by Miranda Richardson, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Sarah Gadon, Tom Felton and two British hunks Sam Reid and Matthew Goode. BELLE is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) and his wife (Emily Watson), Belle's lineage affords her certain privileges, yet the color of her skin prevents her from fully participating in the traditions of her social standing. Left to wonder if she will ever find love, Belle falls for an idealistic young vicar's son bent on change who, with her help, shapes Lord Mansfield's role as Lord Chief Justice to end slavery in England.

  FLEMING SERIES TEASER

 DOMINIC COOPER IS JAMES BOND'S CREATOR

In trailer department today, you can check out the first clip from upcoming mini series FLEMING which is to air sometime early next year. Starring Dominic Cooper and DA VINCI'S DEMONS' Lara Pulver the series is a biopic on James Bond creator whose real life was as exciting, eventful and sexually charged as his famous creation. Set against the backdrop of war-torn London, the story of the drama explores the early life of the charming, enigmatic writer Ian Fleming who created famous agent 007. Lara Pulver plays his future wife, while the cast also includes gorgeous Caroline Boulton, lovely Rupert Evans and Samuel West.

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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ELVES FROM "THE HOBBIT THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG": LEE PACE'S ELVENKING THRANDUIL, ORLANDO BLOOM'S ELVEN PRINCE LEGOLAS & LILLY EVANGELINE'S ELVEN ARCHER TAURIEL FROM ROYAL GUARD

The excitement for this winter's premier of 2013 biggest epic adventure THE HOBBIT THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG is rising and your HOLLYWOOD SPY has decided to spotlight the most popular characters in the fantasy saga - the magical Elves of Mirkwood! 

 ELVENKING THRANDUIL

 THE RULER OF THE SYLVAN ELVES OF MIRKWOOD

We already met Elven king Thranduil in THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY in which he stole the whole show: he was in it just for a minute or two but his majestic arrival into the battle on his glorious royal elk easily outshone all the hairy dwarves and them Hobbitses :) In THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG we shall be royally introduced to his Elven Majesty Thranduil when Bilbo and his group arrive to his kingdom in the Northern part of the mystical Mirkwood. In the Elven forest, the merry group will be thrown into dungeons by the royal Elven guard after refusing to reveal their reasons for being there. The film will also show us the spellbinding beauty of Thranduil's forest court in Mirkwood.

In the book itself, after evil dragon Smaug was slayed, Thranduil demanded a part of the treasure of Erebor together with the people of LakeTown which almost lead to a war. He had his share of fights with evil Sauron from LORD OF THE RINGS and even had joined efforts with queen Galadriel's husband Celeborn to cleanse their Elven woods from Sauron's evil taint.

ELVEN TIDBITS
I have already told you before that Thranduil, played in the film by brilliant Lee Pace, is the father of everybody's beloved Legolas. Peter Jackson had Lee Pace in mind for the role from the very beginning amazed by his warm charisma and magnetic aura in Tarsem Sing's THE FALL.

  ELVEN ARCHER LEGOLAS

THE BELOVED ELVEN HERO

One of the most popular characters, not just in the movie adaptations of Tolkien's saga but also in movie history, Legolas is our old friend. We've already watched him in all three parts of LORD OF THE RINGS in which he represented his Elven people in the famous fellowship of the ring. We all remember his stunning battle proves, his archery skills and his refined elegance. His friendship with Dwarf Gimli, who is also a prince but a dwarvish one, helped in gradual reconciliation between Dwarves and Elves. After the adventures in LORD OF THE RINGS, Legolas founded an Elf colony in Ithilien and spent his remaining time helping to restore its devastated forests.

ELVEN TIDBITS 
As an elf of the Woodland Realm, and the son of Elven king Thranduil, Legolas doesn't really appear in THE HOBBIT book, but Peter Jackson added his character to the movie in order to fulfil the wishes and expectations of the audience and the fans even though the events take place almost a hundred years before LORD OF THE RINGS. Since Elven people live for thousands of years, this was possible to fulfil. Orlando Bloom, who portrays Legolas in the Middle Earth movies, became a star thanks to this role.

  ELVEN GUARD TAURIEL

EVANGELINE LILLY BRINGS FEMALE ELVEN POWER

One of the new Elven characters to appear in THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, is Tauriel played by LOST star Evangeline Lilly! She's a female elf from Mirkwood and also the Chief of the Guards for the Elvenking Thranduil. Her name means "daughter of the wood". She was added into the film, even though she isn't in the books, in order to incorporate female characters into the story, but Peter Jackson has confirmed there will be no romantic connection to Legolas. Unlike Legolas and Thranduil she's a redhead. Tauriel is a very young elf, only 600 years old, unlike Legolas who is 1,900 years old and Thranduil who is about 3,000 years old. Because of this she doesn't have quite the wisdom and pose that those two have and is more gritty, spontaneous, and passionate. Although graceful and refined as all other Elves, she is still a ruthless warrior!

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