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‘Jurassic World’ Hypes Dinosaur Look, Fierceness for Fear Effect (video)

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“Jurassic World” is science fiction, with a big emphasis on fiction, and not only because the dinosaurs are cloned. Paleontologists say a number of the lizards are misrepresented or portrayed wrongly to make them fiercer than they were in real life. The movie, a reboot of the 1993 hit “Jurassic Park,” stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Omar Sy, B. D. Wong and Irrfan Khan....
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Female Director To Open Cannes Film Festival For First Time in 28 Years

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Emmanuelle Bercot, a veteran French film director, will kick off the 68th Cannes Film Festival in May with her latest picture “La Tete Haute,” a feat last accomplished in 1987 by another French filmmaker, Diane Kurys, who directed “Un homme amoureux.” Bercot, 47, has also worked as an actress and a screenwriter. She’s directed five previous films. La Tete Haute stars stars Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Magimel, Sara Forestier and Rod Paradot. ...
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Elizabeth Olsen Dissects Scarlet Witch in New Avengers Feature (watch!)

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Elizabeth Olsen debuts in her first superhero role in the upcoming action/adventure film “Avengers: Age of Ultron” and provides some insights into her character, the Scarlet Witch, in a new featurette. Superpower never looked so good. Olsen is joined by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who plays her character’s twin Quicksilver, and Director Joss Whedon. The latest in the Avengers series hits theaters May 1 ahead of the summer blockbuster season....
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Entourage the Movie: Sex, Lies and Videotape Featured in New Trailer

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Vincent Chase and the crew are all about fast cars, fast women and non-stop partying while Ari Gold tries to keep everything from imploding in the new full length trailer for the upcoming “Entourage” movie. But the biggest orgy are the product placements. The movie is based on the successful HBO series by the same name that starred Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara and Jeremy Piven. ...
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Cara Delevingne Runway Stiff in New Paper Towns Trailer (watch!)

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Cara Delevingne, the UK model and wannabe screen actress, debuts in a new trailer for her upcoming movie “Paper Towns,” and looks like she never left the runway. She’s emotionless in a role that should be charged with emotion. Delevingne, 22, plays Margo Roth Spiegelman, who grows up in a small town pursued by Quentin “Q” Jacobsen (Nat Wolff) who falls in love with her in grade school....
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Dakota Johnson Bounces From Kink to Hijinks in New Cymbeline Trailer (see)

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Dakota Johnson is adding marquee value to a gritty new crime drama, “Cymbeline,” following her star turn in “50 Shades of Grey.” Her jump from kink to hijinks is captured in a new trailer for the contemporary take on a Shakespeare play. Johnson plays Imogen, the daughter of Cymbeline, (Ed Harris), a vicious drug lord and head of a biker gang. Penn Badgley plays her husband Posthumus and Ethan Hawke plays his friend Iachimo, who figures in much of the treachery....
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Cate Blanchett Deliciously Wicked in New Cinderella Trailer (watch!)

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Cate Blanchett knows how to play wicked. Disney provides a better look at her character in a new trailer for the live-action remake of “Cinderella." She looks like she could steal the movie. With her new film role, she joins the pantheon of movie witches and evil characters. The includes Charlize Theron as the evil queen in “Snow White and the Huntsman,” Angelina Jolie as the name character in “Maleficent,” Meryl Streep as the wicked ...
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Entourage Trailer: The Boys Are Back, But Check Out the Girls (watch!)

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Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Dillon and Jeremy Piven are all back for the new Entourage trailer, but just check out the girls. Hot models Nina Agdal and Emily Ratajkowski are also in the film. The former HBO series was all about the ins and outs of Hollywood, focusing on Grenier’s character Vincent Chase, an up-and-coming movie star. Vince is surrounded by his boys from the ‘hood back in Brooklyn as they try to make their mark in Hollywood, either as actors or behind-the-scenes players....
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Joaquin Phoenix an Odd-Ball Dick in First New ‘Inherent Vice’ Trailer

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Joaquin Phoenix steals the first new trailer for the upcoming Paul Thomas Anderson film “Inherent Vice,” in a role that is as eccentric and odd-ball as any he has ever played. Reese Witherspoon also makes an appearance. “Inherent Vice,” is a crime drama based on the Thomas Pynchon novel. “Inherent Vice” also stars Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Jena Malone and Joanna Newsom....
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Reese Witherspoon, All Angst, Introspection in First ‘Wild’ Trailer

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Reese Witherspoon is featured in the first trailer for her new movie “Wild,” and looks like she went to extremes to play Cheryl Strayed, a heroin addict who went on a 1000-mile hike to change her life. Strayed, now 45, wrote what became a best-selling book “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.” Witherspoon, 38, reportedly jumped at the role and is already generating some Oscar buzz. She looks gaunt in the trailer, and must have lost a lot of weight to play the character. ...
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Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen Do the Dirty in ‘Very Good Girls’ Trailer

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Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen play characters who are sweating college because they are still virgins. Watch them plot to do the dirty in a new trailer for the coming of age film “Very Good Girls.” Unfortunately, the plot lost its virginity a long time ago. The only redeeming value is in the telling. Demi Moore, Clark Gregg, Kiernan Shipka, Peter Sarsgaard and Richard Dreyfuss also star in the summer tear-jerker, with Boyd Holbrook playing the heartbreaker. ...
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Russell Crowe Adds Baritone to Javert From Les Miserables (Watch!)

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Russell Crowe is featured as Javert in Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables.” A police inspector, he previously worked at a prison where Jean Valjean was serving a sentence at hard labor for stealing a loaf of bread. He becomes Valjean’s savior and tormentor. Javert pursues Valjean relentlessly, determined to put him back in prison. He eventually arrives in Montreuil-sur-Mer, where he has been appointed police inspector. He suspects that Monsieur Madeleine the town mayor and wealthy factory owner might, in fact, be Jean Valjean....
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Elizabeth Olsen's 'Silent House' Unleashed on DVD, Blu-Ray

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Elizabeth Olsen thriller “Silent House” is heading for release on DVD and Blu-ray. The horror film was shot in cinema vérité style with every minute of the film real time. The movie tracks Olsen’s character Sarah after she becomes locked inside her family’s secluded lake house, cut off from the outside world....
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Jane Fonda Drops Out, Turns On in New 'Peace, Love' Trailer

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Jane Fonda role reverses in the Bruce Beresford-directed comedy “Peace, Love and Understanding.” This time she’s an up country counter-culture dropout with a hard-driving attorney for a daughter, exactly the opposite of her character in “Georgia Rule.” Catherine Keener plays the daughter who is fleeing Manhattan and a disastrous divorce. She heads home to her mother’s farm and for the first time in 20 years, according to a new trailer....
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