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Zac Efron shares first look as Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

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The last few years have seen Zac Efron trying to distance himself as the good Disney image from High School Musical with roles geared towards an older audience like Bad Neighbours, Dirty Grandpa and Baywatch. Now we’ll see a very different side of him as the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. Efron has shared the […]

John Malkovich joins Zac Efron in tale of serial killer Ted Bundy

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John Malkovich has been added to the awkwardly named thriller Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, in which Zac Efron will play the leading role as notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. The Con Air actor is set to play Judge Edward Cowert, who presided over Bundy’s trial in 1979 and sentenced him to death. Prior […]

BBC casts David Oyelowo, Dominic West and Lily Collins in Les Miserables adaptation

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Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is one of the most well known and adapted stories, being turned into a hit play and numerous adaptations on the big and small screen, the most recent of which was the 2012 feature film starring Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway. Now it is getting another adaptation on the BBC as a […]

Production wraps on Tolkien starring Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins

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Fox Searchlight Pictures has announced that filming has wrapped on Tolkien, director Dome Karukoski’s (Tom of Finland) biopic of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit author J.R.R. Tolkien, which stars Nicholas Hoult (Rebel in the Rye) as Tolkien and Lily Collins (Rules Don’t Apply) as his wife Edith. “As a lifelong fan of […]

Lily Collins joins Ted Bundy film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

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Back in May it was announced that Zac Efron is set to play the notorious American serial killer Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, and now comes word from Variety that Lily Collins (To the Bone, Okja) has signed on to portray Bundy’s long time girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer.   Extremely Wicked is […]

Colm Meaney joins the cast of Tolkien

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Colm Meaney has joined the cast of the upcoming J.R.R. Tolkien biopic, Tolkien. He joins X-Men: Apocalypse’s Nicholas Hoult and To The Bones‘ Lily Collins in the film with, Dome Karukoski directing from a script by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford. Per Deadline, Meaney will portray Father Francis, one of Tolkien’s school teachers. Tolkien will […]

Movie Review – To the Bone (2017)

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To The Bone. 2017. Directed by Marti Noxon Starring Lily Collins, Keanu Reeves, Carrie Preston, Lili Taylor, Alex Sharp, Liana Liberato, Leslie Bibb, Clara Bravo, Brooke Smith, Maya Eshet and Kathryn Prescott. SYNOPSIS: A young woman is dealing with anorexia. She meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life. […]

Second Opinion – Okja (2017)

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Okja, 2017. Directed by Joon-ho Bong. Starring Seo-Hyun Ahn, Hee-Bong Byun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Jake Gyllenhaal, Steven Yeun, Lily Collins, Je-mun Yun, Shirley Henderson, Daniel Henshall, Devon Bostick, and Giancarlo Esposito. SYNOPSIS: Meet Mija, a young girl who risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend – a massive […]

Movie Review – Okja (2017)

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Okja, 2017. Directed by Bong Joon Ho. Starring: Seo-Hyun Ahn, Hee-Bong Byun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Jake Gyllenhaal, Steven Yeun and Lily Collins. SYNOPSIS: Meet Mija, a young girl who risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend – a massive animal named Okja. Okja is the latest original film […]