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Amanda Seyfried is forever indebted to Mean Girls. In an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Seyfried reflected on the 2004 teen comedy and the “unadulterated fun” she had while making the film when she was 17. Host Josh Horowitz reminded Seyfried how loved the film is to this day. “Until the day you die, a 14-year-old girl will come up to you every day and quote you as if it just came out the day before.” Horowitz said. “I hope they quote it on my grave,” said Seyfried, who played Karen Smith in the movie. “That’s an organic…

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Michael Hall, Thomas Dekker and Nicholas Hamilton are clocking in for Halloween Store. The trio has joined the cast of the upcoming camp horror comedy, which wrapped filming this month in Hawaii and previously announced Simon Rex, Natalie Lind and Kai Caster among its ensemble. From writers Chad Law, Josh Ridgway and director Shane Dax Taylor, Halloween Store follows a group of people who find themselves trapped inside a costume store on Halloween night with a mysterious killer on the loose. Hall (Reacher, Halloween Kills, Trigger Warning) stars as Hollis, the sharp-witted sheriff of this quiet small town,…

Here’s a cool one in the works at Warner Bros.: Sydney Sweeney is attached to star and produce via her Fifty-Fifty Films, I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl. The project is based on a reddit short story by Joe Cote. Fifty-Fifty notched Dune and Forrest Gump Oscar winning scribe Eric Roth to adapt. In the short story, a drifter impersonates a missing girl to rob their family — only to realize she’s made a terrible mistake. Vertigo’s Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Trevor Engelson and Aaron Folbe at Underground are attached to produce. The White Lotus and Euphoria actress is taking a…

EXCLUSIVE: The cast for Kornél Mundruczó’s next feature drama Place to Be, continues to grow, with Primetime Emmy winner Lena Waithe joining Ellen Burstyn, Taika Waititi, Pamela Anderson and Edgar Ramirez, all of whom we previously told you about. The film, written by Kata Wéber (Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman, White God), is backed by S’YA Concept with further support from the NSW government through Screen NSW’s Made in NSW fund. WME Independent is handling international sales. The feature centers on the last passions of life and follows the unlikely friendship of kindly but no-nonsense Brooke (Burstyn) and discombobulated divorcee Nelson (Waititi) as they…

Claiming Justin Baldoni has nothing but “clickbait” falsehoods and “hurt feelings” on him, Ryan Reynolds wants out of the It Ends With Us star’s $400 million defamation and extortion against the Deadpool leading man, Blake Lively, the New York Times and Vision PR’s Leslie Sloane. “The entirety of Plaintiffs’ defamation claim appears to be based on two times that Mr. Reynolds allegedly called Mr. Baldoni a ‘predator,’” a memorandum of law filed today in federal court by Reynolds’ attorneys declares of an amended complaint by Baldoni and others earlier this year “But, the FAC alleges no plausible facts that suggest…

EXCLUSIVE: After winning practically every single award out there for his turn in The Penguin, Colin Farrell is looking to get back in business with DC: and that’s to star in the title role of Luca Guadagnino‘s Sgt. Rock. Note, this is a different part of the DC-verse, with The Penguin attached to Matt Reeves’ The Batman sphere, whereas Sgt. Rock is part of DC bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran’s oversee. The two worlds shall never overlap. Scheduling for the film, which Farrell wants to do, we hear, has to be balanced with his busy fall that includes the…

Refresh for latest…: A generally quiet weekend at the international box office, amid holdover play for the major studio titles and the start of staggered release for newer entries, nevertheless included another milestone for Chinese phenomenon Ne Zha 2 which has moved up to become the 5th highest-grossing movie ever worldwide. The Ne Zha 2 total in China through Sunday, according to Maoyan, is a little over RMB 14.86B ($2.054B using today’s exchange rate). Adding grosses in excess of $31M from markets outside China, and the global total rises to more than $2.085B. That places the animated sequel just above…

Bill Maher returned to the topic of the Best Picture Oscar winner Anora on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Last week, Maher posited that Sean Baker‘s indie hit winning the big prize on Oscar night was helped by the Karla Sofía Gascón controversies that tainted her leading Oscar nominee Emilia Pérez. This week on his HBO show, Maher held up Anora in a “New Rules” segment about “whores having a moment,” questioning when the term “sex worker community” became the norm, playing clips of both Mikey Madison and Baker thanking the group during their Oscar acceptance speeches. Comparing the…

One of the unexpected pleasures of this year’s vast SXSW slate of movies is Bunny, a kind of zany comic throwback to extreme indie NYC-centric movies that find a manic energy and rhythm that lets them exist on their own breathless cloud with a cast full of wacky characters moving in and out of frame in action that takes place almost entirely in an East Village tenement, or outside just in front of it. In some ways Bunny is an oddball cross of Weekend At Bernies, Abbott & Costello, Cheech & Chong, and a new age Marx Brothers movie, plus…

EXCLUSIVE: Kelsey Asbille (Yellowstone), Nicholas Alexander Chavez (Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story), Ben Platt (Theater Camp), Emma Roberts (The Blackcoat’s Daughter), Laura Harrier (BlacKkKlansman) and Noomie Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) will star in psychological thriller The Technique. The film is the feature directorial debut of Brian McGreevy, who wrote an original script. Plot details are being kept under wraps. Miles Skinner of Hypothesis and Andrea Bucko of Raised By Wolves are producing alongside Jordan Drake, David Duque-Estrada, Chadd Harbold, and Russ Posternak. Zak Williams of Hypothesis, Jordan Claire Robbins, and Nini Le Huynh of Raised…