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--- Schnoz Support - The first shot of Steve Carell in Foxcatcher has nosed its way onto the internet (ha ha see what I did there) - I guess he took Nicole Kidman's Oscar to heart. Foxcatcher is that movie with Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo in jockstraps and singlets, you may recall. I suppose other stuff happens, murder and what not, but that's the most  important part.

--- Crowd Surfing - Nick and Joe pick their favorite actorly ensembles of the year for "The Fifties," their mid-year eye-balling. Finally some Frances Ha action!

--- Crouch Another Day - So a sequel to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon really is getting made, and Ziyi Zhang and Michelle Yeoh will both reprise their roles from Ang Lee's awesome wuxia original. Lee is not returning to direct though; renowned stunt coordinator Yuen Wo Ping will sit in the chair. He's no novice, he's directed nearly thirty films already; he also collaborated with Wong Kar-wai on The Grandmaster. Donnie Yen, seen to the right, is also joining the cast.

--- Lady Witch - Rumor is that Elizabeth Olsen is the one who'll play the Scarlet Witch in the Avengers sequel, after Saorsie Ronan turned it down. She's the super-powered sister of Aaron Johnson's Quicksilver (not that Aaron's confirmed yet either). I think Olsen's great, so okay.

--- Bang Bang - Steven Spielberg dropped out of making Bradley Cooper's movie American Sniper last month, but now comes word that Clint Eastwood might be picking the project up. I don't even remember the last Eastwood movie I saw... probably Million Dollar Baby? His films don't do much for me. I definitely would've seen this if it were Spielberg's film. This? Meh notsomuch.

--- Homebound Herzog - Awesome news alert - sixteen of Werner Herzog's movies, many of which have been hard to get your hands on, are getting remastered for release, be it on DVD or VOD or whatever, says DH. I've feel lousy, I've missed everything at FSLC's Herzog retrospective this week. Shame on me.

--- Places People - Along with yesterday's news that Corey Stoll and Tye Sheridan joined the cast of Charlize Theron's Dark Places, an adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel, here's word that Christina Hendricks is also in the cast. And apparently Nicholas Hoult's in there somewhere too? What an awesome cast this thing's amassing.

--- Clown Around - In case you missed this the other day, EW actually got Jerry Lewis to open up about his long lost Holocaust film The Day the Clown Cried. It doesn't sound you should plan on seeing it any time soon; reading between the lines it sounds to me that he's so close to the material that releasing it to the world terrifies him, and he couldn't take the criticism, when he's so proud of it. That's just how I'm reading it.
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