Considering the sad state of the American romantic comedy, it makes sense that France, home of the proverbial "language of love," would produce one of the most brilliant concepts for a romantic comedy, maybe ever. Directed by Pascal Chaumeil, Heartbreaker stars Romain Duris as Alex, a smooth-talking charmer whose way with the ladies allows him to front a business that specializes in convincing unhappy women to break up with their less-than-perf
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NBC will air new half-hour "Shrek" and "Kung Fu Panda" specials. The network is partnering with DreamWorks Animation for the specials "Scared Shrekless" and "Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special." NBC will air the Halloween-themed "Shrekless" on Oct. 28, partnering it with a re-airing of "Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins From Outer Space." "Panda" will air Nov. 24, paired with an encore of "Merry Madagascar." "NBC is proud to team with DreamWorks
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The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with studio estimates for the weekend. Click here for the full box office estimates of the top 12 films and then check back on Monday for the final figures based on actual box office. It was another slow Labor Day weekend at the movies as the fears of hurricanes hitting the East Coast ended up petering away to nothing by Friday night. Still, it was not one of the best weekends for movies
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Two months ago, when it was announced that British actor Andrew Garfield had scored the coveted role of Peter Parker in the upcoming still-untitled Spider-Man reboot by Marc Webb, there weren't that many American moviegoers familiar with his work, but with two new movies coming out in the next month, Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go and David Fincher's The Social Network , one can expect Garfield will be everywhere talking about the movies an
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In an interview with the British paper The Sunday Times (via Digital Spy ) for her upcoming Stephen Frears film Tamara Drewe , actress Gemma Arterton told them she will be meeting with Ridley Scott about possibly starring in his planned prequels to his breakout 1979 sci-fi thriller Alien . Apparently Scott was so impressed by Arterton's performance in J. Blakeson's The Disappearance of Alice Creed , that he wanted to meet with her for t
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Sony's Screen Gems has provided ComingSoon.net with the full photo gallery for Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: Afterlife that you can check out here or by clicking on Milla Jovovich below. Opening in 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D theaters on Friday, September 10, the fourth installment of the franchise also stars Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Spencer Locke, Boris Kodjoe, Wentworth Miller and Sienna Guillory. In the
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IM Global has posted more info on the new Judge Dredd film to be titled Dredd : DREDD takes us to the wild streets of Mega City One, the lone oasis of quasi-civilization on Cursed Earth. Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) is the most feared of elite Street Judges, with the power to enforce the law, sentence offenders and execute them on the spot - if necessary. The endlessly inventive mind of writer Alex Garland and the frenetic vision of director Pe
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Variety says that Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has experienced more than the "hiccup" reported in August. "The financing collapsed about a month and a half ago," Gilliam said Saturday at the Deauville American Film Festival. "I shouldn't be here. The plan was to be shooting 'Quixote' right now." He added that he wants to still make the movie. "Robert Duval is Quixote, Ewan McGregor is also there, and we are looking for ne
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Avatar director James Cameron told Folha de S.Paulo (via AFP ) on Sunday that he will return to Brazil this year to make a 3D film on indigenous people of the Amazon who oppose construction of a dam for fear it could flood tribal lands. "I want to return to meet some of the leaders of the Xikrin-Kayapo tribe who invited me," Cameron said. "I want to take a 3D camera to film how they live, their culture." The filmmaker has already come to t
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Variety reports that Jan de Bont ( Speed , Twister , Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life ) will direct Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi in an independently-produced, English-language co-production of the classic tale of Hua Mulan, the legendary young heroine soldier who joins an all-male army. Mulan is set to start shooting this fall at the gargantuan lots of the Hengdian World Studios, a three-hour drive from Shanghai in Zhejiang provin
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RooneyMara.net has posted two (albeit small) photos of Rooney Mara in character on the Los Angeles set of David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo . Also starring Daniel Craig, Stellan Skarsgard, Robin Wright and Max von Sydow, the adaptation of Stieg Larsson's book is scheduled for a December 21, 2011 release. The first book in the crime thriller trilogy "The Millennium Series" describes the mystery surrounding the long-unsolved disap
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In an article talking about the popular "Halo" franchise, Variety published quotes from Franchise Development Director Frank O'Connor about whether we'll ever see a Halo movie. The trade says that Microsoft is still developing scripts by Alex Garland, Stuart Beattie, D.B. Weiss and Josh Olson as potential blueprints. "We're still interested in making an excellent 'Halo' movie," O'Connor said. "We've created an awful lot of documentation and
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A clip from director Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go is online and can be watched using the player below. The drama, opening September 15th, stars Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield (upcoming Spider-Man reboot ), Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins, Nathalie Richard and Andrea Riseborough. The film is based on the highly acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro ("The Remains of the Day"). In it he posed the fundamental question: What make
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20th Century Fox has released this new clip from Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps featuring Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) taking Bretton Woods (Josh Brolin) to task for his business practices. Hitting theaters on September 24, the follow-up also stars Shia LaBeouf, Frank Langella, Carey Mulligan, Susan Sarandon and Vanessa Ferlito.

A second clip from Universal Pictures' Devil is now online and can be watched using the player below. Opening on September 17, the Dowdle brothers' supernatural thriller stars Chris Messina, Geoffrey Arend, Logan Marshall-Green, Bojana Novakovic, Jenny O'Hara, Bokeem Woodbine and Jacob Vargas.

Jesse Wigutow, the writer of It Runs in the Family , has been hired to draft Summit Entertainment's The Osterman Weekend , reports Variety . The film, based on the espionage thriller by Robert Ludlum, was previously adapted into a film by Sam Peckinpah (his final work) in 1983. Wigutow also worked, uncredited, on the script to 8 Mile and is currently working on the F. Scott Fitzgerald adaptation Tender is the Night and the Steve McQueen
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Although the project is now on indefinite hold and may never see production, Pixar has released thirty conceptual images from Newt . Originally planned as the studio's summer 2012 release, Newt would have followed the world's last two blue-footed newts who, after scientists pair them together for mating, quickly find that they don't exactly get along. Check out the images below and click on any of them to head to the official Disney Pixar Fac
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The Daily Mail reports that filming is about to start in London for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy , the adaptation of John Le Carre's seminal cold war best-seller to be directed by Tomas Alfredson ( Let the Right One in ). The article mentions that Inception star Tom Hardy will now play Ricky Tarr, who was going to be played by Michael Fassbender. Fassbender had to drop out because he just started filming X-Men: First Class . Gary Oldman is
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Ridley Scott offered a few specifics about his still-untitled Alien Prequel in an interview with The Independent . "The film[s] will be really tough, really nasty," says Scott of the proposed two-part prequel, which he says will take place 30 years before the first film, "It's the dark side of the moon. We are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that wo
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Olivia Thirlby has joined the cast of Judge Dredd , reports Variety . Thirlby will play Judge Cassandra Anderson, a psychically powered rookie Judge who teams with Judge Joe Dredd (Karl Urban) for training. Set in a dystopian future, the British comic book adaptation focuses on a police force given the power to act as judge, jury and executioner to whomsoever they perceive to be part of the criminal element. In the 2000 A.D. comic book se
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Jock, the comic book artist who, with Andy Diggle, created The Losers , has revealed a dozen pieces of unused concept art for Dune . The images below were apparently submitted to the project when Peter Berg was helming. Since then, Pierre Morel is said to have taken the project in his own direction. Still, the concept art provides a fascinating look at what might have been. Click on any of the images below to head to Jock's website: (Thanks
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Three images from the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows are now available online, following their debut in the print edition of Empire . The images, shown below, show off Sirius Black's broken mirror, Harry using the Lumos spell and a long shot of the heroic trio traveling on foot. Click the photos for bigger versions! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 hits theaters on November 19th.

C.S. Lewis' novel The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is considered to be a fan favorite, so when Disney dropped the "Chronicles of Narnia" franchise and it looked like there wouldn't be a third installment of the series, eager followers of the books and movies were highly disappointed - that is until Fox Walden picked up the film and renewed the excitement for Narnia. The story follows two of the main characters from the first two films and books
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Oren Peli and Michael R. Perry are developing a television series called "The River" for ABC and DreamWorks TV, according to The Hollywood Reporter . The series will again use a "found footage" format and will deal with the disappearance of someone along the Amazon river, presumably with supernatural overtones. Peli wrote and directed the first Paranormal Activity and is currently working on his follow-up film, Area 51 . Perry was responsib
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Jamie Bell is in final negotiations to join the cop thriller Man on a Ledge at Summit Entertainment. Sam Worthington is attached to star with Asger Leth directing and Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian and David Ready producing. Anthony Mackie is also in talks to star. Based on a script by Pablo Fenjves, the story involves a former NYPD officer, played by Worthington, who threatens to jump to his death, and a female psychologist.