Kimberly Peirce’s Carrie remake has been given a release date.

The Stephen King adaptation will arrive in cinemas on March 15, 2013, ComingSoon reports.

Kick-Ass star Chloe Moretz will play the lead character in the horror movie, having won the part over Haley Bennett, Dakota Fanning, Emily Browning, Bella Heathcote and Lily Collins.

Brian De Palma previously adapted King’s novel for cinema, with Sissy Spacek in the title role and Piper Laurie as her tyrannical mother. Julianne Moore and Jodie Foster have been linked with the role of the mother in the remake.

Moretz, 15, is known for her mature horror role in Let Me In, and for portraying Isabelle in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning Hugo.

Peirce has vowed to remain faithful to the source material with her take on Carrie.

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“The Big Lebowski” co-stars Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore have begun work on “Seventh Son,” the Hollywood fantasy action film’s producers said.

“The Big Lebowski,” a big-screen comedy by Joel and Ethan Coen, has developed a cult following since its release in 1998.

Its stars have reunited for “Seventh Son,” which began shooting last month in Vancouver, British Columbia, under the direction of Sergei Bodrov, Warner Bros. said.

Bodrov helmed the Oscar-nominated foreign-language films “Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan” and “Prisoner of the Mountains.”

Co-starring in “Seventh Son” with Bridges and Moore is Ben Barnes, a cast member of “The Chronicles of Narnia” films.

“In a time long past, an evil is about to be unleashed that will reignite the war between the forces of the supernatural and humankind once more,” a synopsis said. “Master Gregory is a knight who had imprisoned the malevolently powerful witch, Mother Malkin, centuries ago. But now she has escaped and is seeking vengeance.”

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Sure, she’s a knockout, but it was Julianne Moore’s combination of blazing talent and quiet determination that propelled her from TV soaps to cinema stardom. Now she portrays controversial Sarah Palin in the new HBO movie Game Change while living a game change of her own—a happy family life with her younger husband
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Julianne Moore is mad for beavers. (You’re all mature. No sniggering, please.) “I always tell my children”—son Caleb is 14, and daughter Liv turns 10 in April—“that my favorite animal is the beaver, because it’s so industrious,” the actress says. Then she adds, laughing, “And when they grow up, they’ll be, ‘Can you believe she said that all the time?’?”

But Moore is serious. “Beavers don’t seem that industrious when you look at them,” she continues, “but they make those dams, little by little.” She doesn’t just admire the toothy rodents; she identifies with them. “I am diligent,” she says. “That’s one of my qualities: diligence. Not very glamorous, but true.”

Her hard work (she has acted in nearly 50 movies, including Boogie Nights, Far from Heaven, The Kids Are All Rightand last summer’s Crazy, Stupid, Love), combined with Streep-like subtlety, has led to four Oscar nominations and a reputation as an actress who fully inhabits her characters. And her stature will only be enhanced by Game Change, the made-for-HBO movie about Sarah Palin’s vice-presidential run, debuting March 10.

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The actress tells Jay Leno that upcoming film is more about 2008 campaign than a critique of Palin

While current and former aides to Sarah Palin lashed out last month, calling the upcoming film’s depictions of Palin as “sick” and “inaccurate,” Moore insists “Game Change” is not a slash-and-burn portrayal of Republican politics during the 2008 presidential campaign. The movie, like the 2010 book by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann it’s based on, focuses on the schism between GOP candidate John McCain and his running mate.

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Julianne Moore fully immersed herself in character while preparing for her upcoming role.

The 51-year-old Oscar-nominated actress portrays American politician and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in HBO’s political drama Going Rogue.

The film based on the eponymous book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin follows the 2008 US presidential election in which Senator John McCain invited Sarah to be his running mate against Barack Obama.

Julianne went all out to authentically depict the politician.

“I listened to her book on tape, Going Rogue, I went on YouTube and found all of her media appearances, all the speeches, debates, the convention speeches, and put them all on my iPod,” Julianna explained to host Jay Leno on his American late-night TV talk programme The Tonight Show Thursday. “I wiped everything off except for [Vanilla Ice's 1990s track] Ice Ice Baby, which is the song that my daughter ice-skated to.”

Julianne’s two children were mortified by the sounds emanating from their mother’s iPod.

“My 14-year-old son was really embarrassed by that,” Julianne laughed. “There is nothing worse than a mum who has nothing but Sarah Palin and Ice Ice Baby on her iPod. I’d put it on in the car, I’d listen to it when I was running. I’d listen to it constantly. It was really a total immersion.”

Julianne altered her physical appearance drastically for this film.

“Everything had to change – my skin tone, the shape of my face, my lips, my eyes, I wore contact lenses,” Julianne shared. “Everything was completely changed.”

Sarah Palin’s current and former aides have lashed out against the movie, complaining that Julianne’s portrayal is nothing more than caricature.

Julianne refutes this assumption, as the actress feels the film comments on broader American issues.

“It’s about the campaign. It’s also about how we elect our leader,” Julianne said. “It’s more of a portrait of this particular time in history, of this particular campaign, than it is about Sarah Palin.”

Going Rogue starring Julianne, Woody Harrelson and Ed Harris premieres on HBO in America on March 10.

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London: Julianne Moore has revealed that she was left stunned after discovering that the former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, whom she is portraying in her next film, was completely controlled by her advisors.

The Oscar winner portrays the one-time Vice Presidential candidate in the upcoming film ‘Game Change’, based on John Heilemann and Mark Halperin’s book, which chronicles John McCain’s failed bid for the White House in 2008. The 51-year-old actress spent weeks perfecting her portrayal of the controversial politician. She also admitted that she was shocked to discover that Palin was told what to say and how to look throughout her campaign.

“In my portrayal, I tried to be as balanced and as fair as possible using the tools that we had. Obviously I am never going to be her. But I need to portray her as precisely as possible,” a leading daily has quoted her as saying.

“She was only allowed to talk with certain media outlets. Everything she said was prescribed. She didn’t understand why they had brought her in as a vice presidential candidate for her abilities and then not let her use them. I was not aware that campaigns were conducted that way. And I certainly wasn’t aware that people are educated, dressed, made up. That is much more like what we do in showbusiness,” she added.

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LOS ANGELES, Jan 14 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) – Americans may be gearing up for the 2012 presidential elections, but HBO is revisiting the drama of the 2008 race to the White House in a TV film about Sarah Palin and John McCain.

“Game Change,” starring Julianne Moore as Palin and Ed Harris as McCain, is based on the 2010 book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin that documented the behind-the-scenes action of the presidential campaign four years ago.

But the new film, which will premier on March 10, focuses on the rise of Palin as McCain’s 2008 Republican Party running mate.

“We felt that story of Sarah Palin is truly one of the great American political stories of our time,” writer Danny Strong told television reporters on Friday.

Moore said that she spent hours working with a vocal coach to master Palin’s “idiosyncratic way of speaking” as well as reading Palin’s book and watching her TV reality show, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.”

“It’s a daunting task to play somebody who’s not only a living figure but also hugely well known. So for me, the most important thing was accuracy. We’re all very familiar with her and those iconic moments four years ago,” said Moore, who starred in movie drama “The Hours” and “The Kids Are Alright”.

Strong said he was given interviews with everyone he wrote into the film. Except for Palin. Instead, he used the former Alaska governor’s own book “Going Rogue” as one of his main sources.

“Her (Palin’s) situation was an extraordinary one. She was someone who was involved in state politics and suddenly thrust into international politics, and clearly wasn’t prepared,” said Moore.

“She was so incredibly charismatic and so unbelievably able to communicate, a true populist,” she said.

“Saturday Night Live” actress Tina Fey, whose Palin impersonations became one of the highlights of the 2008 presidential campaign, will also appear in “Game Change”, which incorporates news footage into the film .

“I really looked forward to the moment where Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, would be watching Tina Fey as Sarah Palin. I thought that would be interesting to the story,” said director Jay Roach.

Harris, who researched McCain in-depth before portraying him, said his respect for the Arizona Senator deepened.

“He’s a man of commended sense of honor and duty, and when he decided to go into politics, by his own admission, his ambition and his ego were constantly in conflict with his sense of honor and duty and patriotism,” the “Beautiful Mind” actor said.

Palin, 47, a favorite of the Tea Party movement, ended months of speculation last October by announcing she would not seek a presidential run in 2012.

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Julianne Moore is… Modigliani’s muse, a Klimt damsel, and a tousled temptress by Egon Schiele. Recently, this incredible photo shoot with the actress has surfaced out of an old Harper’s Bazaar and into the art-minded Tumblr-sphere. Check out the shots taken by the famous fashion photographer Peter Linderbergh, side-by-side with their original inspirations, as spotted by Museum Nerd. What strikes us isn’t just the meticulous styling, strategically echoing the visuals of the original artwork with couture. Moore is doing a splendid job channeling the subjects, beaming with vigor of a glamorous “cripple” by John Currin, as if she was a Currin model frozen in a frame. You be the judge. Do these do it for you?

Julianne Moore by Peter Lindbergh as Seated Woman With Bent Knee by Egon Schiele for Harper’s Bazaar.

Julianne Moore by Peter Lindbergh as The Cripple by John Currin for Harper’s Bazaar.

Julianne Moore by Peter Lindbergh as Woman With a Fan by Amedeo Modigliani for Harper’s Bazaar.

Julianne Moore by Peter Lindbergh as Adele Bloch Bauer I by Gustav Klimt for Harper’s Bazaar.

Julianne Moore by Peter Lindbergh as Man Crazy Nurse #3 by Richard Prince for Harper’s Bazaar.

Julianne Moore by Peter Lindbergh as Madame X by John Singer Sargent for Harper’s Bazaar.

Julianne Moore by Peter Lindbergh as Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen by Edgar Degas.

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Actress Julianne Moore does her due diligence in researching the characters she portrays on screen – and when it came to playing Sarah Palin, there was no exception.

At an event last week, the 51-year-old actress told the New York Daily News she “read every single thing” she could about the former Alaska governor and “watched every interview” in order to prepare for her role as Palin in next year’s HBO mini-series, “Game Change.”

All that information must have been eye-opening for Moore, right? Not so much.

When asked if she had developed a newfound respect for Palin after all her research, the actress raised an eyebrow and sighed deeply. “No,” she told the paper quietly.

In an interview with ABC News, Moore was asked about her thoughts with regard to the current political climate, now that she’s portraying Palin on screen.

She told religious correspondent Father Edward Beck that she’s most disappointed with how partisan it’s become.

“I think the entire idea of being a country of united states, the way we formed ourselves, is to be greater than the sum of our parts. And to work together to create a whole, that benefits the majority of the people,” she explained. “And right now, I feel everyone is so divisive, and so self-interested and so much about being re-elected, and special interests that I’m really disgusted. I really feel kind of ashamed.”

Moore went on to comment on the research she did on the way campaigns are conducted. “So much is about how do you get on the air, how do you get the most media attention, how do you make the most noise. When, in fact, what we’re all looking for is leadership,” she said. “We don’t want noise. We want people who are going to take care of us.”

For her part, Palin didn’t seem too thrilled about having Moore portray her. “I think I’ll just grit my teeth and bear whatever comes what may with that movie,” she told Fox News last March.

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The final film from Louis Malle is coming to high-definition at the end of February.

In an early announcement to retailers, the Criterion Collection will release ‘Vanya on 42nd Street’ on Blu-ray on February 28.

In the nineties, André Gregory mounted a series of spare, private performances of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in a crumbling Manhattan playhouse. These treasures of pure theater would have been lost to time had they not been captured on film, with subtle cinematic brilliance, by Louis Malle.

The Blu-ray will feature a 1080p digital transfer, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 soundtrack, and supplements include: New documentary featuring interviews with André Gregory, the play’s director; actors Lynn Cohen, George Gaynes, Julianne Moore, Larry Pine, Wallace Shawn, and Brooke Smith; and producer Fred Berner; Trailer; and and a booklet featuring an essay by critic Steven Vineberg and a 1994 on-set report by film critic Amy Taubin.

Suggested list price for the Blu-ray is $39.95.

Source: highdefdigest.com