New Trailer for 'The Loft' starring James Marsden, Karl Urban, and Matthias Schoenaerts

There has been a lot of conversation lately about seemingly great movies that for one reason or another have been sitting on the shelf. Whether true or not it always throws the quality of the film into question because, obviously, if it was great a distributor would be twisting themselves into knots to get it out at the best possible moment. Right? In the case of The Loft, a thriller which has been bouncing between studios and juggling release dates for more than two years, does all the activity indicate some kind of promise in the material?

Directed by Erik Van Looy and based on the 2008 Brazilian film which he directed, The Loft has a cast worth getting excited about. James Marsden, Karl Urban, Matthias Schoenaerts, Wentworth Miller, Isabel Lucas, Eric Stonestreet, and Rhona Mitra star in a film that sounds like Very Bad Things kicked up a notch. It centers on five dudes who own a "fuck pad" where they can take their extramarital affairs, but when a dead body turns up it that kinda puts a damper on their horn-dogging. The guys start turning on one another, clues are being scrawled in blood, and basically this looks like the kind of low-rent thriller you find on Cinemax at 1am, but with a cast like that there's potential for a guilty pleasure.

We'll see if The Loft can hit its new January 23rd 2015 release date, or if Open Road Films backs down.

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Terrence Malick shooting two films in 2012, both with Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett

 Remember last month when Terrence Malick ransacked that music festival in Austin and appeared to be filming some sort of film centered on the music industry? Turns out he was, and now we know that film is titled Lawless, and will be one of two films he'll shoot back-to-back in 2012, both starring Cate Blanchett and Christian Bale. Wowsers.

Lawless does indeed star Bale as those images told us, playing some sort of a-hole record producer. Haley Bennett is a part of the cast as well, but alongside Blanchett check out these other two additions: Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara. Say wha!!? This isn't the first time we've heard about Gosling possibly having a role as it was first mentioned by Nicolas Winding Refn back in August. Variety reports that the the film is in pre-production, which means that is what was going on at the Austin City Limits festival when Bale was glad handing a bunch of artists.

The second film is Knight of Cups, and there's precious few details on it, except that it will star Bale, Blanchett, and Isabel Lucas(Clash of the Titans).

Both films are being shopped to buyers at the American Film Market right now, so this makes what...four films Malick has on the way? How amazing is that? [Variety]

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War of the Gods Gets a Name Change and a New Pair of Gods

Quickly, as I'm about to run out the door and sit through Miley Cyrus's The Last Song(shut up),Tarsem's anticipated mythological action flick, War of the Gods, has been renamed. For awhile Relativity Media seemed torn between that title and Dawn of War, but now they've settled on something new: Immortals. No word has been given as to why they felt a name change was in order, but I'm betting it has something to do with getting some distance from the similarly themed Clash of the Titans. Let's just hope this film's better. If it's half as good as Tarsem's visual stunner, The Fall, then it absolutely will be.

Also they've managed to snag a couple of high profile stars to fill out two of the film's  biggest roles. The first is John Hurt(Hellboy, Dogville), who will be wielding the lightning bolt of Zeus, the ruler of the gods. The second is Isabel Lucas(Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) as Zeus's daughter, Athena. They join an already impressive cast featuring Mickey Rourke, Frieda Pinto, and Henry Cavill. 

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