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Way back around 2008 or so, David O. Russell shot most of a political satire called Nailed. The reason we’ve never seen it is that he eventually abandoned it in 2010, after many stops and starts and financial struggles. But every so often, we get word that someone, somewhere might still try to put it out. And as today, a real release seems closer than ever.

U.K. distributor Arrow Films has scooped up Nailed, now called Politics of Love, with intentions of releasing it in 2015. Does that mean it might eventually make its way to our shores as well? Hit the jump for more details on the Nailed release, including the first official synopsis.

Russell was almost done with shooting Nailed when he finally walked away. Afterward, producers continued to try and finish it. A test screening was held, a composer was hired, and a final cut was quietly put together by Kia Jam without Russell’s input. Last year it got as far as a PG-13 rating by the MPAA (for “sexual contact and language”). But this is the first we’ve heard about concrete plans for a theatrical release.

Arrow Films’ acquisition of Politics of Love covers only the U.K. and Ireland territories. However, production company Voltage Pictures is screening the film this week for buyers at the American Film Market, so we may see some concrete plans for a U.S. release soon. If that happens, it should be interesting to see what’s become of this project post-Russell. Those 2011 test screening reactions were not kind, but that was before the current edit.

While we wait, here’s the synopsis:

Formerly known as Nailed (David O. Russell), Politics Of Love tells the story of a small town waitress (Biel), who accidentally gets a nail lodged in her head as her boyfriend (Marsden) attempts his marriage proposal. Her predicament leads her on a journey to Washington DC, where she meets a dashing but clueless congressman (Gyllenhaal), who might be able to help her unusual case.

Will their blossoming romance survive the cut-throat politics of the Capital? With an all-star cast that also includes Catherine Keener, Tracy Morgan, James Brolin and Paul Reubens, Politics Of Love is the funny story of what happens when sparks fly and love interferes with what you stand for.

[Source: The Film Stage]

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Harmony Korine is following up Spring Breakers with another crime drama. The indie auteur is getting the pieces together for The Trap, a Southern revenge pic which now has Jamie Foxx and Benicio Del Toro attached to star. Hit the jump for more on Harmony Korine’s The Trap casting.

THR describes The Trap script as a crime thriller about two childhood friends now in their mid to late 30s. (That detail will probably have to be changed since both Foxx and Del Toro are a full decade older.) One of them has become super successful while the other has spent most of his adult life behind bars. When the latter is released from prison, he plots his revenge on the former.

Del Toro was last seen in a colorful supporting role in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, and has another colorful supporting role coming up in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice. Next year, he’ll star as legendary drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the romantic drama Escobar: Paradise Lost.

Foxx has had a big year as well. Earlier this year he played villain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and he has two more major releases due before the year’s out — the comedy sequel Horrible Bosses 2 and the family musical Annie. Variety notes Foxx will be the first Oscar winner to ever appear in a Korine film.

Korine is coming off of Spring Breakers, his most commercially successful feature directorial effort by far. It made more in its limited opening weekend than Gummo or Julien Donkey-Boy did in their entire runs. It also got more critical buzz than a lot of his other movies have, particularly for James Franco’s performance.

The filmmaker, who has called The Trap his “most ambitious film to date,” will both write and direct. John Lesher and Charles-Marie Anthonioz are producing. The Trap is on track to shoot in Miami early next year, so expect to see it on the festival circuit in late 2015 or 2016.

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Agent Carter‘s Edwin Jarvis wasn’t the only new MCU character fans got to meet last night. ABC also revealed the very first, appropriately tiny bit of Ant-Man footage, featuring Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas as Scott Lang and Hank Pym. Check it out, plus some behind-the-scenes stuff from Avengers: Age of Ultron, after the jump.

Tuesday nights are usually reserved for Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, but this week ABC opted instead to air Marvel: 75 Years, From Pulp to Pop!, a special presentation covering the long history of the Marvel. Naturally, that also included a few bare glimpses at the future of Marvel in the form of that Agent Carter clip and some Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man footage. Watch it below (via CBMTrailers).

The Ant-Man footage really isn’t much. We just get a few seconds of Hank and Scott talking about something — science, probably, judging by the vial in Michael Douglas’ hand — and then a few more of Scott approaching the Ant-Man uniform. The helmet looks a bit like Star-Lord’s from this angle, though of course its real inspiration is the Ant-Man helmet from the comics. Still, it’s an exciting first look at a film Marvel has been teasing for years.

The Avengers: Age of Ultron behind-the-scenes footage mostly just shows everyone doing what they do best. Joss Whedon directs, Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) shoots an arrow, Captain America (Chris Evans) jumps over stuff, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) laughs charmingly, Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) looks concerned in a laboratory setting, and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) glowers at a wind machine. And of course there are explosions and flipping cars throughout.

But maybe the most intriguing detail is the mysterious mo-cap-suited actor with a blurred-out face. Who could that possibly be, and who might he be playing? Guess we’ll find out in a few more months. And in the shot of Scarlet Witch, who is behind her, on the left? Looks like it could be Vision.

Avengers: Age of Ultron opens May 1, 2015 and Ant-Man opens July 17, 2015.

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Update: O’Connell has now officially been cast in Gilliam’s film. Our original article follows, and is updated with a new synopsis below.

Jack O’Connell may well be the next big guy to watch. After his stint on Skins, he showed up in 300: Rise of an Empire and ’71, and received rave notes for his work in Starred Up. Holding the lead role in Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken means that half the families in the US are going to know his face after that film opens at Christmas. And now he might be the man for Terry Gilliam — The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. He would play, according to the most recent draft of the script, a guy who is connected to a Don Quixote movie which has had a fairly undesirable effect on some audiences.

The latest Man Who Killed Don Quixote casting report comes from Baz Bamigboye, who passes on word from John Hurt that Gilliam is eyeing O’Connell, and that the actor is “in discussions about appearing with Hurt in the Quixote film, which could shoot in autumn next year.” Hurt is quoted saying “Jack’s Derbyshire born and bred, so it will be fun to work with him.”

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has so far turned out to be an appropriately (but not pleasantly) quixotic project for Gilliam. It originally went before cameras in 2000, and was shut down by disasters chronicled in the Lost in La Mancha documentary. Gilliam and screenwriter Terry George have attempted to revive it a couple times in the decade and a half since, with significant script rewrites and new casts changing the film each time.

Gilliam explained the story’s current state a couple months back:

I keep incorporating my own life into it and shifting it. The basic underlying premise of that the version Johnny was involved in was that he actually was going to be transported back to the 17th century, and now it all takes place now, it’s contemporary. It’s more about how movies can damage people… Our main character actually made a Don Quixote movie a lot earlier in his history, and the effect it had on many people wasn’t very nice. Some people go mad, some people turn to drink, some people become whores.

Update: O’Connell has been announced as the star of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, and Variety offers up this new plot description:

A modern and satirical twist on the tale, “Don Quixote” stars O’Connell as Toby, a jaded commercials director who travels to Spain for a shoot and comes across a gypsy who gives a copy of his student film — a lyrical re-working of the Don Quixote story set in a quaint old Spanish village. Moved by the discovery, Toby sets off on a bizarre road trip to find the little village where the student student film was shot and gets caught up in a series of catastrophies.

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Living in the United States, it’s easy to look at our release calendar and see it as the be-all, end-all. But these days, international audiences make up far more of the audience for a film than the US release does. International box office dollars are increasingly important to studios, including Marvel Studios. For example, Guardians of the Galaxy was a big hit in the United States, but it grossed more overseas. Same for The Avengers and Iron Man 3.

So, while last week U.S. audiences got release dates for all of Marvel’s Phase Three, those essential international audiences were left in the dark. Now, the Marvel Phase 3 International release dates have been revealed. As usual of late, most of them take place before we get the films in the US.

Thanks to Superhero Hype for the info.

• Captain America: Civil War – April 29, 2016 in some territories (May 6, 2016 domestically)
• Doctor Strange – October 26, 2016 (November 4, 2016)
• Guardians of the Galaxy 2 – April 28, 2017 (May 5, 2017)
• Thor: Ragnarok – July 28, 2017 international and domestic
• Black Panther – October 27, 2017 (November 2, 2017)
• Avengers: Infinity War Part I – April 27, 2018 (May 4, 2018)
• Captain Marvel – July 6, 2018 both
• Inhumans – October 26, 2018 (November 2, 2018)
• Avengers: Infinity War Part II – April 26, 2019 (May 3, 2019)

This doesn’t account for all of the international release dates; just a portion. Most of the dates that’ll come later won’t be revealed until much closer to the actual release point.

Here’s the Phase 3 press release from Marvel.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe will grow even bigger than ever before with Phase 3!

At a special event held at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige took to the stage to announce the full slate for Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring a mix of fan-favorite characters along with a number of heroes set to make their big screen debut in the coming years.

And while the confirmation of upcoming sequels to the successful Captain America, Thor, Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy franchises would have been enough to send fans into a frenzy of excitement, Feige also surprised guests with first details on upcoming films starring Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange and the Inhumans!

Read all the info here.

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