Here’s a new look at the lovely and talented Isla Fisher from Louis Leterrier’s forthcoming Now You See Me. Fisher plays one of a group of illusionists who have decided to use their powers for good and not evil.

"They are modern-day Robin Hoods," Leterrier told USA Today.

We’ve shown you a few other glimpses of the group, which includes Fisher as an ace escape artist, Jesse Eisenberg, the leader of the merry band, a slight-of-hand specialist, Dave Franco as a pickpocket (who also learned some neat card tricks like throwing one with enough force to slice a banana), and Woody Harrelson as a hypnotist. The four all studied with masters at their respective crafts in order to hone their skills. Harrelson apparently tried to hypnotize anyone on set who’d let him, including costar Mark Ruffalo who plays an FBI agent tracking The Four Horsemen, as they call themselves.  Leterrier added that Ruffalo was such a good sport he “actually pretended it worked”.

Now You See Me was cowritten by Boaz Yakin whose directorial effort Safe is in theaters now, as well as first-timer Edward Ricourt, Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec (co-writers of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol), and Ed Solomon (Men in Black). That’s a lot of writers. Not usually a good sign, nor is the fact that it’s scheduled to open in January, but times they are a changin’. We’ll see.  Now You See Me, which also stars Morgan Freeman and Melanie Laurent, opens January 18 in the US and Canada and 25th January in the UK.

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Back on April 1st we showed you a first look at always adorable Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Dave Franco in Louis Leterrier’s Now You See Me about a group of magicians, who also happen to be accomplished bank robbers, and the FBI agent, played by Mark Ruffalo, on their trail.

Today we have some images from recent shooting in Las Vegas, as well as a video from Entertainment Tonight (via AOL) and some caps of the vid (courtesy of Collider.)

We also have the official synopsis:

The Four Horsemen, a magic super-group led by the charismatic ATLAS (Jesse Eisenberg), perform a pair of high-tech magic shows, first astonishing audiences by robbing a bank on another continent, and then exposing a white-collar criminal and funneling his millions into the audience members’ bank accounts.

FBI Special Agent DYLAN (Mark Ruffalo) is determined to make the magicians pay for their crimes—and to stop them before they pull off what promises to be an even more audacious heist. But he’s forced to partner with ALMA (Melanie Laurent), an Interpol detective about whom he is instantly suspicious. Out of desperation he turns to THADDEUS (Morgan Freeman), a famed magic debunker, who claims the bank heist was accomplished using disguises and video trickery. One thing Dylan and Alma agree on is that the Horsemen must have an outside point person, and that finding him (or her) is key to ending the magicians’ crime spree. Could it be Thaddeus? Or Alma? Or could it really be…magic?

As pressure mounts and the world awaits the Horsemen’s spectacular final trick, Dylan and Alma race to find an answer. But it soon becomes painfully clear that staying one step ahead of these masters of illusion is beyond the skills of any one man—or woman.

Despite the phenomenal leading cast, here’s what makes me nervous about this. Leterrier is best known for the universally derided Clash of the Titans (which nevertheless made enough money to warrant a sequel), The Incredible Hulk (the one with Edward Norton) and a couple of Transporter flicks. None of that inspires a lot of confidence but someone keeps giving him money with which to make movies. (In this case its Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Another thing that makes me nervous is that there are no less than five credited writers on this thing. None of whom have anything to recommend them other than that they have had scripts produced. I guess that’s something.  Finally, the release date has been announced as January 13, 2013. January. Unless you’re an award contender just opening wide after the holidays, a January release date still has a lot of stigma attached. Why purposefully book a film that is still in production into January right off the bat?  We’ll see.

Also in the cast: Michael Caine, Melanie Laurent, Morgan Freeman, Common and Michael Kelly. Now You See Me is slated for release in the US on January 13 and in the UK on 1st February 2013. Enjoy!

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What better way to celebrate the Monday after Easter than with some of your favorite icons from childhood, like the Easter Bunny and his pals Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Jack Frost and The Sandman?  Well, actually I can think of quite a few ways better than this, but this is what we’ve got.

In any case, we have two posters as well as the first teaser trailer for a new animated movie from Dreamworks called Rise of the Guardians, featuring the voices of Chris Pine (Jack Frost), Alec Baldwin (North aka Santa Claus complete with “Naughty” and “Nice” tatts), Isla Fisher (Tooth) and Hugh Jackman (Bunnymund) in which our childhood heroes are actually heroes.

When an evil spirit known as Pitch (aka The Boogieman – Jude Law) lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.

Based on a book by William Joyce, Rise of the Guardians is the feature debut for director Peter Ramsay with a script by David Lindsey-Abaire (Robots, Inkheart, Oz: The Great and Powerful). I keep getting the title confused with Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, but that’s probably just me. The trailer looks good. The film itself looks like sumptuous with color soaked computer generated animation giving it an old-school feel, helped quite a bit by a score by Oscar winner Alexandre Desplat (The King’s Speech).  More will surely follow. Rise of the Guardians opens November 21 in the US and 30^th November in the UK.

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We’ve got your first look at the always adorable Isla Fisher in heist thriller Now You See Me with Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Dave Franco.  We showed you the first poster way back in November, but today we have lots of great pics. The plot revolves around a group of illusionists  who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money all the while the FBI is tracking them.

Since they’re playing this straight and not for laughs, this will be a more serious side of Fisher than we’ve seen in quite some time. (You can’t count The Lookout or London, since no one saw them.)  She’ll also take a more dramatic turn later this year in Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby, as Tom Buchanan’s (Joel Edgerton) mistress, Myrtle Wilson.

Also in the cast: Mark Ruffalo as the FBI agent heading the investigation, Melanie Laurent, Morgan Freeman, Common, Michael Kelly and Michael Caine. Now You See Me is currently filming in New York, but it’s already been to New Orleans. Production moves to Las Vegas and Paris in the coming weeks. It’s slated for release in the US on January 13 and in the UK on 1^st February 2013. Enjoy the pics!

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Here’s the first official look at Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, currently shooting in Sydney Australia.  The pics below also give us new looks at Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carroway as they shoot scenes in Sydney’s Centennial Park. She looks like the quintessential flapper. Perfect Daisy!

Director Baz Luhrmann, with whom DiCaprio made Romeo + Juliet back in 1996 (although my favorite will always be Strictly Ballroom), is shooting the film in 3D which made absolutely no sense to me (yes yes I know you know how I feel about 3D), until DiCaprio gave this explanation to Access Hollywood, “ {the 3D is} being used for drama,” Leo told Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush, while promoting his latest movie, J. Edgar, in Los Angeles over the weekend.

“Most of the time, you associate 3-D with the spectacle of it, but he really wants to use 3-D to create emotional impact with the characters and almost use it like what it would be like to immerse yourself in a theater production,” Leo explained. “So I’m having a good time with that. Plus, it’s the great American novel.”

Well, I can understand what he means by an immersive theater experience. If Luhrmann’s able to pull this off, I may rethink my stance on this issue. I certainly hope it will enhance the material and not detract from it.

The Great Gatsby costars Joel Edgerton as Daisy’s husband Tom Buchanan,  Isla Fisher as his lover Myrtle Wilson and Jason Clarke as her husband George. The film opens in the US on December 25, 2012 but will probably have its premiere in Australia before that. Enjoy the pics!

Have you heard about this new heist slash magic movie, Now You See Me? Love the cool new poster. We haven’t had a good movie about magic and magicians since the one two punch of The Prestige and The Illusionist back in 2006. Both of those were set in the past when it took far less to dazzle an audience. Now You  See Me is set in the here and now and makes use of all sorts of modern technology.

Synopsis: “The Four Horsemen, a magic super-group led by the charismatic ATLAS (Jesse Eisenberg), perform a pair of high-tech magic shows, first astonishing audiences by robbing a bank on another continent, and then exposing a white-collar criminal and funneling his millions into the audience members’ bank accounts.

FBI Special Agent DYLAN (Mark Ruffalo) is determined to make the magicians pay for their crimes—and to stop them before they pull off what promises to be an even more audacious heist. But he’s forced to partner with ALMA (Melanie Laurent), an Interpol detective about whom he is instantly suspicious. Out of desperation he turns to THADDEUS (Morgan Freeman), a famed magic debunker, who claims the bank heist was accomplished using disguises and video trickery. One thing Dylan and Alma agree on is that the Horsemen must have an outside point person, and that finding him (or her) is key to ending the magicians’ crime spree. Could it be Thaddeus? Or Alma? Or could it really be…magic?

As pressure mounts and the world awaits the Horsemen’s spectacular final trick, Dylan and Alma race to find an answer. But it soon becomes painfully clear that staying one step ahead of these masters of illusion is beyond the skills of any one man—or woman.”

Now You See Me sports a really fine cast. In addition to the marquee names above, it also includes Isla Fisher (We love her), Woody Harrelson, Michael Caine and Dave Franco. It’s directed by Louis Leterriere which some are seeing as a positive sign but I’m not so sure. He’s got the action cred but he made such a mess out of the Clash of the Titans reboot that I can’t get excited about how he’ll handle the plot (especially considering there are about six writers credited with the script.) We’ll see. Now You See Me is scheduled to open January 2013. 

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This is what I’ve been waiting for! Finally, we get a look at Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby! He’s down in Sydney Australia on the set of Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel, The Great Gatsby.

We also have a look at Isla Fisher as Myrtle Wilson and Jason Clarke as her husband George. Last week we saw first pics of Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan. They appear in these as well. Now we just need pics of Carey Mulligan as Daisy!

The film’s synopsis: Naive midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

I’m looking  forward to this because I think Luhrmann will do more justice to the material than did Jack Clayton’s 1974 version starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. Sure the production values were sumptuous but there was no ‘there’ there. Ya know?  The Great Gatsby starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan will open December 25, 2012.

In need of a little Johnny Depp fix? I need one daily, so don’t feel bad.  We’ve got the Super Bowl spot for this Sunday’s big game of Johnny’s new movie, Rango.

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Sadly you don’t get to see him in the trailer, it’s animated.  But he is the voice of Rango and totally adorable.  The cast is fantastic! Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Bill Nighy, Stephen Root, Ray Winstone, Beth Grant, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton and Alfred Molina.

A chameleon that aspires to be a swashbuckling hero finds himself in a Western town plagued by bandits and is forced to literally play the role in order to protect it.

Now check out the trailer:

What do you think?  Will you see this one in theaters?

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