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Get ready to see a lot of Zac Efron over the next couple years. The 17 Again and The Paperboy star will be seen in Parkland , a drama taking place at Dallas' Parkland Hospital on the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, an indie romantic comedy called Are We Officially Dating? , a comedy called Townies with Seth Rogen, and Rob ... (more)

Fox has picked up the life rights for true crime project, Narc , with Zac Efron set to star.

Editor's note: Sara Jackson, an IPFW student, is working at the Cannes Film Festival and will be reporting from there occasionally.

The sun finally came back to a windy and rainy Cannes but the weather clearly couldn't slow the non stop parties, premieres, deals and hype for which this festival is famous.

Backpacking across Europe is a time-honored tradition for many, but for Zac Efron and Amber Heard it will be a journey plagued by peril.

It was announced today that independent film producers Cassian Elwes and Robert Ogden Barnum have launched e2b Capital, a new entertainment company for independent filmmakers and financiers seeking financing and global distribution expertise.

Last year it was all about her peeing on Zac Efron in her sex romp movie The Paperboy, this year it was treading a very sodden red carpet.

Following strong performances in Killer Joe, Bernie, Magic Mike and The Paperboy, which garnered several awards, Matthew McConaughey's renaissance continues with an eye-catching central turn in Jeff Nichols's tender coming-of-age drama.

McConaughey matures ; Matthew McConaughey once reigned supreme in romantic comedies, but since turning 40 the Texan's taken a less clean-cut path.... McConaughey matures ; Matthew McConaughey once reigned supreme in romantic comedies, but since turning 40 the Texan's taken a less clean-cut path.

I think whoever would've won that year would have gotten shit from the other losers' fans.

The Lincoln Lawyer and Magic Mike actor married Brazilian model Camilla Alves, with whom he has three young children, last year.

The entourage is doing its collective best to be low-key, but with boy wonder Zac Efron in the house there's a buzz beyond the perpetually vibrating electronics.

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FOLLOWING strong performances in Killer Joe, Bernie, Magic Mike and The Paperboy, which garnered several awards, Matthew McConaughey's renaissance continues with an eyecatching centralturn in Jeff Nichols' tender coming-of-age drama setin rural Arkansas in America's Mid-West. On an expedition to a nearby island the boys stumble upon a fugitive ... (more)

A first look at The Butler , for which Lee Daniels has assembled an Oscar-laden - and controversial - cast including Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey in her first film since 1998's Beloved and Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan.

It is a sunny Saturday morning in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, and Matthew McConaughey is flexing his impressively beefy left biceps at me.

"How the heck did he get on that island? How long has he been there? How the heck did he get cigarettes? How did he get Beanie-Weenies?" Those are just a few of the urgent questions Matthew McConaughey had for Jeff Nichols once the actor had pored over the writer/director's screenplay, "Mud," and signed on to play the title role -- a fugitive ... (more)

By the end of the year we'll see a transformed McConaughey as a man diagnosed with HIV in "The Dallas Buyer's Club" and in a supporting role in the latest Martin Scorsese/Leonardo DiCaprio collaboration, "The Wolf of Wall Street." But first, there is " Mud ," an odd coming-of-age/thriller/love story featuring the 43-year-old in the title role, as a ... (more)

Following are Susan Granger 's reviews of the latest movies in area theaters, and a special screening Sunday in Westport: Working with cinematographer Adam Stone , writer/director Jeff Nichols has fashioned a moody, meditative coming-of-age story set in a southern Arkansas delta.

In 2008, a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. commentator said McConaughey, 43, had "managed to elevate the art of chillaxing into a veritable cottage industry." But in the past few years, he has matured into one of the decade's most intriguing leading men, perhaps the only one representing a decidedly Southern masculinity while transcending the ... (more)