A number of actors have signed on for the family comedy Robot and Frank. Liev Schreiber, Liv Tyler, James Marsden, and Jeremy Strong join previously announced Susan Sarandon and Frank Langella in the Jake Schreier-directed indie. The comedy marks Schreier’s feature directorial debut. The script, by Christopher Ford, is set in the future and centers on an aging curmudgeon (Langella) whose kids (Marsden and Tyler) give him a caretaker robot (voiced by Schreiber), sparking an unlikely friendship with the lonely man. Sarandon plays a librarian who serves as Langella’s only friend.

Hit the jump to read the full press release. The film is currently shooting in New York.

Taken, for all of its faults (and there were many), at least stumbled upon the fact that Liam Neeson can be a badass action star.  Unknown, clearly influenced by Taken and other Euro-trash thrillers, says “Fantastic!  Let’s put his ass-kicking persona all the way at the end of the movie and then just have him stumble around for the majority of the runtime!”  Rather than offer up a complex mystery built around an unreliable protagonist, Unknown clears up any major misunderstanding by the end of the first act, and then we’re bored stupid by Neeson wandering around as he’s hunted by non-descript bad guys as the clumsy narrative lurches towards an inevitable twist and his transformation to Taken Guy.  The film wastes its premise, its mystery, its lead actor, and only at the end does it have the courtesy to become laughably terrible.

With director Jaume Collet-Serra’s (Orphan) Unknown opening Febrauary 18, Warner Bros. has sent over 5 clips from the film which stars Liam Neeson, January Jones, Diane Kruger, Bruno Ganz, Aidan Quinn and Frank Langella.  Here’s the synopsis:

Dr. Martin Harris (Neeson) awakens after a car accident in Berlin to discover that his wife (Jones) suddenly doesn’t recognize him and another man (Quinn) has assumed his identity.  Ignored by disbelieving authorities and hunted by mysterious assassins, he finds himself alone, tired, and on the run.  Aided by an unlikely ally (Kruger), Martin plunges headlong into a deadly mystery that will force him to question his sanity, his identity, and just how far he’s willing to go to uncover the truth.

Hit the jump to check out the clips:

The “Liam Neeson Beats People Up” film movement continues with Unknown, the trailer to which has just been released by Warner Bros. After taking on slave traders in Taken and scenery in The A-, Team, Neeson now turns his fists towards identity thieves. January Jones (Mad Men), Diane Kruger (Inglorious Basterds), Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon) and Aidan Quinn (In Dreams) also star in the thriller, helmed by Jaume Collet-Serra ( Orphan). Check out the trailer after the jump.

Magnolia has released the trailer for Andrew Jarecki’s All Good Things, which stars Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, and Frank Langella.  It’s not a bad trailer when you consider that it doesn’t really tell you what the movie is about.  All Good Things is based on the true story surrounding the mysterious disappearances of the wife of real estate heir Robert Durst.  While I’m not sold on the film as a whole, it looks like it could be a must-see for Gosling’s performance alone.

Hit the jump to check out the trailer.  All Good Things will be available on VOD on November 5th and opens in theaters on December 3rd.

Magnolia has released the poster for the Andrew Jarecki’s crime drama All Good Things starring Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, and Frank Langella.  The film is based on the real 1982 mystery revolving around the disappearance of the wife of real-estate heir Frank Durst.  In the film, Gosling and Dunst play the Dursts.

Hit the jump to the check out the poster.  All Good Things is available on VOD on November 5th and will be in theaters on December 3rd.

We have ten clips from Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.  Michael Douglas returns as corporate criminal Gordon Gekko and is accompanied by Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan, Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, and Josh Brolin.  The sequel to his classic 1987 film, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is Stone’s latest topical movie, the first two being World Trade Center and W. This time around, Stone seizes on the economic crisis of 2008, but are audiences really willing to shell out money for a reminder of how the big banks screwed them over?  We’ll find out when the film opens on September 24th.  Hit the jump to check out the clips.

With a starring cast of Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, and Frank Langella, it would be a shame if Andrew Jarecki’s All Good Things never saw theaters.  Thankfully Magnolia Pictures has acquired Jarecki’s follow-up to the acclaimed documentary Capturing the Friedmans (this is his first narrative feature) with an Oscar-tempting December release in mind.

All Good Things is inspired by the life of Robert Durst, the wealthy son of a New York real estate mogul: “Mr. Durst was suspected but never tried for killing his wife Kathie who disappeared in 1982 and was never found.”  Hit the jump for the official press release.

We’ve had intermittent reports this year on the HBO pilot for The Miraculous Year, described as “an examination of a New York family as seen through the eyes of a charismatic, self-destructive Broadway composer.” We know that Kathryn Bigelow — fresh off her Academy Award win for The Hurt Locker — will helm the pilot, and the cast has filled out rather nicely with Eddie Redmayne, Norbert Leo Butz, Hope Davis, Frank Langella, and Patti LuPone. Now EW has word that Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies), Linus Roache (Law & Order), and Stark Sands (Generation Kill) have joined the cast, though details on their specific characters were not mentioned.

HBO certainly doesn’t show any signs of slowing down their delivery of top-notch cable television. Bringing in Bigelow to direct the pilot should kick start The Miraculous Year with a bang, and until then Martin Scorsese’s Boardwalk Empire should be quite a satisfying series to sink our teeth into if the fantastic trailer is any indication of the show’s quality. As far as the new cast additions go, I’m most looking forward to see Lee Pace find a fantastic new series after Pushing Daisies was unfortunately cancelled a little while back.

Up next on HBO’s docket is Boardwalk Empire in the fall and Game of Thrones early next year, but on a more distant horizon, keep your eye out for Miraculous Year; Eddie Redmayne, Norbert Leo Butz, Hope Davis, Frank Langella and Patti LuPone are in talks to headline the series.  Created by Oscar-nominee John Logan (The Aviator), the Year serves as “as an examination of a New York family as seen through the lens of a charismatic, self-destructive Broadway composer and lyricist.”  Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) will direct the pilot.

You may recall that Eddie Redmayne is also rumored to be the lead contender for Steven Spielberg’s War Horse: he is now officially on my list of those to keep tabs on.  Langella will next be seen in September’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, while Hope Davis is currently filming Real Steel, the robot boxing tale toplined by Hugh Jackson.   Hit the jump for a richer synopsis of Miraculous Year.

The teaser trailer for Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps may have been a little jokey and overly slick, but the Sun has premiered the international trailer for the film and it gets down to the nuts and bolts of the plot.  It doesn’t reveal anything more that we don’t already know from the plot synopsis.  However, the trailer also features boxing, riding motorcycles, and helicopters so that’s weird, although I suppose they’re symbols of extravagance.  I just love that the whole thing is set to The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil.”

The sequel to the 1987 film stars Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan, Frank Langella, and Josh Brolin.  Click here to check out the trailer and hit the jump to read the official synopsis.  Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps hits theaters on April 23rd.

Principal photography has begun on Jaume Collet-Serra’s (Orphan) next project Unknown White Male in Germany.  According to Warner Bros., the film will be shot entirely on location, with some filming at Studio Babelsberg, the oldest large-scale studio complex in the world.  The film stars Liam Neeson (Schindler’s List, Clash of the Titans), Diane Kruger (Inglorious Basterds), January Jones (Mad Men), Aidan Quinn (The Book of Daniel), Bruno Ganz (The Reader) and Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon).  For the synopsis and more on the film, hit the jump:

AFM* fun continues with the first images and full synopses for All Good Things starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, Pirhana 3D starring Elisabeth Shue and Richard Dreyfuss, Shanghai starring John Cusack and Ken Watanbe, and The Fighter starring Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg, and Amy Adams.  These are all films that should be on your radar because there’s a good chance that these films will be getting some major marketing when they hit theaters.

I write and read about films every day and with the exception of The Fighter, these films weren’t really on my radar.  After reading the synopses and seeing some shots from these movies, I’ll definitely be on the lookout for further news about them.  Hit the jump to check out debut photos and what you need to know about these upcoming flicks.

Opening next Friday is writer/director Richard Kelly’s “The Box”. The movie is set around a deceptively simple moral dilemma.  An average couple is offered an opportunity to get themselves out of financial difficulty: a million dollars, in exchange for the knowledge that their acceptance of this gift will result in the death of one person somewhere in the world – someone they don’t know.  The big question is, “What will they do?”  But writer/director Richard Kelly is also asking, “What would you do?”

So to help promote the film, we’ve been provided with five clips from the movie.  If you want to stay spoiler free, I strongly suggest not watching these clips.  But if you’d like a taste of Richard Kelly’s next film, hit the jump and take a look.

Finally, hypothetically speaking…if I were to have seen “The Box”…I might say it’s infinitely better than “Southland Tales” and it’s worth checking out next week.  Hypothetically speaking of course…

The first photo of Michael Douglas picking up the part of Gordon Gecko from Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps” has just popped up online and it ain’t doing much for me.  I’m left wondering if Gecko is trying to be slick 2000s guy or slick 80s guys stuck in the 2000s.  The plot of the film has a formerly-incarcerated Gecko teaming up with Shia LaBeouf’s character Jacob to find out who killed Jacob’s mentor (played by Frank Langella) and to warn the financial world of the impending credit crisis.  See, that right there–warning the financial world about the credit crisis–that’s idiotic.  That’s like warning a gambler that even though he keeps doubling-down, he will eventually lose it all.  The gambler knows this, but does it anyway.  If Oliver Stone can’t even do this tiny piece of borderline-common sense research on this, then I don’t really care what Gordon Gecko looks like after twenty years.  If you still do, hit the jump.