Anne Hathaway Catwoman

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--- Adorable hipster director Cary Fukunaga will make that sci-fi movie Spaceless next, which was a rumor a few weeks back. Two movies down - Sin Nombre and Jane Eyre - ad I'll follow the dude anywhere.

--- Thrones Keepers - Some casting news for A Game of Thrones: they've cast Theon Greyjoy's sister Asha (although she can't be named Asha in the TV series because of that whore character Osha they invented for the show, so now she's called Yara, because none of us need any more complications when it comes to this show) and Xaro Xhoan Daxos, a kingly dude that Dany deals with. I'm not familiar with either actors at first glance, but the show's shown itself pretty dang good at picking the right actors so far.

--- Recent Piranha remaker Alexandre Aja might remake Pet Semetary. I find myself with very little to say about that. Huh.

--- After Zach Snyder makes his Superman movie with Henry "swoon" Cavill, he's lining up a movie called The Last Photograph which sounds more serious than what we're used to from him - it's set in "war-torn Afghanistan" and:

--- Ben Foster will be playing John Gotti Jr. in that Gotti movie with John Travolta; we worried last week when Dominic Cooper was rumored up for the role, and now we're worried for Ben. Mitts off, Travolta!

--- Diablo Cody, who seems to be inexplicably-to-me hated these days more than she's liked, appears to be drawn to birds of a feather since she's apparently offered the co-lead in her directorial debut (previous post) to Russell Brand. These are both people I am always being forced to argue in favor of! This movie will drive me to knife-wielding!

--- Have you seen the poster for Drive yet? It's Goslinglicious! (via)

--- We just rambled a little bit about Miranda July earlier, and here's more - she talked to io9 about the science-fictional way time works in her new movie The Future.

--- And finally, here's the first clip from Todd Solondz's new movie Dark Horse. I haven't watched it yet and I might not watch it in order to keep myself pure - please please please let this movie play at the New York Film Festival this Fall! - but have at it if you will.

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When we got word of the Toronto International Film Festival's slate yesterday, I listed off several films I'd kill to see there (even though I probably won't be going). There were a bunch! Looks like an excellent year. Well five minutes later the fine people at TIFF released pictures for most of their films, and a lot of these were our very first looks at these films. Like the ones that I already posted from director Steve McQueen's reunion with Michael Fassbender, Shame, for instance. Well there are other instances of this sort, having to do with movies I'm crazy excited over, and I feel it my duty to post them lest they go unposted, which apparently is the sort of thing that could cause my fragile psyche to swirl the drain. We wouldn't want that, would we? Well let's get on with it then.

First up are 5 new pictures from Todd Solondz's Dark Horse. 

It stars, as you can see there, Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow (!!!) and Selma Blair and Jordan Gelber. We don't know a whole lot about DH yet; TIFF describes it as "Todd Solondz creates an intimate dark comedy about a manchild whose desire for a romantic relationship runs smack into reality, " while IMDb says "Romance blooms between two thirty-somethings in arrested development: an avid toy collector and a woman who is the dark horse of her family." I'm guessing Gelber and Blair are the ones falling in love. 

Here's a new shot from Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In:

If anybody can make Antonio Banderas sexy again, it's Almodovar.

Here's a shot of Michael Shannon in Take Shelter:

I could've sworn I wrote about this movie once before but I can't find the post so maybe I dreamed it.  It's from the director of Shotgun Stories, which Shannon was fantastic in. It co-stars Jessica Chastain.

This shot of Tilda and John C. Reilly in We Need To Talk About Kevin is sticking a finger in the wound that is the fact that I'm not seeing this movie right now and must wait:

I didn't take note of Burning Man when looking through the list of TIFF movies the first time but it apparently stars Matthew Goode who obviously grabs one's interest right quick, face-wise. He plays some sort of hopelessly sexy chef beset by distracting womenfolk! Yeah I probably won't see this unless Goode takes his clothes off then.

And finally here are two shots from Sarah Polley's next film Take This Waltz, which stars Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen. Give it to me!

That's someone named Luke Kirby in the second shot with Michelle, and he is adorable. Here he is in his underpants in some other movie. Ending things on a bright but random  note!

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It's been a slow news day so far today. But hark! Here is the list of films showing at the Toronto International Film Festival this year! I seriously doubt I'll be going since I've never gone before and I can't see that changing now - although Toronto is a lovely city so if they want to invite me they can do that! - but since it's a slow news day let's name five movies playing at the festival that make me wanna slap some marching boots on and storm the north come September.

We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsey) - Everybody's read the book by Lionel Shriver by now, right? I hope so. Go read the book if you haven't! Because this book is amazing. AMAZING. And this movie has Tilda Swinton starring in it. AMAZING TIMES TWELVE.

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Stephen Stills in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,

or Scooby Livingston in Storytelling?

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Stephen's got the sexy beard and hot guitar skills, but Scooby'll let ya blow him when he's stoned. And the happiest of 31st birthdays to Mark Webber today!

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