Justin Long is joining James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn in Robert Redford’s historical drama “The Conspirator,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“The Conspirator” tell the story of Mary Surratt (Wright Penn) a Civil War Confederate sympathizer who was tried as a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination. McAvoy plays Col. Frederick Aiken, who reluctantly agreed to defend her before a military tribunal.
Long will play McAvoy’s best friend and conscious, a soldier who lost a limb in the Civil War.
The movie begins shooting in Georgia this month.
Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more on “The Conspirator”.
By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)

Variety is reporting that James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn have been announced as starring in “The Conspirator”, the Robert Redford directed period drama based on true events surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
Penn will play Mary Surratt, the only woman among the group of conspirators charged with killing the president, and McAvoy will play the idealistic war hero Frederick Aiken who comes to defend Suratt.
“The Conspirator” is slated to start filming this October, which Redford is producing alongside Wildwood Enterprises’ Greg Shapiro and Bill Holderman, as well as Robert Stone, Webster Stone and Brian Falk of American Film Co. James Solomon penned the script. Redford last directed [...]

Robert Redford, according to the Risky Biz Blog, is reportedly directing the historical drama “The Conspirator”, the story of Mary Surratt, an alleged conspirator of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of president Abraham Lincoln.
Surratt was also the mother of one of Booth’s alleged conspirators in the 1865 assassination of Lincoln by Booth at Ford’s Theater. Surratt was the first woman executed in the United States of America.
James McAvoy is said to be at the top of the producers’ list for one of the lead roles.
Shooting on “The Conspirator” is scheduled to start this fall, with a script written by James Solomon.
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The hit films “Twilight” and “Slumdog Millionaire” get ready to battle it out as MTV: Music Television announces this year’s final nominees for the “2009 MTV Movie Awards.” Pitting Hollywood vampires against the Mumbai slums, the movies’ rabid fans proved their loyalty as they sent both flicks to the head of the cinematic pack with each film receiving nominations in six award categories including “BEST MOVIE,” “BEST KISS” and “BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE MALE.”
MTV will up the cinematic fun quotient this year by debuting the two new categories “BEST SONG FROM A MOVIE” and “BEST WTF MOMENT.” Fans will get the chance to vote on such movie soundtrack hits as “The [...]

Comic book writer Mark Millar (”Wanted”, “The Ultimates”) is speaking out about the decision to have screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos attached to Universal’s “Wanted 2″, which will be based on a story by Chris Morgan.
Millar specifically mentioned on his website’s message board the Spiliotopoulos’s credit as co-writer of “Pooh’s Heffalump Movie” and the straight-to-DVD spin-off in the Winnie The Pooh franchise. He said;
“Never listen to any commentators as they never know anything about who’s coming back, etc. It’s just speculation and 99% of the time these guys don’t have access to the people who know. ‘Wanted 2′ is being made in a very tight circle at the moment [...]

Universal City, Calif., October 13, 2008 - James McAvoy (Atonement) and Academy Award winners Angelina Jolie (Mr. and Mrs. Smith) and Morgan Freeman (Dark Knight) star in the sexy, visually stunning, action thrill-ride Wanted, coming to DVD and Blu-ray Hi-Def on December 2, 2008 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Visionary filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov, creator of Day Watch and Night Watch, two of the most successful films in the history of Russian cinema, brings his incomparable imagination and innovative cinematic style to bear on the explosive story of an ordinary man transformed by destiny into a powerful assassin. Based on Mark Millar’s explosive graphic novel series, Wanted blazes new cinematic trails [...]

Hellboy II: The Golden Army, will be available in 3-disc special edition DVD and 2-disc Blu-ray Hi-Def on November 11, 2008 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.Here’s the complete DVD details and Blu-ray artwork from Universal. Hellboy II: The Golden Army by director Guillermo del Toro stars Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Jeffrey Tambor, Luke Goss, John Hurt, John Alexander, Seth MacFarlane, Anna Walton and Brian Steele.
SYNOPSIS: After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, hell on Earth is ready to erupt. A ruthless leader who treads the world above and the one below defies his bloodline and awakens an unstoppable army [...]

Universal City, Calif., September 25, 2008 – The roughest, toughest, most unlikely hero of all is back in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, available in 3-disc special edition DVD and 2-disc Blu-ray Hi-Def on November 11, 2008 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. With picture perfect visuals and flawless DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 sound, the high definition version of Hellboy II: The Golden Army can be viewed on any Blu-ray player or PlayStation 3. And only on Blu-ray Hi- Def, fans can create their own downloadable comic book built using scenes from the movie and via the power of BD Live, host a text chat with friends while watching the movie [...]

Here’s the final theatrical movie trailer for the action film “Wanted” by director Timur Bekmambetov (Day Watch, Night Watch) and starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie as Fox.
Plot: A young man finds out his long lost father is an assassin. And when his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father’s old organization and trained by a man named Sloan to follow in his dad’s footsteps.
Stay tuned to Toxic Shock TV for the latest Wanted videos and news.

Wanted is a 2008 action film loosely based on the comic book miniseries Wanted by Mark Millar. The film is directed by Timur Bekmambetov he’s Kazakh action stylist who made the 2004 international thriller “Night Watch” and the equally mad 2006 follow-up “Day Watch”. Wanted stars James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Kretschmann, Konstantin Khabensky and Angelina Jolie.
Synopsis:Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is offered the opportunity to seek revenge for the murder of his father, a member of a thousand-year-old group of assassins called the Fraternity who follow death orders issued by the Loom of Fate. The group’s leader, Sloan (Morgan Freeman), invites Gibson to follow in his father’s footsteps. Sloan appoints [...]