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Joaquin Phoenix stares down Josh Brolin in first ‘Inherent Vice’ image

There are a million reasons to look forward to Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice: 1) It’s a new freaking PTA movie. 2) It’s based on Thomas Pynchon’s excellent Inherent Vice. Actually, reasons three to one-million are pretty much just variations on those first two points. But the cast is very appealing too, and we […]

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Owen Wilson set for P.T. Anderson’s Inherent Vice

Owen Wilson is in negotiations to join the cast of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, The Wrap reports. PTA has already set Joaquin Phoenix to play pot-smoking P.I. Doc Sportello in the adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s acclaimed novel (which is something of a shaggy-dog crime noir set in 1970s Los Angeles). According to Anderson fan […]

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Paul Thomas Anderson readies Inherent Vice after The Master

After a five year break between films it seems Paul Thomas Anderson fans will not have such a long wait for his next masterpiece. Empire reports the writer/director of the upcoming The Master is already hard at work on an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice. Anderson describes his adaptation as a “Cheech and Chong […]

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Coen Bros. developing new TV show; Bored to Death meets Big Lebowski?

Joel and Ethan Coen – having conquered almost every genre on the big screen – are turning their eye to the world of television. According to Deadline, the Oscar-winning hermanos have created and will executive produce a new hourlong single-camera comedy alongside Cedar Rapids’ writer Phil Johnston. Titled HarveKarbo, the show concerns an “an ill-tempered LA […]

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