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When AMC cancelled Rubicon, I came very close to shedding great big man-tears. (I may forgive, but I’ll never forget, AMC!) The slow-burn conspiracy thriller was just some damn fine television, helped in no short part by star James Badge Dale’s captivating performance. Since that show’s untimely death, he’s been keeping steadily busy, turning in a number of stellar but …

Following on from yesterday’s announced departure of Jessica Chastain from Iron Man 3 due to her coming down with an acute case of Too-Much-Damn-Work, Marvel Studios has apparently wasted no time in finding a replacement. Variety is reporting that the studios will in fact not be going with the the 3 other actresses (Gemma Arterton, Diane Kruger and Isla Fisher) whose …

Contrary to popular belief, Jessica Chastain will be not be starring in every single movie in Hollywood for the next 2 years. She came awfully close though, but unfortunately it would seem that those pesky universal rules of time and space has thrown the popular red-haired actress a curve ball. It had been widely reported that Chastain had somehow managed …

Jessica Chastain is a busy, busy woman. Appearing from seemingly out of nowhere, she had a bumper 2011, starring in The Help, The Debt, Tree of Life and Take Shelter. And while four big releases in a year will already be too much for some, she was also working on her own project with Joel Edgerton, as well as about …

  There are just 52 days and 12 hours left (I’m just randomly guessing, and don’t have a Countdown clock, I swear) until I finally get to feast my geeky eyeballs on The Avengers. With the marketing campaign in full swing, beaming awesomeness straight into our cerebellums, it’s easy to forget that this is really just the end of the …