F Scott Fitzgerald and his classic The Great Gatsby is coming to the big screen courtesy of director Baz Lurhmann with the first trailer giving us a glimpse at the lush visuals the director went for in this modern adaptation.

With flappers and fireworks, manicured lawns, falling confetti and Model-Ts; cast Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan are reeling in the decadence of 1920s New York.

Lurhmann, who reunites with DiCaprio (the pair first worked together 17 years ago in Romeo + Juliet) uses 3D and a contemporary soundtrack (welcome Jay-Z and Kanye West‘s “No Church In The Wild”) to propel you through the dizzying light of Jay Gatsby (DiCaprio) Nick Carraway (Maguire) and Daisy Buchanan (Mulligan).

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Taylor Lautner has not had quite the same success after Twilight that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are enjoying but perhaps things are on the upswing for the teen.

Stewart has On The Road and Snow White & The Huntsman due this year and Pattinson will be in theaters with Bel Ami and Cosmopolis but Lautner seemed to be at a standstill after last year’s Abduction.

Now Lautner’s film card is starting to fill up. He will star in the Daniel Benmayor-directed parkour action flick Tracers as a bike messenger who is trying to work off his debt to a crime organization when he collides with a “sexy stranger” and is introduced to the world of parkour.

If you are unfamilar with parkour – it’s a form of physical discipline that incorporates obstacles (trees, rocks, buildings) and how to move around them with the most efficiency. Lautner used parkour in the film Abduction in the baseball stadium/glass building slide scene.

The film’s international distribution rights are headed to Cannes this week, hoping for a buyer.

Lautner is also tapped to star with Adam Sandler in Grown Ups 2.

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A biopic of some of the most influential women in music history is on the horizon and Taylor Swift is eying a significant role.

Variety is reporting that Sheila Weller‘s book Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon – and the Journey of a Generation is being turned into a movie and working it’s way up the film ladder in Hollywood with Swift linked to play Mitchell.

The book tells the story of the three women, their very different backgrounds and how they each influenced music in the late 60s and early 70s.

No official offers have been made but Swift is the reported frontrunner for Mitchell and Alison Pill (Goon, Midnight in Paris) is in the lead for the part of King.

While the flick isn’t official yet, it is tentatively titled Girls Like Us and would be directed by House executive producer Katie Jacobs.

The 22 year-old Swift has been dipping her toes in the acting world with a small part in the Garry Marshall film Valentine’s Day and voicing Audrey in the animated movie adaptation of Dr. Seuss‘ The Lorax. The part of Mitchell would be her first major acting job.

If the project gets off the ground, it could begin filming as early as the fall of this year.

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Emma Watson caught the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Struck By Lightning this weekend. Her look for the evening mixed demure, almost dainty florals with a black leather jacket for a schoolgirl goes punk vibe.

Struck By Lightning marks the screenwriting debut for Glee‘s Chris Colfer, who also stars.  It looks back on a high school senior’s last few weeks of life, leading up to his death by – you guessed it – a bolt of lightning.   The cast also includes Christina Hendricks, Allison Janney and Sarah Hyland.

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 The trailer for the film Sparkle was released on Monday, giving fans a glimpse of the late Whitney Houston in her final movie role.

Sparkle, a remake of the 1976 film of the same name, tells the story of three sisters trying to make it big as a girl group in 1960s Detroit.  The story was inspired by that of The Supremes, who came out of Detroit during the Motown era.   It stars American Idol champ Jordin Sparks as the title character.  Houston played the sisters’ struggling single mother, who had herself been a singer when she was younger.  The cast also features Cee Lo Green and Mike Epps.

Houston died on February 11 after accidentally drowning in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.  Her other film credits include The Bodyguard, The Preacher’s Wife and Waiting to Exhale.

Read on to see the full trailer for Sparkle, out in theaters on August 17.

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The vampire trend in movies isn’t over but Dark Shadows is a completely different vibe.

Johnny Depp and Tim Burton team up again for a campy, humorous version of the bloodsucking mythology that was once a nighttime soap opera.

Depp plays Barnabas Collins, a vampire who is cursed for two hundred years and wakes up in the 70s to find a world he doesn’t recognize. Funky clothes and an even funkier soundtrack set the mood for the film’s dark humor.

Costarring Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloe Moretz, Eva Green and Helena Bonham Carter, Dark Shadows opens May 11th.

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Zac Efron and the cast of The Lorax are hoofing it all over Europe on the movie’s promotional tour.  They began in Madrid, and on Friday hit Rome for a photocall at Casa del Cinema.

Prior to their appearance, Efron sampled the local cuisine with his co-star Danny DeVito and DeVito’s wife Rhea Perlman.

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Thank you Jerry Bruckheimer!

The super producer gave fans a twitter peek at the often stalled, but now moving forward flick The Lone Ranger.

The photo shows Johnny Depp in full make-up and costume as Tonto, standing behind Armie Hammer‘s suave-looking Lone Ranger.

Depp, 48, has spoken of his Native American heritage and how he wanted this version of Tonto to be more accurate and less of a stereotype than the original TV series character.

“I liked Tonto, even at that tender age, and knew Tonto was getting the unpleasant end of the stick here,” Depp said. “That’s stuck with me. And when the idea came up [for the movie], I started thinking about Tonto and what could be done in my own small way try to — ‘eliminate’ isn’t possible — but reinvent the relationship, to attempt to take some of the ugliness thrown on the Native Americans, not only in The Lone Ranger, but the way Indians were treated throughout history of cinema, and turn it on its head.”

Depp rallied for his Pirates and Rango director, Gore Verbinski to helm this although it hit a script snag. The movie was temporarily shelved in August of 2011 but the film is back on track.

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The third film in the Men In Black franchise will have the biggest pop star in the world making a cameo.

Star Will Smith revealed to Brazillian website ElCorrilloRD.com that Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta) will make an appearance.

“We have a couple of celebrity cameos, but I think I cannot reveal who they are. We must keep as a surprise that Lady Gaga appears,” Smith reportedly said during a press junket.

Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and Alice Eve will star in the action-packed film due May 25th.

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The 84th Annual Academy Awards were held in Hollywood at the Kodak Theatre (or as host Billy Crystal quipped – the Chapter 11 Theater) on Sunday night and there were few surprises.

Crystal was his usual affable, likable self; the ratings were up slightly from last year but there were no really big wow moments to the 2012 Oscars.

The biggest winners of the night were Martin Scorsese‘s Hugo and Michel Hazanavicius‘ The Artist – each taking 5 wins, although The Artist won the biggest nods of Best Director, Best Feature and Best Leading Actor among it’s accolades.

The Help star Octavia Spencer had a very sweet moment at the podium when she was genuinely overcome with emotion as she accepted her Best Supporting Actress gold statue.

Chistopher Plummer and Meryl Streep were also very engaging during their thank you speeches and Jean Dujardin shared a moment with Uggie, the Jack Russell terrier of The Artist that has become a fan favorite.

Viola Davis and George Clooney were hot contenders for Best Actress and Actor categories, respectively, but both walked away empty handed.

Among the presenters for the evening: Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Jennifer Lopez, Tom Hanks, Cameron Diaz, Tina Fey, Michael Douglas, Bradley Cooper, Chris Rock, Melissa Leo, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph and Emma Stone.

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