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Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, and a Lot of Sequins in 'Behind the Candelabra' Teaser

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Based on the theory that Liberace and his longtime companion may have had more than friendship going on beneath all those layers of rhinestone cape, Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra premieres later next month on HBO. Here's a new trailer, giving us our first only line of dialogue and a brief glimpse of stars Michael Douglas and Matt Damon sharing champagne in a bathtub, thus setting the film's tone of dude's just chillin' out drinkin', no funny business. Just bros bein' bros.

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TV Time: 'Mad Men' and 'Behind the Candelabra' Teasers

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Prepare yourself for the glamour of the stylish sixties, and the glitz of putting on a fur-trimmed cape and playing a piano, with some new promos for the new Mad Men and Steven Soderbergh's Liberace film, Behind the Candelabra. Will it be Liberace or Don Draper who this season wears more spangled military uniforms? Begin the debate below.

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New Looks at Michael Douglas Draped in Fur, Al Pacino as Phil Spector, and Other HBO Dress-Up Games

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HBO is building up to another season of justifying how much you pay for it every month, bringing back favorites like Eastbound and Down and Game of Thrones while adding promising new original content like Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic, a Phil Spector movie with Al Pacino, and new series from Christopher Guest and Stephen Merchant. Thanks to BleedingCool, here are some early looks at those things.

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First Photo of Michael Douglas's Liberace Could Use More Cape

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Here's a first look at Michael Douglas and Matt Damon on the set of Behind the Candelabra, Steven Soderbergh's long-in-development HBO film that focuses on Liberace and the live-in chum who helped ensure the pianist died a bachelor. Compared to most Liberace photos, including the one on the cover of the film's namesake book, the image seems a bit lacking in terms of the expected pomp and rhinestones, but then that's what Blingee for.

Casting News Fun Time: Actors Have Joined Some Movies

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Amanda Peet, Cobie Smulders, Rob Corddry, The Marriage Ref's Marriage Ref, and others have signed on to some movies. If you care at all about them or yourself, you'll skim the details below.

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