Ewan McGregor In Talks For Angels and Demons April 25, 2008
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- Ewan McGregor is currently in talks to star in Ron Howard’s adaptation of Dan Brown’s hit book Angels and Demons.
A prequel to The Da Vinvi Code, Angels and Demons follows Robert Langdon, once again being played by Tom Hanks, as he tries to stop a plot by the Illuminati to destroy the Vatican.
McGregor’s role would be the Catholic Church insider who help Langdon holt the Illuminate’s plot.
This news comes just days after Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer landed the role of Vittoria Vetra, who helps Langdon after her father is murdered.
Zurer beat of competition from Academy Award nominee Naomi Actress for the role.
- Nick Stoller and Judd Apatow have reunited, after working together on new comedy forgetting Sarah Marshall, for Get Him to the Greek.
The film follows a college graduate insurance adjuster who accompanies a rock star from London to the greek in LA.
Stoller will write and direct the project that will star Apatow favourite Jonah Hill and comedian turned actor Russell Brand.
- American actress Moon Bloodgood is currently in talks to star in the lead female role in the latest installment of the terminator frnachise - Terminator Salvation.
Bloodgood will star as a long serving member of John Connor’s, played by Christian Bale, resistance team.
Principle photography is expected to get under way on 5th May and will be released next year.
- It has been reported that Virginia Madsen has signed to appear in Mira Nair’s Amelia alongside Hilary Swank and Richard Gere.
The film is the biopic of Amelia Earhart an American aviation pioneer, author and women’s rights advocate.
The film will revolve around Amelia’s (swank) relationship with George Putnam (Gere), her publisher, promoter and eventual husband.
Madsen will play Putnam’s first wife Dorothy Binney.
Shooting is expected to get underway later this month.
- Matrix star Carrie Anne Moss has joined the cast of romantic comedy Hanging Out Hooking Up Falling In Love.
The movie follows a man who, with the help of his eighteen year old son, tries to woo back his wife, played by Moss, who has left him.
Already cast for this project is Richard E Grant, Janeane Garofalo and Jenna Elfman.
Shia LaBeouf Joins Dark Fields April 16, 2008
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-Young actor of the moment Shia LaBeouf has reportedly signed up to star in Dark Fields.
Directed by The Illusionist’s Neil Burger the film is based on Alan Glynn’s 2002 novel and is being labelled as a techno thriller.
The script which has been adapted by Hairspray’s Leslie Dixon will star LaBeouf as a man who finds a pill that boosts his intelligence.
This summer Labeouf will star in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
- Hollywood badboy Colin Farrell has signed on to star in Triage, directed by Danis Tanovic.
Farrell will be joining Christopher Lee and Paz Vega and will revolve around a photojournalist after he returns home from a dangerous job.
Filming is expected to get underway later this month running into June in location including Spain and Ireland.
- American actress Natalie Portman is to star in a new big screen adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.
Directed by John Maybury Portman will play Catherine Earnshaw who embarks on an ill-fated love affair with Heathcliff.
Portman beat off the likes of Lindsay Lohan and English actress Keira Knightley for the role, it’s rumoured that Maybury initially wanted an English actress for the role.
The role of Heathcliff is yet to be cast but it’s believed that Irish actor Colin Farrell is favourite for the part.
-The casting of Disney’s Prince of Persia:Sands of Time rumbles on as Jake Gyllenhaal is now believed to be in the frame for the lead role.
This comes just a week after news broke that Pirates of the Caribbean star Orlando Bloom had beaten off Zac Efrom for the role in the trilogy, a deal reportedly worth $40 million.
The games is an adaptation of the popular video game franchise and filming on the project is expected to get underway later this summer.
There has been no confirmation from the studio as to who has been cast the lead role.
-Demi Moore has landed roles in both Bunraka and Happy Tears.
In Happy Tears, which is to be directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein, she will star alongside Parker Posey as a woman who is sick of caring for her dementia suffering father.
Bunraku will team her with Josh Hartnett and Woody Harrelson as a woman who is forced to marry a warlord.
Filming on Happy Tears gets underway later this month.
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Helen Mirren Joins The Last Station April 9, 2008
Posted by movies in : Uncategorized , add a comment- Academy Award winning actress Dame Helen Mirren is to star in The Last Station which is shooting now in Germany.
The film, which is directed by Russian filmmaker Andrei Konshalovski, is a historical drama based on the latter years of writer Tolstoy’s life.
Mirren is set to play his wife Sopia who is angered by her husband’s decision to give his book royalties to charity.
- 3:10 to Yuma and Puccini for Beginners actress Gretchen Mol has joined Luke Wilson for new film Blowtorch.
The film, which has been written and will be directed by Mike Million, follows two professors who are fighting it out for the same permanent spot on a college faculty roster.
Filming gets underway in Philadelphia next week.
- Pride and Prejudice actress Rosamund Pike and Pitch Black star Rhada Mitchell have joined Disney’s The Surrogates.
The film is based on Robert Venditti’s graphic novel and will also star Bruce Willis.
Directed by Jonathan Mostow the film is expected to start shooting in Boston later this month.
- Diane Keaton has signed up to star in road trip comedy The Widows’ Adventure.
The film will revolve around two widowed sisters who go on an unlikely trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.
The project is currently looking for a director.
- PS I Love You actor Jeffery Dean Morgan has joined All The Good Things alongside Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst.
The eighties drama follows a New York real estate mogul (Gosling) who becomes involved with a girl (Dunst) from the poorer side of town.
Morgan is expected to play the detective who investigates the disappearance of Dunst’s character.
Filming begins later this month in Connecticut.
- Little Miss Sunshine actress Toni Collette has joined Academy Award winning director Sam Mendes’ as yet untitled comedy.
According to the Hollywood Reporter Collete will play a professor and friend of a couple who are looking for a place to settle down and start a family.
Filming gets underway later this month.
New Hancock Image April 3, 2008
Posted by movies in : Pictures , add a commentThis summer Will Smith returns to the big screen as superhero Hancock who causes more trouble than he solves.
Here is a new images from the film released this summer.
