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Kevin Costner will be starring as a single father who winds up with the deciding vote in the American presidential election in Swing Vote, a comedy written and directed by Joshua Michael Stern (Neverwas).
The comedy, which stars Dennis Hopper and Kelsey Grammer as the presidential candidates, just got picked up by Touchstone Pictures.
Source: Variety.
Posted 08.24.07 by reelz -
Looks like Ang Lee's latest movie is even racier than the Gyllenhaal-Ledger love scenes from Brokeback Mountain.
The Oscar-winning director's upcoming feature, a Mandarin-language espionage thriller called Lust, Caution has just received an NC-17 rating from the MPAA. His studio (Focus Features), however, is standing by the picture, which they hope might be of award caliber.
Lust, Caution will screen at the upcoming Toronto film festival.
Source: Variety.
Posted 08.24.07 by reelz -
Carla Gugino (Sin City, Night at the Museum) has joined the cast of Righteous Kill, the De Niro-Pacino crime drama directed by Jon Avnet.
And Friend David Schwimmer will play the husband of Kate Beckinsale in Rod Lurie's Valerie Plame-scandal-inspired Nothing But the Truth, about a female reporter (Beckinsale) who won't reveal her source after outing a CIA agent. The movie also stars Matt Dillon, Vera Farmiga, Edie Falco and Alan Alda.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter.
Posted 08.23.07 by reelz -
Greg Mottola, who just directed last weekend's smash
hit Superbad, is already lining up his next project.
The director will return to the youth comedy genre with Adventureland, a movie about an uptight college grad who takes a minimum-wage job at an amusement park during the summer of 1987. Mottola also wrote the script, which will star Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale).
Source: Variety.
Posted 08.23.07 by reelz -
Justin Timberlake will be joining Mike Myers, Jessica Alba and Romany Malco in the next Myers flick, The Love Guru. In it, Myers plays an unorthodox self-help guru who is hired by a hockey star to provide marriage counseling. Timberlake will take the role of a rival hockey player who threatens to break up their marriage.
And Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow, Crash) has signed to star as a veteran street fighting coach in an untitled Dito Montiel (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints) movie. He will play a mentor to Channing Tatum's character (She's the Man, War of the Worlds).
Source: Variety.
Posted 08.23.07 by reelz -
At the Feast of Love junket yesterday, producer and Lakeshore Entertainment head Tom Rosenberg confirmed that another Underworld movie is definitely in the studio pipeline.
"It's a prequel," said Rosenberg, who is open to the possibility that it may reboot the franchise. While IMDB lists Len Wiseman as a director on the project, Rosenberg would only confirm that the Underworld and Underworld: Evolution director is going to be producing.
No word yet on whether or not Kate Beckinsale or others will be returing, but expect a full announcement from Lakeshore soon.
Posted 08.22.07 by reelz -
Tim Allen has yet another project in the works. The comedian will star in Brothers, a comedy about two racially-mixed adopted brothers who have to team up after they are framed for a crime they didn't commit.
John Cusack has another action/thriller on his docket. Stopping Power is about a man (Cusack) who must rescue his kidnapped daughter. It will be directed by Jan de Bont (Speed, Twister) and will co-star Jason Isaacs
(Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Patriot) and Melissa George (Turistas, Derailed).
And the Audrey Niffenegger novel The Time Traveler's Wife is being adapted for the silver screen. Eric Bana (Lucky You, Munich) will star as a Chicago librarian who travels through time involuntarily. Ron Livingston (Swingers, Office Space) and Rachel McAdams (The Family Stone, The Notebook) will co-star and Robert Schwentke (Flightplan) will direct.
Posted 08.22.07 by reelz -
Eva Mendes (Hitch, The Wendell Baker Story) is the newest star to be added to Will Eisner's The Spirit, joining Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, and Scarlett Johansson. The fanboy movie will be familiar territory for Mendes, who recently starred in Ghost Rider.
The script, which was written and will be directed by Frank Miller, will follow the story of a cop (Macht) who fakes his own death so he can fight crime from the shadows.
Source: Variety
Posted 08.22.07 by reelz