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‘Lost’ Star Josh Holloway confirmed for ‘Mission: Impossible IV’
Josh Holloway is trading his years on an island for another impossible mission, this time with Tom Cruise. The Lost star has jumped from one J.J. Abrams world to another, signing on to join the Mission: Impossible team that’s reassembling under director Brad Bird (The Incredibles) and producer Abrams. The film marks Holloway’s first post-Lost [...]
Read more‘The King’s Speech’, ‘Beautiful Boy’, And ‘Incendies’ Take Top Prizes at the Toronto International Film Festival
The King’s Speech has taken the Cadillac People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film, starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush was one of five films I gave a grade in the A-range to during the festival. The complete list of winners is listed directly below. AWARD FOR BEST CANADIAN SHORT FILM [...]
Read moreJoaquin Phoenix “Documentary” Is Fake
I’m Still Here is not a documentary of the Oscar-winning actor’s burgeoning rap career and descent into insanity, he was acting. director Casey Affleck came clean to the New York Times, admitting the whole thing was fiction. Footage of Phoenix’s “childhood” was actually shot with actors, and there were multiple takes for each scene. Affleck [...]
Read moreSacha Baron Cohen to Play Freddie Mercury in Queen Biopic
Pomp rockers Queen are set to be immortalised on celluloid with the highly coveted role of the band’s flamboyant singer Freddie Mercury going to none other than ‘Borat’ star Sacha Baron Cohen. According to a report on Deadline.com, the as-yet-unnamed film is to be scripted by Peter Morgan — a man who has tackled real-life [...]
Read moreSofia Coppola’s ‘Somewhere’ Wins Venice
Coppola-directed Somewhere has won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The film, which stars StephenDorff, Michelle Monaghan and Benico Del Toro, won by unanimous decison of a jury headed by Quentin Tarantino. The best director award went to Spaniard Alex de la Iglesia for “Balada Triste de Trompeta” (The Last Circus), a horror [...]
Read moreLiam Neesonwill play Admiral Shane
Liam Neeson (Taken) will play Admiral Shane in Universal’s action-adventure movie Battleship, it was announced today. Neeson will star alongside Friday Night Lights’ Taylor Kitsch, who will play Hopper, a Naval officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones who is Shane’s future son-in-law. The cast also includes Brooklyn Decker (Ugly Betty) as Shane’s daughter, [...]
Read moreGael Garcia Bernal is in Kazbegi taking part in a new movie ‘Loneliest Planet’
Gael Garcia Bernal, the Mexican-born star of Y Tu Mama Tambien and Amores Perros is in Kazbegi taking part in a new movie “Loneliest Planet’. He stars with Hani Furstenberg. The Loneliest Planet, an independently financed thriller that will be directed by Julia Loktev. Shooting started July 26 in the Republic of Georgia. Loktev’s script [...]
Read moreSkarsgard and Wright Negotiating Roles in Fincher’s ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’
David Fincher and Sony Pictures are clearly taking their time in choosing the right actress to play the titular heroine for their remake of the Swedish crime thrillerThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but that doesn’t mean there has been a lack of activity and news concerning the project as several developments have been made [...]
Read moreViggo Mortensen to star in Walter Salles’s On the Road
Walter Salles, the director who made his name with Central Station, and then cemented it with The Motorcycle Diaries, will return to the transportation theme with a film of Jack Kerouac’s cult novel On the Road. Francis Ford Coppola, who has been working for 30 years on the project, will produce, and shooting is due [...]
Read moreFirst Look:Guillaume Canet’s ‘Little White Lies’ with Marion Cotillard
5 pics from Guillaume Canet’s(Tell No One) ‘Little White Lies’ with François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoît Magimel and Gilles Lellouche that centers on a group of friends and a traumatic event that ends up causing friction over the course of their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested [...]
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