Casting

Catching Up with “The Butler’s” Presidents

Lee Daniels is at Cannes to show off his film “The Paperboy,” starring Nicole Kidman, but he’s also picking up financing for “The Butler,” the true story of Eugene Daniels, the White House butler who watched history unfold as he served eight presidents. Forest Whitaker is playing Allen and Oprah Winfrey is his wife. The...
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Lucas Black Joins “42,” “Promised Land”

It’s always a good day when you get cast in not just one but two movies. So I think it’s pretty  likely that Lucas Black had a good say, since Deadline is reporting that he’s been cast in Gus Van Sant’s “Promised Land” and “42,” the Jackie Robinson biopic that Brian Helgeland wrote and will...
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Bullock and McCarthy Team Up for Paul Feig Comedy

The man who directed you “Bridesmaids,” the bridesmaid who stole the show, and an Oscar winner who used to  be the Queen of Hollywood Comedy are teaming up to bring you–wait for it–another Untitled Movie. Yes, no movie starts out with a title these days; I guess the one the writer chooses usually can’t be...
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McAdams Joins Hoffman in “A Most Wanted Man”

Cannes-tastic! Word of another film project being sold at the little festival in the south of France–The Hollywood Reporter says Rachel McAdams has joined the cast of Anton Corbijn’s adaptation of John Le Carre’s novel “A Most Wanted Man.” Philip Seymour Hoffman is already set to star. Andrew Bovell wrote the adaptation. Here’s the synopsis...
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Saiorse Ronan Set for “Testament of Youth”

More Cannes project news, this time that Saiorse Ronan will star in an adaptation of “Testament of Youth,” Vera Brittain’s memoir of World War I. Juliette Towhidi, who wrote “Calendar Girls” is doing the adaptation. Deadline didn’t include a director’s name in the announcement. “Testament of Youth” is much better known in Britain than in...
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Ryan Reynolds Up for “Highlander” Remake?

“Highlander” is one of those movies that didn’t win much notice at the time, but with the addition of a few sequels, and a TV series (especially the TV series), has developed a fanatically devoted cult. When word of a remake of the original movie came out a few years ago, the general reaction wasn’t...
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Elizabeth Banks Shows “What’s the Matter with Margie?”

Cannes’t get enough!! News from Cannes, that is. Now Deadline brings us word from the Croisette that Elizabeth Banks will star in “What’s the Matter with Margie?” a dark comedy written by Alan Ball. We would be shocked if Alan Ball brought us a light comedy. Ball, the creator of “True Blood” and “Six Feet...
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Wasikowska and Blanchett to Star in Highsmith Adaptation “Carol”

Don’t you just love Cannes? No, not the red carpet and premiere part (though that’s pretty fine, too), but all the film projects that get announced and sold there. Today we have another: “Carol,” an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s “The Price of Salt,” which will star Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska. Deadline says that John...
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Juno Temple is a “Maleficent” Pixie

The Hollywood Reporter says that Juno Temple is joining the cast of “Maleficent.” It’s a good thing she found that out now, what with the movie shooting this summer. Cancel the beach plans, I’m going to be in “Maleficent!” Angelina Jolie stars as Maleficent, the fairy who puts a curse on Princess Aurora that puts...
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Liam Neeson Plans “A Walk Among the Tombstones”

More stars lining up projects at Cannes news! Deadline reports that Liam Neeson is set to star in “A Walk Among the Tombstones,” a book by Lawrence Block. Tombstones, consider your asses kicked. Neeson vs a graveyard of angry ghosts? The score: Neeson 110, Ghosts 0. See that darkly cloaked figure with the scythe running...
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“Iron Man 3″ Adds James Badge Dale

More “Iron Man 3″ casting! And just in the nick of time, as the next installment in the saga is due to start filming in North Carolina this month. Variety reports that James Badge Dale will play Eric Savin/Coldblood. What, who? Okay, non-Marvel experts, and that includes me, here’s the story: “Dale will play Eric...
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Lily Rabe To Star As “Mary Pickford”

I absolutely adores old movies (It’s black and white? The soundtrack is staticky? The camera never moves? I’m in!!!), but I understand that the movies themselves are a hard sell to many people today. If you weren’t lucky enough to be introduced to them at a young age, they can be hard to get used...
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Joel Edgerton Responsible for “Felony”

Hey, who knew it was going to be actors writing their own scripts day? First Chris Pine, now Joel Edgerton. Deadline reports that Edgerton will star in “Felony,” a script that he wrote and will produce. Matthew Saville is directing. The project is being sold at Cannes this week. The story is about: “…a police...
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Chris Pine to Lead “Mantivities”

Hey, so what’s Chris Pine been up to in between doing the “Untitled Star Trek Sequel” and waiting for that long, lingering Jack Ryan film? It seems like he got together with his friends and wrote a movie. Deadline reports that Pine will star in “Mantivities,” a script he co-wrote with Will Greenberg, Drew Howerton,...
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Alan Rickman to Run “CBGB”

Ahh, CBGB, one of those legendary music venues that everyone of a certain age claims to have called a second home and those of two young an age mourn for not being able have gone there or at least plausibly lie about it. Well, now whether you were there, like to say you were there...
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