Patton Oswalt and Jackass funnyman Johnny Knoxville have signed on to star in an untitled comedy project for Big Beach Films. Deadline reports that the pair of comedians will play battling brothers who try to honor their ailing father by taking a troop of boys on a camping trip, where things will inevitably go awry. [...]
Parks and Rec funnyman Adam Scott has landed the lead role in Black Bear Pictures’ indie comedy A.C.O.D.. The film’s title is an acronym for Adult Children of Divorce, and Deadline reports that Scott will play a thirty-ish man who was forced at an early age to be the adult of his family after his [...]
Rosamund Pike has landed the female lead in Paramount Pictures’ upcoming Tom Cruise actioner One Shot. Earlier in the week, Pike was reportedly reading for the role alongside Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger) and Alexa Davalos (Clash of the Titans). Deadline reports that Pike has beat out the other two actresses to star [...]
Earlier this week I reported that Sundance favorite Brit Marling (Another Earth), would be playing the female lead in Robert Redford upcoming directorial feature, The Company You Keep. Marling was set to join Shia LaBeouf, Nick Nolte, and Robert Redford himself in the political thriller. Now Deadline reports that the cast continues to fill out [...]
The ever-versatile Morgan Freeman is talks to play a despised ex-magician in Louis Leterrier’s Now You See Me. Variety reports that Freeman is in talks to play Thaddeus, a former magician who made his career by exposing other performer’s illusions, making him a despised individual in the magic community. The cast also includes Jesse Eisenberg [...]
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Mark Wahlberg is in talks to star in Universal Pictures 2 Guns, according to Deadline. Based on the Steven Grant graphic novel of the same name, the adaptation has been scripted by Blake Masters (Showtime’s Brotherhood). The action drama centers on a DEA agent and a naval intelligence officer who unknowingly investigate one another [...]
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Dermot Mulroney has joined the growing ensemble of Chan-Wook Park’s Fox Searchlight thriller ‘Stoker.’ The film written by Prison Break star Wentworth Miller, centers on a young woman (Mia Wasikowska) who must contend with a mysterious uncle while mourning her father’s death. Mulroney will play said father, according to THR. The drama also stars [...]
Derek Cianfrance’s debut feature, Blue Valentine, was one my favorite movies last year, so I’m a little surprised that his follow-up The Place Beyond the Pines wasn’t on my radar until now. The crime drama has Cianfrance working once again with his Blue Valentine star Ryan Gosling. In the film, Gosling plays a motorcycle stunt [...]
We are certainly going to see quite a lot of Bryan Cranston, star of AMC’s Breaking Bad, on the big screen over the next few years. He will appear in no less than six movies over the next year and a half, including Contagion, John Carter, Rock of Ages, Total Recall, and Argo. Add another [...]
Today’s casting news begins as Vera Farmiga (Source Code) and Mark Strong (Green Lantern) are set to co-star in Closer to the Moon, a period drama that takes place in communist Romania. Deadline reports that Strong will play Max Rosenthal, a former head of an investigation unit for the Bucharest police who, along with four [...]
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