Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman have signed on for the comedy The Baster, in which Bateman’s character dupes Aniston’s character into having his child. The directors of Blades of Glory, Will Speck and Josh Gordon, will direct. Curiously, the script is adapted from a short story by Jeffrey Eugenides, who wrote the book Virgin Suicides […]
Orlando Bloom, Vincent Cassel (“Eastern Promises”) and Olga Kurylenko (“Quantum of Solace”) will topline “The Cross,” to be directed by Andrew Niccol (“Lord of War” ). Set in a border town, “Cross” returns Niccol — Oscar-nommed for writing “The Truman Show” — to his favorite domain: the near future. Bloom plays a man seeking to […]
Al Pacino is to be crowned King Lear in a new film adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy, it has been announced. “King Lear” has been filmed several times with Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles and Paul Scofield among those in the title role. Michael Radford is to direct the film, his second Shakespearean effort with Pacino […]
Keanu Reeves is taking on another sci-fi mission for 20th Century Fox. Reeves will take on the role of Spike Spiegel in an adaptation of the Japanese anime TV series “Cowboy Bebop” – as an adventurous bounty hunter traveling through space in 2071. The television series first aired on Tokyo TV and Wowow in 1998. […]
Jaden Smith has found himself a mentor. Jackie Chan will take on Pat Morita’s Mr. Miyagi role in Sony Pictures’ remake of The Karate Kid. The movie stars 10-year old Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness), who is the son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, and will be directed by Harold Zwart (The Pink […]
Add yet another possible acting job to Leonardo DiCaprio’s slate – New Regency wants him to star in novel adaptation Beat The Reaper. The protagonist in the novel penned by Josh Bazell is a Manhattan emergency room doctor, whose life becomes complicated when a mobster recognizes the doc from his former life as a hitman […]
Mickey Rourke is moving on from being a washed-up professional wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson in “The Wrestler” to portraying a super villain in “Iron Man 2”. Script is still being written by Justin Theroux, and Marvel has been trying to keep a wrap on details leaking out to fanboys. Rourke was said to have […]
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will play bumbling detectives Thompson and Thomson in Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg’s two-pic “Tintin” project. The 3-D performance-capture films, based on Georges Remi’s comicbooks and co-financed by Sony Pictures Entertainment and Paramount Pictures, will center on Tintin’s adventures as a fearless reporter. Captain Haddock will be played by Andy […]
John Curran is set to direct “The Beautiful and the Damned,” a Film Department period drama that will star Keira Knightley. The film begins production in March. The epic revolves around the Jazz Age icons F. Scott Fitzgerald, famed for writing “The Great Gatsby,” and Zelda Sayre known for living large, soaring high and crashing […]