We Don’t Want A Dimestore Captain America!
These last few days have seen the internet do a madness over the casting process for Joe Johnston’s Captain America. A list of potential candidates was doing the rounds, that list was apparently cut down, and then John Krasinski was supposedly on the verge of being announced for the part.
The situation has been revealed to be [...]
Avatar’s Stephen Lang to Be Conan’s Villain Khalar Singh
If there was one character in James Cameron’s Avatar which made me smile with his scenery chewing it was Colonel Quaritch, played by Stephen Lang and today it was confirmed that Lang is to appear in the forthcoming Conan film as its primary villain Khalar Singh.
Latino Review had the rumour and MTV confirmed it right [...]
Men In Black 3 Targets Sacha Baron Cohen & Jemaine Clement
I hope you’ll join me in glossing over the awful sequel to the 1997 Men In Black film and come to news of a Men In Black 3 with a fresh sense of optimism.
Barry Sonnenfeld’s late ninties cosmic caper blended perfectly the newly minted CGI whirligig with the comic book sensibilities of the source, and [...]
Angelina Jolie to be Kay Scarpetta
While the evening TV schedules are eaten up by a plague of forensic crime drama they’ll soon be a big screen outing from one of the pioneers of the genre.
Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta novels have had readers hooked since they began in 1990 with Postmortem, and Richmond, Virginia’s Chief Medical Examiner has been through seventeen [...]
Ian McShane to Play Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean 4!
Ok. We thought the news that Penelope Cruz was to jump aboard the good ship Black Pearl for the fourth film in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise was a surprise, that’s nothing to the latest bit of casting to hit the interweb.
Ian McShane, the lovable rogue from BBC’s Lovejoy series, and known to US [...]
Owen Wilson to Star in Woody Allen’s next ‘Untitled’
Woody Allen’s European sojourn continues this year when his latest, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, his latest film to be shot in London, is out in cinemas with a pretty impressive cast list including Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts and Slumdog’s Freida Pinto.
Hitting a creative and critical high point in [...]
Jeffrey Wright Dabbles with Duncan Jones’ Source Code
More good news from the man who bought us 2009’s fantastic tale of lunarcy, Moon.
Duncan Jones tweeted yesterday that a new cast member has found his way into Jones’ next project, Source Code.
The tweet read:
Just met with the lovely Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright. Feeling quite thrilled to have two such scorchingly good actors in [...]
Renner to Sink Battleships, Fly with Raven
Jeremy Renner was a surprising, though thoroughly justified, inclusion of the list of nominations for the Best Actor Oscar and it seems the world and his casting dog are lining up to pull Renner in front of their cameras.
Peter Berg’s (Aliens Vs)Battleships, the board game movie which still shatters credulity, is circling the man according [...]
Al Pacino Signs Up for Son of No One
Al Pacino’s recent film career has been a shadow of what the great man is capable of, and with the news that he has signed on to director Dito Montiel’s next project, the police thriller Son of No One, comes the hope that we may see something special.
THR has the casting news today, and a [...]
Christoph Waltz Runs Away to Join The Circus in Water for Elephants
Only weeks away from the sure thing that is his Best Supporting Actor Oscar win, Christoph Waltz has a new project, which will follow his villainous turn as Chudnofsky in Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet opposite Seth Rogen.
Deadline Hollywood report that Waltz is set to star opposite heart-flutterer Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon in the [...]
