Brief followup to Sasha’s post two days ago about Warren Beatty’s comeback. Fulfilling a decades-old dream, Beatty will star as Howard Hughes in a story of the billionaire’s May-December affair with a younger woman. Reportedly being interviewed for supporting roles are Andrew Garfield, Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening, Shia La Beouf, Jack Nicholson, Evan...
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Merida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson). An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Merida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Merida seeks out an eccentric...
After unconfirmed but credible rumors spread earlier today on Twitter, Deadline now sounds confident that Jamie Foxx has been chosen for the lead role in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. Foxx will join Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCario and Samuel L. Jackson in a Sergio Leone-style spaghetti Western that Tarantino wrote and has set in Mississippi during slavery…...
The 68th Venice Film Festival will open Aug. 31 with the Ides of March. George Clooney directed and cowrote with Grant Heslov the adaptation based on Beau Willimon’s play Farragut North. The political drama stars Clooney as a governor with his sights set on the White House, Ryan Gosling as his press secretary and Paul Giamatti as his rival’s campaign manager....