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Hopkins And Bening Join Hemingway And Fuentes: Anthony Hopkins and Annette Benning have been tapped to star with Andy Garcia in “Hemingway and Fuentes.” Garcia will be directing from a script that he wrote with Hilary Hemingway, granddaughter of the acclaimed writer Ernest Hemingway. The film will tell the tale of the twenty-odd years that Hemingway spent in Cuba with his best friend Gregorio Fuentes and fell in love with the woman who inspired him to write “The Old Man and the Sea.” Garcia will play Fuentes, and Bening will play the Hemingway’s third wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway. Garcia will produce as well as direct, and Mark Amin of Sobini Films is on board as an executive producer. Stay [...]
More Cedar Rapids Casting News: Sigourney Weaver, John C. Reilly and Alia Shawkat have been announced as joining Ed Helms and Anne Heche in the upcoming Fox Searchlight comedy “Cedar Rapids,” directed by Miguel Arteta. Written by Phil Johnston, the film is about a salesman (Helms) who goes to a regional convention in a last-ditch effort to save his and his coworkers’ jobs. Weaver, who next appears in James Cameron’s upcoming “Avatar”, is slotted to play Helms’s former 7th-grade teacher. Reilly’s and Shawkat’s roles have not been announced yet. Filming on “Cedar Rapids” has already commenced. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more “Cedar Rapids” news. By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Variety.com)
Gerard Butler Joins Coriolanus: Gerard Butler, according to The Hollywood Reporter, has joined the cast of Ralph Fiennes’ directorial debut, an adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy “Coriolanus.” He joins William Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave, Eddie Marsan, and Jessica Chastain. Butler has signed on to star opposite Fiennes in the Rome-set political and family drama about the rise and fall of a war hero turned political future. Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus” debuted in 1608 and is based on the life of Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, a legendary Roman general from the 5th century BC. Butler will play the Volscian army commander Tullus Aufidius. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more “Coriolanus” news. By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: The Hollywood Reporter.com)
Owen Wilson Voicing Marmaduke: The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Owen Wilson has signed on to voice the rascally Great Dane “Marmaduke” for Fox’s adaptation of the long-running newspaper comic strip. The film will follow a family named the Winslows who move from Kansas to Orange County, and their giant slobbering dog Marmaduke, who causes chaos wherever he goes. The strip was created in 1954 by Brad Anderson about a giant Great Dane dog and his misadventures causing trouble throughout the neighborhood. Judy Greer, Lee Pace and William H. Macy are cast in the film as humans, while Fergie, Emma Stone, George Lopez, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Steve Coogan, Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans will be supplying [...]
Keir Gilchrist Stars In Funny Story: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Keir Gilchrist has been cast as the lead in “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” from Focus Features and writer-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. Gilchrist joins Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Viola Davis, Jim Gaffigan, Zoe Kravitz, Aasif Mandavi, and Lauren Graham. “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” is a coming-of-age comedy-drama adaptation of Ned Vizzini’s 2006 novel about a 16-year old who checks himself into a mental health clinic to deal with stress. He ends up stuck in the adult ward after finding out that right before he got there, the youth ward closed. Shooting begins in New York in December 2010. Stay tuned to Shockya.com [...]
Black Summer Getting Adaptation Treatment: According to a report by Variety, Vigilante Entertainment has picked up Warren Ellis’ comic book series “Black Summer” to produce a live-action adaptation of the Avatar Press comic book. Ryne Pearson (”Knowing”) is attached to write the screenplay for the project. Vigilante Entertainment is headed by Hicham Benkirane, who was formerly the head of audiovisual development at Les Munaoids Associes, the French comics publisher. Published in 2007, “Black Summer” is about the superhero/science adventureer team known as the Seven Guns, who end up modifying their bodies and powers for down-n-dirty street fighting in order to take back their city from corrupt government, law enforcement, and private security forces intent [...]
Helen Mirren Joins Red: ScreenDaily.com mentions that Helen Mirren has joined the cast of “Red” alongside Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman. Her role has not been announced yet so far. An adaptation of the Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner comic book from Homage/Wildstorm Comics in 2003-2004, “Red” is about a former CIA hitman named Paul Moses (Willis) who is targeted by his former employers for liquidation. Informing his handler that he was going “red”, meaning active, he sets out for some answers and revenge. Screenrant is speculating that Mirren will play Moses’ handler. The film is slated to shoot in Toronto and Louisiana soon, and will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian. [...]
Writer Attached To Pen Men In Black 3: Variety.com is reporting that screenwriter Etan Cohen (”Tropic Thunder”, “Idiocracy”) has been tapped by Columbia Pictures to pen the script for the upcoming “Men in Black 3″ film. There is no word yet about whether or not director Barry Sonnenfeld and stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones would return for the latest film about a secret agency composed of the mythical “Men In Black” who track and police extraterrestrial activity on Earth. The studio is looking to start filming the third installment of the franchise in the spring of 2010. Stay tuned for more on “Men In Black 3″ right here at Shockya.com. By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Variety.com)
Anthony Hopkins Joins Thor: Variety.com is reporting that renowned actor Anthony Hopkins has been cast as Odin, the All-Father Norse god, in “Thor” from Marvel Studios. Directed by Kenneth Branagh, production is starting on the adaptation of the Marvel Comics book about the Norse god of thunder this January. The film also stars Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston as Thor and Loki, respectively, with Natalie Portman playing Thor’s love interest Jane Foster. Exiled to Earth to learn humility, the Norse god of thunder Thor takes on the alter ego of the crippled medical student Donald Blake, and learns humility and compassion. At the same time he must battle a growing threat that threatens [...]
Anne Heche Joins Cedar Rapids And The Other Guys: Anne Heche has signed on to not only play the female lead in “Cedar Rapids” from Fox Searchlight opposite Ed Helms, but also to join the cast of “The other Guys” for Columbia alongside Will Ferrel and Mark Wahlberg. “Cedar Rapids” is about insurance agent going to an insurance convention to save the jobs of his colleagues, and Heche will play a woman who befriends Helms’s character. In “Other Guys,” Heche will play a businesswoman who hires two police officers (Ferrell and Wahlberg) to look into mysterious going-ons in her company. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more on “Cedar Rapids” and “The Other Guys”. By Costa Koutsoutis (Source; Variety.com)
Casting News For The Guard Announced: Comingsoon.net is reporting that Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham, Pat Shortt, Fionnuala Flanagan, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan, and Katarina Cas have all been announced as starring in John Michael McDonagh’s “The Guard”, which has just started principal photography in the West of Ireland. The film is about a small-town cop (Gleason) who begrudgingly teams up with a straight-laced FBI agent (Cheadle) in order to uncover an international cocaine-running ring that has set up shop in his town. Despite personality differences between the two, they must set that aside when the drug runners try to take them out of the picture. No release date has been set. [...]
Fox Home Entertainment Announces Halloween Catalog 2009: Bring home your favorite horror classics on DVD and Blu-ray tonight with the Fox Home Entertainment’s Halloween Catalog 2009. This awesome horror collection features classics such as 28 Weeks Later, the original Child’s Play, The Hannibal Lecter Collection which including Manhunter, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening, The Hills Have Eyes 2, Jeepers Creepers 2, Stephen King’s Misery, Mr. Brooks, The Omen and Wrong Turn. Don’t go hungry, feed your fear at www.feedyourfear.net. Be sure to check out the ‘Recipe Book’ filled with ghoulish recipes and trailers and ‘The Collection’ for complete film details. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest from Fox Home Entertainment and [...]
Casting In Crave Announced: The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Ron Perlman, Josh Lawson, and Emma Lung have been cast in the upcoming indie thriller “Crave.” The directorial debut of Charles de Lauzirika, who also wrote the script alongside Robert Lawton, the film is about a troubled photographer (Lawson) whose dangerous visions begin to destroy his relationship with a beautiful young woman (Lung), and end up getting him pursued by a dark and cynical detective (Perlman). Lauzirika is also producing “Crave” alongside with Robert Green, Scott Robinson and Marissa Neiman. The project will begin shooting this Friday in Detroit. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more on “Crave”. By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)
Milla Jovovich Cast In Faces In The Crowd: According to Variety.com, Milla Jovovich has been cast to star in “Faces In The Crowd”, Julien Magnat’s upcoming psychological thriller. Scott Mednick, Jean-Charles Levy, Clement Miserez, Kevin DeWalt, and Sylvain White are all on-board as producers for the project, which is Magnat’s English-language directorial debut. The film follows a woman who,barely surviving an attack by a ruthless serial killer, wakes up in hospital with a head injury that has left her with a condition called prosopagnosia, or “face-blind.” She is longer able to recognize faces and not only must learn to navigate in a world where she can no longer permanently see facial features once they move beyond a certain [...]
Chi-Chian Getting Film Adaptation: The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Framelight has obtained the rights to the cult comic book “Chi-Chian” and are planning a full-length feature film. A six-part comic series from Cuban-American musician Voltaire, the dark fairy tale-influenced “Chi-Chian” is set in a dystopian New York that is now under the control of Japan, and a seemingly normal young woman who inexplicably becomes a heroine that battles various threats such as the undead, robots, and samurai, in order to protect her loved ones. “Chi-Chian” has spawned a role-playing game as well as an online webseries for the SyFy Channel. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more “Chi-Chian” news. By [...]

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