***Giovanni Ribisi Joins Sean Penn in GANGSTER SQUAD ***Alexandra Daddario Signs Up for THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3D ***Mikael Hafstrom to Direct Thriller WAKE ***First Set Photos from VAMPS Starring Sigourney Weaver

Giovanni Ribisi Joins Sean Penn in GANGSTER SQUAD

by Jason Barr    Posted: July 6th, 2011

Giovanni Ribisi has landed a co-starring role in director Ruben Fleischer’s (Zombieland) 1940s crime pic The Gangster Squad. Ribisi joins a cast that already includes Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Anthony Mackie, Michael Pena, and possibly Bryan Cranston. Adapted by Will Beall (Castle) from a series of LA Times articles by Paul Lieberman, The Gangster Squad centers on Mickey Cohen (Penn) and the elite squad of cops that chased him through Los Angeles.

According to Deadline, Ribisi will play the role of Conway Keeler, a member of the elite squad who is a connoisseur of electronics and wiring. Warner Bros. is currently eyeing a 2013 release for The Gangster Squad. In addition to this latest role, Ribisi will also appear alongside Mila Kunis and Mark Wahlberg in the Seth MacFarlane comedy Ted and opposite Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Richard Jenkins, and Aaron Eckhart in The Rum Diary due out later this year on October 28th. http://collider.com/giovanni-ribisi-gangster-squad/100781/

Alexandra Daddario Signs Up for THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3D

by Jason Barr   Posted: July 6th, 2011

Alexandra Daddario (Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief) is in final talks to snag the female lead in director John Luessenhop’s (Takers) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D. Per Variety, Lionsgate’s pic will take place following the events of director/co-writer Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original with production set to begin later this month in Louisiana. Adam Marcus and Debra Sullivan co-wrote Chainsaw 3D with Luessonhop and Kirsten Elms later performing rewrite duties. The film is currently scheduled to hit theaters on October 5th, 2012. In addition to Percy Jackson, Daddario recently appeared alongside Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis in the Farrelly Bros. comedy Hall Pass and in the USA series White Collar. http://collider.com/alexandra-daddario-the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-3d/100768/

Mikael Hafstrom to Direct Thriller WAKE

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: July 6th, 2011

The Rite director Mikael Hafstrom has lined up his next project. It looks like he’ll soon be helming the thriller Wake for Hammer Films. The screenplay, by Christopher Borelli (Whisper) and Matt Sand (Ninja Assassin) focuses on a sociopath who is incapable of feeling fear. Hammer Films is producing and financing the project. The studio recently produced Let Me In, and was also behind the ghost thriller The Woman in Black starring Daniel Radcliffe. Hafstrom also directed 1408 starring John Cusack and the Clive Owen-Jennifer Aniston thriller Derailed. http://collider.com/mikael-hafstrom-wake/100751/

First Set Photos from VAMPS Starring Sigourney Weaver

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: July 6th, 2011

The first set photos from director Amy Heckerling’s (Clueless) vampire-themed romantic comedy (apparently this is a genre now) Vamps have hit the web. The film stars Alicia Silverstone, Sigourney Weaver, Krysten Ritter (Breaking Bad), Malcolm McDowell, Marilu Henner and Justin Kirk (Weeds). The story centers on ““two young beautiful female vampires (Silverstone & Ritter) living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize her immortality.”

If you’re wavering on whether or not this sounds remotely interesting to you, I’ll end with this: McDowell plays a geriatric Vlad the Impaler. Hit the jump to check out the set photos featuring Sigourney Weaver vamping it up. http://collider.com/vamps-set-photos-sigourney-weaver/100687/

***Christopher Walken, John Turturro, Alicia Silverstone, Sharon Stone, Edie Falco, Rosie Perez, Phylicia Rashad, and More Star in GODS BEHAVING BADLY ***Casting Call: J.B. Smoove Serves THE DICTATOR; Rodrigo Santoro Learns WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING ***Val Kilmer, Ving Rhames, Luke Goss, and Rebecca Da Costa Join Timebending Thriller SEVEN BELOW

Christopher Walken, John Turturro, Alicia Silverstone, Sharon Stone, Edie Falco, Rosie Perez, Phylicia Rashad, and More Star in GODS BEHAVING BADLY

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: July 5th, 2011

Big Beach has culled an eclectic cast to play immortals in the adaptation of Marie Phillips’ Gods Behaving Badly: Christopher Walken (Zeus), John Turturro (Hades), Sharon Stone (Aphrodite), Edie Falco (Artemis), Phylicia Rashad (Demeter), Nelsan Ellis (Dionysus), Gideon Glick (Eros), Henry Zebrowski (Hermes), Rosie Perez (Persephone).  Movieline passes along the official synopsis:

The film tells the story of the Greek Gods, alive and well and living in a brownstone in New York City, as they cross paths with a young couple, Kate and Neil. The intersection of the Gods and the mortals threatens not only the couple’s budding relationship, but the future of everything else.

Alicia Silverstone and Ebon Moss-Bachrach will play the young couple.  Admittedly, this cast would be more impressive in a year that begins 199_.  Regardless, this sounds like a fun project.  Production begins this month in New York on Gods Behaving Badly, the directorial debut of Big Beach co-founder Marc Turtletaub. http://collider.com/christopher-walken-alicia-silverstone-gods-behaving-badly/100597/news

Casting Call: J.B. Smoove Serves THE DICTATOR; Rodrigo Santoro Learns WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING

by Brendan Bettinger   Posted: July 5th, 2011

Hollywood is quickly learning there is no comedy that won’t benefit from the motormouthed presence of J.B. Smoove.  According to THR, The Dictator is the latest film to catch on.  Sacha Baron Cohen stars as a despot who “risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.”  From the photos we’ve seen so far, the dictator looks to be another memorably ostentatious character from the man who gave us Borat.  Little is known about Smoove’s character other than the name, “Usher.”  Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, and Jason Mantzoukas also star in The Dictator, helmed by Borat/Bruno director Larry Charles.  Megan Fox and John C. Reilly are set for cameos.
Smoove will reprise the role of Leon Black for season eight of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which premieres July 10 on HBO.  The actor will next be seen theatrically in The Sitter (December 9) and We Bought a Zoo (December 23).  In an effort to conquer all screens, Smoove is launching an “original comedy website” under the name TheRuckus.com later this month.
Hit the jump for details on Rodrigo Santoro’s new role in What to Expect When You’re Expecting.
http://collider.com/jb-smoove-the-dictator-rodrigo-santoro-what-to-expect/100573/

Val Kilmer, Ving Rhames, Luke Goss, and Rebecca Da Costa Join Timebending Thriller SEVEN BELOW

by Brendan Bettinger   Posted: July 5th, 2011

EFish Entertainment has contracted Val Kilmer, Ving Rhames, Luke Goss, and Rebecca Da Costa to star in the independent thriller Seven Below.  Speaking as a sucker for any movie that bends time and space, the logline provided by Variety sounds pretty cool:

“Story centers on a group of strangers brought together when a terrible storm leaves them stranded in a house in the woods where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior. The group seems trapped in a ghostly time warp, and history is repeating itself.”

Kevin Carraway will direct from a script he co-wrote with Lawrence Smith; Warren Ostergard, Brianna, Lee Johnson, and Eric Mark Fisher (“EFish” himself) are producing.  Production was initially scheduled earlier this year in New Mexico before a change in the state tax credits lured EFish to Cincinnati.  The new start date is next month. http://collider.com/val-kilmer-ving-rhames-seven-below/100563/

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Maggie Lawson and Alicia Silverstone



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Alicia Silverstone Gossips

You know what I want to say, the beaucoup-espionne coin of the kingdom in other, smarter, of the riper countries. Hard Currencies. Published by countries which would exceed, dominate, survive the extravagant United States. Don't you think it is you completely astonishing how badly these sure asylums made when it really counted? The euro, the Australian one, kiwi, dollars of loonie (as fresh types in the racket of forecasts of currency call them). What would you say of pound sterling? The Russian rouble? The Icelandic crown? You could as well have put your money in confidence of value of mason of Legg de Bill Miller. Could it be that there is been a confusion of the cause with the effect? The rise in China of the rice plantations to the richness was thus brilliant, its request of the products propelled the economies of the economies of supplier to new sizes. They developed beautiful trade balances by boat of coal in Nan-King, gold with Guangzhou, and copper with Chongqing. Budgetary surpluses even. While in same time, the dollar of the United States was left to make which manufacturers and exporting American wanted that it made: Maintain exports of the cheap United States and while increasing in spite of the competition of assassin of Far East.

Queen Slice..... Alicia Silverstone

“My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard' (It's like when HAL 9000 became self-aware)”

Birthday: 10/4/1976
Nickname: Queen Slice, Aerosmith chic
Birthname: Alicia Silverstone
Hookups: Adam Sandler, Christopher Jarecki ...
Hometown: San Francisco, California, USA
Assets: animal rights activist, vegan
Vices: David Bernard " God I love him"
Sign: Libra
Height: 5'5
Job: Actress
Hobbies: opening the fridge
Ethnicity: White
Country : United States
Body Figure : 34, 24, 34