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Showing posts with label Stephen Frears. Show all posts
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Saturday, February 12, 2011
***Tom Cruise Joins ROCK OF AGES ***Nicholas Hoult Nabs Lead Role in Bryan Singer’s JACK THE GIANT KILLER ***Bruce Willis in Talks to Join Rebecca Hall in LAY THE FAVORITE, TAKE THE DOG; DIE HARD 5 Goes Back to the Drawing Board
Tom Cruise Joins ROCK OF AGES
by Matt Goldberg Posted: February 11th, 2011
After circling the project for several months, Tom Cruise is closing a deal to star in the musical Rock of Ages. The film is an adaptation of the popular stage musical about 1980s rockers. According to THR, Cruise will play “Stacee Jaxx, the arrogant and charming star at the top of his career. Jaxx sings Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead of Alive” in the theater production. Adam Shankman (Hairspray) will direct from a script by Chris D’Arienzo. Mary J. Blige, Gwyneth Paltrow, Russell Brand, and Alec Baldwin are also considering roles in the film.
Production on the film is scheduled to start in May. Cruise is also being courted for for the lead in Guillermo del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness. The role will most likely require less singing than Rock of Ages.
Nicholas Hoult Nabs Lead Role in Bryan Singer’s JACK THE GIANT KILLER
by Matt Goldberg Posted: February 11th, 2011
Nicholas Hoult is set to star in Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Killer. The story is a darker spin on the fairy tale of “Jack and the Beanstalk”. In this re-telling, Jack is on a mission to rescue a princess from the kingdom of the giants. Earlier this week, we reported that casting was ramping up and that Stanley Tucci would play the film’s villain Roderick while Bill Nighy would play one of the two heads of two-headed leader of the giants (the other is played by John Kassir). Deadline reports that Hoult got on Singer’s radar after being cast as Beast in X-Men: First Class, which Singer is producing.
Hit the jump for more on Hoult.
Bruce Willis in Talks to Join Rebecca Hall in LAY THE FAVORITE, TAKE THE DOG; DIE HARD 5 Goes Back to the Drawing Board
by Matt Goldberg Posted: February 11th, 2011
A couple weeks ago, we reported that rising star Rebecca Hall (The Town) would lead Stephen Frears’ adaptation of Beth Raymor’s Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling. Hall will play Raymor, who chronicled her years working in the world of Vegas sports gambling. Today, Vulture reports that Bruce Willis has signed on to play Raymor’s mentor/boss Dink Heimowitz in the flick, which is now titled Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog. In the synopsis of the book, “Dinky” is described as “lovable, irascible, and big-bellied.” I’m not sure Willis is willing to pack on the pounds, but he’s got “irascible” down to a science.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
***Anthony Hopkins in Talks to Play Alfred Hitchcock ***New Images from RED RIDING HOOD ***Rebecca Hall Will LAY THE FAVORITE for Director Stephen Frears
Anthony Hopkins in Talks to Play Alfred Hitchcock
by Jason Barr Posted: January 21st, 2011
Sir Anthony Hopkins may soon make a turn as the Master of Suspense, Sir Alfred Hitchcock. The Oscar-winner is currently in negotiations with Ivan Reitman’s Montecito Pictures to star in the film adaptation of Stephen Rebello’s book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. Momentum on the film is certainly gaining as, only two days ago, we reported that Anvil! The Story of Anvil director Sacha Gervasi was in talks to direct the pic and rewrite John McLaughlin’s (Black Swan) script.
This is not Hopkins’ first time courting the role, as Heat Vision points out, that the actor was attached to a previous iteration of the project with Ryan Murphy directing and Helen Mirren starring opposite Hopkins. To learn more about the potential project, hit the jump for an overview of Rebello’s book/the film’s source material.
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New Images from RED RIDING HOOD
by Adam Chitwood Posted: January 21st, 2011
A couple of days ago we brought you the new trailer for Red Riding Hood, and today we’ve got some new images from director Catherine Hardwicke’s (Twilight) loose adaptation of the classic fairy tale. The film stars Amanda Seyfried as the titular girl in red (with a hood, no less), with Gary Oldman, Virginia Madsen, Julie Christie, Lukas Haas, Max Irons (Dorian Gray) and Shiloh Fernandez (United States of Tara) rounding out the cast. The film is set to hit theaters on March 11th. Hit the jump to check out the images. Rebecca Hall Will LAY THE FAVORITE for Director Stephen FrearsAdam Chitwood
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by Posted: January 21st, 201
The Town star Rebecca Hall has been tapped to take on the lead role in director Stephen Frears’ (The Queen) adaptation of Beth Raymor’s memoir Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling. The book chronicles Raymor’s time spent mingling in the world of Vegas sports gambling. Frears directs from a script by D.V. De Vincentis, with whom he collaborated on High Fidelity and Grosse Pointe Blank. The Wrap reports that Focus Features will produce. Hall most recently starred in the indie film Everything Must Go with Will Ferrell. Hit the jump to read a synopsis of Raymor’s memoir.
Here’s the synopsis for Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling:
http://collider.com/rebecca-hall-lay-the-favorite/71968/It’s hard not to like the breezy, ingenuous voice of this plucky protagonist who proves she’s game for any kind of new experience. Hailing from Ohio, Raymer eventually made her way to Las Vegas when she was 24 and found a lucrative position assisting a Queens-born, Stuyvesant High School-educated gambling operator, Dink Heimowitz. The lovable, irascible, big-bellied Dinky had shucked life as a bookmaker back in New York, having run into trouble, for professional sports gambling; he put Raymer and the other motley staff on the phones setting up bets for all kinds of sports matchups (baseball, football, horse racing, hockey) in order to find a line that gave him an edge. Dinky referred Raymer to a high-flying bookie on Long Island, Bernard Rose, who had his own offshore network. As girl Friday Raymer fetched doughnuts, placed calls, and acted as a runner, making wads of dough, but mostly Raymer cherished working among the assortment of gambling types, the low-end hustlers and misfits she chronicles with evident tenderness. (Amazon)
