Monday, November 9, 2009 2:44 AM | From CanMag.Com
I guess if you want to make audiences feel more comfortable watching a movie about a transsexual and their sexual partner, you might as well cast it with those who are friendly on the eyes. So is the case for The Danish Girl, which just landed Gwyneth Paltrow.
Gwyneth Paltrow for The Danish Girl
Paltrow has been cast to star opposite Nicole Kidman in The Danish Girl. Based on the David Ebershoff novel and directed by Thomas Alfredson off a script by Lucinda Coxon, The Danish Girl revolves around a man's (Einar Wegener) transformation after his wife Greta, a portrait painter, asks him to stand in for an absent female model.
Confirmed: Eisenberg, Timberlake and Garfield Cast in David Finchers The Social Network
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 12:35 AM | From /Film
Variety has confirmed a casting rumor report from last month for David Fincher big screen adaptation of The Social Network. Jesse Eisenberg has signed to play Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (how perfect is that casting?), Andrew Garfield is set to play Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, and Justin Timberlake will play internet entrepreneur Sean Parker (Napster). Production will begin next month in Boston and later move to Los Angeles.
As I have said previously, this is shaping up to be a very solid cast. If you kn ow anything about these characters, I think you'd agree. I don't normally like Timberlake, but anyone who knows the story for the film or has read the book will know he's the perfect person to play Parker. Garfield broke onto the scene with a Award-winning performance in Boy A, and has since appeared in Lions for Lambs, The Other Boleyn Girl, Red Riding, and The ...
Rumor: Eisenberg, Timberlake and Garfield Cast in David Finchers The Social Network
Carson Reeves has heard that not only has David Fincher begun casting on the big screen adaptation of The Social Network, but the cast might already be set. Rumor has it that Jesse Eisenberg has signed to play Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (how perfect is that casting?) Andrew Garfield is set to play Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, and that Justin Timberlake will play internet entrepreneur Sean Parker (Napster).
If true, this is shaping up to be a very solid cast, but what else would you expect from a Fincher production? I don't normally like Timberlake, but anyone who knows the story or has read the book will know he's the perfect person to play Parker. Garfield broke onto the scene with a Award-winning performance in Boy A, and has since appeared in Lions for Lambs, The Other Boleyn Girl, and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Leave your thoughts in the comments!
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His Highness, Justin Theroux
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:07 PM | From Latino Review
If you've read any news about Justin Theroux recently, chances are it has something to do with his writing. The man went from being a television actor to writing Tropic Thunder with Ben Stiller and Etan Cohen. From that he jumped over to the Iron Man 2 scripting team and populated us film blogs with his name as a scribe.Now, Theroux is going to return to acting with a part in David Gordon Green's new comedy for Universal. Green is coming off his hit Pineapple Express as well as a three-episode directing gig on HBO's hit Eastbound & Down (Chapters 2, 3 and 4). His new flick is called Your Highness and also focuses around Eastbound's star Danny McBride.McBride plays an arrogant and lazy prince who must complete a quest to save his father's kingdom. Theroux will play the villain of the piece, Leezar, an evil wizard with a bejeweled magical staff who kidnaps a princess (played by Zooey Deschanel). Rounding out the cast for the period comedy is James Franco (Pineapple Express) and Natalie Portman (most recently, The Other Boleyn Girl).Can it be? Did I just write up the first trade story about a movie that has both Natalie Portman AND Zooey Deschanel? It would appear so.I'm psyched for female-gazing reasons.Source: Trades
Former Bond Girl Heads To Wuthering Heights
Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:21 PM | From Cinema Blend
Gemma Arterton had her big moment last fall, when she popped up briefly as Bond girl Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace before getting axed in the name of a giant red herring. But she's about to get a whole lot more screentime, playing tortured young Cathy opposite Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick's Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, an adaptation of the classic Emily Bronte novel.
THR is reporting that Peter Webber, who made the period piece Girl WIth a Pearl ...
As I was writing up the latest Robin Hood casting news, it occurred to me that Ridley Scott's film will undoubtedly play fast and loose with the Plantagenets. (A historical film that alters the facts? No!) I decided I didn't care -- for now, anyway.
When it comes to historical films, I'm maddeningly hot and cold. There are films I forgive even the most glaring errors because the story (real and cinematically whitewashed) is good, or because it spurred me into research I never recovered from. Braveheartand 300both fall into that category, as does Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra.
Then there are films that leave me furious, such as Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth, which is just so inaccurate as to be bizarre. Actually, films dealing with the Tudors in general tend to infuriate me (I'm looking at you, The Other Boleyn Girl), possibly because it's so well documented and because the real story is far more interesting than any soapy fiction they throw in. But even here I'm not to be trusted -- Kapur's Elizabeth: The Golden Age is full of fiction and clunky symbolism, but it's the very definition of "guilty pleasure" for me because of the ruffs, the Armada, and oh-my-God-Clive-Owen-in-a-doublet. The same goes for Showtime's The Tudors, which has really impressed me by continuing past poor Anne Boleyn, and into Henry's really terrifying years.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:35 AM | From Film Junk
Killer Imports is a regular feature on Film Junk where we explore foreign-language films from around the world that havent yet had their chance to shine.
The Machine Girl sounds like a bad translation for The Bionic Woman. The literal translation for the title of this Japanese movie is The One-Armed Machine Girl, which sounds like a female Terminator with one-arm torn off. A more accurate title for this movie would be The Girl with the Machine Gun Arm, or if alliteration is desired, The Girl with the Gatling Gun Arm. But I guess one look at the DVD cover would clear up the confusion.
I suppose this review continues my trend of reviewing movies with female protagonists. To be honest, I ...
THE TUDORS The Complete Second Season DVD Review -- A man for all seasons meets the other Boleyn girlon the block!
Writer Michael Hirsts (Elizabeth) melodramatic take on the court of King Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) returns for a second season, now with more beheadings. The storyline featured in the 10 episodes of this sophomore year will be of little surprise to anyone well acquainted with the cinema of the Tudor dynasty. A Man for All Seasons, Anne of a Thousand Days, and even the recent adaptation of The Other Boleyn Girl all cover the same material Sir Thomas Mores fall from royal favor over a matter of conscience in the first and Queen Annes failure to produce a male heir and commensurate beheading in the latter films.Meyers essays the volatile sovereign with the same verve that made his every appearance in the first season a captivating study in the corrupting capacity of power. With the machinations of Sam Neills Cardinal Wolsey ...
The trades are confirming the Colin Farrell and Ed Harris casting news, which broke in December, for Peter Weirs The Way Back and along with the announcement comes word that Jim Struges and Saoirse Ronan will also be joining the film.
The project, Weirs first film since 2003s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, is a fact-based story of a group of soldiers who engineered a grueling escape from a Siberian gulag in 1942.
Weir also wrote the script, based on the memoir by Slavomir Rawicz. Farrell plays a tough, tattooed Russian; Harris an American; and Sturgess portrays a young Polish inmate. Ronan will play a Russian on the run who meets up with the fugitives.
Struges has starred in Julie Taymors Beatles musical Across the Universe, The Other Boleyn Girl and most recently 21, opposite Kevin Spacey. Ronans credits include Atonement, for which she earned an Oscar nomination, and the adventure flick City of Ember.
The Way Back begins production in March in Bulgaria.
The trades are confirming the Colin Farrell and Ed Harris casting news, which broke in December, for Peter Weirs The Way Back and along with the announcement comes word that Jim Struges and Saoirse Ronan will also be joining the film.
The project, Weirs first film since 2003s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, is a fact-based story of a group of soldiers who engineered a grueling escape from a Siberian gulag in 1942.
Weir also wrote the script, based on the memoir by Slavomir Rawicz. Farrell plays a tough, tattooed Russian; Harris an American; and Sturgess portrays a young Polish inmate. Ronan will play a Russian on the run who meets up with the fugitives.
Struges has starred in Julie Taymors Beatles musical Across the Universe, The Other Boleyn Girl and most recently 21, opposite Kevin Spacey. Ronans credits include Atonement, for which she earned an Oscar nomination, and the adventure flick City of Ember.
The Way Back begins production in March in Bulgaria.
