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According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Tim Burton has chosen Australian actress Mia Wasikowska (pictured above with Xavier Samuel in “September”) to star in his big-screen adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland” for Disney pictures.
Who watches the Watchmen? Plenty of people do and the buzz around the big-screen adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ popular, award-winning graphic novel has just been turned up a notch with a slew of Watchmen goodies hitting the net.
The trailer for Woody Allen’s upcoming film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” is out.
The film features several steamy love scenes, including a threesome between it’s stars, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, as well as a lesbian scene between Johansson and Cruz. “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” opens September 5th, 2008.
Director Breck Eisner (”Sahara”) talked with ShockTillYouDrop about Universal’s long in development remake of “Creature from the Black Lagoon”.
Variety reports that Nicole Kidman will play British pop superstar Dusty Springfield in a biopic currently being written by “The Hours” novelist Michael Cunningham.
Kidman will also produce the film through her Blossom Films banner which is in a race against Universal Picture’s own Dusty Springfield project, in which Kristen Chenoweth (”The West Wing”) is attached to star.
Husky-voiced Springfield, became a huge star in the 1960s before battles with drugs, alcohol, mental illness and her own lesbianism took their toll. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995 and died in 1999.
Source: Variety
“The Incredible Hulk” gets a poster, more “Wolf Man” photos surface, “The X-Files” sequel has a name and Dreamworks acquires “Ghost In The Shell”…
Shia LaBeouf, Orlando Bloom, Ethan Hawke, Julie Christie and John Hurt are set to star in the late Anthony Minghella-scripted segment of short film anthology “New York, I Love You”.
“Love” is being helmed by a who’s-who of directors, including Natalie Portman (in her writing and directing debut), Mira Nair, Wen Jiang, Allen Hughes, Brett Ratner and Scarlett Johansson. The film follows on the heels of “Paris, je t’aime” in what’s called the “Cities of Love” franchise.
24-year-old Henry Cavill (”The Tudors,” “Stardust”) has joined the cast of Woody Allen’s upcoming, untitled, romantic comedy.
Cavill will play a man who is set up with Evan Rachel Wood’s character by her mother. Larry David stars as Wood’s love interest. Allen is co-starring, directing and also penned the script, which is being kept under wraps. The film is currently shooting in Queens.
Here are the first shots of Academy Award-winning actor Benicio Del Torro in full makeup for the horror movie remake of “The Wolf Man”.
Miramax and Pathe are set to adapt the 1920s novel “Cheri” by French author Colette.
The story is set in 1920s Paris and follows the young son of a wealthy courtesan who is educated in the ways of love by a middle-aged friend of the man’s mother. When he is forced to give up the six-year relationship after marrying someone else, the young man can’t forget her and retreats into a fantasy world.
The movie is scheduled to start filming this April in France under the direction of Stephen Frears. Christopher Hampton wrote the script and Michelle Pfeiffer is negotiating to star, the three previously worked together on “Dangerous Liasons”.
Source: China Daily
The poster for the long-awaited “Sex and the City” movie is out.
Fox has released images of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson from their new “The X Files” sequel, which opens July 25th.
They also confirmed reports that the plot will not revolve around the long-running (and very drawn out) “alien mythology” plotline, opting in favour of a stand-alone tale along the lines of early “X-Files” episodes. Good news indeed.
Source: Dark Horizons
