‘Iron Man 3’ starts production in the next couple of weeks and director Shane Black is putting the finishing evil touches on his cast.
Variety (via Collider) is reporting that James Badge Dale (television mini-series ‘The Pacific’) has joined the lineup as one of the films potential villains.
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Looks like Jon Hamm is going for a lead film role with Disney’s ‘Million Dollar Arm’.
Deadline is reporting that the ‘Mad Men’ actor has signed on to the film that tells the true story of sports agent J.B. Bernstein, who discovered professional baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel through a reality show he staged in India with cricket players.
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Sir Ben Kingsley and Guy Pearce are in negotiations to join the cast of ‘Iron Man 3’ and Deadline is reporting today that Jessica Chastain is also currently negotiating with Marvel for a role in the film.
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Today, the worst kept secret became official with Paramount Pictures and New Regency announcing that Russell Crowe will play Noah in Darren Aronofsky’s biblical epic ‘Noah’.
Apparently, Aaronofsky has been shopping the project around for quite some time and Crowe’s involvement was probably one of the reasons the production got the green-light because it’s rumoured to have a large budget of over $100 million.
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Columbia Pictures is in the process of casting their remake of ‘Carrie’ and they have locked in Chloe Grace Moretz to play the title role and now the search is on to find her crazy mother.
In the Brian De Palma film released in 1976, Piper Laurie played the role of Carrie’s mother and received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress.
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Director Spike Lee is in the process of casting for the US remake of ‘Oldboy’. So far, Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen have been cast in the leads and the hunt is on for the villain.
‘Oldboy’ is based on the Chan-wook Park film of the same name that was released in 2003.
‘Oldboy’ tells the story of a man who is abducted and imprisoned for 15 years, after which he’s inexplicably released and sent on a hunt to track down those responsible for his imprisonment.
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A strange new genre has kicked into gear following the success of films like ‘My Week with Marilyn’ – making of famous Hollywood films (MOFHF for short?).
Already in the works is ‘Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho’ starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel and Toni Collette.
Add to the growing list of MOFHF, ‘Saving Mr Banks’ aka the making of Merry Poppins that tells the true story of how Walt Disney spent fourteen years courting the Australian writer, P.L Travers for the film rights to her creation that finally made it to the screen in 1964 starring Julie Andrews.
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