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Woody Allen Movie Project: Cate Blanchett, Sally Hawkins?
Cate Blanchett in Joe Wright’s Hanna In the last few weeks, Cate Blanchett’s name has been mentioned in connection to Woody Allen’s next film not to be shot in Copenhagen. According to Forbes.com, Allen has indeed made offers not only to Blanchett, but also to Sally Hawkins, best known for almost getting an Academy Award nomination for her Berlin Film Festival hit Happy-Go-Lucky. The Forbes [...]
Disney/Rich Ross, 1st Gay Hollywood Studio Chairman, Resigns: JOHN CARTER Debacle
Rich Ross made history of sorts when he became the first openly gay chairman at a Hollywood studio — Walt Disney Studios — nearly three years ago. Ross, 50, is making another sort of history today: he has (officially) resigned from his post, thus becoming the first major casualty of Disney’s monumental John Carter debacle. Budgeted at a reported $250 million — plus another $100 [...]
CATCHING FIRE Director: Francis Lawrence, Bennett Miller?
Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games Forget "arty" filmmakers such as Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and David Cronenberg. Lionsgate is now eyeing Moneyball / Capote’s Bennett Miller and I Am Legend / Constantine’s Francis Lawrence to helm Catching Fire, the sequel to Gary Ross‘ The Hunger Games. According to several reports, Lawrence is the apparent front-runner. Although he doesn’t have anything like The Fly or [...]
TWILIGHT/Stephenie Meyer to Produce DOWN A DARK HALL
Stephenie Meyer, best known for her Twilight Saga novels, and Meghan Hibbett’s Fickle Fish Films have optioned Lois Duncan’s 1974 book Down a Dark Hall. According to Variety, Meyer and Fickle Fish Films intend to adapt Duncan’s supernatural suspense / crime novel into a film. Hotel for Dogs, Held for Ransom, and I Know What You Did Last Summer are all based on Duncan novels. [...]