PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Denzel Washington is revisiting The Great White Way! Denzel will be starring in Fences, a Broadway production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play written by August Wilson. The Scott Rudin and Carole Shorenstein Hays-produced Fences is expected to open in April and run all the way through July at a yet to be determined theater. Thoughts'?? [...]
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Filed under: Movies , News , Theater , Celeb Updates Denzel Washington Denzel Washington is returning to the Great White Way. The two-time Oscar winning actor will play the lead role in a revival of August Wilson 's 'Fences.' Producers Carole Shorenstein Hays and Scott Rudin told the Associated Press that the play will open in April at a theater to be announced. The production will be directed by...
Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Get ready for another Hollywood star on Broadway! According to the New York Times, that two-time Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington, will return to the New York theatre stage next spring in a revival of August Wilson’s Fences. Producers Carole Shorenstein Hays and Scott Rudin say the play will open in April. The production will be directed [...]
Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Exactly 30 years after militant students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and began a 444-day hostage crisis that affected U.S. and global politics, HBO Films made a deal to turn the incident into a film. On Wednesday, HBO acquired "Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis, The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam," by "Black Hawk Down" author Mark Bowden....
Matt Damon News Column (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Photos of Matt on the set of The Adjustment Bureau with Lucy, Alexia, Gia and Isabella are at Bauer Griffin Online , Celebrity Baby Scoop , Just Jared and PopSugar . Matt is in negotiations for a role in the re-make of True Grit , to be directed by the Coen Brothers. Details at Variety and the Hollywood Reporter . Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are in discussions with Joel and Ethan Coen to join Jeff...
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Variety reports that Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are in talks with Joel and Ethan Coen to join Jeff Bridges in True Grit , the re-imagining of the iconic 1969 Western that Paramount Pictures will put into production next March for a late 2010 release. The Coens, who previously attached their Big Lebowski star Bridges to play U.S. marshal Rooster Cogburn, are in talks with Damon to play the lawman who...
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Columbia Pictures has hired Billy Ray (upcoming Gears of War and Motorcade ) to write the script for its Somali pirate film based on true events. The untitled project centers on captain Richard Phillips, who was held hostage by four Somali pirates and was subsequently rescued by a group of Navy SEALs. The studio picked up the captain's life rights in May as well as optioned the film rights to his upcoming...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Tad Friend's enormous profile of Nikki Finke in today's The New Yorker may be a little light on breaking news, but for fans of Finke, her hilariously tactless reporting style, and the silly industry she covers, it's an 8,000-word delight. The piece is being criticized by some (including Finke herself ) for pulling punches, though we defy anybody to get better out of the pants-shitting moguls terrified...
KillerMovies (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Rebecca Hall is in talks to star in "Liars (A-E)," the Richard Linklater-directed comedy for Miramax. Scott Rudin is producing. Hall will play a woman who is dumped by her rocker fiancé on the eve of Barack Obama's presidential election victory..
The Truth Will Set You Free (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
In Roman Polanski case, is it Hollywood vs. Middle America? -- latimes.com Posted using ShareThis Biggest laff in the article: In an interview, [Harvey] Weinstein said that people generally misunderstand what happened to Polanski at sentencing. He's not convinced public opinion is running against the filmmaker and dismisses the categorization of Hollywood as amoral. "Hollywood has the best moral...
ACT-I-VATE (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
http://montgomerynews.com/articles/2009/09/24/entertainment/doc4aba75b440fe6062324615.txt Ursinus College presents ‘From Flash Gordon to Billy Dogma: Collaboration in Graphic Novels’ By Paul Lucas Correspondent With the creation and success of Marvel Studios and the record-breaking triumph of “The Dark Knight,” graphic novels and the comic book world as a whole are finally...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
We've seen a feature where zombies are pets, and one where they're used as cheap labor. Now Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci may be casting one of the undead as a cop, as they're negotiating a buy of the comic book / animated web series Xombie for Dreamworks. THR reports the deal, which came about through a pitch by cop turned writer Will Beall. The writer already has a deal to adapt his own novel L.A....
Vulture (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
The principal cast for David Fincher's Sorkin-scripted, Rudin-produced The Social Network has been announced, and it includes: Jesse Eisenberg (!) as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew Garfield (!!) as the company's co-founder Eduardo Saverin — and Justin Timberlake (fart noise) as Napster entrepreneur Sean Parker. We'd like to commend the filmmakers for thinking outside the box and not simply...
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Columbia Pictures and director David Fincher have cast Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield in The Social Network , the drama about the formation of Facebook written by Aaron Sorkin. Eisenberg will play Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Timberlake will play Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebook 's founding president; and Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo Saverin, the...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Variety's Michael Fleming reported today that three key roles in David Fincher's The Social Network -- a.k.a., the "Facebook movie" by way of Treasure of Sierra Madre -- have been cast. Jesse Eisenberg will play Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (rumored, expected); Justin Timberlake will play Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebook's founding president; and Andrew Garfield (Red...
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