Here is the special thread completely devoted to all film casting and development updates. Please feel free to comment and add the lastest information for July, 2009.
Indie 'Kids' adopts cast Bening, Moore, Ruffalo set to star in film
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hutcherson and Mia Wasikowska are set to star in "The Kids Are All Right."
Director Lisa Cholodenko ("High Art") begins shooting today from the script she co-wrote with Stuart Blumberg.
Pic revolves around a brother and sister (Hutcherson, Wasikowska) who set out to find their same-sex parents' sperm donor, who totally upsets their family dynamic once he enters their lives. Bening and Moore play the parents, and Ruffalo plays the donor.
Inferno Intl. is handing international sales on the film. Jeffrey Levy-Hinte of Antidote Films is producing with Plum Pictures' Celine Rattray and Daniela Taplin-Lundberg, UGC PH's Philippe Hellmann and Gilbert Films' Gary Gilbert and Jordan Horowitz.
Charlie Day, Christina Applegate join romantic comedy
By Borys Kit
Charlie Day, one of the stars and creators of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," and Christina Applegate have joined Drew Barrymore and Justin Long in New Line's romantic comedy "Going the Distance."
Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot are producing via their Offspring Entertainment banner, and Nanette Burstein is directing.
The story by first-time scribe Geoff LaTulippe follows a couple (Barrymore and Long) trying to maintain a long-distance relationship. Day is playing Long's best friend while Applegate is Barrymore's sister.
Day, who writes and executive produces as well as acts in "Philadelphia" with Glenn Howerton and Rob McElhenney, is one of the few from the show to jump into movies, though that appears due to time constraints more than lack of opportunity, given the demands of the writing, shooting and editing their show.
The trio plans to begin writing the show as early as November, shoot in the spring and summer, and edit in the summer. (They will wrap shooting Season 5 at the end of July with the new season debuting in September.)
"It's a year-round gig so it's made it tough to do movies," said Day, who will wrap shooting the fifth season later this month. "I couldn't just up and take (the role). I had to sit down with the guys and work out a schedule and say, 'If you're comfortable, I'm going to be doing a bit of flying back and forth.'... It has to be very interesting for us to bow out of our responsibility and pass the buck."
Day is also excited to be reunited with Long, with whom he acted on stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts at the turn of the century.
Day, repped by WME and 3 Arts, is developing a pilot for Fox titled "Boldly Going Nowhere" with Howerton and McElhenney. The trio are also mulling over a stage version of "Philadelphia" episode "The Nightman Cometh" that would play in New York and Philadelphia this fall. The guys premiered a version of it at the Troubadour in Los Angeles.
Applegate is coming off her ABC sitcom "Samantha Who?" Featurewise, she last appeared in "The Rocker" and next lends her voice to "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel." She is repped by CAA and Management 360.
New Line execs Dave Neustadter and Michael Disco are overseeing.
Veteran actresses and fellow Oscar winners Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker are teaming up for a road trip comedy "Cloudburst," which Thom Fitzgerald is writing and directing for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.
The film will start shooting in July in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Although born in New Jersey, Fitzgerald is a long-time resident of Nova Scotia, and he's previously worked with Dukakis on such films as "The Event" and "3 Needles."
Dukakis and Fricker will play a couple, together for 30 years, who break out of a nursing home and head to Canada to get married, picking up a young, male hitchhiker along the way.
Fitzgerald also is producing with Doug Pettigrew. William Jarblum will exec produce.
Fitzgerald, repped by Covington International and Green Light Artist Management, most recently produced and directed "The Gospel According to the Blues" for Canadian television. Dukakis, who appeared in 2007's "In the Land of Women," is repped by WME and Parseghian/Planco Management. Fricker, repped by IFA and Cassie Mayer, recently costarred in "Closing the Ring."
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Virginia Madsen joins 'Invention' cast Actress will costar with Kevin Spacey in film
By DAVE MCNARY
Virginia Madsen will star opposite Kevin Spacey as his ex-wife in indie comedy "Father of Invention."
Pic will be produced by Trigger Street Prods.' Spacey and Dana Brunetti plus Jonathan Krane and Ken Barbet.
Trent Cooper directs from a script he wrote with Krane and Nichole Beatty. Scott Lumpkin exec produces. Lensing is under way.
"Father of Invention" centers on a humble inventor-turned-egomaniacal billionaire who loses it all when one of his inventions goes horribly awry. After eight years in federal prison, he returns to discover his ex-wife has spent his fortune and remarried.
Camilla Belle, Heather Graham and Craig Robison also star.
Madsen recently produced the documentary "I Know a Woman Like That," directed by her mother, Elaine Madsen, and appears in the upcoming Hilary Swank starrer "Amelia."
Peter Krause boosting 'Beastly' Thesp joins Olsen, Pettyfer, Hudgens in 'Beauty'
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Peter Krause has joined Mary-Kate Olsen, Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens in "Beastly," the CBS Films adaptation of the Alex Flinn fantasy novel. Shooting is under way in Montreal.
Daniel Barnz is directing his scripted adaptation of the novel, a retelling of "Beauty and the Beast."
Krause, the "Six Feet Under" vet who's starring in NBC's fall drama "Parenthood," plays the materialistic father of a rich, handsome teen (Pettyfer) who plays a cruel joke on a classmate not knowing she's a witch (Olsen).
Susan Cartsonis is producing through Storefront Films. Roz Weisberg co-produces.
Tobey Maguire to star in 'Details' Indie begins shooting in Seattle this August
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Tobey Maguire is set to star in "The Details," an indie black comedy written and directed by Jacob Estes. Shooting begins August in Seattle.
Maguire joins Elizabeth Banks in the pic about a struggling married couple who, already struggling with issues like infidelity and whether they should stay married, see their lives further complicated by ravenous raccoons burrowing under the sod in their back yard. A disagreement over how to dispatch the pests creates a chain reaction of mishaps that include a murder by bow and arrow
Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert and Anna Friel round out the cast and Laura Linney is attached to play an eccentric neighbor.
Mark Gordon is producing with Bryan Zuriff and Hagai Shaham. Mickey Liddell is exec producer. Liddell Ent. finances.
Maguire steps into a role that James McAvoy held (Daily Variety, May 7), until a scheduling conflict knocked him out of the picture. Maguire, who had flirted with the role very early on, decided to do the film before making "Spider-Man 4" with director Sam Raimi in early 2010. He'll next be seen starring in the Jim Sheridan-directed "Brothers."
"Maguire's character is an everyman in the sense that he is composed of a morally ambiguous core," Estes said. "He has good intentions, but he makes a lot of self-destructive mistakes."
"The Details" marks the first pic for Estes since 2004's "Mean Creek."
Eric Dane circles 'Valentine's Day' 'Grey's' actor joins cast of New Line comedy
By DAVE MCNARY
Eric Dane ("Grey's Anatomy") is rounding out the already large cast of New Line's ensemble comedy "Valentine's Day," set to begin shooting this week with Garry Marshall directing.
Dane will play a quarterback struggling over the decision of whether to retire. He's appeared in "Marley and Me" and "X-Men: The Last Stand."
Mike Karz is producing with Wayne Rice.
Julia Roberts, Emma Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Shirley MacLaine, Bradley Cooper, Ashton Kutcher, Topher Grace and Hector Elizondo star.
"Valentine's Day" follows five interconnecting stories on Valentine's Day in Los Angeles. Katherine Fugate wrote the first script, and Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein teamed for the most recent.
Actor cast in film based on the story of Joan Jett
By Steven Zeitchik
NEW YORK -- Brett Cullen loves rock 'n' roll. The actor has signed for a role in "The Runaways," River Road's take on Joan Jett and her seminal band.
Cullen will play the alcoholic father of Runaways member Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning). The role will draw from the story of Currie's father, whom she documented in her addiction memoir "Neon Angel."
Cullen, repped by Domain Talent and Lovett Management, has had character turns in a number of recent hits, including "National Treasure" and "Ghost Rider."
Patrick Dempsey is not a doctor, but he plays one on TV -- and now in the movies.
Dempsey has joined the cast of New Line's romantic comedy "Valentine's Day," being directed by Garry Marshall.
The ensemble already includes Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Shirley MacLaine, Bradley Cooper, Ashton Kutcher, Topher Grace, Emma Roberts and Hector Elizondo.
"Valentine's," which begins shooting this week, follows five slightly interconnecting stories playing out in Los Angeles during Valentine's Day.
Dempsey will play a married obstetrician dating Garner's character on the sly, with her unaware of his status.
Mike Karz is producing with Wayne Rice. Sam Brown and Michael Disco are overseeing for the studio. Katherine Fugate wrote the initial draft; Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein penned the most recent version.
Dempsey, one of the stars of ABC's "Grey's Anatomy," most recently appeared on the big screen in the 2008 romantic comedy "Made of Honor." He is repped by UTA and the Burstein Co.
'SNL' spies opportunity Forte's MacGruber headed for the bigscreen
By DAVE MCNARY
Will Forte's bumbling spy MacGruber is headed for the bigscreen as the latest in a long line of "Saturday Night Live" characters to make that transition.
"SNL's" Kristen Wiig will reprise her Vicki character for the feature. Val Kilmer and Ryan Phillippe are in talks to join the cast.
Forte -- who will return to "SNL" in the fall -- debuted the parody of the 1980s action-adventure series "MacGyver" in 2007. He'll co-write with "SNL's" Jorma Taccone and John Solomon; the logline's being kept under wraps. Taccone will direct.
Relativity Media topper Ryan Kavanaugh, Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn are producing the project, which will begin shooting next month. Relativity's Tucker Tooley will exec produce along with Erin David and "SNL" head writer Seth Meyers.
"MacGruber" will be distributed under Relativity's Rogue banner, which utilizes Universal distribution.
Forte stars in Endgame's upcoming "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy."
"SNL" honcho Michaels has produced more than half a dozen features that transitioned show characters to the bigscreen including "Wayne's World," "The Ladies Man," "Coneheads," "Superstar," "Stuart Saves His Family" and "A Night at the Roxbury."
Forte and Taccone are represented by UTA and Mosaic. Wiig’s repped by UTA and Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment.
Will Smith, 'Legend' director reteam Duo onboard for Fox film 'City That Sailed'
By MICHAEL FLEMING
"I Am Legend" director Francis Lawrence is back in business with Will Smith.
Lawrence is aboard to develop and direct "City That Sailed," a 20th Century Fox project about a father and daughter living on opposite sides of the ocean whose love is so strong that it causes Manhattan to split off and float across the Atlantic.
The film will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Smith, who is producing with Overbrook Entertainment partner James Lassiter.
"Ocean's Thirteen" scribes Brian Koppelman and David Levien will rewrite a script that originated from "Truman Show" scribe Andrew Niccol.
Lawrence is next expected to direct "Water for Elephants," the Fox 2000 adaptation of the Sara Gruen novel that is being scripted by Richard LaGravanese. Lawrence has been courting Reese Witherspoon to star in the story of a Depression-era traveling circus, but the actress has not committed. Gil Netter, Erwin Stoff and Andrew Tennenbaum are producing.
After a 10-year hiatus from mainstream movies, Brooke Shields is returning to the big screen, coming aboard Summit and Participant Media live-action family comedy "Furry Vengeance."
The company also announced that Dick Van Dyke, Ken Jeong and Samantha Bee have joined the cast of the live-action family pic.
Brendan Fraser is playing the lead in Roger Kumble's film, which centers on a real estate developer who gets more than he bargained for from a band of raccoons when he pushes too hard into more pristine territory. Shields will play Tami Sanders, the wife of Fraser's character.
Shields returns to a mainstream big-screen role -- she did have some turns in animated and DVD fare -- for the first time since 1999, when she starred in James Toback's hip-hop drama "Black and White."
Since that time, the actress, who is known for such feature roles as "The Blue Lagoon" and "Endless Love" earlier in her career, has concentrated on TV and Broadway. Shields, repped by UTA, most recently starred in the NBC dramedy "Lipstick Jungle."
She also has been in the news this week for her intimate eulogy of Michael Jackson.
The WME-repped Van Dyke has had a host of television and film roles during his long career, which most recently included a turn in Shawn Levy's "Night at the Museum" franchise.
Jeong, repped by Gersh, is fresh off his scene-stealing turn as a gangster in Warners' summer hit "The Hangover" and has signed for several other comedies in the wake of that success.
Bee, also repped by WME, is a longtime correspondent for "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" who has a supporting role in Woody Allen's "Whatever Works."
Mel Gibson to star in 'Beaver' Jodie Foster to costar, direct film
By SHARON SWART
Mel Gibson will star in "The Beaver" for director Jodie Foster.
The script, written by Kyle Killen, topped the Blacklist in December.
Gibson will play a depressed man who finds solace in wearing a beaver hand-puppet. On top of helming, Foster will play the role of the man’s wife.
Foster boarded the project and brought it to Gibson, with whom she co-starred in 1994's "Maverick."
Anonymous Content's Steve Golin and Keith Redmon will produce the film. Producers are pushing for a September start date in New York.
Financing for the $18 million-$19 million pic has yet to be finalized. A studio could pick up the project or it could go the indie route, as Golin did with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Babel."
It's possible that Gibson's production company Icon could get involved in some way. Icon has distribution shingles in territories such as the U.K. and Australia.
Project had several star and director combos circling -- including Steve Carell and Jay Roach -- over the past several months.
Pic brings Foster back to feature directing for the third time, after 1991's "Little Man Tate" and 1995's "Home for the Holidays."
BBC, Kidman buzz around 'Bee' book Actress to star, produce pic based on Cleave novel
By MICHAEL FLEMING
BBC Films has acquired the bestselling Chris Cleave novel "Little Bee," and Nicole Kidman has attached herself as star and producer.
Gail Mutrux will produce through her Pretty Pictures banner with Kidman and her Blossom Films partner Per Saari.
Shawn Slovo is writing the script. BBC Films creative director Christine Langan will be exec producer.
Story follows a fateful encounter on an African beach in which a 16-year-old Nigerian orphan named Little Bee meets a vacationing upper-middle-class British couple who've wandered into an area outside the safety of their resort.
Slovo, who was born and raised in South Africa and relocated with her family as a teen to the U.K. as political refugees, previously wrote "Catch a Fire" and the autobiographical "A World Apart."
Kidman's Blossom Films shingle is just wrapping its first production, "Rabbit Hole," David Lindsay-Abaire's adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, in which Kidman stars with Aaron Eckhart and Dianne Wiest. John Cameron Mitchell directs.
Sony still game for 'Moneyball' Soderbergh out as director; Pitt still attached
By MARC GRASER
Sony is still game on making the baseball pic "Moneyball," tapping Aaron Sorkin to polish an early script by Steve Zaillian.
Brad Pitt is still attached to star in Columbia Pictures' adaptation of Michael Lewis' nonfiction bestseller "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game," but Steven Soderbergh will no longer direct the pic.
Production on "Moneyball" was set to start last month, but studio topper Amy Pascal wound up pulling the plug on the pic just days before lensing was to begin when Soderbergh turned in a new version of the script the studio didn't want to make.
Pic was put into limited turnaround at the time, giving other studios the chance to pick it up.
But Sony is keeping hold of the project, and Sorkin's changes will be more in line with the version the studio favored all along, with the focus on Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, who assembled a contending baseball club on a shoestring budget by employing a sophisticated computer-based analysis to draft players.
Soderbergh's draft and production plans took a more documentary approach that the studio felt wouldn't cross over commercially with moviegoers.
Sorkin is expected to be completed with his revamp by August.
Sony is high on Sorkin after recently picking up his script "The Social Network," which revolves around the formation of Facebook. David Fincher is attached to direct that pic.
"Moneyball" also fits in well with Sorkin's previous experience as the creator and writer of ABC's drama "Sports Night."
Michael DeLuca, based on the Sony lot, is producing both "Moneyball" and "The Social Network."
Sony initially optioned Lewis' book in 2004. Stan Chervin penned the initial draft of the script.
'Hangover' helmer still on a high Phillips moves on to 'Due Date,' 'Hangover 2'
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Todd Phillips will next direct the road trip comedy "Due Date" and follow one year later with "The Hangover 2."
The commitments come one day after "The Hangover" crossed the $210 million domestic gross mark and surpassed "Wedding Crashers" to become the second biggest grossing R-rated comedy ever.
That puts Phillips on track to earn $35 million or more on "The Hangover" after he gave back his salary and gross position to become an equity investment partner in the pic alongside financiers Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. Move allowed him to make the film with Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms, who were not proven at the box office.
Galifianakis will play one of the two leads in "Due Date," an Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland script that was revised by Adam Sztykiel. In the comedy about fatherhood, an expectant dad and his unlikely travel companion (Galifianakis) race cross-country in hopes of making it home for the birth of his first child.
Both "Due Date" and "The Hangover 2" will follow the same production track as "The Hangover." The plan is for the "Due Date" shoot to begin Oct. 6, and the film will be released next year in the first weekend of June, just like "The Hangover." The sequel will begin production in October 2010 and will be released Memorial Day weekend 2011.
Warner Bros. hired Phillips and Scot Armstrong to begin writing "The Hangover 2" right after early test scores left the studio optimistic that it had a winner (Daily Variety, April 5).
The film has become WB's biggest grossing comedy ever, trailing only "Beverly Hills Cop" ($234 million) in grosses for an R-rated comedy. Studio believes "The Hangover" will finish around $240 million to become the biggest domestic grossing comedy ever and the third highest grossing R-rated film ever, behind "The Passion of the Christ" and "The Matrix Reloaded."
Phillips never wagered as smartly as he did on "The Hangover." Because he insisted on his cast, WB Pictures Group prexy Jeff Robinov gave him a budget ceiling of $34 million, and the only way Phillips could make that number was to work for scale and use salary and gross to buy his way into being an equity investor.
Had the comedy not covered the studio's investment in budget and P&A, Phillips would have lost. But Phillips liked his script, had seen Galifianakis 15 times doing standup and felt Helms and Cooper were poised for breakout performances. The gamble gave him slightly more than 15% of the film's revenue, which makes possible a payday that will be far higher than if he had taken his usual fee.
Neither Phillips nor WB would comment on his payday, but the director said it was less about money than making a movie the way he wanted to.
"To me, the casting was as crystal clear as it was on 'Old School,' " Phillips said. "I remember some executives just didn't understand the casting, and on 'The Hangover,' I felt we'd been seeing the same faces in a lot of comedies, and that it was time to mix it up.
"Warners was a bit apprehensive, but Jeff said very politely, 'Look, I'll make the version you want... if you can do it for this number. That number basically required me to take no money and cut back in other areas as well. But I'll gamble on myself anytime."
Robinov made clear that he and WB chief Alan Horn will be happy to pay off the director's winning bet.
"We liked that script, we believed in Todd, and we were trying to break into the comedy business, something Warner Bros. wasn't known for," Robinov said. "Greenlighting 'The Hangover' with three actors who, though talented, weren't well known, put a lot of pressure on the budget. We couldn't be happier for Todd. He believed in the picture and took a risk alongside the studio, and he deserves this."
Phillips had several projects percolating including "Man-Witch," the comedy that he originally expected to direct with Jack Black. Galifianakis is being courted as the possible star, but Phillips has stepped out as director. His Green Hat Films banner will produce with Neal Moritz, and they will look for a new helmer.
Phillips won't gamble on either of the next two films, earning his new deal, which is an escalated upfront fee against first dollar gross, in a deal made by CAA.
Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver, Rachelle Lefevre in cast
By Borys Kit
Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver and Rachelle Lefevre are playing Paul Giamatti's many wives in "Barney's Version," the adaptation of the Mordecai Richler novel being directed by Richard Lewis. Robert Lantos is producing via his Serendipity Point Films."Barney's" tells the story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky (Giamatti).
Lefevre will play Clara, Barney's first wife, a wild, troubled artist. Driver plays Barney's second wife, the annoyingly loquacious Mrs. "P." Miriam, Barney's third wife and true love, will be played by Pike.
Principal photography starts Aug. 17 in Rome. Dustin Hoffman also is in the cast, playing Barney's father.
Michael Konyves wrote the adaptation. Co-producing are Lyse Lafontaine, Domenico Procacci and Ari Lantos. Mark Musselman is executive producing.
Driver, repped by CAA and Untitled, recently wrapped shooting "Betty Anne Waters" with Hilary Swank.
Pike, repped by WME and Magnolia Entertainment, next appears in the Bruce Willis sci-fi actioner "The Surrogates," being released in the fall by Disney.
Lefevre is best known for her work in the "Twilight" movies, where she portrays the evil vampire Victoria. The Canadian actress is repped by APA and Edna Talent in Canada.
Warner Bros. is about to decide who will wear the super-powered ring in "Green Lantern," the studio's latest DC Comics tentpole movie.
Along with director Martin Campbell and producers Donald De Line and Greg Berlanti, Warners has spent the past five months searching for the actor to play Hal Jordan, the hot-shot Air Force pilot who is chosen by a dying alien to be his successor in an intergalactic police force known as the Green Lanterns.
This week, the race narrowed to Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds and Justin Timberlake. The clock is ticking on the decision as the holding deal the studio had on the actors expired Monday, meaning the three are now free to accept other offers.
The studio ordered up two rounds of screen tests with Cooper, Reynolds and Timberlake. Other actors in the early mix included Michael Fassbender, Henry Cavill and Jared Leto.
Apparently, De Line, Campbell and the studio each had a different favorite among the three finalists, making it difficult to come to a consensus.
Another issue impacting the casting process is the rising budget. "Lantern" is a full-blown space epic that is expected to cost between $150 million and $200 million, if not more. Warners would like to have the production costs at a reasonable level before proceeding.
The studio has scheduled the movie for a December 2010 opening.
Cooper, repped by CAA and Thruline, is feeling a lot of love from Warners as he stars in the studio's surprise comedy hit, "The Hangover," which has grossed $210 million domestically.
UTA-repped Reynolds recently starred in a comic book movie, Fox's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," where he played "the merc with a mouth" Deadpool. The character is now being developed for a spinoff to which Reynolds is attached. The actor is also in theaters with Disney's romantic comedy "The Proposal."
Timberlake, repped by CAA and Rick Yorn, has been steadily building an acting resume, appearing in such dramas as "Alpha Dog" and "Black Snake Moan" while also showcasing his comedy chops with appearances on "Saturday Night Live."
Zooey Deschanel, one of the stars of "(500) Days of Summer," is joining the cast of "Your Highness," the Universal comedy that David Gordon Green begins shooting this month in Northern Ireland.
"Highness," written by Ben Best and Danny McBride, centers on an arrogant, lazy prince (McBride) who must complete a quest to save his father's kingdom. Joining him on the quest is his more heroic brother (James Franco). Deschanel plays Belladonna, Franco's virginal bride.
Natalie Portman plays McBride's love interest, a warrior princess.
Scott Stuber is producing.
Universal's Scott Bernstein and Dave Targan are overseeing the project.
Deschanel, repped by CAA and Seven Summits Pictures & Management, plays the title character in "Summer," which opens next week. The romance, which also stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, has been generating hipster buzz since unveiling at Sundance.
