April 26, 2024

Casting: Malkovich, Lang, Tisdale, Larson

The Giacomo Variations John Malkovich will re-team with Austrian film director Michael Sturminger for a big screen adaptation of the chamber opera play "The Giacomo Variations". Malkovich will play the role of an aging Casanova, reliving past exploits in a surreal series of operatic flashbacks. [Source: Screen Daily] The 34th Battalion Vinnie … [Read more...]

Casting: McKidd, Dormer, Larson, Chung

Indian Summer Kevin McKidd and Ashley Jensen have scored the lead roles in Brian Ward's $ 4 million feature directorial debut "Indian Summer" which will begin shooting next May. The story follows an orphaned boy, his embittered uncle, and beautiful but lonely aunt, whose lives are changed forever by the arrival of an exotic stranger - a Native … [Read more...]

Wilson, Wilde, Larson Kicked In “The Nuts”

Owen Wilson, Olivia Wilde and Brie Larson are all attached to star while Jason Schwartzman is being courted to join Peter Bogdanovich's quirky indie comedy "Squirrels to the Nuts" says Variety. Bogdanovich penned the script about a hooker-turned-Broadway-thesp (Larson) and the recurring intersection of those two facets of her life. Wilson will … [Read more...]