A bunch of release date news and changes to report today. The Weinstein Company has scheduled the Oscar-nominated Norwegian historical action adventure "Kon-Tiki" for a U.S. release on April 26th. The English-language version, shot simultaneously with the Norwegian version, is the one being released. Sony Pictures has moved up the ensemble … [Read more...]
Casting: Paranoia, Truck, 42, Slave
April 17, 2012 by
Paranoia Lucas Till ("X-Men: First Class") is in talks to join Robert Luketic's espionage thriller "Paranoia". Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman are in advanced negotiations. Till would portray a friend and co-worker of Liam Hemsworth's character in the film which is set in the world of dueling telco giants. [Source: Variety] Truck Stop Christine … [Read more...]
Brad Pitt Turns “Slave” For McQueen
October 26, 2011 by
Brad Pitt is not only producing but is reportedly taking on a role in "Hunger" and "Shame" director Steve McQueen's third feature "Twelve Years A Slave" for both River Road and Pitt's Plan B production company. Set in the mid-19th century, the film tells the true story of New Yorker Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who was kidnapped and shipped … [Read more...]
McQueen, Pitt, Ejiofor Adapt “12 Years a Slave”
August 16, 2011 by
"Hunger" director Steve McQueen is teaming with Brad Pitt and Chiwetel Ejiofor in an adaptation of Solomon Northup's 1853 autobiography "Twelve Years a Slave" says The Hollywood Reporter. Northup was a married and educated free black man living in New York when two men approached him with a job offer in Washington. When he showed up in D.C., he … [Read more...]
