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ANNE’S GOT WEDDINGS ON THE BRAIN
Anne Hathaway must have a fetish for weddings or something. First, she most recently starred in Rachel Getting Married, in which she plays a psychologically challenged woman taking a furlough from rehab to attend her sister’s wedding. Next she’s starring in the upcoming Bride Wars, in which she battles her best friend (Kate Hudson) for a coveted wedding day spot. Now she’s signed on to star in the romantic comedy The Fiance. She’ll play a woman who cancels wedding plans and breaks up with her seemingly perfect boyfriend so she can try to figure out who she really is. Her meddling parents try to patch things up between the pair, making it impossible for her to move on. Ugh. She probably should have just stuck with the Oscar-buzzed Rachel.
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KEEP READING: Antony and Cleopatra, Up Close and Personal
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ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
In 3D. And they sing! Catherine Zeta-Jones and Hugh Jackman are in negotiations to star in a modernized, rock ‘n’ roll version of the Cleopatra/Julius Caesar/Marc Antony love triangle called Cleo, to be directed by … Steven Soderbergh, says Variety. Hmm. Doesn’t exactly seem like his cup of tea. Of course, historically, making a big budgeted film about Cleopatra hasn’t worked out as well. In 1963, Joseph Mankiewicz co-wrote and directed one of the most famous movie flops, Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton. Good luck to all.
KEEP READING: Kutcher’s a Killer
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ASHTON’S A KILLER
Ashton Kutcher is attached to 21 director Robert Luketic’s Five Killers, an action comedy that will begin production early next year, Variety reports. Kutcher will play a former hit man whose life is turned upside down because someone from his past has paid a group of killers to bump him off. Might have some possibilities, just so long as they do it in a smart, tongue-in-cheek, Grosse Pointe Blank kind of way. Ultimately, though, I just can’t see Kutcher as a hit man.
KEEP READING: Naomi Changes Her Name to Jody
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NAOMI CHANGES HER NAME TO JODY
Naomi Watts is still reaching for that Oscar. She’s in negotiations to star in My Name Is Jody Williams, a drama based on the life of the Nobel Prize-winning campaigner against land mines, according to Hollywood Reporter. Land mines, huh? That’s got to be a tough job. According to the Reporter, Williams — a strong-willed teacher working for a temporary employment agency — left her life in Washington to pursue an unlikely career in global activism. Almost a decade and a half later, in 1997, Williams won the Nobel Peace Prize for leading an international campaign to eradicate landmines. Brash and somewhat controversial, Williams famously called President Bill Clinton a “weenie” for not signing the land mine ban. Watts should deliver that line perfectly.
KEEP READING: Bardem & Inarritu Team Up
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BARDEM GOES BACK TO HIS ROOTS
The always interesting Javier Bardem is set to star in director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu‘s Biutiful, about a man embroiled in shady dealings who is confronted by a childhood friend, now a policeman. This is the first time Inarritu is making a film without his screenwriting partner Guillermo Arriaga, with whom he recently split rather publicly over writing credits. The two were one of Mexico’s most successful filmmaking duo, starting with their breakout hit Amores Perros and then their English-language gems 21 Grams and Babel that formed a trilogy. I guess we’ll soon see if Inarritu is the true talent or Arriaga. I suspect it’s all Inarritu.
KEEP READING: Kevin Smith Sees Red
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KEVIN SMITH SEES RED
Kevin Smith recently talked to Cinematical.com about his new movie Red State, a rather dismal horror film in which a group of misfits encounter fundamentalism gone to the extreme in Middle America. He’s trying to get funding on it but is having some trouble. He told Cinematical: “I mean the harsh reality is if I said ‘Hey, who wants to do my next comedy?’, I’ve got money coming out the ass. But when I hand in this, like, 89-page script that is dark, there’s nobody to root for, there are no heroes, it’s depressing, it’s critical — it’s so bleak it makes f**king Dark Knight look like strawberry shortcake. Not a lot of people want to pony up for that movie, man.”
KEEP READING: Look Out for More Freaks
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LOOK OUT FOR MORE FREAKS
Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green is looking to helm the horror thriller Freaks of the Heartland, a monster story based on the Dark Horse graphic novel. According to the Reporter, the film will be based on Steve Niles’ six-part 2004 series about the horrible secret of a rural Middle American town, which involves Trevor Owen’s attempts to protect his “monster” of a 6-year-old younger brother and Gristlewood Valley’s other “freaks” from their parents’ worst instincts. As if we need this in life.
