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(Karen Allen and Natalie Portman) Head on over to Cinematical for a description of comments Karen Allen made after the Friday night screening of Raiders Of The Lost Ark at the Paris Theatre in NYC. We were at the Saturday night screening where someone asked a similar question about whether Allen would be involved with [...]

Theron In Ice

29Jun06

(Charlize Theron) According to JoBlo, Charlize Theron has signed on to star as a drug addicted mom in The Ice At The Bottom Of The World for newly-attached director Alan Parker.

(Leonardo DiCaprio and Timothy Leary) According to the Hollywood Reporter, Leoanrdo DiCaprio is set to produce and star in a movie about psychedelic icon Timothy Leary. Turn on, tune in, drop out.

Hoffman Busy

16Jun06

Philip Seymour Hoffman is apparently set to star in a couple of interesting films currently gearing up for production. The first is Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, which we’re interested in because it’s directed by Sidney Lumet. The second is Charlie Wilson’s War, which we’re interested in because it’s written by Aaron Sorkin and [...]

(Cast of Empty City) After the upcoming Click, Adam Sandler’s next project will be Empty City. In the film, Sandler plays a man who lost his family on September 11th, 2001 and only begins to deal with his grief five years later upon reuniting with a friend from his past played by Don Cheadle. Jada [...]

(Cast of No Country For Old Men) According to Coming Soon, Woody Harrelson and Stephen Root have joined the cast of the Coen brothers’ No Country For Old Men. This means they’ll be working with Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem, among others. The film, based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy, is [...]

(David Wain And Cast) Word is that David Wain, one of the minds behind The State and Stella and director of Wet Hot American Summer, will be making a spoof of The Ten Commandments called The Ten. Fellow State member Ken Marino will co-write and star alongside Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba, Amanda Peet, Justin Theroux, [...]

(Haynes and cast) Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams have reportedly joined Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Christian Bale, and Julianne Moore among others in the cast of I’m Not There, the upcoming Todd Haynes-directed Bob Dylan biopic. [via ComingSoon]

According to ComingSoon, Norah Jones will star with Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, and Natalie Portman in Wong Kar Wai’s soon-to-start-shooting My Blueberry Nights, the story of a woman — played by Jones — trekking across the country looking for the meaning of love.

(Ray Winstone in The Proposition) According to ComingSoon, actor Ray Winstone, director John Hillcoat, and writer Nick Cave, all fresh off of The Proposition, will be reteaming for a black comedy called Death of a Ladies’ Man. We highly recommend The Proposition, which is currently in theaters, and therefore look forward to the trio’s next [...]

According to ComingSoon.net, Kirsten Dunst is in talks to join Jack Black in Michel Gondry’s upcoming project, Be Kind, Rewind. Here’s how the site explains the project: The story, by Gondry, follows a junkyard worker (Black) who attempts to sabotage a power plant that he believes is melting his brain. But his plan goes awry [...]

According to MovieHole (via Cinematical), Woody Allen has not let the folding of his Paris-based production deter him — he’s back in Lodon, ready to shoot his third straight film there, having already cast Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell, and Tom Wilkinson.