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  • Jamie Dornan to play Christian Grey in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’

    Jamie Dornan to play Christian Grey in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’

    MUMBAI: Jamie Dornan is all set to play Christian Grey in the film adaptation of the superhit novel, Fifty Shades of Grey that is expected to go on floor in November.

    Universal Pictures and Focus Features’ adaptation of the book was to have Charlie Hunnam as the lead earlier, who backed out of the project more than a week ago. Negotiations with Dornan are in progress.

    Dornan is the star of the UK series The Fall and is also known for playing The Huntsman in ABC’s Once Upon A Time. Dakota Johnson will be the female lead for the movie. A release date of August 1, 2014 has been set. If the first movie does well, then Dornan could stay on for the rest of the movies in the series as well.

    Juno Temple and Frank Grillo were also offered roles but they too turned it down. Dornan has been in the news earlier for dating Kiera Knightley for a while.

  • Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski team up for ‘Go Like Hell’

    Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski team up for ‘Go Like Hell’

    MUMBAI: The movie Oblivion saw the coming together of Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and director Joseph Kosinski. Now, they have patched up for another upcoming movie, Go Like Hell for 20th Century Fox.

    The movie is a battle between Ford and Ferrari for dominance in the sports car market. Based on the book Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari and their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans written by A J Baime, the flick is being produced by Lucas Foster and Alex Young.

    Cruise will be portraying Carroll Shelby who teamed up with Henry Ford II and Ford executive Lee Lacocca who challenged Ferrari in 1966 by developing the Ford GT40. The project has been under development since 2011. Michael Mann was supposed to direct the movie then and Brad Pitt was being considered for the lead role in the movie.

    Cruise will next be seen in Edge of Tomorrow to be released on June 6, 2014. Oblivion collected $286 million over the world.

  • George Clooney’s ‘The Monuments Men’ pushed to 2014

    George Clooney’s ‘The Monuments Men’ pushed to 2014

    MUMBAI: The movie based on World War II tale was set to be released on December 18. But The Monuments Men starring George Clooney has now been pushed further to early 2014, without giving an exact date.

    The film produced by Sony apparently has been unable to complete its visual effects. Composer Alexandre Desplat has also not recorded the score. The thriller is about a platoon of art historians and museum directions having the task of rescuing priceless art from the Nazis.

    The film will now not be eligible for the 2014 Oscar race. George Clooney has the task of juggling two movies at the same time- The Monuments Men and Disney’s Tomorrowland.

  • Warner Bros acquires Jo Nesbo’s novel ‘Blood On Snow’ as Leo DiCaprio’s vehicle

    Warner Bros acquires Jo Nesbo’s novel ‘Blood On Snow’ as Leo DiCaprio’s vehicle

    MUMBAI: Warner Bros is near a deal for Blood On Snow, the first of a two novel series by The Snowman author Jo Nesbo. It will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio to be produced by him and Appian Way partner Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Langley Park’s Kevin McCormick. Latter is producing an adaptation of Nesbo’s The Son at Warner Bros.

    The book has been written under the pseudonym Tom Johansen, and it is about a hit man who is asked by his boss to kill the man’s wife. Trouble is, he falls in love with her and things get messy from there. The book was sent out to buyers Friday by Nesbo’s agent Sylvie Rabineau at RWSG. The Norwegian novelist will publish the novel next spring through Knopf, with the sequel, Blood On Snow 2: More Blood, to be published the following year.

    A year after that, Nesbo will release The Kidnapping, which is kind of connected to all this in that the kidnap victim is Tom Johansen, as Nesbo’s pseudonym becomes a character in his own right. Nesbo and Niclas Salomonsson are exec producing the film.

  • Homeland’s Damian Lewis will star alongside Nicole Kidman in ‘Queen Of The Desert’

    Homeland’s Damian Lewis will star alongside Nicole Kidman in ‘Queen Of The Desert’

    MUMBAI: Damian Lewis, who has won Golden Globes and Emmys for his work as POW-turned-terrorist Nicolas Brody in Showtime’s Homeland, is near a deal to star opposite Nicole Kidman in director Werner Herzog’s Queen Of The Desert. The UK-born Lewis won’t have to hide his homegrown accent for the feature: He will play Lt. Col. Charles Doughty-Wylie, an unhappily married English war hero who engages in a turbulent affair with Gertrude Bell (Kidman), with whom he exchanged love letters with from 1913-1915 until he was killed in active duty at Gallipoli. Production is scheduled to begin in December.

    Queen Of The Desert refers to Bell, the iconic explorer, writer, archeologist and attaché for the British Empire who is credited with helping to catalyse the formation of the Middle East at the dawn of the 20th century. Nick Raslan is producing through his Palmyra Films banner along with Cassian Elwes and Michael Benaroya. Benaroya Pictures banner is financing the film.

  • Film based on Stephen King’s novel attracts 40 million viral views

    Film based on Stephen King’s novel attracts 40 million viral views

    NEW DELHI: The Carrie viral “Telekinesis” video has been wildly successful on YouTube with nearly 40 million views since its launch last week.

    The thriller horror film Carrie directed by Kimberly Peirce with a screenplay by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and based on the book by Stephen King will hit the silver screen on 10 January.

    It stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Judy Greer, Portia Doubleday, Alex Russell, Gabriella Wilde, Ansel Elgort, and Julianne Moore.

    A re-imagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.

    Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlOxlSOr3_M

  • American Film Market 2013 to screen 402 films from 51 countries

    American Film Market 2013 to screen 402 films from 51 countries

    NEW DELHI: American Film Market 2013 will screen 402 films, including 321 market premieres and 75 world premieres, from 51 countries.

    Films in 30 languages will be screened for more than 8,000 buyers and industry professionals from more than 70 countries, according to Independent Film & Television Alliance, AFM managing director and executive VP Jonathan Wolf.
    The market is being held from 6 to 13 November in Santa Monica in California by the Independent Film & Television Alliance.

    Films premiering include the works of Zach Braff, Abigail Breslin, Pierce Brosnan, James Caan, Nicolas Cage, Helena Bonham Carter, Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Judi Dench, Gerard Depardieu, Richard Dreyfuss, Jesse Eisenberg, Chiwetal Ejoifor, Idris Elba, Dakota Fanning, Jenna Fischer, James Franco, Bill Hader, Josh Hartnett, Val Kilmer, Ben Kingsley, Mila Kunis, Cory Monteith, Thandie Newton, Haley Joel Osment, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Roberts, Peter Sarsgaard, Amy Smart, Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Kanye West, Jay Z and many more.

    Films making their market premiere include: Kiss Me (American Cinema International) starring Jenna Fischer, Emily Osment, Missi Pyle and John Corbett; Around the Block (Arclight Films) starring Christina Ricci, Hunter Page-Lochard and Mark Coles Smith; Le Grand Cahier (Beta Cinema) starring Laszlo Gyemant, Andras Gyemant, Piroska Molnar, Ulrich Thomsen, Ulrich Matthes and Sabin Tambrea; McCanick (Bleiberg Entertainment) starring David Morse, Cory Monteith, Mike Vogel, Ciaran Hinds, Tracie Thoms and Rachel Nichols; Cas and Dylan (Breakthrough Entertainment) directed by Jason Priestley, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Tatiana Maslany; The F Word (Entertainment One) starring Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Adam Driver and Rafe Spall; World Petank Tour (Europa Corp) starring Gerard Depardieu, Atmen Kelif, Edouard Baer, Daniel Prevost, Virginie Efira and Roschdy Zem; The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (Gaumont) starring Helena Bonham Carter, Kyle Catlett, Callum Keith Rennie and Judy Davis; Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (Huayi Brothers) starring Mark Zhao, Angelababy Yang and Carina Lau; The Sea (Independent) starring Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling and Rufus Sewell; Some Velvet Morning (International Film Trust) starring Stanley Tucci and Alice Eve; Walking with the Enemy (Koan Inc.) starring Ben Kingsley and Jonas Armstrong; Half of a Yellow Sun (Metro International Entertainment) starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejoifor; The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him & Her  (Myriad) starring Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, James McAvoy, William Hurt, Isabelle Huppert, Ciaran Hinds and Bill Hader; Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Pathe International) starring Idris Elba and Naomie Harris; God Only Knows (Synchronicity Entertainment) starring Ben Barnes, Toby Jones, Leighton Meester and Harvey Keitel.

    Additional market premieres include Palo Alto (Pathe International) starring Emma Roberts, James Franco and Val Kilmer; Philomena (Pathe International) starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan; Love Punch (SND M6 Group) starring Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson; Tar (Spotlight Pictures) starring James Franco, Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain, Zach Braff, Henry Hopper and  Bruce Campbell; Before the Winter Chill (TF1 International) starring Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leila Bekhti and Richard Berry; C.O.G. (The Exchange) starring Jonathan Groff, Denis O’Hare and Corey Stoll; Made in America (The Exchange)directed by Ron Howard, starring Jay Z and Kanye West; Night Moves (The Match Factory) starring Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard; Two Night Stand (The Solution Entertainment Group) starring Miles Teller, Analeigh Lipton and Jessica Szohr; and Joe (West End Films) starring Nicolas Cage and Tye Sheridan.

  • Weinstein Company to distribute ‘Macbeth’

    Weinstein Company to distribute ‘Macbeth’

    MUMBAI: The Weinstein Company has closed a deal for distributing a new version of Macbeth that will star Michael Fassbender and Marrion Cottilard. It is being directed by Justin Kurzel that has the original lines but the visual will be scaled up.

    The film is produced by Iain Canning and Emile Sherman. Fassbender comes off from 12 Years a Slave while Cottilard replaced Natalie Portman this year for the role of Lady Macbeth.

    TWC had been bidding for it against Fox Searchlight. Shooting is to commence early next year. Jacob Koskoff and Todd Louiso have written the script. The Shakespeare drama has been made several times.

  • Blake Lively and Ellen Bursteyn to star in ‘The Age of Adeline’

    Blake Lively and Ellen Bursteyn to star in ‘The Age of Adeline’

    MUMBAI: After being in the limbo for some time now, The Age of Adeline is finally going to go under production in March as a co-production between Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Lakeshore entertainment. Starring in it will be Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively along with Ellen Bursteyn.

    Lee Krieger is set to direct the movie which will be released by Lionsgate in the US. The movie speaks about the life of a 29 year old girl who stops ageing after recovering from a near fatal accident. She keeps her secret to herself before she meets a man who changes her life. Jim Tauber and Eric Reid will be executive producers.

    Lively is known for her role in Gossip Girl and recently did the movie Savages. She is repped by CAA and Management 360.  Bursteyn by Innovative Artists and The Schiff Co.

  • ‘Gone Girl’ to release in 2014, ‘Frankenstein’ pushed to 2015

    ‘Gone Girl’ to release in 2014, ‘Frankenstein’ pushed to 2015

    MUMBAI: The Ben Affleck starrer Gone Girl has got a release date of 3 October 2014 while 20th Century Fox’s Frankenstein gets a date of 16 January 2015.

    rankenstein will see Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe opposite James McAvoy.
    Frankenstein was to open on 17 October 2014 with McAvoy playing Frankenstein and Radcliffe playing Igor. Instead it has decided to release Gone Girl with Affleck and Rosamund Pike in October along with animated family film Book of Life on 17 October.

    Fox is working with Regency on Gone Girl, which is under production. Based on a novel by Gillian Flynn it is about a couple who move from a city to a small town and then the wife goes missing.