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For those who’ve wondered what happened to Page 2, it isn’t gone. The last couple weeks have just been so slow that there isn’t enough to fill up a Page 2 post. (It’s the end of the summer; expect news to pick up in a couple weeks as the festival season kicks in.) So in the meantime enjoy these casting notes roundups. Today we’ve got news of Robin Williams and Maggie Grace joining new projects, after the break.

First up, THR reports that Robin Williams will be part of a Touchstone romantic comedy called Wedding Banned, which I’m tempted to hate based on the title alone. There’s no director yet for the film, which was written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler. Film is about “a long-divorced couple who kidnap their daughter on her wedding day to prevent her from making the same mistakes they did. The divorced parents rekindle their relationship as they elude cops and the angry groom.”

And this is just after I got all hopeful for Robin Williams again after finally seeing the excellent Bobcat Goldthwait film World’s Greatest Dad. He’s so good in that, so reserved and ideal for the role. That one is available on demand right now, and opens in a few markets this weekend, with an expansion plan taking place over the next couple weeks. Please see it.

Meanwhile, THR also has news of Maggie Grace joining Witchita (which the trade is reporting as ‘untitled Witchita project’), the James Mangold movie that won the attention of star Tom Cruise over a host of other possible projects. Grace will play the sister of Cameron Diaz, “a lonely woman whose seemingly harmless blind date suddenly turns her life upside-down when a super spy (Cruise) takes her on a violent worldwide journey to protect a powerful battery that holds the key to an infinite power source.” I think this is the first time I’ve really read a plot synopsis for the film, and now I’m feeling like I’m 0-2 in interest for films in this post right now. Can’t win ‘em all.

  • greggorybasore
    The one with Maggie Grace sound like it'd at least be worth making fun of at the buck fifty theatre after it's rotated out of the big theatres.

    The one with Robin Williams doesn't eve have that going for it.
  • e_dog
    Double feature of the damned.
  • carsonreeves1
    Wedding Banned was one of the worst scripts I've ever read. It's dreadfully dreadfully awful. There's a review somewhere on my site. But it's not even worth it for me to link to it.
  • carsonreeves1
    Oh, and Wichita is actually a good script! Script review: http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/2009/08/wichit...
  • GreatBigLion
    Me likey Maggie Grace...
  • Credibility-wise, World's Greatest Dad bought Williams another three crappy PG13 comedies. My favorite movie of the year thus far.
  • lipslikeasukal
    As long as Grace doesn't play another fukcin seventeen year-old and gets kidnapped in Paris.
  • GregoryV
    Off topic, Maggie Grace looks damn amazing in that picture.
  • stevenkar
    I used to be Robin's biggest fan, but now when I see him on talk shows, I switch the channel because he exhausts me and bores me with his tired, repetitive schtick.

    And the last decent movie he made was INSOMNIA. After it, he made a dozen movies that I just didn't care to see.
  • yeahh sexyyy lady come on :)
  • Reniassance_Man
    It seems like for every Insomnia, One Hour Photo, and Mrs. Doubtfire that Robin Williams makes there are two or three RVs, License to Weds, and Patch Adams. How can I love and loathe an actor's roles so much? The list keeps going....2002 was a great year for him and i'd love to see a new WIlliams Renaissance but the premise for this film smells like ass.
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