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Some decent casting notes cropped up in the trade breaks last night, and because I’m just this sort of nice guy I’m about to round up the best for you.

First involves James Caan and Vera Farmiga, who’ve just joined Keanu Reeves in Henry’s Crime. The film, you may remember, is written by Anvil! director Sacha Gervasi, and will be directed by Malcolm Venville, recently of 44-Inch Chest. Farmiga is the love interest for Reeves, who is falsely accused of robbing a bank in Buffalo. Producer Jordan Schur calls the script “a genius comic fable.” Gervasi himself called it “a twisted, romantic comedy, very dark and funny,” which the trades refer to it as a romantic comedy and Capraesque. So who knows what the hell we’ll see out of this one. [Variety]

After the break, Anne Heche gets love and Jessica Biel gets laid.

Anne Heche, meanwhile, will show up in the Ed Helms comedy Cedar Rapids. She’s the female lead, opposite Helms as an insurance agent who gets sent to a conference in the big city of Cedar Rapids. There he engages in some shenanigans, tries to save the jobs of his colleagues and befriends Heche. She’ll also be in the Colin Ferrell / Mark Wahlberg picture Other Guys. [Variety]

Finally, Jessica Biel likes fucking. She’ll be in the ‘we only gave the movie this title to get some publicity because we know it’ll get changed’ film Fucking Engaged, in which she’ll play half of a couple who “make a pact to have sex every day leading to their wedding so they don’t turn into their crusty old parents.” So it’s really a dark comedy about the pathetic nature of most human relationships, since you’d hope a young couple who hadn’t been together for years and years would be having sex every day anyway, right? [THR]

  • how will they be able to market "Fucking Engaged" with THAT title?!? I mean.. look what happened to "Zack and Miri Make a Porno.."
  • Dr.Unk
    Will Ferrell (not Colin Ferrell)/Mark Wahlberg picture, The Other Guys
  • greggorybasore
    Gee I wonder if they'll change the movie's title before it's released.
  • keanureeves
    Keanu is a dirty old man…..do dah do dah………Keanu is a dirty cash hoarding whore fucker oh do dah dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!! And all the while there are families on the street from the ca$h crisis and the homeless on Skid Row and not to mention the African children dying of sexual slavery and starvation without water to drink! AS long as Keanu has his B grade films to entertain the middle class, so he can take your money at the box office and hire his whores and buy his expensive wines and collects his designer bikes in his $4 million dollar shack in the Hollywood Hills. I say ENOUGH to the fat cats and men that whore their souls to the film studios with trashy films and yes to charity to the needy with the hundreds of millions that Keanu already can help others with!
  • About Henry's Crime - the screenplay is given an unenthusiastic review over at scriptshadow (http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/2009/09/henrys...)

    I downloaded the screenplay before the link was taken down. It had a strange charm that I liked (I liked The Terminal more than most, also written by Gervasi, and this is definitely reminiscent of that film).

    It never was exactly twisted, dark, particularly funny, romantic or like a caper film (which the bank robbery would suggest). There was a nice dual climax to the film (emotional and plot-wise) though.
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