In the past few weeks, biopics have been the source of the weirdest casting news. Ashton Kutcher is playing Steve Jobs, and Jane Fonda is playing Nancy Reagan. Now a casting choice that seemed like a PR stunt when first mentioned -- Lindsay Lohan playing Elizabeth Taylor in a Lifetime movie -- has come to…
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Even as Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Lovelace loses one star with the exit of Demi Moore, it's gained another as Chloë Sevigny boards the cast. Sevigny will play a feminist journalist working on a piece about Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace (Amanda Seyfried) for a men's magazine. She joins a sprawling ensemble cast that…
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Matthew Wilder's Inferno was the Linda Lovelace biopic we heard about first, but it seems like Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Lovelace is the one that's moving full speed right now. Amanda Seyfried and Peter Sarsgaard were cast as the titular porn star and her husband Chuck Traynor in early November, with Sharon Stone signing on…
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Armie Hammer has been working his clean-cut golden boy looks to his advantage in The Social Network, J. Edgar, and the upcoming Mirror, Mirror, but the latest addition to his slate will see him transforming into a bit more of a "badass." Hammer will bulk up and shave his head to star with Eric Bana in…
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In true Hollywood fashion, after years of no biopics about Linda Lovelace, there are now two separate films in the works about the adult film star. We've known for months that Malin Akerman would be toplining Matthew Wilder's take on the story, titled Inferno, and now Amanda Seyfried has entered negotiations to fill the role…
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It's a big week for Olivia Wilde. Cowboys & Aliens, in which she plays a mysterious figure with an...interesting past, looks like it will open huge, despite being fairly lousy. Trailers for In Time, her film with Andrew Niccol and Justin Timberlake, are dropping left and right. And now she's getting into porn. Oops, wait.…
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One of the better-received films at this year's Sundance was Take Shelter, starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain. The film is playing to good reviews at Cannes now as well, and the writer/director, Jeff Nichols, is prepping his second film. Mud, as the picture is called, has Chris Pine in talks to star as Mud,…
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We really can't go two days lately without a James Franco casting story. This particular story is one which might bring him back together with his Howl directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. A year ago we heard the pair were developing a film about porn star Linda Lovelace, based on Eric Danville‘s book The…
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Last night there were rumors that Lindsay Lohan might be playing '70s porn star icon Linda Lovelace in a biopic called Inferno. She'd be taking the role that was planned for Anna Faris a couple years ago. But the film had financing problems and Faris decided (probably correctly) that starring as a porn star in…
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One of the big curiosities of this year's Sundance is Howl, the semi-biopic of poet Allen Ginsberg, which stars James Franco and was directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Now, just ahead of Howl's premiere, the duo has booked another film. They'll make Lovelace, based on the career of iconic porn star and eventual…
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Oh noes. With The House Bunny nom'ing on close to $50 million at the box office, Anna Faris dished to MovieHole that she's dropped out of the 2009 Linda Lovelace biopic Inferno to focus on comedies. Damn you, smart business sense. Over the summer, Faris expressed enthusiasm in playing Lovelace, troubled "star" of the infamous…
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Slashfilm is so tawdry today. The last time I recall reading about Inferno, the Linda Lovelace/Deep Throat biopic with Anna Faris set to star, Vulture was getting lashed by Faris's dad for making bad puns. Faris now tells MTV that the film, a seedy departure for the goofy comedienne (Smiley Face, the Scary Movies), will…
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