Way back in February 2011, we told you that Anton Yelchin had been cast as the title character in Stephen Sommers' Odd Thomas. Based on the novel by Dean Koontz, the supernatural thriller follows a fry cook who can communicate with the dead -- and is also, therefore, the only person who can stop the…
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Topher Grace has joined the cast of Gently Down the Stream, which already has some prominent actors on board: Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Katherine Heigl and Amanda Seyfried. Justin Zackham wrote and will direct the story of a slightly awkward family romance. Specifically, De Niro and Keaton are a couple and father to Topher…
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The cast of Odd Thomas just got even better. Stephen Sommers is writing and directing the film based on the supernatural novel by Dean Koontz, and has Anton Yelchin playing the clairvoyant title character; Addison Timlin as his girlfriend; and Willem Dafoe as the local police chief. Now Patton Oswalt will be " Oswald "Ozzie"…
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He began his career in comedy, but Kevin Durand is becoming a good, reliable tough guy character actor. He did well as The Blob in Wolverine, and made a good impression as Martin Keamy in Lost and as Little John in Robin Hood. He's got a role in the upcoming Real Steel, and now he's…
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Stephen Sommers is getting closer and closer to the start date for Odd Thomas, which adapts the first Dean Koontz novel featuring the title character. He's got Anton Yelchin playing Thomas and Addison Timlin as the lead's girlfriend, who is one of two people who knows that Thomas can talk to the dead. The other…
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The Silent Hill sequel, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, is shooting right now in Toronto, and keeps adding cast members as it does. Director Michael J. Bassett (Solomon Kane) already had Adelaide Clemens and Kit Harington starring, with Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean and Deborah Kara Unger reprising their Silent Hill roles in some unknown capacity. Now…
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There have been a few adaptations of Dean Koontz novels here and there, and now Stephen Sommers is going to add one more to the pile. Instead of going into the sequel to G.I. Joe (from which he was more or less dismissed) the director will adapt the book Odd Thomas, and he's cast Anton…
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