Siegfried & Roy Biopic in the Works From Philipp Stölzl; Justin Chadwick to Direct Johnnie Cochran Movie

Posted on Tuesday, June 28th, 2016 by Jack Giroux

Siegfried and Roy biopic

We’ve got news of not one but two exciting upcoming biopics. O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran and magicians Siegfried & Roy are getting their own movies.

Although Courtney B. Vance most recently portrayed the late Cochran in FX’s thoroughly entertaining The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, the Cochran biopic, which will star Anthony Mackie, won’t focus on the O.J. Simpson trial. Meanwhile, Siegfried & Roy’s film will tell the pair’s life story.

Below, learn more about the Johnnie Cochran and Siegfried & Roy biopics.

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Aaron Eckhart To Play CIA Agent In ‘The Expatriate’

Posted on Thursday, November 4th, 2010 by Germain Lussier

The moral of recent CIA movies like Fair Game and Red is that leaving the agency is never a good thing. That’s what Aaron Eckhart will soon learn in The Expatriate, a thriller he just signed to star in directed by Philipp Stolzl (a music video director whose last feature was the 2008 film North Face) from a script by by A.E. Amel. Eckhart plays an ex-CIA agent who leaves the spy game to rebuild a relationship with his 15-year-old daughter. He takes a job as a security expert at a corporation only to find out the whole place is a front in order to kill him. So father and daughter go on the run, putting their shaky relationship back on the rocks. Think The Professional meets Red with a little To Kill a Mockingbird sprinkled across. We’ve got more info after the jump. Read More »