Taylor Lautner's action film Abduction, to be directed by John Singleton, just got an extra dose of class. Sigourney Weaver is joining the cast as "a psychiatrist to Lautner's character, who discovers his own baby picture on a missing persons website." Also in the supporting cast are Lily Collins and Alfred Molina. [Variety] After the…
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Paul Rudd will star in My Idiot Brother, an indie comedy that will have the actor as "an idealist, dealing with his overbearing mother, who crashes into the homes of his three ambitious sisters and, in succession, brings truth, happiness and a sunny disposition into their lives while also wreaking havoc." Is it any wonder…
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Because I know that casting news on the delayed remake of Footloose is what you're all more hungry for than anything else, here's the only casting note that matters this week: Thomas Dekker (Heroes, Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles, Kaboom, A Nightmare on Elm Street) is apparently the latest top candidate to play 'Two Degrees…
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HBO's Tilda, the very evidently Nikki Finke-inspired series spearheaded by director Bill Condon, may be edging further into The Devil Wears Prada territory. Diane Keaton is already on board as Tilda Watski, "the most feared woman in Hollywood," and now Ellen Page is signing on to play Carolyn, a studio assistant who falls under Tilda's…
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Too bad Russ has already filled the week's /Film: The Movie quota, because this post is writhing on the floor for our fave bad joke. Director Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, Kinsey) is developing and writing a proposed half-hour series for HBO set in the hectic and catty world of Hollywood movie blogging. If the network takes the next…
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