Posted 2/8/12 1:08 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Casting Call
"Game of Thrones" leading man Kit Harington seems to finally be landing his big screen breakout role. Meanwhile, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson reunite in an upcoming comedy, Amy Adams is set to star in the big screen adaptation of one of Steve Martin's novels and Philip Seymour Hoffman is in negotiations for "A Most Wanted Man."
It's February 8, and you're tuning in for today's casting news.
Posted 7/1/11 12:15 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Casting Call
Anita Lindblom, prepare to get the "Twilight" treatment under the hands of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo."
Director Catherine Hardwicke will direct Noomi Rapace's as-yet-untitled biopic of '60s Swedish pop culture icon Anita Lindblom. To make things even more interesting, Rapace's real-life husband, Ola Rapace, will play boxing champion Bosse Hogberg who ends up marrying Lindblom.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Rapaces have been developing the flick for several years, and it's slated for a Scandinavian release in 2012.
In the news after the jump, "World War Z" loses its leads, a comedian joins Ben Stiller in "Neighborhood Watch," and Chris Rock teaches fathers "What To Expect When You're Expecting."
Posted 6/10/11 11:54 am EST by Josh Wigler in Casting Call
They teamed together on "The Break-Up" and "Couples Retreat," but Jason Bateman and Vince Vaughn's latest reunion could truly test their friendship.
Deadline reports that Bateman is in early talks with Universal Pictures to co-star alongside Vaughn in "Insane Laws," a new movie about two longtime best friends whose relationship is strained when their kids go off to college together and fall in love. Things get even hairier when the daughter of Vaughn's character gets pregnant. No official deal is in place just yet, but the two reportedly participated in a read-through of the material, and production could start as early as this fall.
Catch the rest of today's biggest casting news after the jump!
Posted 5/6/11 12:17 pm EST by Aly Semigran in Casting Call
The question surrounding Kathryn Bigelow's next film, titled "Kill Bin Laden," is no longer "Will they still make it?" Rather, it's a question of who will star in it, and Joel Edgerton has helped to answer that.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Edgerton has signed on for the film, which chronicles a failed mission to kill the terrorist leader in 2001. In it, he'll reportedly play a special operative that's part of an ensemble of male commandos. But, it's not the only high-profile project the actor's name is attached to.
The LA Times also writes that Edgerton is on the short-list of actors considered for "The Hunger Games." (Could he be Haymitch? President Snow?) And while Edgerton is widely in demand, the star isn't saying yes to everything that comes his way. The article also notes that he allegedly turned down the chance to play opposite Kristen Stewart in "Snow White and the Huntsman."
Check out the rest of Friday's biggest casting news in Hollywood, including the all-star cast to bring "Lincoln" to the masses.
Posted 1/13/11 2:57 pm EST by Tom DiChiara in Video
What would you do if you saw your best friend's wife making out with Channing Tatum (you know, besides scream "Yo Joe!" as you hit him with a pile-driver to the back)? That's the question facing Vince Vaughn in the Ron Howard-directed comedy "The Dilemma," in theaters this Friday, January 14.
In the film, Vaughn and Kevin James play Ronny and Nick, respectively, pals and business partners in an auto design firm. Just as things are starting to take off for them professionally (they land a shot at a project that would make their firm famous) and personally (Ronny decides to propose to his girlfriend Beth, played by Jennifer Connelly) something happens that threatens to ruin it all: Ronny spots Nick's wife Geneva (Winona Ryder) hooking up with a tattooed miscreant (Tatum). As you may have guessed, Ronny finds himself with quite the dilemma: to tell or not to tell? Watch three clips from the film below.
Posted 1/12/11 6:35 pm EST by Tom DiChiara in After Hours, Humor, Video
MTV's Josh Horowitz has done some questionably tasteful, unquestionably hilarious things in the pursuit of journalism, most of them as part of MTV's "After Hours" series. He's taken shots to the groin courtesy of Jason Segel and Jack Black, went pantsless at a slumber party with Jessica Alba and tested the American accents of the "Harry Potter" cast.
In his latest such video endeavor, "Fanline," Josh asks the cast of "The Dilemma" -- Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly and Winona Ryder -- to answer questions emailed or tweeted by their loyal fans. Interestingly enough, every one of the questions comes from a guy named Josh.
Posted 11/1/10 4:16 pm EST by Tom DiChiara in News, Poll
You have to hand it to Ron Howard: The guy's got stones.
Despite the controversy recently stirred up by a gay joke in the trailer for his upcoming Vince Vaughn-Kevin James comedy "The Dilemma," Howard is sticking to his guns and leaving the quip -- in which Vaughn calls electric cars "gay" -- in the final cut of the film.
The trailer and joke hit just as America was reeling from a recent spate of teen suicides related to anti-gay bullying, and drew the ire of such public figures as Anderson Cooper and Ellen DeGeneres. Universal, the studio releasing the film, promptly excised the joke from the trailer, a move with which Howard agrees... but that doesn't mean he's pulling it from the flick before it's January 14 release. Read More...
Posted 10/11/10 12:03 pm EST by Tom DiChiara in Trailers, Video
The teaser trailer for the Vince Vaughn-Kevin James comedy "The Dilemma" caused quite an uproar recently, when Anderson Cooper and Ellen DeGeneres voiced their objections to footage in which Vaughn's character uses the word "gay" in a derogatory fashion. Wisely, Universal Pictures issued a public mea culpa, stating: "The teaser trailer for 'The Dilemma' was not intended to cause anyone discomfort. In light of growing claims that the introduction to the trailer is insensitive, it is being replaced."
True to their word, Universal has yanked the teaser and released a three-minute-long theatrical trailer that is 100 percent free of gay jokes, apparently having replaced them with the plot of the entire movie. Yep, while it is entertaining -- we especially like (and simultaneously are made uncomfortable by) the part where Queen Latifah talks about getting intimate with the hood of a car -- the trailer gives away quite a bit about where the movie's going.
In a nutshell, here's what the trailer tells us: Vaughn and James play best pals whose bromance is jeopardized when Vaughn witnesses James' wife (Winona Ryder) getting it on with a younger, more "G.I. Joe"-looking guy (Channing Tatum) and must decide whether to tell his buddy. Read More...
Posted 5/10/10 2:55 pm EST by Adam Rosenberg in News
Channing Tatum had a strong 2009, with key roles in "Fighting," "Public Enemies" and, of course, "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra." He's working right now in New York City on "Son of No One," a reunion with "Fighting" and "A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints" director Dito Montiel. He stars as a young cop assigned to work in his childhood neighborhood, a role that puts him in close contact with fellow star and screen legend Al Pacino. In an interview with MTV's Josh Horowitz on the set of "Son," Tatum revealed that he'll soon be working with another pair of celebrated Hollywood figures.
"I'm going to shoot a Ron Howard comedy. Ron Howard, Vince Vaughn producing," he said. "I just came on kind of late so I don't exactly even know the whole cast." Read More...
Posted 2/23/10 4:30 pm EST by Christopher Campbell in News
In what immediately seems an unlikely duo, Kevin James has been paired up with Vince Vaughn for that infidelity comedy I wrote about last month. According to Deadline Hollywood, the "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" star will play a man unaware that his wife is having an affair. Vaughn is his best friend, and he knows about the cheating, but he isn't sure if he should tell his buddy. And that moral dilemma is the foundation for hilarity in what will be Ron Howard's first true comedy in more than a decade.
While at first I thought the two actors clashed a bit, I have to be optimistic given that I just rewatched "Splash" over the weekend. That early Howard comedy brilliantly teamed up John Candy and Tom Hanks, who on paper might have also seemed an odd pairing. Actually, I can kinda see James and Vaughn as modern versions of Hanks and Candy's characters, respectively, only with swapped body types. And of course I'm sure the cheating wife isn't part fish (just part snake). Read More...
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