May 2008 News Archive (Page 3)

Chris Noth (Sex and the City: The Movie) has agreed to star opposite Renee Zellweger in My One and Only, a comedy based on a childhood adventure of actor George Hamilton, says Variety.

Shooting begins next month.

Zellweger portrays Anne Deveraux, a glamorous dreamer who travels from city to city looking for a wealthy man to fund a new life for her and her sons. Noth plays a retired military doctor who might just fit that description.

Still, it's hard to imagine Noth as anyone but Mr. Big, isn't it?

In the June 2008 issue of Details, Christian Bale comments - and celebrates, really - the work Heath Ledger. These two actors, of course, star together in the upcoming Batman film, The Dark Knight.

"He was incredibly intense in his performance but incredibly mellow and laid-back," Bale said. "Certainly there was this great anarchistic streak to it,  just getting dirtier than anybody's envisioned the Joker before...

Naturally, (the movie) was something I wanted to share with him  and expected to do so. And I can't do anything else but hope that it will be an absolutely appropriate celebration of his work."

It was also recently announced that Bale will play the role of John Connor in three sequels to the Terminator franchise. We look forward to them.

Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack died of cancer Monday. He was 73.

Pollack, who was also an actor that recently starred in Michael Clayton, was surrounded by family at his home in Pacific Palisades when the time came.

Pollack was credited with directing 20 films, including seven with Robert Redford â€" most notably The Way We Were and Out of Africa, which won him two Oscars as director and as producer of the film, which won the best picture Oscar.

Pollack also received a best director Oscar nomination for the 1982 comedy starring Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie.

The movie legend is survived by his wife, Claire, daughters Rebecca and Rachel, his brother Bernie, and six grandchildren.

Cassandra's Dream certainly wasn't one of Woody Allen's highest grossing movies of all-time. But is it worth a rental?

With the movie coming out on DVD tomorrow, we posed that question to a number of film critics. Their answers are below...

- Cassandra's Dream lacks energy and spark. Monotonous and simplistic, it is definitely not worthy of Woody Allen... -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

- Allen, who stays behind the camera, brings too little wit and too much contrivance to material that quickly dissolves into warmed-over Dostoevski... -- Rolling Stone

- Cassandra's Dream is second-rate Allen, but it's still compelling thanks to its magnetic co-stars... -- The Washington Times

- Farrell and McGregor deliver remarkably nuanced performances in and through their mundane one-dimensionality, taking average Joes and give them average strengths and weaknesses... -- Christianity Today

If you think Sienna Miller went through a lot during her relationship with Jude Law, take a look at her on the set of the G.I. Joe movie.

The actress looks nice and bloodied in the photo below, a shot taken on set of the film that stars Miller as The Baroness.

Robert Downey Jr. is seeing his career take off thanks to Iron Man. And, according to the Chicago Sun Times, though, his next film project might be centered around an iron man of a different kind.

Rumors are circulating that the actor may sign on to play Hugh Hefner the Playboy founder's big-screen biopic.

It's not a done deal yet, but sources say Hefner has approved of Downey to play him in the movie, which has the apt working title of Playboy.

There's no word on when the cameras might actually begin rolling on the movie, but it could happen as soon as next summer, depending on Downey's Iron Man 2 filming and the finalization of the Hefner script.

Here are a few recent casting news and notes from across Hollywood...

• Canadian actress Laura Vandervoort has scored a lead role in Into the Blue 2, a film headed straight to DVD that would receive no publicity whatsoever, except for this fact: Audrina Patridge, from MTV's The Hills, will also appear in the film.

• The Scott Caan-written story Mercy has itself a leading lady. Wendy Glenn, who recently played Isabella in The L Word will take on the title role. The movie is about a cynical writer who writes about love, but doesn't believe it until he meets Glenn's character.

• Kerry Washington - who played Della Bea Robinson in Ray and Jasmine in Mr. & Mrs. Smith - will portray play Eddie Murphy's wife in the comedy A Thousand Words.

We've already shown fans the trailer for this summer's The Incredible Hulk.

Now, here's a clip from the upcoming Edward Norton film. In it, the green, anger-filled machine uses a police car as a set of boxing gloves. Check it out:

Warner Brothers has released the following press release, hyping Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins:

In the highly anticipated new installment of The Terminator film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators.

But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past.

As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

Nothing is definitive yet, but it appears that movie viewers could see Spider-Man 4 in theaters within the next three years. However, director Sam Raimi and stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst have not officially signed on to the project yet.

According to IESB, Marvel's vice chairman Peter Cuneo told the press during a conference call last week that the future of Spider-Man 4 is "up to Sony" with the most likely release date for the film being in either 2010 or 2011.

Cuneo added that Sony hopes to make Spider-Man 4 "within a reasonable timeframe" and that it "may be looking at some issues with the cast and so on, I think they have to make some decisions."

That's for sure. Would they really film the movie without Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst?