Posthumous
Jack Huston ("Boardwalk Empire") and Brit Marling ("Arbitrage") have signed to star in Lulu Wang's edgy dramatic comedy "Posthumous".
Huston plays a struggling artist whose artwork skyrockets in value when he is mistakenly thought to have killed himself. Posing as his own brother to keep up the charade, he befriends an enthusiastic reporter (Marling) who begins to show him the real value of life and art. [Source: Deadline]
Oldboy
James Ransone ("The Wire," "Inside Man") will replace Nate Parker in Spike Lee's upcoming "Oldboy" remake at Filmdistrict and Good Universe.
Ransone will play a doctor who works with Elizabeth Olsen's character. Parker had to leave the project due to his commitment to Dark Castle's "Non-Stop". [Source: Variety]
Ride Along
John Leguizamo is in negotiations to play an undercover cop in Tom Story's new comedy "Ride Along" at Universal.
Ice Cube and Kevin Hart star in the film which revolves...
Jack Huston ("Boardwalk Empire") and Brit Marling ("Arbitrage") have signed to star in Lulu Wang's edgy dramatic comedy "Posthumous".
Huston plays a struggling artist whose artwork skyrockets in value when he is mistakenly thought to have killed himself. Posing as his own brother to keep up the charade, he befriends an enthusiastic reporter (Marling) who begins to show him the real value of life and art. [Source: Deadline]
Oldboy
James Ransone ("The Wire," "Inside Man") will replace Nate Parker in Spike Lee's upcoming "Oldboy" remake at Filmdistrict and Good Universe.
Ransone will play a doctor who works with Elizabeth Olsen's character. Parker had to leave the project due to his commitment to Dark Castle's "Non-Stop". [Source: Variety]
Ride Along
John Leguizamo is in negotiations to play an undercover cop in Tom Story's new comedy "Ride Along" at Universal.
Ice Cube and Kevin Hart star in the film which revolves...
- 10/17/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Washington D.C.'s Ford's Theatre has just anounced the cast for their upcoming production of 1776. Featuring direction by Peter Flynn and choreography by Michael Bobbitt, the production will run March 9 through May 19. The star studded cast will include Robert Cuccioli as John Dickinson, Brooks Ashmanskas as John Adams, William Diggle as Thomas Jefferson, Gregory Maheu as Edward Rutledge, and Tom Story as Charles Thomson.
- 2/9/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Chris Brown is back… as a relationship expert. Err, what?
Proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Hollywood truly is the land of reinvention, the hot-headed bad boy singer-actor has signed on for a role in Tom Story's adaptation of Steve Harvey's best-selling book, "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man."
Harvey published the nonfiction book in 2009—the same year that Brown was arrested on domestic violence charges for felony abuse on his then-girlfriend, pop star Rihanna. In the book, Harvey provides "some valuable information" to empower women to deal with the men in their lives, Rolling Stone recounts. His idea was to teach women "what men really think about love, relationships, intimacy and commitment."
Brown joins an A-list cast that includes Gabrielle Union, Taraji P. Henson, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Hart, Lala Vazquez and Wendy Williams, among others.
The comedy is slated to hit theaters sometime next year,...
Proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Hollywood truly is the land of reinvention, the hot-headed bad boy singer-actor has signed on for a role in Tom Story's adaptation of Steve Harvey's best-selling book, "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man."
Harvey published the nonfiction book in 2009—the same year that Brown was arrested on domestic violence charges for felony abuse on his then-girlfriend, pop star Rihanna. In the book, Harvey provides "some valuable information" to empower women to deal with the men in their lives, Rolling Stone recounts. His idea was to teach women "what men really think about love, relationships, intimacy and commitment."
Brown joins an A-list cast that includes Gabrielle Union, Taraji P. Henson, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Hart, Lala Vazquez and Wendy Williams, among others.
The comedy is slated to hit theaters sometime next year,...
- 7/21/2011
- by Elizabeth Durand
- NextMovie
David Cronenberg's "A History of Violence" is a cleverly told "what if?" movie that raises significant questions about trust, redemption and forgiveness.
One of the Canadian director's more straightforward pictures, it should delight mainstream audiences who prefer their action pictures to have some depth of character, several twists in the plot and a satisfying conclusion.
What if you were a decent man, with a loving wife and two children, running a diner in a small town, and two hoodlums showed up at your place and called you by a different name?
Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) and his lawyer wife, Edie (Maria Bello), are happily raising two pleasant kids in Millbrook, Ind., when their world is rocked by an act of extreme violence.
The surprise is that it's easygoing Tom who commits the violence. When the two thugs in his diner go to kill a waitress, Tom leaps into action like a natural born killer, disposing of the assailants with merciless efficiency.
He is instantly hailed as an American hero and becomes the subject of national newspaper headlines and television news programs. Just as the furor appears to be dying down, three more hard-looking men in black suits and dark glasses enter Tom's diner.
Their leader has a fearsome scar that runs across his almost blind left eye to his cheek. The local sheriff later reveals the man to be one Carl Fogarty (Ed Harris), a well-known Philadelphia mobster who has emerged from 15 years in prison.
Fogarty says Tom's real name is "Joey", and he just smiles when Tom denies it. Tom is clearly at risk, and as the threat escalates, his family must deal with suspicion and fear until a bloody resolution finally resolves things.
Cronenberg is in fine mischievous form in "History of Violence". While the narrative is direct, screenwriter Josh Olson seeds it with misdirection and mixes a good amount of very smart humor into his violent story.
The story moves so swiftly that it's easy to overlook the fact that the media, which are all over Tom Story's at first, never show up again, and leaving fingerprints doesn't appear to bother anyone.
The film delves into the nature of violence and makes the discomfiting suggestion that it can be a good thing. Cronenberg makes the audience complicit in that by playing some scenes wittily to elicit audience sympathy.
The violence in the film is short, sharp and nasty, the way it almost always is when not highly stylized for the movies. Mortensen is immediately appealing as a small-town nice guy, and he somehow retains an aura of at least reluctance when forced to mete out stunning retribution.
Former "ER" star Bello deals superbly with the many levels of emotion stirred in her character as she must reassess the man she married while fighting to protect her children. Ashton Holmes does fine work as the son, and Heidi Hayes is eerily wise as the young daughter.
Harris makes his hoodlum thoroughly chilling, as does William Hurt, who shows up as wealthy thug who cannot figure out that the reason he is stalled in middle management of organized crime is his lack of intelligence, not the fault of others. They make a memorable pair of bad guys in a film that makes being a good guy sometimes very ambiguous.
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
New Line Cinema
Credits: Director: David Cronenberg; Screenwriter: Josh Olson; Producers: Chris Bender & JC Spink; Cinematographer: Peter Suschitzky; Production designer: Carol Spier; Editor: Ronald Sanders; Composer: Howard Shore. Cast: Tom Stall: Viggo Mortensen; Edie Stall: Maria Bello; Richie Cusack: William Hurt; Carl Fogarty: Ed Harris; Jack Stall: Ashton Holmes; Sarah Stall: Heidi Hayes; Leland Jones: Stephen McHattie; Billy Orser: Greg Bryk; Sheriff Sam Carney: Peter MacNeill.
No MPAA rating, running time 96 minutes...
One of the Canadian director's more straightforward pictures, it should delight mainstream audiences who prefer their action pictures to have some depth of character, several twists in the plot and a satisfying conclusion.
What if you were a decent man, with a loving wife and two children, running a diner in a small town, and two hoodlums showed up at your place and called you by a different name?
Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) and his lawyer wife, Edie (Maria Bello), are happily raising two pleasant kids in Millbrook, Ind., when their world is rocked by an act of extreme violence.
The surprise is that it's easygoing Tom who commits the violence. When the two thugs in his diner go to kill a waitress, Tom leaps into action like a natural born killer, disposing of the assailants with merciless efficiency.
He is instantly hailed as an American hero and becomes the subject of national newspaper headlines and television news programs. Just as the furor appears to be dying down, three more hard-looking men in black suits and dark glasses enter Tom's diner.
Their leader has a fearsome scar that runs across his almost blind left eye to his cheek. The local sheriff later reveals the man to be one Carl Fogarty (Ed Harris), a well-known Philadelphia mobster who has emerged from 15 years in prison.
Fogarty says Tom's real name is "Joey", and he just smiles when Tom denies it. Tom is clearly at risk, and as the threat escalates, his family must deal with suspicion and fear until a bloody resolution finally resolves things.
Cronenberg is in fine mischievous form in "History of Violence". While the narrative is direct, screenwriter Josh Olson seeds it with misdirection and mixes a good amount of very smart humor into his violent story.
The story moves so swiftly that it's easy to overlook the fact that the media, which are all over Tom Story's at first, never show up again, and leaving fingerprints doesn't appear to bother anyone.
The film delves into the nature of violence and makes the discomfiting suggestion that it can be a good thing. Cronenberg makes the audience complicit in that by playing some scenes wittily to elicit audience sympathy.
The violence in the film is short, sharp and nasty, the way it almost always is when not highly stylized for the movies. Mortensen is immediately appealing as a small-town nice guy, and he somehow retains an aura of at least reluctance when forced to mete out stunning retribution.
Former "ER" star Bello deals superbly with the many levels of emotion stirred in her character as she must reassess the man she married while fighting to protect her children. Ashton Holmes does fine work as the son, and Heidi Hayes is eerily wise as the young daughter.
Harris makes his hoodlum thoroughly chilling, as does William Hurt, who shows up as wealthy thug who cannot figure out that the reason he is stalled in middle management of organized crime is his lack of intelligence, not the fault of others. They make a memorable pair of bad guys in a film that makes being a good guy sometimes very ambiguous.
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
New Line Cinema
Credits: Director: David Cronenberg; Screenwriter: Josh Olson; Producers: Chris Bender & JC Spink; Cinematographer: Peter Suschitzky; Production designer: Carol Spier; Editor: Ronald Sanders; Composer: Howard Shore. Cast: Tom Stall: Viggo Mortensen; Edie Stall: Maria Bello; Richie Cusack: William Hurt; Carl Fogarty: Ed Harris; Jack Stall: Ashton Holmes; Sarah Stall: Heidi Hayes; Leland Jones: Stephen McHattie; Billy Orser: Greg Bryk; Sheriff Sam Carney: Peter MacNeill.
No MPAA rating, running time 96 minutes...
- 5/17/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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