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I saw the end of Cruel Intentions today, a movie I've never seen before. The ending totally confused me! When Ryan Phillippe's character got hit by the car, I was thinking What the fuck, that's so stupid but then at the end, they made it seem like they faked the death so that Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon's characters can be together. I think now I need to go rent the movie so I can watch the whole thing and not get so confused.
Milos Forman will direct Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem and Stellan Skarsgard in Goya's Ghosts, the story of the last years of the Spanish Inquisition, when the Church tortured and executed suspected Jews, as told by legendary painter Francisco de Goya (Skarsgard). Portman plays Goya's muse, Ines, and Bardem plays Brother Lorenzo, a sinister monk. Portman is also joining Dustin Hoffman for the fantasy Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Hoffman plays the titular eccentric toy-shop owner who wants to help Portman out of her funk by leaving her his store.
Goran Visnjic, best known for playing Kovac on TV's ER, is now one of the top contenders to play Agent 007, a.k.a. Bond, James Bond, in October 2006's Casino Royale.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford may reunite for an adaptation of Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. The travel book is about two friends who hike through the American wilderness. Newman and Redford also co-starred in The Sting.
Whoopi Goldberg, William H. Macy, Brian Dennehy, Robert Wagner, Raven Symone, Rob Reiner, Mandy Patinkin, Dana Reeve, Richard Kind and New York Yankees manager Joe Torre will provide voices for IDT Entertainment Animation's Yankee Irving. Superman Christopher Reeve was directing the computer-animated project from his home at the time of his death last October. Irving is about a boy who travels across the country to return Babe Ruth's bat before the deciding game of the 1932 World Series.
Bruce Willis and Halle Berry are teaming up for Revolution Studios' psychological thriller Perfect Stranger. Berry plays a woman who goes undercover online and offline to investigate a friend's murder. Willis plays one of Berry's chief suspects.
Nicole Kidman will produce and possibly star in the big screen adaptation of Karen McCullah Lutz's novel The Bachelorette Party.
The 40-Year-Old Virgin's Steve Carell will star in Evan Almighty, the sequel to Universal's successful comedy Bruce Almighty. The project was originally supposed to star Bruce's Jim Carrey, but he passed. However, Morgan Freeman is in negotiations to reprise his role as God. Carell had a small role in the original as a newscaster, and Evan will put his character on a quest to build an ark in preparation for a great flood. With these kind of things, usually if the big star doesn't come back, it won't be good despite how many of the supporting players come back. A man has been arrested for allegedly trespassing after he walked into Bruce Almighty co-star Jennifer Aniston's home waying he was looking for the actress. A judge has signed off on the divorce of Aniston and Brad Pitt, but under California law, the couple's split won't be official until October 2, according to court records obtained by the Associated Press August 22. Mary Louise Parker has signed on to play Zee James, wife of the legendary outlaw, in The Assassination of Jesse James. Pitt plays James and Casey Affleck plays Robert Ford, the man who assassinated James.
Will Smith is teaming up with his son, Jaden Smith, for Columbia Pictures' The Pursuit of Happyness. Will plays a marginally-employed salesman who gets custody of his son (Jaden) just as he is about to begin a career-making stock brokerage intern program.
Keanu Reeves and Catherine Zeta-Jones are in talks to star in Unfaithful director Adrian Lyne's Stompanato, the story of Johnny Stompanato, the hoodlem killed by the teen daughter of his girlfriend, actress Lana Turner.
Anthony Hopkins and Demi Moore will star in the Emilio Estevez-directed ensemble drama Bobby. The story is about the intertwining lives of the people present at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel the night Robert Kennedy was assassinated. Estevez and Moore co-starred in St. Elmo's Fire.
Sandra Bullock is in talks to star in the ghost thriller Premonition, about a housewife whose husband dies in a car crash only to reappear alive the next day.
Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo and Anna Paquin are teaming up on Fox Searchlight's drama Margaret for writer-director Kenneth Lonergan. Margaret revolves around a New York teenager, her actress mother and the girl who tries to make amends for her complicity in a terrible traffic accident. Damon will also be returning for the third film in the Bourne trilogy, The Bourne Ultimatum. The two previous flicks, The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, have grossed more than $500 million at the worldwide box office.
A Very Long Engagement's Marion Cotillard will star opposite Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott's A Good Year. Based on Peter Mayle's novel of the same name, Year is about a failed London banker (Crowe) who moves to Provence to take care of a vineyard inherited from his uncle (Albert Finney). Upon his arrival, he comes across a woman (Cotillard) who says she is a long-lost cousin and lays claim to the property. Cotillard and Finney previously appeared together in Tim Burton's Big Fish.
Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke and Thomas Jane are teaming up for the Weinstein Co's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's thriller Killshot.
Christopher Guest, the filmmaker behind Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind, is starting work on For Your Consideration for Castle Rock Entertainment. Consideration revolves around three actors, shooting a small indie film, whose lives turn upside-down when buzz starts that their performances are awards-worthy. Ricky Gervais will star in addition to Guest's usual suspects: Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Parker Posey, Jennifer Coolidge, Bob Balaban, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean.
Jodie Foster is in talks to star in the Warner Bros. urban suspense thriller The Brave One as a woman who seeks revenge after being brutally attacked. The Accused Part II, anyone?
Oscar-winner Chris Cooper (Adaptation) and Ryan Phillippe (Crash) are teaming up for Universal Pictures' espionage thriller Breach. The story, based on true events, centers on an aspiring FBI agent (Phillippe) who is handpicked to work for a renowned operative within information assurance, a new division created to protect all classified FBI intelligence. The Recruit Part Two??!!
Training Day's Antoine Fuqua will direct Paramount's action-adventure flick By Any Means Necessary, which centers on law enforcement turning to a jailed mobster to hep prevent a possible terrorist attack.
Tom Wilkinson, Nick Stahl, Selma Blair and Frances Fisher have signed on for writer-director Amy Talkington's indie comedy The Night of the White Pants. The story follows a Dallas power broker on a night with his daughter's punk rocker boyfriend.
Chloe Sevigny (Broken Flowers, Boys Don't Cry) is joining Jake Gyllenhaal for filmmaker David Fincher's Zodiac, based on the story of the Zodiac killer who terrorized the San Francisco area from 1966 to 1978.
War of the Worlds' Justin Chatwin and newcomer Margarita Levieva will star in Spyglass Entertainment's supernatural drama Invisible. The story is based on a Swedish film, which follows a young man (Chatwin) who is attacked and left for dead, then fights against time, finding himself invisible to the living, and racing against time to find his body before he really dies. (Seriously?!) The only person who can save him is his attacker (Levieva).
Radha Mitchell (Finding Neverland) and Paddy Considine (Cinderella Man) will star in PU-239, which is part black comedy and part crime drama. PU follows a nuclear facility technician (Considine) who, after an accident, travels to Moscow with his wife (Mitchell) in search of work and finds his life intersecting with that of a Russian gangster.
Peter Krause (TV's Six Feet Under) and Khaled Abol Naga are teaming up for director Jeff Renfroe's Civic Duty. Krause plays an American accountant obsessed with terrorist plots and cable news who gets a jolt when an unattached grad student (Abol Naga) moves in next door.
Devon Sawa (Idle Hands, Final Destination) has signed on to star in the indie horror/sci-fi flick Hunter's Moon. The movie tells the story of four young couples drawn to the remote dunes for off-roading until they are attacked by the "Catcher," a brutal hunter of human specimans for alien science. You have got to be kidding me. This is for real?!
James McAvoy has signed on to headline the cast of director Tom Vaughan's Starter for Ten as a working-class student who stumbles romantically and academically through his first year at a private university in England.
Paramount Pictures is updating the '70s TV show Battle of the Network Stars for a film comedy, which will revolve around a disgraced network exec who must claw his way back to respectability by winning the contest.
The MPAA has vetoed already distributed promotional materials for Saw II due to artwork featuring severed fingers. Lions Gate Films has agreed to comply.
Former studio exec Sid Ganis has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Ganis replaces Frank Pierson, who served the maximum of four consecutive one-year terms. Two-time Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks has been voted in as vice president of AMPAS, which is the organization that started and runs the Oscars.
Alec Baldwin will receive the Linda McCartney Memorial Award at PETA's 25th anniversary gala September 10 for his work on the short documentary Meet Your Meat, which PETA officials say has helped bring about policy changes at Burger King.
Joaquin Phoenix (Gladiator, Ladder 49) is denying reports that he had a breakdown on the set of the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, claiming he was merely acting when he banged his head against a bedpost in a scene.
Brock Peters, best known for his role as Tom Robinson, the falsely accused rapist defended by Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 78.
Nicole Kidman will star in German director Oliver Hirschbiegel's Invasion, a remake of the 1956 sci-fi horror classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Invasion centers on Carol (Kidman), a woman who uncovers a conspiracy in a small town where the inhabitants' personalities seem to be changing. Kidman will also star in Wong Kar-Wai's A Lady From Shanghai as a glamorus woman who is in danger and in love with a spy.
Russell Crowe is reuniting with Gladiator director Ridley Scott for A Good Year, which follows a London banker who moves to Provence, France. Year is based on Peter Mayle's novel.
20th Century Fox is updating the Charlie Chan series with a new film starring Lucy Liu as the granddaughter of the fictional Chinese-American detective. Liu will also executive produce. A jury has convicted photographer John Rutter of attempted grand theft, forgery and perjury in connection with his attempts to sell topless photos of Liu's Charlie's Angels co-star Cameron Diaz without her consent. Rutter was taken into custody immediately and faces up to six years behind bars once he is sentenced on September 17. Diaz has also accepted undisclosed libel damages and a public apology from British tabloid The Sun after it published a story alleging that she was seen making out with married television producer Shane Nickerson. The paper now acknowleges the incident involved nothing more than a "goodbye hug" between friends.
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Maria Bello will play the wives of Port Authority officers rescued from the World Trade Center in Oliver Stone's upcoming 9/11 movie. The duo joins Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena, who play two Port Authority officers.
Paul Walker is joining Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford and Adam Beach for the Clint Eastwood-directed World War II film Flags of Our Fathers. That should be a helluva lot better than Fast and the Furious 3.
Jeff Bridges, Shia LaBeouf, James Woods, Zooey Deschanel, Jane Krakowski and Jon Heder are providing some of the voices for Sony Pictures Animation's CGI film Surf's Up.
The foursome of movies released July 22 (Bad News Bears, The Devil's Rejects, Hustle & Flow, The Island) performed poorly at the box office for the weekend of July 22-24, stopping the two week break from the 19-week box office slump. The slump was stopped by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wedding Crashers and Fantastic Four, which remained the top three, respectively, for the second week in a row. Producers pulled printable Purple Hearts advertised as a gimmick to pick up women from the Wedding Crashers website July 25 after complaints from Vietnam vets. This summer's box office giant, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, will be released on DVD November 1 on a two-disc set, complete with all the bells and whistles.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has announced the schedule for the 78th Annual Academy Awards. The actual ceremony will take place at the Kodak Theater on Sunday, March 5, 2006, and will start at 8 p.m. (ET) with ABC's preshow starting at 7:30. The nominations for the 2006 Oscars will be announced Thursday, January 31, 2006, at 8:30 a.m. (ET). Yay!
Disney named Daniel Battsek the new president of Miramax Films July 25. Battsek will replace the Weinstein brothers upon their departure on September 30. The Weinstein brothers, Bob and Harvey, who founded Miramax before it was bought up by Disney, are leaving after budget and project disputes to start a new production company, the Weinstein Co. Click here for more.
Jodie Foster will direct and most likely star in Sugar Kings, a drama from Tribeca and Universal. Kings is about a young lawyer who teams with a veteran public-interest attorney to take on powerful sugar barons who are exploiting cane-cutting migrant workers.
Bride & Prejudice's Aishwarya Rai is joining Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Thomas Sangster and John Hannah for Dino De Laurentiis' production of the epic The Last Legion. The action-adventure film, based on Valerio Massimo Manfredi's bestseller, is set during the fall of the Roman Empire. With the help of teacher Abrosinus (Firth) and legionnaire Aurelius (Kingsley), 12-year-old Romulus Augustus escapes to make a last stand for Rome.
Dukes of Hazzard's Jessica Simpson has signed on for Major Movie Star to play an actress who has hit rock-bottom and enlists in the marine reserve. Simpson says she's doing the movie as an homage to Goldie Hawn's Private Benjamin.
Crash's Brendan Fraser will star in director Roger Spottiswoode's historical drama The Bitter Sea. The film is based on the true story of British journalist George Hogg, who saved a group of children during the Japanese invasion of China in 1937.
The Bourne Identity's Gabriel Mann is joining Pete Postlethwaite, Bruce McGill, Diana Scarwid and Tom Bower for the indie film Valley in the Heart's Delight. The film tells the true story of two lynchings that took place in the early 1930s in reaction to the kidnapping of the son of a prominent local businessman.
Bob Hope's remains have been moved from a mausoleum to the new Bob Hope Memorial Garden in the San Fernando Valley two years after his death. The garden opened July 29 as a place where friends and family can remember the comic legend.
Hong Kong will mark kung-fu movie legend Bruce Lee's 65th birthday on November 27 with a bronze statue of the late actor, the Bruce Lee Club announced.
Sin City co-star Brittany Murphy has inked a deal to star in a new ad campaign for Jordache jeans.
Housekeeper Lucyna Turyk-Wawrynowicz has pled not guilty to charges that she stole from celebrity clients including Robert DeNiro and Candice Bergen.
Monster-in-Law Jane Fonda has announced plans to take a cross-country bus tour next year to call for an end to U.S. military operations in Iraq. Fonda will be joined by families of Iraq war veterans on her trip. Hanoi Jane Part Deux?
People reports that Lord of the Rings' Sean Astin and his wife Christine have welcomed baby girl Isabella Louise Astin into the world. Isabella is the couple's third child. Yay for Sam!
Reservoir Dogs' Mr. Blue, crime novelist and convicted felon Edward Bunker, has died due to complications from surgery to improve circulation in his legs. He was 71.
George D. Wallace, an actor best known for playing Commando Cody in the film Radar Men From the Moon, has died at age 88.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's Chow Yun-Fat will co-star in Pirates of the Caribbean 3 as Captain Sao Feng, a notorious pirate who plays a major role in the second sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Both sequels are currently filming back-to-back. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest will hit theaters in July 2006, and 3 will be released in the summer of 2007. Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are back for both as well.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt stopped in Ethiopia July 7 to pick up the baby girl Jolie is adopting, Zahara Marley Jolie, who was orphaned by AIDS. Jolie adopted her three-year-old son, Maddox, from an orphanage in Cambodia in 2002.
Nicolas Cage will star in Paramount's production of director Oliver Stone's untitled feature about the rescue of two Port Authority police officers from the rubble of the World Trade Center.
Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford and Adam Beach have signed on for the Clint Eastwood-directed Flags of Our Fathers, a World War II epic that tells the story of the troops who fought the battle of Iwo Jima. Phillippe's Crash co-star Brendan Fraser is teaming up with Mos Def, Catalina Sandino-Moreno and Alice Braga for Millennium Films' thriller Journey to the End of the Night for writer-director Eric Eason. Journey is the story of a son and father separately planning to escape the desolation of their lives.
Revelations Entertainment, a firm co-founded by Morgan Freeman, is teaming up with Intel to form a digital entertainment company called ClickStar that will make first-run movies available to consumers online. More declining box office numbers.
Batman Begins' Gary Oldman has signed on for director David Fincher's thriller Zodiac. Oldman plays San Francisco attorney Melvin Belli, who received letters from the Zodiac killer in 1969.
Warner Home Video will release two new remastered DVD editions of The Wizard of Oz. The two-disc set will contain loads of extras and a new digital transfer, while the three-disc set adds a new documentary on Oz author L. Frank Baum.
Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production company will develop and produce a feature film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle. No word on if DiCaprio will star as well. This week, DiCaprio also bought Blackadore Caye off the coast of Belize, where he hopes to build a resort with renewable energy resources.
Jackie Chan is blaming co-star Chris Tucker for the delay in making Rush Hour 3. Chan says that Tucker has too many demands for the movie's final cut.
Marisa Tomei, Craig Bierko and Regina Hall are teaming up for the psychological thriller Danika. Tomei is the title character, a woman whose fears for her children are manifested in premonitions of death and disaster. Bierko plays Tomei's husband, while Hall is her psychiatrist.
A group has raised money to build a 10-foot statue of actor James Garner in front of the Sooner Theater in his hometown of Norman, Oklahoma, as well as dedicate a James Garner Commemorative Plaza, which they plan to open in April 2006.
Zsa Zsa Gabor suffered a stroke July 6. The 89-year-old actress was taken to a Los Angeles hospital, where she underwent emergency surgery to clear a blocked artery. Her husband, Frederic von Anhelt, announced July 7 that Gabor is in "intensive care, critical but stable."
Screenwriter-producer Ernest Lehman, whose credits include North By Northwest, The Sound of Music, West Side Story and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, has died. He was 89. Lehman became the first screenwriter to receive the Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 2001.
Dawnette Knight, who pled no contest to stalking Catherine Zeta-Jones and making criminal threats, has been sentenced to three years in prison. In other legal news, Roy Disney and Stanley Gold have dropped their shareholder lawsuit challenging Disney's selection for CEO after expressing confidence in CEO-elect Bob Iger.