Tom Cruise about the search for Horizons' female lead

Each time Tom Cruise signs on for any role, he appears to possess his select from the cream of youthful, female talent to experience opposite him.It had not been sometime ago that Rosamund Pike beat of competition from Hayley Atwell and Alexa Davalos to star over night, and it appears that your competition for brand new film Horizons (formerly Oblivion) is even firmer.Showblitz reviews that Jessica Chastain, Olivia Wilde, Noomi Rapace, Brit Marling and Olga Kurylenko are ready to check opposite Cruise within the coming days. Whether they'll be heading mind-to-mind remains to appear, as you will find two significant female parts within the script.The film happens inside a publish-apocalyptic future, by which humans have to reside in clouds above an unliveable Earth. Cruise will have a soldier positioned on the planet to be able to focus on a number of drones billed with determining and getting rid of a malevolent alien threat.Among the two female roles is going to be as Cruise's military # 2 and off-duty lover, although another would be the fiancée he was engaged to before Earth was penetrated by aliens.While we are totally shooting at nighttime here, we'd reckon that Wilde, Kurylenko and Rapace suit you perfectly for that former part, while Chastain and Marling appear better suitable for the second.The film is going to be directed by Tron: Legacy's Frederick Kosinski, and was modified in the graphic novel Oblivion. One Shot is Cruise's next project, so we'd expect production to start on that one early the coming year.

Caleb Landry Jones Joins Byzantium

Neil Jordan's new vampire picHe was last seen screaming up a storm (for heroic reasons, not because someone just poked him with a stick) as Banshee in X-Men: First Class, but now it looks like Caleb Landry Jones will have a real reason to scream, as he's locked in for a role in Neil Jordan's return to all things vampiric, Byzantium. Adapted by Moira Buffini from her own play, the film will see Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as a mother and daughter who just so happen to be vampires. They arrive in a small British seaside town, where Ronan joins the local school and stands up in class to announce that she's a member of the fang club. Naturally, her peers think she's joking, but soon learn the truth. She'll form a closer relationship with Jones' teenager, a lad dying of leukaemia and confronting his mortality, which in turn causes Ronan to ponder her immortality. Jordan is getting set to make the film later this year with Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen producing via their Number 9 company after they picked up the rights to Buffini's work in 2009.

Debut Poster and Three New Pics from Lars von Trier's 'Melancholia'

Between his permanent ban from the Cannes Film Festival to his being an unintentional inspiration for the Norway Killer, it's been a rough few months for writer/director Lars von Trier. Granted, he brought the ban upon himself, but at least he's got the release of his award-winning 'Melancholia' to brighten things up. And thanks to the crew at Vulture, we now have our first look at the official poster and three new stills to make the wait that much easier. 'Melancholia' is about a bride (Kirsten Dunst) whose wedding day turns into a fiasco when her strained relationship with her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) comes to a head. All the while, the bride discovers a small planet that's on a collision course with Earth to end life as we know it. Co-starring Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgard, and John Hurt, among others; written and directed by Lars von Trier. Click through to check out the poster, images and official trailer for von Trier's latest that makes one fantastic case for eloping. As much as we're looking forward to its theatrical release on November 11 (premiering On Demand on October 7), it sure has been hard getting behing Lars von Trier these days. So do you think 'Melancholia' is going to repair von Trier's tarnished image? [via Vulture]

The Odd Life Of Timothy Green Trailer

He's a force of nature.... The Odd Life of Timothy Green posits a very different answer to the question of what a childless couple would do if they had tried everything to conceive without success. Instead of going down the adoption or fostering route (or, say, getting a dog), the film finds Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton writing all their wishes for their dream kid on pieces of paper and, er, burying them in a box in the backyard. Can you guess what happens next? Even if not, the trailer provides the answer below. We're pretty certain co-writer/director Peter Hedges and co-writer Ahmet Zappa were aiming for a uplifting, cockle-warming family fantasy confection, but this trailer, even with the charm-heavy presence of Edgerton and Garner, has moments that feel almost more like a horror movie. After all, how would you react if a lad, who had seemingly crawled out of the ground, arrived at your back door one night covered in mud and started calling you mum and dad? Chances are it would not end in a mug of cocoa and a round of hugs, but a swift summoning of the local constabulary...Still, we're sure as we see more footage, the heartstring-tugging moments will become clear. Disney hasn't set an official UK release date for this one just yet, though it's likely to arrive next year.

Russell Crowe Signs On For Mayoral Run In 'Broken City'

EXCLUSIVE: Russell Crowe is set to star alongside Mark Wahlberg in the Allen Hughes-directed independently financed noir drama Broken City. Production begins in November. Wahlberg plays an ex-cop-turned-private detective who is hired by the mayor (the role Crowe will play) to see if his wife is cheating on him. The private eye confirms those suspicions, and when the mayor's wife's cheating partner ends up dead, the private eye immerses himself in the mayor's business and uncovers a real estate scandal that involves the pol dealing himself choice city-owned properties. The script by Brian Tucker made the 2008 Black List script. The $60 million film will be financed by Emmett/Furla Films. Wahlberg is producing through his Closest to the Hole banner, Stephen Levinson through Leverage, and Randall Emmett, George Furla and Hughes are also producing. Wahlberg and Levinson, partners on Entourage and Boardwalk Empire, just wrapped the drama Contraband. Crowe is playing the small role of Jor-El in the Superman reboot Man of Steel, and just wrapped The Man With The Iron Fists. Emmett/Furla Films has stepped up the volume of films it is financing and producing. They just come aboard with Summit and QED to co-finance the Rob Cohen-directed Tyler Perry-starrer I, Alex Cross based on the James Patterson mystery series, and set Nicolas Cage and John Cusack to star in the fact-based Alaskan murder mystery The Frozen Ground, with Scott Walker directing his script. With Wild Bunch, EFF funded the Stephen Fears-directed Lay The Favorite, starring Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rebecca Hall and Vince Vaughn; EFF is about to begin production on the $25 million Fire With Fire with Willis and Josh Duhamel; and the company will partner with Groundswell Productions to fund Captive and is in pre-production with Exclusive Media to co-finance the David Ayer-directed Jake Gyllenhaal-starrer End of Watch.Crowe is repped by WME.

My Week With Marilyn to possess World Premiere at NY Film Festival

Michelle Williams fans rejoice: Word approximately the Movieline transom has introduced My Week With Marilyn, the storyplot of 1 youthful guy’s brush with Lana Turner, Laurence Olivier and Arthur Burns within the summer time of 1956, because the Focal point choice of this season’s New You are able to Film Festival. Williams plays the legendary siren in director Simon Curtis’s film, became a member of by Eddie Redmayne within the lead as youthful Colin Clark and Kenneth Branagh as Mister Laurence. “After seeing Lana Turner so frequently described in films like a caricature, it's a pleasure to determine this complex personality and different on-screen presence described so well by this type of gifted actress as Michelle Williams,” stated festival chief Richard Pea inside a statement the Film Society of Lincoln subsequently Center has slated the premiere for Sunday, March. 9 (The Weinstein Company will release My Week With Marilyn on November. 4), and general tickets continue purchase Sept. 12. A number of other programming notes supported the announcement, including a unique screening of the restored Ben-Hur along with a massive retrospective honoring the 100th anniversary of Japanese studio Nikkatsu Films. Full particulars below, and expect a lot more in the future at Movieline because the 49th NYFF approaches this fall… =============== New You are able to, NY, August 4, 2011 — The Film Society of Lincoln subsequently Center introduced today that Simon Curtis’ MY WEEK WITH MARILYN can make its World Premiere because the Focal point Gala selection, screening at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday, October 9 for that approaching 49th New You are able to Film Festival (September 30 - October 16). “After seeing Lana Turner so frequently described in films like a caricature, it's a pleasure to determine this complex personality and different on-screen presence described so well by this type of gifted actress as Michelle Williams,” states Richard Pea, Selection Committee Chair & Program Director, The Film Society of Lincoln subsequently Center. Depending on Colin Clark’s journals, MY WEEK WITH MARILYN, is occur the first summer time of 1956, whenever a 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just lower from Oxford and going to make his means by the film business, labored like a lowly assistant about the group of THE PRINCE And Also The SHOWGIRL. It had been the film that notoriously u . s . Mister Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Lana Turner (Michelle Williams), who had been also on honeymoon together with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Burns (Dougray Scott). Nearly 4 decades on, Clark’s diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was released, but 1 week didn't have - that was released some years later as My Week with Marilyn. This is actually the story of this week. When Arthur Burns leaves England, the coast is obvious for Clark introducing Monroe to a few of the pleasures of British existence an idyllic week by which he escorted a Monroe who had been desperate to escape her retinue of Hollywood wardrobe hangers-on and also the demands of labor. Created by David Parfitt, the Weinstein Company release also stars Dominic Cooper, Judi Dench, Julia Ormond, Zoe Wanamaker, Emma Watson, Toby Johnson, Philip Jackson, Geraldine Somerville, Derek Jacobi and Simon Russell Beale. The film is placed for any November 4 release. NYFF will even feature a thrilling selection of Masterworks presentations including a unique screening of the 8K Digital restored version of William Wyler’s sword and sandals epic BEN-HUR (1959), Nicholas Ray’s We Are Able To’T Go Back Home AGAIN (1973) as well as an ambitious celebration from the approaching 100th Anniversary of Japan’s Nikkatsu Films featuring tests of 36 films including classics for example Kon Ichikawa’s THE BURMESE HARP (1956), Masahiro Makino’s SINGING LOVE Wild birds (1936), Ko Nakahira’s CRAZED FRUIT (1956), Shohei Imamura’s PIGS AND BATTLESHIPS (1961) and Seijun Suzuki’s Tokyo, japan DRIFTER (1966). The screening from the lately restored version of Wyler’s classic BEN-HUR can have from the epic starring Charlton Heston and perhaps the finest chariot race placed on film with an 8K Digital print which returns the film to its original aspect ratio. Ray’s rarely seen experimental film We Are Able To’T Go Back Home AGAIN was initially made together with the late director’s film students called the subject of subsequent editing by Ray before his dying in 1979. Ray’s widow supervised the restoration from the “multi-narrative” film, highlighting between film and visual arts, that was created like a teaching tool - instructing filmmaking through practice versus theory. Founded upon the consolidation of countless production companies and theater chains, Nikkatsu Corporation has loved a wealthy good reputation for film production and distribution since 1912. Ever since then, notable company directors for example Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, Shozo Makino and the boy Masahiro Makino, Ko Nakahira, Shohei Imamura and Seijun Suzuki make films underneath the Nikkatsu banner. Throughout World War Ii, Nikkatsu was intentionally coupled with other Japanese galleries to create a large, government-affected studio, however in 1954 the organization started again production under its control. Trying to find its niche within the flourishing postwar Japanese film industry, Nikkatsu moved in to the youth market using its stirring screen adaptation of Shintaro Ishihara’s SEASON From The SUN. A massive success, Nikkatsu rapidly accompanied having a wave of comparable works oriented for that youth market. Because the style of these youth films started to wane in early 60s, Nikkatsu released a number of hard-boiled action films that remain possibly the organization’s most widely known period worldwide. Brought by such action stars as Shishedo Joe, Yujiro Ishihara and Hideaki Nitani, Nikkatsu action introduced a brand new type of protagonist, frequently cynical and also at odds having a society revealed to become totally corrupt. Affected by American B movies, Nikkatsu action would itself be considered a key relation to the Hong Kong gunplay films years later. With aging action stars along with a public searching for new things, Nikkatsu within the 70s produced “Roman Porno,” romantic pornography, a number of soft-core erotic films that featured real (if frequently bizarre) plots and stars. The continual change in production enabled Nikkatsu to remain lucrative while other Japanese galleries were either closing or switching to television. Yet through the 90s, Nikkkatsu was itself instructed to declare personal bankruptcy and re-organize. Despite alterations in possession since that time, Nikkatsu has continued to be continuously in production, branching out into new genre for example horror, fighting techinques as well as family drama. Because it approaches its centenary, Nikkatsu’s motto “We Make Fun Films” remains as true today because it is at its golden era. A brand new generation of filmgoers are finding its classic films and filmmakers, inspiring not just the re-discharge of films using their catalogue but producing remakes too. Organized through the Film Society of Lincoln subsequently Center with Nikkatsu Corporation, the Japan Foundation and also the National Film Center of Japan, this Centenary Celebration of Nikkatsu is going to be tested later this season in the Festival of three Continents in Nantes, France, in addition to in the Cinematheque Franaise. Nikkatsu 100th Anniversary Retrospective Selection AKANISHI KAKITA (1936) 77min Director: Mansaku Itami THE BURMESE HARP (Biruma no Tategoto) (1956) 115min Director: Kon Ichikawa CHARISMA (Karisuma) (1999) 103min Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa COLD Seafood (Tsumetai Nettaigyo) (2010) 144min Director: Sion Sono A COLT IS MY PASSPORT (Colt ' Oreno Passport) (1967) 85min Director: Takashi Nomura CRAZED FRUIT (Kurutta Kajitsu) (1956) 86min Director: Ko Nakahira DANCER IN IZU (Izo no Odoriko) (1963) 87min Director: Katsumi Nisikawa A DIARY OF CHUJI’S TRAVELS (Chiji Tabi Nikki: Part 1 and Part 2) (1927) 107min Director: Daisuke Ito EARTH (1939) 92min Director: Tomu Uchida GATE OF FLESH (Nikutai no Mon) (1964) 90min Director: Seijun Suzuki THE HELL-FATED COURTESAN (Maruhi: Joro Seme Jigoku) (1973) 77min Director: Noboru Tanaka Home town 86min Director: Kenji Mizoguchi I Lookup After I WALK (also known as Keep The Pull Up) (Uewo Muite Arukou) (1962) 91min Director: Toshio Masuda INTENTIONS OF MURDER (Akai Satsui) (1964) 150min Director: Shohei Imamura Violence (Aru Kyohaku) (1960) 65min Director: Koreyosji Kurahara LOVE HOTEL (1985) 88min Director: Shinji Somae Specialized CLOTH (also known as JIROKICHI THE RAT) (Oatsurae Jirokichi Koshi) (1931) 70min Director: Daisuke Ito **Screening with: JIRAIYA THE NINJA (Goketsu Jiraiya) (1921) 30min Director: Shozo Makino Dirt AND SOLDIERS (Tsuchi to Heitai) (1936) 120min Director: Tomotaka Tasaka THE Earliest PROFESSION (Maruhi: Shikiyo Mesu Ichiba) (1974) 83min Director: Noboru Tanaka PIGS AND BATTLESHIPS (Buta to Gunkan) (1961) 108min Director: Shohei Imamura A POT WORTH Millions Of RYO (Tange Sazen Hyakuman Ryou no Tsubo) (1935) 92min Director: Sadao Yamanaka RETALIATION (Shima ' Moratta) (1967) 94min Director: Yasuharu Hasebe RUSTY KNIFE (Sabita Knife) (1958) 90min Director: Toshio Masuda SEASON From The SUN (Taiyo no Kisetsu) (1956) 89min Director: Takumi Furukawa SINGING LOVE Wild birds (Oshidori Uta Gassen) (1936) 69min Director: Masahiro Makino STRAY CAT ROCK: SEX HUNTER (Noraneko Rock: Sex Hunter) (1970) 86min Director: Yasuharu Hasebe SUN Within The Last Times Of THE SHOGUNATE (also known as Shinagawa Path) (Bakumatsu Taiyoden) (1957) 110min Director: Yuzo Kawashima SUZUKI PARADISE: Red-colored LIGHT (Suzuki Paradise: Also known as Shingo) (1956) 81min Director: Yuzo Kawashima TAKE Are Designed For Law Enforcement VAN Jusango Taihisen Yori: Sono Gososha wo Nerae) (1960) 79min Director: Seijun Suzuki THE Inked FLOWER VASE (Kashinno Irezumi: Ureta Tsubo) (1979) 74min Director: Masaru Konuma TEN NIGHTS OF DREAMS (Yume Juya) (2007) 110min Director: Various TILL WE MEET AGAIN (Ashita Kuru Hito) (1955) 115min Director: Yuzo Kawashima Tokyo, japan DRIFTER (Tokyo, japan Nagaremono) (1966) 83min Director: Seijun Suzuki THE WARPED ONES (1960) 108min Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara THE Lady WITH Red-colored HAIR (Akai Kami no Onna) (1979) 73min Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro An Enormous Amount Of GEISHA (Yojyohan Fusuma no Urabari) (1973) 77min Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro ###

CBS' A Gifted Guy Will Explore the Upstairs-Downstairs, Science versus. Belief Sides of drugs

Patrick Wilson, A Gifted Guy In CBS' new medical drama A Gifted Guy, Patrick Wilson stars like a hotshot neurosurgeon whose dead ex-wife (Jennifer Ehle) all of a sudden seems, requesting his help in the free clinic she left in her own wake. Executive producer Neal Baer, who lately went Law & Order: SVU as well as done ER, stated that, like other medical dramas, A Gifted Guy would feature the "really intimate" situation tales of patients. The "twist," he stated, is available in Wilson's character, Dr. Michael Holt, who definitely are irritatingly reminded of his previous existence like a doctor through the spirit of his ex. CBS sets 2 . 5 Males, Generate An Income Met Your Mother premiere dates "Just blocks away, his ex wife was managing a clinic that provided take care of [many] those who are not insured." Baer stated throughout CBS' fall TV previews on Wednesday. "This the very first show available to exhibit the upstairs-downstairs of drugs... Michael reaches a genuine crossroads in the existence... and he's now caught between mobile phone industry's." But it is not as sentimental as everything either. As the late Anna wants Michael to assist her less fortunate clientele, she's not really a conventional angel. "She does not always desire to be there," Ehle states. "She does not possess the luxury to be gone." Rather, Anna remains aware of the sorry condition of her clinic and her without insurance patients. "The only method she might do anything whatsoever is thru him, and he's resistant." Rachel Lefevre inspections right into a Gifted Guy She's also not without defects. "She's complicated like everybody else is," executive producer Sarah Timberman stated. Later on episodes, Michael will become familiar with Anna was involved with a lengthy-term relationship during the time of her dying, along with the proven fact that "she did not leave [the clinic] within the best budget,Inch Baer stated. "She's not perfect." For the instances that anchor the weekly episodes, Baer stated they'd be "incredibly tough medical tales," similar to individuals that marked his previous hospital drama ER. They'll test Michael's character in questions of "ethics, belief, how to proceed, how to get it done,Inch Baer stated. "He saw themself as an individual who just operated, and today [Anna] is forcing him to cope with things, in addition to why he's shut themself from others.Inch A Gifted Guy is placed to air on Fridays at 8, not even close to a coveted timeslot. Wilson stated, however, standing on a less-looked at evening has because of the authors a feeling they have "room to experience.Inch "I felt lots of creative freedom... to locate our ft and obtain a dark tone right," he stated. A Gifted Guy premieres Friday, Sept. 23 at 8/7c.

20th TV Signs Pod Deal WIth Rough House

20th Century Fox Television has inked a pod deal with Rough House Pictures. Under the one-year pact, Rough House principals David Gordon Green, Jody Hill, Danny McBride and head Matt Reilly will develop animated and live-action comedies targeted for broadcast networks. This marks the first network TV deal for the company. Hill and McBride co-created the HBO live-action comedy series Eastbound & Down, now in production on its third season, and Green created the upcoming MTV animated comedy series Good Vibes. Additionally, Rough House is producing the Comedy Central comedy pilot Black Jack starring Ving Rhames. "We as a studio are always looking to be in business with people who we think have unique and specific voices, and the group from Rough House have that," 20th TV chairman Gary Newman said. On the feature side, Pineapple Express helmer Green is directing the forthcoming Jonah Hill comedyThe Sitter for 20th Century Fox Studios.