Here's todays movie updates folks!Melissa Leo is in talks to join THE FIGHTER, which already boasts Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale amongst the cast. The film, which is scheduled to film in the summer, tells the story of Boston fighter "Irish" Mickey Ward (Wahlberg) and how he was helped to the world lightweight championship by half-brother Dicky Eklund (Bale). David. O. Russell will direct the Paramount Pictures drama.
The folks at Summit are to film the fourth Twilight book, BREAKING DAWN. The star of the series Robert Pattinson confirmed the fourth film adaptation at the Cannes Film Festival, and he also confirmed that he is attached to star in the fourth and final novel adaptation in the series.
Oscar Jaenada is to join THE LOSERS. The cast of the film includes Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the leader Clay, Idris Elba is his second-in-command Roque, Chris Evans as Jensen, Columbus Short as Pooch, Jason Patric as Max and Zoe Saldana as Aisha. The film revolves around a band of black ops commandos who are set up to be killed by their own government. They barely survive and set out to get even.
Party Boy himself from Jackass Chris Pontius is to star in Sofia Coppola's SOMEWHERE, opposite Stephen Dorff. Pontius will play Sammy, best friend of the character played by Dorff, a decadent, bad-boy actor living at the Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood who begins to re-examine his life after a surprise visit from his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning).
Paramount Pictures has set Walter Parkes and David DiGilio to adapt Daniel Suarez's upcoming techno thriller novel DAEMON. The project centers on an iconic game designer who, before he died, set up a program to fight mankind. The book is set to be published in January, and it is expected to spawn a sequel.
AMERICAN PSYCHO writer Bret Easton Ellis has written an as yet untitled scary movie which The Roseblood Movie Co. will finance. Ellis' story line involves an awkward social outcast who takes hostage a group of peers who humiliated him, with grim results. Brad Furman ("The Take") is set to direct. Ted Hartley,Kirk D'Amico and Braxton Pope will produce.
That's it for today. More tomorrow peeps!
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