'Deux Jours, Une Nuit' and Cast Shoots for Summer Start

Since winning her Oscar for La Vie En Rose in 2008, Marion Cotillard has steadily worked with distinctive directors on both sides of the Atlantic. That includes turns in Christopher Nolan’s Inception and The Dark Knight Rises, Woody Allen’s Midnight In Paris and Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion along with her recent starring roles in Jacques Audiard’s Rust & Bone and James Gray’s upcoming Lowlife. The actress will next pair up with a pair of hardcore auteurs, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The two-time Palme d’Or-winning brothers will shoot Deux Jours, Une Nuit this summer in their native Belgium. Cotillard will play Sandra, a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job. Longtime Dardenne collaborator Fabrizio Rongione will play Cotillard’s husband in the social drama, for which further details are being kept under wraps. The film is a co-production between the Dardennes’ Les Films du Fleuve and Denis Freyd’s Archipel 35.

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Who Gets to Relive 'Live by Night'?

Ben Affleck has chosen Dennis Lehane’s Live by Night as the source material for his next directorial effort and it’s got all the makings of another gangster hit. Joe Coughlin is a young stick-up artist who fashions himself an “outlaw” rather than a “gangster” in 1920s Boston. A botched robbery that leaves a cop dead and an ill-advised romance with a young woman put him in the sights of Boston’s biggest gangster, Albert White, and his own father, longtime Boston police officer Thomas Coughlin. He’s sentenced to five years behind the forbidding stone walls of the Charlestown prison. While inside, he saves the life of the terrifying elderly gangster Maso Pescatore and soon finds himself in charge of a host of illegal activities for his new benefactor. Pescatore manages to secure an early release for his young protégé and Joe is soon heading south to become the king of the illegal rum producers on the Florida coast.

This is Joe Coughlin’s show – whoever plays him will be in every key scene and be charged with charting a young man’s ten-year journey from a callow youth to a businessman and father burdened by responsibility and regret. One can almost hear the studio heads screaming “Channing Tatum!” out their office doors, but Joe needs to be a little less imposing when we first meet him. A young Ewan McGregor would have worked really well, but we don’t have a DeLorean with a flux capacitor handy. We think this would be a great opportunity for Ben “Comeback” Affleck to extend a hand to another young actor who got lost in Megabudget Land and cast Taylor Kitsch. The story follows Joe from approximately ages twenty to thirty. Kitsch is just north of thirty, but it was only six years ago that he was cast as a high school student. He can project strength without being imposing and vulnerability without being pathetic. Anyone who could bring Tim Riggins to life deserves a second shot at showing multiplex audiences his stuff.

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Acting Skills Show Off for 'Ghosting'

MONT ALTO, Pa.—

The chance to be cast in a motion picture had local talent showing off their acting skills at Penn State Mont Alto on Saturday.

The Mont Alto Film project, auditioned actors for “Ghosting,” a full length independent feature film.

“Ghosting,” a supernatural thriller, will be filmed in south-central Pennsylvania on weekends this fall.

Auditions were held Saturday in the auditorium of the campus’ General Studies Building. Additional auditions will be held Saturday, March 16, from noon to 4 p.m.

Mary Anne Smith, of Waynesboro, Pa., wasn’t trying to get the starring role in “Ghosting.”

She was happy with a speaking role.

“I tried out for Emilia Jackson. She’s a cat lady,” Smith joked. “She takes pictures of cats.”

The 86-year-old said the audition process was a snap. 

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Revisiting the Process of 'Jack the Giant Slayer' Production

                 

Bryan Singer was thinking of fee-fi-fo fun when he decided to make an action movie loosely based on the iconic Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tales.

In fact, the director so enjoyed shooting Jack the Giant Slayer, he decided to return with his cast for promotional interviews at Hampton Court Palace, one of the film’s locations just an hour’s drive south of London.

Mind you, it took King Henry VIII and his regal entourage a great deal longer to arrive at his “pleasure palace” back in the 16th century.

That was then, and this movie is now — a first for Singer, who blends live action with state-of-the-art performance capture sequences in a high-concept 3D production.

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Teen Auditions for 'The Maze Runner'

  The Gotham Group is now in pre-production on the first film in a major science fiction feature film trilogy "The Maze Runner" for Twentieth Century Fox. The movie is based on the first book in a young-adult dystopian science fiction trilogy of the same name by James Dashner. Being dubbed the next Hunger Games, "The Maze Runner" is about a community of boys trapped in an enormous maze which is part of a mysterious test.

The film's Primetime Emmy Award nominated casting director is holding auditions for the starring roles, which consists of a group of teen boys and a teen female. All types and ethnicities are being encouraged to submit. Rehearsals begin in mid-April, and shooting starts on May 1, 2013 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. All of the stand-ins and extras will be hired in the Baton Rouge area close to the start of filming.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to go on Production

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Megan Fox and Michael Bay have apparently reconciled. Fox has joined the cast of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," the live-action and animation hybrid that Bay is producing for Paramount. (Jonathan Liebesman is directing.) Bay announced the casting news on his website, once again eschewing trades like Variety and Deadline.com.


"TMNT: we are bringing Megan Fox back into the family!" Bay wrote on MichaelBay.com. The producer didn't reveal what role Fox would play, but according to THR she's set for April O'Neil, reporter and human friend to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Actress Judith Hoag played O'Neil in the 1990 film version of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."

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Hollywood Puts Hard Work in Casting for Biopics

                 

It's an exciting time with 13 biopics in the offing in Hollywood. But what's even better is the casting coup that filmmakers pulled off with the leads.

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie will play the role of Marilyn Monroe in a movie about the last two years of her life. Andrew O'Hagan, who wrote the book The Life and Opinions of Maf The Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe, said the 'Salt' star is being considered in the Hollywood adaptation of his novel. The book tells the story of the Some Like It Hot actress' two years prior to her death in 1962 from the perspective of her dog Maf, given to her as a gift from Sinatra.

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Indie Film Draws In 100 Actors

PRESCOTT - Aspiring actress Alexes Niekamp, a junior at Tri-City College Prep High School, said she has performed in 30 plays locally and in her former hometown of San Jose, Calif.

Her mother, Tamee, said she works with Lonesome Valley Playhouse founder Clyde Neville, who told Alexes about auditions Saturday for the independent movie "Something to Remember."

Alexes said she would take any part that Ken Gregg, producer with Sliding-Thru Productions in Prescott, offers her.

By contrast, Ron Red Bear Lake, 49, of Prescott said he showed up to seek the part of Mr. Marcheti/Santa, a friendly businessman with a Santa-like nature.

The movie will tell the story about Abby, a little girl who tries to fix up her widowed mother, Michelle Seymour. Abby collapses at school, and doctors discover she has a brain tumor that is too risky to operate on. Before dying, Abby pushes harder to connect her mother with Jake, a mailman.

Michelle eventually marries Jake, and starts a new fa

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Casting for SciFi

This week's tally of old and new faces popping up on upcoming sci-fi/fantasy endeavors:

The Tomorrow People—Greg Berlanti and Julie Plec's adaptation of the UK classic paranormal series for The CW, which went to pilot production earlier this month, has started its casting with the role of Cara, the female member of the Tomorrow People group who has a sense of humor beneath her serious demeanor and seems to be a trustworthy ally. Though the series is about "several young people from around the world who represent the next stage in human evolution, possessing special powers," in the original series presented largely as teenagers, Deadline's exclusive report and all the subsequent iterations of it are certain that it's the 26-year-old Peyton List from Mad Men that's been cast, and not the 14-year-old Peyton List from the Disney Channel and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies. This might indicate that The CW's Tomorrow People will present a range of homo Superior across different ages as well as backgrounds.

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Actress, Filmmaker Reunite in 'American Bull'

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lawrence has been tapped to star opposite Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner in the David O Russell pic formerly known as American Bullshit, the drama written by Eric Singer and Russell about the ’70s FBI sting operation Abscam that took down a bunch of U.S. congressmen. That puts Lawrence back in business with Russell and Cooper, her cohorts on The Weinstein Company’s Silver Linings Playbook that landed them all Oscar nominations; she already has won the SAG Award and a Golden Globe for the role. She will play Bale’s wife in the Abscam movie, which is being produced by Charles Roven and Richard Suckle through Atlas Entertainment, which developed the film at Sony Pictures. The ensemble is being fully financed by Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures. Ellison also is producing and has been developing the script.

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Casting Progress for 'Fifty Shades of Grey'

As fans continue to speculate over casting regarding the “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie this week, Fans Share revealed this Wednesday, Feb. 13, that one actress whose name has found a very strong following this month to play Anastasia Steele is Emilia Clarke of “Game of Thrones.” While she was mentioned to be a fan favorite when paired with Henry Cavill as Christian Grey, Fans Share offers some insight as to why Emilia Clarke might make a very convincing Ana on the silver screen alongside any male actor.

From her initially submissive role as Princess Daenerys Targaryen on “Game of Thrones” to her popularity in the “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie casting polls, actress Emilia Clarke has found a solid fan base of E.L. James’ readers who see the starlet as a great Anastasia Steele alongside a potential Christian Grey. Listed here are ten reasons why Emilia has earned her fan favorite status as a top contender for the iconic role alongside fellow leads Alexis Bledel and Felicity Jones.

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Voice of Marlin Comes Back for 'Finding Nemo 2'

 

EXCLUSIVE: Albert Brooks has closed a fat deal to reprise the voice Marlin in Finding Nemo 2 for Disney‘s Pixar. The sequel has been long in the works; Deadline told you last July that the studio got the original’s helmer Andrew Stanton back in the fold (I’d heard that the studio will also give him another live-action shot after his disastrous live-action debut on John Carter), and Ellen DeGeneres came back shortly after. It took much longer to hook Brooks, who continued his renaissance as an actor in the Judd Apatow-directed This Is 40, following his turn as bad-ass Bernie Rose in Drive.

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Big Casting for 'She's Funny That Way'

                           

Jennifer Aniston is set to join the ensemble cast of the new Peter Bogdanovich film She’s Funny That Way. The film, previously titled Squirrel to the Nuts, tells the story of a Broadway director who has an affair with an aspiring actress (she also happens to be a former prostitute). Aniston will reportedly play a therapist alongside her Marley and Me co-star Owen Wilson, Brie Larson (21 Jump Street), Jason Schwartzman, Eugene Levy, Kathryn Hahn, and Cybill Shepherd, who Bogdanovich directed in The Last Picture Show and Daisy Miller. Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach are serving as producers on the project.

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Joel McHale, Robin Williams Make 'A Friggin' Christmas Miracle'

Joel McHale, Robin Williams, and Lauren Graham have signed on star in the new holiday comedy A Friggin’ Christmas Miracle. Lorelai Gilmore and Jeff Winger will play a married couple forced to spend Christmas with their crazy extended family. On Christmas Eve, Boyd (McHale) realizes he forgot to bring his son’s gifts and embarks on an eight-hour road trip with his father (Williams) to retrieve them before his son wakes up. British director Tristram Shapeero, best known for directing television shows like Community and New Girl, will make his feature film debut directing the project.

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'This is Where I Leave You' Gets Into Casting

 

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- After a change in directors, casting talks have resumed for "This is Where I Leave You," a comedy starring Jason Bateman, The Hollywood Reporter said.

The adaptation of Jonathan Tropper's book of the same name was in the casting stages in May, with "Rock of Ages" director Adam Shankman helming the project and actors Bateman, Zac Efron, Leslie Mann, Goldie Hawn, Malin Akerman and Jason Sudeikis in talks to join the cast.

Shankman left the production and the project was put on hold until Shawn Levy took over in November.

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Open Casting for David Russell's New Project

                      

As we’ve reported, David O. Russell’s next star-studded project will begin filming next month in Boston, MA and they are looking for extras.

The Untitled David O. Russell Project, aka American Bullshit, stars Christian Bale as a financial con-man who was caught by an OTT federal agent, played by Bradley Cooper, along with his girlfriend, played by Amy Adams in the 1970s. The couple was offered a deal provided they help turn the tables on other crooks and shady politicians. They ended up taking on a leader of the New Jersey state assembly, played by Jeremy Renner, among others.

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Extras Wanted for Sci-Fi 'Divergent'

While “Divergent” movie fans continue to anticipate the hotly awaited news surrounding the film adaptation's casting, Red Eye Chicago reported this Monday, Feb. 4, that local fans of Veronica Roth’s hit novel have another reason to celebrate this week. According to reports, the movie team has begun its first casting calls for extras to be featured in the background before filming begins in Chicago this April.

Atmosphere Casting of Chicago has announced a press release asking for several hundreds of extras for “Divergent.” The casting call itself is set to take place this Feb. 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Film Studios, Cinespace Chicago. Although they are asking for a variety of people to appear as extras in the new local film, there are some of the particular background actors they need.

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'Anchorman 2' Looking to Cast Roles

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Apatow Productions and Gary Sanchez Productions are in pre-production on the feature film sequel "Anchorman: The Legend Continues" for Paramount Pictures. The casting director is holding auditions in Los Angeles for principal acting roles, and additional casting for smaller speaking roles will be cast in Atlanta, GA. Filming will take place there from March 4, 2013 through May 17, 2013. The local extras casting team is also hiring stand-ins for the films stars, as well as taking email submissions for general and featured background extras.

The original film "Anchorman" had a budget of $26 million and grossed more than $90 million worldwide. It starred Will Ferrell as Ronald Joseph Aaron "Ron" Burgund, the ignorant, egotistical, misogynistic, and narcissistic main anchorman for the KVWN Channel 4 News Team from 1964 to 1977. Christina Applegate played the ambitious aspiring network anchor Veronica Corningstone. Paul Rudd was the arrogant field reporter Brian Fantana. Steve Carell shined as Brick Tamland, the not so smart weatherman for the KVWN news team. Kristen Wiig has joined the cast for "Anchorman 2" playing Steve Carell's wife.

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'The Last of Robin Hood' Goes to Production

Big Indie Pictures in association with Killer Films is going into production next week on the true story feature film "The Last of Robin Hood". Filming is taking place in Atlanta, GA through March, 2013. Principal actor casting directors in Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta are holding auditions for supporting and day player roles. Extras, photo-doubles, and stand-ins are being cast in Atlanta throughout the shoot.

"The Last of Robin Hood" is based on Australian actor Errol Flynn’s last days before he died of a heart attack at age 50, and his relationship with seventeen year-old actress Beverly Aadland. Beverly was a girl allegedly seduced by Flynn when she was only 15 after the two met at Hollywood Professional School. Flynn cast her in his final film, Cuban Rebel Girls. Aadland stated that he planned to marry her and move to their new house in Jamaica, but during a trip together to Vancouver, British Columbia, he died of a heart attack. Beverly’s stage mother Florence Aadland wanted to be a star herself but ended up living vicariously through her daughter.

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Oscar Nominee Jessica Chastain Takes 'Miss Julie' Role

 

Somewhere over the course of the past two years or so, Jessica Chastain went from being relatively anonymous to being an actress who’s in about two wide release films a month, and who generally receives rave reviews for everything she does.

Now that she’s earned another Oscar nomination for Zero Dark Thirty, she’s at the peak of whatever supernatural powers she was given by the devil, so her new project, Miss Julie, should be pretty great. According to Variety, this is an adaptation of an August Strindberg play about the daughter of a count who takes to hanging out with her servants. Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton are signed on to play two of said servants, so Miss Julie has that working for it too.

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