New Upcoming Heroes for 'The Expendables'

This just in: Every action hero from the last century who hasn't been in one of "The Expendables" movies will 
automatically be cast in the third one.

The producers of "Expendables 3" are negotiating with Jackie Chan, Nicolas Cage, Wesley Snipes and Milla Jovovich to fill out the next cast of mercenaries, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said during a conference call with investors Friday.

They're also talking to Charlton Heston's people, just in case someone made a mistake.


Chan, of course, starred in the "Rush Hour" franchise and has been bringing Karate to the big screen for more than three decades. Cage stopped behaving like a real actor back in the '90s, becoming one of Jerry Bruckheimer's favorite Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone and Randy Couture are shown in a scene from "The Expendables." (AP Photo/Lionsgate Entertainment, Karen Ballard)action heroes in films like "The Rock" and "Con Air."

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Impressive Cast in Marvel Galaxy

Marvel's upcoming movie of Guardians Of The Galaxy has put together a rather impressive cast to date, with Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista and Michael Rooker playing key roles. The casting for the movie is far from over, however, as the studio and director James Gunn are still looking to add a few more quality actors to the cast.

Firstly then, while not confirmed, the latest rumour seems to indicate that John C Reilly is set to join the film as Rhomann Dey, the Agent Coulson of the film. Dey acts as an intermediary between the Earth-based Guardians and those not from this planet. He looks over them and reports their actions to S.H.I.E.L.D. Reilly would be a fine choice.

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GRIMM's Cast Joins GRIND Musical

The producers of "Grind" have just announced the first of many casting announcements for this musical short film. The inaugural announcement boasts the addition of Claire Coffee from NBC's "Grimm" as the female lead, Autumn.

Autumn is Vincent and Thane's straight gal pal. She is both wildly fascinated with the gay online dating culture and cautious of its potential dangers. She lives alone in Hells Kitchen, but hopes to one day find her own true connection. "Grind" takes a sexy and artistic look at the ways we connect in today's world and some of the dangers that come with that. Because, in the end, do we REALLY know who we're talking to?

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Casting Offer for 'College Donnie Basco'

Fox has snapped up life rights for the true crime project Narc, based on the actual story of an All-American college kid-turned-police informant. Zac Efron is attached to star as a student, frat president, and lacrosse team captain who’s busted for drugs intended for a party, then secretly turns narc and helps the cops bust criminals while carrying on his BMOC campus life. Efron’s manager and producing partner Jason Barrett will exec produce with Underground-repped Doug Banker. They’ve got a familiar friend in Fox exec Jason Young, who briefly departed the studio to help Efron establish Ninjas Runnin’ Wild in 2010 before returning as Fox’s VP of Production.

Grant Myers (The Maze Runner), a scribe from Fox writers program, will script Narc – described as a “college Donnie Brasco.” Julie and Rick Yorn are producing for LBI, and Matthew Reilly will co-produce. Narc joins a raft of Efron projects in the works which include Einstein Theory, Art Of The Steal, and the Snabba Cash remake, all set up at WB. Efron will next be seen in Open Road’s JFK drama Parkland and Treehouse Pictures’ Are We Officially Dating? He is repped by CAA and Alchemy Entertainment.

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UFTA Sheds Some Light on Acting Workshops and Film Casting

On May 24, 2013, United Film & Television Artists (UFTA) announced that they would be offering acting workshops over the summer beginning June 10, 2013. At a later date UFTA will also be casting for the short film "Casting."

UFTA President Al Quinn, and board members, have been discussing the possibility of such workshops all year. In order for this to happen they had to first, find a location to hold them and second, come up with good and appropriate subject matter for the workshops.

The location will be at The Alliance of the Arts in Fort Myers, Fla. in their Edwards Building.

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Casting a 6 Year Old Child Makes 'What Maise Knew' Possible

Dramatizing the human interplay of a bitter divorce through the eyes of a 6-year-old child is a risky creative assignment. All the more so when the source material is by an abstruse, introspective author generally associated with waxen costume dramas. In “What Maisie Knew,” co-directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel have preserved the spirit of Henry James’ century-old story of innocence and broken attachments while radically reworking its outer details. The result is a superb film about childhood, “Kramer vs. Kramer” with a literary pedigree.

“It began with a great screenplay by Carroll Cartwright and Nancy Doyne,” McGehee said during the filmmakers’ visit to the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. “We responded to the idea of seeing this situation from the vantage point of this little girl. The outer trappings were never central to the story.” Moving the story from wealthy gaslight-era London to today’s upper-class Manhattan was less challenge than finding a cinematic equivalent for the writing’s rich subterranean moods.

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Casting Negotiations Over Indie Film 'While We're Young'

Fresh off a SAG nomination for her turn as Cosette in "Les Miserables," Amanda Seyfried is in final negotiations to join Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts and Adam Driver in Noah Baumbach's indie movie "While We're Young," TheWrap has learned.

Seyfried emerged as a potential candidate for the role of Driver's love interest several weeks ago and she has now cleared room in her fall schedule for the movie, which is being produced by Scott Rudin and Eli Bush.

The long-gestating project stars Stiller and Watts as a married couple that strikes up an unlikely friendship with a free-spirited younger couple, to be played by Driver and Seyfried, whose character makes homemade ice cream.

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Casting at 'Vampire Academy'

                           

"Twilight" may be over and done but that doesn't mean it's the end of vampire films. In fact, a new movie series is set to become the next "Twilight." Say hello to "Vampire Academy" where the first book in the series of six is already set for a film adaptation.

The days of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as vampires have ended and it's time for brand new celebrities to take the spotlight. In fact, the hype has already begun for the celebrities signing on to the film adaptation of "Vampire Academy." More students have been enrolled on the official roster of the St. Vladimirs of which include Sami Gayle, Sarah Hyland and Zoey Deutch.

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Casting Add On's on Transformers 4

The cast list for Transformers 4 is continuing to grow as the project nears production. Resident Evil: Retribution actress Li Bingbing has just become the first Chinese star to join the Chinese co-production, while a search for extras gets underway in Texas.

And thanks to all of that movement, we now have a little more information on some of the roles that have already been cast, including those played by Mark Wahlberg and Kelsey Grammer. Hit the jump for the latest updates on the film.

THR got word of Li’s casting through m1905.com, a portal operated by the government-owned China Movie Channel. (The entity is one of three co-producers on the movie, along with Paramount and Jiaflix Enterprises.) Though Li landed her part through traditional means, she’ll also be joined by professional and amateur Chinese actors cast via reality series.

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Handling Superheroes and Teenage Assassin

After spending the last couple of years overseeing a handful of superheroes, Samuel L. Jackson should have no trouble handling a teenage assassin.

Samuel L. Jackson is in final negotiations to co-star with Hailee Steinfeld in the indie “Barely Lethal” that Brett Ratner is producing.

Kyle Newman is helming with John D’Arco penning the script. John Cheng will join Ratner as a producer through their Rat Entertainment banner along with Ted Hartley and Vanessa Coifman for RKO Pictures and Hopscotch Pictures’ Sukee Chew.

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Disney Opens Casting for 'Million Dollar Arm'

Roth Films in association with Mayhem Pictures is now in production on the Walt Disney Pictures true-story live-action feature film "Million Dollar Arm," about a sports agent who discovered baseball pitchers amongst cricket players in India by staging a reality show to discover new talent. The Primetime Emmy award winning casting director is casting various roles for film. Also being cast are adult and child extras available to work in Atlanta, GA. The Atlanta portion of filming will begin in June, 2013. Filming is also been taking place in Mumbai, India.

Disney casting executives have cast Golden Globe Award winner Jon Hamm to portray the lead role of sports agent J.B. Bernstein. Directors Guild of America DGA Award winning Australian filmmaker Craig Gillespie is directing "Million Dollar Arm" from a screenplay written by Academy Award winning scribe Tom McCarthy

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'Sweet Cheeks' is Open for Casting

 

Casting directors for the upcoming feature film "Sweet Cheeks" are holding an open casting call seeking children available to work on the film in the Austin, Texas area. They will be casting two boys with great imaginations and natural wit for the lead roles in the movie. The boys should be extroverted kids who are full of ideas, comfortable around new people and environments, and who like hearing, telling, or creating stories. Kids with interesting faces and timeless, non-modern looks similar to those in "The Little Rascals" are especially encouraged to attend the open call or submit by email. No acting experience is necessary, and these are fully paid positions. Shooting will take place in August, 2013.

"Sweet Cheeks" is being directed by Todd Rohal, who has won numerous film festival awards including the Jury Special Award for Best Film for "The Guatemalan Handshake" at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2006. Rohal also wrote the screenplay for "Sweet Cheeks". His latest release was the feature film "Nature Calls" starring Johnny Knoxville. Lacey Leavitt will produce under the banner of her production company Leaky Pictures. Lacey was the 2011 Creative Producing Lab's Sheila C. Johnson fellow with the project "Sadie".

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Lead Cast for JFK's Assassination Thriller 'Blackbird'

Cate Blanchett will star in helmer-scribe David Mamet’s “Blackbird,” a present-day Hitchcockian nailbiter turning on a secret explanation for the 1963 assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy.

Blanchett plays Janet, who travels to Los Angeles for the funeral of her grandfather, a Hollywood visual effects artist who moonlighted for U.S. special ops agencies. Her grandfather’s well-kept secrets become a threat to her, forcing Janet to discover the truth about a man who dedicated his life to making illusion reality.

“Blackbird” is produced by Said Ben Said’s Paris-based SBS Prods., which established a reputation from its 2010 launch for producing films by heavyweight directors aimed at adult audiences: Roman Polanski’s “Carnage,” Brian De Palma’s “Passion,” and David Cronenberg’s upcoming “Maps to the Stars,” starring Julianne Moore, John Cusack and Robert Pattinson, which Ben Said is co-producing with Prospero Pictures’ Martin Katz.

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Robin William's Film in Need of Drag Queens, Drunks, and Homeless People

Actor and comedian Robin Williams is filming his new movie “Boulevard” in Nashville, and today the production department is casting for extras — very specific types of extras — at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film.

From 4-7 p.m. the open casting call will be in search of “a wide variety of interesting character types.” According to the casting call’s description, they are looking for extras including “drag queens, transvestites, really old people, nutty and crazy characters, ghetto types, male hustlers, Asian/Indian men and women, plus-size men and women, drunkard and homeless types, Renaissance festival types who are not in full costume, angry oddballs, little people and funky alternative types.”

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'Star Trek' Star Boards the Casting Team of a Comedic Thriller

"Star Trek Into Darkness" hero Chris Pine is joining the cast of Joe Carnahan's comedic thriller "Stretch," which will star Patrick Wilson as a limousine driver.

Carnahan cast Pine in one of his earliest roles as one of the crazy Tremor brothers in 2006's "Smokin' Aces" and now the A-list actor is returning the favor by agreeing to cameo in the low-budget indie movie, which will surely benefit from his considerable star power.

"Stretch" stars Wilson ("Insidious") as a down-on-his-luck chauffeur looking to relieve his debt by driving around a mysterious billionaire who drags him to hell and back.

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Casting Potential for 'The Fantastic Four'

As rumors fly about who might be cast for the upcoming reboot of the superhero team franchise The Fantastic Four, I’ve been thinking about what I think it would take to really make this next attempt at adapting the famous super-team really live up to its fullest potential.

So of course, like everyone reading this, I have my own ideas of what should be done. To be honest, I’ve been hoping that the property rights would return to Marvel so we’d get that studio’s version of the characters within the larger cinematic universe of heroes, and I have a select set of people I’d like to see involved in the project.

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From 'Smallville' to 'Draft Day'

 

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Welling has landed a role in Draft Day, the Lionsgate-Summit and Odd Lot Entertainment football movie starring Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner and Denis Leary among a starry cast and is being directed by Ivan Reitman. Reitman’s Montecito Pictures is producing. 

Welling will play Brian Drew, a veteran quarterback in the crossroads of his career, in the story about a Cleveland Browns GM (Costner) who attempts to trade up for the first pick in the NFL Draft and save football in the city. Welling, the former Smallville star repped by WME, just wrapped a supporting turn in the JFK pic Parkland, and this one has also began shooting including during the real NFL Draft last month.

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'Old School' Pals Reunite for 'Daddy's Home'

 



With Fox’s “The Internship” set to open in less then a month, Vince Vaughn is already filling in the slots for his busy schedule, picking the Paramount comedy “Daddy’s Home” as his next film.

Will Ferrell has been attached to star for some time with Etan Cohen directing. Ferrell and Adam McKay are producing for Gary Sanchez productions along with Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane for Good Universe.

The story follows a mild mannered radio exec, played by Ferrell, whose life gets chaotic when his wife’s ex-husband, played by Vaughn, re-enters the picture and he must compete to vie for his step-children’s affections.

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Casting and Filmmaking Drawn to Oregon

Film and television production companies find Oregon alluring, but they want it all — financial incentives as well as a great place to film.

That’s why Gov. John Kitzhaber’s proposal to boost annual incentives, from $6 million to $12 million, is so important, industry members say.

Aside from great locations, there are plenty of advantages to filming in Portland, "Portlandia" producer David Cress said Thursday. The state has no sales tax, it’s in the same time zone as Los Angeles, it’s on the West Coast for convenient flights and it’s got a strong infrastructure — top production people wielding sophisticated equipment.

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From 'Downtown Abbey' to 'Cinderella'

         

The search for the actress to fill the glass slipper is over: Downton Abbey’s Lady Rose, a.k.a. Lily James, will play the iconic princess in Disney’s live-action version of Cinderella. The remake, directed by Sir Kenneth Branagh, will also star Cate Blanchett as the evil stepmother. A release date has not yet been set.

Cinderella is having a bit of a pop culture moment lately. In addition to the James news, the Broadway version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein tale was nominated for 9 Tony Awards this morning.

Outside of the stage, Cinderella last hit theaters in 2004 in the modern-day high school tale A Cinderella Story, starring Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray. (The movie spawned two direct-to-DVD sequels starring both Selena Gomez and Lucy Hale as the heroine.)

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Augustus Waters Role Getting Intense in Casting

Finally, after the long wait, five actors have been called to audition for the part of Augustus Waters in the highly-anticipated film adaptation of John Green's best-selling novel, "The Fault in Our Stars." Who are these five lucky boys? Read on to find out.

Time Magazine's book of the year for 2012 had fallen in the honour of John Green's novel, "The Fault in Our Stars." The novel tells the heart-gripping tale of two Cancer-stricken teenagers falling in love. With its emotional honesty and warmth, the book just needed to be made into a film and thankfully Hollywood heard of the plea.

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'Despicable Me' Spinoff Lays Out Casting

EXCLUSIVE: Mad Men star Jon Hamm has signed on to provide the lead voice (alongside Sandra Bullock) in Minions, the Universal Pictures/Illumination Entertainment spinoff of the Despicable Me franchise. Bullock is set to voice Scarlet Overkill, a stylish bad-ass super-villain who is (what else?) bent on world domination. Hamm will voice her husband, the inventor Herb Overkill. The 3D CG animated comedy has been set for release December 19, 2014.

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Casting Tryout for Football Players

GARFIELD HEIGHTS -- On Saturday, there was a casting call and tryouts for football players ages 18 to 25 and all ethnicities for the movie "Draft Day," which will be filmed in the Cleveland area and is about the Cleveland Browns.

It was held at Garfield Heights High School Football Field at 4900 Turney Road in Garfield Heights.
Filmmakers were looking for paid extras ages 18-25 who had played college football.

Extras are used throughout filming to provide authenticity to scenes and to reinforce the creative vision of the director. Extras are paid for their work on set.

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Universal Pictures Looks Among Football Fans for Casting

Bills fans, are you ready for your close-up? Universal Pictures is coming to Buffalo to film part of a movie in late May 2013, and they’re looking for football fans like YOU to serve as extras to help fill the stadium for several scenes.

Open registration will take place on Sunday, May 5, at the Ralph Wilson Stadium Healthy Zone Fieldhouse from 10am to 4pm. This registration session is for anyone interested in participating and is free and open to the public.

If selected, you will be paid for your time as an extra ($120 per day) and may very well get to see yourself on the silver screen!

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Film Extras To Go Alongside Tommy Lee Jones and Other Big Stars

This could be your big break.

A casting call will be held in Columbus on Saturday, April 27, to find extras for "The Homesman." Extras are needed for filming scheduled to take place May 20-24 in Westville, Ga. The film is set in 1855 and stars Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep and Hilary Swank.

Here's how a casting agency summarizes the film: "A claim jumper and a pioneer woman team up to escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa in 1855."

The casting call is noon-5 p.m. April 27 at the Columbus Marriott, 800 Front Ave. Pay will be discussed at the casting. Interested? These are the extras the film wants to cast, according to the casting agency:

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Casting Call Calls for Debs Dresses

CECELIA Ahern is looking for young actresses to dust off their taffeta debs dresses and head down to Temple Bar tomorrow.

Filming for her latest feature film, Love Rosie, is due to start next month.

And production company Octagon Films is holding an open casting call tomorrow in Filmbase in Temple Bar.

The romantic comedy is based on Cecilia's best-selling 2004 novel Where Rainbows End, and casting directors are looking for eager extras willing to relive their disastrous debs nights.

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