It’s time for an Oscar winner, an eclectic musician, and a swimsuit model to join Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in Just Go With It. According to Collider, Nicole Kidman, Dave Matthews, and Brooklyn Decker have all signed on to join the Dennis Decker helmed project. Excited yet?
Twilight star Robert Pattinson is set to take on Oscar winner Nicole Kidman in an erotic new role (eeewww). The young actor has signed on to co-star in the film, Bel Ami according to Screen Daily, where the duo will team up for a sexually charged story that will feature Pattinson as an ambitious young man who sleeps his way to the top.
A few more photos from Rob Marshall’s film adaptation of Nine have been released. They feature Academy Award winners Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, and Sophia Loren as well as Oscar nominee Kate Hudson. I’m convinced only critically acclaimed actors could audition for this film.
Check out the ladies and the man in action…
Whenever I read news about the upcoming Rob Marshall feature, Nine I feel like bursting into song. It’s weird how musicals have that type of effect on you. Over at Latino Review, they’ve posted six new gorgeous production stills from the movie. Everyone looks sharp, on point, and dressed to the nines!
Find out why Nine makes everyone want to be Italian…
A while back we told you about Woody Allen’s upcoming untitled project, which features a variety of talented actors including Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts, Freida Pinto and Anthony Hopkins. As we reported earlier Nicole Kidman was also set to co-star in the film, but unfortunately had to drop out. According to THR the Oscar winning blond has been officially replaced by a lesser known British actress by the name of Lucy Punch.
Apparently, Nicole Kidman was serious about that whole “quitting acting” thing. According to Variety, although she was officially signed on to star alongside Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts and Freida Pinto in Woody Allen’s upcoming project, she has decided to leave the project.
She says she is stepping down due to “a scheduling conflict” with Kidman’s other project, Rabbit Hole, which she herself is producing with through her company Rabbit Hole Productions. Her movie stars Aaron Eckhart and is being directed by John Cameron-Mitchell and filming on the East Coast this summer, the exact same time that Allen will be shooting in London.
Nicole Kidman is a liar! She said she was doing one more film and then quitting the biz, but apparently she just couldn’t say no to joining Woody Allen’s upcoming film alongside Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Freida Pinto and Naomi Watts. You can’t really blame her. This is probably getting close to one of Allen’s last films and the cast is almost as good as it could possibly get.
Pick of the Week: Australia
Starring: Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman
Here’s the epic that everybody missed, featuring arguably Australia’s two biggest starts. Didn’t seem to matter, however, as middling reviews and general malaise led it to bargain theaters weeks after it hit the big houses. Why was this? Probably because romance is dead in Hollywood. Nobody likes big sweeping gestures of love, preferring intimate stories of “realism” or silly chick flicks where love is some sort of prize. Nobody seems to consider love that grand anymore and therefore stories where it’s as big as an entire country fall flat. If you still long for the sweeping romance of yore, you can buy this DVD.
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Baz Luhrmann knows how to tell a story. Through song, through Shakespeare, through any means possible, he knows how to make a film like no one else. Australia is beautiful in every way that it possibly can be. From the wide-shots of the rolling hills and the barren deserts to the galloping herd shots that will blow your mind. The story itself can be described as no less than an epic. It has drama, comedy, action, adventure, the whole lot. I think no matter who you are there is something to enjoy.
