Director Sam Mendes, who also made ‘American Beauty’ and ‘Jarhead,’ is starting production on his new romantic comedy in Connecticut this week. The Universal project just added Jeff Daniels and Catherine O’Hara (photoshopped above) to the cast and is about a family trying to find the right place to start a family.
Other than the new cast members above, the movie will star John Krasinski (’The Office’) and Maya Rudolph (’Saturday Night Live’). No release date or year is currently set.
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:44 am
The company that did ‘American Idol’ is ready to start shooting a Adolf Hitler farce. The black comedy called “Mein Kampf” is set in a Vienna hostel before World War One and starts shooting there as well this week — Vienna that is, not World War One. The story is about Hitler getting friendly with an elderly Jew who gives him his hairdo and famous mustache.
Is anybody into this? The idea doesn’t sound fun to me. Or is anybody expecting ‘The Great Dictator’ part 2?
The movie is planned to be released in Germany next year.
April 21st, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Disney is launching a nature film label, originally called Disneynature. “Our goal is to bring event films, as only nature can tell,” Dick Cook, chairman of the Walt Disney Studios, said. Trying to release one green picture a year, the label will be run by Jean-Francois Camilleri, also responsible for the box office hit ‘March of the Penguins.’
The first movie will be called ‘Earth’ and will be released on Earth Day April 22, 2009. Other projects are ‘Chimpanzee’ and ‘Big Cats,’ both filmed in Africa.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:22 pm
As I said to take the cancellation story with a pack of salt, the news just came out about Moon Bloodgood, who is in the final phrase of signing up for Terminator 4. The movie, produced by Warner Bros, will begin shooting May 5 and stars Christian Bale.
It goes without saying, Moon will have one of the most intellectual parts in the movie. Ok, I’m getting cranky, it’s time for me to go to bed now.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:00 am
