• Career villain Javier Bardem has been offered the lead baddie role of the pirate Blackbeard in Peter Pan origin story Pan for Warner Bros. The tale follows an orphan through Neverland, where he becomes the savior of the natives and fights against the pirates. [Deadline]
• Imogen Poots, who stars alongside Aaron Paul in the upcoming Need for Speed, has joined the cast of Beautiful Ruins, an adaptation of Jess Walter’s bestselling novel about an American actress in Italy for the Cleopatra shoot, a development assistant in present day Los Angeles, and a producer who started on the set of Cleopatra.
• Imogen Poots, who stars alongside Aaron Paul in the upcoming Need for Speed, has joined the cast of Beautiful Ruins, an adaptation of Jess Walter’s bestselling novel about an American actress in Italy for the Cleopatra shoot, a development assistant in present day Los Angeles, and a producer who started on the set of Cleopatra.
- 11/16/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Tika Sumpter has joined the cast of Universal’s James Brown biopic, Get On Up. Sumpter has signed up to play Yvonne Fair, a singer in Brown's touring show, James Brown Revue, who recorded his classic I Got You (I Feel Good). Earlier this week, Universal moved up the release date of Get On Up from October 17, 2014 to August 1, 2014, taking over the slot previously reserved for its 50 Shades Of Grey film adaptation, which has now been pushed to February 13, 2015. Get On Up will compete with Disney's wide release of its adaptation of Guardians of the Galaxy on that August 1, 2014 weekend. Get On...
- 11/15/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Kickback
Famke Janssen has joined the cast of Raza Mallal's crime thriller "Kickback". The story follows a renegade Moscow detective investigating the murder of a female war journalist.
John Cusack, Sean Astin, Misha Barton, Michael Biehn, John Hannah, Rutger Hauer, Stelio Savante, Tom Sizemore and Sean Young also star. Filming begins in March in Canada and Europe. [Source: Screen]
Get On Up
Tika Sumpter ("The Haves And Have-Nots") has joined the cast of Tate Taylor's James Brown biopic "Get On Up" at Universal Pictures. Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Nelsan Ellis
Sumpter will play Yvonne Fair, a singer in the James Brown Revue who recorded Brown's "I Found You" which later was reworked into his classic "I Got You (I Feel Good)". [Source: Deadline]
Little Loopers
Natalie Imbruglia ("Neighbors") and Boyd Kestner ("Hanna's Gold") will star in Jimmy Valdez's indie family comedy "Little Loopers" which is shooting in Palm Springs.
Famke Janssen has joined the cast of Raza Mallal's crime thriller "Kickback". The story follows a renegade Moscow detective investigating the murder of a female war journalist.
John Cusack, Sean Astin, Misha Barton, Michael Biehn, John Hannah, Rutger Hauer, Stelio Savante, Tom Sizemore and Sean Young also star. Filming begins in March in Canada and Europe. [Source: Screen]
Get On Up
Tika Sumpter ("The Haves And Have-Nots") has joined the cast of Tate Taylor's James Brown biopic "Get On Up" at Universal Pictures. Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Nelsan Ellis
Sumpter will play Yvonne Fair, a singer in the James Brown Revue who recorded Brown's "I Found You" which later was reworked into his classic "I Got You (I Feel Good)". [Source: Deadline]
Little Loopers
Natalie Imbruglia ("Neighbors") and Boyd Kestner ("Hanna's Gold") will star in Jimmy Valdez's indie family comedy "Little Loopers" which is shooting in Palm Springs.
- 11/15/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Grammy Award winner Adele is back with her sophomore album, "21." The follow-up to the acclaimed "19," "21" marks London native's return to the music scene after nearly three years.
Like "19," "21" is named after Adele's age at the time the songs were written. The now 22-year-old is getting ready to release her next set on Tuesday, February 22nd. The album will be led by first single "Rolling in the Deep."
The album features production from Ryan Tedder (Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson), Rick Rubin (Weezer, Shakira), Paul Epworth (Florence and the Machine, Plan B), Dan Wilson (Dixie Chicks), and Fraser T. Smith (Taio Cruz). She also re-teamed with producers Jim Abbiss and Francis "Eg" White, who co-wrote her hit "Chasing Pavements."
"I discovered lots of artists I'd never heard of, particularly Wanda Jackson, Allison Krauss, Yvonne Fair, Andrew Bird, Neko Case, Lady Antebellum and Steel Drivers who I fell in love with," said Adele about...
Like "19," "21" is named after Adele's age at the time the songs were written. The now 22-year-old is getting ready to release her next set on Tuesday, February 22nd. The album will be led by first single "Rolling in the Deep."
The album features production from Ryan Tedder (Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson), Rick Rubin (Weezer, Shakira), Paul Epworth (Florence and the Machine, Plan B), Dan Wilson (Dixie Chicks), and Fraser T. Smith (Taio Cruz). She also re-teamed with producers Jim Abbiss and Francis "Eg" White, who co-wrote her hit "Chasing Pavements."
"I discovered lots of artists I'd never heard of, particularly Wanda Jackson, Allison Krauss, Yvonne Fair, Andrew Bird, Neko Case, Lady Antebellum and Steel Drivers who I fell in love with," said Adele about...
- 11/2/2010
- icelebz.com
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