Posts by Lane Brown

  • Leonardo DiCaprio

    Leonardo DiCaprio Close to Violence

    Leonardo DiCaprio is circling a lead role in Todd Field‘s (In the Bedroom, Little Children) The Creed of Violence, a Western based on the recent book by Boston Teran about a criminal who smuggles weapons into Mexico in 1910 but ends up in the custody of a government agent who turns out to be his […]

  • Kevin Bacon

    Kevin Bacon to Play Another Jerk

    He flirted with villainhood as a robber in A River Runs Through It The River Wild and a dancing miscreant in Footloose, but now Kevin Bacon seems to have fully embraced unlikability: He’ll follow his roles as a Nazi in X-Men: First Class and the guy who wrecks Steve Carell’s marriage in Crazy, Stupid, Love. […]

  • J.J. Abrams

    J.J. Abrams Will Direct Star Trek 2, He Guesses

    Unlike some people, J.J. Abrams sees his highly lucrative franchises through to the end. He’s nearing an agreement to direct Star Trek 2, the sequel to 2009’s $260 million-grossing original. The only problem: He won’t finish writing and shooting in time for the June 29, 2012 release that Paramount had hoped for. So the studio […]

  • Nicolas Cage

    Hollywood Report Card: Nicolas Cage to Apprehend John Cusack

    Nicolas Cage hasn’t quite paid off that tax bill yet! Following last week’s encouraging news that he may appear in Charlie Kaufman’s presumably good next movie comes word that he’s also in talks to costar with John Cusack in The Frozen Ground, about a serial killer (Cusack) being pursued by an Alaskan state trooper (Cage). […]

  • Todd Phillips

    Hollywood Report Card: Todd Phillips Takes Up “Arms”

    Hangover director Todd Philips‘s production company has optioned the rights to Guy Lawson‘s recent Rolling Stone feature “Arms and the Dudes,” about two stoners who become weapons dealers and win a $300 million contract to arm America’s allies in Afghanistan. Shooting will begin right after Crystal the monkey completes basic firearms training. Grade: B. [Variety] […]

  • Bryan Cranston

    Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston on Last Night’s Episode

    Staring into a mirror on last night’s Breaking Bad, Walter White attempted to convince a black-market gun dealer (and himself) that the serial-numberless pistol he was negotiating to buy would be used only for legally permissible purposes: “It’s for defense,” he stammered. “Defense.” We didn’t believe him, and we’re pretty sure he didn’t either. For […]

  • Hilary Swank

    Hollywood Report Card: Hilary Swank Headed to Space

    Washington may have ceded space to the Russians, but Hollywood hasn’t: Hilary Swank will produce and star in the comic-adapted Shrapnel, about a solar marine in 2250 who leads an uprising against the solar government, while probably collecting a solar paycheck. Grade: B [Variety] Jennifer Lawrence is now the top pick for the coveted role […]

  • Shia LeBeouf

    Hollywood Report Card: Shia LaBeouf to Blow Robert Redford’s Cover

    Shia LaBeouf will attempt to atone for his last few films by starring alongside Robert Redford in the director’s The Company You Keep, adapted from Neil Gordon‘s 2003 book of the same name, about a former Weather Underground member wanted by the FBI (Redford) who’s forced to go on the run when his identity is […]

  • Ron Howard

    Hollywood Report Card: Ron Howard’s Crazy-Sounding Dark Tower Deemed Too Crazy

    On second thought, Universal Pictures has decided not to move forward with Ron Howard‘s insane-seeming three-movie, two-miniseries mega-adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, which would have sent Javier Bardem’s kids to private school and been one of the most expensive and ambitious productions in history. Instead, they’ll more wisely spend the money on the […]

  • Cruise

    Hollywood Report Card: Tom Cruise Locked in to Play Tall Person

    Sorry, Dirk. Tom Cruise is now confirmed to play crime-fighting drifter Jack Reacher in One Shot, Paramount’s adaptation of Lee Child’s best-selling thriller, to be directed by Usual Suspects writer Christopher McQuarrie. Initial reports of Cruise’s possible casting caused an uproar among fans of Child’s books last month, since Racher is 6’5″ tall and Cruise […]

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