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Gina Carano set for a second action role “In The Blood”

February 14, 2012 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Casting 2 Comments

“Haywire” star Gina Carano is set to once again showcase her martial arts, and hopefully improve on the acting skills, in a second action thriller “In The Blood“.

Carano was an international mixed martial arts star before being chosen by director Steven Soderbergh to headline “Haywire” after seeing her in action. In “In The Blood”, Carano will play a wife who pursues two men whom she believes to have caused the disappearance of her husband.

The film has been scripted by Bennett Yellin and James Robert Johnston, and will be helmed by John Stockwell.

Director Stockwell told The Hollywood Reporter, “This role will showcase not only Gina’s fighting skills, but also her acting abilities as her character struggles to reign in her violent past.”

Watch: Kiera Knightley and Steve Carell go “Seeking A Friend At The End of The World”

February 10, 2012 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Videos Leave a comment

In a role unlike perhaps anything else we’ve seen her in, British actress and Oscar nominee Kiera Knightley joined Steve Carell in the apocalyptic comedy “Seeking A Friend At The End of The World”, and Yahoo have today revealed the first trailer.

After it is announced that an asteroid is set to hit Earth in three weeks, the duo embark on a journey to find Carell’s lost love. Also starring Patton Oswalt, Melanie Lynskey and Rob Cordry, this first trailer strikes the right balance between comedy, hope, despair, and asks the ultimate question – just what would you do if you knew the end of the world was in three weeks’ time?

“Seeking A Friend At The End of The World” is set for release on June 22nd 2012.

Selena Gomez gets animated as Dracula’s daughter in Adam Sandler’s “Hotel Transylvania”

February 10, 2012 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Casting Leave a comment

Disney star Selena Gomez is beginning to make quite the name for herself in Hollywood. The tween actress, who broke out in the TV show “Wizards of Waverly Place”, has in the last few months been cast in Hot Mess (which was a Black List script), joined an indie flick, Spring Breakers, and in the ultimate sign of taking control of her own career, optioned the rights for a teen novel called “The Sky Is Everywhere” in which she will star.

Now she’s going down the animated route, voicing the daughter of Dracula in Adam Sandler’s Hotel Transylvania. The role was originally intended for another Disney actress, Miley Cyrus, but reports say that Cyrus dropped out in order to take more time to figure out where her career is heading.

Hotel Transylvania follows Dracula (Sandler), “who operates a high-end resort away from the human world and goes into panic mode when a boy discovers the place and falls for the Count’s teen-aged daughter.”

Gomez is about to start shooting Spring Breakers, which also stars Vanessa Hudgens, James Franco and Ashley Benson, and follows four college-aged girls who, after being arrested for robbing a fast-food restaurant, cross paths with a drug dealer who enlists their help in killing his rival.

Hotel Transylvania is set for release in September.

Hailee Steinfeld turns to the horror genre for the “Dead of Winter”

February 10, 2012 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Casting 1 Comment

Since her Oscar nominated turn in 2010′s “True Grit”, it seems that Hailee Steinfeld has been picking projects that are taking a while to get off the ground.

There was the revisionist Sleeping Beauty tale that she was attached to star in, and then the Paramount adaptation of “Forgotten”, the rights of which the studio bought just for Steinfeld. The young actress then joined two Romeo and Juliet projects – in April 2011 as the lead Juliet in Carlo Carlei’s adaptation (which has just gone into production), and again in October 2011 in the revisionist comedy “Rosaline”, which follows Romeo’s jilted former love.

Now, the young actress is turning to the horror genre, joining Lionsgate’s “Dead of Winter”. Steinfeld will star as Josephine, a young girl whose mother has recently passed away. Josephine and her other family members retreat to a mountain home, but when they are isolated there during a snow storm, they are “thrown into conflict with each other, nature, and a crazed killer”.

“Romeo and Juliet”, Steinfeld’s first role since her Oscar nomination, is currently filming and the producers of “Dead of Winter” – which is still in need of a director – plan to announce a shooting date soon.

Scott Eastwood, son of Clint, joins his father in sports film “Trouble With The Curve”

February 9, 2012 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Casting 1 Comment

Proving nepotism isn’t always rife in Hollywood, Scott Eastwood, son of Clint, is joining his Hollywood legend father in “Trouble With The Curve” after auditioning for the role.

The sports flick, also starring Justin Timberlake, features elder Eastwood as an aging, sight impaired baseball scout who travels with his daughter (to be played by Amy Adams) to Atlanta to check out a hot new prospect. Younger Eastwood is to play Billy Clark, “a slumping minor league player who the the protag discovered and still has faith in”.

Eastwood’s first role was in his father’s film “Flags Of Our Fathers”, and has also starred in several others. Last seen in horror film “Enter Nowhere”, in 2012 Eastwood will have several releases – drama “Carmel” with Josh Hutchinson, another sports drama “Of Men and Mavericks” with Gerald Butler, and then filming will begin soon for “Trouble With The Curve” since Warner Bros have already set a release date of September 28.

“Thor” actress Jaimie Alexander takes female lead in thriller “Intersection”

February 8, 2012 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Casting Leave a comment

TV actress Jaimie Alexander has joined the cast of David Marconi’s “Intersection”, beating out the likes of Gemma Arterton and Brooklyn Decker.

Also starring Frank Grillo (“Warrior”), the film is set in Morocco. Playing the wife of Grillo’s character, Alexander will “plot to kill [her husband] with her lover’s help. The plan goes awry when the lover and husband are involved in a car accident on a remote desert road.”

It’s quite the coup for Alexander, who has spent the last few years in either uncredited film roles (“Love and Other Drugs”) or short-lived TV shows (“Kyle XY”). Her big breakout came however in last year’s superhero flick “Thor” opposite Chris Hemsworth, as one of Thor’s warrior friends. She recently wrapped filming on “Last Stand”, an action thriller with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Variety reports both Arterton and Decker “showed interest in the role” and that the film is set to go into production next month.

Catherine Hardwicke announces plans to work with Evan Rachel Wood again in “Plush”, an ‘erotic thriller’

February 6, 2012 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Casting 3 Comments

It’s been nearly ten years since Evan Rachel Wood broke out in Catherine Hardwicke‘s “Thirteen”, starring alongside Nikki Reed as a thirteen-year-old girl whose relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime. The role garnered Wood her first Golden Globe nomination, something she went on to do again this past year for her work on the five part mini-series Mildred Pierce.

Written by Reed and Hardwicke, Thirteen was Oscar and BAFTA nominated, as well as winning at the Sundance Film Festival and the Independant Spirit Awards. But whilst Reed went on to work with Hardwicke again (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight), Wood’s career faltered for a while. With a recurring role on TV show “True Blood” though, and supporting roles in recent awards-friendly films such as The Ides of March and The Wrestler, Wood is now set to work with Hardwicke once again.

A recent interview by Young Hollywood with Hardwicke (via Playlist) turns up some interesting news – “I think I’m doing another cool movie with Evan next, a really wild, erotic thriller”. Hardwicke goes on to say the character will be “pushing the edge, pushing the envelope”. It looks like the film, entitled Plush, will be set in the L.A. music industry and was co-scripted by Hardwicke and Artie Nelson.

The film is being taken to the European Film Market next month where it hope to find a buyer. We’re excited to see these two work together again, and to see Hardwicke go back to what sounds like a return to her earlier work so all fingers will be crossed here on Up and Comers.

Aimee Teegarden and Annasophia Robb set to join Douglas Booth in “Life At These Speeds”

February 6, 2012 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Casting 1 Comment

Since “Friday Night Lights” left the air in 2011, actress Aimee Teegarden has slowly been making a name for herself in Hollywood, taking on roles in Scream 4,  Prom and 60s war drama AWOL – which will hit theaters this year and also stars Liam Hemsworth and Teresa Palmer.

Up next for the young actress though is a role alongside fast rising Brit actor Douglas Booth in the adaptation of Life at These Speeds, which Booth joined earlier this year.

Mark Novak has adapted the novel, by Jeremy Jackson, for the big screen, which stars Booth as a rural teenager who, after losing his best friends in a tragic accident, turns his survivor’s guilt into a running addiciton, and in the process becomes a world-class distance runner. Teegarden is set to play “his hometown soul mate”, and also joining the cast as “an over-achiever who struggles to break through [Booth's] grief and defenses” is Annasophia Robb who was last seen in Soul Surfer and will next be heard voicing a lead character in animated film Khumba.

“This is a wonderful teen story about first romances and the passion for sports in rural America,” Teegarden told Variety. “I love that it has such an unexpected, yet emotionally satisfying, ending.” Director Leif Tilden told Variety that “AnnaSophia and Aimee are both such special young artists … I’m thrilled they want to help tell this story.”

Juno Temple replaces Dakota Fanning as Princess Margaret in “Girls’ Night Out”

February 3, 2012 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Casting 2 Comments

It’s been nearly a year since the news broke that Dakota Fanning had joined the cast of  “Girl’s Night Out”, Michael Hoffman’s film based on the true story of how the future Queen of Britain, Princess Elizabeth, and her sister Princess Margaret celebrated VE Day in 1945. Alexandra Roach joined the cast back in November, but as with all films long in gestation, it looks like Fanning has dropped out of the project – allowing British actress Juno Temple to jump into the role.

When the film was first announced back in February 2011, the plot details weren’t too specific, stating ” When [Princess Margaret] and her sister Elizabeth are allowed out from Buckingham Palace for one night to join in the celebrations, the night encompasses thrills, romance and danger.” However Britain’s Daily Mail now have further information, “Elizabeth has an innocent romance (this bit is totally fictional, folks!) with a recently returned soldier, who doesn’t realise he’s hanging out with a princess. The pair even go dancing at the Ritz.”

Temple was one of our Faces to Watch in 2012, and this year alone will see her in dark comedy “The Brass Teapot” opposite Michael Angarano, and filming thriller “Magic Magic” opposite Michael Cera. This is a great coup for the actress however, who will get her first big breakout in perhaps the most anticipated film of the year, Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises”.

Filming on “Girls’ Night Out” is set to start this Fall on location in London.

Blake Lively out, Rooney Mara in for Steven Soderbergh’s “Side Effects”

January 30, 2012 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Casting 1 Comment

It’s been nearly a week since Rooney Mara was announced as a Best Actress nominee for this year’s 84th Academy Awards, and now we have her first confirmed lead role since her turn as Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” garnered her that elusive nomination.

Deadline reports that Mara has been cast in Steven Sodebergh’s “Side Effects” (formerly “The Bitter Pill”, “The Side Effects”), a psychological thriller that will also co-star Channing Tatum, Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Back in early January, reports were that Blake Lively had been cast in the female lead, as Emily Hawkins, a young woman who turns to prescription medication to cope with anxiety regarding her husband’s (Tatum) upcoming prison release. For reasons unknown (though rumors persist that financiers were unhappy with the casting), Lively has been dropped from the cast, or perhaps was never officially onboard, allowing Mara to jump on.

Deadline’s report has further plot information (perhaps even somewhat spoilery?) “[Hawkins] husband has been in prison for three years and after taking a new medicine she was prescribed, she unknowingly murders her husband and stands trial for murder.”

Filming is set to begin in April, with a script from Scott Z. Burns. Mara will follow up Soderbergh’s film with a role in Terrence Malick’s “Lawless” opposite Ryan Gosling in September.

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