Emma Stone to drive a cocaine-stashed “Little White Corvette”

January 5, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting 3 Comments

Emma Stone remains one of the busiest and most in demand young actresses around and continues to build a nicely diverse portfolio of roles, with Deadline now reporting she has attached herself to star in “Little White Corvette”, a drug deal comedy written by “30 Minutes or Less” scribe Michael Diliberti.

Stone will play a wild young woman who, along with her nerdy little brother, travel to Miami to try and sell a million dollar stash of cocaine that they find in their late father’s car. Stone has been circling the project since last summer and shooting is expected to begin in late summer, though no director has jumped on board yet.

Stone caught Hollywood’s attention in her 2007 breakout role in “Superbad” and then in 2009′s “Zombieland”, but it was “Easy A” that showed her true movie star potential and landed her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress to boot. This year, she headlined rom-com “Crazy Stupid Love” and Civil Rights era drama “The Help”, an Oscar front-runner in several categories. She recently wrapped up the role of Gwen Stacy in Marc Webb’s “The Amazing Spider-Man” and is currently shooting period mob drama “Gangster Squad”, reuniting with “Crazy” co-star Ryan Gosling. Stone is also attached to romanic comedy “He’s Fuckin’ Perfect” but that appears to still be in the early stages.

First look: promotional poster for Jesse Eisenberg’s criminal magician flick, “Now You See Me”

November 6, 2011 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Images 1 Comment

In 2009′s “Zombieland” Jesse Eisenberg’s Columbus gains an unlikely friend in Woody Harrelson‘s Tallahassee as they team up to battle the undead. So when the news broke that they would be teaming up again, this time to outwit the FBI as criminal magicians, well, Louis Leterrier’s Now You See Me quickly became one of our most anticipated films!

Now, thanks to the American Film Market (via, once again, Collider!), we have an official synopsis of the film, as well as the first promotional poster. The film also stars Dave Franco, Melanie Laurent, Isla Fisher, as well as Michael Caine, Mark Ruffalo and Morgan Freeman, and revolves around a group of highly skilled magicians who pull off bank robberies during their performances, ending their shows by showering their audience with the stolen money.

With such a great mix of up and coming actors and established names, we can’t wait for January 18th, 2013, which is when it is due to open across America.

Emma Stone declares “He’s Fuckin’ Perfect” in new romantic comedy

November 3, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting 3 Comments

Armed with terrific comedic talent and the critical and commercial success of “Easy A”, it’s no surprise Emma Stone is poised to become the next romcom sweetheart of Hollywood. She will take one more step in that direction as she enters negotiations to star in Fox 2000 romantic comedy “He’s Fuckin’ Perfect”, reports Deadline.

As the title suggests, this isn’t your typical Julia Roberts-Sandra Bullock movie. Stone would play a thoroughly modern, thoroughly cynical media savvy girl who uses the internet to screen all her friends’ potential dates. When her search uncovers a guy she thinks is “fuckin’ perfect”, she uses her skills to mold herself into becoming his perfect match. Written by Adam McKay’s current (but soon to be ex) assistant Lauryn Kahn, the script was never supposed to be shopped around before Stone’s attachment, but it leaked and ended up starting a bidding war between four studios.

Stone caught Hollywood’s attention in her 2007 breakout role in “Superbad” and then in 2009′s “Zombieland”, but it was “Easy A” that showed her true movie star potential and landed her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress to boot. She recently wrapped up the role of Gwen Stacy in Marc Webb’s “The Amazing Spider-Man” and is currently shooting period mob drama “Gangster Squad” opposite Ryan Gosling. She has no other film commitments so “He’s Fuckin’ Perfect” could head into production quickly to accommodate her sure to be brief period of availability.

Abigail Breslin wants to kill her mother in “A Class Project”

August 20, 2011 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Casting 1 Comment

Abigail Breslin, who starred in Little Miss Sunshine and Zombieland, has signed on to star in A Class Project to be directed by Stan Brooks. Adapted from the 2008 book “The Class Project: How To Kill a Mother: The True Story of Canada’s Infamous Bathtub Girls”, the film will tell the true tale of two Canadian sisters who, tired of their mother’s alcoholism and her abusive boyfriends, plot to kill her. The crime was not discovered for over a year.

Production is due to start next month, but there is still no word on which other young actress will star as Breslin’s sister.

Breslin recently wrapped filming on the ensemble film New Year’s Eve and is currently in pre-production on Innocence, about a recently bereaved teenage girl (Breslin), who attends an elitist private school, which is also home to a nest of vampires. An adaptation of Jane Menelsohn’s novel, Hilary Brougher (“Stephanie Daley”) will direct and also feature Julianne Moore.

Emma Stone to reuinte with Ryan Gosling in “Gangster Squad”

July 26, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting 1 Comment

Looks like these guys can’t get enough of Emma Stone. The meteorically rising young actress is about to tread some familiar territory as she enters negotiations for “Gangster Squad”, a film that will reunite her not only with her “Zombieland” director Ruben Fleischer, who is helming the pic, but also with “Crazy, Stupid, Love” co-star Ryan Gosling, who is the star. Stone and Gosling will be joined in the 1940s drama by Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Anthony Mackie.

In the Will Beall-scripted crime drama based on a true story, Penn will be notorious Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen, a charismatic figure who was also a bit of a celebrity, even being featured in a Life Magazine profile. But he was also considered a sociopath with a dark side, and Gosling and Brolin’s pair of cops are called in to put a stop to his dealings when innocent people start getting hurt. Mackie will play former LAPD lieutenant Rocky Washington, while Stone, according to Variety’s Showblitz blog, is in talks to play a “sharp-tongued siren” who gets caught in a love triangle between Penn’s mobster and Gosling’s good guy.

She broke out on the scene with a supporting role in 2007′s “Superbad” but it was 2010′s “Easy A” that showed Stone had serious potential as a future A-Lister. She just wrapped up playing Gwen Stacy opposite Andrew Garfield in “The Amazing Spider-Man” for director Marc Webb and will next be seen showing off her dramatic chops in August’s “The Help”, based on the best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett.

UPDATED: Emma Stone NOT in “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”

June 22, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting 2 Comments

UPDATED: Bummer! Deadline reports Emma Stone has passed on the offer to star in the film. The hunt for zombie-killing Elizabeth Bennett continues…

Emma Stone must really hate zombies by now. After fleeing and slaying a slew of them in Ruben Fleischer’s “Zombieland”, she’ll have to fight them off once again, and this time she’ll have to do it while wearing a corset. Variety reports the comedic actress has been offered the female lead role of Elizabeth Bennett in “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, which Craig Gillespie is directing for Lionsgate.

Seth Grahame-Smith adapted the screenplay from his own novel of the same name, which faithfully retells the love story between Jane Austen’s famous lovers Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy, but with one major twist: the idyllic Victorian setting of their courtship is overrun with blood-sucking, brain-eating undead zombies. And with both Elizabeth and Darcy well trained in the art of combat, their iconic verbal sparring sometimes descends into inflicting actual physical violence on each other.

The project has been going through musical chairs not only with directors – David O. Russell was originally tapped, followed by Mike White, who also dropped out, paving the way for Gillespie – but also with castings, with Natalie Portman the original Lizzie, followed by talks with Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Mia Wasikowska. Portman still remains part of the project as a producer. On Darcy’s side, the likes of James McAvoy and Bradley Cooper were considered at one point. Perhaps Lionsgate will go with a Darcy as unconventional as Stone’s Elizabeth. Certainly some bit of comedic slant is needed for the tongue-in-cheek adaptation, which actually makes Stone seem like a more fitting casting than some of her predecessors.

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