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Max Minghella Moves into Politics This ‘March’
Call this the "Social Network" week for casting. Armie Hammer gets cast in a film for Eastwood. Jesse Eisenberg is working on an indie film right before the holidays, and post Xmas, we can expect to see Max Minghella join the great ensemble in The Ides of March which was formerly known as Farragut North. Minghella has landed the role of Ben Harper.
Jesse Eisenberg, Jess Weixler and Jason Ritter To Hand Out Jay Gammill’s ‘Free Samples’
Jesse Eisenberg might have put one foot in mainstream films such as The Social Network and upcoming animated film Rio, but the actor's other foot is firmly planted in indie world roles as Roger Dodger, The Squid and the Whale and Adventureland. The actor has penciled in a quickie before the holidays called Free Samples...
Besson Sees the ‘Light’; Michelle Yeoh to Play Aung San Suu Kyi
Now that she is no longer under house arrest, this is one film premiere that Aung San Suu Kyi will likely not miss out on. The Nobel Peace Prize winner will see herself played on the big screen and I imagine she might even collaborate on some level with Luc Besson who'll be employing the services of Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh (much liked among French directors having recently worked for Mathieu Kassovitz's Babylon A.D.) to play her in the biopic. Dans la Lumière will commence filming next year.
The Black List Update: Picks 10 to 6 of 2008
Among the screenplays with less than 6 votes in 2008 we have titles such as Sherlock Holmes, The Debt, Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty, William Monahan's London Boulevard and easily my favorite of the bunch is Bert Royal's Easy A. Here are picks 10 to 6 with two finished films having switched their official titles.
Benicio del Toro, Laurent Cantet and Gaspar Noe Among 7 Filmmakers Spending ‘7 Days in Havana’
Helmers Laurent Cantet, Gaspar Noe, Pablo Trapero, Elia Suleiman, Julio Medem, Cuba's Juan Carlos Tabio and Benicio del Toro are joining perhaps one of the rare omnibus projects worth mentioning. Finally a short film collage that is a bit more organic, 7 Days in Havana is said to be an inside "view of Cuba, introducing audiences to an eclectic young Havana and its music scene."
