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Kate Hudson Looking to Carve into ‘Butter’
Jennifer Garner might have found her friendly competition in Kate Hudson for the upcoming shoot of Butter - the top tier Black List script from first time scribe Jason Micallef that would see Jim Field Smith (She's Out of My League) begin lensing on April 17th in Shreveport. Conflicting reports have Jim Carrey playing "former" butter carving champ Bob Pickler, husband to Garner's Laura Pickler, but Movieline is reporting that he has passed on the project.
2011 Oscar Predictions: Best Original Screenplay
Before I get into my prediction picks and second best choices for Best Original Screenplay, here are some titles that are worth mentioning and that I think are on the outsides looking in. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Biutiful (how will he do without Guillermo Arriaga as his wingman?), Mark Heyman and Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (I think the Academy will find the title too risque)...
2011 Oscar Predictions: Best Adapted Screenplay
Come post-Cannes time, ask me about my bottom five nomination predictions I've listed below, and I'll probably want to retract some of my picks - this year's competition in Best Adapted Screenplay is fierce. We have a strong contingent of scribes from the U.K in David Seidler's The King's Speech, Rowan Joffe's Brighton Rock, William Monahan's London Boulevard and Alex Garland's Never Let Me Go.
Payne’s The Descendants is a Go with Judy Greer Playing Girlfriend in a Coma
A good 6 weeks delayed from the tentative January start date, Alexander Payne's The Descendants will finally begin filming, setting up shop today, and the entire rest of the cast besides the already named George Clooney have been named. Judy Greer, who has just been named to the Duplass bros. new film Jeff Who Lives at Home, will play the wife in a coma role.
Cannes 2011? New Projects From Mia Hansen-Love, Raymond Depardon and Pierre Schoeller
If you don't know the names mentioned in the headline above then its perhaps time to familiarize yourself with French cinema. Actually, I'm fairly sure all three filmmakers showed their last films at the Cannes Film Festival either a year or two years back.
