3 items from 2013
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Lost Melody
Nicolas Cage is in talks to star in "Bad Santa" director Terry Zwigoff's new indie drama "Lost Melody". Zwigoff and Melissa Axelrod co-wrote the script.
Cage would play a man who's trapped in a marriage to a shrewish wife and falls in love with a prostitute. Edward R. Pressman ("American Psycho") is producing. [Source: The Wrap]
Kevin Costner has closed a deal to star in Niki Caro's true story sports drama "McFarland" at Disney Pictures and Mayhem Pictures.
ostner will play a coach living in a predominantly Hispanic California town who creates a high school track team that must overcome social and physical hurdles to become champions during the 1980s. [Source: Variety]
Eden
Jessica Lowndes ("90210") has scored the female lead role in Shyam Madiraju's survival thriller "Eden" at Ombra Films. Nate Parker and Diego Boneta also star.
The story set in motion when a soccer team’s plane crashes on a deserted island. »
- Garth Franklin
6 hours ago | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
• Oscar-winner Helen Mirren (The Queen) is set to star in an adaptation of Richard Morais’ debut novel The Hundred-Foot Journey. When a family is displaced from their hometown of Mumbai, they settle in a small town in the French Alps and attempt to open an Indian restaurant — a hundred feet away from Madame Mallory’s traditional French restaurant. Mirren will play Madame Mallory, a famous chef in the town who “wages war” with the family, but eventually takes one of the sons (90210′s Manish Dayal) under her wing. Lasse Hallstrom (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) will helm the project for DreamWorks. »
- Lindsey Bahr
30 June 2013 10:46 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Graham Rogers (“Revolution”) and Brett Davern (“Awkward”) have joined “Love & Mercy: The Lives, Times and Music of Brian Wilson” as members of the Beach Boys.
Rogers will portray Al Jardine, and Davern will play Carl Wilson, Brian Wilson’s younger brother. The surf rock band formed in 1961 and became hugely successful by the mid ’60s.
John Wells Prods. and River Road Entertainment are producing with River Road’s Bill Pohlad directing from Oren Moverman’s script. Paul Dano is starring as the young Brian Wilson, with John Cusack playing the older version. Paul Giamatti and Elizabeth Banks also star.
Lensing began this week in Los Angeles.
Rogers’ recent credits include “Careful What You Wish For,” while Davern recently wrapped the indie feature “Born to Race 2.” Rogers is repped by Apa and Management 360. Davern is repped by Apa and Alchemy Entertainment. »
- Dave McNary
3 items from 2013
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