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Arterton Sprints To Runner, Runner
30 May 2012 1:09 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
With the likes of Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake already aboard, Runner, Runner director Brad Furman is now adding some actress appeal, with Gemma Arterton signing on.The film, by Rounders scribes Brian Koppelman and David Levien, finds Timberlake as a Princeton student who is cheated out of his tuition funds playing online poker. But when he attempts to investigate, he ends up working for the gambling site’s corrupt boss (Affleck). Still, he’ll be able to comfort himself with the love interest attention from Arterton.With Anthony Mackie, Oliver Cooper and Sam Palladio also among the cast, Runner, Runner is set to kick off shooting next month in Puerto Rico.Arterton was last seen in Tamara Drewe, but has a variety of movies on the horizon, including Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, Song For Marion, The Wright Girls and Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters, which had been scheduled to arrive this year, »
Julianne Hough Finds 'Safe Haven' & Gemma Arterton Ready For 'Runner, Runner'
30 May 2012 12:45 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Two lovely and talented ladies have lined up some projects, so let's get right to it....
The "Rock of Ages" star Julianne Hough has joined Josh Duhamel (seriously) for Lasse Hallström's "Safe Haven." The movie will tell the story a young woman’s struggle to find love again after she arrives in a small North Carolina town. Her reluctance to join the tight-knit community raises questions about her past. Slowly, she begins putting down roots and gains the courage to start a relationship with Alex (Duhamel), a widowed store owner with two young children. But dark secrets intrude on her new life with such terror that she is forced to rediscover the meaning of sacrifice and rely on the power of love. Fans of the author say that this one is different because it's more of a thriller, but we presume it's still happily ever after and golden sunshine »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Gemma Arterton Goes to ‘Runner, Runner’; Jennifer Stone Latest With ‘Nothing to Fear’
30 May 2012 9:45 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Following news that hit about two weeks back, Variety reports that Runner, Runner has made Gemma Arterton the latest member of its sprightly cast. Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) and his team have already grabbed Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake, Oliver Cooper (Project X), and Anthony Mackie for the film, which revolves around a Princeton student (Timberlake) who ends up working for the online gambling site that already drained him of funds. Arterton has a thrilling, transgressive role, having been pegged to play the main character’s love interest.
Brian Koppelman and David Levien wrote the screenplay, a job that’s more than likely to bring them back to their Rounders days — only, this time, the gambling is much more modern and “high-tech.” (This aspect might actually be transgressive, now that I think about it.) New Regency, Appian Way, Stone Village Pictures, and Double Features will produce the film for a June shoot, »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Gambling Thriller Runner Runner Adds Gemma Arterton
30 May 2012 3:08 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Gemma Arterton is set to star as Justin Timberlake’s love interest in the online gambling thriller Runner Runner, according to reports. The thriller is slightly familiar territory for screenwriters Brian Koppelman and David Levien, who wrote Rounders. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you that Runner Runner, which will be shot in Puerto Rico, will [...]
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- Nick Martin
Anthony Mackie to join Runner, Runner with Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake
18 May 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Anthony Mackie has been deservedly rising to recognition brilliantly in recent years, with strong supporting roles in the likes of The Hurt Locker, The Adjustment Bureau, and Real Steel.
His upcoming slate includes Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Ruben Fleischer’s highly anticipated Gangster Squad (the trailer for which landed this month), and Michael Bay’s Pain and Gain.
Deadline now report that the young star is now in talks to join crime-thriller Runner, Runner alongside leading men Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake, which already sounds like something to look forward to in itself.
“The drama revolves around the world of offshore online gaming and an increasingly tense relationship between a business founder and his protege.”
Brad Furman, who made waves last year with The Lincoln Lawyer, will be back behind the camera, directing from a script co-written by frequent collaborators Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Rounders, Ocean’s Thirteen), with »
- Kenji Lloyd
Anthony Mackie Joins 'Runner, Runner,' Freida Pinto & Alfred Molina Topline 'Desert Dancer'
18 May 2012 7:30 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
With production set to begin next month, “Runner, Runner” is looking to add another rising star to its ranks. Deadline reports that “The Hurt Locker” star is in talks to join the online gambling thriller written by “Rounders” duo Brian Koppelman and David Levien, and directed by “The Lincoln Lawyer” helmer Brad Furman.
Mackie will join a stacked cast that includes Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake, and “Project X” star Oliver Cooper. It’s been a busy year for Mackie, who has already appeared in the Sam Worthington snoozefest “Man On A Ledge” and will appear in two films opening later this year, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” and “Gangster Squad.” With his profile increasing, he’ll hopefully get a chance to get more lead roles like the one in the ill-fated Paul Greegrass-helmed Jimi Hendrix biopic.
Across the pond, U.K. production “Desert Dancer,” based on the life of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian, »
- Cain Rodriguez
Anthony Mackie Joins "Runner Runner"
18 May 2012 1:05 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Anthony Mackie is in negotiations to join Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake in the online gambling thriller "Runner Runner" at 20th Century Fox, New Regency and Stone Village Pictures says Variety.
Timberlake stars as a Princeton student who is cheated of his tuition money playing online poker. He flies to Costa Rica hoping to reclaim his losses from the site's billionaire owner (Affleck) and ends up becoming the corrupt CEO's right-hand man.
Mackie is in talks to play an FBI agent who has spent years trying to bring down Affleck's character and sees Timberlake as a way in. Brad Furman ("The Lincoln Lawyer") helms from a script by "Rounders" scribes Brian Koppelman and David Levien. »
- Garth Franklin
Anthony Mackie Plays Runner Runner, Alex Pettyfer Leads Diamond Dogs and Tim Roth Spies Mobius
17 May 2012 6:09 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Some casting news to share with you today. Check the bullets: Anthony Mackie (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) is in talks to join Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake in the gambling drama, Runner Runner. Alex Pettyfer (I Am Number Four) will topline Diamond Dogs, an English-language thriller by director Pascal Chaumeil (Heartbreaker). Tim Roth (The Incredible Hulk) will join Jean Dujardin (The Artist) and Cecile De France (Hereafter) in the spy-thriller, Mobius. Hit the jump for more. First up via Deadline, Mackie may join Runner Runner, a gambling drama that recently added Oliver Cooper (Project X). The film stars Timberlake as a college student at Princeton who resorts to online gambling to dig his way out of school loan debt. Cooper plays a computer nerd who is hired along with Timberlake to work for Ivan Block (Affleck), a billionaire who runs a seedy operation out of Costa Rica. Mackie's role was not specified in the report. »
- Dave Trumbore
Anthony Mackie Joining Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake for ‘Runner Runner’
17 May 2012 5:00 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Anthony Mackie has quite an impressive lineup of movies coming out in the next years — most notably Gangster Squad – but that isn’t stopping him from adding another to that list. Deadline has just informed us that the actor is in talks to join Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake for Runner Runner, soon after yesterday’s news that Project X star Oliver Cooper hopped on board.
Lincoln Lawyer helmer Brad Furman has signed on to direct, with Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Ocean’s Thirteen) providing the screenplay. The film “revolves around the world of offshore online gaming and an increasingly tense relationship between a business founder and his protege.”
I haven’t been too impressed with Furman‘s directing work over the past few years, so I’m hoping that the writing team can give us something to work with. They’re hitting some familiar territory withe script, seeing as their 1998 film, »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Anthony Mackie In Talks To Star As Detective In Online Gambling Thriller "Runner Runner"
17 May 2012 4:49 PM, PDT | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »
Very busy actor Anthony Mackie is currently in negotiations to star alongside Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake in New Regency and Stone Village Pictures' Runner Runner. The online gambling thriller, directed by Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) and penned by Rounders scribes Brian Koppelman and David Levien, will be distributed by 20th Century Fox. Runner Runner stars Timberlake "as a Princeton student who is cheated out of his tuition money playing online poker. He flies to Costa Rica hoping to reclaim his losses from the site's billionaire owner (Affleck), and ends up becoming the corrupt CEO's right-hand man." If confirmed, Mackie will play an FBI »
- Vanessa Martinez
Anthony Mackie in talks to join Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake in Runner Runner
17 May 2012 11:28 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Anthony Mackie may join New Regency and Stone Village Pictures' gambling thriller Runner Runner which currently has Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake starring. Variety reports that 20th Century Fox distributes the film helmed by The Lincoln Lawyer's Brad Furman, and scripted by David Levien and Brian Kopelman (Rounders). Timberlake plays a student at Princeton University who loses his tuition money when cheated in an online poker game. After traveling to Costa Rica to get his money back, he ends up becoming the billionaire site owner's right-hand man. Affleck plays the billionaire. In Runner Runner, Mackie would play an FBI agent who's spent years trying to take Affleck's character down, and knows the importance of Timberlake's key position as part of his plan. »
Anthony Mackie May Join Runner Runner
17 May 2012 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
According to Deadline , actor Anthony Mackie may be joining Brad ( The Lincoln Lawyer ) Furman's Runner Runner , a drama about offshore online gaming for New Regency that already stars Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck. Written by David Levien and Brian Koppelman ( Rounders ) and produced by Appian Way, the film is about the tense relationship between the man who starts the offshore gaming business and his protégé. The movie is scheduled to begin production next month. Mackie, who starred in last year's The Adjustment Bureau and the Oscar-winning war drama The Hurt Locker , can be seen later this year in Timur Bekmambetov's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Ruben Fleischer's Gangster Squad , is currently filming Michael Bay's Pain and Gain . (Photo Credit: »
‘Project X’ Star Oliver Cooper Joins Affleck, Timberlake in Brad Furman’s ‘Runner, Runner’
16 May 2012 10:53 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
In addition to providing a much-needed artistic boost for Matthew McConaughey — which includes two fast-approaching Cannes debuts in Jeff Nichols’s Mud and Lee Daniels‘s The Paperboy — last year’s impressive The Lincoln Lawyer also seems to be working wonders for director Brad Furman. One of his upcoming projects, Cry Macho, an N. Richard Nash adaptation revolving around an international kidnapping scheme, sounds terrifically intriguing, while the other, Runner, Runner, has already booked Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake to co-star.
In Oliver Cooper, who appeared earlier this year in Project X, Runner, Runner has now found a third principal cast member. His character is “Andrew Cronin, a twentysomething Ivy League computer nerd who gets hired along with” Princeton student Richie Furst (Timberlake) “to work for Ivan Block (Affleck), an online gambling billionaire who works out of Costa Rica and whose business is even less legitimate than it first seems. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Justin Timberlake And Ben Affleck To Corrupt 'Project X' Star Oliver Cooper In 'Runner Runner'
16 May 2012 9:19 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Last we heard, Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck had signed up to star in the thriller “Runner, Runner” with “The Lincoln Lawyer” helmer Brad Furman set to direct. At the time there were few solid details on the plot other than that it would take place in the high stakes world of online gambling, but now Entertainment Weekly is reporting that “Project X” breakout star Oliver Cooper has officially joined the project, signing on to star opposite Timberlake and Affleck.
Cooper is playing a young computer nerd who gets hired along with a Princeton student (Timberlake) to work for an online gambling billionaire (Affleck) based out of Costa Rica, with a less-than-legitimate work ethic. The script (which we've heard is great) comes from David Levien and Brian Koppelman, the duo behind “Rounders,” which also looked at the gambling world, albeit from a different angle. This is obviously a great opportunity for the 22-year-old Cooper, »
- Cain Rodriguez
The Top 10 Indies to Watch on VOD This May
2 May 2012 8:07 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Indiewire has weeded through the films hitting VOD this month to bring you 10 to look out for. Variety was key in selection, so you'll find everything from a gore fest set in a mental asylum, to a documentary on the world of poker, to Robert Pattinson's latest non-"Twilight" flick. Here are the ten films to watch on VOD this May, in alphabetical order: "All In: The Poker Movie" (May 1) Hardcore poker players and anyone who enjoyed the Matt Damon-starring "Rounders," will no doubt want to seek out "All In: The Poker Movie," an entertaining look at how poker went on to come a nationally televised sport played and watched by millions. The film, directed by Douglas Tirola, takes aim at politicians -- through interviews with a slew of professional players and celebrities (including Damon, Kenny Rogers and "This American Life" host Ira Glass) -- who have managed to prevent millions from playing, »
- Nigel M Smith
‘Runner, Runner’ Is Not a ‘Rounders’ Sequel, But It’s Close Enough
23 April 2012 10:53 AM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
“There was [a script] we wrote that I knew was a movie. It was mind-boggling to me that it wasn’t a movie.” That is how screenwriter Brian Koppelman (Rounders) described an original script he co-wrote with his lifelong best friend David Levien. Comedian Jay Mohr was pressing him to talk about any un-produced scripts that he wished had made it, earlier this month on the conversational comedy podcast “Mohr Stories.” Koppelman said he “couldn’t talk about that one” but it was finally shooting this summer with two stars, restoring his faith in the system.
Koppelman was talking about Runner, Runner, another drama set in the world of high-stakes gambling, and the stars are Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake. Shooting starts in Puerto Rico this June with Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) at the helm, Variety announced two weeks later.
*Update: Koppelman and Levien began writing it in August 2010 and turned »
- Jeff Leins
All In: The Poker Movie Prizepack Giveaway
20 April 2012 11:26 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
4th Row Films will release “All In: The Poker Movie” nationally on April 24, 2012 via digital retailers including Amazon and iTunes, with a DVD release to follow in July 2012. The opportunity to pre-order the film is available at www.allinthepokermovie.com, along with a limited edition poster and “All In: The Poker Movie”. playing cards. This release will follow a 40 market theatrical release in late March, including the Cinema Village in New York City and Laemmle 4 in Los Angeles.
A look at the story of poker from the underground clubs of New York City to the global boom and the recent online scandal, “All In: The Poker Movie”. is garnering unprecedented support across the country, with poker players participating in post-screening discussions during many of the theatrical runs either in person or via satellite.
Wamg is giving you the chance to enter for a chance to win:
- Movie Geeks
Vince Vaughn to Star in The Rockford Files
18 April 2012 8:43 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Another '70s cop show is about to make the jump to the big screen as Universal Pictures is currently in the process of setting up a feature film adaptation of The Rockford Files. The original show aired between 1974 and 1980 on NBC and starred James Garner as Jim Rockford, a private eye who spent a few years in prison before setting up shop in a mobile home near Malibu Beach. It was created by novelist Roy Huggins, the man behind such memorable shows as The Fugitive and Maverick (the latter of which also starred James Garner). Vince Vaughn is attached to star and produce in the movie, which leads to one very important question: will this be a comedy or a drama? According to Deadline, Universal was contemplating a TV reboot of The Rockford Files up until last year with Dermot Mulroney in the lead role. The project was shelved »
- Sean
Vince Vaughn To Star In Rockford Files Movie
17 April 2012 9:50 PM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
Hollywood has finally made it down the rehash line to The Rockford Files, the James Garner vehicle of the late ’70s that brought the former Maverick star back into the American conscience after twelve years of relative floundering. Word has it Vince Vaughn will revive the role of the Trans-Am driving ex-con private eye for Universal Pictures.
According to Deadline, the writing team of David Levien and Brian Koppelman have been tapped to write the project. The duo previously brought you Rounders, and more recently (and regrettably), Ocean’s Thirteen.
If you don’t remember The Rockford Files, you’re probably not in your late thirties or early forties. Take my word for it, for 122 episodes, it was the goods. The show opened with Rockford’s voice squawking out of a reel-to-reel answering machine sitting on the Pi’s desk alongside a perpetual game of solitaire, before smashing into one »
- Josh Converse
Vince Vaughn Reopens 'The Rockford Files'
17 April 2012 5:44 PM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
A movie of "The Rockford Files?" Vince Vaughn is on the case.
The star of this summer's "Neighborhood Watch" will soon be sleuthing around as he takes on the lead role in the adaptation of the 1970s drama series, according to Deadline.
"The Rockford Files" starred James Garner as Jim Rockford, a Los Angeles-based private investigator who applied his wits and charm to solving a different case each week. The series, aired from Sept. 10, 1974 through Jan. 10, 1980, was co-created by Roy Huggins, the producer of another hit Garner series, "Maverick."
"Rockford" will be Vaughn's second film based on a television show after his villainous turn in "Starsky & Hutch" (2004). While the search is on for a director, David Levien and Brian Koppelman ("Rounders," "Ocean's Thirteen") are signed on to pen the screenplay; the writing duo also recently became attached to "Runner Runner," the online gambling thriller starring Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake. »
- Bryan Enk
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