Pretty Woman – following in the footsteps of such screen classics as Legally Blonde, Sister Act, and Bring It On – is bound for Broadway. According to the NY Post, helmer Garry Marshall and producer Paula Wagner are meeting with “composers, lyricists and directors” to help translate the film for the theatre. Screenwriter J.F. Lawton is expected to write the […]
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Dinner theatre – August: Osage County review
December 17, 2013 
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By Simon Miraudo December 17, 2013 Tracy Letts is doing the Lord’s work. Or is it the Devil’s? (Which one is responsible for all the fun stuff again?) He adapts his Pulitzer Prize winning play, August: Osage County, for the big screen, just in time for the holidays, administering the perfect antidote for all the […]
Continue readingPoster Debut: August: Osage County
May 8, 2013 0 Comments
The poster for the John Wells directed adaptation of August: Osage County has been released, highlighting how star studded its cast is. The film, adapted from Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, stars Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts as mother and daughter alongside Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette […]
Continue readingAbigail Breslin joins Streep and Roberts in August: Osage County
July 23, 2012 0 Comments
Abigail Breslin is the latest to join the star-studded cast of August: Osage County, Deadline reports. Breslin will appear opposite Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, and Juliette Lewis in the John Wells directed adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play. Streep has been cast as Violet Weston, the pill popping matriarch of an unstable […]
Continue readingSingle white fairy tale – Mirror Mirror review
March 26, 2012 2 Comments
Mirror Mirror – Starring Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, and Armie Hammer. Directed by Tarsem Singh Dhandwar. Rated PG. By Simon Miraudo. Keeping up with shifts in the pop cultural consciousness is a full-time job, and I don’t envy the devoted parents who must struggle to stay abreast of what their children might be ‘into’ at […]
Continue readingMeryl Streep and Julia Roberts cast in August: Osage Country
February 17, 2012 1 Comment
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts have been cast as mother and daughter in an adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play August: Osage County, Deadline reports. John Wells (The Company Men) will direct Streep as Violet Weston, a pill popping matriarch, and Roberts as her strong-willed, eldest daughter Barbara. Letts has […]
Continue readingJulia Roberts kicks off her Second Act
December 5, 2011 0 Comments
Julia Roberts will produce and star in the new workplace comedy Second Act. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the picture concerns a privileged woman who has never worked a day in her life. She eventually has to take a job, and we’re going to assume it’ll be the result of the global financial crisis (the one per […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Mirror Mirror
November 16, 2011 1 Comment
Hot on the heels of the newly released trailer for Rupert Sanders’ rival fairytale flick Snow White and the Huntsman comes the official teaser for Tarsem Singh‘s Mirror Mirror. Tarsem’s take on the Snow White legend is notably different from Sanders’. Whereas Huntsman looks to be a gloomy, edgy affair, Mirror Mirror is more child-oriented and comically-inclined. […]
Continue readingTarsem’s Snow White renamed Mirror, Mirror
November 7, 2011 1 Comment
Relativity Media’s untitled Snow White project finally has a title. Slashfilm confirms the Tarsem Singh directed film will be called Mirror, Mirror. Many comparisons have been made between Singh’s take on the classic Snow White story (starring Lily Collins) and Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman (starring Kristen Stewart) also currently in production. Singh told […]
Continue readingFlatliners remake to be penned by Source Code screenwriter
August 29, 2011 1 Comment
Further proof that time is indeed circular: Sony is prepping a remake of Joel Schumacher‘s 1990 thriller Flatliners. This now means that films from the 1990s are ripe for the remaking. According to Deadline, Source Code screenwriter Ben Ripley has been tapped to pen the script, which will give the flick a more contemporary feel. The […]
Continue readingKing without a crown – Larry Crowne review
July 19, 2011 0 Comments
Larry Crowne – Starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Directed by Tom Hanks. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. As an actor, Tom Hanks has often been compared with Jimmy Stewart. As a director, he seems to take his cues from frequent Stewart collaborator, Frank Capra. Larry Crowne, Hanks’ second effort behind the camera, […]
Continue readingSean Bean cast in The Brothers Grimm: Snow White
July 18, 2011 1 Comment
Remember that other film about Snow White? The one that doesn’t star Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth? No? Well, anyway, Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) has been cast as The King in that one (better known as Tarsem Singh‘s The Brothers Grimm: Snow White). According to Variety, Bean is in final negotiations to appear in the film as […]
Continue readingNew trailer for Tom Hanks’ Larry Crowne
June 14, 2011 0 Comments
A trailer was released for the Tom Hanks-directed Larry Crowne back in March. Out in the US in July, the film’s plot has been likened to the quirky TV show Community: it features a man (Hanks) who loses his job, signs up for community college, joins a scooter gang and… finds some meaning, we guess. […]
Continue readingHugh Jackman to play Snow White’s Huntsman?
April 7, 2011 0 Comments
There are so many Snow White projects/fairy-tale revivals in the works at the moment it’s impossible to keep up. According to Deadline, Hugh Jackman has been offered the role of “the Huntsman” in, umm, one of them. More accurately, he is being considered for Snow White and The Huntsman, which already has Kristen Stewart attached […]
Continue readingUniversal want Kristen Stewart for Snow White; Viggo Mortensen for Huntsmen
January 27, 2011 1 Comment
We heard in December that Relativity Media’s The Brothers’ Grimm: Snow White was in competition with Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman. Already pitting Charlize Theron and Julia Roberts against one another for the role of the Evil Queen, we wondered then who might Hollywood have pegged for the other two leading roles: the dashing […]
Continue reading>Snow White and the two Evil Queens
December 14, 2010 0 Comments
>It seems Charlize Theron and Julia Roberts are up against one another in a duelling studio search for the wickedest Evil Queen in all of tinseltown. Universal Pictures’ production of Snow White and the Huntsman is up against Relativity Media’s The Brothers Grimm: Snow White in a race to cinema screens, Deadline report. Theron is […]
Continue readingFirst world problems – Eat Pray Love review
October 6, 2010 1 Comment
Eat Pray Love – Starring Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem and Richard Jenkins. Directed by Ryan Murphy. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Eat Pray Love is both the title of Ryan Murphy’s latest film, and a succinct synopsis of its entire contents. That trio of verbs represent the depth of our lead character (she will indeed […]
Continue readingIt takes deux – Duplicity DVD review
July 22, 2009 0 Comments
Duplicity – Starring Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Paul Giamatti and Tom Wilkinson. Directed by Tony Gilroy. Rated PG for mild sexual references and coarse language. 125 mins. Originally published March 23rd. Available on DVD July 23. First things first – where is George Clooney? Duplicity is exactly the kind of battle-of-the-sexes/verbal-sparring-match that he eats for […]
Continue readingIt takes deux – Duplicity review
March 26, 2009 0 Comments
Duplicity – Starring Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Paul Giamatti and Tom Wilkinson. Directed by Tony Gilroy. Rated PG for mild sexual references and coarse language. 125 mins. First things first – where is George Clooney? Duplicity is exactly the kind of battle-of-the-sexes/verbal-sparring-match that he eats for breakfast. Sure, Clive Owen is charming. But he ain’t […]
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