Cate Blanchett to make feature directorial debut with The Dinner

Oscar winner and freakishly talented actor Cate Blanchett is going to try her hand at directing. Films, that is. According to Deadline, Blanchett is set to make her feature directorial debut with The Dinner, adapted from a Herman Koch novel by Academy Award nominee Oren Moverman (The Messenger). It’s a thriller that concerns the lengths […]

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Paul Dano set to star as Beach Boy Brian Wilson

Paul Dano has been cast as The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson in Bill Pohlad’s upcoming biopic Love and Mercy. According to a press release from distributor River Road Entertainment (published on Deadline), Dano will play young Wilson, while another actor will portray the musical legend as an elder. The casting of Dano made Wilson… smile (sorry). […]

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Cop out – Rampart review (Sydney Film Festival)

Rampart – Starring Woody Harrelson, Ned Beatty, and Brie Larson. Directed by Oren Moverman. By Simon Miraudo. Rampart plays the Sydney Film Festival on June 9 and 17th. The poster for Oren Moverman‘s sophomore effort Rampart declares proudly that its central character is “the most corrupt cop you’ve ever seen on screen.” Setting aside the fact that […]

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Trailer Debut: Rampart

The trailer for Oren Moverman’s Rampart has debuted online and shows Woody Harrelson as “the most corrupt cop you’ve ever seen on screen”. Of course, these words appear within the trailer in case you couldn’t pick up on this fact after Harrelson’s character, Dave Brown, can be seen in montage style doing things only the […]

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Jesse Eisenberg to play young genius … again

As if Jesse Eisenberg wasn’t already in danger of being typecast. The ‘berg is set to star as Evan Kohlmann – the real-life 23-year-old counterterrorism expert – in a new film from his Social Network producer Scott Rudin. According to Deadline, The Messenger‘s Oren Moverman will adapt Kohlmann’s exploits from Wesley Yang’s New York Magazine […]

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Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson biopic in the works

The life rights of Beach Boys brainbox Brian Wilson, as well as that of his wife Melinda, have been purchased by River Road Entertainment, paving the way for a biopic on the pop icon’s tumultuous career. According to Deadline, Oscar-nominee Oren Moverman (The Messenger) is currently writing the screenplay. Moverman is also working on the script […]

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Kurt Cobain biopic to be helmed by Oscar nominee

source: thr.com A long-gestating Kurt Cobain biopic has been given a fresh lease on life. (Poor taste?) Oscar nominated filmmaker Oren Moverman is in negotiations to rewrite the screenplay of a Cobain biopic and also direct it. Moverman made his directorial debut last year with The Messenger, a film about war vets who are charged […]

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