It’s been a minute since we’ve heard any news on Warren Beatty’s long-gestating Howard Hughes biopic, but here’s something to sate your appetite. According to Deadline, Alec Baldwin will play Hughes’ lawyer Bob Maheu in the flick. Funnily enough, Baldwin also starred in Martin Scorsese’s Hughes biopic The Aviator, playing the eccentric billionaire’s frenemy Juan Trippe. […]
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Play It Again – Bugsy
August 20, 2013 
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By Simon Miraudo August 20, 2013 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line (hey, […]
Continue readingWarren Beatty picks Felicity Jones as his on-screen lover
November 16, 2011 0 Comments
English up-and-comer Felicity Jones (Like Crazy) has been handpicked by Warren Beatty to star in his upcoming Howard Hughes biopic. According to Deadline, Jones will play a young woman who falls for Hughes’ driver, before becoming enamoured with the eccentric billionaire himself. Obviously, Beatty will play Hughes. He will also produce and direct his own […]
Continue readingLimitless director to remake Bonnie and Clyde
July 27, 2011 3 Comments
Limitless director Neil Burger is in discussions to helm a remake of Arthur Penn‘s legendary New Hollywood flick Bonnie and Clyde. According to Deadline, Burger is looking to team up with Up in the Air screenwriter Sheldon Turner for an even grittier take on the real-life Depression Era bank robbers. The project is inspired by Jeff Gunn’s recently […]
Continue readingWarren Beatty will star as Howard Hughes in new film
June 23, 2011 0 Comments
Earlier in the week it was announced that Warren Beatty would write, produce, direct and star in a brand new movie after a decade away from the limelight. Deadline are reporting that the project will be based on the life of Howard Hughes; a topic Beatty has been eager to tackle since the late 1960s. The […]
Continue readingWarren Beatty preps new film for Paramount
June 21, 2011 0 Comments
Warren Beatty has written, produced and directed fewer films in his entire career than Steven Soderbergh has in the past three years. The connection? As Soderbergh prepares to retire, Beatty is getting ready to stage a comeback. According to Deadline, Beatty is setting up a new comedy at Paramount. Details are scarce, but Beatty has committed […]
Continue readingVaughn to recruit Eastwood, Nicholson and Beatty as old superheroes?
February 18, 2011 3 Comments
Adjust your spectacles, adhere those dentures and ready your walking frames. Writer/director/producer Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class) has the elderly in his sights. Vaughn has told Deadline London that a major Hollywood studio has shown interest in his next project, The Golden Age, about a retirement home for old superheroes. Based on an unpublished […]
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