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Casting Couch: Giamatti, Roxburgh, Quaid

By Garth Franklin Thursday December 2nd 2004 07:28PM

""Sideways" star Paul Giamatti is attached to topline "Paper Man," a comedy mobilizing for an April start. The film will mark the directorial debut of scribes Michele and Kieran Mulroney. Giamatti will play a man struggling to recapture the spark that made him a successful novelist. His marriage also is disintegrating, and neither problem is helped by the presence of an imaginary superhero friend who has been with the writer since childhood..." (full details)

"Richard Roxburgh ("Van Helsing") and British teenager Tom Sturridge ("Being Julia," "Vanity Fair") have joined the cast of "Like Minds," a psychological thriller starring Toni Collette, which starts shooting today in Adelaide. Collette stars as a forensic psychologist who must decide if there's enough evidence to find a that psychopathic 17-year-old (Eddie Redmayne) killed a fellow pupil (Sturridge). Roxburgh plays a detective..." (full details)

"Dennis Quaid is set to star in, write and direct a biopic about the controversial 1940s Western swing star Spade Cooley titled "Shame on You." Katie Holmes is in talks to play Cooley's wife, whom he killed in front of their teenage daughter in 1961. Cooley spent the '60s in prison for his crime and was released in 1969 to perform a benefit concert, where he died from a heart attack backstage..." (full details)

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