"Willem Dafoe will star in "The Widow's Lover" for production shingle Millennium Films. Brian Bell, Randall Emmett and Rita Capasa produce the pic, penned by Dafoe and girlfriend Giada Colagrande. Colagrande will direct and star; a January start is slated in New York. Story concerns a young Italian widow who returns to her deceased husband's home away from home to settle his affairs and becomes romantically embroiled with the house's caretaker with tragic consequences..." (full details) ' "Amanda Brooks and Patricia Rae will star in "Taking Charge," a feature that is intended as the first of a slate of projects from newly formed Vine Entertainment. "Charge" is scheduled to shoot next month in Arizona under the direction of Dick Fisher. The drama is described as a cautionary tale of a spoiled girl who takes matters into her own hands after she is cut off by her billionaire father..." (full details)
""House of Flying Daggers" thesp Zhang Ziyi will star in "My Wife Is a Gangster 3," a co-production between China Film Group and South Korea's Hyun Jin Cinema. The $9 million pic will be helmed by Cho Jin-gyu, who directed the original "Gangster" in 2001..." (full details) Thanks to 'KC'
