"George Clooney's "Good Night, and Good Luck" has been chosen to open the 43rd New York Film Festival, which begins Sept. 22 at Lincoln Center. "Good Luck," which Warner Independent Pictures will release in October, stars David Strathairn as journalist Edward R. Murrow. Clooney directs from a screenplay he co-wrote with Grant Heslov and appears in the film as CBS News producer Fred Friendly. Set in the 1950s, the film focuses on Murrow's determination to stand up against the Red-baiting orchestrated by Sen. Joseph McCarthy..." (full details)
"Brittany Murphy has agreed to appear in Sin City 2. According to OK! magazine she said: "I'm absolutely thrilled. It's exciting to be a part of something so big and artistically groundbreaking. I love the film and I'm ecstatic to be working with director Robert Rodriguez and the crew again"..." (full details)
"Producer Bob DeBrino has acquired dramatic rights to Jose Canseco's best-seller "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big." Published in February by ReganBooks amid a firestorm of controversy, "Juiced" details Canseco's use of performance-enhancing drugs and accuses some of the biggest names in baseball of cheating..." (full details)
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