"Paul Rudd has been cast opposite Michelle Pfeiffer in Amy Heckerling's "I Could Never Be Your Woman." Also joining the romantic comedy are Tracey Ullman, Fred Willard, Stacey Dash and newcomer Saoirse Ronan. The Heckerling-penned movie follows a mother (Pfeiffer) who falls for a younger man (Rudd) while her daughter (Ronan) falls in love for the first time. Ullman plays Mother Nature, who meddles in their fates..." (full details)
"Hip-hop star the Game and actors Meagan Good and Larenz Tate have joined Tyrese Gibson in the Rogue Pictures urban action thriller "Waist Deep," written and directed by Vondie Curtis Hall. "Waist Deep" follows an ex-con, O2 (Gibson), who while trying to go straight for the sake of his young son Junior is forced to go back outside the law when Junior is kidnapped in a carjacking. Game will star as a vicious criminal leader, Good will play a street-smart hustler, and Tate will be featured as O2's shady cousin..." (full details)
The world's oldest jobbing film director, Portugal's 96-year-old Manoel de Oliveira, will shoot a sequel to Luis Bunuel's tale of high-class prostitution, sadism and sexual liberation, "Belle de Jour". "Belle toujours" will topline French actress Bulle Ogier, Oliveira said in Barcelona on Wednesday. He offered the lead to Catherine Deneuve, who starred in Bunuel's original, but she passed. Shooting takes place in France next year..." (full details)
Thanks to 'KC'.
