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Casting Couch: Varela, Hoechlin, McManus

By Garth Franklin Friday April 21st 2006 07:36PM

"Guillermo del Toro will executive produce Jorge Olguin's horror film "The Call of the Sea". Leonor Varela ("Innocent Voices") and Santiago Cabrera ("Empire") star in the film based on a legend about a ghost ship that navigates the cold waters of a mysterious Chilean island in search of the souls of local fisherman. The story centers on a marine biologist (Varela) who discovers that many of the legends are related to her family's past..." (full details)

"Tyler Hoechlin and Amanda Seyfried are gearing up for Solstice, an indie horror thriller being directed by Dan Myrick (The Blair Witch Project). Hoechlin (Road to Perdition) will play a teen who helps a young woman find out the truth about her dead twin sister. Seyfried (Mean Girls) plays the love interest of Shawn Ashmore and also helps put the pieces of the puzzle together..." (full details)

"Jim McManus will play Aberforth Dumbledore in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". In addition to being Dumbledore's brother and once charged with using inappropriate charms on a goat, in book five Aberforth was the unnamed bartender in the Hogs Head pub. He witnesses the first meeting of Dumbledore's Army. With Mundungus absent from this film, he will be the only one to do so onscreen..." (full details)

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