"Alan Alda has joined Josh Hartnett, Samuel L. Jackson, Kathryn Morris and Rachel Nichols in "Resurrecting the Champ," the Rod Lurie-directed drama that shoots in Canada in June. Fact-based story concerns an L.A. Times reporter who wrote about a homeless man who was once a famed fighter, then found the pugilist wasn't who he claimed to be. By then, the journo and his subject had formed a father-son bond..." (full details)
"William Hurt is in negotiations to play the U.S. president in Sony Pictures thriller "Vantage Point". Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox already have boarded the project, which chronicles an attempted presidential assassination told from five points of view. Pete Travis is directing from a Barry Levy screenplay..." (full details)
"Joel and Ethan Coen have set Josh Brolin to join Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men," an adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel. Filming begins on the Miramax and Paramount Classics co-production in late spring. The Coens adapted the novel, which is set in West Texas in 1980. Brolin will play a Vietnam vet who works in the Texas plains and scoops up a bundle of cash he finds at the scene of a drug deal gone bad..." (full details)
