"Bill Paxton is attached to star in Donal Logue's "The Second Coming". Adapted from Walker Percy's novel of the same name by Logue and Jeff Kitchen, the story follows a depressed, suicidal widower who falls in love with a young woman who's escaped from a mental institution. Principal photography is scheduled to begin in Greenville, S.C., early next year..." (full details)
"Brittany Murphy will star in the romantic dramedy "The Ramen Girl" from Media 8 Entertainment. Robert Allan Ackerman's film centers on an American woman (Murphy) who finds herself stranded in Tokyo after a bad breakup. She decides to train as a ramen noodle chef with a tough instructor (Toshiyuki Nishida). Shooting begins in September with a theatrical release next year..." (full details)
"Julie Delpy will make her feature helming debut with the provisionally titled "Deux Jours -- Two Days," which starts lensing in Paris June 12. Pic, co-starring Delpy and Adam Goldberg, is a cross-cultural romantic comedy about a couple whose relationship hits troubled waters during a brief stay in her native city. Aleksia Landeau and Daniel Bruhl also have roles..." (full details)
"Catherine Deneuve gets entangled with a younger man in Gael Morel's $6.4 Million budget thriller"Apres lui". Deneuve will play Camille, a woman who loses her 22-year-old son in a car accident. Afterward, she finds herself drawn into an intense, destructive relationship with his best friend, who was driving the car when the tragedy happened. Screenplay was penned by Morel and Christophe Honore ("In Paris")..." (full details)
""Everwood" lead Gregory Smith has joined the cast of "Closing the Ring," a romantic drama being directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Christopher Plummer and Shirley MacLaine. The story, written by Peter Woodward, is set in motion when an American B-17 crashes near Belfast, Northern Ireland, and a dying gunner asks a local to return his ring to his girlfriend in the U.S. Half a century later, a man finds the ring, learns its history and tracks down the girlfriend..." (full details)
"Jeff Bridges will star in "A Dog Year," an HBO Films production that will be distributed by Picturehouse. Producer George LaVoo is adapting Jon Katz's memoir and making his directorial debut on the movie, which centers on a man having a midlife crisis whose life is turned upside down when he takes in a border collie crazier than he is. The film is scheduled to go before cameras in July in New York..." (full details)
