"After months of searching, director Kimberly Peirce has found her leading man for the Iraq war drama "Stop-Loss." Ryan Phillippe is in negotiations to star in the film, which centers on a soldier (Phillippe) who returns home to Texas and is called to duty again in Iraq through the military's "stop-loss" procedure. The soldier then refuses to return to battle. Australian actress Abbie Cornish already has signed on to play the female lead..." (full details)
"Q'Orianka Kilcher ("The New World") has signed on to star in and produce "The Power of Few". Leone Marucci will direct from his script, a complex urban tale centers on terrorism and cloning told from five perspectives. Kilcher plays a courier who rescues a man on the run. The film will utilize online editing portal Jumpcut.com and give Web users a chance to participate in the filmmaking process by watching an action scene then editing their own version. Winning scene will be used in the final cut of the pic..." (full details)
"Uma Thurman will topline "In Bloom," an adaptation of Laura Kasischke novel "The Life Before Her Eyes" that Vadim Perelman ("House of Sand and Fog") will direct. 2929 Prods. is financing with lensing to start in August. Emil Stern adapted the thriller which revolves about a woman whose idyllic life crumbles when she survives a shooting spree at a school..." (full details)
