Megan Fox has secured her first major post-'Transformers' role joining Jennifer Westfeldt's directorial debut, the ensemble comedy, "Friends With Kids."
StarringAdam Scott and Kristen Wiig as well as real-life couple Westfeldt and Jon Hamm, the story reportedly centers on "a pair of thirty-something best friends who observe the toll that having kids has taken on the couples they know and resolve to bypass that stress by having a child and then dating other people."
Scott and Westfeldt will play the lead couple with Hamm and Wiig play another, and Fox will play a girl Scott begins to date -- not exactly the most challenging, typecast-breaking role, though apparently "when [Westfeldt] met with her, she thought Megan was spot on." A third couple is currently being cast, which we guess may involve talent from an early script reading which featured the likes of Rebecca Creskoff, Rosemarie Dewitt, Noah Emmerich and Scott (who ended up being cast).
Shooting was set to begin sometime this month with a theatrical release for April apparently already lined up. Mike Nichols and Jake Kasdan are exec producing and assisting Westfeldt with her first time behind the camera. [THR]
Listen, we really tried to stay enthusiastic for this, but when a film is kept from release as "All Good Things" was by The Weinstein Company, it's not just Harvey Weinstein being a jerk (director Andrew Jarecki later bought back the North American rights, and Magnolia are now distributing the film).
We finally have our first real look at "All Good Things" and it plays like a TV-movie-of-the-week thriller.Starring Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella and Kristen Wiig, the film is a "based-on-true-events" story about Robert Durst, a wealthy real-estate mogul's son who was suspected but never tried for the disappearance and murder of his wife Kathie. Did he do it? Didn't he? We don't know, but what we do know is that the film looks by-the-numbers and the score by Rob Simonsen is distractingly rote. It seems like Harv had a good reason for trying to keep this one on the shelf.
"All Good Things" will hit VOD on November 5th before opening in New York on December 3rd. Full synopsis and trailer after the jump, or watch it in HD at Apple.
Inspired by the most notorious missing person's case in New York history, ALL GOOD THINGS is a love story and murder mystery set against the backdrop of a New York real estate dynasty in the 1980s. Produced and directed by Andrew Jarecki (director of the Academy Award-nominated doc Capturing the Friedmans and producer of Catfish), the film was inspired by the story of Robert Durst, scion of the wealthy Durst family. Mr. Durst was suspected but never tried for killing his wife Kathie who disappeared in 1982 and was never found. The film stars Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella as the powerful patriarch, and captures the emotion and complexity of this real-life unsolved mystery.
The biggest surprise hit of the year? Or at least the one with no existing franchise film before it? Paramount/Dreamworks Animations' "How to Train Your Dragon" without question. The film is currently #8 on the worldwide box-office grosses of 2010 having grossed $492.6 million worldwide and $217.6 million domestically. Not bad numbers at all for a film that isn't part two or three of anything (the only bigger, "brand new" not based on a franchise was "Alice In Wonderland," but arguably the story is world renowned and had a built in audience regardless of Johnny Depp or Tim Burton). Did inflated 3D prices help its numbers? Hell, yes, but the studio is not looking a gift horse in the mouth.
So it's absolutely no surprise that a "How to Train Your Dragon 2" is now in the works according to Variety. The entire principal cast will be returning to reprise their voice roles including Jay Baruchel, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller and Kristen Wiig. Co-writer/director Dean DeBlois, who performed double duty with Chris Sanders on the first film will take over to assume full duties on part two (Sanders is off and running with "The Croods" to be voiced by Nicolas Cage and Ryan Reynolds).
The film will be aiming for a 2013 release and apparently the first one was conceived as a prequel to the series based on CressidaCowell's books. "There are nine books, and I feel like there are all sorts of elements that we could pull from," DeBlois said.
It's been a long, bumpy road for Andrew Jarecki's non-documentary feature debut "All Good Things" to reach theaters.
Starring Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella and Kristen Wiig, the film, shot way back in early 2008, was left languishing on the shelves of The Weinstein Company for the best part of the last year. However, in March, the Jarecki made the move to buy back the film from TWC, and found a new distributor in Magnolia late this summer.
Well, the film has finally been given some solid release dates. It will hit VOD on November 5th before opening in New York on December 3rd; a national rollout will follow. The film is "inspired by the true story of Robert Durst (Gosling) the scion of a wealthy New York family who was acquitted of killing his neighbor and whose first wife vanished into thin air." The true story of Robert Durst is ripe with bizarro details --- he dressed as a woman; while a fugitive from justice he was arrested trying to steal a sandwich even though he had $500 in his pocket -- that are too much to detail here, but this extensive summary of his life is definitely worth a read.
You can take a look at the new unveiled poster and marvel at the poor photoshop job on Ryan Gosling's head being placed on another body. And look! It's a bloody, New York City skyline! Ooooh. Straight-to-DVD one sheet aside, we are still curious about this one; hopefully a new trailer will drop soon. [Vulture]
Adam Scott has joinedJon Hamm, Kristen Wiig and Jennifer Westfeldt in the latter's directorial debut, "Friends With Kids."
Earlier this month, the project began taking shape with Hamm joining the film and Wiig and Anne Hathaway as "hopefuls" to come aboard. While Wiig has joined, it looks like Hathaway has moved on with Westfeldt taking a role in front of the camera as well.The film project, which Westfeldt also wrote, was previewed earlier this year at a theatre festival reading with Scott being one of the participants. Other actors who took part in the reading were the stellar likes of Rebecca Creskoff, Rosemarie Dewitt, Noah Emmerich though it isn't known if any of them will follow Scott.
Plot details are hard to come by but earlier this summer Hamm, whose longtime girlfriend is Westfeldt, talked about the tough decision to have kids, the poor examples of marriage they both had from their youth and losing his parents at a young age and we would wager that these experiences have helped shape the material. "I like kids but I also like the option to close the door," Hamm said. "Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop." Production on the film is set to begin next month in New York City.
Megan Fox has secured her first major post-'Transformers' role joining Jennifer Westfeldt's directorial debut, the ensemble comedy, "Friends With Kids."
