WAMG’s has got your exclusive first look at four new photos from Lionsgate’s upcoming suspense thriller, RECLAIM.
Starring John Cusack, Ryan Phillippe, Rachelle Lefevre, Briana Roy, Veronica Faye Foo, with Luis Guzman and Jacki Weaver, director Alan White’s movie will be released September 19 in theaters and On Demand.
A desperate American couple discovers all is not what it seems when they uncover a high-stakes underground scam while traveling abroad. To expose the truth and get back to the U.S., they must risk their lives to save their daughter.
RECLAIM is written by Carmine Gaeta and Luke Davies.
Here’s the full length trailer for CASINO JACK starring Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey, Barry Pepper and (yea!) Jon Lovitz.
Synopsis:
CASINO JACK stars Kevin Spacey as Jack Abramoff, a man hell-bent on acquiring all that the good life has to offer, resorting to awe-inspiring levels of conning, scheming and fraudulent antics to get what he wants. Inspired by true events that are too over-the-top for even the wildest imaginations to conjure, Jack parlays his clout over some of the world’s most powerful men with the goal of creating a personal empire of wealth and influence. When Jack and his business partner (Barry Pepper) enlist a mob-connected buddy (Jon Lovitz) to help with one of their illegal schemes, they soon find themselves in over their heads, entrenched in a world of mafia assassins, murder and a scandal that spins so out of control that it makes worldwide headlines.
The film also stars Kelly Preston and Rachelle Lefevre, and is directed by George Hickenlooper (FACTORY GIRL, THE MAN FROM ELYSIAN FIELDS).
CASINO JACK will be in theaters on December 29, 2010. Like it on Facebook here.
Anne Thompson over at indieWIRE’s “Thompson on Hollywood, is reporting that the U.S rights to BARNEY’S VERSION, starring Paul Giamatti, Minnie Driver and Dustin Hoffman, have been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics. Thompson writes:
Producer Robert Lantos is “delighted” to turn the film over to Sony, who state: “rarely does a major novel come to life so completely and so richly on the screen as it does here with Barney’s Version…producer Robert Lantos more than fulfills his multi year dream of filming Mordecai Richler’s masterpiece. We look forward to presenting the film to the American audience.”
BARNEY’S VERSION will be shown on Sunday, September 12 at TIFF, have its world premiere Friday at the Venice Film Festival, and will also open the Hamptons International Film Festival on Oct. 7. Hoffman and Giamatti…together?? Pure magic.
TIFF Synopsis:
Barry Panofsky is one of the great comic characters of modern literature. Mordecai Richler gave him life as an impulsive, romantic, politically incorrect and fearlessly blunt creature subject to his impulses. And now, Paul Giamatti adds flesh and blood, and a vast emotional range in this immensely enjoyable adaptation directed by Richard J. Lewis.
Shifting seamlessly between the highs and lows of his life in Montreal as an adult philanderer, and his coming of age in seventies Italy, Barney’s Version follows its hero as he seeks solace through marriage and professional success. His first wife, Clara (Rachelle Lefevre), is an unstable free spirit Barney meets through his best friend, the promising but self-destructive novelist, Boogie (Scott Speedman). When his relationship with Clara ends in tragedy, Barney returns to Montreal, establishes himself as a successful television producer running Totally Unnecessary Productions, and marries into society through the good graces and welcoming charms of The Second Mrs. P (Minnie Driver).
But Barney never knows when to leave well enough alone. At his wedding to Mrs P., he meets and falls madly for the true love of his life, Miriam (Rosamund Pike), who is destined to become his third wife. His dad (Dustin Hoffman) gives him a gun as a wedding present and, well, no need to spoil the plot, but when Barney is implicated in Boogie’s mysterious disappearance, the spectre of the past raises its ugly head.
Richler’s acclaimed novel has found its ideal champion in Canadian producer Robert Lantos, who devoted the last twelve years to shaping this film. And in Paul Giamatti –whose Barney is equal parts sour and tender, vicious and vulnerable – the film has its ideal star. Beautifully supported by a stellar cast and Lewis’s crisp direction, this is a Barney Panofsky Richler would have been proud of: a man with a huge appetite for life, searching for love and running from death.
Or at least that is what they are claiming for the reasoning behind her being replaced in the role of Victoria for ‘Twilight Saga: Eclipse’. E! Online got this from Summit:
(Rachelle) failed to inform the studio until July 20 that she was planning to be in Europe shooting an indie film when the Twilight gang was convening for rehearsals.
“We at Summit Entertainment are disappointed by Rachelle Lefevre’s recent comments which attempt to make her career choices the fault of the Studio,” reads a statement released by Summit to Access Hollywood late Wednesday.
“Her decision to discuss her version of the scheduling challenges publicly has forced the Studio to set the record straight and correct the facts.”
“It was not until July 20th that Summit was first informed of Ms. Lefevre’s commitment to Barney’s Version, a commitment we have since been advised she accepted in early June,” the statement continued. “Summit had acted in good faith that she would be available to fulfill her obligations both in terms of rehearsals and shooting availability for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. We feel that her choice to withhold her scheduling conflict information from us can be viewed as a lack of cooperative spirit which affected the entire production.”
There has to be more behind this story, especially since Lefevre says there was only a 10 day overlap in filming ‘Barney’s Version’ and the rehearsals for ‘Twilight Saga: Eclipse’. When will we find out the truth behind all of this? Who knows, but its looking like quite a cat-fight!
