Dustin Hoffman has joined the cast of “Barney’s Version,” a big-screen adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel by Mordecai Richler.
The two-time Academy Award winner will star alongside Paul Giamatti (”Sideways”), who will portray the cantankerous title character, Barney Panofsky. Hoffman will play Izzy, Barney’s foul-mouthed, retired cop father.
In a statement, the film’s director expressed his excitement for the addition of Hoffman to the Canada-Italy co-production.
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Keanu Reeves will get in touch with his inner beast for his latest project.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor is attached to star in Universal’s modern retelling of the classic novella “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
Tentatively titled “Jekyll,” the movie is being penned by “Revolutionary Road” scribe Justin Haythe, while Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn is in negotiations to direct.
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“Wolverine” star Hugh Jackman is set to star in another comic-book movie, this time a big-screen adaptation of the upcoming graphic novel “Ghostopolis.”
According to The Hollywood Producer, Jackman will both star in and co-produce the film through his company, Seed Productions.
Written and illustrated by Doug TenNapel, “Ghostopolis” revolves around a man who works for the Supernatural Immigration Task Force, a fictional government agency that specializes in sending ghosts who have escaped into our world back to Ghostopolis.
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Marlon Wayans is getting ready to know the Bible inside and out for Paramount’s “The Year of Living Biblically.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the “Scary Movie” star will star in and produce the big-screen adaptation of A.J. Jacobs’ best-selling nonfiction book, which was published in 2007.
The book, subtitled “One Man’s Humble Quest to Obey the Bible as Literally as Possible,” chronicles Jacobs’ attempts to live by every single rule of the Old and New Testaments for a year. The author finds both comedy and enlightenment as he takes on the Ten Commandments, “Love thy neighbour” and hundreds of lesser-known rules such as “Do not wear clothes of mixed fibers” and “Do not shave your beard.”
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Al Pacino has taken on a variety of real-life roles during his four-decade acting career: American bank robber John Wojtowicz (a.k.a. Sonny Wortzik in “Dog Day Afternoon”), NYPD officer Frank Serpico (”Serpico”), McCarthyist lawyer Roy Cohn (the TV miniseries “Angels in America”). Now, he can add Napoleon Bonaparte to that list.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Pacino has signed on to play the famous French ruler in a big-screen adaptation of the children’s book “Betsy and the Emperor.”
Written by Staton Rabin, the book is based on the true story of Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe – known as Betsy to family and friends – who, as a teenager, befriended Napoleon during his exile on St. Helena and later penned a memoir about the experience.
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The killer clown is back.
Warner Bros. is bringing Stephen King’s “It” to the big screen, almost two decades after the top-selling horror novel was turned into an TV miniseries starring Tim Curry as the sadistic clown Pennywise.
Dave Kajganich (”The Invasion”) has been hired to pen the screenplay, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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