Archive for the ‘Films’ Category
Former Disney star Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical) has graduated to more serious subject matter in writer/director Ron Krauss’ Gimme Shelter, due in theaters in 2012 from Columbia Pictures. Rosario Dawson and James Earl Jones both play significant roles in the film’s story.
Dawson will star as June Bailey, the mother of Hudgens’ character, while Jones will play a character named Father McCarthy. The film also stars Brendan Fraser as the father of Hudgens’ character, Jack Bailey.
In Gimme Shelter, Hudgens plays a character named Agnes “Apple” Bailey, and the plot goes a little something like this:
This street-wise, 16 year old girl who calls herself Apple has never had an easy life. Her mother is a junkie and prostitute, is verbally and physically abusive, and is grooming her daughter to follow in her footsteps. Apple knows the streets, alleys and motels like the back of her hand but wants more from her life. She possesses a tenacious, tough, indomitable spirit, and will not surrender to fate. Apple runs away from her mother and tracks down her father whom she has never known, as he was only 19 himself when he got Apple’s mother pregnant. Apple begs her now Wall Street Broker father to take her in.
“Zookeeper” is set for release on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, October 11th in the US. You can pre-order the disc at Amazon.com or buy it in stores in October!
The trailer for “Five” has been released!
“Five” premieres October 10th on the Lifetime TV network.
Lifetime has announced that “Five” will be airing October 10th at 9:00pm ET/PT on the Lifetime TV channel!
A bold anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people’s lives, Five uses humor and drama to focus on the effect breast cancer and its different stages of diagnosis have on relationships and the way women perceive themselves while searching for strength, comfort, medical breakthroughs and, ultimately, a cure.
Five’s cast includes Academy Award(R) nominee Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April), Rosario Dawson (Sin City), Lyndsy Fonseca (How I Met Your Mother), Ginnifer Goodwin (Big Love), Josh Holloway (Lost), Taylor Kinney (The Vampire Diaries), Jenifer Lewis (The Princess and the Frog), Jennifer Morrison (House M.D.), Kathy Najimy (WALL-E), Golden Globe(R) Award winner Bob Newhart (Horrible Bosses), Annie Potts (Law & Order: SVU), Tracee Ellis Ross (Girlfriends), Emmy(R) and Golden Globe winner Tony Shalhoub (Monk), and Emmy nominees Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development) and Jeanne Tripplehorn (Big Love).
Rosario Dawson has won the hotly contested female lead in the Danny Boyle-directed Fox Searchlight drama Trance. She is poised to join James McAvoy and Vincent Cassel, who are both in negotiations to play the male leads in a film that will start production in September. McAvoy’s in talks to play the inside man in an art heist that goes wrong. He runs afoul of an accomplice (Cassel), and Dawson will play a woman who develops an unusual relationship with both men in a thriller that is as moderately budget and edgy as Shallow Grave and Trainspotting. Joe Ahearne and John Hodge wrote the script.
Deadline was first to reveal Trance in early May, when Boyle decided to work in a follow-up to 127 Hours even as he prepares to direct the opening ceremonies of next summer’s Olympics in London. He’s re-teaming with frequent producing collaborator Christian Colson. They will shoot the movie in the fall in London, then put it on a shelf while Boyle devotes himself to the Olympics beginning in January. When the games are over, Boyle will start cutting the film in August 2012 with the goal of having the picture ready for Fox Searchlight to release it in March 2013.
Dawson is currently starring alongside Kevin James in Zookeeper; McAvoy just starred in X-Men: First Class and is filming Welcome to the Punch; and Cassel, most recently seen in Black Swan, next stars in A Dangerous Method, reteaming him with Eastern Promises director David Cronenberg. Dawson’s repped by CAA and Untitled; McAvoy by UTA and UK-based Ruth Young of United Agents, and Cassel by CAA and France-based Adequat.
I have updated the photo gallery with 31 new HQ and MQ photos! There are production stills and on set photos from “Project Five”, “Ten Year”, “Unstoppable” and “Zookeeper” added. Also, I updated the Twitter photos section of the gallery.
I have just finished adding 234 HD screen captures of Rosario Dawson from the EPK for “The Zookeeper”. There is captures from two different B-Rolls and also captures from the cast interview.
Rosario Dawson will play the female lead in indie drama “Fire with Fire” opposite Josh Duhamel, Bruce Willis and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson.
Eclectic cast includes NFL All-Pro Cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha (making his feature debut), Quntion “Rampage” Jackson, Vincent D’Onofrio, Richard Schiff, Vinnie Jones and Bonnie Sommerville have also joined the cast, with Emmett/Furla and Cheetah Vision producing.
Story centers on a fireman in the witness protection program (Duhamel) who takes matters into his own hands when he’s threatened by the man against whom he’s set to testify.
Producers are Randall Emmett, George Furla, Matthew Rhodes and Andrew Deane with Richard Jackson, Envision and Paradox exec producing. David Barrett is directing from a script by Tom O’Connor.
Voltage Pictures had been selling the pic at Cannes last month. Production is expected to start Monday.
“Fire With Fire” is part of a 10-picture deal announced last fall that is backed by a $200 million fund, with Lionsgate releasing the films domestically. Pics under that deal include “Setup,” which completed principal photography earlier this year with Curtis Jackson, Willis and Ryan Phillippe starring; and police drama “Freelancers.”
Rosario Dawson will be seen next in “Zookeeper,” opening July 8. Asomugha has appeared on TV series including “Friday Night Lights,” “Leverage” and “The Game.”
Rosario Dawson and Asomugha are repped by CAA.
