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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.
Rosario Dawson and “Unstoppable” have been nominated at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards! Rosario is up for the “Choice Movie Actress: Action” award and the film is up for the “Choice Movie: Action” award.
In order for Rosario and the movie to win, the fans must vote! So head on over to www.teenchoiceawards.com and vote! It does require registration, but after you register you can vote everyday, so its worth it!
Choice Movie: Action
“Fast Five”
“Faster”
“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”
“The Tourist”
“Unstoppable”Choice Movie Actress: Action
Jordana Brewster, “Fast Five”
Rosario Dawson, “Unstoppable”
Carla Gugino, “Faster”
Angelina Jolie, “The Tourist”
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”
The awards show on will air Sunday, August 7th on FOX!
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.
The Berlin Film Festival always brings a ton of news as independent producers shop around for pre-sales, and the latest project to be revealed is an intriguing, if odd-sounding drama, with an eclectic cast. Screen Daily reports that Mickey Rourke, Rosario Dawson and Lenny Kravitz are all attached to star in “The Blind Bastard Club,” which will begin filming in April.
The project follows a group of blind people “who live life on the edge… going to the shooting range, jumping out of planes, getting into fights in bars, and pretending they’re not blind.” Central are Jake, the group’s leader, and Angel, a rollerblading call girl, who “both look to make the ultimate sacrifice for love.” There’s no word on exactly which roles Kravitz, Rourke and Dawson will take, as well as fellow cast members Rodrigo Santoro (”300”) and Riccardo Scamarcio (”Romanzo Criminale”), but our guess is that Kravitz will play Jake, and Dawson will play Angel.
Rising director, and cousin of Borat, Ash Baron-Cohen (”This Girl’s Life”) will direct the film, which was originally to be filmed in New Orleans, but will now go before cameras in Brazil, where Kravitz is a megastar, with Donald K. Ranvaud (”City of God,” “Central Station”) executive producing.
With the exception of Kravitz, who hasn’t quite convinced us as an actor, it’s a strong cast, and frankly, the more films Kravitz makes, the less time he spends in the recording studio, so we’re prepared to make that sacrifice. With shooting starting in April, we imagine this’ll surface in theaters sometime in 2012.
A preliminarly list of presenters has been announced for the 17th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will be presented in a ceremony to be held on January 30 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles and simulcast on TNT and TBS at 8pm ET/5pm PT.
Presenters will include Jeff Bridges, Alec Baldwin, LL Cool J, Josh Duhamel, Amy Poehler, Cory Monteith, Rosario Dawson, Betty White, Eva Longoria, Angie Harmon, and Hilary Swank.
The awards honor outstanding acting in film and television.
In an interview with ComingSoon.net, Carla Gugino gave some new information about the online film “Girl Walks Into a Bar”!
It will be released on March 11th and will be available on YouTube only!
And then there’s a movie called “Elektra Luxx,” which is a sequel to “Women in Trouble.” I play a porn star called Elektra Luxx. That’s on March 11th and also on March 11th is a movie called “Girl Walks Into a Bar,” which we did with YouTube. It will be the first feature film ever to sort of premiere online with Rosario Dawson and Josh Harnett, Danny DeVito, Emmanuelle Chriqui and myself. A really great group of people. We shot it in 11 days, so it was really cool.
Rosario Dawson and Lynn Collins are the latest to nab roles in Ten Year, the directing debut of screenwriter Jamie Linden (We Are Marshall).
The actresses beef up the female contingent of the ensemble drama that also stars Jenna Dewan, Kate Mara and Anna Faris. Brian Geraghty, Justin Long, Channing Tatum, Chris Pratt, Chris Pine, Anthony Mackie and Scott Porter fill out the guy side of the high school reunion film.
Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of Temple Hill are producing along with Tatum and his 33andOut Prods. partner Reid Carolin. The film shoots this month in New Mexico.
Repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment, Dawson most recently appeared with Pine in Unstoppable, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Seven Pounds. She will next appear in Sony’s Zookeeper in July.
Collins, who is repped by WME and 3 Arts, most recently appeared in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. She has also wrapped a role in Disney/Pixar’s John Carter of Mars, which hits theaters in the summer of 2012.
