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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.
Rosario Dawson, currently starring opposite Denzel Washington in the action thriller “Unstoppable,” and Angie Harmon, star of TNT’s hit series “Rizzoli & Isles,” will announce the nominees for the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, Executive Producer Jeff Margolis announced today. SAG Awards Committee Chair JoBeth Williams will introduce Harmon and Dawson.
The SAG Awards® nominations in five film and eight television categories will be revealed on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010 in the SilverScreen Theater at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. The announcement will be telecast live on TNT and webcast live on tnt.tv and tbs.com at 9 a.m. (ET) / 6 a.m. (PT). Nominations for the SAG Honors for film and television stunt ensembles will also be announced on Dec. 16 by JoBeth Williams and SAG Awards Committee Vice Chair Daryl Anderson, webcast live at 8:50 a.m. (ET) / 5:50 a.m. (PT) on tnt.tv and tbs.com.
One of the awards season’s premier events, the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be simulcast live coast to-coast on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, at 8 p.m. (ET), 7 p.m. (CT), 6 p.m. (MT) and 5 p.m. (PT) from the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles. An encore presentation will air on TNT at 10 p.m. (ET), 9 p.m. (CT), 8 p.m. (MT) and 7 p.m. (PT). The ceremony will also be telecast internationally.
Rosario Dawson has been a critically-acclaimed actress since her debut in the film “Kids” when she was just 14 years old. She has consistently worked with top directors and actors such as Spike Lee in “He Got Game” and “25th Hour” opposite Edward Norton; director Robert Rodriguez in “Sin City;” “Seven Pounds” opposite Will Smith. She had a star-making turn with her depiction of iconic character Mimi Marquez in the film adaptation of “Rent.” She will next be seen starring in the Sony summer comedy “Zookeeper” for Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions, which opens July 8, 2011.
In addition to starring Boston detective Jane Rizzoli on top-rated TNT series “Rizzoli & Isles,” Angie Harmon is taking on an entirely new role in which she’ll debut nominations morning: that of social network ambassador for the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Through posts on Twitter and Facebook, Harmon will serve as the online face for the awards, giving viewers unprecedented access to behind-the-scenes moments from the red carpet and during the show. Throughout the weeks leading up to the SAG Awards, she’ll be posting inside information about presenters, fashion, preparing for the big night and more. Harmon’s social-network messages will go out simultaneously via TNT, TBS, SAG and PEOPLE Magazine Twitter and Facebook outlets. Harmon’s SAG Awards® history includes four consecutive Actor® nominations as a member of the “Law & Order” ensemble from 1999 to 2002.
The 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be produced by Jeff Margolis Productions in association with Screen Actors Guild Awards®, LLC. For more information about the SAG Awards, SAG, TNT and TBS, visit sagawards.org/about.
Spring is in the air—fashionwise that is. Tod’s celebrated their spring/summer collection with a lunch in Beverly Hills on Friday benefiting The Museum of Contemporary Art. Hosted by creative director Derek Lam, the ultra-glam event drew some of Tinsletown’s finest fashionistas including stars like Rosario Dawson, Ginnifer Goodwin and Kelly Lynch, who epitomized the brand’s classically-chic style as they sipped champagne and shopped Tod’s Beverly Hills location. “I love getting the insider [look] because I get to get a little shopping done in advance,” said Dawson, who was clad in Dolce & Gabbana and Tod’s. “That’s the key and it’s time for Christmas shopping.” The preview also got the Unstoppable star thinking about dabbling in her own fashion career, telling PEOPLE, “Oh yeah, I would totally collaborate on something. I think that would be so fun, especially something short-term,” adding that she would design with her own body type in mind.”I don’t have really big hips or anything, so I always fit smaller on the bottom but the top I always have to let out.” As for Lam, who just signed on for another two years with the Italian fashion house, inspiration for the new collection fit within the spring aesthetic. “The colors were inspired by flowers,” he said, “Gardening shoes I love, like the croc mixed with the garden soles. I think Tod’s is about the Mediterranean style everybody aspires to don in the most modern, classic [way].”
At this point in the “Sin City 2″ news cycle, it’s not too much of a stretch to say that we’ve heard it all before. Robert Rodriguez can’t wait to start! All the cast members are ready to go! Etc., etc. Still, we have hope! And it doesn’t stop us asking key participants like Rosario Dawson what they’ve heard about a possible start date.
“I have not heard very much except that Robert [Rodriguez] is still insistent that we’re going to make it and we’re going to make sure to put something in there for Brittany [Murphy] to recognize her,” the “Unstoppable” actress revealed. “Unfortunately it’s been so long now and she’s not with us anymore and she was a huge integral part to that first film, it would be important to do that.”
“I’m even more inspired to get it done now,” she added.
With the actors, filmmakers and fans all on board for the long-delayed, much-discussed potential sequel to Robert Rodriguez’s 2005 adaptation of Frank Miller’s celebrated comic book noir, the sticking points likely involve studio dollars and scheduling.
Particularly for Rodriguez, who just came off “Machete” and is currently in the midst of “Spy Kids 4,” and constantly mentioned in the continuing “Deadpool” discussions. Nevertheless, he has insisted that it will never be too late for a “Sin City 2.”
“No, never, but I just don’t want to wait that long,” he said. “I know Frank doesn’t want to wait that long.”
