Olivia Wilde is one of the busiest actress around right now. The actress, who has shot to fame over the past 18 months in films like Cowboys & Aliens and The Change Up, has signed on to yet another project, The Longest Week.
It was announced only a couple of weeks ago that Academy Award winner Christian Bale would star in another Untitled Terrence Malick film that was to shoot next year, making the second collaboration between the two, the first being The New World back in 2005.
Principal photography on Ben Affleck's third directional piece Argo, a 1970s-set political thriller, which focuses on a CIA agent trying to extract six Americans trapped in Iran at the height of the Iranian revolution, began this week and Celebuzz has the first set photos. Affleck's first two directional films, Gone Baby Gone and The Town, recieved wide sucess and no doubt Argo will do the same.
Canadian rock band Nickelback have announced that their next album will be titled Here and Now and that the record will be released on the 21st of November. The news was broken this morning by the band, via their Facebook page saying that they would release their first two singles of the record onto radio on September 26th titled Bottoms Up and When We Stand Together.
The first clip from Blake Lively and Chloe Mortez' new film Hick, has been released. Hick, which will premiers at the Toronto International Film Festival later this month, is the second film from the young, but highly praised director Derick Martini.
Amitabh Bachchan is far from a household name, well in the Western world at least. In India however, it's a different story. That all may change though as the Bollywood superstar will make his Hollywood debut in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby.
Ron Howard's race-car biopic Rush, the story of Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda, will begin shooting this weekend. Ron Howard picked up the film after his passion project, The Dark Tower, which was going to star Javier Bardem, was shelved. Rush focuses largely on Lauda's relationship with fellow Formula 1 driver, James Hunt, and the rivalry that grew between the two drivers.
The other day Stellan Skarsgård announced that Danish director Lars Von Trier wanted his to join his next picture, The Nymphomaniac. Now another recurring collaborator of Von Triers, Willem Dafoe, announced that Von Trier wants him in the project.
Lars Von Trier is one of the world's most controversial directors. This became even more evident after Von Trier's shocking press conference at the Cannes Film Festival in May. On top of this and Von Trier's generally outlandish body of work, it was announced that the title of von Trier's next film would be, The Nymphomaniac. Now we know that a constant collaborator with Von Trier may be joining the project.
