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Sean Penn, Jim Carrey, and Benicio Del Toro as the Three Stooges??

Wow.  It’s now confirmed that Sean Penn is set to play Larry in the Farrelly Brothers’ upcoming The Three Stooges movie.  Jim Carrey is officially in negotiations to play Curly, and Benicio Del Toro is the “rumored possibility” for Moe. What a cast. The film is not a biopic but instead, according to the Hollywood Reporter, a [...]

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Scorsese Wants Day-Lewis and Del Toro for ‘Silence’

Martin Scorsese aims to cast Daniel Day-Lewis and Benicio Del Toro in his next movie, Silence, a 17th Century-set drama about a pair of Jesuit priests who face persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and spread the gospels. Gael Garcia Bernal (Babel) is also in talks to join the cast. Variety notes that [...]

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Universal Brings A Howling Good Time To 2009

Despite strong ticket sales overseas, Universal Pictures lingered far behind its rivals in 2008 with a $1.12 billion take in U.S. theaters (Warner Bros. led the pack with $1.79 billion).  The studio tries to turn things around with their upcoming slate of features for 2009. The Unborn (Jan 9th) - Writer/director David Goyer’s tale of a girl haunted [...]

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‘Che’ Trailer Hits the Web

A trailer for Che, the new film about Latin American revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara starring Benicio Del Toro, has been released.  The film is being directed by Steven Soderbergh of Traffic, Ocean’s Eleven and its two sequels. The film follows Che and a band of Cuban exiles as they travel from Mexico to Cuba in order [...]

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