Christopher Lloyd, Trio Of Actresses Cast In Pilots

Veteran Christpher Lloyd has been tapped to star opposite John Leguizamo and Dustin Ybarra in ABCs multicamera comedy pilot Only Fools And Horses. Based on the British format, the multicamera comedy chronicles the misadventures of two streetwise brothers, Del (Leguizamo) and Rodney (Ybarra), and their aging grandfather (Lloyd) as they concoct outrageous, morally questionable get-rich-quick schemes in their quest to become millionaires. Also cast in the pilot is BJ Bales (Happy Endings) as Trigger, a ghetto-talking con man who is Del and Rodney’s perpetual enemy. He is with APA and Principato-Young. Majandra Delfino (The Great State Of Georgia) has been cast in ABC’s single-camera pilot starring Mandy Moore and directed by Shawn Levy. The project, written by Bob Fisher and Stacy Traub, centers on newlyweds Annie (Moore) and Ben who get the opportunity of a lifetime to run a hip, new restaurant in Annies hometown bringing her closer to her needy and high maintenance family. APA-repped Delfino will play one of Annie’s sisters, who is divorced and living at home. 20th Century Fox TV is producing with Shawn Levy and Marty Adelsteins studio-based banner. Nikita alumna Tiffany Hines has been added to ABCs drama pilot Americana, a soap about a famous fashion industry clan. It centers on iconic fashion designer Robert Soulter (Anthony LaPaglia), the patriarch of a sprawling family who just welcomed a new member, Alice Clarke (Ashley Greene), a young designer whose shocking arrival turns the family and the legendary label inside out. Hines, repped by Medavoy Management and the Corsa Agency, will play Shane, a beautiful medical student and Alices best friend. Recruited by Alice (Ashley Greene)to model in a fashion show, Shanediscovers that her life is about to changeand not necessarily for the better. Actress-writer Liz Cackowski (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) has joined CBS single-camera comedy pilot from feature writer-director Nick Stoller, a twentysomething ensemble comedy that centers on Jake (Michael Angarano), a commitment-phobic ad agency exec who, after getting dumped by his longtime girlfriend Laura (Larson), realizes he has to continue working with her one cubicle away. Cackowski, repped by UTA and 3 Arts, will play Ingrid. Chernin Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV are producing.

Fassbender Confirmed For Your Counsellor

Shooting already pencilled looking for MayThis feels as if an account we already reported, but Michael Fassbender just up-to-date his status from "strongly mentioned" to "confirmed" since the star in the Counsellor. Cormac McCarthy's original script continues to be directed by Ridley Scott.The film is coming initially from together amazingly quickly. McCarthy (author of No Country For Old Males, The Road and many types of Pretty Horses) shipped his script to his surprised entrepreneurs within the month of the month of january, and Scott was signed as director only days later.The story involves a effective lawyer who thinks he's clever enough to make use of the machine by moonlighting inside the drug business, but finds themselves quickly drawn into a whole lot of discomfort. Negative people available are starting to mutter that that sounds rather like Breaking Bad, but producer Steven Schwartz is of course passionate: "Since McCarthy themselves written the script, we have their very own muscular prose directly, along with his sexual obsessions.It's a masculine world into which, abnormally, two women intrude to see leading roles. McCarthy's wit and humour inside the dialogue increase the risk for nightmare much more frightening. This can be among McCarthy's most annoying and effective works."People two female leads will probably be Hollywood's next most contested roles, we'd imagine. And there's the couple of casting the villain. Deadline's Mike Fleming states he's hearing whispers of Jeremy Renner, Bradley Cooper or Kaira Pitt, but many most likely people names appear for practically every current project, and nobody is yet remotely confirmed.Consistent with The Counsellor's brisk form though, shooting starts in the start of May, and then we should hear further updates very quickly...

Oscar Roundtable: Meet The 2010 Best Foreign-Language Feature Nominees

Happy Oscar week! Time for an additional certainly one of Movieline's virtual honours roundtables, this time around featuring nominated filmmakers behind the 2010 challengers for the best Foreign-Language Feature. Meet our distinguished panel: Frederick Cedar plank, Footnote (Israel) Philippe Falardeau, Monsieur Lazhar (Canada) Agnieszka Holland, In Darkness (Belgium) Michal R. Roskam, Bullhead (Belgium) (Asghar Farhadi, director of the Separation [Iran] was not available to sign up.) Champion for them! But we now have some questions. Take the time to become familiar with them, their tales, their assumes the race, and, obviously, their particular Oscar-evening dates. In an exceedingly small amount of time, your film is going to be competing to have an Academy Award. How's it going feeling concerning the large day? Cedar plank: It's a lot more like a large week, or large weekend, filled with occasions and fascinating interactions, than simply that certain day's the Oscar ceremony. For four from the five foreign-film nominees, the particular Oscar ceremony will most likely turn to be anticlimactic. FALARDEAU: You develop watching the Academy awards like anybody else. It's something fascinating, intriguing, however, you feel it does not concern you personally. You watch it as being a kind of entertainment. Like a teen, I recall being angry in the Academy awards for always selecting dramas for the best films, Chariots of Fire winning rather than Raiders from the Lost Ark, for instance (lol). Which was a long time before I understood I'd make films. But even 2 yrs ago after i began Monsieur Lazhar, the Oscar continued to be something very distant. I saw little link between things i did and also the Oscars. So how do you experience the large day? Its still surreal that i can be California-bound, however i find myself taking pleasure in every moment, and Im happy with what weve accomplished. I met Norman Jewison lately, and that he explained: Regardless of what happens, you possess an Oscar nomination, and you'll have it for that relaxation of the existence. Nobody may take that away. HOLLAND: It will likely be third time for me personally, and so i understand what it appears like. Very first time I'm representing my country, Belgium, therefore the pressure is larger compared to the situation when it is nearly myself. It is good to win, but it's only the overall game. Being nominated has already been good achievement ... and that i expect the show to become good! ROSKAM: Searching toward attend the finest celebration of cinema on the planet. This is an amazing feeling, and no matter what, we are gonna appreciate it. In the end you are able to only "win" the Oscar, you cannot lose it. What's been the response for your film's global success in the home country, and what honors perhaps you have received in your own home? Cedar plank: It appears such as the Oscar race gets lots of attention in your own home, and individuals are rooting for all of us. A minimum of that's what my mother is saying, as I have been from the country within the last couple of days. It is good to obtain updates through my mother's filter because she does not hear the negative stuff. FALARDEAU: People home appear less surprised than I'm regarding the prosperity of my film. However they celebrate it and embrace it as being their very own success, because they should, I believe. The greatest recognition I possibly could receive ended up being to begin to see the film succeed in the box office, despite the fact that I didn't craft it having a commercial recipe. We won Best Canadian Feature in the Toronto Worldwide Film Festival and also at the Toronto Film Experts Award gala. The film is nominated for many Genies (Canadian film honours) and Jutras (Quebec films award). Additionally, it won the crowd award in the Whistler Film Festival. HOLLAND: I'm thrilled that In Darkness has this kind of incredible success with both experts and audience in Belgium. The topic of the film is very difficult, and that we did not expect that a lot of people would want to invest 2.5 hrs within the war time sewers. And individuals are moved, impressed, they're speaking concerning the movie a very long time having seen it. It's a real experience for that audience also it way to me -- particularly with this subject -- a lot more than any Oscar. With this movie we've 10 nominations for Polish Eagles (the honours of Polish Film Academy). The ceremony is on March 5. ROSKAM: Well, we did very well already prior to the nomination. We'd a significant box office, reviews were wonderful, opened up in the Berlinale, along with a only then do we got this! Now my country is certainly going crazy. They are simply proud and giving lots of support. How perhaps you have personally lobbied to locate a wider audience with this film? Cedar plank: In the last nine several weeks, since Cannes, I believe I've spoken with more than 1,000 journalists. FALARDEAU: Ive made myself readily available for interviews and Q&As anytime, anywhere. Oddly, Personally i think Monsieur Lazhar is possibly my first film that does not need me a lot to advertise it. It features a existence of their own and may take proper care of itself. HOLLAND: Used to do lots of press, other medias, traveled towards the festivals and tests, lots of Q&As. I had been conntacting the buddies around the globe to request these to offer the movie. My collaborators were also online to advertise [and] spread the term. ROSKAM: No, I simply believed that when the movie would do what it really needs to get it done will discover its audience. Obviously, we'd an excellent team from Drafthouse Movie theaters getting the film to everyones attention, both press and audience. They did a fantastic job. Would you call at your current film like a universal story or perhaps a more personal one? Cedar plank: Ultimately it needs to be both, and then any film that handles to mix its local edges and achieve audiences in other nations should have some universal styles. However, so far as my very own intentions use making the film and taking into consideration the figures within the story, it's very personal. FALARDEAU: I understood it had been a universal story due to the immigration problem and since it happens inside a class. It is not easy to locate a more universal setting except possibly the household. Weve all visited elementary school (a minimum of a few years!) and everyone has memories of this time, regardless of how old we're. HOLLAND: It's both. I'm personally very thinking about individuals occasions. All group of my dad perished in Warsaw ghetto, and that i felt always the cisco kid from the Holocaust over my existence and was responsive to the questions individuals occasions are asking us. But for me it isn't just a Holocaust story, it's more universal, the storyline of human options, the mission concerning the line between negative and positive, a tale about the effectiveness of vitality, existence, survival, etc. ROSKAM: Universal and private 're going submit hands. Allow it to be personal, it might be universal. This past year was marked by uprisings happening around the world. Do you consider the Academy will embrace the flicks which have been made consequently? Cedar plank: My impression would be that the American Academy responds towards the filmmaking and the standard from the films with no context of in which the film is created or other political consideration. It is only the artistic taste of individuals people who election within this category. A minimum of that's the way i hope it really works. FALARDEAU: I believe the Academy has proven previously it holds films that cope with political and social issues, and so i see pointless for your to alter. However it has frequently been limited towards the foreign film and documentary groups. I believe these subjects ought to be contained in the primary groups, and not simply from a united states perspective. HOLLAND: If they're good ... Certainly, within the documentary films the reflection from the actual occasions and problems is particularly welcome. ROSKAM: I'm not sure, honestly. Art is definitely political, in ways. So no matter what, it will likely be political, for that better or even the worse. Who's associated you to definitely the ceremony? Cedar plank: I was given six tickets which are divided between my two leading stars, my producers and myself. FALARDEAU: My two producers, Luc Dery and Kim McCraw, is going to be there (who, incidentally, were there this past year with Incendies) and my girlfriend, Flize Frappier, who is another producer in existence (but this is not on my film). Evelyne p la Chenelire, the playwright whose play I've modified, is originating too. HOLLAND: My daughter and her partner. Both of them happen and to be my close collaborators about this film. One was pointing extended second unit other was my first AD. But others in the movie is going to be around. The survivor Kristina Chigier, among the real figures in the story. The film writer David Shamoon. And Polish producer Juliusz Machulski. And our primary actor, an incredible one, Robert Wieckiewicz. ROSKAM: We'd [campaign guru] Tatiana Detlofson, who did an ideal project for us. How's it going after this film? What's the next project? Cedar plank: I am working very difficult on making something drastically not the same as these film, something which will surprise me and hopefully the crowd, but it's not in a stage will be able to describe it here. FALARDEAU: Writing, reading through, thinking, reading through, entertaining offers, anguishing, writing more the typical. HOLLAND: I'm just beginning a 3-part miniseries for Czech Cinemax concerning the political situation in Czechoslovakia following the crashes of Prague Spring by Soviet tanks. I had been a movie student there in this time around, so it's extremely personal in my experience. ROSKAM: My next project is going to be one of several which are waiting at this time. Difficult to tell. Read Movieline's virtual roundtable with this particular year's Documentary Feature Oscar nominees here.

Heroes Alum Milo Ventimiglia To Star In Frank Darabonts TNT Pilot L.A. Noir

EXCLUSIVE: In his first cable series gig, former Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia is set to star in Frank Darabont’s TNT drama pilot L.A. Noir, a fast-paced crime drama set in Los Angeles during the 1940s and 50s. He is expected to join The Walking Dead alum Jon Bernthal, who has been in negotiations for another lead. Based on John Buntins book L.A. Noir: The Struggle For The Soul Of Americas Most Seductive City, the show tells the true story of a decades-long conflict between the LAPD, under the determined leadership of Police Chief William Parker, and ruthless criminal elements led by mobster Mickey Cohen, a one-time boxer who rose to the top of LAs criminal world. Ventimiglia will play Ned Stax, a former marine who served with Joe Teague (Bernthal) during WWII, now a budding lawyer groomed to be a master “fixer” for the mob. In addition to writing, former Walking Dead showrunner Darabont is directing the pilot and will executive produce with Michael De Luca and Elliot Webb for TNT Original Prods. Ventimiglia, repped by CAA and Management 360, fielded interest from broadcast pilots this season before opting to go with L.A. Noir. His series credits also include a stint on Gilmore Girls.