Angelina Jolie Is Spy In “Edwin A. Salt”

“Edwin A. Salt,” the film was supposed to star Tom Cruise as the title character, an CIA officer who’s accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy.

But now producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura confirmed to MTV that Angelina Jolie is in the movie.

“Jolie is the first person cast, and she is the most important person to be cast, too. It’s going to be a very exciting film, Phillip Noyce is directing it, and we are going to start in February. It’s a big spy movie on a big canvas with a lot of attitude.”

He also added: “How are we going to get out of this? Who is who? And all the great things you love in an intense spy movie. This has it, and a lot more attitude on top of it.”

We will probably know who is who in the next few months.

Astro Boy Release Date Announced: October 23, 2009

Summit Entertainment will release “Astro Boy” in North America on Friday, October 23, 2009, it was announced by Rob Friedman, Co-Chairman and CEO of Summit Entertainment, and Erin Corbett, President of Imagi Studios U.S.

Summit and Imagi are putting together the final details on a marketing plan designed to reach both the family movie-going audience and adult fans of Astro Boy alike. Plan includes a commitment from a major fast food restaurant partner as well as alliances in the areas of toys, games, books and others, soon to be announced.

The film will hit theaters the same day as Mira Nair’s Amelia Earhart biopic Amelia and the Phillip Noyce-directed adaptation of Dirt Music.

An adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s classic manga, “Astro Boy” follows a young robot invented to replace the late son of a brilliant scientist. Despite having incredible powers, he is unable to console the scientist’s mourning heart and thus he embarks in a journey to find the place where he truly belongs.

Astro Boy’s all-star cast features the voices of Academy Award®-winning actor Nicolas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy and Eugene Levy with Freddie Highmore in the title role. David Bowers (Flushed Away) is directing “Astro Boy” from a screenplay written by Timothy Harris (Trading Places, Kindergarten Cop), with Maryann Garger producing. Read the rest of this entry

Phillip Noyce to direct Tom Cruise’s ‘Edwin A. Salt’

Phillip Noyce is in talks to direct Tom Cruise in spy thriller ”Edwin A. Salt,” reports Variety.

”Edwin A. Salt” casts Cruise as a CIA officer who’s accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy. He must avoid capture long enough to clear his name.

Cruise has long been attached to the Kurt Wimmer script, which has seen two directors, Terry George and Peter Berg, depart the project in recent months.

Producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Sunil Perkash will oversee the film for Columbia Pictures.

Phillip Noyce to direct ‘Art of Making Money’

Phillip Noyce is in talks to direct The Art of Making Money for DreamWorks, The Hollywood Reporter says.

The story is based on the life of notorious counterfeiter Art Williams, who printed more than $10 million in forged bills. He continued to produce counterfeit money even after he was caught by the FBI. Last year he was jailed for seven years.

The film will by based on Jason Kersten’s profile for Rolling Stone magazine.

Frank Baldwin will adapt the article, which Kersten and Williams are to turn into a book.

Noyce has previously directed Patriot Games, Rabbit-Proof Fence and 2006’s Catch a Fire. His period drama Mary Queen of Scots is currently in production.

Scarlett Johansson As ‘Mary, Queen of Scots’

Scarlett Johansson has been attached to the title role in a movie called ‘Mary, Queen Of Scots’ for a while, then she finally found a director, Phillip Noyce.Noyce is set to direct and Scarlett Johansson to star in ‘Mary Queen of Scots,’ putting the costumer on course to start production in April.

Noyce has signed on to call the shots on the Jimmy McGovern-scripted drama, which will focus on the rivalry between the young Roman Catholic who became Scotland’s Queen, before she was even a year old  in 1542.

Film will be a chronicle of the life and reign of Mary I of Scotland, with a concentration on her strained personal and political relationship with her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England.

It’s a heck of a role for any actress, Samantha Morton played the role alongside Cate Blanchett in the recent ‘Elizabeth: The Golden Age’. It’ll be interesting to hear her accent in ‘Mary, Queen Of Scots.’