“Appaloosa” Poster and Trailer

The first trailer and poster for Ed Harris directed new western “Appaloosa” is here, featuring an iconic shot of Harris (The Rock), Viggo Mortensen (A History of Violence) and Renée Zellweger.

The film also stars Jeremy Irons.

The story is adapted from Robert B. Parker’s novel of the same name, centered on a pair of friends hired to protect a lawless town suffering at the hands of a renegade rancher. The arrival of an attractive widow disrupts their plans. Read the rest of this entry

Milla Jovovich To Star in ‘The 4th Kind’

Milla Jovovich will star in Gold Circle Films thriller “The 4th Kind.” Olatunde Osunsanmi, a former assistant to filmmaker Joe Carnahan, is making his directorial debut on the film, which he also wrote.Although project details are being kept under wraps, it is described as a fact-based thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover-up.

Jovovich plays a woman investigating the disappearances in the town.

A late-June start is being eyed.

“4th” is being produced by Gold Circle’s topper, Paul Brooks, along with Carnahan and Terry Lee Robbins.

The project will be fully financed by Gold Circle, with international sales handled by Mandate International.

Scott Niemeyer and Norm Waitt are executive producing. Exec Guy Danella brought the material into the company and will oversee.

Osunsanmi began developing the idea while working for Carnahan on “Smokin’ Aces.” After honing it, the pair, via their agents at Endeavor, then brought the script to Gold Circle.

The company, which is in production on the Kevin Coster starrer “The New Daughter,” has “Town Creek” ready for release form Lionsgate and is in post on “The Haunting in Connecticut” and “Chilled in Miami,” starring Renee Zellweger.

Jovovich, star of the “Resident Evil” movies, is in production on “A Perfect Getaway” for MGM and Relativity Media. She is repped by Endeavor and Media Talent Group.

Osunsanmi is additionally repped by Caliber Media.

Renee Zellweger: ‘Im a Terrible Movie Star’

Hollywood actress Renee Zellweger is a “terrible” movie star - because she hates promoting her work.
The actress - who is busy publicising new movie Leatherheads - admits she finds interviews with the media tiresome.
She says,

I’m a terrible movie star. I’m not good at it. I can pretend to be but it takes a lot out of me. It’s not my natural inclination to go, ‘Oh good! Another talk show!’

Zellweger also admits she chooses film characters who bear no resemblance to herself - because doesn’t want to feel vulnerable on the big screen.

She adds, “I don’t feel safe playing the girl who looks like me. There’s not enough to hide behind.
“The further removed the character is from my own, the more fun and easier it is.”

George Clooney’s ‘Leatherheads’ Favor For Weekend

“Leatherheads,” the 1920s sports comedy directed by George Clooney, is set to score at the North American box office this weekend, media reported Friday. This film stars Renee Zellweger and John Krasinski as well as its director Clooney who also plays a professional football player in the sport’s anarchic early days.

“Leatherheads” is tracking well with older men and women, and interest seemed to be building this week among male youngsters.

Other openers include the family fantasy “Nim’s Island,” starring Jodie Foster, Abigail Breslin and Gerard Butler, the horror film “The Ruins,” and the Weinstein Co.’s drama “My Blueberry Nights.”

Paramount Classics’ “Shine a Light,” a Rolling Stones concert film directed by Martin Scorsese, opens in 276 theaters, including 93 Imax venues.

And much depends on how “21,” Sony’s drama which topped the domestic box office last weekend, performs during its second round.

Industry opinion is mixed on whether April will be a help or hindrance in 2008’s struggle to outpace the year-ago box office totals.

Renée Zellweger discusses ‘Bridget Jones 3′

Renée Zellweger has said that she would be interested in another Bridget Jones movie if the script is right.The Hollywood actress suggested that the movie could be based around Jones moving to LA and having a baby.

She is quoted as saying: “If it works into my life and it’s worthwhile and interesting. It depends on there being another book, of course.

I would love to read how she’s been. Actually, I would love her to go to L.A. and have a baby.

Bridget Jones’s Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason were based on novels by Helen Fielding and were both box office successes.

Zellweger claimed the one thing putting her off making another Bridget Jones movie was the idea of putting on weight again for the role.

She added:

I had a panic attack with all the specialists talking about how bad this is for you long-term, putting on that much weight in short periods of time.

The health professionals were warning me about not continuing the project any further. [It was] absolutely horrible [losing the weight]. The first lap around the track, I felt like I had a small toddler attached to my back.

‘Leatherheads’ Poster

ComingSoon.net has nabbed a first look at the new one-sheet Clooney’s third directorial effort Leatherheads.

It’s a great looking poster with a cartoonish look. Look at Clooney’s face. With that shiner, those comic book brows, and the Grecian chin, the man looks positively animated. And look at the faces on the rest of the players, all looking fierce except for John Kraksinki, who looks a little scared. In the period romantic comedy, Clooney plays a football hero who recruits a war hero (Krasinki) to come in and help bring his team into the big leagues.

Renee Zellweger plays a reporter who becomes the focus of some off-field scrimmages in the stadium of love.

Opening in theaters: April 4th.

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