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Belgian actress Cécile de France has agreed to star in Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter, according to Variety.

The movie, a meditation on death involving the parallel stories of three people, takes place in Paris, London, Hawaii, and San Francisco. France portrays a journalist who has a brush with death, starring opposite Matt Damon, who is also in Eastwood’s Invictus.

Two months ago, Movie Line claimed to have obtained a copy of the script for Hereafter and described the plot in extensive detail. The site also referred to Damon’s character as a “handsome, shy, soft-spoken” factory worker who can see the dead.

Production on Hereafter began last month, and Warner Bros. has slated the movie for a December 2010 release. Invictus is due this December, placing both upcoming Eastwood projects at the heart of Oscar season. No doubt a decision driven by Eastwood’s recent Oscar success — five of his last six directorial efforts have received at least one Academy Award nomination. Strangely enough, the most financially successful of the six, Gran Torino, was the only shutout.

Link | Posted 11/10/2009 by Rich Z

Clint Eastwood | Matt Damon | Invictus

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New Delhi/Bangalore, Nov 6 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) central leadership Friday directed Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to stay back in Delhi as they searched for a formula to win over dissidents who are insisting on his removal.
Dissident leader and Tourism Minister G. Janardhana Reddy, however, gave no indication of softening his [...]

We wouldn’t call Borat and Bruno full-fledged documentaries, since the title characters were fictional extensions of Sacha Baron Cohen’s twisted psyche. Nevertheless, the movies’ antics were steeped in reality, creating a kind of pseudo-vérité.

But now, it appears that Cohen has decided to abandon the candid-camera shtick altogether. Variety writes that the 38-year-old British comedian has founded his own production company, Four By Two Films, and will go to work producing a new fictional project scripted by Peter Baynham.

Accidentes will tell the story of an “ambulance-chasing personal injury attorney of Latin descent” (played by Cohen) who helps a poor immigrant with a case against his wealthy employer. Ambulance-chasing, huh? We’ll be interested to see what that means.

Cohen struck a deal with Universal for Accidentes and also got Columbia to commit to another starring vehicle. Cohen will script that project, as yet untitled, with Baynham, Anthony Hines, and Dan Mazer, the trio who collaborated with Cohen on Borat and Bruno.

Link | Posted 11/6/2009 by Rich Z

Sacha Baron Cohen | Dan Mazer | Anthony Hines | Peter Baynham | Bruno | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Voting is set for Saturday on the 10-year, $1.2 trillion legislation that embraces Obama’s goals of extending health coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and putting tough new restrictions on insurance companies.

AP - Congress took further steps to right the staggering economy by expanding a popular tax credit for homebuyers and extending unemployment checks for the growing legions of people running out of benefits with few job prospects.

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer predicts the House will pass historic health care overhaul legislation Saturday to extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans.