The second Where The Wild Things Are movie trailer is brilliant. The Wild Things have voices now! I hear the voices of James Gandolfini, Forest Whitaker, Catherine O’Hara and Lauren Ambrose. The music is flows so nice, like magic and I just love this little boy played by Max Records. I wish I could be King, or even Queen for that matter, and run, play and frolic with the Wild Things!
It’s an adventure movie of a young boy named Max who, after being sent to bed for misbehaving (I remember those days), imagines that he sails away to where the Wild Things are. Max is loved by the wild creatures who make him their King, though he soon longs to be back home with his family.
Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Elijah Wood and Cam Gigandet have been enlisted as test subjects in upcoming psychological thriller The Experiment.
The film will be a remake of Oliver Hirschbiegel’s award-winning German film Das Experiment, which focused on a group of ordinary men recruited to take on the roles of guards and prisoners as part of a research study that examined how the effects of assigned roles, power and control affected the participants.
Brody is set to play the leader of the prisoners; Whitaker plays a guard who is corrupted by the power he is given.
Shooting begins next month with Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring in the director’s chair.
Moving on from being expendable, Forest Whitaker will join America Ferrera and Carlos Mencia in an untitled family wedding project for Fox Searchlight.
The film will tell the story of two overbearing fathers (Whitaker, Mencia) who must put aside their differences to plan the wedding of their son and daughter in less than two weeks.
Rick Famuyiwa is helming from his own screenplay. It’s set to start shooting next month in Los Angeles.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, is set to be contemporized and titled “Jekyll and Hyde.”
Abel Ferrara is taking another walk on the wild side with a re-imagining of the classic with Forest Whitaker and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson are attached to play the lead roles in the classic tale about a doctor who invents a potion that unleashes his violent alter ego reported by Variety this week.
I can’t wait to see this film both Whitaker and 50 Cent as a combine talent will generate a formidable movie.
Keanu Reeves is finally getting some competition from some unlikely sources, as Variety reports that another take on Jekyll and Hyde is in the works with Forest Whitaker and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson attached to play the lead roles.
The film will reimagine the classic tale of a doctor who invents a potion that unleashes his violent alter ego.
Like the Reeves project, this film will also have a contemporary setting. It is being helmed by Abel Ferrara and is set to start shooting later this summer.
Here are some trailers for the upcoming movie Powder Blue that stars Jessica Biel who acts as a stripper. Given an R rating, Director Timothy Linh Bui offers a movie that promises some great twists and turns.
A city of ten million people, Los Angeles is built on dreams of fame where glitz and glamour dominate the topical landscape. But beneath the tabloid headlines and the flashing cameras lies a city whose people are desperate for an identity, a connection, and a reason to hope.
The cast includes:
Eddie Redmayne, Forest Whitaker, Ray Liotta, Lisa Kudrow, Patrick Swayze, Kris Kristofferson, Alejandro Romero, Sanaa Lathan.
The movie is scheduled for release on May 8, 2009.
Forest Whitaker will present Screen Actors Guild’s 45th Life Achievement Award to James Earl Jones at the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards,
The ceremony will be simulcast live nationally on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, 7 p.m. CT and 6 p.m.
Whitaker joins a growing roster of actors who will honor their colleagues at the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards that already includes Christina Applegate, Angela Bassett, Jon Hamm, John Krasinski, Eric McCormack, Kyra Sedgwick and William Shatner.
The Screen Actors Guild is honoring James Earl Jones for his career achievement and humanitarian accomplishments. Past recipients of SAG’s Life Achievement Award include Charles Durning, Julie Andrews, Shirley Temple Black, James Garner, Karl Malden, Clint Eastwood, Edward Asner, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury, Robert Redford and George Burns.
Following up on our last report, it appears Sandra Bullock won’t be in Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables. However, Stallone himself has confirmed that Oscar winner Forest Whitaker will be a part of the cast after all.
Whitaker is now set to play the CIA liaison who sends the group of mercenaries to South America to overthrow an evil dictator. The cast also includes Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren and many others.
Stallone also revealed that he is trying to get Sir Ben Kingsley onboard the project. Shooting begins next month.
Following word of the movie being announced, Sylvester Stallone told a crowd at this past week’s American Film Market that he has been heavily courting Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker for a role in The Expendables, his next project.
Stallone himself, Jason Statham and Jet Li are all pegged to star in the film about a group of mercenaries on an undercover mission to depose of a Latin American dictator. The Rambo-actor wants Whitaker to play a devious CIA agent involved in the operation.
Shooting for the film is set to begin in February 2009 in Costa Rica and Louisiana.
From Variety comes word that Forest Whitaker will direct and star in Louis Armstrong biopic What a Wonderful World.
The first to be authorized by the Armstrong estate, the film will focus on the musician’s early years in New Orleans and chronicle his career as a trumpet virtuoso and improvisational singer.
Ron Bass will write and executive produce the film alongside Oscar Cohen who is granting the filmmakers exclusive access to his personal accounts as Armstrong’s road manager in the late ‘40s.
Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Elijah Wood and Cam Gigandet have been enlisted as test subjects in upcoming psychological thriller The Experiment.
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