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Four Join William H. Macy’s ‘Rudderless’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 1, 2013 @ 10:16am PDTTags: Anton Yelchin, Rudderless, Selena Gomez, William H. Macy

Selena Gomez, Anton Yelchin, Laurence Fishburne, and Billy Crudup have been cast in William H. Macy‘s directorial debut. Macy and Felicity Huffman also star in Rudderless, a musical drama about a grieving father who forms a band after finding his deceased son’s songs. The Shameless star co-wrote the original story with Casey Twenter and Jeff Robison, who adapted the script. Unified Pictures’ Keith Kjarval is producing with Amberdale’s Brad Greiner. Filming is set to begin in April in Oklahoma.

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AFM: Diane Kruger, Anton Yelchin In ’5 To 7′ Affair

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 17, 2012 @ 11:03am PDTTags: AFM, Anton Yelchin, Diane Kruger
Mike Fleming

Diane Kruger and Anton Yelchin will star in the Victor Levin-directed romantic comedy 5 To 7, a project to be shopped at AFM by The Solution … Read More »

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Anton Yelchin Joins Jim Jarmusch Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 11, 2012 @ 8:38am PDTTags: Anton Yelchin, Big Deals Film
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Anton Yelchin has joined the cast of the Jim Jarmusch-directed Only Lovers Left Alive, which shoots this summer. The film also stars Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska and John Hurt, and is the story about a centuries-long love … Read More »

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Sundance: Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, Anton Yelchin Lead Naomi Foner’s ‘Very Good Girls’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday January 21, 2012 @ 12:12pm PSTTags: Anton Yelchin, Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, Sundance
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen and Anton Yelchin are in final negotiations to star in Very Good Girls,  the directing debut of screenwriter Naomi Foner. The project, shooting this June … Read More »

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ICM Signs Willem Dafoe

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 7, 2011 @ 11:50am PSTTags: Abel Ferrara, Andrew Stanton, Anton Yelchin, ICM, Michelle Monaghan, Taylor Kitsch, Willem Dafoe
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: ICM has signed Willem Dafoe, the veteran actor who just wrapped the Andrew Stanton-directed Disney film John Carter, with Taylor Kitsch playing the title character. Dafoe had been repped by WME. Dafoe has been working up a storm. He … Read More »

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Hamptons Fest Sets ‘The Artist’ As Closing-Night Film, ‘Like Crazy’ As Centerpiece

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 22, 2011 @ 9:29am PDTTags: Anton Yelchin, Drake Doremus, Hamptons International Film Festival, Jay Duplass, Jean Dujardin, Like Crazy, Mark Duplass, Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The 19th annual Hamptons International Film Festival has set the silent film sensation The Artist to be the closing-night film premiere on Oct. 16 and the Drake Doremus-directed drama Like Crazy to be the Centerpiece Film screening Oct. 15. That film won the Grand Jury Prize at 2011 Sundance, where it was acquired by Paramount and Indian Paintbrush.

The festival will honor its star, Anton Yelchin, as one of this year’s Breakthrough Performers. Other emerging stars will be added as the festival gets closer. HIFF already announced that its opening film will be the Jay and Mark Duplass-directed Jeff Who Lives at Home. The Michel Hazanavicius-directed The Artist, acquired by The Weinstein Company on the eve of Cannes, won Best Actor honors at the festival for Jean Dujardin, who plays a silent-movie superstar at the advent of talking pictures, a development that will ruin his career. Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Like Crazy’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 6:55am PDTTags: Anton Yelchin, Drake Doremus, Felicity Jones, Indian Paintbrush, Jennifer Lawrence, Like Crazy, Paramount Pictures
Mike Fleming

Paramount Pictures and Indian Paintbrush have released a trailer for Like Crazy, one of the hot titles that came out of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The Drake Doremus-directed film stars Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones and Jennifer Lawrence, it won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and good things are … Read More »

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Stephen Sommers Starts ‘Odd Thomas’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 20, 2011 @ 12:42pm PDTTags: Anton Yelchin, Curtis Jackson, John Baldecchi, Stephen Sommers, Willem Dafoe
Mike Fleming

Between The Mummy franchise, Van Helsing and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, director Stephen Sommers hasn’t made a movie outside the studio blockbuster system in about 13 years. He doing just that right now, getting underway this week on an adaptation of the Dean Koontz bestseller Odd Thomas, a series that’s expected to spark three more novels and perhaps a film franchise. The film stars Anton Yelchin as a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities who encounters a mysterious man surrounded by dark, threatening forces. The cook’s unique abilities, which include an ability to speak with the dead, help him protect his town and family. The pic also stars Addison Timlin, Willem Dafoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Curtis Jackson, Nico Tortorella and Patton Oswalt. Sommers is producing with Fusion Films’ Howard Kaplan and John Baldecchi.

Sommers said the movie is unlike any he’s ever made, down to his decision to write the script without having the rights from Koontz, who has been burned enough by the movies to be wary. Read More »

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As Dave Franco Joins ’21 Jump Street,’ Will Johnny Depp Make A Cameo?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 8, 2011 @ 11:07am PDTTags: 21 Jump Street, Anton Yelchin, Channing Tatum, Colin Farrell, James Franco, Johnny Depp, Jonah Hill, Toni Collette
Mike Fleming

We’ve certainly gotten an eyeful lately of actor/soap star/Oscar host James Franco. We even met his grandmother in that Funnyordie.com spot where she deemed moviegoers too squeamish to watch 127 Hours “a bunch of pussies.” Now it’s actor/writer Dave Franco … Read More »

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SUNDANCE UPDATE: Deal For ‘Like Crazy’?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday January 22, 2011 @ 3:01pm PSTTags: 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Anton Yelchin, Drake Doremus, Felicity Jones, Harvey Weinstein, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonathan Schwartz, Like Crazy, Movies, Sundance Film Festival
Mike Fleming

2ND UPDATE 4 PM: Deadline is hearing that the ask for Like Crazy is a $2 million minimum guarantee, and a $2 million P&A commitment. Fox Searchlight, The Weinstein Company, and Summit Entertainment are circling. But nothing is … Read More »

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Sony Views Screen Tests Of ‘Spider-Man’ Finalists; Decision Expected Shortly

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday June 26, 2010 @ 7:31pm PDTTags: Aaron Johnson, Andrew Garfield, Anton Yelchin, Columbia Pictures, Jamie Bell, Logan Lerman, Sony Pictures Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Man Casting, Spider-Man Screen Tests, Superhero, Superhero Movie
Mike Fleming

spiderman21EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s Columbia Pictures is getting closer to finding its new Spider-Man. I On Friday, studio decision-makers viewed the screen tests of most of the young actors they are seriously considering to play Peter Parker in the Marc Webb-directed relaunch of Spider-Man.

I’m … Read More »

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