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Ben Foster Joins ‘Orphans’ Replacing Shia LaBeouf, Who Didn’t Leave Quietly

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday February 21, 2013 @ 11:59am PSTTags: Ben Foster, Orphans, Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf was starring in what would have been his Broadway debut alongside Alec Baldwin and Tom Sturridge until yesterday, when the actor dropped out of Lyle Kessler’s play because of creative differences. Then came the fun part, when LaBeouf took to his Twitter feed to show off emails allegedly sent between him, Baldwin, Kessler and director Daniel Sullivan that ran the gamut from apologies to rantings, including Baldwin and LaBeouf promising not to talk bad about each other and LaBeouf mentioning putting his fist through a door during rehearsals (“i’m a child dont mind me”, he wrote to Kessler). He also posted his audition video. Now it is Ben Foster (The Messenger) stepping into the fray, taking on LaBeouf’s role of Treat. (For the record, LaBeouf tweeted today: BEN FOSTER IS A BEAST. HE WILL KILL IT.) Foster was front-and-center at Sundance last month, starring as William Burroughs in Kill Your Darlings and as a deputy in Ain’t Them Body Saints. He next stars on the big screen opposite Mark Wahlberg in Peter Berg’s SEAL Team 10 tale Lone Survivor from Universal. Despite all of the drama, previews on Orphans still are set to begin March 19 and opening night is April 7 at the Schoenfeld Theatre.

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Rooney Mara, Ben Foster, Casey Affleck Circling ‘Aint Them Bodies Saints’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 27, 2012 @ 4:41pm PDTTags: Ben Foster, Casey Affleck, David Lowery, Rooney Mara
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: David Lowery has written and will direct Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, a contemporary story in the vein of Bonnie And Clyde, with Rooney Mara, Ben Foster and Casey Affleck attached to star. Lowery wrote … Read More »

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Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster Circle Peter Berg’s ‘Lone Survivor;’ Emmett/Furla Financing For Universal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 4:39pm PSTTags: Ben Foster, Emmett/Furla Films, Lone Survivor, Mark Wahlberg, Peter Berg, Taylor Kitsch, Universal
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Emmett/Furla Films is coming aboard to finance Lone Survivor, and director Peter Berg is in talks with Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch and Ben Foster to play three of the four lead Navy SEALs. Universal Pictures, which developed the movie, will distribute. An adaptation of the book by Marcus Luttrell, Lone Survivor tells the harrowing story of how Luttrell and his Navy SEAL team members fought to stay alive after being ambushed in Afghanistan in 2005 by Taliban forces during a covert mission in the Hindu Kush mountain region, where the team went to kill a terrorist leader. Wahlberg will play Luttrell in Berg’s followup to Battleship, which stars Kitsch.

Berg and Universal first began developing the project at Universal when the filmmaker signed on for Battleship. At the time, movies with sand in them and war weren’t working, but the opening-weekend grosses of Act Of Valor indicate that audiences are once again hungry for heroic war tales, especially those involving Navy SEALs. Kathryn Bigelow and Sony Pictures are getting underway with a drama revolving around the Navy SEAL Team 6′s hunt and killing of 9/11 terror attack mastermind Osama bin Laden. Lone Survivor is a different film, but it is expected to get underway this fall. Berg and Film 44 partner Sarah Aubrey, Akiva Goldsman, Barry Spikings will be producers as well as Randall Emmett and George Furla. Wahlberg will likely be involved in a producing capacity also.

Berg, who covered the Middle East terrain previously with the taut drama The Kingdom, has put in the work on this one. He wrote the Lone Survivor script after embedding with a SEAL team for a month in Iraq, an experience that really gave him a chance to see how they do their job. Berg wanted to make the film immediately, but two years ago the studio made him a bargain: direct Battleship and then follow with Lone Survivor. The timing hasn’t hurt, at all. Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Rampart’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday November 18, 2011 @ 6:44pm PSTTags: Anne Heche, Ben Foster, Cynthia Nixon, Ice Cube, Millennium Entertainment, Ned Beatty, Oren Moverman, Rampart, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Woody Harrelson

Oren Moverman’s corrupt LA cop drama Rampart stars Woody Harrelson, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, Ned Beatty, Ben Foster, Ice Cube, Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon. Millennium Entertainment plans to launch Best Actor, Director and Screenplay campaigns for Harrelson and Moverman.

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Hot International Trailer: ‘Contraband’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday November 7, 2011 @ 11:18pm PSTTags: Baltasar Kormakur, Ben Foster, Caleb Landry Jones, Contraband, Giovanni Ribisi, Kate Beckinsale, Lukas Haas, Mark Wahlberg

Here’s the international market trailer Universal released Monday for Contraband. Directed by Icelander Baltasar Kormákur, it features Mark Wahlberg as a guy forced back into smuggling when a member of his family botches a drug deal. It co-stars Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi, Caleb Landry Jones, Lukas Haas, Diego … Read More »

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Toronto: Magnolia Acquires U.S. Rights To Fernando Meirelles Drama ’360′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 24, 2011 @ 12:42pm PDTTags: Anthony Hopkins, Ben Foster, David Linde, Eamonn Bowles, Fernando Meirelles, Film Acquisition, Jude Law, Magnolia Pictures, Peter Morgan, Rachel Weisz
Mike Fleming

Magnolia Pictures bought U.S. rights to 360, the Fernando Meirelles-directed ensemble drama that stars Rachel Weisz, Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, Ben Foster, Jamel Debbouze and Moritz Bleibtreu. The film is a series of intersecting storylines that deal with love … Read More »

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Toronto: Woody Harrelson Enters Oscar Race With Millennium’s $2 Million Deal For Cop Corruption Drama ‘Rampart’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 23, 2011 @ 6:29pm PDTTags: Anne Heche, Ben Foster, Cynthia Nixon, Ice Cube, Mark Gill, Millennium Films, Ned Beatty, Oren Moverman, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Woody Harrelson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Entertainment is putting Woody Harrelson into the Best Actor Oscar race this year, closing a $2 million U.S. rights acquisition of Rampart. That is the Oren Moverman-directed police corruption drama that Moverman wrote with L.A. Confidential author James Ellroy. The plan is to open in 20 cities and launch campaigns for Harrelson and for Moverman for Best Director and Screenplay. A deal for Canadian rights is expected to close shortly. Millennium Entertainment CEO Bill Lee made the deal, and Millennium Films’ Mark Gill will be a consultant on this and get to roll up his sleeves and wage an awards-season campaign for Harrelson, who drew raves at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival for his portrayal of a corrupt cop in a drama that also stars Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, Ned Beatty, Ben Foster, Ice Cube, Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon. The 1990s Los Angeles police family drama explores the dark soul and misadventures of an LAPD cop whose past finally catches up with him in a department-wide corruption scandal. Read More »

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2011 Toronto: ‘Shame’ Will Start Dealmaking Flurry, But Buyers Wait To Be Blown Away

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 7, 2011 @ 5:03pm PDTTags: 2011 Toronto Film Festival, Adam Scott, Alexis Bledel, Allen Hughes, Allison Janney, Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Mackie, Aung San Suu Kyi, Ben Foster, Bruce Beresford, Bruce Willis, Carey Mulligan, Catherine Keener, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum, Christian Bale, Danny Trejo, Eduardo Sanchez, Elizabeth Olsen, Ewan McGregor, Geoffrey Fletcher, Harvey Weinstein, Hugh Laurie, Ice Cube, James Gandolfini, Jamie Linden, Jane Fonda, Jon Hamm, Jonathan Teplitzky, Jude Law, Justin Long, Kate Mara, Kristen Wiig, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lasse Hallström, Luc Besson, Mark Wahlberg, Matthew Goode, Maya Rudolph, Megan Fox, Mia Farrow, Michael Fassbender, Michelle Williams, Michelle Yeoh, Mickey Rourke, Oliver Platt, Peter Morgan, Peter Schlessel, Rachel Weisz, Rebecca Hall, Robert Redford, Robin Wright, Rosario Dawson, Russell Crowe, Saoirse Ronan, Sarah Polley, Sarah Silverman, Selma Blair, Seth Rogen, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Frears, Steve McQueen, Terence Davies, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Zhang Yimou
Mike Fleming

Last year’s Toronto Film Festival started slow for acquisitions, but finished with a flurry of modest distribution deals that served notice the specialty film business had finally pulled out of its nosedive. This year’s festival hasn’t started and … Read More »

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Ben Foster To Play John Jr In ‘Gotti’ Pic

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 4:15pm PDTTags: Barry Levinson, Ben Foster, Film Casting, Fiore Films, Gotti: In The Shadow Of My Father

Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father finally has a son: Ben Foster has been tapped to play John Gotti Jr in the pic, which stars John Travolta as John Sr, Al Pacino and Kelly Preston. Joe Pesci also has … Read More »

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CBS Films Targets ‘American Assassin’ To Launch Mitch Rapp Franchise, Sets Ed Zwick To Direct

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 8, 2011 @ 6:11am PDTTags: Amy Baer, Antoine Fuqua, Ben Foster, Cameron Diaz, CBS Films, Chris Pine, Colin Farrell, Colin Firth, Ed Zwick, Gerard Butler, Jason Statham, John Hillcoat, Less Moonves, Marshall Herskovitz, Matthew Fox, Nick Wechsler, Vince Flynn, Wolfgang Hammer
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: CBS Films has redrawn its plans to launch a film franchise based on the Vince Flynn novel series about CIA agent  and Mitch Rapp. Ed Zwick has come aboard to direct an adaptation of American Assassin, a bestseller published … Read More »

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Strand Acquires Berlin Fest Pic ‘Here’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 11, 2011 @ 9:00am PDTTags: Ben Foster
Mike Fleming

Strand Releasing has closed a deal for U.S. distribution rights to Here, the Braden King-directed road movie that premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal star in a film about the relationship between an American satellite-mapping … Read More »

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Ben Foster Joins Fernando Meirelles’ ’360′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday January 14, 2011 @ 11:40am PSTTags: 360 Casting, Anthony Hopkins 360, Ben Foster, Fernando Meirelles 360, Movie Deals, Movies, Rachael Weisz
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Foster is negotiating to join Rachel Weisz and Anthony Hopkins in 360, the Peter Morgan-scripted drama that will be directed by Fernando Meirelles. The indie drama has been building steam since last year when Weisz agreed to … Read More »

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Hot Red Band Trailer: ‘The Mechanic’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday January 3, 2011 @ 7:12pm PSTTags: Ben Foster, CBS Films, Movies, The Mechanic, The Mechanic Trailer, Trailers, Video
Mike Fleming

CBS Films has issued this Red Band trailer for The Mechanic, the remake that stars Jason Statham and Ben Foster in roles originated by Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent in the 1972 film. The Mechanic bows January 28, and it looks like there is plenty of violence.

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Ben Foster In Universal ‘Contraband’ Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 1, 2010 @ 5:56pm PSTTags: Aaron Guzikowski, Baltasar Kormakur, Ben Foster, Contraband Universal, Kate Beckinsale, Mark Wahlberg, Movie Deals, Movies, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Foster will star alongside Mark Wahlberg and Kate Beckinsale for Universal Pictures in Contraband, the English language remake of the 2008 Icelandic film Reykjavic-Rotterdam. The film is being directed by Baltasar Kormakur, who starred in, produced and co-wrote … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Mechanic’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 16, 2010 @ 7:37am PSTTags: Ben Foster, Jason Statham, Movies, The Mechanic, The Mechanic Trailer, Trailers, Video
Mike Fleming

CBS Films has just released a trailer for The Mechanic, the drama that stars Jason Statham as a killer who takes on an apprentice, played by the excellent young actor Ben Foster. Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent starred in the 1972 original. The pic will be released January 28, 2011.

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