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Benjamin Walker In Talks To Join Ron Howard’s ‘In The Heart Of The Sea’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 7, 2013 @ 4:09pm PDTTags: Benjamin Walker, Big Deals Film, Chris Hemsworth, In The Heart Of The Sea, Ron Howard, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is in talks with Benjamin Walker, who played the prexy in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, to join Chris Hemsworth and Tom Holland in In The Heart Of The Sea, the Ron Howard-directed adaptation of the Nathaniel Philbrick book about the whale attack on the Essex which became the basis for Melville’s Moby Dick. Brian Grazer is producing with Joe Roth, Paula Weinstein and William Ward, with Palak Patel exec producing. Warner Bros is making the film with Village Roadshow Pictures. Walker is in talks to play George Pollard, the arrogant privileged son of a whaling family who attempts to use his family name to gain captaincy, and who butts heads with shipmate Chase (Hemsworth), who knows the job and the sea much better. Pollard’s rep is ruined because of a mishap with another ship and he is relegated to night watchmen duty for the rest of his life.

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No Chris Hemsworth For ‘American Assassin’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday November 9, 2012 @ 3:19pm PSTTags: American Assassin, CBS Films, Chris Hemsworth

Thor star Chris Hemsworth will not be in American Assassin after all, Deadline has learned. He turned down CBS Films‘ offer to play terrorist hunter Mitch Rapp over scheduling issues, a source says. “The truth is the … Read More »

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Chris Hemsworth Picks CAA As New Agency

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday October 12, 2012 @ 11:59am PDTTags: CAA, Chris Hemsworth, Hollywood agencies

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Hemsworth is proving to be a go-to young guy for big ticket Hollywood fare. Particularly after Marvel’s Thor and The Avengers and also Universal’s Snow White And The Huntsman. He is starring in Thor 2 and will … Read More »

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Chris Hemsworth Offered $10 Million To Play Terrorist Hunter In ‘American Assassin’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 10, 2012 @ 4:59pm PDTTags: American Assassin, CBS Films, Chris Hemsworth, Vince Flynn
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EXCLUSIVE: After trying since 2008 to turn Vince Flynn’s bestselling novel series into an action franchise, CBS Films thinks it has found the actor to play terrorist hunter Mitch Rapp. I’m told that CBS Films has offered … Read More »

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Chris Hemsworth Leaves IFA Talent: Won’t Take New Agency Meetings For Months

By NIKKI FINKE AND MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 24, 2012 @ 3:50pm PDTTags: Chris Hemsworth, IFA

Chris HemsworthHe is Hollywood’s hottest new action movie star, so there’ll be a feeding frenzy when Chris Hemsworth decides to take new agency meetings. ”He is not taking meetings for now but maybe in a few months,” an insider tells us. … Read More »

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EXCLUSIVE: Steven Spielberg Wants Chris Hemsworth To Star In ‘Robopocalypse’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday July 19, 2012 @ 8:04pm PDTTags: Chris Hemsworth, Robopocalypse, Steven Spielberg

EXCLUSIVE: This is one of the most coveted roles in Hollywood. And now, after critic- and fan-lauded star turns in Thor, The Avengers, and Snow White And The … Read More »

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Agencies Get Leg Up On Talent Down Under As Oz Wave Builds

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday June 15, 2012 @ 11:21am PDTTags: Animal Kingdom, Australia, Chris Hemsworth, Snowtown

Freelance journalist Don Groves is a Deadline contributor based in Sydney

Australian Actors AgentsThere’s a record number of Aussie actors and directors toiling in Hollywood — and more on deck. One of the reasons: US and Oz agents are networking more … Read More »

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Chris Hemsworth Boards Whale Of A Tale ‘In The Heart Of The Sea’; Will DreamWorks Bite?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 11, 2012 @ 2:02pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Chris Hemsworth
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Hemsworth, who has been in the middle of two of the summer’s big films in The Avengers and Snow White And The Huntsman, is in the center of the hot package making the rounds right now, even though it’s not exactly a brand new package. Hemsworth is attached to star in In The Heart Of The Sea, which is the disaster tale that inspired Melville’s Moby Dick. Based on the National Book Award-winning book by Nathaniel Philbrick, In The Heart Of The Sea is the fact-based tale of Nantucket whaling ship the Essex, which was stalked and ultimately destroyed by a sperm whale in 1820. Stranded thousands of miles from home, the crew struggled to survive; they were lost at sea for 90 days. Eight were rescued.

This version of the project has Joe Roth producing with Paula Weinstein, Will Ward and Palak Patel. The latter, who works with Roth, used to work for Weinstein and is a big reason this project has gotten another chance to get made. I hear that DreamWorks has the inside track on the project, but is not the only studio in the mix. DreamWorks would not comment.

The script was written by Charles Leavitt, who scripted Blood Diamond. I read the book when it was first set up in 2000, when Bary Levinson and Weinstein were partners and expected to make it together at Intermedia. It was a fine book and has the makings of a logistically complex depiction of a grueling tale of survival. It stalled but came back around later when Ed Zwick became attached to direct it at New Regency. Read More »

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APA Signs ‘Cabin In The Woods’/'Spartacus’ Actress

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday April 13, 2012 @ 1:24pm PDTTags: Chris Hemsworth, Joss Whedon, The Avengers, The Cabin in the Woods

EXCLUSIVE: Anna Hutchison who’s a co-star in The Cabin in The Woods and just landed a recurring role on Starz’s Spartacus has signed with APA in all areas. The 26-year old former New Zealand soap star will still be … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ With Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron And Chris Hemsworth

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday March 19, 2012 @ 4:33am PDTTags: Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Stewart, Snow White and the Huntsman
Mike Fleming

Universal Pictures has released an extended new trailer for the Rupert Sanders-directed Snow White And The Huntsman, the revisionist fairy tale that will be released June 1. The studio has also released a featurette on the making of a film that stars Charlize Theron as the sinister queen, Kristen Stewart as Snow, and Thor‘s Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman. The fantasy setting looks a lot like Middle Earth. Universal debuted the trailer on Comcast-owned Xfinity.com. Trailer is below, followed by the featurette. It looks pretty compelling, and the key is whether the young crowd that wants to see Snow White wrapped in chain mail and wielding a sword. Will those images be too upsetting? Similarly ominous images did not keep them away from Alice In Wonderland, which triggered the fairy tale frenzy.

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Hollywood Is Paying Close Attention To BAFTA’s Rising Stars

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday February 12, 2012 @ 5:00am PSTTags: Awardsline, BAFTA, Chris Hemsworth, Eddie Redmayne

BAFTA 2012 Preview: Very British Affair Takes On International Hue

Tim Adler is a contributor to AwardsLine.

It was an overcast morning in London last October when, in the magisterial headquarters of BAFTA, upstairs at 195 Piccadilly, 11 people were seated around a heavy wooden boardroom table, preparing to make a decision that could have a profound impact on some young actors’ future. Black and white photographs of previous BAFTA awards ceremonies — Britain’s closest equivalent to the Oscars — hung on the high-ceilinged walls. Sienna Miller, Simon Pegg and Harry Potter director David Yates were among those deciding who should make it onto the shortlist of eight names being proposed for this year’s Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award. (It would be down to customers of UK telco Orange to decide on the final five young stars being groomed for stardom.) The public votes for the winner, which will be announced along with all British Academy of Film and Television Arts winners tonight in London.

James McAvoy, Tom Hardy and Noel Clarke have won the Orange Rising Star in the past. That’s why the honor is important: It acts as a kind of early-warning system for Hollywood about talent coming its way. Hardy is now co-starring in the new Batman movie, while McAvoy was the lead in X-Men: First Class. Clarke will appear in the next instalment of Star Trek. “The Rising Star award is very useful in terms of shining a light on actors who have done a couple of roles but aren’t stars yet,” says jury chair Pippa Harris, producing partner of Sam Mendes. “Because it’s a public vote, it’s fantastic in terms of giving them a platform. The award is definitely something that Hollywood looks at for fresh talent.” Clarke, who got his first break in Doctor Who, is a case in point. WME picked the multi-hyphenate for U.S. representation after he won the Rising Star in 2009. Read More »

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Five Actors On BAFTA Rising Star Shortlist

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 11, 2012 @ 10:15am PSTTags: Chris Hemsworth, Eddie Redmayne, Orange British Academy Film Awards, Tom Hiddleston

BAFTA announced the nominees for its Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award, which recognizes an international actor whose talent has captured the imagination of the UK public. The nominees are Adam Deacon (Kidultood), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids), Eddie Redmayne … Read More »

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Robert Rodat To Rewrite ‘Thor 2′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 5:34pm PSTTags: Chris Hemsworth, Thor 2
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios has set Saving Private Ryan scribe Robert Rodat to rewrite Thor 2 for director Alan Taylor. Rodat is reworking a draft by Don Payne. Disney will put the film into production later this year for release in … Read More »

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‘Thor 2′ Director Will Be ‘Game Of Thrones’ Helmer Alan Taylor

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday December 24, 2011 @ 11:24am PSTTags: Chris Hemsworth, Marvel Studios, Thor 2
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios has found its Thor 2 director. I’m told that Marvel has set Alan Taylor, who was widely rumored to be on the short list to replace Patty Jenkins. Taylor is an accomplished TV director whose recent credits … Read More »

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Director Patty Jenkins Exits Marvel’s ‘Thor 2′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday December 6, 2011 @ 3:48pm PSTTags: Chris Hemsworth, Marvel Studios, Patty Jenkins, Thor 2
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Director Patty Jenkins is leaving Thor 2. Best known for directing Charlize Theron to an Oscar in Monster and the pilot of AMC’s The Killing, Jenkins had been set to helm the film in late September. I’m told … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Cabin In The Woods’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday December 5, 2011 @ 3:08pm PSTTags: Bradley Whitford, Chris Hemsworth, Drew Goddard, Jodelle Ferland, Joss Whedon, Lionsgate, Richard Jenkins, The Cabin in the Woods

The trailer for The Cabin In The Woods went online today. The horror thriller that stars Chris Hemsworth was finished before his breakthrough as Thor. Directed by Cloverfield scribe Drew Goddard, who co-wrote it with Joss Whedon, the MGM project stalled because of that company’s financial problems and Lionsgate made … Read More »

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Brits Dominate BAFTA’s Orange Rising Star Longlist

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Sunday November 27, 2011 @ 2:45pm PSTTags: BAFTA Awards, Chris Hemsworth, Chris O'Dowd, Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston

The longlist for BAFTA’s 2012 Orange Rising Star Award has been announced. The group is made up of 4 Brits, 2 Americans, an Irishman and an Aussie who are seen as the hottest up-and-comers of the year – though some … Read More »

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Hot Teaser Trailer: ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 10, 2011 @ 12:50pm PSTTags: Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Movie Trailers, Rupert Sanders, Snow White and the Huntsman, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

Universal Pictures has released a new teaser trailer for Snow White And The Huntsman, the studio’s big revisionist fairy tale that stars Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron. Rupert Sanders directed the film, which will be released June 1, 2012. That’s several months behind Relativity Media’s Mirror, Mirror, but … Read More »

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‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Banner

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 8, 2011 @ 10:55pm PSTTags: Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Mirror Mirror, Relativity Media, Rupert Sanders, Snow White and the Huntsman, Tarsem Singh, Universal Pictures




Universal has released new artwork for Snow White And The Huntsman. The three-character banner shows Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth as the title characters and Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen. Directed by Rupert Sanders, it’s slated to open June 1, … Read More »

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