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TOLDJA! Josh Brolin Firmed For ‘Sin City: A Dame To Kill For’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 8, 2013 @ 1:14pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Dimension Films, Josh Brolin, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Mike Fleming

Deadline has reported Josh Brolin as likely for Sin City: A Dame To Kill For in stories about Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Chris Meloni. Now, Dimension is verifying. Here’s the official word:

New York, NY January 8, 2013 – Today Dimension Films announced another big name that has been added to the SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR cast roster, further ramping up the ensemble – Academy Award® nominee Josh Brolin (GANGSTER SQUAD, MILK). Brolin will star as “Dwight” in the follow up to FRANK MlLLER’S SIN CITY for co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. The part of the “Dame” has yet to be cast. READ MORE »

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Toronto: FilmDistrict Grabs U.S. Rights To Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 7, 2012 @ 7:33am PDTTags: FilmDistrict, Josh Brolin, Oldboy, Spike Lee
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: FilmDistrict grabbed US distribution rights to Oldboy, the Spike Lee-directed remake of the crazy South Korean suspense film. Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, and Sharlto Copley star. Roy Lee and Doug Davison via Vertigo Entertainment and Nathan Kahane on behalf … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Gangster Squad’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 10, 2012 @ 4:35pm PDTTags: Emma Stone, Gangster Squad, Josh Brolin, Ruben Fleischer, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn

Warner Bros has released the initial trailer Ruben Fleischer‘s Gangster Squad. The cast for the period mob drama about the LAPD’s battle against Mickey Cohen includes Sean Penn (as Cohen), Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, Mireille Enos, Anthony Mackie, Nick Nolte, Michael Pena, Giovanni Ribisi and … Read More »

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SNL: Josh Brolin Acts Out ‘Men In Black 3′

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday April 15, 2012 @ 2:51am PDTTags: Josh Brolin, Men In Black 3, Saturday Night Live, SNL

Well, sort of… Also he calls his return to hosting Saturday Night Live “career-endingly stupid”… Oh c’mon, stupider than starring in the dreadful Jonah Hex?

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Stephen Gaghan Focuses On Smuggling Of Cocaine And Humans For Next Two Films

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 19, 2011 @ 11:20am PDTTags: Emma Stone, Jerry Bruckheimer, Josh Brolin, Kevin McCormick, Ruben Fleischer, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Stephen Gaghan, Steven Soderbergh, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Gaghan has set up his next two directing projects, one covering the smuggling of cocaine from Mexico, the other human cargo from China. Gaghan, who last directed Syriana, has made a deal with Warner Bros for an untitled … Read More »

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Ambyr Childers Signs With WME, Lands ‘Gangster Squad’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 3, 2011 @ 8:51am PDTTags: Gangster Squad, Josh Brolin, Megan Ellison, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ruben Fleischer, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn
Mike Fleming

Ambyr ChildersAmbyr Childers, who played the daughter of the faith founder (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film for Megan Ellison’s Annapurna and The Weinstein Company, has landed a key role in Gangster Squad, the Ruben Fleischer-directed period … Read More »

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Paramount Takes On Jason Reitman’s Next Film ‘Labor Day’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 9, 2011 @ 9:09am PDTTags: Jason Reitman, Josh Brolin, Kate Winslet, Labor Day, Paramount
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount has come aboard to distribute Labor Day, the adaptation of the Joyce Maynard novel that was scripted and will be directed by Jason Reitman, who is making this his next film. The studio joins Indian Paintbrush and Reitman’s Right of Way to produce the romantic drama, which stars Kate Winslet as a single mother who takes in a stranger with a dangerous past, played by Josh Brolin, and she falls in love with him over the course of Labor Day Weekend. Production is expected to start in June 2012. Paramount and Indian Paintbrush already have partnered on Like Crazy and Jeff Who Lives at Home, the latter of which is playing here at Toronto. UPDATE: Paramount just made it official with a release: Read More »

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Josh Brolin To Star In Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’ Redo For Mandate

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 29, 2011 @ 12:24pm PDTTags: Film Casting, Josh Brolin, Mandate Pictures, Oldboy, Spike Lee
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Josh Brolin was rumored to be on the short list to star in Spike Lee’s Oldboy, a remake of the cult 2003 Korean revenge thriller from Park Chan-wook. Now it’s official: Brolin will topline the Mandate Pictures redo, which … Read More »

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Nick Nolte Joins ‘Gangster Squad’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 29, 2011 @ 8:52am PDTTags: Anthony Mackie, David Milch, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Stone, Gangster Squad, Gavin O'Connor, Jason Statham, Josh Brolin, Michael Chiklis, Michael Mann, Mireille Enos, Nick Nolte, Ruben Fleischer, Ryan Gosling, Shia LaBeouf, Taylor Hackford
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Nolte continues his recent career resurgence. He’s been set to join the cast of the Ruben Fleischer-directed Warner Bros drama Gangster Squad. Nolte will play Bill Parker, the new chief of police in Los Angeles, and the first … Read More »

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Giovanni Ribisi Joins Warner Bros’ ‘The Gangster Squad’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday July 6, 2011 @ 6:16pm PDTTags: Film Casting, Giovanni Ribisi, Josh Brolin, Ruben Fleischer, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Will Beall

EXCLUSIVE: Giovanni Ribisi has landed a co-starring role in Warner Bros’ The Gangster Squad, the period crime drama Ruben Fleischer is directing that stars Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen, and Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin as members of the elite … Read More »

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FilmDistrict Near U.S. Distribution Deal For Ryan Gosling-Nic Refn ‘Only God Forgives’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 29, 2011 @ 8:31pm PDTTags: Angelina Jolie, Anthony Mackie, Bob Berney, Bruce Willis, Chuck Russell, Derek Cianfrance, FilmDistrict, Gerard Butler, Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Brolin, Julianne Moore, Liam Hemsworth, Logan's Run, Nicolas Winding Refn, Peter Schlessel, Ruben Fleischer, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Steve Carell, Taylor Hackford
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In a low-seven-figure minimum guarantee deal, FilmDistrict has acquired U.S. rights to Only God Forgives, a drama that will reteam Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn with Ryan Gosling. Several distributors were in the mix, but FilmDistrict’s Peter Schlessel had … Read More »

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No ‘Idolmaker’ For Ryan Gosling

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 2, 2011 @ 4:52pm PDTTags: Derek Cianfrance, Josh Brolin, MGM, Ruben Fleischer, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Taylor Hackford, The Idolmaker, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

Here’s how fast things move in Hollywood. At Cannes, I got my confirmations and revealed that Ryan Gosling would direct and star in MGM’s remake of The Idolmaker. Now, a couple weeks later, I get to report that he’s had to back out of the picture, at least for now. He just informed the studio he would be too busy. He’s in pre-production on A Place Beyond the Pines, which reteams him with Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance, and then Gosling moves immediately into the Ruben Fleischer-directed Gangster Squad, starring with Sean Penn and Josh Brolin in the period crime drama for Warner Bros. MGM is convinced that Idolmaker is a plum project and the studio and will continue developing the picture. If Gosling is available, they will revisit it down the line. It is fun to watch Gosling’s transformation from darling of the independent film set to arguably the most coveted young leading man for studio films. After turning down lead roles in recent years I’ve heard included Superman, Jack Ryan, Akira and The Lone Ranger, Gosling is suddenly giving the studios a chance. He impressed the Cannes set with the Nicolas Refn-directed Drive, and Warner Bros is offering him everything after testing Crazy, Stupid, Love, with the studio getting Gosling to reteam with Refn in a remake of Logan’s Run. Read More »

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Mob Movie Mania: Relativity Buys ‘Ness/Capone’ As Other Pics Percolate

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 27, 2011 @ 4:27pm PDTTags: Al Capone, David Yates, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Gianni Nunnari, Jason Felts, Joe Pesci, John Gotti Jr, John Travolta, Josh Brolin, Kevin Costner, Lindsay Lohan, Martin Scorsese, Mickey Cohen, Nick Cassavetes, Rene Rigal, Ruben Fleischer, Ryan Gosling, Ryan Kavanaugh, Sean Penn
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: At a time when organized crime films are back in vogue, Relativity Media’s Ryan Kavanaugh is wetting his beak. He’s acquired Ness/Capone, a Grant Pierce Myers script that made the 2010 Black Script and puts a new spin on the epic battle between Eliot Ness and Al Capone during the Prohibition Era 1920s. That battle was famously chronicled in the Brian DePalma-directed movie based on the TV series The Untouchables. Myers went back to the history books and came away with a much different version of Ness. While Kevin Costner played him as an incorruptible married choirboy who had to be taught to meet the mob on its own crooked terms, Ness/Capone’s Ness is a skirt-chasing 26-year old publicity hound who seemed to get an adrenaline charge out of courting danger, kicking in doors, smashing moonshine stores and rubbing it in the noses of Capone and other mobsters. He paraded confiscated bootleg trucks past Capone’s hotel, calling Capone in advance to suggest he look out the window. Deals are still being worked out, but the film will be produced by Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Jeremy Bell along with Hollywood Gang’s Gianni Nunnari and Virgin Produced’s Jason Felts and Rene Rigal.

This puts Relativity Media in another potential pic race (it has already gone to the mattresses against Universal over rival Snow White films). Warner Bros has its own Capone project, the Walon Green-scripted Cicero, an origin story. I’ve reported that the project has interest from David Yates when he resurfaces from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, his fourth and final Potter pic. Warner Bros also is going gangbusters on Gangster Squad, the Ruben Fleischer-directed pic that has Sean Penn negotiating to play L.A. mobster Mickey Cohen, and Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin as the cops who try to bring him down. Read More »

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TOLDJA! ‘Gangster Squad’ Casting Up With Sean Penn And Ryan Gosling, And Now Josh Brolin

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 21, 2011 @ 11:31am PDTTags: Dan Lin, Gangster Squad, Josh Brolin, Kevin McCormick, Mickey Cohen, Ruben Fleischer, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has begun negotiating with Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin to star in Gangster Squad, the Will Beall-scripted crime drama that will be directed by Zombieland helmer Ruben Fleischer. Production will begin in the fall. Deadline … Read More »

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‘Men In Black III’ Brings Back David Koepp

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 2, 2011 @ 12:39pm PSTTags: David Koepp, Emma Thompson, Josh Brolin, Men In Black III, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith
Mike Fleming

Sony Pictures has brought in David Koepp to do several weeks of work on the script of Men in Black III, the film that took a production hiatus and starts up again March 28. The picture still has to shoot … Read More »

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Hilary Swank, Josh Brolin Set As Oscar Presenters

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday February 22, 2011 @ 10:26am PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, 83rd Academy Awards Presenters, Academy Awards, Hilary Swank, Josh Brolin, Movies, Oscars

They’ve been added to this Sunday’s Academy Awards. Swank has won two Best Actress Oscars, in 1999 for Boys Don’t Cry and in 2004 for Million Dollar Baby. She is currently producing Something Borrowed and will next be co-starring in New Year’s Eve. Brolin received an Oscar nomination in 2008 for his supporting … Read More »

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Alice Eve Joins ‘Men In Black III’ As Young Emma Thompson

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 16, 2011 @ 4:50pm PSTTags: Alice Eve, Emma Thompson, Josh Brolin, Men In Black III, Movie Deals, Movies, Will Smith
Mike Fleming

When Men in Black III re-starts production next month, Alice Eve will play the younger version of Men in Black Agency head Emma Thompson in the time travel storyline. The British actress plays Olivia, hired as secretary for the Agency … Read More »

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‘True Grit’ To Open Berlin Fest

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 8, 2010 @ 8:33am PSTTags: Coen Brothers True Grit, Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon, Movies, The Coen Brothers, True Grit, True Grit Remake
Mike Fleming

Joel and Ethan Coen’s True Grit, the most prominent Oscar contender that didn’t get a festival launch, has  one now. The film is scheduled for an international premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 10. The picture, which stars Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and newcomer Hailee … Read More »

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OSCAR: Coen Bros ‘True Grit’ Enters Race

By PETE HAMMOND | Wednesday December 1, 2010 @ 1:04pm PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Deadline Hollywood Pete Hammond, Jeff Bridges, Joel and Ethan Coen, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon, Movies, Oscar Best Picture Category, Oscar Buzz, Oscars, Pete Hammond Oscar Coverage, True Grit
Pete Hammond

UPDATE: True Grit doesn’t open until December 22nd but started screenings this week just under the wire of critics groups and SAG nominating committee deadlines. It’s the last unseen film of this awards season thought to have a serious … Read More »

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