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Juliette Lewis In Talks For ‘August: Osage County’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday July 17, 2012 @ 1:41pm PDTTags: August: Osage County, George Clooney, Juliette Lewis, The Weinstein Co

Juliette Lewis August Osage CountyEXCLUSIVE: Juliette Lewis is in negotiations to join August: Osage County. The actress would play the role of Karen, the self-deluding youngest daughter, in the dark family comedy being financed and distributed by The Weinstein Company. Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts have already been cast in the film. Based on Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play, August: Osage County tells the tale of a severely dysfunctional Oklahoma clan and the family crisis that brings them back together. John Wells is directing; Letts is writing the adaptation of his play. George Clooney and Grant Heslov are producing along with Jean Doumanian and Steve Traxler. Claire Rudnick Polstein is executive producing. The movie is scheduled to start filming in September. Lewis is repped by Buchwald/Fortitude and managed by Untitled Entertainment.

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Global Showbiz Briefs: Hong Kong, Europe, UK, Australia

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday December 8, 2011 @ 11:16pm PSTTags: Berlin Film Festival, Blade Runner, Carey Mulligan, Elisabeth Murdoch, Josh Lucas, Juliette Lewis, Melanie Laurent, Shine Group, Sony Pictures TV, The Firm

Run Run Shaw To Retire – At 104
At 104-years-old, legendary producer and TV mogul Run Run Shaw is to retire as chairman of Hong Kong’s Television Broadcasts Ltd. Shaw is lately known for co-founding TVB which is one … Read More »

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Juliette Lewis Joins NBC’s ‘The Firm’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday July 12, 2011 @ 3:24pm PDTTags: Entertainment One, Juliette Lewis, NBC, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures TV, The Firm, TV Casting

Juliette Lewis has signed on to star in NBC’s midseason series The Firm, which stars Josh Lucas in the legal drama based on the film adaptation of the John Grisham novel that had Tom Cruise in the lead role of … Read More »

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Films Casting Roundup

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday March 14, 2011 @ 3:57pm PDTTags: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Alessandro Nivola, Benjamin Walker, Emily Mortimer, James Badge Dale, Juliette Lewis, Juno Temple, Kate Beckinsale, Lakeshore, Michael Ealy, Screen Gems, Terrence Howard, William H. Macy, Zac Efron
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Michael Ealy has been set to play the male lead alongside Kate Beckinsale in the fourth installment of the Underworld franchise for Screen Gems and Lakeshore. He will play a police detective who hunts the vampiress and ultimately teams up with her. Ealy, repped by Gersh and Epidemic Management, most recently played a soldier who returned from Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder in  the Tyler Perry-directed For Colored Girls, and he worked for Screen Gems in Takers. Underworld 3D just got under way in Vancouver, directed by Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein from a script by J. Michael Straczynski and John Hlavin, a co-production between Lakeshore and Screen Gems. …

Robin McLeavy has been set to play the role of Abraham Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter for 20th Century Fox. The role is brief but sets the tone for the action. It’s her death at the hands of a bloodsucker that hardens young Abe Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) into going to war against the growing scourge of vampires in the 1800s. The Australian actress, who just signed with UTA, is also repped by Wishlab and Shanahans in Australia. She played Stella opposite Cate Blanchett’s Blanche in the Liv Ullmann-directed revival of A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway. … Read More »

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