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Kate Beckinsale, Nick Nolte Start Work On ‘The Trials Of Cate McCall’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 16, 2012 @ 3:38pm PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Kate Beckinsale, Nick Nolte, The Trials Of Cate McCall
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Sunrise Pictures and Pitbull Pictures are getting underway with The Trials of Cate McCall, with Kate Beckinsale, Nick Nolte and James Cromwell starring. Karen Moncrieff is directing her script and production has just started in Los Angeles with Sunrise Pictures’ Peter Schafer and Pitbull Pictures’ Moncrieff and Eric Karten producing and financing. Jim Klock and Joe Dain of Sunrise Pictures will act as executive producers. WME Global will be managing domestic sales.

“Cate McCall is a labor of love for us,” Karten said. “We’re thrilled to have partners who contribute not only their tremendous resources and expertise, but a level of passion that matches our own. Sunrise just plain rocks.”

Beckinsale plays a former hotshot prosecutor who threw her career away when she became an addict. Hoping to regain credibility and win custody of her estranged daughter, the lawyer takes on the appeal of a wrongly convicted murderess. She battles crooked cops, a broken system, and her own demons.

 

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UTA Signs Kate Beckinsale From WME

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday February 2, 2012 @ 1:16pm PSTTags: Hollywood agencies, Kate Beckinsale

The actress is coming off of the recent box office successes of Underworld: Awakening for Screen Gems/Sony Pictures and Contraband for Universal. She will next be seen this summer co-starring in Sony Pictures’ reboot of Total Recall. Beckinsale’s credits include The Aviator and, my favorite … Read More »

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Clint Eastwood & Kate Beckinsale Among Costume Designer Honorees

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday February 1, 2012 @ 9:33am PSTTags: Clint Eastwood, Costume Designers Guild, Kate Beckinsale

Costume Designers Unveil Nominees

Clint Eastwood and longtime costume designer Deborah Hopper will receive the Distinguished Collaborator Award during the 14th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards on February 21 at the Beverly Hilton. Eastwood and Hopper have worked on more … Read More »

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Video: ‘Underworld Awakening’ Legacy

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday December 22, 2011 @ 1:02pm PSTTags: Kate Beckinsale, Underworld: Awakening

Kate Beckinsale brings us up to date for her return in Underworld Awakening as the vampire warrior Selene. Escaped from her imprisonment, she finds that humans have discovered vampires and lycans and are determined to exterminate the immortals. Directed by Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein, the Screen Gems/Sony movie opens … Read More »

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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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Hayley Atwell, Diane Kruger, Kate Beckinsale Reading With Tom Cruise For ‘Oblivion’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 26, 2011 @ 12:35pm PDTTags: Christopher McQuarrie, Diane Kruger, Joseph Kosinski, Kate Beckinsale, Oblivion, Tom Cruise, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The hot role for young actresses is in Universal’s Joseph Kosinski-directed Tom Cruise science fiction film Oblivion. Jessica Chastain already signed on for one of two plum roles, and I’m told the studio will read three actresses for the … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Underworld: Awakening’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 23, 2011 @ 5:55am PDTTags: Kate Beckinsale, Movie Trailer, Screen Gems, Underworld: Awakening
Mike Fleming

Screen Gems has released a trailer for the fourth installment of its Underworld series. In Underworld: Awakening, Kate Beckinsale is back as the butt-kicking vampire, and this time she does it in 3D. The last installment, 2009′s Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, grossed $91 million worldwide. That was about $20 … Read More »

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Warner Bros Closes Space War Pitch That Has Sam Worthington Attached

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 6, 2011 @ 3:54pm PDTTags: Aaron Guzikowski, Basil Iwanyk, Beyonce, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, Kate Beckinsale, Mark Wahlberg, Sam Worthington
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has made a preemptive pitch deal for a science fiction action project to be written by Aaron Guzikowski that will reunite Sam Worthington with his Clash of the Titans producer Basil Iwanyk. The logline is being kept … Read More »

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Tomb Raider Heroine Lara Croft Gets Movie Makeover From Top Action Writers

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 5, 2011 @ 4:00am PDTTags: Angelina Jolie, Hawk Ostby, Jon Favreau, Kate Beckinsale, Lara Croft, Mark Fergus, Tomb Raider
Mike Fleming

The Iron Man and Cowboys & Aliens writing team of Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby have been hired by GK Films to script the rebooted Tomb Raider film franchise. They will create a new adventure storyline for archaeologist/adventuress Lara Croft, … Read More »

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Kate Beckinsale Offered ‘Total Recall’ Role

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 20, 2011 @ 7:40pm PDTTags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Colin Farrell, Eva Mendes, Kate Beckinsale, Len Wiseman, Paul Verhoeven, Rachel Ticotin, Rosario Dawson, Sharon Stone, Total Recall
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: Insiders are telling me I jumped the gun on this, but I’m sticking with my story about Kate Beckinsale being asked to join the film. I am persuaded that she will be starring alongside Jessica Biel when … 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
Mike Fleming

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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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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Universal To Make ‘Contraband’ Run With Mark Wahlberg And Kate Beckinsale

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 18, 2010 @ 8:45am PDTTags: Aaron Guzikowski, Baltasar Kormakur, Contraband Universal, Kate Beckinsale, Mark Wahlberg, Movie Casting, Movies, Universal
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Universal has reemerged as the financier of Contraband, the English language remake of the 2008 Icelandic film Reykjavic-Rotterdam. Mark Wahlberg is set to star, Kate Beckinsale is negotiating, and Baltasar Kormakur is set to direct. Kormakur starred in, produced and co-wrote the original. Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with Wahlberg (who’s next out in The Fighter), Stephen Levinson and Kormakur. Verve-repped Aaron Guzikowski is writing the script.

Oskar Jonasson directed the original, in which Kormakur played a former smuggler trying to go straight as a night guard. When his wife’s brother (who got him the job) botches a smuggling run, his life threatened and the protagonist is dragged in for one more job. WME, which reps the stars and Kormakur, set up the remake at Working Title. Bevan and Fellner’s deal is at Universal, and the studio originally intended to finance the film, then passed when the budget came in at $40 million. Relativity Media stepped in, but encouraged the filmmakers to try bringing down the cost. The filmmakers brought the budget down to around $30 million. A $30 million drama with Wahlberg and Beckinsale is a package any studio would jump at. When Relativity blinked, Universal swooped back in. Read More »

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Kate Beckinsale Back For ‘Underworld 4′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 23, 2010 @ 5:07pm PDTTags: J. Michael Straczynski, John Hlavin, Kate Beckinsale, Movies, Screen Gems
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Kate Beckinsale has signed on for a fourth installment of Underworld. The new pic has been written by John Hlavin with a rewrite by J. Michael Straczynski. No director yet. Screen Gems, which distributed the first three, is back … Read More »

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