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Kevin Costner Joining Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 18, 2011 @ 12:04pm PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Costner, Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Quentin Tarantino never has trouble putting together good casts for his films, but his Sergio Leone-style Spaghetti Western Django Unchained is turning out to be quite something. Kevin Costner is in negotiations to join a cast that is headed by Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson and Leonardo DiCaprio. Costner is in talks to play Ace Woody, and it’s a real surprise turn for an actor most associated with good guy roles. He’s the sadistic trainer of the male fighting slaves who entertain the white patrons of Candyland as well as the female slaves who are forced to be prostitutes. The club and ranch are owned by Calvin Candie (DiCaprio) and Ace Woody is the one who pits the “mandingo” fighters against one another, and has little qualms about mistreating and even killing the slaves who don’t measure up. The roles that DiCaprio and Costner will play are every bit as sadistic as the one that Waltz played in Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, and while Costner is still doing fine work, this could shine a light on him the way that Pulp Fiction did for John Travolta.

Foxx will play the title character, a slave-turned-bounty hunter who must take on those villains to free his slave wife. It’s looking like Tarantino might make a discovery on that role, a character named Broomhilda. The Weinstein Company will put the picture into production in the early fall, with Sony Pictures taking foreign.  Costner will take the role after playing Pa Kent in the Superman reboot Man Of Steel, and prepping to star in the miniseries The Hatfields and McCoys for History, which he’s also producing. Costner’s repped by WME and One Talent Management.

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Julia Ormond In Talks To Play Superman’s Mom

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 23, 2011 @ 11:56am PDTTags: Diane Lane, Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson, Henry Cavill, Julia Ormond, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Costner, Lara Lor-Van, Man of Steel, Michelle Williams, Russell Crowe, Simon Curtis, Superman, Warner Bros, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and Zack Snyder are in talks with Julia Ormond to play Superman’s Kryptonian mother, Lara Lor-Van, in Man of Steel. I expect the deal to make shortly. Russell Crowe has been offered the role of  Jor-El, the … Read More »

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History Greenlights ‘The Hatfields And McCoys’ Miniseries Starring Kevin Costner

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 24, 2011 @ 1:22pm PDTTags: History, Kevin Costner, The Hatfields And McCoys, TV Miniseries
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: History is revising America’s most infamous family feud with The Hatfields and McCoys, a miniseries starring Oscar winner Kevin Costner. Costner will play “Devil” Anse Hatfield and will produce the mini, which has been given a green light and will premiere next year, coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the bloody war between the two clans that has become a popular metaphor for bitterly feuding rivals. The mini will be produced by Leslie Greif’s Thinkfactory Media. “The Hatfields and McCoys is a classic tale of American history,” History president and general manager Nancy Dubuc said. “These are names that are widely recognized, yet few people know the real story that made them famous.”

Greif said that The Hatfields and McCoys has been a passion project for him for more than 20 years. “It was realized the day I met Nancy Dubuc, she made a dream come true when she shared the same enthusiasm and vision for this epic American drama,” he said. “And then to be privileged and fortunate enough to have a superstar like Kevin Costner as “Devil” is beyond anything I could have imagined.” As an avid history fan, Costner said he was thrilled to join “this dramatic re-telling of a classic and timeless tale that is forever immersed in the folklore of our country.” The project takes Costner back to the post-Civil War era he previously depicted in Dances With Wolves. Ted Mann (Deadwood) wrote the script for the mini, with revisions by Ron Parker (Broken Trail). Greif will serve as an executive producer with Herb Nanas and Darrell Fetty producing for Thinkfactory. Dubuc and Dirk Hoogstra will EP for History.

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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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Superman Takes Villain Focus: Michael Shannon Contender

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 24, 2011 @ 2:42pm PDTTags: Diane Lane, Henry Cavill, Kevin Costner, Michael Shannon, Superman: Man of Steel
Mike Fleming

After setting Henry Cavill for the lead role, and Diane Lane and Kevin Costner for Ma and Pa Kent, Warner Bros., Legendary Pictures and director Zack Snyder are working on a villain for Superman: Man of Steel. I’m … Read More »

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TOLDJA! Official Casting News Of Kevin Costner As Jonathan Kent In ‘Superman’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 18, 2011 @ 8:27pm PDTTags: Kevin Costner, Superman, Warner Bros Pictures
Mike Fleming

Kevin Costner Set For ‘Superman: Man Of Steel’
Kevin Costner Up, Up And Away For ‘Superman’ Role?

BURBANK, CA, March 17, 2011 – Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures announced today that Kevin Costner will play Jonathan Kent, the father who raised Clark Kent as his own son, in the new Superman movie to be directed by Zack Snyder.

Snyder stated, “Jonathan Kent is the only father figure Clark has ever had, the man who was there to help Clark understand what he was meant to do in the world as Superman. Kevin will be able to communicate the quiet strength of this rural American man who raised the greatest super hero of all time.”

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Kevin Costner Set For ‘Superman: Man Of Steel’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 17, 2011 @ 5:11pm PDTTags: Diane Lane, Henry Cavill, Kevin Costner, Legendary Pictures, Superman: Man of Steel, Warner Bros, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: It’s all over but the press release! Almost a month after Deadline revealed that Kevin Costner was in early talks for a lead role in Superman: Man of Steel, I hear that he has closed a deal to … Read More »

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Warner Bros Remakes ‘The Bodyguard’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 23, 2011 @ 3:35pm PSTTags: Dan Lin, Jeremiah Friedman, Kevin Costner, Movie Deals, Movies, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is rebooting its 1992 hit The Bodyguard, the film that paired Kevin Costner with Whitney Houston and became for its time one of the biggest global hits in studio history with a $411 million worldwide gross.

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Kevin Costner Up, Up And Away For ‘Superman’ Role?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 21, 2011 @ 11:21am PSTTags: Charles Roven, Chris Nolan, David S. Goyer, Deborah Snyder, Emma Thomas, Henry Cavill, John Wells, Kevin Costner, Movie Deals, Movies, Superman, Superman Franchise Reboot, Thomas Tull, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that there is heightened interest in Kevin Costner for a key role in the Superman reboot that is being directed by Zack Snyder for Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures. Henry Cavill was recently set in the Man … Read More »

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R.I.P. Ed Limato

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday July 3, 2010 @ 11:08am PDTTags: Agent Ed Limato, Ari Emanuel, Bryan Lourd, CAA, Chris Silbermann, Denzel Washington, Ed Limato, Hollywood agencies, Hollywood agency, ICM, Jeff Berg, Jim Wiatt, Kevin Costner, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mike Ovitz, Richard Gere, Steve Martin, talent agency, Talent Agent, William Morris Agency, WMA, WME

limato_chair_300x4003RD UPDATE: Ed Limato’s clients  weigh in on his passing:

Richard Gere: “Ed was my dear friend and agent for 40 years. He was the best of the best. There will never be anyone like him. The mold has been … Read More »

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