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Lee Pace To Topline AMC Pilot ‘Halt & Catch Fire’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 26, 2013 @ 2:30pm PSTTags: AMC, Halt & Catch Fire, Lee Pace, Mackenzie Davis
Nellie Andreeva

Lee PaceFormer Pushing Daisies star Lee Pace is set as a lead of AMC‘s drama pilot Halt & Catch Fire, from Breaking Bad executive producer Mark Johnson. Also starring in the pilot, written by Chris Cantwell and Chris Rogers, is Mackenzie Davis (Breathe In). Juan José Campanella is set to direct. Set in the early 1980s, Halt & Catch Fire dramatizes the personal computing boom through the eyes of a Mackenzie Davisvisionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations directly confront the corporate behemoths of the time. Their personal and professional partnership will be challenged by greed and ego while charting the changing culture in Texas’ Silicon Prairie. Pace will play the visionary, the confident and powerful Joe MacMillan. Once a superstar salesman at IBM, MacMillan recently departed under mysterious circumstances only to resurface at a Dallas tech company. Davis plays the prodigy, Cameron Howe, a talented but volatile computer programming graduate student whose aggressive exterior has everything to do with protecting a vulnerability underneath. AMC Studios is producing the pilot, with Johnson and Melissa Bernstein executive producing. Lee, repped by CAA, Management 360 and Peikoff Mahan, recently co-starred in Lincoln, the final Twilight installment and The Hobbit. Campanella is CAA, Protocol Entertainment and Douglas Stone.

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Marvel Testing Short List Of Actors For ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Leader

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 28, 2012 @ 2:43pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Eddie Redmayne, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jack Huston, Jim Sturgess, Joel Edgerton, Lee Pace
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: As Marvel Studios does each time it looks to land a lead for a superhero franchise, Kevin Feige’s hit-making studio has put together a short list for the lead in its next major project, Guardians Of The Galaxy. Marvel, after reportedly hiring James Gunn as director, has begun the effort to cast Peter Quill, the Guardians leader who is the offspring of a human mother and an alien father. I’m hearing that Marvel is making test deals with a small group of leading men. Here are the names: Zero Dark Thirty‘s Joel Edgerton, Boardwalk Empire‘s Jack Huston, Cloud Atlas‘ Jim Sturgess, Lee Pace (who has roles in both Lincoln and The Hobbit), and Eddie Redmayne from Les Miserables.

I’ve confirmed all of them are in contention but can’t say definitively that this list is all-inclusive as I’ve also heard of interest from or in Garrett Hedlund, James Marsden (he already played Cyclops in X-Men, but then again Chris Evans played Fantastic Four‘s Human Torch before landing Captain America) and Edgerton’s Animal Kingdom co-star Sullivan Stapleton. We’ll stay tuned, but this certainly means that Marvel and Disney are serious about launching new superhero franchises. Read More »

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Twilight Saga Actor Lee Pace Joins ‘Lincoln’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 28, 2011 @ 4:56am PDTTags: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lee Pace, Lincoln, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, The Hobbit, Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
Mike Fleming

Lee Pace has joined the cast of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, playing opportunistic New York City mayor Fernando Wood, a prominent early supporter of the Confederate cause. The mayor traded frequent correspondence with President Lincoln, played by Daniel Day-Lewis. Pace just … Read More »

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Peter Jackson Taps Lee Pace For Elf King In ‘The Hobbit’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 2, 2011 @ 12:32pm PDTTags: Lee Pace, Movie Casting, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit
Mike Fleming

Lee Pace has been cast as Thranduil the Elven King in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. Best known for Pushing Daisies, Pace just wrapped the role of Garrett in Bill Condon’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn. Pace is currently starring on … Read More »

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‘Big Bang Theory’ Star Jim Parsons Takes Broadway Stage With ‘The Normal Heart’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday March 7, 2011 @ 12:47pm PSTTags: Broadway, Jim Parsons, Lee Pace
Mike Fleming

New York, NY – Producer Daryl Roth announced today that Emmy Award nominee Lee Pace (“Pushing Daisies”) and Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”) have joined the cast of Larry Kramer’s ground-breaking play, The Normal

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Paramount Buys ‘First Man’ For Johnny Knoxville, Ramps Up ‘Mustache Riders’ For The ‘Jackass’ Gang

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 3, 2011 @ 4:04pm PSTTags: CAA, Jason Reitman, Johnny Knoxville, Jonah Hill, Lee Pace, Max Winkler, Michael Angarano, Principato Young, Uma Thurman
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired a new project and  made forward progress on another that will star Johnny Knoxville, who has made the studio huge money with the Jackass films. Best of all for Knoxville, both comedies are scripted, which … Read More »

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Image Buys ‘The Resident’ Starring Hilary Swank

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 9, 2010 @ 7:29pm PSTTags: Hilary Swank, Image Entertainment, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lee Pace, Movie Deals, Movies, Sir Christopher Lee
Mike Fleming

LOS ANGELES, CA (November 9, 2010) — Image Entertainment, Inc. has acquired all U.S. rights to Hilary Swank-starrer The Resident from Exclusive Media Group’s Hammer Films. In addition to two time Academy Award winner Swank, The Resident also stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen, P.S. I Love You), Hammer Films icon Sir Christopher Lee (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings, Dracula) and Lee Pace (A Single Man, The Good Shepherd). The Resident was directed by Antti Jokinen. Bill Bromiley, Chief Acquisitions Officer for Image Entertainment, made today’s announcement. The film will be released theatrically in Spring 2011.

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