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Cannes: ‘28 Weeks Later’ Helmer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo And Shia LaBeouf Take ‘Villain’ Turn

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 14, 2013 @ 10:15am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Shia LaBeouf, Start Motion Pictures, Villain
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Start Motion Pictures has set 28 Weeks Later helmer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo to direct and Shia LaBeouf to star in Villain, a psychological thriller written by Robocop remake scribe Josh Zetumer. Villain follows two brothers who mysteriously re-connect in an unforgiving wilderness. The role of the other brother will be set shortly. Start Motion Pictures’ Ben Browning, Sarah Shepard and Jeremy Kipp Walker will produce, and Michael Maher will executive produce with Zetumer. Start will also finance. Wild Bunch will be selling the film in Cannes, alongside their other titles that include the Nicolas Refn-directed Only God Forgives, James Gray’s The Immigrant and Guillaume Canet’s Blood Ties. READ MORE »

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Ben Foster Joins ‘Orphans’ Replacing Shia LaBeouf, Who Didn’t Leave Quietly

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday February 21, 2013 @ 11:59am PSTTags: Ben Foster, Orphans, Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf was starring in what would have been his Broadway debut alongside Alec Baldwin and Tom Sturridge until yesterday, when the actor dropped out of Lyle Kessler’s play because of creative differences. Then came the fun part, when … Read More »

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Shia LaBeouf Exits Broadway’s ‘Orphans’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday February 20, 2013 @ 11:34am PSTTags: Orphans, Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf is parting ways with the producers of Orphans “due to creative differences” and will not be continuing with the production, according to a statement from the show’s public relations office. The statement adds that a replacement for … Read More »

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BERLIN TOLDJA!: Magnolia Closes U.S. Deal For Lars Von Trier-Helmed Shia La Beouf Boff-A-Rama ‘Nymphomaniac’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 12, 2013 @ 6:22am PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Lars von Trier, Magnolia Pictures, Nymphomaniac, Shia LaBeouf
Mike Fleming

UPDATE, 6:22 AM:: Magnolia Pictures and TrustNordisk have confirmed Deadline’s scoop that they’ve made one of the big deals at Berlin for U.S. rights to provocateur helmer Lars von Trier‘s full monty film Nymphomaniac. We heard it was around a $2 million deal. The press release runs beneath Deadline’s original break on the story.

EARLIER EXCLUSIVE, MONDAY PM: After a little late night deal making hanky panky in Berlin, Magnolia Pictures is the frontrunner in talks to consummate a deal for domestic rights to Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac for around $2 million, Deadline hears. The film’s about a nymphomaniac who recounts her sordid life to a stranger after he saves her from a beating. It stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell and Christian Slater. Read More »

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Shia LaBeouf To Make Broadway Debut With Alec Baldwin In ‘Orphans’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday December 11, 2012 @ 11:38am PSTTags: Broadway, Orphans, Shia LaBeouf

How many StarWagons can fit on the Great White Way? Lyle Kessler’s play Orphans has added Shia LaBeouf to its cast in what will be the actor’s first Broadway role. Alec Baldwin had already been cast in the … Read More »

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Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Robert Redford’s ‘The Company You Keep’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 24, 2012 @ 9:24am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Sony Pictures Classics, The Company You Keep
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Sony Pictures Classics has acquired US rights to the Robert Redford-directed The Company You Keep. The film stars Redford, Shia LeBeouf, Julie Christie, Sam Elliott, Brendan Gleeson, Terence Howard, Richard Jenkins, Anna Kendrick, Brit Marling, … Read More »

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Hot Red Band Trailer: ‘Lawless’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday August 21, 2012 @ 10:48pm PDTTags: Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain, John Hillcoat, Lawless, Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy

The closer it gets, the better it looks. Here’s the R-rated trailer for Lawless — the John Hillcoat-directed Prohibition-Era saga written by Nick Cave and based on Matt Bondurant’s The Wettest County In The World. Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Jason Clarke are bootlegging brothers. Guy Pearce plays … Read More »

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‘Lawless’ Premieres As The Weinstein Company Hijacks The Cannes Red Carpet

By PETE HAMMOND | Saturday May 19, 2012 @ 5:52pm PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Guy Pearce, Lawless, Shia LaBeouf, The Sapphires, The Weinstein Company, Tom Hardy
Pete Hammond

It took just four days into the 65th Cannes Film Festival but The Weinstein Company officially took over Saturday scoring both of the key night’s premiere slots at the Grand Theatre Lumiere in the Official Selection and both from Australian directors. … Read More »

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Cannes Roundup: Shia LaBeouf, ‘Dirty Dancing’, ‘Starving Games’, ‘Una Noche’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday May 11, 2012 @ 1:17am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Dirty Dancing, Shia LaBeouf

Lionsgate International will commence international sales related to the new Dirty Dancing at the Cannes Film Market. Kenny Ortega directs from a script by Brad Falchuk and Maria Maggenti based on the original movie’s screenplay by Eleanor Bergstein. Debra Martin Chase, Ortega and Alli Shearmur are producing.

The Critics’ Week sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival added a short film by Shia LaBeouf to its lineup. Howard Cantour.com is the story of a film critic struggling to review his film hero’s final movie. LaBeouf directed with Jim Gaffigan, Thomas Lennon, Portia Doubleday, Dito Montiel, Caroline Morahan, Heidi Niedermeyer, Elvy Yost and Tremajah Brown starring.

The Hunger Games is getting the spoof treatment courtesty of directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (Date Movie, Meet The Spartans, Vampires Suck). The Starving Games is scheduled to start shooting in October with Peter Safran producing. Wild Bunch has German distribution rights and Falcon has taken the Middle East. K5 is selling international in Cannes. Read More »

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Melissa Leo Joins ‘Charlie Countryman’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 23, 2012 @ 2:02pm PDTTags: Melissa Leo, Shia LaBeouf, The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman
Mike Fleming

Melissa Leo The Necessary Death Of Charlie CountrymanMelissa Leo has been joined the cast of The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman. She will play the mother of Shia LaBeouf, who plays the lead. Leo, who was awarded the Oscar … Read More »

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Brendan Gleeson In Robert Redford’s ‘The Company You Keep’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 28, 2011 @ 7:32am PDTTags: Anna Kendrick, Brendan Gleeson, Brit Marling, Chris Cooper, Denzel Washington, Glenn Close, John Cusack, Julie Christie, Nick Nolte, Robert Redford, Ryan Reynolds, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon
Mike Fleming

The Guard star Brendan Gleeson has joined Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie, Brit Marling and Anna Kendrick in the Redford-directed The Company You Keep. Gleeson will next be seen opposite Glenn Close in … 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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Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie, And Richard Jenkins Keep ‘Company’ With Robert Redford

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 11, 2011 @ 3:40pm PDTTags: Brit Marling, Julie Christie, Nick Nolte, Nicolas Chartier, Richard Jenkins, Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Redford has set Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie and Richard Jenkins to star in The Company You Keep, the drama Redford is directing and starring … Read More »

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‘Transformers 3′ Crosses $1 Billion Worldwide

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 11:00pm PDTTags: Brad Grey, Brian Goldner, Don Murphy, Frances McDormand, Ian Bryce, John Malkovich, John Turturro, Josh Duhamel, Julie White, Kevin Dunn, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Michael Bay, Paramount Pictures, Patrick Dempsey, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf, Steven Spielberg, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Tyrese Gibson

HOLLYWOOD, CA (August 3, 2011) – Worldwide box office receipts for TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON, have hit $1 billion, Paramount Pictures announced today. To date, the third installment of the hit Transformers franchise, and the first shot in 3-D, has grossed $338 million in U.S. (through Monday) and $663 million internationally (through Tuesday).

“TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON is the first billion dollar grossing movie in the history of Paramount Pictures, marking a substantial milestone in the 99 year life of this legendary studio,” said Brad Grey, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures. “We are grateful for the extraordinary work of  Michael Bay and his film-making team, executive producer Steven Spielberg, and everyone at Paramount around the globe who played a part in helping make this latest TRANSFORMERS one of the 10 highest grossing films worldwide of all time.”

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EMMYS: ‘Zeke & Luther’s Matt Dearborn

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday June 18, 2011 @ 2:46pm PDTTags: Emmy Awards, Matt dearborn, Shia LaBeouf

Matt Dearborn is co-creator and showrunner (with Tom Burkhard) of the comedy series Zeke & Luther, targeting young males ages 6-14. While Disney XD’s audience is minuscule compared to the networks’, insiders  are saying that this show following the adventures … Read More »

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‘Bourne Legacy’ Update: Who’ll Test?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 24, 2011 @ 2:16pm PDTTags: Dominic Cooper, Garrett Hedlund, Joel Edgerton, Logan Marshall-Green, Luke Evans, Shia LaBeouf, Taylor Kitsch, The Bourne Legacy, Tony Gilroy
Mike Fleming

The young male Role To Die For at the moment is the lead in The Bourne Legacy, the Bourne Identity spinoff film that will be directed for Universal by … Read More »

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Tony Gilroy Casts Net For ‘Bourne’ Spinoff

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 24, 2011 @ 7:48pm PSTTags: Alex Pettyfer, Benjamin Walker, Chris Evans, Garrett Hedlund, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joel Edgerton, Josh Hartnett, Justin Timberlake, Luke Evans, Michael Fassbender, Michael Pitt, Oscar Isaac, Paul Dano, Shia LaBeouf, Taylor Kitsch, Tobey Maguire, Tony Gilroy
Mike Fleming

The hot role for young actors right now is the lead in The Bourne Identity spinoff that will start production this fall with Tony Gilroy directing his script for Universal. Here are the names I’ve heard have met with Gilroy or are  otherwise in the mix: Joel Edgerton, Josh Hartnett, … Read More »

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OSCAR: Michael Douglas As Gordon Gekko Second Time Around: “Supporting Is Good”

By PETE HAMMOND | Tuesday October 19, 2010 @ 2:53pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Michael Douglas, Movies, Oscar Best Supporting Actor Category, Oscar Categories, Oscars, Shia LaBeouf, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Pete Hammond

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox has yet to officially decide. But, according to my sources, the studio is “heavily leaning” toward pushing Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps‘s Michael Douglas for Best Supporting Actor. That’s a very different Oscar race than Best Actor where Douglas won the Academy Award for playing the same Gordon Gekko in 1987’s Wall Street. But it makes sense. Even though he is first billed and is perceived as the star of Oliver Stone’s sequel, Douglas does not have nearly the amount of screen time as co-star Shia LaBeouf. Most importantly, I’m told Douglas himself feels that Gekko is really a supporting role this time around. Here’s another complication: Anchor Bay is campaigning Douglas in the Lead Actor race for the May released Solitary Man. So, by suggesting voters consider Douglas’ second Gekko go-round as supporting work, Fox would be making it easier for everyone involved.

The studio is waiting to see where the Hollywood Foreign Press Association puts him in Golden Globe competition, although the HFPA is giving a freer hand to distributors when it comes to placing contenders this year than they have in the past. But, unlike other awards groups, the Academy Of Motion Picture & Arts Sciences does not suggest categories on their official ballots but leaves that up to the individual voters in the acting branch. Through advertising, though, a studio will try to sway voters in one clear direction. But it doesn’t always work. Susan Sarandon famously voted for herself in supporting for Atlantic City (1981) but was surprised when she found herself nominated for lead actress. The debate about the push for lead vs. supporting is one that rages every year and Oscar history is littered with actors in lead roles who win for supporting (ie Timothy Hutton in 1980’s Ordinary People) or actors in supporting roles who win for lead (ie Patricia Neal in 1963’s Hud). Read More »

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Who Wants To Play With Denzel? Every Top Young Actor From Ryan Reynolds To Shia LaBeouf And Taylor Kitsch, That’s Who

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 12, 2010 @ 11:51am PDTTags: Chris Pine, David Guggenheim, Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Safe House, Safe House Casting, Sam Worthington, Shia LaBeouf, Taylor Kitsch
Mike Fleming

Ryan Reynolds has emerged as front runner in a pack of top young actors vying to star alongside Denzel Washington in Safe House, the David Guggenheim-scripted Universal Pictures drama that … Read More »

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