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Matt Dillon, Willem Dafoe In ‘Whiskey Bay’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 15, 2012 @ 3:49pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Matt Dillon, Whiskey Bay, Willem Dafoe
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Dillon and Willem Dafoe are set to star in Whiskey Bay, an independent drama directed by Chris Brinker. The Jonny Hirschbein-scripted film stars Dafoe as a veteran cop who busts estranged white supremacist and ex-con, Jesse Wheeler. Dillon plays Wheeler, a notorious former member of the Aryan Brotherhood who’s trying to start his life over but gets enlisted to go undercover to expose illegal activities in the organization.

Scott Einbinder, Matt Rhodes, Jim Crabbe, Nancy Green-Keyes and Kevin Chapman are producing and the film will shoot in Louisiana.

Dillon stars with Kristen Wiig and Annette Bening in Imogene, which premieres at Toronto, and completed Sunlight Jr with Naomi Watts and Pawn Shop Chronicles with Elijah Wood, Paul Walker and Brendan Fraser. He’s repped by CAA and Untitled while Dafoe is repped by ICM Partners and D/F Management.

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Specialty Box Office: ‘Comic-Con Episode IV,’ ‘Damsels In Distress,’ ‘The Hunter,’ ‘We Have A Pope’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Friday April 6, 2012 @ 9:00am PDTTags: Damsels in Distress, Morgan Spurlock, We Have A Pope, Willem Dafoe

Among the upcoming Easter weekend’s new specialty releases is a feature about a fictional election of a reluctant pope, a fan’s view of a uber popular summer festival, a Willem Dafoe starrer set in one of earth’s … Read More »

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Spirit Awards: Colin Farrell, Willem Dafoe, John Waters To Present

By BRIAN BROOKS | Tuesday February 21, 2012 @ 4:30pm PSTTags: Anna Kendrick, Colin Farrell, Spirit Awards, Willem Dafoe

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Farrell, Willem Dafoe, John Waters, Anna Kendrick and Olivia Wilde are on tap as presenters at this weekend’s Film Independent Spirit Awards. Anthony Mackie and Kate Beckinsale unveiled the nominees for this year’s awards in … Read More »

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ICM Signs Willem Dafoe

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 7, 2011 @ 11:50am PSTTags: Abel Ferrara, Andrew Stanton, Anton Yelchin, ICM, Michelle Monaghan, Taylor Kitsch, Willem Dafoe
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: ICM has signed Willem Dafoe, the veteran actor who just wrapped the Andrew Stanton-directed Disney film John Carter, with Taylor Kitsch playing the title character. Dafoe had been repped by WME. Dafoe has been working up a storm. He … Read More »

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Stephen Sommers Starts ‘Odd Thomas’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 20, 2011 @ 12:42pm PDTTags: Anton Yelchin, Curtis Jackson, John Baldecchi, Stephen Sommers, Willem Dafoe
Mike Fleming

Between The Mummy franchise, Van Helsing and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, director Stephen Sommers hasn’t made a movie outside the studio blockbuster system in about 13 years. He doing just that right now, getting underway this week on an adaptation of the Dean Koontz bestseller Odd Thomas, a series that’s expected to spark three more novels and perhaps a film franchise. The film stars Anton Yelchin as a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities who encounters a mysterious man surrounded by dark, threatening forces. The cook’s unique abilities, which include an ability to speak with the dead, help him protect his town and family. The pic also stars Addison Timlin, Willem Dafoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Curtis Jackson, Nico Tortorella and Patton Oswalt. Sommers is producing with Fusion Films’ Howard Kaplan and John Baldecchi.

Sommers said the movie is unlike any he’s ever made, down to his decision to write the script without having the rights from Koontz, who has been burned enough by the movies to be wary. Read More »

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From The Halls Of AFM…

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday November 8, 2010 @ 12:59pm PSTTags: AFM, AFM Deals, American Film Market, Movie Deals, Movies, Paz Vega, Willem Dafoe

Maya Entertainment and Open Window Films have acquired The Jesuit, an action drama written and to be directed by Paul Schrader. Production is set to begin in early March 2011. Michelle Rodriguez, Willem Dafoe and Paz Vega star in the film, about a man … Read More »

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