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When considering who could play an ancient Roman philosopher, few great actors come to mind more quickly than John Malkovich. He has the ability to easily slide into regal, careful, sometimes pompous, sometimes painfully self-aware performances befitting of archaic geniuses. From the trailer and images, it looks like he's bringing all that to his portrayal of the eponymous stoic in the film Seneca (also known as Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes). Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, acquired the VOD rights to the historical drama, also featuring Geraldine Chaplin and Tom Xander. While it was filmed years ago, it will finally be available in North America on digital platforms, cable, and satellite platforms, as well as on DVD, starting April 8, 2025. Watch the trailer below:

Seneca also stars Tom Xander (‘Nero’), Geraldine Chaplin (‘Cecelia’), Mary-Louise Parker (‘Agrippina’), and the late, great...

852 Films, which is co-founded by singer-actress Josie Ho and producer Conroy Chan, has launched five new projects at Hong Kong’s Filmart.

Additionally, the production outfit unveiled Iman Taheri, who becomes their first signed artist. He stars in horror film The Mage, directed by Danny Pang. The film also stars Ho and German Cheung. Taheri is set to appear in the sequel The Mage 2, which will start filming in April this year — as well as in several upcoming films on the company’s slate.

852 Films has worked on Open Grave, starring Shalto Copley, Thomas Kretschmann and Josie Ho, as well as How To Talk To Girls At Parties, directed by John Cameron Mitchell.

Besides launching The Mage 2, 852 Films also unveiled Macao Redux, with Jordan Gertner (The Killer Inside Me) set to direct. The film follows four friends — Z, a magician; Jade, an actress; Marco, a tech wizard; and Hazel,...

Josie Ho has been a constant figure in the Hong Kong entertainment industry for over 30 years. She’s an actress, a pop/rock star, a film producer and a film investor. But when her husband, Conroy Chan, was recovering from a long spell of health troubles, she looked to his doctor and added another position to her resume. As the talent manager of a stable of one, Ho is not only shaping Iranian-Canadian doctor-turned-actor Iman Taheri’s career, but is also launching the next phase of her own career as one half of a screen double act with Taheri and branching out from the horror genre she is known for.

On Monday, Ho is unveiling the new slate of her production company 852 Films at Hong Kong Filmart, an eclectic mix of Cantonese and English-language action crime thrillers, rowdy comedy, rom com and cultish flicks with a supernatural edge, all...

Welcome back to Origins, our recurring series that gives artists a space to break down everything that went into their latest release. Today, the British alternative rock group Sports Team dig into the themes behind the song and video for “I’m in Love (Subaru).”

There aren’t many songs inspired by a Subaru Impreza. In fact, Sports Team might have the only one.

The British group returns today with “I’m in Love (Subaru),” the lead single from their forthcoming third album, Boys These Days (out February 28th), and a love letter to — you guessed it — a red Subaru Impreza. Why that specific car, you might ask? For vocalist Rob Knaggs, it represents an unattainable ideal; a shiny car for a shiny, impenetrable life.

Subarus evoke safety and security, and in “I’m in Love (Subaru),” that manifests in a bright, ’80s-inspired sound that is only a few degrees...

Miley Cyrus spoke about the “magic” Malibu house she shared with ex-husband Liam Hemsworth in her new “Used to Be Young” TikTok series.

The singer and Hemsworth — who tied the knot in December 2018 after years of dating, but split less than a year after the ceremony — lost their home in the devastating wildfires in 2018.

Cyrus referenced the house in her track “Flowers”, that was released earlier this year.

While speaking about her debut 2007 album, Meet Miley Cyrus, in the TikTok clip, the musician shared how producer Matthew Wilder had been living in the home at the time.

She recalled, “The Meet Miley Cyrus record was really where I started writing my own songs as a solo artist.

“I was working with a producer in Malibu that lived in a house in Ramirez Canyon, which I would’ve never known 15 years later I would be living in that house, which would eventually burn down.

There is one thing to be said for Seneca — On the Creation of Earthquakes, which has its world premiere in Berlin this week. It may be the first major film set in ancient Rome in a couple of decades. But those who are hoping for a vivid adventure like Gladiator or Spartacus or even a campy hoot like Quo Vadis will be sorely disappointed by this bizarre effort to create a historical fantasia. John Malkovich has a rare starring role and acquits himself solidly enough. But it is harder to understand what motivated director Robert Schwentke, who has some successful films to his credit (The Time Traveler’s Wife, Red, the Divergent series) but adds no luster to his resume with this head-scratcher.

Schwentke was born in Germany but has made most of his films in Hollywood. This German-financed effort was filmed primarily in Morocco and showcases a cast from all over the world,...

Berlin-based sales company Picture Tree Intl. has boarded Robert Schwentke’s historical drama “Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes,” which has its world premiere in the Berlinale Special Gala section of the Berlin Film Festival. The teaser (below) for the film, which stars John Malkovich, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Xander, “Dark’s” Louis Hofmann and Mary-Louise Parker, has been released.

The movie is a look at the relationship between Seneca and Nero, the infamous Roman Emperor he mentored since childhood, and who accused him of plotting his assassination.

As the foster father and mastermind of Nero, Seneca is instrumental in the rise of the self-indulgent young tyrant. The philosopher, known for his great speeches on renunciation and clemency, is himself one of the richest men in ancient Rome. But when one day the student tires of his teacher, Nero orders Seneca to kill himself. Is the latter ready for an honorable suicide,...

In today’s Global Bulletin, a two-parter on the BBC’s controversial 1995 interview with Princess Diana sells around the world; “Catfish U.K.” plans to premiere four episodes on MTV U.K. this spring; See-Saw Films ups Simon Gillis to COO; Wirecard scandal film being developed; and Women in Film and Television U.K. is to expand its mentoring programs for mid-career women to Scotland and Wales.

U.K. production funding and distribution agency Drive has sold two-part documentary series “The Diana Interview: Revenge of a Princess” to Channel Nine in Australia, Reelz in the U.S., TV 2 in Norway, Servus TV in Austria, Rtl Netherlands and Tvnow in Germany, to broadcast this year.

Produced by Minnow Films for U.K. broadcaster ITV, the series focuses on the controversial 1995 interview when Diana, Princess of Wales, poured her heart out on current affairs show “Panorama” to BBC journalist Martin Bashir.

German director Robert Schwentke is directing the English-language project.

John Malkovich has signed to star as Roman philosopher Seneca in Robert Schwentke’s English-language feature project Seneca – On The Creation Of Earthquakes. The film will explore Seneca’s relationship with the infamous Emperor Nero who he mentored since childhood.

Malkovich previously starred in Schwentke’s action comedy Red in 2010.

Seneca – On The Creation Of Earthquakes is being produced by Berlin-based producer Frieder Schlaich of Filmgalerie 451. The film has already secured backing from the cultural production funding programme of State Minister for Culture and Media, and the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, and broadcaster Zdf/Arte.

Nicolas Cage stumbles through “Looking Glass” wearing an awkward goatee and a dazed expression, so disinterested in this subpar, proto-Hitchcockian thriller he seems as though he might wander out of frame at any moment. This is the cross the actor has to bear in this rather peculiar stage of his career, when his currency as a VOD star mandates his output more than anything else. At times, a modern-day Cage vehicle can elevate campy material to transcendental silliness; here, he just sags into the whole mediocre package.

As “Looking Glass” hits a few theaters and digital markets in mid-February, it’s already the third Cage performance in circulation this year, which started out on a high note: In Sundance sensation “Mandy” (which has yet to land U.S. distribution), Cage delivers a terrifically unhinged performance as a furious logger seeking revenge for the murder of his wife in a mesmerizing,...

I can’t stop going back to an old Variety report from 2016 that contained a Braxton Pope quote about producing Looking Glass as what was then to be music video director Dori Oskowitz’s feature length debut. He spoke about how excited he was to partner with the artist in bringing a “remarkable story of voyeurism and grief to the screen.” I read that statement and wonder where it all could have gone wrong since the finished piece now directed by Tim Hunter from a script solely credited to Jerry Rapp (Matthew Wilder was also involved at one point) fails to fulfill its promise. Voyeurism and grief are both included, but neither is meaningful in the context of what proves little more than a generic thriller built from confusion.

Grief arrives with the tragic off-screen death of Ray (Nicolas Cage) and Maggie’s (Robin Tunney) young daughter. We see glimpses...

Shortly after Ray (Nicolas Cage) and Maggie (Robin Tunney) purchase a desert motel, they find that a series of bizarre and mysterious events are occurring deep within its walls. Directed by Tim Hunter (Hannibal, Wayard Pines) and written by Jerry Rapp and Matthew Wilder, Looking Glass looks to be sending a voyeuristic Cage to a place where pleasures of the flesh and murder make for strange bedfellows. I... Read More...

Nicolas Cage has a new film out in a couple weeks, and it looks interesting. Looking Glass is about a couple who purchases a hotel in the desert, only for Ray to discover there's a secret corridor that allows them to watch guests without them knowing. Check out the full synopsis below and continue reading:

Ray and his wife look to start over by buying an old motel in the middle of the desert. Things take a turn for the worse however when Ray witnesses a murder through a two-way mirror. As they struggle to escape, they discover more and more gruesome secrets involving the hotel and its visitors. Looking Glassis directed by American filmmaker Tim Hunter, of the films Tex, Sylvester, River's Edge, Paint It Black, The Saint of Fort Washington, The Maker, The Failures, Control, and The Far Side of Jericho previously. The screenplay is written by Jerry Rapp and Matthew Wilder.

Dog Eat Dog aims to be your next pulpy criminal obsession, but falls short upon feeling forced into underworld seediness. There’s inherent fun thanks to magnificent character actors like Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe, yet director Paul Schrader struggles to temper depravity with meaning. Audiences find themselves stuck in a cyclical circle of prisoner’s lament, where the worst of the worst happens just because. Look no farther than Schrader’s introduction – the double murder of a mother and her moody teen. Why? “Because That’S The Kind Of Movie This Is, Motherf(#Ker” is what Schrader’s tone conveys – sometimes for the best, but never without pause.

Nic Cage stars as Troy Cameron, a low-budget criminal who’s sick of tiny scores. After yet another good-enough win, he’s offered a $750K payday by Grecco The Greek (Paul Schrader). The job is simple – kidnap a baby until the father pays his debts,...

Screenwriter Matthew Wilder, whose recent feature film Dog Eat Dog premiered at this year's Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals, has signed with Apa. The film stars Nicolas Cage, William Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook, and is based on the 1995 novel by ex-criminal Edward Bunker. Directed by writer/director Paul Schrader, the story centers on irredeemable ex-cons 'Troy' (Cage), 'Mad Dog' (Dafoe) and their heavy hitter 'Diesel' (Cook) who take on the terrible task of…...

Joseph Baxter Sep 20, 2016

Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe star in Paul Schrader's new movie, Dog Eat Dog. Here's the trailer...

Based on the 1995 novel of the same name by real-life ex-criminal Edward Bunker, the Cleveland-set Dog Eat Dog centres on utterly irredeemable ne’er-do-well ex-cons Troy (Nicolas Cage), Mad Dog (Willem Dafoe) and their heavy hitter Diesel (The Walking Dead's Christopher Matthew Cook) who take on the terrible task of kidnapping a dangerous gangster’s one-year-old baby! However, unlike with Cage’s signature (also ex-con) role in the Coen Brothers’ Raising Arizona, said infant abduction does not at all go as planned, resulting in our repugnant protagonists going on the run from the law and from the gangster baby-daddy in question. What ensues is a wanton spree of brutal bloodletting and body-dropping.

In the director’s chair for Dog Eat Dog (that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival) is Paul Schrader,...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

– Rlj Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Paul Schrader’s action thriller “Dog Eat Dog.” Based on the novel by Edward Bunker, the film was written by Matthew Wilder and stars Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook. The film first premiered at the 69th Cannes Film Festival and will have its North American premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival in September.

The film “tells the story of three ex-cons who botch a kidnapping. They not only lose a rich payoff, but they get on the wrong side of the mob and become the city’s most wanted fugitives. Vowing to stay out of prison at all costs, things get completely out of...

Ahead of it's North American premiere here in Toronto next month Rlj Entertainment has acquired the North American rights for Paul Schrader's Dog Eat Dog starring Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe. As you will read in the press announcement excerpt below Rlj plans to release the film in cinemas and On Demand in November. I presume there will be a hard copy release shortly after that.    Rlj Entertainment (Nasdaq: Rlje) has acquired all North American rights to the highly anticipated action thriller Dog Eat Dog.  Based on the novel by Edward Bunker, Dog Eat Dog was written by Matthew Wilder (Your Name Here) and directed by Paul Schrader (Affliction, American Gigolo, Taxi Driver).  The film stars Nicolas Cage (Snowden, Leaving Las Vegas), Willem Dafoe...

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The North American rights to the Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe action thriller “Dog Eat Dog” have been acquired by Rlj Entertainment, the company announced Wednesday. Based on the novel by Edward Bunker, “Dog Eat Dog” was written by Matthew Wilder and was directed by Paul Schrader. Also starring Christopher Matthew Cook, the film first premiered at Cannes Film Festival and will make its North American premiere at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival next month. See Video: Nicolas Cage Caught Screaming at Vince Neil in Las Vegas The film tells the story of three ex-cons who mess up a kidnapping. They lose a big.

Rlj Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Paul Schrader-helmed Dog Eat Dog, starring Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook. The company plans to release the pic theatrically and on VOD in November. Based on the novel by Edward Bunker and written by Matthew Wilder, Dog Eat Dog tells the story of three ex-cons who botch a kidnapping. They not only lose a rich payoff, but they get on the wrong side of the mob and become the city's most…...

Paul Schrader’s action thriller has found a home in the run-up to its North American premiere in Toronto next month.

Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook star in Dog Eat Dog, which is based on the novel by Edward Bunker and written by screenwriter Matthew Wilder.

Dog Eat Dog premiered in Cannes and centres on a botched kidnapping in which three ex-cons get on the wrong side of the Mob. The first Toronto screening is September 8.

Rlj entertainment negotiated the deal with Adme and plans a theatrical and VOD release in November.

Mark Earl Burman, Gary Hamilton, Brian Beckmann and David Hillary produced and Jeremy Rosen, Jeff Caperton, Barney Burman, Ray Mansfield, Shaun Redick, Donald Rivers, Michael McClung and Tim Peternel served as executive producers.

Jeanne Fields acted as executor of the Edward Bunker estate.

It’s a weekend night at the Cannes Film Festival. My schedule informs me that I am supposed to meet Matthew Wilder, screenwriter of Paul Schrader‘s “Dog Eat Dog,” at the Carlton Hotel for drinks. As I make my way to the entrance, I can’t help but notice the glitz and glamour scene going on in […]

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Paul Schrader might want to consider expanding his thematic scope a little. Decade after decade, film after film, regardless of whether he’s been writing scripts for others (Martin Scorsese, first and foremost), or sitting in the director’s chair himself, the erstwhile Calvinist has come back to the theme of redemption with obstinate persistence. His protagonists are almost always men, they’re almost always amoral sinners of some ilk or other, and they almost always yearn to break out of the wicked, vicious cycles on which their lives have been relentlessly spinning. Not an unfruitful theme by any means, considering it has given rise to many a masterpiece across the history of cinema – of all arts, really – but Dog Eat Dog suggests that, as far his own filmmaking is concerned, Schrader may have exhausted its potential.

Things actually look promising at first. Taking the trashy gusto exhibited in The Canyons to whole new extremes,...

Adapted from Ed Bunker’s cult novel, Schrader’s thriller about three ex-cons is his best work in years – though he should probably have avoided casting himself

In 1992, Quentin Tarantino revealed his love for cult crime author Edward Bunker by casting him as Mr Blue in Reservoir Dogs; the former San Quentin prison inmate and reformed armed robber whose hardboiled genre fiction was unrivalled in its authenticity. Three years later, and benefitting from a colossal career-boost, Bunker published a new novel entitled Dog Eat Dog, a nod to Tarantino’s debut. Paul Schrader has now filmed it, shifting the scene from Los Angeles to Cleveland, and working from an adaptation by screenwriter Matthew Wilder.

It’s the right director for the right project and the result is Schrader’s best for years: a lairy, nasty, tasty crime thriller built on black-comic chaos. Dog Eat Dog isn’t perfect: the opening scene could have been cut,...

Two-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe will join Oscar winner Nicolas Cage in Paul Schrader‘s crime thriller “Dog Eat Dog,” based on the book of the same name by Eddie Bunker, it was announced Thursday. Arclight Films and Pure Dopamine have just started production on the film, which Schrader (“Taxi Driver”) will direct from a script he co-wrote with Matthew Wilder. “Dog Eat Dog” is a gritty contemporary crime thriller about a trio of ex-cons, deep in the underbelly of Los Angeles, who are hired for a kidnapping. When the botched abduction goes awry and gets completely out of control,...

Screenplay for the feature film is being written by the Us screenwriter Matthew Wilder

Berlin-based producer Sandor Söth of Intuit Pictures has secured the rights for a fiction feature film inspired by Marcus Vetter and Karin Steinberger’s documentary thriller The Forecaster about one of the world’s most famous economic forecasters, Martin Armstrong, who the FBI tried to silence

The screenplay for the feature film is being written by the Us screenwriter Matthew Wilder (Your Name Here) who has worked in the past for such filmmakers as Oliver Stone and Bryan Singer.

The Forecaster is currently screening on 52 screens throughout Germany and is being sold internationally by Autlook Film Sales who has posted sales to France (Jupiter), Canada (Blue Ice), Spain (P40), Poland (Against Gravity), Italy (iWonder) and USA (Random Media), among others.

In addition, TV sales have been concluded with Al Jazeera Balcan, Tvo Canada, Vrt Belgium, Yle Finland, Tvo, Dbs Israel...

Much as there are competing Alfred Hitchcock flicks, there are also competing Linda Lovelace flicks. Both Lovelace and Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story are racing down the stretch toward the finish line, but it appears Lovelace has pulled ahead...no pun intended.

Rob Epstein and Jerry Friedman's Lovelace is now officially categorized by IMDb as being in post-production, whereas Matthew Wilder's Inferno is still in that ugly netherworld known as pre-production (often referred to as "so, are we gonna make this movie or what?").

Lovelace recently solidified its lead in what we at Planet Fury like to call the Lovelace Sweepstakes by releasing its first poster, giving us a look at Amanda Seyfried in her Linda Lovelace makeup, which appears to be just blue eye shadow, pink lipstick and rouge (I'm guessing this performance will be all about costume, attitude and Seyfried's smoldering saucer-size eyes).

For comparison's sake, and...

It’s a bad day for historical pieces, with THR informing us that Eric Bana‘s left Elvis & Nixon, a dramedy that’s will mark the directorial debut of Cary Elwes. Other than his to-the-point note of “I’m no longer attached,” we don’t know what exactly made the decision go through; I’d guess scheduling is only the root cause, seeing as he’s already attached himself in an executive producer capacity. A shame — especially when you hear Bana does a great impersonation of The King, and I’d kill to see it — but I’m just hoping this can go forward with another top choice in the blue suede shoes.

Danny Huston will still appear in the other titular role, while Kevin Connolly (Entourage) and Luke Wilson were recently wrangled to take on minor parts. Written by Elwes and Hanala & Joey Sagal, Elvis & Nixon revolves around the...

Quick, go look in your phone contacts and text all the porn stars you know: Bret Easton Ellis wants You for his next film project!

Ellis (American Psycho, The Informers) announced via Twitter that his psycho-sexual thriller The Canyons, which documents “five twenty-somethings’ quest for power, love, sex and success in 2012 Hollywood,” is holding open auditions for four to five lead roles. The catch is that Ellis elegantly requires said leads “to act and be full frontal naked banging girls and guys realistically.”

At the top of the dream cast for the Paul Schrader-directed feature is porn star James Deen,...

It seems as if Lindsay Lohan might be most comfortable playing anyone but herself. Lohan has constantly imitated Marilyn Monroe in photo shoots over the years, and the actress was long attached to Matthew Wilder’s Linda Lovelace biopic, Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story. The film seemed stalled out due to the Lohan commitments that could never come to fruition. Lohan was dropped from the project in November of 2010, and Malin Ackerman stepped in to the role shortly after. So, if you can’t be Marilyn and you can’t be Lovelace, who can Lohan be? If a report from Deadline Hampstead is to be believed, Elizabeth Taylor. I’m sorry, what? The outlet reports, quite bizarrely, that Lohan is “in early talks for the female lead in Lifetime’s original movie Elizabeth & Richard: A Love Story, chronicling the enduring love of movie icons Taylor and Richard Burton, whose fiery romance was the most notorious, publicized...

Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story, one of two competing biopics about the legendary and controversial pornographic actress, is in final talks to add Adam Goldberg (Zodiac, Dazed and Confused). Goldberg would play fellow porn actor Harry Reems in the film. Matthew Wilder (Your Name Here) has been tapped to write and direct.

Linda Lovelace was arguably the most famous porn actress of the ’70s, a time when pornographic films were still seen as legitimate art. She only made a handful of pornographic films before quitting the industry and divorcing her husband, Chuck Traynor. Malin Akerman (Watchmen) will play Linda Lovelace in the film.

Inferno will be based on “Ordeal: An Autobiography”, the controversial book Lovelace wrote with Mike McGrady. In the book, Lovelace claimed that Traynor, who will be played by Matt Dillon in the movie, beat her and held a gun ...

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Adam Goldberg is in final talks to join the cast of Muse Productions' Linda Lovelace biopic "Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story," opposite Malin Akerman as adult film star Linda Lovelace.According to Variety, Matthew Wilder ("Your Name Here") is directing from his own script, based on 1980's "Ordeal: An Autobiography" by Lovelace and Mike McGrady.Production is expected to start in early February in Louisiana.Muse Productions' Chris Hanley is producing with Jordan Gertner, along with Carlucci Weyant and Kevin Pugliese for Split Vision Entertainment. Rob Simmons and Peter O'Keefe are also producing for Jars Productions.Matt Dillon has been cast as Lovelace's abusive pornographer husband Chuck Traynor.The cast also includes Paz de la Huerta, Sasha Grey and Harold Perrineau.Lovelace shot to fame with...

For a while, it seemed that, of the two planned biopics about the late 1970's porn star Linda Lovelace, the Amanda Seyfried-starring Lovelace was getting the most traction. It recently added four actors to its cast and started production last month. Now it looks like the other Lovelace biopic, Inferno: a Linda Lovelace Story starring Malin Akerman (Watchmen) in the lead role, is finally putting together its cast as well.

So let's step back for a moment for Lovelace, which has also announced some new cast members. Deadline reports that Demi Moore, Eric Roberts and Adam Brody have all joined the cast. Moore will play feminist author Gloria Steinem, while Roberts is playing lie detector expert Nat Laurendi and Brody is playing Lovelace's Deep Throat co-star Harry Reems.

Meanwhile, Inferno, which, at one point, had Lindsay Lohan in the lead role until she was either fired or quit,...

The competing Lovelace films continue to add to their growing cast. One, simply titled Lovelace is nearly rounding it out, but Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story has announced another name being added to the project.

Adam Goldberg is in the final stages of negotiation to play has porn star Harry Reems in the film, written by and to be directed by Matthew Wilder, reports Variety. The movie will be based on “Ordeal: An Autobiography” by Lovelace with Mike McGrady. Lovelace starred in Deep Throat, but later renounced her pornography career in the memoir saying that her career had been forced upon her by husband Chuck Traynor, to be played by Matt Dillon.

Variety is reporting Patricia Arquette has signed on to play has Jeff Buckley’s mother Mary Guibert in Jake Scott’s untitled movie biopic about the late musician. Reeve Carney will play as the late Jeff Buckley who...

[1] Today's Casting Bits all revolve around true stories, though the nature of the tales vary wildly from project to project. After the jump: Adam Goldberg enters final negotiations to play porn star Harry Reems in Matthew Wilder's Inferno Patricia Arquette gets cast as Reeve Carney's mom in Jake Scott's Jeff Buckley biopic Matthew Fox boards Peter Webber's "inspired by true events" political thriller Emperor Adam Goldberg has entered final talks for Matthew Wilder's Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story in the role of Harry Reems, who co-stars with Lovelace (Malin Akerman) on the hardcore classic Deep Throat. The news comes just days after we learned that Adam Brody had been cast [2] in the corresponding role in Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's competing project Lovelace, which features Amanda Seyfried in the lead role. The script for Inferno, also by Wilder, is based on Lovelace's 1980 memoir Ordeal.

With the cast rounding out for competing Linda Lovelace biopic Lovelace , the producers of Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story have announced more casting for their own project, to be toplined by Malin Akerman ( Watchmen ). According to Variety , Adam Goldberg is in final talks to play porn star Harry Reems in the film, written by and to be directed by Matthew Wilder. The movie will be based on "Ordeal: An Autobiography" by Lovelace with Mike McGrady. Lovelace starred in Deep Throat , but later renounced her pornography career in the memoir saying that her career had been forced upon her by husband Chuck Traynor, to be played by Matt Dillon. Also cast were Paz de la Huerta ("Boardwalk Empire"), former porn star Sasha Grey ("Entourage") and Harold...

Adam Goldberg is in final negotiations to play Deep Throat porn star Harry Reems in Matthew Wilder's Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story, starring Malin Akerman as the title character.

Matthew Wilder will direct from his own screenplay, based on the 1980 memoir "Ordeal: An Autobiography," which Linda Lovelace wrote with Mike McGrady. Linda Lovelace became world famous in 1972 due to the massive success of Deep Throat but renounced her pornography career in "Ordeal" and alleged that it had been forced upon her by pornographer husband Chuck Traynor, who will be played by Matt Dillon.

Paz de la Huerta, former porn star Sasha Grey and Harold Perrineau also star in the project.

Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story will start production in early February in Louisiana.

Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story was released in 2011 and stars Malin Akerman, Bill Pullman, Sharon Stone. The film is directed by Matthew Wilder.

I’ve been waiting — not impatiently, but with a general interest — for Matthew Fox to jump back into the spotlight after Lost ended. And, although it’s been almost two years since the show went off the air, we’re only seeing him return this year with I, Alex Cross and World War Z hitting screens. Things are looking even better for the thespian, as Variety informs us that he’s grabbed the lead role in Emperor, a Japan-set epic set to be directed by Girl with a Pearl Earring‘s Peter Webber.

His role is that of Gen. Bonner Fellers, who, following the conclusion of World War II, was forced to decide if Japan’s Emperor Hirohito would be hanged for war crimes. David Klass and Vera Blasi‘s screenplay also tells of the man’s “love affair with Aya, a Japanese exchange student he had met years earlier in the U.

There are two competing Linda Lovelace biopics in the works right now.  Amanda Seyfried will play the 1970s porn star in Lovelace.  A report from yesterday added Adam Brody, Eric Roberts, and Demi Moore to the supporting cast alongside Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Juno Temple, Wes Bentley, Hank Azaria, and possibly James Franco.  Malin Akerman will assume the starring role in Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story, surrounded by the likes of Matt Dillon, Paz de la Huerta, Harold Perrineau, and Sasha Grey.  For my money, Lovelace is winning the casting battle handily, a fact not changed by Variety's report that Adam Goldberg is in final talks to play fellow porn star Harry Reems in Inferno.  Maybe I am swayed by my fondness for Brody, who's playing Reems in Lovelace.  But really, Seyfried + Sarsgaard > Akerman + Dillon.  However, I am on record saying I don't have the heart to watch this ugly tale,...

We've been writing quite a bit about Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Linda Lovelace biopic in the last few months, but Matthew Wilder's Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story is still very much a thing. While there was plenty of drama in the beginning due to the casting of Lindsey Lohan in the title role, the movie now has Malin Akerman attached to star and quite the supporting cast, including Matt Dillon (who will play Lovelace.s pornographer husband Chuck Traynor), Paz de la Huerta (of Boardwalk Empire fame), Sasha Grey (who used to be a porn start herself and Harold Perrineau (who will be playing Sammy Davis Jr.). Now the film is close to adding yet another player to its ranks. Adam Goldberg, best known for roles in movies like Saving Private Ryan and Dazed and Confused, is now  in final negotiations for a part in the film,...

Joining the dueling sets of Snow White blockbusters, Charlize Theron versus Julia Roberts as evil queens; and indie dramas about the singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley, who died in a drowning accident at age 30, Variety reported the latest news regarding the dueling movies about Linda Boreman, better known as the first porn superstar Linda Lovelace. Adam Goldberg, who’s appeared in movies from 2 Days in Paris to Zodiac, continued talks to join director Matthew Wilder’s Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story starring Malin Akerman as Lovelace. Goldberg looked to play porn star Harry Reems who played opposite Lovelace in the 1972 X-rated hit Deep Throat.

Joining the dueling sets of Snow White blockbusters, Charlize Theron versus Julia Roberts as evil queens; and indie dramas about the singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley, who died in a drowning accident at age 30, Variety reported the latest news regarding the dueling movies about Linda Boreman, better known as the first porn superstar Linda Lovelace. Adam Goldberg, who’s appeared in movies from 2 Days in Paris to Zodiac, continued talks to join director Matthew Wilder’s Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story starring Malin Akerman as Lovelace. Goldberg looked to play porn star Harry Reems who played opposite Lovelace in the 1972 X-rated hit Deep Throat.

Joining the dueling sets of Snow White blockbusters, Charlize Theron versus Julia Roberts as evil queens; and indie dramas about the singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley, who died in a drowning accident at age 30, Variety reported the latest news regarding the dueling movies about Linda Boreman, better known as the first porn superstar Linda Lovelace. Adam Goldberg, who’s appeared in movies from 2 Days in Paris to Zodiac, continued talks to join director Matthew Wilder’s Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story starring Malin Akerman as Lovelace. Goldberg looked to play porn star Harry Reems who played opposite Lovelace in the 1972 X-rated hit Deep Throat.

Update: Variety also reports that James Franco is in talks to reunite with his Howl directors and do a small cameo as Playboy founder Hugh Hefner in the film. He was originally circling the Chuck Traynor role, but don’t expect him to have a big cameo role, as he will only shoot for one day. Check out the original story below.

Lovelace, the story of the sexual revolution and the birth of the feminist movement as viewed through the experiences of Deep Throat actress Linda Lovelace, has added four new performers to its already impressive cast. According to Variety, producers on the film have confirmed that Hank Azaria, Chris Noth, Robert Patrick, and Bobby Cannavale have all been signed to join the film, which will be directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.

Amanda Seyfried will be playing the titular role of Linda Lovelace (born Linda Boreman), who became...

Like Alexander the Great, Steve Prefontaine, and Snow White before her, the late Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace suddenly has several producers prepping biopics simultaneously. The reluctant porn icon made her way into pop culture history with 1972′s Deep Throat, which was used as an informant code name during that year’s Watergate scandal and resurfaced with the Dennis Hopper-narrated documentary Inside Deep Throat, released in 2005 three years after Lovelace’s untimely death.

Today, EW confirmed that Juno Temple (left) and Wes Bentley have been added to the cast of Lovelace, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s biopic, which...

Sharon Stone has joined the cast of the Linda Lovelace biopic "Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story," opposite Malin Akerman as adult film star Linda Lovelace.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Matthew Wilder ("Your Name Here") is directing from his own script, based on 1980's "Ordeal: An Autobiography" by Lovelace and Mike McGrady.Muse Productions' Chris Hanley is producing with Jordan Gertner. Lovelace shot to fame with the landmark 1972 porno movie "Deep Throat," which was one of the first porn movies to reach into mainstream culture.Lovelace, whose real name was Linda Susan Boreman, later denounced her pornography career and became a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement.She died in 2002 following a car crash in Denver.Stone will play Lovelace's mother.There is another Lovelace...

Linda Lovelace biopic Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story has received a dose of welcome star-power, with the announcement that Sharon Stone has signed on to play Lovelace's mother. One of two Lovelace biopics currently in production, Inferno will star Malin Akerman as the former porn star turned feminist campaigner, with Your Name Here helmer Matthew Wilder in place to direct. Matt Dillon will play husband Chuck Traynor, whilst Lost star Harold Perrineau and real-life porn actress Sasha Grey are also set to appear. Lovelace was famed for her...

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Sharon Stone has been cast in Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story. The actress will feature as Lovelace's mother in writer/director Matthew Wilder's biopic, according to The AP. Malin Akerman (Watchmen) will play the iconic Deep Throat star in the movie. Amanda Seyfried is currently wanted for the starring role in the rival Lovelace biopic. Inferno is based on Ordeal: An Autobiography by Linda Lovelace with Mike McGrady, which charts the actress's life from her humble beginnings to (more)...

Dual Linda Lovelace biopics are in the works, and one of them just nabbed Sharon Stone. The actress tells AP that she’s joined the cast of Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story. Inferno is the one that almost starred Lindsay Lohan, but now Malin Akerman is set in the leading role. Matthew Wilder will direct. Lovelace came to prominence after her starmaking performance in Deep Throat, later claiming that she had been forced into the pornography business by her abusive husband. The competing biopic in the works, Lovelace, has Amanda Seyfried set as the starlet, with Peter Sarsgaard in talks to play her husband Chuck Traynor. Stone will move on to Inferno after filming the thriller The Mule.

According to The AP, Sharon Stone has officially joined the cast of Matthew Wilder‘s porn star biopic Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story. Stone will be playing the mother of iconic porn star Linda Lovelace, played here by Couples Retreat star Malin Akerman.

The project has been in development for some time; we reported a year and a half ago that Lindsay Lohan had signed on to play Lovelace, but that didn’t stick. It took her a whole six months to get fired from the project, and Akerman was soon brought in as a replacement.

Inferno will explore the life of Lovelace, who was ultimately forced to star in various porn films, including Deep Throat, by her deranged husband and manager Chuck Traynor, played by Matt Dillon. It’s based on her autobiography, the appropriately-titled Ordeal: An Autobiography, thus not to be confused with a similar project, Lovelace, which...