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Anlässlich der diesjährigen 37. Verleihung der European Film Awards freut sich die European Film

Academy, die Schauspielerin und Filmemacherin Isabella Rossellini für ihr herausragendes Werk

mit dem European Achievement in World Cinema Award auszuzeichnen.

Isabella Rosselini (Credit: Paola Kudacki/Truck Archive)

Isabella Rossellini wuchs in Paris und Rom auf. Mit 19 Jahren zog sie nach New York City und

arbeitete als Übersetzerin und Journalistin für den italienischen Fernsehsender Rai. Im Alter von

28 Jahren begann sie eine Karriere als Model und war auf zahlreichen Titelseiten von Zeitschriften

wie Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar und Vanity Fair zu sehen. Die Stilikone Isabella Rossellini begann

1982 eine 14-jährige Karriere als exklusive Werbeträgerin für Lancôme. Als sie 40 Jahre alt wurde,

wurde ihr Vertrag nicht verlängert. Isabella Rossellini gründete ihre eigene Kosmetikmarke

Manifesto und wurde 2016 von Lancôme erneut als Werbeträgerin engagiert, um Integration zu

fördern und gegen Altersdiskriminierung zu kämpfen.

Isabella Rossellini gab ihr Kinodebüt als Schauspielerin 1979 in...

Since childhood, Jesse Eisenberg has been a prodigy in the arts. At age seven, he appeared in his first play, and by age 12, he was an understudy on Broadway in a Tennessee Williams drama. At age 16, he began writing screenplays, several of which were optioned by major studios, and by the time he was a high school senior, Eisenberg had landed his first co-starring role in a feature film — 2002’s “Roger Dodger.”

From there, his film career took off, leading to starring roles with filmmakers as diverse as Woody Allen and David Fincher. Eisenberg became a favorite with moviegoers with his comedic skill in such films as “Zombieland,” “Café Society” and “Adventureland.” And then came the critical acclaim with his dramatic performances in 2005’s “The Squid and the Whale,” 2015’s “The End of the Tour,” and particularly Fincher’s 2010 modern classic “The Social Network,” for which Eisenberg received Best Actor nominations from the Oscars,...

Given that he doesn’t necessarily look or act like a traditional idea of a leading man, the enduring stardom of Jesse Eisenberg is a pleasing thing. It’s now 15 years since we first saw him on screen, in Dylan Kidd’s “Roger Dodger,” and he’s consistently made strong choices that have kept him on the A-list, whether it’s working with acclaimed auteurs like Woody Allen, Noah Baumbach and David Fincher, excelling in smaller indies like Kelly Reichardt’s “Night Moves,” Richard Ayoade’s “The Double” or James Ponsoldt’s “The End Of The Tour,” or selling out while holding onto his credibility in “Now You See Me” or “Zombieland” (though we’ll skip over ‘Batman v Superman‘).

Continue reading Jesse Eisenberg To Write, Direct & Star In J.J. Abrams-Produced TV Comedy at The Playlist.

Kirsten Howard May 10, 2017

House Of Cards is heading back to Netflix in a few weeks for a fifth season, and you can see all the new pictures right here.

A brand new season of House Of Cards is just around the corner and, in the spirit of the campaign, streaming service Netflix has released a whole ton of new images for us to analyse before it drops. We've added all those to our House Of Cards season 5 gallery above for you to flick through at your leisure - just simply click the main image above to get started.

See related The Big Bang Theory season 10 episode 23 review: The Gyroscopic Collapse The Big Bang Theory season 10 episode 22 review: The Cognition Regeneration The Big Bang Theory season 10 episode 21 review: The Separation Agitation

Kevin Spacey will of course be back in the frame once more as scheming Frank Underwood, and he's been talking...

Netflix has released a bunch of teaser trailers and made a ton of announcements today, many of which we’ve already covered elsewhere on the site. One of the announcements is the casting of Oscar-nominated actress Patricia Clarkson (Green Mile, Pieces of April) and Campbell Scott (Big Night, Roger Dodger) in their hit political dramatic series House Of Cards. […]

The post Photos: Patricia Clarkson & Campbell Scott Join ‘House of Cards’ Season 5 appeared first on /Film.

One of the more impressive New York City-set indie dramas we’ve seen in the last year is Long Nights Short Mornings, which has enjoyed a festival run since its debut at South by Southwest Film Festival. Directed by Chadd Harbold, it follows Shiloh Fernandez‘s character as he searches for romance in the city to varying results. Also starring Natalia Dyer, Christine Evangelista, Cassandra Freeman, Stella Maeve, and Addison Timlin, we’re pleased to debut the exclusive trailer from The Orchard ahead of a release next week.

We said in our review, “Long Nights Short Mornings, written and directed by Chadd Harbold, follows in the footsteps of the “playboy in crisis” sub-genre, populated by the likes of Alfie, Shampoo, Arthur, and Roger Dodger. ‘I do so many stupid things. I don’t know why,’ says James (Shiloh Fernandez), attempting to rekindle one of a number of lovers he’ll...

Long Nights Short Mornings, written and directed by Chadd Harbold, follows in the footsteps of the “playboy in crisis” sub-genre, populated by the likes of Alfie, Shampoo, Arthur, and Roger Dodger. ‘I do so many stupid things. I don’t know why,’ says James (Shiloh Fernandez), attempting to rekindle one of a number of lovers he’ll encounter throughout the film’s 95 minutes.

Each conquest is designated by each woman’s name. Monica (Paten Hughes) is a one-night stand thwarted by some lost keys; Sarah (Layla Khoshnoudi) is a good friend who becomes something more, for a few minutes anyway; Lily (Stella Maeve) is a steady hook-up about to slip away. The list, much like the nights, go on and on.

James wanders through New York City as though in an endless loop, constantly on his way back to a home he will never get to. The city is captured...

Directed by Dylan Kidd, Get A Job stars Miles Teller as Will, the Millennial From Hell. Fresh out of college, our hero (?) expects everything to work for him like it always has. When L.A. Weekly tells him the videographer job they promised is no longer available, he throws a temper tantrum and asks his dad (Bryan Cranston, doing his best) for money. Sadly, dad has just lost his job as well.

Determined to skate by on the quality of his YouTube videos, Will tries his hardest to avoid the corporate video sphere. He considers himself better than that. This is an extremely unlikable lead character at the center of a brutally cynical, largely unfunny film fueled by muddled social commentary.

Kidd is a talented filmmaker, responsible for the sharp indie Roger Dodger and the strange, under-seen P.S., but this, his third film, feels like a lost cause. Indeed, it...

The regrettable new Dylan Kidd-helmed life-after-college and career prospectus comedy “Get A Job” is such a baffling endeavor the callow movie could conceivably come with its own milk carton campaign asking: “Where is Dylan Kidd and what have you done with him?” More than just “off brand,” the lamentable film — a sitcom-y mash of broad jokes, vulgar asides and juvenile scenarios — is shockingly devoid of the promise of his earlier works. The filmmaker behind the critically acclaimed indies “P.S.” (2004) and “Roger Dodger” (2002), (the latter of which helped launch the career of Jesse Eisenberg) both were sharp, observant and affecting efforts — “P.S.” examining the ache of lost loves, and “Roger Dodger” offering a caustically masculine look at male/female dynamics. Read More: The 20 Worst Films Of 2015 After these two rich efforts — both of which were invited to prestigious festivals like Telluride, Toronto and Venice — Kidd seemingly vanished. With only some.

What ever happened to director Dylan Kidd? His promising career had a terrific one-two punch in the early aughts: 2001’s blistering two-hander “Roger Dodger,” which gave us an early excellent early performance from Jesse Eisenberg, and the filmmaker followed it with 2004’s quasi-mystical mystery romance film “Ps.” But it’s been twelve long years since Kidd made a film. Sort of. The indie filmmaker shot “Get A Job” with Miles Teller, Anna Kendrick, and Alison Brie, among others, back in 2012. But where has it been? Good question. For reasons unknown, “Get A Job” has languished somewhere, or in the editing room, who knows, for nearly four years. But now, it’s finally coming out. Read More: Watch The First Trailer For 'Get A Job' With Anna Kendrick, Miles Teller, And Allison Brie The reality is films that overcook in the oven this long are often just problematic (“Serena...

Miles Teller, Anna Kendrick, and Bryan Cranston star in Get A Job, a wickedly funny comedy about making it in the real world from Roger Dodger director Dylan Kidd, which was shot way back in 2012 and is only now seeing the light of day!

Life after college graduation is not exactly going as planned for Will and Jillian who find themselves lost in a sea of increasingly strange jobs. But with help from their family, friends and coworkers they soon discover that the most important (and hilarious) adventures are the ones that we don’t see coming.

Get A Job will be released by Lionsgate Premiere in theaters and on demand – in the Us – on March 25th. No word on a UK release as yet. Check out the first trailer and poster for the film below:...

Get a paper bag to hyperventilate into, and get ready to laugh! The first trailer for CBS Films' Get a Job features Anna Kendrick and Miles Teller losing their jobs, sobbing, struggling with money, disappointing Bryan Cranston, and eventually coming to terms with postgraduate unemployment. In all seriousness, though, it looks very charming. Having shot the film in 2012, Anna Kendrick herself assumed Get a Job, directed by Roger Dodger’s Dylan Kidd, would never be released. Fortunately for the filmmakers, being $90,000 in debt is a timeless topic that viewers of all ages and in all eras can enjoy.

New York Film Critics Awards: Best Film winner 'Carol' with Cate Blanchett. 2015 New York Film Critics Awards have enlivened Oscar race Catching up with previously announced awards season winners that will likely influence the 2016 Oscar nominations. Early this month, the New York Film Critics Circle announced their Best of 2015 picks, somewhat unexpectedly boosting the chances of Todd Haynes' lesbian romantic drama Carol, Clouds of Sils Maria actress Kristen Stewart, and László Nemes' Holocaust drama Son of Saul. Below is a brief commentary about each of these Nyfcc choices. 'Carol' Directed by Todd Haynes, starring two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett (The Aviator, Blue Jasmine) and Oscar nominee Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), and adapted by Phyllis Nagy from Patricia Highsmith's 1952 novel The Price of Salt,[1] Carol won a total of four New York Film Critics awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay,...

The actor has written a snide short story in the New Yorker about a failed movie reviewer. The motivation is understandable, says our film critic, but the execution is sloppy

Huh? Wha…? What did we do? By and large, movie actor and author Jesse Eisenberg has been well-liked and even rather loved by the critics. (Personally I’ve had a massive crush since his teen appearance opposite Campbell Scott in the seduction comedy Roger Dodger in 2002.) Sadly, this week we realised that our feelings for him are very far from reciprocated.

This week, in the New Yorker’s Shouts & Murmurs section, Eisenberg published an odd short story entitled An Honest Film Review, the title of which could be inspired by the famously funny and clever Honest Trailers posted online by the Screen Junkies YouTube channel.

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To salute the incoming arrival of American Ultra, we salute some underrated treats from Jesse Eisenberg's back catalogue...

When Jesse Eisenberg was announced as Lex Luthor in Batman Vs Superman: Dawn Of Justice, it made instant sense. Not because he was bald, not because he looks like or Gene Hackman or anything, but just because he’s one of those actors whose screen presence is so perfectly formed. You know exactly what they’re going for with their Luthor, just by Eisenberg’s name. It’s Mark Zuckerberg vs Superman, the supergod vs the awkward genius.

But that’s not the only big action movie he’s got coming up. First he’s going to be in American Ultra, a unique stoner/sci-fi mash-up where he stars alongside Kristen Stewart (it's released in the UK on September 4th). Eisenberg first really burst into our consciousness in 2009 and 2010, where...

How would you program this year's newest, most interesting films into double features with movies of the past you saw in 2014?

Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2014—in theatres or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2014 to create a unique double feature.

All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2014 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch...

"Suicide Squad" may be the smartest title on the entire slate of DC Comic movies announced recently by Warner Bros. With David Ayer onboard to direct, this is the story of how some of the nastiest bad guys in the DC Universe are pressed into service to do something for the government. It can play rougher than other DC movies and it would seem appropriate. One of the key characters in any "Suicide Squad" movie should be Harley Quinn, the Joker's psychotic girlfriend, but I'm not sure if they're including her or not. Just because there is a rumor that Margot Robbie is being courted to star in the film, that doesn't mean they're using Quinn. I'd love to see Robbie play her, I think. That sounds terrifying. And sort of awesome. She could also easily be Amanda Waller, the doctor who puts the team together. But that's assuming she's...

There's a weird netherworld that movies sometimes fall into, films that were completed, or as good as, but whether because of issues of quality, or because of circumstances outside their control, never saw release in any form, or at best were buried on DVD or VOD somewhere. Jerry Lewis' "The Day The Clown Cried" was a famous example, Kenneth Lonergan's "Margaret" lingered in limbo for six years before release, and more recently, films such as David O Russell's "Nailed" and Sienna Miller/Chris O'Dowd drama "Hippie Hippie Shake" finished principal photography, but never made it to a screen of any kind. And now, there's worrying signs that another film has joined those ranks. A couple of years ago, Dylan Kidd, director of the great "Roger Dodger" and the underrated "P.S," went behind cameras for the first time in nearly a decade with "Get A Job." An ensemble...

"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes," it's claimed Andy Warhol once said. Some stars shine much brighter than others, though, and in the case of Hollywood we often see actors hit big early before disappearing without trace.

Brandon Routh, who delivered a sensitive and assured turn as the Man of Steel in 2006's Superman Returns, is one such example. Routh never quite got the breaks he deserved after landing that life-changing role, so it's nice to see him back in the superhero game with an upcoming role as Atom in Arrow.

Digital Spy takes a look back at a handful of stars who couldn't escape their one big role.

Brandon Routh

Plucked from relative obscurity to lead Bryan Singer's lavish Superman sequel, Routh impressively channelled Christopher Reeve on his big screen debut but found leading man roles difficult to come by in the aftermath.

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The Tribeca Film Festival has had more than a decade to prove itself. While the event demonstrated its ability to be a regenerative force in the wake of 9/11, bringing celebrities, parties, and movie-studio dollars to New York in the springtime, there is only one area where the festival has truly distinguished itself: as a platform for documentaries. Sure, an occasional critically acclaimed American indie drama will pop out of its competition, a selection of hard-to-find foreign films receive some deserved exhibition, and the festival’s showcase of interactive storytelling is a welcome and forward-thinking addition to the festival landscape. But forget the starry premieres, family films, and genre fare: The Tff could very well rechristen itself the Tribeca Documentary Film Festival, and audiences and industry-ites would probably be better served as a result of it. A dozen years into the fest, and one can count the breakout dramatic films on one hand ("Roger Dodger,...

What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream.

streaming now, while it’s still in theaters

The Unknown Known: documentary interview with Bush-era insider Don Rumsfeld is like a horror movie with a calm sociopath at its center [at Amazon Instant Video]

streaming now, before it’s on dvd

Great Expectations: a lively, vibrant retelling that feels very modern, with none of the stuffiness of a traditional costume drama [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] Philomena: a cry-till-you-laugh-dramedy about seeking lost family and finding new purpose; Judi Dench and Steve Coogan are fantastic; seriously, though: bring Kleenex [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]

streaming now, before it’s in theaters

The Machine: the bleak chic of this Sf drama is intriguing, but the script that starts out smart and elegant soon slips into the shoddy and familiar [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]

new to Prime

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan: Khaaaaaaaaaaaannnn!!!!!! [at Amazon Instant Video] Valkyrie: Tom Cruise versus Nazis! [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]

new to stream

Crouching Tiger,...

Jesse Eisenberg will play Lex Luthor in Zack Snyder's Batman vs Superman, it has been confirmed.

Following months of speculation during which actors including Bryan Cranston and Mark Strong were rumoured to be in the running, Eisenberg's casting was announced today alongside Jeremy Irons as Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred.

Eisenberg is most famous for his Oscar-nominated portrayal of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, but since his debut in coming-of-ager Roger Dodger he's turned in a string of memorable performances and proved the truth of the old adage that great comedic actors tend to make the transition to drama more easily than the reverse.

Digital Spy takes a look back at Eisenberg's career so far in the gallery below...

Director Greg Mottola made a minor splash on the 90s independent cinema scene with the film The Daytrippers in 1996. Mottola then did something rather unexpected, instead of riding the wave of this minor success into a breakout hit like Pulp Fiction or Memento he instead went straight into directing TV with credits on Arrested Development and Undeclared.

Whilst unexpected, this may have given him suitable grounding when it came time to directing a full on comedy feature. His second feature credit, Superbad was an American Pie level success for a new generation. It had the gross out comedy and dick jokes but also had a level of warmth and heart previously unseen in the genre for a while. It helped immensely that Superbad was based on real life hijinks that writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg had been through. Something about the situations and dialogue rang especially true. So it...

The Hamptons International Film Festival has appointed Anne Chaisson as its new executive director and promoted director of programming David Nugent to artistic director. “Having Anne onboard seems like a natural progression of events,” said festival chairman Stuart Match Suna. “She has been such an integral part of the Festival for the past ten years and we are thrilled to have her here full time. Anne’s broad background in production, business and film education make her an incredible asset the Festival and I look forward to watching it flourish under her direction.” Read More: Karen Arikian Steps Down As Executive Director of the Hamptons Film Festival A longtime producer (“Roger Dodger,” “P.S.”) and fundraiser, Chaisson has served as advisory co-chair of the Hamptons fest since 2003. She is a member of both the Ifp Producers Group and the New York Women in Film and Television. Nugent, who also teaches...

The 90s were a dark decade for fun stuff aimed at teens and tweens. Grunge music and gangsta rap ruled the airwaves, and young people were into acting sullen and disturbed. Any entertainment that could be considered kiddie or corporate was rejected outright in favor of culture stuff that was gritty and dark. But, by 1999, change was in the air. The prevailing trends of the decade had run their course, boy bands and Britney Spears started showing up on the radio, and the first movie that attempted to bring back the raunchy teenage sex comedy, American Pie, became a runaway success that launched a long-lived, multi-film franchise. Kurt Cobain was dead, long live Stifler. In 2005 Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale got a lot of attention in the world of indie and art films, much of it due to the performance of its lead actor, a young kid named Jesse Eisenberg. Over...

When you see the same name popping up over and over again, you know something's up. Such is the case with 25-year-old actor Miles Teller, who has enough of a baby face to genuinely pull off teen roles, plus the chops to back it up. He's had decent-sized parts in "Project X" and "Footloose," but where he's truly shined and where everyone in Hollywood must have noticed him was alongside Nicole Kidman in John Cameron Mitchell's deeply underrated "Rabbit Hole." Kidman earned her third Oscar nomination for Best Actress in the role of a bereaved mother and Teller plays the teenage boy who accidentally killed her young son with his car. Their scenes together are poignant and moving and Teller held his own. Since then he's been picking up roles at a rapid pace: "Roger Dodger" filmmaker Dylan Kidd's "Get a Job" (starring Bryan Cranston, Anna Kendrick and more), "Smashed" director.

Melanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds), Isabella Rossellini (Roger Dodger) and Sarah Gadon (Cosmopolis) have joined Jake Gyllenhaal on the cast of Pathe’s psychological thriller, An Enemy. Gyllenhaal plays a high school history teacher living a quiet life with his girlfriend (Laurent) who discovers there is a bit-part actor who is his double living nearby with his [...]

Continue reading Laurent, Gadon, Rossellini Join Jake Gyllenhaal in An Enemy on FilmoFilia.

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‘Roger Dodger’ meets ‘Training Day’ in this powerful, if predictable coming-of-age tale from the mean streets of Baltimore. Rapper-turned-actor Common is ex-jailbird Vincent. Recently freed from prison and hoping to make that shift away from his criminal roots to legit businessman, he lives with his mother and nephew, Woody. Driving the youngster to school one morning, he decides instead to let him spend the day seeing how his uncle goes about his daily business.

A stop off at the bank (where Vincent is hoping to get financial backing to open his own seafood restaurant) is less successful than envisioned, and he’s told he needs to first pay back the arrears on his mother’s house before his dream venture can go ahead. With a deadline for payment looming, he takes Woody along to meet with his former shady associates in an attempt to drum up some funds. Unsurprisingly, his efforts lead to dire situations,...

There have been only a few movie biopics that dare to tell the story of iconic deceased rappers, and even fewer that told the story well. Maybe it was the lack of star power or the weak script, but one movie could change all that. Its called Dirty White Boy its about how Wu-Tang Clan co-founder Ol’ Dirty Bastard, aka Russell Jones, was partially conned into letting an unproven VH1 production assistant named Jarred Weisfeld manage him while the rapper was in jail.

EW is reporting that The Wire star Michael K. Williams has come on board to play as Ol Dirty Bastard. Joaquín Baca-Asay, the cinematographer on We Own the Night, Roger Dodger and Jay-z’s video for 99 Problems, is also joining the project, making his feature directorial debut.

According to EW “The movie is based on the final years of Odb’s life — a true story that is nonetheless stranger than fiction.

Even if you're not generally a fan of music biopics, this one just might have what it takes to get you interested. This week it has been announced that Michael K. Williams, best known for playing Omar on The Wire, will star in an upcoming biopic about former Wu-Tang Clan member Ol' Dirty Bastard. The movie will be called Dirty White Boy and it is being produced by Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy (Beginners). Odb (né Russell Jones) struggled with drug addiction and legal troubles over the years before eventually dying of a drug overdose in 2004. Commercial and music video director / long-time cinematographer Joaquin Baca-Asay will make this his feature directorial debut. According to Deadline, the story will be told partially from the point of view of Jarred Weisfeld, a young VH1 intern who became Odb's manager. No word yet on who will play that role, but the script...

As the deadly stick-up man Omar Little on The Wire and the fearsome bootlegger Chalky White on Boardwalk Empire, actor Michael K. Williams has played his share of tough SOBs. Now he’s going to take on a bastard.

An Ol’ Dirty one.

EW has learned exclusively that Williams, 45, will star in an upcoming film about the legendary Wu-Tang Clan rapper and all-around troubled soul Russell Jones, a.k.a. Ol’ Dirty Bastard, whose impressive mic skills and outrageous showmanship were eclipsed by his erratic offstage behavior, assorted arrests, and an early death.

Joaquín Baca-Asay, the cinematographer on We Own the Night,...

Marcia Gay Harden will co-star along with Bryan Cranston and Anna Kendrick in a new comedy from "Roger Dodger" director Dylan Kidd, CBS Films said Wednesday. Tentatively titled "Get a Job," the film will focus on on four recent college graduates and their difficulties adjusting to life outside the ivy tower. Harden will play a demanding vice president at an executive placement firm.  Brandon T. Jackson ("Tropic Thunder"), Alison Brie ("Community") and Christopher Mintz-Plasse ("Superbad") are set to co-star.  Harden won an Oscar for her work as artist Lee Krasner in "Pollock" and received...

Marcia Gay Harden ("Into the Wild," "Mystic River") has signed on to co-star in the multi-generational comedy "Get a Job" at CBS Films and Double Feature Films.

The story follows a college graduate named Will (Miles Teller) and his friends who have to lower their expectations about life as they enter the real world during a recession.

Harden will play a demanding Vice President at an executive placement firm who runs her division according to her own rules.

She joins a cast that includes Bryan Cranston, Anna Kendrick, Miles Teller, Nick Braun, Alison Brie, Brandon T. Jackson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Jay Pharoah.

"Roger Dodger" helmet Dylan Kidd directs from a screenplay by Kyle Pennekamp and Scott Turpel. Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher are producing. Shooting is currently underway in Los Angeles.

• Newly expectant mother Reese Witherspoon has another bun in the oven, by which I mean her brand new production company Pacific Standard has snagged the rights to M.A. Larson’s children’s book series Pennyroyal’s Princess Boot Camp. Witherspoon will produce and likely take a supporting role in the potential fantasy franchise, about a school that trains young princesses to combat a coven of evil witches. [THR]

• Downton Abbey’s Lady Sybil Crawley — a.k.a. Jessica Brown Findlay — has landed the lead female role in Akiva Goldsman’s adaptation of Mark Helprin’s acclaimed 1983 novel Winter’s Tale. In...

Update: THR provides another casting update, telling us that Marcia Gay Harden will play “a demanding vice president at an executive placement firm.”

Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger) is now underway on his third feature, Get a Job, previously summarized as a “multi-generational comedy about four recent college graduates who discover that their lofty expectations and the realities of adulthood are two very different things.” Our last report on the picture was a big cast confirmation — Bryan Cranston, Miles Teller (Project X), Anna Kendrick, Nicholas Braun, Alison Brie, Brandon T. Jackson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and Jay Pharoah had all signed on — and our latest news follows in those footsteps.

Last night, Mintz-Plasse made a discreet tweet (rhyme possibly intended) and let it be known that John Cho (Harold & Kumar, Star Trek) has been brought on to the film, presumably to share some of his comedic stylings. Anything about his character or the...

CBS Films announced today that Oscar and Tony Award-winner Marcia Gay Harden ( Into the Wild , Mystic River ) has signed on to co-star in the comedy tentatively titled Get a Job . Directed by Dylan Kidd ( Roger Dodger ) from a screenplay by Kyle Pennekamp and Scott Turpel, Get a Job is a multi-generational comedy about four recent college graduates who discover that their lofty expectations and the realities of adulthood are two very different things. Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher ( Django Unchained , Contagion ) of Double Feature Films are producing. Harden is set to play Katherine Dunn, a demanding Vice President at an executive placement firm, who runs her division according to her own rules. She joins previously announced cast members Bryan Cranston, Anna Kendrick,...

After helping teenagers buy beer in Superbad and getting Seth Rogen to shove his voice into an alien’s body in Paul, Greg Mottola is getting his hands dirty with Aaron Sorkin for The Newsroom over at HBO, and he’s also working on the longest movie title in history for Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman. The writer/director recently described Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry as a “weird Charlie Kaufman experiment,” which sounds great (and means that title will probably have several other titles inside of it). On top of all this, he told Kid In the Front Row that he’s been working with actor Campbell Scott (Roger Dodger, The Amazing Spider-Man) to craft a new script. There were literally no details beyond that, but it’s still exciting to see two excellent storytellers team up. Plus...

THR recently reported that director Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger) will be helming the comedy Get A Job (title subject to change). The film will have a pretty decent comedic cast including Bryan Cranston, Anna Kendrick, Miles Teller, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Allison Brie, Jay Pharoah, and Brandon T. Jackson.

Here is the synopsis of the film:

A multi-generational comedy about four recent college graduates, written by Kyle Pennekamp and Scott Turpel, the project will see Teller playing a young man struggling in an entry-level job, while Kendrick plays his type-a girlfriend. Cranston will appear as the young man’s father who is job hunting at the same time as his son.

The concept is nothing that we haven’t heard before. However, the cast is really good so that might be all that it takes to get my butt into the theater. I guess we will have to wait till 2013 to find out.

Bryan Cranston, Anna Kendrick and Miles Teller are all looking to Get A Job. For their next project the trio, along with sever others are teaming up in a new CBS films project tentatively entitled Get A Job. The company, which recently announced the impressive ensemble cast, has gathered the who’s who of young actors in Hollywood today.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Get A Job is a multi-generational comedy about four recent college graduates who, after being thrust in to the real world, discover that their lofty expectations and the realities of adulthood are two very different things. Will Davis who will be played by Teller (Footloose), struggles through and entry level job and eventually finds his true calling. Kendrick (50/50) will play Jillian Steward, Will’s “type-a girlfriend who lives her life according to the strictest of plans.” Cranston, the season veteran has been cast as Roger Davis,...

According to a press release, CBS Films has rounded up a fantastic cast for the upcoming movie Get A Job – which taps into the zeitgeist with frightening precision to tell the story of a group of college graduates struggling to find work alongside a father who is, surprise, also trying to find work. Why is it so exciting? For one, Bryan Cranston will be playing that father. For two, it’s being directed by Dylan Kidd – who may not be a household name, but should be after his hip indie flick Roger Dodger which paired a young Jesse Eisenberg with a brilliant Campbell Scott. For three, the rest of the cast features Anna Kendrick, Miles Teller (Rabbit Hole, Project X, How’s that for diversity?), Alison Brie, Brandon T. Jackson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Nick Braun, and comedian Jay Pharaoh. That’s three great reasons to get excited about this project. Some are even multi-partite. That...

It's a tough job market out there, and watching movies tends to be an activity people flock to in order to escape from their daily troubles - if only for a couple hours. CBS Films thinks they've got a way to combine these two ideas in a comedy called Get A Job, to be directed by Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger, "Children's Hospital"). The timely economic comedy has locked down a fantastic cast, including "Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston, Anna Kendrick, Project X's Miles Teller, Alison Brie, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Brandon T. Jackson, and our favorite "SNL" Denzel Washington impersonator Jay Pharoah. Deadline calls the film a multi-generational comedy about four recent college graduates who discover that their lofty expectations and the realities of adulthood don't match up. Teller plays Will Davis, who finds his true calling after grinding through an entry level position, while Kendrick will play Will's cheerful but by-the-book girlfriend.

It was in January when we told you that Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger) would helm his first feature in some eight years, Get a Job, with a nice little cast of good-to-great performers already in mind. Now, though, Variety and Deadline have told us of the full lineup, and it’s actually better than initially thought.

Now, we can look forward to a main cast consisting of Bryan Cranston, Miles Teller (Project X), Anna Kendrick, Alison Brie, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, among several others mentioted below. The logline (from a script by Kyle Pennekamp and Scott Turpel) is the same as last time out: “a multi-generational comedy about four recent college graduates who discover that their lofty expectations and the realities of adulthood are two very different things.”

A story as base and open for creative interpretation as that could go in so many different directions — great, terrible, often somewhere in the middle — thus,...

CBS Films announced today that Bryan Cranston (Drive, TV.s Breaking Bad), Anna Kendrick (50/50, Up In The Air) and Miles Teller (Footloose, Project X) will star in the comedy tentatively titled Get A Job. Nick Braun (Prom, TV.s Poor Paul), Alison Brie (Scream 4, TV.s Community), Brandon T. Jackson (Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, Tropic Thunder), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Fright Night, Superbad) and Jay Pharoah (TV.s Saturday Night Live, Lola Versus) are set to co-star in the film. Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger, TV.s Children.s Hospital) is attached to direct the film from a screenplay by Kyle Pennekamp and Scott Turpel. Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher (Django Unchained, Contagion) of Double Feature Films are attached to produce.

Get A Job is a multi-generational comedy about four recent college graduates who discover that their lofty expectations and the realities of adulthood are two very different things. Teller will play Will Davis,...

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• Bryan Cranston, Anna Kendrick, and Project X’s Miles Teller have signed onto an ensemble comedy with the working title Get a Job, CBS Films announced today. As the title suggests, the film will follow an interconnected cast — which also includes Alison Brie (Community), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad), Brandon T. Jackson (Tropic Thunder), Jay Pharoah (Saturday Night Live), and Nick Braun...

Several of your favorite actors just got new jobs in a movie about, well, jobs. CBS Films announced today that Anna Kendrick, Bryan Cranston, Alison Brie, and Jay Pharoah will all star in the comedy Get a Job, about a recent college grad (Miles Teller) who's navigating the job market at the same time as his father (Cranston) and friends. Roger Dodger director Dylan Kidd will go behind the camera, and maybe he's taken the movie's themes to heart: It's Kidd's first feature film since 2004's P.S....

Bryan Cranston, Anna Kendrick and "Project X'" breakout star Miles Teller have applied for the ensemble comedy "Get A Job" from director Dylan Kidd ("Roger Dodger") and CBS Films. Nick Braun ("Prom"), Alison Brie ("Community"), Brandon T. Jackson ("Tropic Thunder"), Christopher Mintz-Plasse ("Superbad") and Jay Pharoah ("Saturday Night Live") are also set to co-star in the film. "Get A Job" follows four recent college grads as they transition into adulthood and try to survive in the current job market. Cranston and Teller will play father and son, both searching for gainful employment. The screenplay is by Kyle Pennekamp and Scott Turpel. “We are...

Los Angeles – March 7, 2012 – CBS Films announced today that Bryan Cranston (Drive, TV’s Breaking Bad), Anna Kendrick (50/50, Up In The Air) and Miles Teller (Footloose, Project X) will star in the comedy tentatively titled Get A Job. Nick Braun (Prom, TV’s Poor Paul), Alison Brie (Scream 4, TV’s Community), Brandon T. Jackson (Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, Tropic Thunder), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Fright Night, Superbad) and Jay Pharoah (TV’s Saturday Night Live, Lola Versus) are set to co-star in the film. Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger, TV’s Children’s Hospital) is attached to direct the film from a screenplay by Kyle Pennekamp and Scott Turpel. Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher (Django Unchained, Contagion) of Double Feature Films are attached to produce. Get A Job is a multi-generational comedy about four recent college graduates who discover that their lofty expectations and the realities of adulthood are two very different things.

CBS Films announced an impressive ensemble cast today for its workforce comedy Get A Job. Deadline reported this afternoon that Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston, Anna Kendrick, last seen in 50/50 and Up in the Air, and Miles Teller (Footloose) signed on for leading roles. Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad, Role Models), Brandon T. Jackson, Nick Braun and Alison Brie also joined the movie in supporting roles. Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger, P.S.) signed on to direct the screenplay by Kyle Pennekamp and Scott Tarpel that follows four college graduates trying to launch their careers with mixed success as one of the college grad’s dads (Cranston) also searches for a new job.

CBS Films announced an impressive ensemble cast today for its workforce comedy Get A Job. Deadline reported this afternoon that Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston, Anna Kendrick, last seen in 50/50 and Up in the Air, and Miles Teller (Footloose) signed on for leading roles. Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad, Role Models), Brandon T. Jackson, Nick Braun and Alison Brie also joined the movie in supporting roles. Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger, P.S.) signed on to direct the screenplay by Kyle Pennekamp and Scott Tarpel that follows four college graduates trying to launch their careers with mixed success as one of the college grad’s dads (Cranston) also searches for a new job.

CBS Films announced an impressive ensemble cast today for its workforce comedy Get A Job. Deadline reported this afternoon that Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston, Anna Kendrick, last seen in 50/50 and Up in the Air, and Miles Teller (Footloose) signed on for leading roles. Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad, Role Models), Brandon T. Jackson, Nick Braun and Alison Brie also joined the movie in supporting roles. Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger, P.S.) signed on to direct the screenplay by Kyle Pennekamp and Scott Tarpel that follows four college graduates trying to launch their careers with mixed success as one of the college grad’s dads (Cranston) also searches for a new job.