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Teaser poster and teaser trailer for Fernando Meirelles' Blindness, based on the novel by Jose Saramago. The dramatic thriller stars Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover, Alicia Braga, Gael Garcia Bernal, and Sandra Oh. [imdb]
Set visit and photos from Quantum of Solace, the latest James Bond film starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Gemma Arterton and Olga Kurylenko. (USA Today) [imdb]
Paul Bettany and Maggie Gyllenhaal have signed on to a drama, South Solitary, written and directed by Australian TV veteran Shirley Barrett (Heartbreak High, Love My Way). The story centres on a traumatized soldier recovering in Tasmania (the island state south of the Australian mainland). Bettany and Gyllenhaal with Aussie accents? This I've gotta see. (JoBlo) [imdb]
Thandie Newton (Run Fatboy, Run) will play Condoleezza Rice in Oliver Stone's biopic about George W. Bush, entitled simply W. Meanwhile Ioan Gruffudd (Amazing Grace) is in talks to play former British PM Tony Blair. Josh Brolin has been cast as George Bush, with James Cromwell and Ellen Burstyn to play Bush snr. and Barbara Bush. (Hollywood Reporter) [imdb]
The Coen brothers' next film is the comedy Burn After Reading, starring John Malkovich, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt and Frances Mcdormand. Malkovich plays Ozzie Cox, a disgruntled former CIA vet whose soon-to-be-ex-wife Katie (Swinton) steals his memoirs and accidentally leaves it at the gym where it is found by a trainer Chad Feldheimer (Pitt) and the gym's owner Linda Litzke (McDormand) who believe they can use the info to blackmail Cox. Clooney plays a friend of Ozzie's and fellow spy. (JoBlo) [imdb]
Character descriptions for Caprica, the spin-off pilot from Battlestar Galactica. An interesting detail that comes up is that William Adama's father, Joseph, had emigrated to Caprica from Tauron (also the home planet of Helena Cain), and has ties with the Tuaron criminal underworld. Another is the character of the children's headmistress, who may be the root source of the Cylon's monotheism. There also appear to be at least two digital avatars around (the robot Adam and Eve?), one of which is a little insane. (TV Squad) [imdb]
Reviews of the Battlestar Galactica s4 premiere: Alan Sepinwall and Todd VanDerWerff. Promo for next week's episode:
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