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The new Wanted poster. Am I alone in thinking Angelina's arm looks really wonky? Like she's about to turn into the Goddess Kali. [imdb]
Never heard of Largo Winch, the Belgian comic book series, before now, but this poster for the film version is very pretty. Love the use of the Shanghai-resembling skyline (it's like they chopped the top of the Jin Mao Tower and stuck it in there), the palette, and the main character's pose. If you read French, there's a blog about the film here. Tomer Sisley plays Largo Winch, who was orphaned at two and adopted by a billionaire business owner to be his heir. The international cast includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Steven Waddington, Karel Roden, Benedict Wong, Miki Manojlovic and Mélanie Thierry. The teaser trailer is online. (ComicBookHeroes) [imdb] [website (fr)]
New trailer for Prince Caspian, starring Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Ben Barnes, Peter Dinklage, Warwick Davis, Sergio Castellitto, Liam Neeson, and Eddie Izzard. [imdb]
The next film for producer/writer James Schamus and director Ang Lee will be the comedy Taking Woodstock, based on the memoir of Elliot Tiber. It centers on the colorful life of a Greenwich Village-based interior designer and part-time Catskills hotel manager who headed the Bethel, N.Y., Chamber of Commerce. He issued the permit for the legendary 1969 concert on his neighbor Max Yasgur's farm. (Hollywood Reporter) [imdb]
Lucy Liu is in negotiations to join the cast of Dirty Sexy Money on ABC, where she'll play an attorney. (Hollywood Reporter) [imdb]
Heard of this thanks to _abulafia: Ben Daniels (The State Within) will make his Broadway debut next month when he stars alongside Laura Linney in a revival of Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses (which was also adapted as a film starring Michelle Pfeiffer and John Malkovich). They'll play the amoral rivals and occasional lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont, who wreak havoc among the aristocracy with their casual seductions just before the French revolution. Hampton's play is based on Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's classic novel of the same name.
In the process of Googling about the play, I also learnt about Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? which premiered in London in 2006, and Off-Broadway last month. Written by Caryl Churchill, it imagines the U.S.-U.K. relationship as if it were a sexual one between two guys, Sam and Jack (Ty Burrell and Stephen Dillane in London, Scott Cohen and Samuel West in NY). Amusing coincidence, because I've always thought of the relationship between Brocklehurst (the character played by Ben Daniels in The State Within) and Styles as being just that.