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According to sources for JoBlo, Colin Farrell (In Bruges) is in talks with director Guy Ritchie to star as Doctor Watson in Sherlock Holmes. Meanwhile, according to Latino Review, Russell Crowe is be top pick for arch-villain Moriarty, and Mark Strong (Stardust) is going to play "Blackwood", a character possibly based on Algernon Blackwood, a writer of fiction dealing with the supernatural and a contemporary of Conan Doyle. The famous detective himself, Sherlock Holmes, will be played by Robert Downey Jr. [imdb]
Trailer for Joe Wright's The Soloist, starring Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx, Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander and Lisa Gay Hamilton. Based on the true story of the friendship between reporter Steve Lopez (Downey Jr.) and Nathaniel Ayers (Foxx), a schizophrenic, homeless musical virtuoso. [imdb]
Paul Fischer reviews Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (with Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brain Geraghty, Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, David Morse) and Stephen Elliott's Easy Virtue (with Ben Barnes, Jessica Biel, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth), which screened at Toronto. More reviews for The Hurt Locker at GreenCine Daily.
Cinematical interviews director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal about The Hurt Locker, their film about a bomb disposal team in Iraq. [imdb]
Kim Voynar at Cinematical reviews The Secret Life of Bees, based on the novel by Sue Monk Kidd, which also premiered at Toronto. [imdb]
Danny Boyle (Sunshine, 28 Days Later) is considering making an animated film based on Terry Pratchett's Truckers, while is the first book in the Bromeliad Trilogy. The books are about a race of tiny people from another world called Nomes, living and trying to survive among humans, who discover their secret history, which prompts them to try to return home. (Coming Soon)
Interview with Eddie Redmayne (Savage Grace, Like Minds).
io9 talks to Shirley Manson about her character in The Sarah Connor Chronicles - and I find out that she plays a T-1001, not a T-1000). E! Online interviews showrunner Josh Friedman and gets more spoilers.