Quickhits: A Woman at PDR, Saints to First Look, More to Balls of Fury, Jolie to Ocean's?
Posted Apr 7th 2006 10:09PM by Martha Fischer
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Independent, Casting, Deals, Sundance, RumorMonger, Distribution, Newsstand, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Remakes and Sequels, Cinematical Indie
Friday's bits and pieces:
- According to the latest scuttlebutt, Angelina
Jolie might just be spending some (professional, of course) time with George
Clooney in the near future. Rumor has
it that Brad Pitt is trying to persuade her to join him in Ocean's Thirteen, though who Jolie would play has
of course not been discussed -- with this sort of story, it's the idea of the two of them on screen together that's
fun. Details, schmetails.
- This morning's Hollywood Reporter offers some
more details on the rapidly expanding cast of Balls of Fury which, when it comes to buzz, just might be the next Snakes on a Plane.
And if it's not, you people are just not paying attention -- it's Christopher
Walken! It's ping-pong! I mean, come ON! Joining Walken in the dark underworld of the pong are George
Lopez, who will play an FBI agent bent on taking Walken down, and Maggie
Q as "the sexy niece of...Master Wong," the master of the paddle who is brought in to train the FBI's
pong-plant (that'll be Dan Fogler). How can you resist any of this?
- Until today, P.D.R.
-- the based-on-a-true-story movie about a heroic swim coach and the tough youths he straighted out -- had nothing but
testosterone on board. Terrence Howard and Bernie Mac are set to costar, while Diana Ross' son Evan, who made an impressive debut in ATL, will play one of the
kids. Now, though, there's finally a woman around (Perhaps she'll hang some curtains. Or maybe do some dusting.): Kimberly
Elise has come on board as the
female lead.
