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The Comedian: possible homosexual? Must investigate further.
Published 8/6/2008 at OH NO!!
Focus Features will begin production late this month on "Taking Woodstock," scripted by James Schamus and to be directed by Ang Lee. Lee's ensemble cast includes Emile Hirsch, Imelda Staunton and Liev Schreiber. Pic is an adaptation of the memoir of Elliot Tiber, who played a role in helping the historic 1969 music fest unfold on his neighbor's farm (Daily Variety, April 22). Less than a month ago, Focus had been thinking about postponing the start of production over concerns that a possible Screen Actors Guild strike could force a shutdown later this year. But numerous studios have begun to move forward on ...

Eli Roth is a Bastard. Trade Roughage 08/06/08
Published 8/6/2008 by Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog
Torture pornographer Eli Roth is in talks “a baseball bat-swinging Nazi hunter” in Quentin Tarantino’s The Inglorious Bastards. Tarantino is apparently still talking to Brad Pitt about playing the lead role in the film, but nothing has been finalized. Pineapple Express and the sequel to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants are opening today because their distributors want to “get a jump on a weekend full of Olympics coverage, which shifts into high gear Friday with the Opening Ceremony.” The “high end of expectations” would have David Gordon ...

Ang Lee Casting Theatrical Elite in ‘Taking Woodstock’
Published 8/6/2008 at Vulture
Photo: Getty Images With this year's awful movie season nearing its zenith, we've decided to start getting excited about next summer's films. No, not Transformers 2 or, um, 4 Fast 4 Furiosiest — we're actually psyched about Taking Woodstock, "an adaptation of the memoir of Elliot Tiber ...

Emile Hirsch and Paul Dano Join Cast Of Ang Lee's 'Taking Woodstock'
Published 8/7/2008 at The Movie Fanatic Feeds
2007 proved to be a banner year for Emile Hirsch and Paul Dano- Hirsch was praised for his brilliant performance as Chris McCandless in the Sean Penn flick, Into the Wild while Paul Dano made waves as the young preacher Paul Sunday opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood . This year, both actors are involved in a number of high-profile projects- Hirsch is part of the cast of Milk , while Dano has 4 awesome movies he's working on, including The Good Heart and Gigantic . - - - [image] - - - As if these projects are not enough, here comes the news that both actors are to star in Ang Lee's latest movie, Taking ...

Ang Lee’s ‘Gay Woodstock’ Film Starts to Take Shape
Published 8/7/2008 by Nick Plowman at Fataculture
[image] Remember Ang Lee’s “gay Woodstock“ movie (”Taking Woodstock” that was reported a few months ago? Well, it’s starting to coalesce. Young (and very droll and excellent) comedian Demetri Martin (”The Daily Show With Jon Stewart“) has already signed on to play an aspiring interior designer and Variety reports that the cast has been rounded out by Emile Hirsch, Liev Schrieber and Imelda Staunton (Dolores Umbridge from the Harry Potter” movies among many British kitchen-sink dramas)“In summer 1969, [Martin] finds himself at the center of a generation-defining experience when he volunteered the motel to be the ...