The Casting Couch: May 10, 2006

LARTER AND EGAN TAPPED FOR RE3
HUTCHERSON TAKES FRASER’S JOURNEY
Josh Hutcherson is joining the 3-D remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth pitting him alongside Brendan Fraser.

The film from Walden Media and New Line Cinema will be a contemporary update in 3-D of Jules Verne classic science fiction novel and will revolve around a scientist (Fraser) and his troubled nephew (Hutcherson) on an expedition in Iceland who stumble upon a mystery that leads them on a thrill-ride adventure, bringing them face to face with never-before-seen worlds and creatures beneath Earth’s surface.

The film starts shooting June 10 in Montreal.

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter

50 CENT CALLS UNI’S BET
MORTIMER IS ONE OF THE GUYS
SECOND RATE ENSEMBLE GETS PARENTAL GUIDANCE
FREEMAN IN TALKS FOR FEAST
UNIVERSAL SUFFERS ANGUISH
Anguish, the Jake Wade Wall pitch based on the 1987 Spanish horror film, “Anguistia” has just been picked up by Universal Pictures.

The original film was a horror-movie-within-a-horror movie. As an audience in a small theater watches a pic about an optometrist on a killing spree, a maniac begins killing the moviegoers.

SOURCE: Variety

RAINING FROM BROADWAY TO BIG SCREEN
Julia Roberts may be getting horrible reviews for her stage debut in Richard Greenberg’s “Three Days of Rain”, but that isn’t stopping the play from getting a bigscreen adaptation.

A spring 2007 start date is set for the flick, which tells the story which follows a brother, sister and their childhood friend, who regroup following the death of the siblings’ father, a celebrated architect.

SOURCE: Variety

Movie News
Star Wars Movie Loses Release Date
Disney has removed an untitled Star Wars movie from its release date calendar. Disney and Lucasfilm previously planned on releasing an untitled Star Wars film…
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