Julia Stiles

Julia Stiles, Jim Broadbent, Ciarán Hinds and More Join Eric Bana in Untitled Suspense Thriller

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: April 11th, 2012 at 6:14 pm

Production is set to begin next week on the untitled international suspense thriller starring Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall, and Working Title has announced a few additions to the cast.  Julia Stiles, Jim Broadbent, Ciarán Hinds, Riz Ahmed, Kenneth Cranham, and Anne-Marie Duff have been added to the cast, with John Crowley (Boy A) set to direct.  The story centers on two ex-lovers who “find their loyalties tested and their lives at risk when they are joined together on the defense team in a terrorism trial.”  Not much else is known plot-wise, but Crowley has assembled a fine international cast and I’m looking forward to seeing how the suspense thriller plays out.

Hit the jump to read the full press release.

Julia Stiles Joins NBC’s MIDNIGHT SUN Pilot; Alex O’Loughlin Takes Temporary Leave from HAWAII FIVE-0

by Dave Trumbore    Posted: March 2nd, 2012 at 6:37 pm

NBC has cast the lead in their drama/mystery pilot, Midnight Sun. Julia Stiles will play FBI cult specialist, Leah Kafka, as she leads an investigation into the disappearance of Midnight Sun, a cult-like, communal group living in Alaska. Stiles is joined by Emma Bell (Frozen) who plays Rory, the daughter of the cult’s leader (played by Titus Welliver of Lost). Daniella Pineda (Newlyweds) is also on board. From Deadline, the pilot, written by Lisa Zwerling (Awake), is the first series for Stiles, who has previously done a season-long guest starring arc on Showtime’s Dexter.

In other TV series news, star of Hawaii Five-O Alex O’Loughlin will be taking a short break from the CBS series reboot. Hit the jump to find out why.

First Images from BETWEEN US Starring Melissa George, Taye Diggs, and Julia Stiles

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: February 16th, 2012 at 10:37 am

We’ve been sent the first images from the drama Between Us starring Melissa George, Taye Diggs, David Harbour, and Julia Stiles.  The film “explores the bittersweet friendships between two couples who meet as old friends and discover their lives are tarnished by money, success, sex, and children.”  If anyone wants to tarnish my life with the first three, go right on ahead.

Hit the jump to check out the images.  The film is currently in post-production and being shopped around the Berlin Film Festival for domestic distribution.

David O. Russell’s THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Set for November 21, 2012

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 16th, 2011 at 9:16 am

The Weinstein Company has set the release date of David O. Russell‘s The Silver Linings Playbook for November 21, 2012.  Based on the novel by Matthew Quick, the movie centers on a former high school teacher (Bradley Cooper) who returns home after four years in a mental institution to live with his mother (Jackie Weaver) and win back the affection of his estranged wife.  The movie also stars Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Tucker, Julia Stiles, and Robert De Niro.  Silver Linings sounds like it could be awards material and now TWC can put “From the Oscar-nominated Director of The Fighter” on the poster.

The Weinsteins will probably take Silver Linings out for a spin on the awards circuit before its November 21st release.  Of course, the Thanksgiving Day weekend is always crowded and so far the date also belongs to Alfonso Cuaron‘s sci-fi drama Gravity, the family comedy Parental Guidance, the Keanu Reeves‘ action-adventure 47 Ronin, and the animated film Rise of the Guardians.  Hit the jump for a synopsis of The Silver Linings Playbook. [Release date via Box Office Mojo]

Chris Tucker and Julia Stiles Join David O. Russell’s THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: October 5th, 2011 at 12:45 pm

Chris Tucker and Julia Stiles have joined Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jackie Weaver, and Robert De Niro in David O. Russell’s adaptation of Matthew Quick’s novel The Silver Linings Playbook.  Cooper plays a former high school teacher returning home from a four year stint in a mental institution to live with his mother (Weaver) and woo back his estranged wife, but instead falls for an unstable woman (Lawrence).  According to Deadline, Stiles will play Lawrence’s older sister.  Last month, we reported that Tucker was in negotiations to play Cooper’s friend from the mental institution who escapes multiple times to visit his pal.  He was also in talks to lead Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (the role ultimately went to Jamie Foxx) and to co-star in the Ben Stiller-Vince Vaughn comedy Neighborhood Watch.

Silver Linings will be Tucker’s first role since 2007′s Rush Hour 3.  As for Stiles, she’s co-starring in the indie films Seconds of Happiness, Between Us, and It’s a Disaster.  Hit the jump for a synopsis of the novel.

DEXTER: SEASON FIVE Blu-ray Review

by Scott Wampler    Posted: August 15th, 2011 at 1:00 pm

Showtime’s Dexter is an enormously popular show, another of those “dark thriller/comedy/crime” hybrids that’s been doing gangbusters business on TV over the past half-decade or so (Breaking Bad is another such series).  But after watching the first two seasons of Dexter, I found myself growing bored, so I dropped out.  A few years later, I heard that John Lithgow had joined the show, elevating it to levels of awesomeness it hadn’t previously reached.  Intrigued, I returned to Dexter and found it much improved by Lithgow’s presence.  And so, when season four wrapped (taking Lithgow with it), I had to wonder:  would the show remain better than it’d been in years, or would it start sucking again?  The forthcoming (or just-released, depending on when you’re reading this) Dexter: Season Five Blu-ray set answered that question for me.  Find out what I discovered after the jump, folks…

Casting Call: Julia Stiles and America Ferrera Join IT’S A DISASTER, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ivan Sergei to Star in JEWTOPIA

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: July 14th, 2011 at 6:04 pm

We’ve got a couple of casting stories regarding some indie films for you this evening. First up, Julia Stiles and America Ferrera have signed on to star in Todd Berger’s (Scenesters) comedy It’s a Disaster. Deadline reports that the film centers around four couples who meet up for Sunday brunch when they’re suddenly stranded in a house as the world may be coming to an end. Berger himself and fellow The Vacationeers comedy troupe-mates Kevin M. Brennan, Jeff Grace, Blaise Miller will also star. Berger wrote and will direct the pic, which starts filming this fall.

Additionally, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ivan Sergei (Crossing Jordan) are set to star in the film adaptation of the book and stageplay Jewtopia. The story centers on two childhood best friends who reunite as adults when one needs the other to help him pretend to be Jewish in order to woo a woman. Variety reports that Sergei will play the wannabe-Jew, while Hewitt will take on the role of the woman he’s in love with (she’s still appealing, right?) The tone is likened to Wedding Crashers and My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Bryan Fogel is directing from a cript he co-wrote with Sam Wolfson.

Casting Call: Lindsay Lohan Drops out of GOTTI; Jacki Weaver Joins FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT; Four Join BETWEEN US UPDATED

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: April 20th, 2011 at 1:41 pm

We have some assorted casting news for you this afternoon.  First up, Lindsay Lohan has dropped out of the role of Victoria Gotti in Gotti: Three Generations.  According to TMZ “money was an issue, but the various demands of her management team just got out of control.”  Apparently no one told Lohan’s management team that their client’s work was going straight-to-DVD and that a supporting role alongside John Travolta and Joe Pesci might be a worthwhile career boost.  The news of Lohan’s departure comes on the heels of director Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook) leaving the project earlier this week.

Hit the jump for casting news regarding Nicholas Stoller’s Five Year Engagement and an adaptation of the off-Broadway production Between Us.

[Update: THR now reports that Lohan will be appearing in Gotti, but not as Victoria. She'll now take on the role of John Gotti Jr.'s wife.]

Mike Figgis to Direct SECONDS OF HAPPINESS; Christina Hendricks, Julia Stiles, and Matt Dillon Join Cast

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: March 15th, 2011 at 2:20 pm

Director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) has stepped in to replace Neil LaBute in an adaptation of LaBute’s collection of short stories, Seconds of Happiness.  The frame of the narrative takes place on an airplane and examines the interconnecting lives of various passengers through vignettes.  Clearly, this will be just like Lost.  Deadline also reports that Brendan Fraser and Kristen Scott Thomas will be joined by Christina Hendricks, Julia Stiles, and Matt Dillon.  Hendricks will play a woman who catches her husband (Fraser) in a “compromising position.”  Because I’ve never read LaBute’s book but have seen every episode of Lost, I imagine Fraser’s position has something to do with pushing a button every 108 minutes.  LaBute is still on board to produce and shooting is expected to begin this summer.

Hendricks recently signed on to star in the ensemble comedy I Don’t Know How She Does It while Dillon is attached to co-star in Roman Polanski’s God of Carnage and Matthew Weiner’s You Are Here.  Stiles recently co-starred on Showtime’s Dexter.   Hit the jump for the synopsis of Seconds of Pleasure.

M. Night Shyamalan, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone and Nicola Peltz Interviews – THE LAST AIRBENDER Director and Cast On 3D, Video Games, Bollywood and Saying Goodbye To TWILIGHT

by Ron Messer    Posted: July 1st, 2010 at 4:37 pm

There’s never been anything small about M. Night Shyamalan’s career.  As a mostly unknown 27-year-old filmmaker, his first studio film, Wide Awake, received a splashy March 15, 1998 premiere at New York’s Ziegfeld Theater with an introduction by sitting Vice-President Al Gore.  At age 29, his next film, The Sixth Sense stunned audiences around the world and reaped global grosses of $672 million along with two personal Oscar nominations for Shyamalan.  Later that year, his first screenplay for a studio film that he didn’t direct, Stuart Little, took in $300 million, worldwide.  Shyamalan’s next five films grossed $1.1 billion, worldwide.  The critical reception may have cooled over his past few films, but it served to shoot the stakes even higher for his new film, The Last Airbender, which opens today.  However, Shyamalan gives off the sense that he wouldn’t be happy with anything less than a monumental challenge.

Collider caught up with Shyamalan and some of his cast this week.  Hit the jump for the highlights from roundtable interviews with Shyamalan, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone and Nicola Peltz, including Shyamalan on his long, strange trip to 3D, Patel on Bollywood’s “God-awful” yet bankable movies, Rathbone on scoring his perfect Girlfriend and Shyamalan on why he doesn’t want “two feet tall Daniel Day-Lewises.”

Julia Stiles Joins DEXTER for Season Five

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: June 7th, 2010 at 4:17 pm

Last week we reported on the rumor that Dexter was courting Julia Stiles (The Bourne Ultimatum); today, it’s official.  Stiles will appear in all ten episodes of season five, which will commence production this month for a September premieres.  The details of her role are still a bit murky, but the first half of the character description refer to her as a “mysterious young woman who forms a unique relationship with Dexter”.

The last half of said description verges into spoilers for the end of season four, so I’ll let you decide whether or not you are prepared to read it in the full press release after the jump.

DEXTER Stalks Julia Stiles, While Maura Tierney May Tell THE WHOLE TRUTH

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: May 27th, 2010 at 10:59 am

Newly minted Dexter showrunner Chip Johannessen has reached out to Julia Stiles (The Bourne Ultimatum) to come aboard Showtime’s flagship serial killer series for season five, which premieres in September.  Stiles is reportedly in advanced talks for a “major, top secret role”, so actual details on her role are scarce.

Still, speculation on what she might bring to the show verges on spoiler territory (especially given the events of season four).  So we’ll save that,  as well as the news that Maura Tierney (ER) may join the new ABC legal drama The Whole Truth, for after the jump.

10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU 10th Anniversary DVD Review

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: January 20th, 2010 at 12:20 pm

A decade has passed since 10 Things I Hate About You first hit theaters, and Disney has released a 10^th anniversary DVD to commemorate the occasion.  Such teen comedies as She’s All That, Never Been Kissed, and American Pie all grossed more at the box office in 1999, but 10 Things has developed the more prestigious legacy over time (particularly after the descent of the American Pie franchise into direct-to-DVD mediocrity).  The film lives and dies on the shoulders of its teen cast, including notable turns by fresh faces Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Stiles, and Larisa Oleynik. More after the jump.

Another SPIDER-MAN 4 Casting Rumor – Anne Hathaway Approached to Play Black Cat?

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 18th, 2009 at 8:32 pm

As Spider-Man 4 prepares to spin into production, we should expect a lot more casting rumors before we start hearing casting news.  In the past week, we’ve already heard Rachel McAdams and Julia Stiles possibly being in the film.  Fans are assuming that these women (or any attractive actress with a recognizable name and certain body type) will play the part of Spider-Man love-interest and anti-hero Black Cat.  Now Anne Hathaway’s name has popped up in connection with the film.  Hit the jump for more details and why so many popular actresses want to dye their hair white and put on black leather spandex.

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