Forest Whitaker

50 Cent is out and Terry Crews is now in Sly Stallone’s war flick Expendables

AICN, which has a direct dialogue going with Sly Stallone regarding his upcoming action flick, The Expendables, has been updating the casting of the roles Agent Will Sands and Hale Caesar. Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker was attached to the film, but a push in the schedule forced him to withdraw. Apparently Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, had ….

Newark to get documentary treatment on Sundance

The Sundance Channel will air a new documentary series, focused on the challenges facing New Jersey’s largest city, Newark, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker, along with Marc Levin and Mark Benjamin will produce the new series. Called Brick City, the series will center on Newark Mayor Cory Booker, the city’s residents and ….

Universal to adapt Army of Two game

Electronic Arts recently announced that the company has closed a deal with Universal to bring top-selling videogame Army of Two, to the big screen. Scott Stuber, through his Stuber Productions shingle, will produce the film along with EA, and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns, who recently co-wrote the blockbuster The Bourne Ultimatum, has signed on to ….

Forest Whitaker to direct and star in Louis Armstrong biopic

Variety reports that Forest Whitaker will direct and star in the film What a Wonderful World, a biopic on musician Louis Armstrong. Paris-based Legende, the company behind La Vie en rose, is producing the film, alongside Edward R. Pressman, and Oscar Cohen, executive of the Armstrong estate and the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation. Ron Bass ….

A new Vantage Point trailer

The new and extanded trailer for the political thriller Vantage Point is online. In Vantage Point, which is due in theaters early 2008, the attempted assassination of the president of the U.S. is told from five different perspectives. In those perspectives, the truth about the crime is revealed; peeled back in a Rashomon narrative style. ….

Star-studded film Winged Creatures gets release partner

Peace Arch Entertainment Group and Sony Pictures Worldwide announced that Sony has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the feature film Winged Creatures from Peace Arch. Winged Creatures stars six of today’s most celebrated actors, 2007 Academy Award-winner Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland, Platoon), 2007 Academy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) and 2007 Academy Award-nominee ….

Vacancy trailer online

I saw this trailer a few days ago, when I went to see Zodiac. I like the concept. We’ll see if Hungarian director Nimród Antal (Kontroll) can pull it off. One thing this film has going for it, is Kate Beckinsale (Underworld: Evolution, The Aviator). What a hottie. Vacancy focuses on a young married couple ….

WAFCA Selects Whitaker, Mirren, Hudson and Scorsese Among Best

The Washington, DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) selected a movie honoring the memories of the brave heroes of September 11, the poignant United 93, as Best Film of the Year in a victory that could spur the movie’s burgeoning Oscar hopes. Director Martin Scorsese was voted by the group as Best Director for his smash hit movie The Departed, whileForest Whitaker ….

The Last King of Scotland Co-Stars Interview Each Other

The last film (which has always stayed with me) I remember watching about Idi Amin, was 1981’s Amin: The Rise and Fall. It was a brutal portrait of Amin, containing rapes, mass murder and the utter degradation of his own people. Sharad Patel directed the film almost as a B movie horror, but with a better script. Some of the incidents ….

The Last King Of Scotland Trailer

In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor (played by James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world’s most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (played by Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan’s brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his physician. Whitaker is getting ….