Here’s the latest casting news coming out of Hollywood…
Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling have got some company in their upcoming comedy – and the movie also now has a name. Previously just reffered to as an untitled dramedy by Dan Fogelman, it’s now going by the name Crazy, Stupid Love. Carell will star as a man playing a father who has a mid-life marital crisis, and whose life unravels as he tries to handle his relationship with his children. Gosling will play his slick batchelor best friend. Now it’s being reported that Emma Stone (Superbad, Zombieland), is in negotiations for an unnamed but pivotal role in the movie. (Source: Vulture)
Only yesterday we reported that Martin Scorsese was trying to bag Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley for his upcoming family film, The Invention Of Hugo Cabret. Now comes news that he’s also got two young actors in the frame for the lead roles – Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass’ Hit Girl) and Asa Butterfield (The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas). Butterfield will play the title character, an orphan who lives inside the walls of a Parisian train station in the 1930s, and must finish a quest his father started by solving the mystery of a broken robot. Moretz meanwhile gets the female lead of shopkeeper’s daughter Isabelle. (Source: Deadline)
Gregory Smith, the young actor who’s probably best known for the TV series Everwood but also appeared in The Patriot, Kids In America and The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising, has been busy as he’s booked three film gigs. First off he’s joined the cast of Dream House, the Daniel Craig andNaomi Watts thriller that Jim Sheridan is directing. The film is about a family that moves to what seems to be the perfect house, but was actually the site of a triple murder. Smith plays a punk rocker obsessed with the case. Gregory’s also got the indie Whirligig, where he’ll play a young man who hits rock bottom and returns home to live with his parents, but finds comfort with his married neighbor, and when he befriends the woman’s adopted 12-year old Vietnamese son. Finally there’s Conception, which follows nine couples as they grapple with sex, love and pregnancy. Smith enters a relationship with a divorced woman (Julie Bowen) who has a child. (Source: THR)
Kali Hawk (Get Him To The Greek) has joined the thriller Answers To Nothing, opposite Dane Cook Barbara Hershey, Elizabeth Mitchell, Julie Benz, Zach Gilford and Erik Palladino. The film, directed by Matthew Leutwyler, is set against the backdrop of a missing girl case, with lost souls throughout Los Angeles searching for meaning and redemption. affecting each other in ways they don’t always see. (Source: Variety)