Here's the latest smaller movie news...
Sean Bean Danny Dyer and Rosie Fellner have been added to the cast of the Age Of Heroes, the hyperbolically titled movie about Jame Bond author Ian Fleming's real-life wartime adventures. Planned as the start of a trilogy, Age Of Heroes will chart the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the UK. Co-written by Adrian Vitoria (who also direct) and Ed Scates, the movie will be shot in Norway, starting next month. (Source: THR)
Tracy Morgan and Juliette Binoche are in final negotiations to join the ensemble cop drama Son of No One, being directed by Dito Montiel (Fighting). The cast will be led by the previously announced Channing Tatum, who nearly dropped out of the film after the producers tried to change his contract, but is now firmly attached again. He plays a young cop assigned to a precinct in the working class neighborhood where he grew up. However an old secret surfaces and threatens to destroy his life and family. Al Pacino, Ray Liotta, and Katie Holmes are also set to star. Tracy Morgan is stepping into the role that was previously slated for Terrece Howard, and suggests we'll get a more serious turn than normal from the SNL alum. (Source: THR)
Jenna Dewan (Step Up) and Joe Hursley (Glee) have signed up to star in Balls to the Wall, an indie comedy that sees Penelope Spheeris (Wayne's World) sitting in the directing chair for the first time since 2005's The Kid & I. Written by Jason Nutt, the story follows a young man (Hursley) who wants to give his girlfriend (Dewan) the wedding of her dreams, and at the urging of his future father-in-law, secretly takes on a second job moonlighting as an exotic dancer. At the club, called The Male Room, he discovers a talent he never expected. (Source: THR)
The indie comedy Dirty Girl has certainly got quite a cast. Those previously announced include Sally Hawkins, William H. Macy, Lisa Kudrow, Juno Temple, Jeremy Dozier and Milla Jovovich, and now Mary Steenburgen, Dwight Yoakam and Tim McGraw have signed up, suggesting the film's gonna have a bit of a country and western twang. Dirty Girl is set in 1987 in Oklahoma, and stars Juno Temple as a high school tramp seeking the father she never knew who runs away with a closeted gay boy (portrayed by newcomer Jeremy Dozier) who wants to escape going to military school. The movie has just started shooting, with first time writer/director Abe Sylvia at the helm. (Source: Variety)
Matt Bomer (Flightplan) and Ari Graynor (Nick & Norah, Youth In Revolt) are in negotiations to join Anna Faris and Chris Evans in the romantic comedy What's Your Number?. The film is about a woman (Faris) who treks through her sexual past to find Mr. Right, exploring the idea of sexual quotas and whether such numbers matter. Jennifer Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan wrote the script based on Karyn Bosnak's book. Bomer will portray Faris' dream guy, and Graynor will play her sister, whose wedding serves as a backdrop to much of the proceedings. The movie shoots this spring. (Source: THR)
A couple of options have been been bought in Hollywood, with THR reporting that Relativity Media has purchased Greg Russo script, Down. The screenplay has been described by one person who read it as 'Buried' meets 1408,' and is a supernatural thriller about a guy trapped in an elevator, although little more is known about it than that. Meanwhile Deadline says that Paramount Pictures is making a deal to option screen rights to The Search For WondLa, the first installment of a new children's book series by Tony DiTerlizzi, author of The Spiderwick Chroncles. In the book, young Eva Nine is forced to flee when her subterranean home is attacked. She then tries to figure out her place in the world while she's on the run with her robot mother, an oversized water beast and a tall blue creature.