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		<title>Terry Crews replaces 50 Cent who replaced Forest Whitaker in THE EXPEDNABLES!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few days, the role of Hale Caesar in Sly Stallone's The Expendables was the subject of something of a merry-go-round last minute casting after the long time attached Forest Whitaker had to pull out due to scheduling difficulties. 

On Wednesday, AICN ran a story which originated from Stallone himself proclaiming, rather shockingly that rapper 50 Cent would be replacing Whitaker in the movie. The annoucmenet disgusted and worried many, that such a great actor, a recent Oscar winning leading man would be replaced by Cent. 

But those worries were quashed on Saturday when AICN once again ran a story for The Expendables, now claiming that former San Diego Charger Terry Crews would play the part. 



And the world was happy once again. ]]></description>
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		<title>Stallone says he expects to recruit Sir. Ben Kingsley for THE EXPENDABLES</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OWF writer Simon Gallagher insists that when I mention Sir. Ben Kingsley's name, it must have his title attached at the beginning. Which is fine by me, if any thesp has deserved such a title it is he and his work in ELEGY this year and from what I hear his performance in THE WACKNESS are prime examples of how he is still one of the greatest working actors in Hollywood today.

And he's not afraid to do populist movies either. He's already shot his villain part in the massive Disney blockbuster PRINCE OF PERSIA and now comes word that Sylvester Stallone expects to get Kingsley involved in THE EXPENDABLES, his "home coming of tough guys" war picture. You can see Stallone make the announcement at Extra TV.

Stallone also confirmed the casting of Forest Whitaker which was also confirmed by the trades, though it would appear Sandra Bullock won't be in the film. A spokeswoman for Nu Image/Millenium Films said it was “merely wishful thinking for fans.”

Moviehole expect Kingsley to play the character of Church...
Church is the man that hires the ‘Expendables’ (run by ‘Barney’ and ‘Christmas’, assumingly the characters played by Stallone and Statham, respectively) to go after General Garza ...]]></description>
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		<title>Forest Whitaker joins Stallone&#8217;s THE EXPENDABLES</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forest Whitaker and Randy Corture have joined THE EXPENDABLES, the self-proclaimed  “home coming of tough guys” war movie which Sylvester Stallone writes, stars and directs.

Presumably Whitaker plays the South American dictator who Stallone's team of mercenaries are attempting to overthrow. Whitaker's most famous role was as Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator for whom he won an Academy Award two years ago for portraying in THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND.



Dolph Lundgren, Jason Statham, Jet Li make up the rest of the cast so far.

AICN heard the news from their good friend Stallone, who also told them that Jet Li and Dolph Lundgren will be fighting one on one in movie, which is enough to get B-movie action geeks very excited indeed.

If ever there was a man's movie, this was it! The movie films in Brazil next March. ]]></description>
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		<title>Forest Whitaker thinks to himself&#8230;WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forest Whitaker is to star and direct a biopic of celebrated American Jazz singer Louis Armstrong titled WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD, named after the artist's most memorable song and the one he will forever be remembered by.



Five reasons why WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD will win Oscars...

1. Forest Whitaker won an Oscar for playing Idi Amin in THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND just two years ago. He was sensational too much earlier in his career playing Jazz singer Charlie "Bird" Parker in the Clint Eastwood biopic BIRD.

2. Screenwriter Ronald Bass won an Oscar for writing RAIN MAN and is one of the best biopic screenwriters, with the Amelia Earhart biopic upcoming, and an Albert Einstein movie in the works.

3. The movie is in production at the Paris based Legend films, who produced the Academy Award winning LA VIVE EN ROSE - itself a biopic of a famous musician.

4. Playing a famous musician wins Oscars, or at least Oscar noms for it's actors recently... RAY, WALK THE LINE, CONTROL, I'M NOT THERE, LA VIVE EN ROSE.

5. It is being exec-produced by a guy called OSCAR Cohen. He also just happens to the guy who went on the road with Armstrong in the ...]]></description>
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		<title>THE GREAT DEBATERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray DeRousse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#160;

Directed by: Denzel Washington

Written by: Robert Eisele, Jeffrey Porro (story)

Starring: Denzel Washington, Nate Parker, Forest Whitaker, Jurnee Smollett, Denzel Whitaker, Jermaine Williams, Gina Ravera, John Heard, Kimberley Elise, Devyn A. Tyler

Released by Harpo Films

Available at Amazon for $25.99 from May 13th 2008!

FILM: [rating:2.5]

DVD: [rating:3]

When Steven Spielberg released The Color Purple in 1985, the film seemed revolutionary despite its shiny, well-lit shots and feel-good messages. Here was a film that attempted to portray the struggles of the poor black South during Depression-era America. Looking past the Spielbergian camera angles and tracking shots, one could easily see the simmering rage that fueled and informed the writing and performances in that film. Most notable was a young Oprah Winfrey, just rising to fame on television, as the oppressed Sofia. That film did, in fact, inspire Winfrey to begin her twenty year crusade to publicize and encourage black issues throughout the media.

And so it came to be that her production company, Harpo Films, has released yet another Color Purple clone called The Great Debaters.

THE FILM

Depression-era America is one rife with colorful cinematic possibilities. The stories of this generation, full of dramatic struggles for survival and underdog pluck and ingenuity, continue to fire the imagination ...]]></description>
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		<title>VANTAGE POINT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oliver Pfeiffer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directed by: Pete Travis

Written by: Barry Levy

Starring: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Bruce McGill, Edgar Ramirez, Said Taghmaoui, Ayelet Zurer, Zoe Saldana, Eduardo Noriega

Distributed by Sony Pictures
Film is out NOW in the U.S. and on March 7th in the U.K.
Review by Oliver Pfeiffer


[rating: 1.5]

Talk about best laid plans. Vantage Point marks British director Pete Travis' overblown Hollywood thriller follow up to his critically acclaimed probing political drama Omagh, (which centered on the aftermath of the IRA bombing). Ambitiously billed by the director as a throw back to Akira Kurosawa's seminal masterpiece Rashomon - in terms of its unveiling of multiple character projections of the same narrative event - Vantage Point falls magnificently flat even as a half descent, unflinching nail-biting thriller in the mould of other dumbed down claustrophobic multi-media enthused thrillers such as Panic Room, Phone Booth or Cellular.

The fact that the director has managed to summon an impressive award-winning cast that encapsulates the talents of Oscar winner Forest Whitaker (as a mild mannered observer with convenient camera device), weathered character actor William Hurt (as a wholesome president), veteran Dennis Quaid (as a jittery veteran Secret Service Agent), former alien queen Sigourney Weaver (playing ...]]></description>
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		<title>STREET KINGS poster &amp; trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has David Ayer just remade his TRAINING DAY movie (and copied the SMOKIN' ACES style poster artwork?) and placed Keanu Reeves in the lead role for the newly titled STREET KINGS.

That's the feeling I get from watching the trailer. Though with the awesome Forest Whitaker and supporting turns from Chris Evans and Hugh Laurie, it can't all be bad for this picture.

You should all know the plot by now. Keanu plays a veteran LAPD cop who has hit rock bottom after the death of his wife and when he thought things just couldn't get any worse, he finds himself implicated for a murder he did not commit. When a 'dirty' cop becomes the framed, he must go up against the cops that he raised to have the same mentality as him.

Like the plot, like the cast, but again... it looks like TRAINING DAY redux. And I never did really like that movie all that much...


STREET KINGS opens April 11th. ]]></description>
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		<title>THE NIGHT WATCHMAN gets name change</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A smart move or a sign of weakness?

The David Ayer (HARSH TIMES) directed and James Ellroy scripted crime thriller originally titled NIGHT WATCH (changed because that Russian fantasy series NIGHT WATCH got their first) which was changed to THE NIGHT WATCHMAN earlier in the year, has gone through yet another name change!

Worried about the similarities to Zack Snyder's hugely anticipated adaptation of the classic WATCHMEN comic book, the studio have decided to go ahead and call the movie STREET KINGS.

Oh no, what about that 1999 George Clooney movie THREE KINGS? No, you can't release the movie as that... our silly minds will get confused!

STREET KINGS opens on April 11th and follows four soldiers who set out to steal gold stolen from Kuwait.... no wait that's not it.

Real plot below, I'm quite looking forward to seeing Reeves and Whitaker go head-to-head actually...
Keanu Reeves plays Tom Ludlow, a veteran LAPD Vice Detective. Ludlow sets out on a quest to discover the killers of his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington (Crews). Whitaker plays Captain Wander, Ludlo's supervisor, whose duties include keeping him within the confines of the law and out of the clutches of Internal Affairs Captain Biggs (Laurie). Ludlow teams up with ...]]></description>
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		<title>THE GREAT DEBATERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oliver Pfeiffer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directed by: Denzel Washington

Written by: Robert Eisele &#38; based on the story he came up with Jeffrey Poro

Starring: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Nate Parker, Kimberly Elise, Jurnee Smollet, Gina Ravera, John Heard

Distributed by: MGM &#38; The Weinstein Company

Film was released in the U.S. on December 25th 2007

Review by Oliver Pfeiffer

[rating: 4]

There was a nagging sense early on in The Great Debaters - Denzel Washington’s new period drama directorial debut - that I had witnessed this sort of racial, educational inspiring, triumph-against-all-odds genre piece many times before.

After all it’s been barely 13 years since Michelle Pfeiffer donned a black leather jacket and enrolled herself to teach in a tough urban establishment in Dangerous Minds and only 10 years since Samuel L Jackson lost his temper as a dedicated science instructor in 187 (well perhaps that’s not exactly triumphing against all odds nor inspiring for that matter).

Then there have been other tense period racial dramas such as Spielberg’s The Color Purple and Alan Parker’s Missispi Burning. And we have all been ‘inspired’ till death with the unhinged teaching styles of Sidney Poitier in To Sir, With Love, Robin Williams in Dead Poet's Society, Sir John Mills in It's Great To Be Young ...]]></description>
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