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		<title>FYC: Josh Brolin in W.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a brave performance, Josh Brolin went beyond an easy comical imitation to transform the much maligned U.S. President George W. Bush into a terribly flawed individual that you could not only sympathise with but at times be seduced and won over by his undeniable charm, where you are begging him to succeed and impress his father.

For a Brit living outside of the U.K, the question of doubt as to how the most unlikely President in the country's history could end up in the Whitehouse and survive for a second term was answered by two hours of Josh Brolin.



Academy Awards Process as detailed by Awards Daily…

* Friday, December 26, 2008: Nominations ballots mailed
* Monday, January 12, 2009: Nominations polls close 5 p.m. Pacific Time
* Thursday, January 22, 2009: Nominations announced 5:30 a.m. PT, Samuel Goldwyn Theater ]]></description>
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		<title>Mark votes for W.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking as its central platform the build-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent, immediate aftermath when cracks in the endeavour started to appear, Oliver Stone’s W. intercuts these scenes of the familiar president with a catalogue of moments and events that eventually led him to the White House.



From hazing at the traditional Bush family fraternity of Delta Kappa at Yale, where he amusingly responds to a question about following the family into politics with a drunkenly unburdened ‘hell no..’, to his first step onto the political ladder as Governor of Texas we get W. the whole package. The directionless graduate who can’t or won’t hold down any job that Bush Senior arranges for him, the accompanying drinking problem (‘What are you, a Kennedy?’), the struggle to find his own way out of his father’s shadow, and his lifelong love of the simplicity of baseball.

The film even begins with, and continues as a motif, Bush in his presidential years dreaming of standing in an empty baseball stadium, participating in his own solitary and private game.



It’s all told with a surprisingly light, and more sardonic tone; as if Stone has taken a step sideways from his more serious ...]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive pics from W&#8217;s U.K. premiere!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday night, at the London Film Festival, held the Gala premiere of Oliver Stone’s W. and braving the rain, rabid press photographers, a dutch hack with the world’s biggest umbrella, and a particularly crazy Russian TV reporter I managed to get a few shots.

Before that though, don't forget to check out my review of the movie!



I’ve been to a few of these premieres before but the gauntlet the actors face is still an eye-opener. Especially when they are as beautiful as Elizabeth Banks, who plays Laura Bush in the movie...



Walking down the red carpet with the press and tv crews on one side and the public on the other, each of them yelling and screaming for attention; and at the end near the cinema entrance the banks of the paparazzi. It’s like watching a march towards a firing squad.





Still, the actors and Oliver Stone know why they’re there and they sign autographs, do the chit-chat, pose on queue, even do a bit of hair combing (that's you Mr. Stone).



At one particulary scary moment Rebecca Loos stepped into shot, but after shouting 'Security!' a few times she wandered off. You can’t help getting caught up in it, and pretty soon ...]]></description>
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		<title>W. feels the PAYNE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rarity in Hollywood, a video game adaptation tops the box office charts this weekend. Mark Wahlberg's starring action vehicle MAX PAYNE earned $18 million from it's wide release, which was surprisingly bigger than the much anticipated adaptation of RESIDENT EVIL in 2002 but still only makes it the 9th biggest video game adaptation in history.

Of course to no-one's surprise, the movie killed at the reviews, a 17% Rotten Rating with barely any love for it from the top critics.



W, a movie that I thought would have gotten so much more wide appeal managed just $10.5 million after a strong opening on Friday.

Still, the movie has the strong subject matter to stay around for a while and if it reaches $45 million by it's end run, it will have been a success. Josh Brolin seems a shoe-in for an Oscar nom.



1

Max Payne (2008)
$18M
$18M


2

Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)
$11.2M
$69.1M


3

The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
$11.1M
$11.1M


4

W. (2008)
$10.6M
$10.6M


5

Eagle Eye (2008)
$7.34M
$81.3M


6

Body of Lies (2008)
$6.88M
$24.5M


7

Quarantine (2008)
$6.3M
$24.7M


8

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
$3.9M
$26.7M


9

Sex Drive (2008)
$3.57M
$3.57M


10

Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
$2.68M
$36.9M


The biggest surprise of the weekend was THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, a Fox Searchlight drama based on Sue Monk Kidd's novel about a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The future? In the future we&#8217;ll all be dead&#8221; &#8211; Final W. trailer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final trailer for Oliver Stone's W. is a beauty, the best cut of the lot and the one that really gets me jazzed up to see it the most.



I never, ever, thought I would be this interested in a piece of propaganda from Oliver Stone, especially when I was disappointed by much of his intentions with WORLD TRADE CENTER. This though looks fantastic and I just love Josh Brolin's scream at the end, very HOME ALONE esque...

USA Today have also revealed how the movie's opening scene plays out...


A man stands in the middle of a sunny baseball field, beaming a smile as the roar of an approving crowd is heard.
An echoing announcer's voice calls out his name: "Ladies and gentlemen, the 43rd president of the United States …" But as the camera pans back, the cheering fades, and the stadium is revealed to be empty.
With outstretched arms and raised head, the character's body forms an unmistakable symbol: W.

READ MORE ON THE MOVIE FROM USA TODAY'S ARTICLE HERE!
W. opens October 17th in the U.S. and November 7th in the U.K. ]]></description>
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		<title>Oliver Stone&#8217;s cabinet office turns up online!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the cabinet office of Oliver Stone's hotly anticipated biopic of the current but soon to be ousted U.S. President George W. Bush.



The main cast of W., from left to right...

Condoleezza Rice (Thandie Newton), Ari Fleischer (Rob Corddry), George Tenet (Bruce McGill), Donald Rumsfeld (Scott Glenn), General Colin Powell (Jeffrey Wright), Karl Rove (Toby Jones), Paul Wolfowitz (Dennis Boutsikaris), Dick Cheney (Richard Dreyfuss) and George W. Bush (Josh Brolin)

The movie will premiere in London at the BFI Film Festival (where we hope to have OWF attendance!), a capital city whose residents haven't always been so kind to Bush. Speaking of Britain, not listed on the picture is Ioan Grufford who plays the then U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.

W. opens in the U.S. on October 17th.

source - rope of silicon ]]></description>
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		<title>Hear Josh Brolin in full George Bush mode!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen to this footage below without watching and it doesn't half sound like George W. Bush, Josh Brolin has nailed the voice.

His mannerisms aren't bad either and he does kinda look like Bush but it's the voice that is most impressive.

Here's Access Hollywood's 4 minute behind-the-scenes look at Oliver Stone's upcoming biopic of the current American President, simply titled W.


Lionsgate have also released two new posters from the film, and a new billboard...




W. opens October 17th in the U.S. (no U.K. date just yet).

source - /film ]]></description>
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		<title>POSTER: &#8220;Get ready&#8221; for W.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A real eye catching poster has turned up online for the Oliver Stone directed biopic of George Bush which really succeeds in painting the movie as being a very stripped down and personal look at the much maligned President of the United States.

I really like this poster which along with the previously leaked trailer, is really doing a good job of promoting this picture.


I also really Josh Brolin in this role, though I will admit I was watching Thomas Haden Church in the pretty dire Smart People the other day and I kinda saw him more fitted to the role but Brolin will be great, I'm sure.

Really great.

And another thing I'm wondering, is Stone capable of delivering a movie where we actually care what happens to George Bush? I know this is going the satire/comedy route and is basically an attack on Bush, but will there be any sympathetic light cast on him at all?

Will we be able to buy it if there is?

Guess we will find out October 17th.

source - aicn ]]></description>
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		<title>New W. pics!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lionsgate have released two new images from the much discussed Oliver Stone biopic of U.S. President George W. Bush which stars Josh Brolin in the controversial lead role.

The first image is I believe our debut look (in the background) of Noah Wyle, who is playing Don Evans - the 34th U.S. Secretary of Commerce.



One of the most exciting actors of the last 18 months - Brolin plays the much maligned President George W. Bush, Elizabeth Banks his wife Laura, James Cromwell &#38; Ellen Burstyn (George Bush Snr. &#38; Barbara Bush respectively) his parents.

Supporting gigs come from Ioan Grufford (Tony Blair), Richard Dreyfuss (Dick Cheney), Thandie Newton (Condoleezza Rice), Jeffrey Wright (Colin Powell), Toby Jones (Karl Rove) and Rob Corddry (Ari Fleischer).  and many more.

W. opens on October 17th 2008.

source - rope of silicon ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Your a BUSH, act like one!&#8221; &#8211; Oliver Stone&#8217;s W. trailer leaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funny. Oliver Stone you are a genius. "What a Wonderful World" played over a George Bush montage - now that is just Golden my friend.

I couldn't stop chuckling through the last half of the trailer so I missed what happened, the first half though was a little clunky. And if it were any other director than Stone, I would attack the movie for being too much of a comedy in the brief scenes between Bush Sr. and Bush Jr.


After World Trade Center, this is exactly the kind of movie Stone needed right now. A movie which thrusts his anger in a different direction. The trailer wasn't suppose to play until tonight on Access Hollywood, but here it is a good number of hours early for your viewing pleasure...

And isn't Richard Dreyfuss just inspired as Dick Cheney?
Josh Brolin, if you get an Academy Award for playing Bush - your career will never be the same!
Look for W. in October. Something tells me you won't be able to avoid this one, it's gonna be huge!
source - /film ]]></description>
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		<title>The definition of a bad movie poster for W</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The strangest poster for a movie I think I've ever seen in my life has turned up at ION Cinema for the George Dub-Ya Bush biopic.

You can see the suppose to be hilarious poster from Cannes below which features several of the most idiotic remakes Bush has made during his seven years in power...

Far more effective I feel is the cover image of EW in getting over the feel for the film which will more Charlie Wilson's War mixed with Dr. Strangelove than the usual Stone drama.

In related news, Variety report that Jesse Bradford (Flags of our Fathers) has joined the cast as W's college roommate, presumably for some kind of flashback sequence of Bush during his younger days.

I know I keep saying it but there is something very malicious behind Oliver Stone's movie, an anger that has made him direct this film next rather than out of something meaningful he had to tell. This is an attack movie - nothing more, nothing less. ]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Dreyfuss joins the W. office</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 22:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Dreyfuss, sadly the last of the famous Jaws trio to still be with us - has landed himself a rare supporting part in a big Hollywood production.

The trades say he is to play Dick Cheney, the current U.S. Vice President.

Filming begins on the Oliver Stone directed movie this month, so it has all the chance of being released theatrically in October (during the Presidential elections) and so it can be released on DVD in January (for Bush's depature from office).

One of the most exciting actors of the last 18 months - Josh Brolin plays the much maligned President George W. Bush, Elizabeth Banks his wife Laura, James Cromwell &#38; Ellen Burstyn his parents with supporting gigs from Ioan Grufford (Tony Blair), Thandie Newton (Condoleezza Rice), Jeffrey Wright (Colin Powell) and many more. ]]></description>
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		<title>Scott Glenn to play Donald Rumsfeld in W.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 18:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another politically themed movie story for you.

The last big casting (we think) for W. has been announced and it's the role of Donald Rumsfeld - the former U.S. Secretary of State which has gone to 67 year veteran Scott Glenn.

Glenn last appeared in The Bourne Ultimatum in a pretty substantial supporting part and has appeared in countless big movies such as Apoclaypse Now, The Hunt for Red October and Nashville.

Pretty good casting actually and the resemblance is pretty obvious.

Also it would seem that Jeffrey Wright has indeed landed the Dick Cheney part because filming must be well under-way now and we've never heard anything to the contrary and IMDB still have him on the casting page. There's no reason to think he won't be in it.

W. opens in October this year with Josh Brolin (as Bush) leading an all-star cast for this political comedy biopic - probably made along the same lines as Charlie Wilson's War. America's cinematic conscious Oliver Stone directs.

source - aicn ]]></description>
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		<title>W opens October, a final nail in Bush&#8217;s regime</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 18:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We've spoken about W an awful lot of times so I will keep this brief.

Oliver Stone's biopic of the current and much criticised U.S. President will begin serious production next week with a firm release date now set in stone.

The movie will open October 17th - well before the end of Bush's term of office after Lionsgate picked up the distribution rights to the film.

Oliver Stone said in a press release...
"The impact of George W. Bush's presidency will be felt for many years to come. Despite a meteoric, almost illogical rise to power, and a tremendous influence on the world, we don't really know much about Mr. Bush beyond the controlled images we've been allowed to see on TV. This movie's taking a bold stab at looking behind that curtain. I'm real pleased that Lionsgate has the independence necessary to bring this provocative story to an American audience."
This film is going to be huge. No holds barred attack on Bush the likes we haven't seen since Michael Moore's 9/11 documentary.

October 17th is not going to be the happiest of days for Bush and his close colleagues - though I'm sure it will be a grilling many Bush detractors have been ...]]></description>
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		<title>Josh Brolin looks creepily like George Bush in Oliver Stone&#8217;s W.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 07:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so they have done an amazing job making Josh Brolin look like the current U.S. President George Bush but again I'm asking you - what does the actor see in this material for W. (note the dot that now accompanies the title - that is not just the end of sentence).

He's too good to play parody like this and at the end of the day he has to make himself look stupid for two hours on screen and I can't imagine director Oliver Stone for a second giving Bush any chance for emotional resonance. Bush is going to look inept, incapable and idiotic... it's a thankless role for Brolin.

This image which has landed on the cover of Entertainment Weekly tells us two further things.

NUMBER 1: That ridiciulous smirk on the face of Bush will be a frequent look in the film, I can guarantee it.

NUMBER 2: This movie is going to be huge - one of the bigger hits of Stone's career and will dominate the press for the week of it's release.

Also on the cover is Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush. Co-starring with them are James Cromwell (as the other George Bush), Ellen Burstyn (as Barbara Bush senior), ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rob Corddry is Ari Fleischer in W</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probably the casting of an actor who has the most likeness to his real life counterpart in Oliver Stone's biopic of George Bush has just taken place according to MTV.

Rob Corddry has been cast as press secetary Ari Fleischer.

Corddry you might recognise from appearing in small supporting parts in such comedies as I Now Prounouce You Chuck and Larry, The Heartbreak Kid and Semi-Pro but his work on The Daily Show made him famous.

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		<title>First 4 pages of W script hit the web</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, we are talking about W again.

The first four pages of Stanley Weiser's October 2007 draft for the film - the same script which was sent around Bush experts for review the other day by The Hollywood Reporter - has also been spread across the web by the same source.

Screenshots of the pages can be seen below - or you can download the PDF File HERE.

My thoughts? If the script stays the same as this then it's gonna be a lame movie. Are we really suppose to believe the conversation of the "Axis of Evil" was said like this, as if the most powerful men in the world actually talk to each other as if they are at school?





source - aicn ]]></description>
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		<title>Verdict on Oliver Stone&#8217;s W biopic from Bush experts&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I keep talking about Oliver Stone's next movie W but I'm so fascinated by it on more than one level.

The first being that knowing Stone - George Bush is in for one hell of a butchering come November when this movie is released. Those of you who stayed away from the politically driven "war on terror" movies of 2007 won't be able to stay aware from this one. Seeing Dub-Ya go down is as much box office gold as seeing DiCaprio &#38; Winslet go down on the Titanic.

But on the other level is one of 2007's best breakthrough actors - Josh Brolin.

After such acclaimed roles in No Country For Old Men and American Gangster, he has surprisingly agreed to go into the deep end and play Bush in a film where his character is going to be portrayed as both incompetent and a joke. Just what does he get from such a grilling?

Anyway the point of this post is that The Hollywood Reporter have a nice three page spread detailing the thoughts of many Bush biographers who have read the script for Stone's movie (draft circa October 07 but it's thought to have gone through two seperate drafts ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Blair is Mr. Fantastic!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a little bit of a surprise.

Michael Sheen WON'T be returning as Tony Blair for Oliver Stone's biopic of George Bush titled W!

The magnificent and rather eerily spot on portrayal he gave in The Queen and the British t.v. feature The Deal both of which were written by Peter Morgan and directed by Stephen Frears won't be repeated for Stone.

Instead he has cast Fantastic Four actor Ioan Gruffudd. Not bad actually - I can see him as Blair. He has those eyes and that strong but at times vulnerable demeanour. If you weren't going for Sheen, then he seems like a good choice.

Playing U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be Thandie Newton who in the last few years has been the victim of the "vacant wife role". Will she play an under-written supporting role here?

Stone's film is expected to begin filming very soon (he is desperate for it to be released by November) and we should soon here which actors have been cast as Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove.

Cast previously were...

Josh Brolin as George Bush

Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush

James Cromwell as George Bush Sr.

Ellen Burstyn as Barbara Bush

source - the hollywood reporter ]]></description>
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		<title>Parents of W are found!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have some more casting news for Oliver Stone's biopic of the current U.S. President George W. Bush.

Variety say James Cromwell will play George Herbert Walker Bush, the former President and father to the current man in charge. It will be the 700th time Cromwell has played a figure of authority like this, specifically a President.

It's a role he did in The West Wing, The Sum of All Fears and of course just recently he played a similar role in that of Prince Phillip in Stephen Frears' biopic of The Queen. Such lazy casting!

The trades also say that Ellen Burstyn will play Barbara Bush, the mother of George and wife to George, rather than the daughter of George. You with me?

Yesterday we heard that Elizabeth Banks had joined the cast as George's wife Laura Bush.

James Brolin plays the much maligned President with the film due out before Bush leaves office next January and probably in time for the Presidential Elections in November. It's going to make HUGE money, I think we all know that. The timing has made that a no-brainer. This will be one of the biggest movies of the later half of the year. ]]></description>
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