We, along with everyone else on the Internet, seem to have missed EW‘s report last week that Patrick Wilson has joined the cast of Joe Carnahan’s “The A-Team,” until Empire picked it up this morning. Wilson will play a CIA agent, who Empire speculates could be the villain of the piece, which sounds like a good shout — he’s a high enough profile actor, and could do a pretty good job. Wilson joins Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and the recently confirmed Jessica Biel and Sharlto Copley.
In the latest in our recent series of “European countries picking their Oscar submissions,” Belgium has chosen “The Misfortunates,” about a self-destructive family, from director Felix Van Groeningen, as their entry. The film played to great reviews at the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes.
Departed actor Patrick Swayze (RIP) apparently had one more role up his sleeve in the upcoming, “Zombieland.” He was one of the of the actors that was set to cameo as a zombie in the film (like Bill Murray), before he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Because of the diagnosis and treatment, he had to unfortunately drop out of the role. The picture hits theaters, sadly without him, on October 2.
Character posters are all the rage these days, so Fox Searchlight has released character posters for most of the major characters in Wes Anderson’s upcoming animated film, “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” Here’s one such example of the titular character that is voiced by George Clooney. We’re not posting every one, sorry.
Actor Scott Glenn has landed a role in Zack Snyder’s all-chick action film, “Sucker Punch.” The film is set for theatrical release, March 25, 2011 and he’ll join Abbie Cornish, Jon Hamm, Emily Browning and Jena Malone.
Slightly old news now, but we’ve all heard about the The Cold Trades War? Apparently just like Variety.com, The Hollywood Reporter will be going online-only this year. That means no print editions of either magazine and the only people who can get to the iron-clad protected websites, are subscribers. How does that effect blogs? Does that mean blogs that do well can afford subscriptions can keep doing what they’re doing and lesser ones have to wait until the news breaks elsewhere before they can report it? Sounds like a game changer and maybe a good excuse for us to get out of the soul-crushing news racket. Time will tell how this all pans out, but it’ll be curious if THR or Variety starts to try and enforce intellectual property rights that sort of went out the window when blogging began.
Julie Taymor’s “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark” Broadway musical has gone on hiatus. Is it coming back? Who knows. “Bright Star” actor Ben Whishaw, who will appear in Taymor’s adaptation of “The Tempest” next year reveals he was offered the role of the singing Peter Parker but turned it down as he didn’t feel confident about his singing skills.