Terrence

Academy Award-nominated actor Don Cheadle and Irish actor Brendan Gleeson have commenced production on their latest comedy thriller "The Guard" in the West of Ireland. The film will follow the story of an unorthodox small-town Irish policeman (Gleeson) who unites with a straitlaced FBI agent (Cheadle) to take on a cocaine-smuggling ring. Liam Cunningham, Pat Shortt, Fionnuala Flanagan, Mark Strong, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan, and Katarina Cas also star in the film. "Ned Kelly" writer John Michael McDonagh has penned the script and is also directing the project. Cheadle will be seen in the sequel for "Iron Man" next year. He will play Lt. ... Read Full Story

The buzz for the first "Iron Man" film began at Comic-Con, director Jon Favreau said, so he thanked fans for their support by showing an exclusive clip from next summer's sequel. "Nobody cared before you guys did," Favreau told a capacity crowd inside the San Diego Convention Center's largest assembly hall Saturday. Then he rolled the clip, which introduced the film's anticipated new characters. It showed an eye-patch-wearing Samuel L. Jackson, who plays Nick Fury, and a redheaded Scarlett Johansson throwing down as martial-arts master Black Widow. It introduced Sam Rockwell as weapons guru Justin Hammer; a fearsome-looking, heavily tattooed Mickey Rourke as the ... Read Full Story

Terrence Malick New distributor Apparition has managed to maintain incredibly tight-lipped about Terrence Malick ’s upcoming film “ Tree of Life “. Very little is known even in regards to the plot of the film, which would seem unusual with just over two months remaining until the film’s original release date of Dec. 25th. However, Bob Berney, head of Apparition, has announced that the film remains unfinished and won’t be released until an unknown date in 2010. Berney also admitted he has not yet seen what has already been done on “ Tree of Life “, which shows a certain faith in Malick’s abilities. ... Read Full Story

It almost had to happen this way, but Anne Thompson at Indiwire made it official yesterday: The new Terrence Malick film, The Tree of Life has been scrapped from this year's list of Oscar hopefuls, Instead, the project that has literally been brewing for 30 years might be headed to Cannes next May. Malick walks to the beat of his own drum, and it's a painfully slow beat. The Thin Red Line was his first film in 20 years, and he's only made one ( The New World ) in the decade since. Thompson reports that the editing process is still going on, so ... Read Full Story

Directed by Dito Montiel ( A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints ), Fighting is a story about a former star wrestler now resorting to street hustling for cash. The Fighting DVD was released by Universal Pictures on August 25th. Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum of Step Up) is living day-to-day selling goods for cash on the streets of New York when he is approached by a street savvy underground fight promoter and scammer, Harvey (Terrence Howard of Hustle and Flow). Harvey recognizes Shawn's fighting potential by staging a tussle with some of his colleagues. He offers to help Shawn makes lot of cash fighting around ... Read Full Story