Movie News

Wall Street Journal has an article on Warner Brothers’ future, and their plans for DC properties.

Michael Stuhlberg and Richard Kind have been cast in the Coen brothers’ period black comedy A Serious Man. In 1967 a professor’s life starts falling apart when his wife decides to leave him and his brother won’t move out. Shooting starts in Minneapolis in September. Working Title will produce and Focus Features will distribute.

Mike Judge’s comedy Extract is about a flower extract factory owner and his streak of bad luck. Jason Bateman, Clifton Collins Jr., Mila Kunis, and Kristen Wiig have joined the cast with Ben Affleck in talks.

Dean Cain, Conrad Janis, Stephen Lunsford, Walter Phelan, Maximillian Roeg, and Lacy Phillips have been cast in Michael Emanuel’s directorial debut Maneater. A horror thriller, it’s about a former FBI profiler and a sheriff who investigate murders connected to a Native American legend.

Eric Stoltz, Kate Connor, Camryn Manheim, Lyndsy Fonseca, Seymour Cassell will star Michael Worth’s Fort McCoy. “Lensing in Wisconsin, the movie follows the Stirn family who lived in a cabin between the army base and the Nazi - Japanese P.O.W. Camp during World War II. The real Fort McCoy military base - During World War II, Camp McCoy was used as a training facility for units from across the United States that were preparing to enter combat - plays a central part in the film.”

Thomas Haden Church, Elisabeth Shue, Melissa Leo, M. Emmit Walsh, and Keith David are cast in Jake Goldberger’s indie drama Don McKay. The movie’s about “a man haunted by a tragedy that forced him to flee his hometown 25 years earlier who returns when he finds his long-lost love is dying -- and is then caught in a web of confusion, deceit and murder.”

Russell Crowe, "I have another project based on the life of comedian Bill Hicks, which is going from treatment to draft stage with Kiwi writer Mark Staufer."