Forest Whitaker to direct and star in Louis Armstrong biopic
Variety reports that Forest Whitaker will direct and star in the film What a Wonderful World, a biopic on musician Louis Armstrong. Paris-based Legende, the company behind La Vie en rose, is producing the film, alongside Edward R. Pressman, and Oscar Cohen, executive of the Armstrong estate and the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation. Ron Bass ….
First ever clip from Where the Wild Things Are online
First ever clip from Where the Wild Things Are online Film Fetish Trivia: Forest Whitaker is playing the voice of Wild Thing.
A new Vantage Point trailer
The new and extanded trailer for the political thriller Vantage Point is online. In Vantage Point, which is due in theaters early 2008, the attempted assassination of the president of the U.S. is told from five different perspectives. In those perspectives, the truth about the crime is revealed; peeled back in a Rashomon narrative style. ….
Star-studded film Winged Creatures gets release partner
Peace Arch Entertainment Group and Sony Pictures Worldwide announced that Sony has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the feature film Winged Creatures from Peace Arch. Winged Creatures stars six of today’s most celebrated actors, 2007 Academy Award-winner Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland, Platoon), 2007 Academy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) and 2007 Academy Award-nominee ….
Vacancy trailer online
I saw this trailer a few days ago, when I went to see Zodiac. I like the concept. We’ll see if Hungarian director Nimród Antal (Kontroll) can pull it off. One thing this film has going for it, is Kate Beckinsale (Underworld: Evolution, The Aviator). What a hottie. Vacancy focuses on a young married couple ….
WAFCA Selects Whitaker, Mirren, Hudson and Scorsese Among Best
The Washington, DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) selected a movie honoring the memories of the brave heroes of September 11, the poignant United 93, as Best Film of the Year in a victory that could spur the movie’s burgeoning Oscar hopes. Director Martin Scorsese was voted by the group as Best Director for his smash hit movie The Departed, whileForest Whitaker ….
The Last King of Scotland Co-Stars Interview Each Other
The last film (which has always stayed with me) I remember watching about Idi Amin, was 1981’s Amin: The Rise and Fall. It was a brutal portrait of Amin, containing rapes, mass murder and the utter degradation of his own people. Sharad Patel directed the film almost as a B movie horror, but with a better script. Some of the incidents ….
The Last King Of Scotland Trailer
In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor (played by James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world’s most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (played by Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan’s brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his physician. Whitaker is getting ….
NYC and Seattle are Where the Wild Things Are
Warners Brothers is holding open castings around the country right now for the main lead in a film version of a favorite childrens’ book of mine… Where the Wild Things Are. Where the Wild Things Are is the story of Max, who one evening plays around his home in a wolf costume. As punishment, his mother sends ….



















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