Thursday, October 15

• Roman Polanski Finishing His Latest Movie from Jail

  

  Ever since his arrest last month, Roman Polanski has been locked away in a Swiss jail awaiting his fate. But that hasn't stopped him from working. Aceshowbiz reports that he is continuing work on his latest movie, an adaptation of the Robert Harris novel The Ghost, while incarcerated.

  Harris spoke with the press and said that Polanski was supplying instructions to composer Alexandre Desplat regarding the score. He also said Polanski is trying to have the movie completed in time for the Berlin Film Festival in February.

  He can make his wishes known from his cell. I don't think he can make phone calls, but he can communicate ... It is a nightmare looming that the director might be in jail at the time [of the film's release] but we will just have to cope with this as the situation develops ... I'm sure he would want the film to go ahead, having worked on it for two years.

  The Ghost tells the story of a ghostwriter who is hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister and eventually uncovers secrets that put his life at risk. Polanski has a writing credit alongside Harris'. No date has been specified for a US release.

  The cast includes Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Williams, Kim Cattrall, Tom Wilkinson, Jim Belushi, and Timothy Hutton.

  
  

  Posted 10/15/2009 by Rich Z

  Related: Ewan McGregor | Olivia Williams | Pierce Brosnan | Timothy Hutton | Kim Cattrall | Roman Polanski | Tom Wilkinson | Jim Belushi | Alexandre Desplat | The Ghost

Monday, June 15

• Robert Pattinson Starts Filming Remember Me

  Not content with shooting two Twilight Saga films pretty much back-to-back, Summit superstar Robert Pattinson has arrived in New York to start filming a new romantic drama, Remember Me.

  According to OK!, hordes of Twilight fans swamped the set, making it difficult for the cast and crew to get any work done. No change there, then — wherever Pattinson goes, you can expect his loyal fanclub to follow. Lets just hope co-star Pierce Brosnan doesn't get jealous. We'd hate for a "sexiest man" contest to disrupt filming.

  
  

  Posted 06/15/2009 by Jenny

  Related: Pierce Brosnan | Robert Pattinson

Thursday, June 4

• Pierce Brosnan Joins Robert Pattinson on Remember Me

  Pierce Brosnan (Die Another Day, Mamma Mia!), Chris Cooper (American Beauty), and Emilie de Ravin (Lost) are the latest actors rumored to be joining Robert Pattinson on Summit's upcoming movie Remember Me.

  Pattinson is due to play a young man sleepwalking through life after his brother's suicide tears his family, including Daddy Brosnan, apart. De Ravin will play a woman who, after witnessing her mother's murder, decides to live life to the fullest, with Cooper tipped to play her father.

  Production begins in New York on June 15, which is just enough time for Twilight star Pattinson to return from his travels in Italy. As long as Pierce Brosnan doesn't launch into an Abba-style musical number, we're sure he'll do just fine. He should be prepared to pass the heartthrob torch to Pattinson this time, though, as that's undoubtedly where all the female attention will be directed.

  
  

  Posted 06/04/2009 by Jenny

  Related: Emilie de Ravin | Pierce Brosnan | Robert Pattinson | Chris Cooper

Thursday, December 18

• Mamma Mia! What a Week It's Been

  The Winner Takes It All; Money, Money, Money -- there's no shortage of puns to describe Mamma Mia! The Movie's blockbuster week. The Golden Globe-nominated comedy is now the "most successful movie musical of all time worldwide."

  On the first day of sales, DVD purchases topped 2.25 million, which translates into nearly $40 million in gross revenues. Also on Tuesday, news broke that Mamma Mia! capsized the UK box-office sales record that was held for nearly a decade by Titanic.

  Our best guess for this phenomenal success? That the world is in need of some unbridled cheer right now -- not that Pierce Brosnan's singing is bringing the fans in droves.

  
  

  Posted 12/18/2008 by reelz

  Related: Pierce Brosnan | Mamma Mia!

Monday, May 19

• Brosnan, Sarandon sign for The Greatest

  Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon will be teaming up in The Greatest, a drama about a young girl who shakes up the lives of parents grieving the loss of their teenaged son. Sounds kind of like Sarandon's previous movie (starring a youngJake Gyllenhaal), Moonlight Mile, no?

  The script will be the feature directing debut of its screenwriter, Shana Feste.

  No word yet on who will play the girl. Perhaps our favorite, Abigail Breslin? Or Dakota Fanning bridging the gap into her teen years?

  Source: Variety.

  
  

  Posted 05/19/2008 by reelz

  Related: Pierce Brosnan | Susan Sarandon

Tuesday, November 13

• Brosnan set to reprise his only other bankable movie role

  Now that he's been freed from the schackles of the James Bond franchise, Pierce Brosnan is poised to pursue sequels to his other, less well-known movies. Variety reports that Brosnan, who played 007 in four Bond flicks before handing over the reigns to Daniel Craig, has signed on for a sequel to his 1999 hit remake The Thomas Crown Affair, in which he played a wealthy businessman with a penchant for burglary. Paul Verhoeven (Showgirls, Hollow Man) set to direct. Shooting begins in January.

  One can only hope that a Remington Steele movie will follow.

  
  

  Posted 11/13/2007 by reelz

  Related: Paul Verhoeven | Pierce Brosnan | The Thomas Crown Affair