Tuesday, November 3

• Let Me In Starts Production

  Let Me In, the American remake of the Swedish vampire flick Let the Right One In, starts production today, transporting the coming-of-age tale from the cold and blustery Stockholm, Sweden to the dry and hot Albuquerque, New Mexico. Director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) is returning to the source material for Let the Right One In, the Swedish novel of the same name by author John Ajvide Lindqvist, to help inspire the story about a young boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee from The Road) who befriends a mysterious new girl in town (Chloe Moretz from the upcoming Kick-Ass), who happens to be a vampire.

  With Richard Jenkins already cast as Moretz's caretaker, the new cast additions announced are Elias Koteas as the policeman, Cara Buono (The Sopranos) as Smit McPhee's mother, and Sasha Barrese (The Hangover) as Virginia, the character who survives a vampire attack in the Swedish original.

  Reeves intends to pay homage to the Swedish version in Let Me In, but wants to take the story in his own direction. "This project is very personal to Matt as it is to the many passionate fans of the original story," said producer Simon Oakes. "The brilliance of that story deserves to be seen by audiences on a wide scale and we are excited that the pieces are in place to make that a reality."

  When foreign horror movies do well critically, they're often remade in America, but time will tell if Let Me In will work as well as The Ring, or become a debacle like Quarantine, which couldn't do justice to the Spanish zombie movie [Rec] it was based on.

  Shooting on Let Me In will start in Albuquerque and travel to various parts of New Mexico. With a projected end for the shoot sometime in January, we expect to see its original release date of January 15, 2010 pushed back.

  
  
  

  Let the Right One In - Trailer

  Posted 11/03/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Richard Jenkins | Cara Buono | Elias Koteas | Sasha Barrese | Matt Reeves | Chloe Moretz | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Let the Right One In | Let the Right One In

Thursday, October 1

• Richard Jenkins Joins Remake of Swedish Vampire Flick

  Variety reports that Richard Jenkins has joined the cast of Let Me In, a remake of last year's Swedish vampire flick Let the Right One In, which was released to very high acclaim from both audiences and critics. The movie won Best Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, among many other accolades.

  Also joining the cast are Chloe Moretz, who starred in (500) Days of Summer, and Kodi Smit-McPhee, who can be seen opposite Viggo Mortenson in The Road, which arrives in late November. Moretz will play a pre-teen girl vampire who moves to a new neighborhood and befriends Smit-McPhee's character, a boy about her age. Jenkins will star as the girl's caretaker.

  Cloverfield director Matt Reeves will helm Let Me In, which is scheduled to begin production this fall in New Mexico. The movie is currently slated for a January 15, 2010 release.

  
  

  Posted 10/01/2009 by Rich Z

  Related: Richard Jenkins | Matt Reeves | Chloe Moretz | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Let the Right One In

Monday, June 8

• Javier Bardem May Star with Julia Roberts in Eat, Pray, Love

  Variety reports that Javier Bardem is in negotiations with Columbia Pictures to star opposite Julia Roberts in Eat, Pray, Love, which is scheduled for release sometime in 2011.

  Bardem, you might remember, won the 2007 Best Supporting Actor Oscar when he starred in Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men. He played Anton Chigurh, the psychopath with a killer cattle gun and an even-more-killer haircut. Bardem also appeared in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona and in Biutiful, which was helmed by Babel director Alejandro González Iñárritu and arrives in theaters this December.

  Eat, Pray, Love is based on Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling, critically acclaimed memoir of same name. It tells of Gilbert's journey of self-discovery after a painful divorce and her subsequent world travels. The movie, which is in pre-production, will be directed by Nip/Tuck writer-director Ryan Murphy, who also wrote and directed the big-screen adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' memoir Running with Scissors.

  In addition to Roberts, who is starring as Gilbert, Columbia has signed Richard Jenkins, who was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar this past year for his performance in The Visitor. If cast, Bardem would play Gilbert's love interest during her world-wide excursion.

  Brad Pitt is producing the movie along with Dede Garner.

  
  

  Posted 06/08/2009 by Rich Z

  Related: Brad Pitt | Javier Bardem | Julia Roberts | Richard Jenkins | Ryan Murphy | Eat, Pray, Love

Thursday, February 12

• Aaron Eckhart and Richard Jenkins Join The Rum Diary

  The Rum Diary, the adaptation of a Hunter S. Thompson novel about a journalist living in 1950's Puerto Rico is adding some big names to its cast list. Johnny Depp, who is also producing and has been trying to get the movie adaptation produced since 2003, has long been announced as the lead, with Amber Heard (Pineapple Express) being cast as Depp's love interest just this week. Now both Aaron Eckhart and Richard Jenkins are joining the production.

  Jenkins, a current Oscar nominee for The Visitor, will play the man who runs the newspaper Depp works for, and Eckhart will play a wealthy landowner who becomes involved in a love triangle with Depp and Heard.

  The Rum Diary starts production in Puerto Rico March 30.

  
  

  Posted 02/12/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Aaron Eckhart | Johnny Depp | Richard Jenkins | Amber Heard | Hunter S. Thompson | The Rum Diary | The Visitor

Thursday, July 3

• Clooney and Pitt Castmate on Coen Bros' New Burn After Reading

  After sweeping the Oscars with last year's serious No Country For Old Men, it appears the Coen brothers are back to their old comedic hijinks with Burn After Reading, about two gym employees who get their hands on a CIA agent's confidential memoirs.

  We recently got the chance to speak with Richard Jenkins (best known as the dad from Six Feet Under), who will be joining heavyweights Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Frances McDormand and John Malkovich in  Burn After Reading.

  "This is the description, the Coen brothers' description of my character," he told us. "I play, it says 'Ted Treffon, the soulful manager of Hardbodies Gym.' " With a character description that amusing, we can only imagine how good the movie will be.

  "It was a terrific script," Jenkins confirmed. "I haven't seen the film yet, but it was fun."

  Richard Jenkins can next be seen in Step Brothers, opening July 25.

  
  
  Next Showing: Burn After Reading hits theaters this September.

  Posted 07/03/2008 by reelz

  Related: Ethan Coen | Joel Coen | Richard Jenkins | Burn After Reading