The trailer for Woody Allen’s upcoming film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” is out.
The film features several steamy love scenes, including a threesome between it’s stars, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, as well as a lesbian scene between Johansson and Cruz. “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” opens September 5th, 2008.
Don’t Mess With Uma
Jack Jordan, a University of Chicago graduate and former mental patient who developed an obsession with actress Uma Thurman, was convicted of stalking and aggravated harassment Tuesday morning.
Shia LaBeouf, Orlando Bloom, Ethan Hawke, Julie Christie and John Hurt are set to star in the late Anthony Minghella-scripted segment of short film anthology “New York, I Love You”.
“Love” is being helmed by a who’s-who of directors, including Natalie Portman (in her writing and directing debut), Mira Nair, Wen Jiang, Allen Hughes, Brett Ratner and Scarlett Johansson. The film follows on the heels of “Paris, je t’aime” in what’s called the “Cities of Love” franchise.
Entertainment Weekly reports that “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” writer, Larry David, has been cast as the lead in Woody Allen’s next, as-yet-untitled feature, which is scheduled to shoot in New York City this spring.
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but David, who bares a resemblance to Allen, will star alongside Evan Rachel Wood (“Across the Universe”).
Eva And Scarlett Ride “The Spirit”
Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson will be joining Samuel L. Jackson and Gabriel Macht for writer/director Frank Miller’s big screen adaptation of Will Eisner’s 1940s comic strip “The Spirit.”
Mendes will play the role of Sand Saref, “a beauty with dangerous curves,” while Johansson has agreed to play Silken Floss, a temptress and accomplice to the film’s villain, The Octopus. (played by Jackson).
The film’s lead role is portrayed by Gabriel Macht, best known for small supporting turns in “The Good Shepherd” and “Behind Enemy Lines.”
The story centers on a detective who fakes his own death so he can fight crime as “The Spirit,” a masked vigilante in a crime-ridden Gotham known as Central City.
Frank Miller says his film adaptation will be a contemporary tale with a “timeless feel.”
“The Spirit” is expected to begin shooting in October in New Mexico with a theatrical release set for 2009.
No Romance For Woody In Barcelona
The citizens of Barcelona, Spain aren’t exactly thrilled that director Woody Allen has chosen their city as the location for his upcoming production, “Midnight In Barcelona.”
While scouting locations for the film along the city’s famed artery, Las Ramblas this past June, Allen was enthusiastically welcomed by the city’s adoring fans, the director returned the admiration by promising the movie would be “a love letter to Barcelona.”
Now that production is underway however, the romance between Barcelona and Allen has all but fizzled. Weeks of roadblocks and a dispute over subsidies have made the local residents regret that they ever agreed to let the 70-year-old film director use their city as a movie set.
Scarlett Johansson may be playing Nellie Forbush in a planned 2008 Lincoln Center revival of South Pacific. Johansson and Reese Witherspoon are two of the superstars under consideration for what’s being described as a “sexy revival”. Scarlett has long expressed an interest in starring in a Broadway show and is said to be a big fan of the classic Rogers and Hamerstein musical. Johansson was recently in negotiations to star in the London revival of The Sound of Music and even went as far as to meet with producer Andrew Lloyd Webber, but the deal didn’t go through.
In movie news, Scarlett and director ::imdb(Woody Allen,Woody Allen):: will be teaming up for a third time in Allen’s upcoming Spain-set film project. This marks Scarlett’s third starring role in an Allen film, his most frequent use of one particular actress since Mia Farrow and Diane Keaton.
In the April edition of Vogue magazine, Johansson had nothing but praise for the 71-year-old film director, telling the publication “I’d sew the hems of his pants if he asked me to.” Allen, in turn describes his new muse as “criminally sexy”. He goes on to say “she is unlike anyone who has come before her, and while she is a much stronger actress in every way, there is a tiny bit of Marilyn Monroe in her zaftig humidity.” – got that Soon-Yi?
Scarlett and Woody’s untitled Spain project co-stars Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz and will be shooting for seven weeks in Barcelona and Asturias this July.
Sources: Broadway World, Variety, People
