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Ken Watanabe will take the Clint Eastwood role in a Japanese remake of Unforgiven to be made by Time Warner's Warner Entertainment Japan. Ken Watanabe to Take a Break From Hollywood and Help Japan Korean-Japanese helmer Lee Sang-Il (Hula Girls, Villain), who brought the idea of the project to Warner in May last year, will direct Yurusarezaru Mono (A Thing That Can’t Be Forgiven), which like the original, will be set in 1880. Watanabe will play a samurai with a violent past, who lives on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido with his Ainu (the aboriginal people of the island) wife, but is brought out of retirement for one last job. Koichi Sato (The Magic Hour) will play the Gene Hackman role, while veteran Akira Emoto (Villain) will take the part played by Morgan Freeman in the multi-Academy Award-winning original. The production, due to start shooting in Hokkaido this fall and set for a Japanese release in fall 2013, is the first local remake of an Oscar Best Picture win

UNFORGIVEN 20th ANNIVERSARY BLU-RAY Book Review By: RAMA So did RAMA think the movie stood the test of time? Make sure to follow him on Facebook and Twitter . UNFORGIVEN 20th ANNIVERSARY BLU-RAY BOOK Own It On Blu-Ray. Street Date: February 21, 2012. 20 years since Clint Eastwood’s masterpiece captivated audience with its strikingly beautiful cinematography, a reflective and profound story and a group of monumental performances, and now UNFORGIVEN has arrived in blu-ray in all its glory. A packet that will sure engage fans of cinema and fans of western, specifically. The bonus features contain behind-the-scenes footage, interviews, and how this project came to be. Watching the film again on blu-ray , it hits me how similar some of the themes are to Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For Old Men… Synopsis: Helmed by Eastwood from a script by David Webb Peoples (Blade Runner, Twelve Monkeys), Unforgiven also won 1993 Oscars for Best Editing (awarded to long time Eastwood collaborato

J. EDGAR Movie Review By: Rama So what did Rama think of J.EDGAR ? Looks like it is time to find out. Make to follow him on Facebook and Twitter . I think Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance, the make-up and costume design all deserve Oscar nods for J. EDGAR but I just can’t get into the film because it seems to me that it’s unable to make up its mind on how it would present J. Edgar Hoover. Oscar winning screenwriter, Dustin Lance Black, who I admire for his work on Milk, gets lost in spinning fascinating lines like “When Morals Decline and Good Men Do Nothing Evil Flourishes”, which to me is more or less another version of Edmund Burke’s famous quote, to decide if the audience wants to see the closet homosexual side of Hoover or the ambitious side of him, or the side that clings too much to his mother or the side the blackmails presidents using the files he’s accumulated and kept over the years. But today’s audience probably don’t know much about the man who ruled FBI for deca

In Theaters November 9, 2011 We have your access to J. Edgar . Warner Bros. has provide me with Exclusive code for the fans to get access to the screening in Sacramento,Ca . J. Edgar is an upcoming biographical drama film directed by Clint Eastwood ,  from a script by Dustin Lance Black. The film will focus on the career of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover from the Palmer Raids onwards, including an examination of his private life as an alleged closeted homosexual. Exclusive Interview: Clint Eastwood Talks Casting DiCaprio,Theron & Dench For Upcoming J. Edgar Film- The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Damon Herriman and Jeffrey Donovan. J. Edgar is slated to open the AFI Fest 2011 in Los Angeles on November 3, 2011, and to be released on November 9, 2011 Exclusive Interview With Damon Herriman About Upcoming Role In J.Edgar- J. Edgar screening will take place on November 7, 2011 - 7:30 PM at Century Stadium 14 Make sure to Like SandwichJo

While Clint Eastwood was expected to follow directing J Edgar by directing A Star Is Born with Beyonce , her pregnancy has put that project off. Instead, I hear he’s seriously looking at starring in Trouble With The Curve , a project at Warner Bros that will mark the feature directorial debut of his Malpaso partner Robert Lorenz. The Randy Brown-scripted film is about an aging baseball scout, who’s losing his sight, and heads on a last road trip to Atlanta with his daughter to scout a hotshot prospect. They will lock Eastwood and Lorenz’s deals before setting an actress to play the daughter. Malpaso will produce. Aside from being Eastwood’s longtime business partner, Lorenz has been assistant director on many of Eastwood’s films, including Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River and Blood Work. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Deadline

Warner Bros. has delivered the first trailer for Clint Eastwood ’s biopic J. Edgar starring Leonardo DiCaprio . Eastwood’s latest film explores the public and private life of J. Edgar Hoover, the legendary FBI chief who was one of the most powerful, controversial and enigmatic figures of the 20th Century. J. Edgar also stars Naomi Watts, Judi Dench and Armie Hammer . J. EDGAR J. EDGAR, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ed Westwick, Damon Herriman, Armie Hammer, Ken Howard, Judi Dench and Josh Lucas, directed by Clint Eastwood. Naomi Watts plays Hoover’s secretary Helen Gandy, a Justice Department file clerk Hoover selected as his personal secretary and wound up working for him for over 54 years… Josh Lucas plays the iconic Charles Lindbergh Armie Hammer (The Social Network) plays J. Edgar Hoover’s friend, advisor and secret lover Clyde Tolson Damon Herriman plays Bruno Hauptman, “a German ex-convict who was charged with the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh

Clint Eastwood’s biopic J. Edgar , starring Leonardo DiCaprio , will hit theaters sometime in October, Warner Bros. announced Wednesday. Make sure to read my Exclusive Interview With Mr. Eastwood, where I got An exclusive scoop about the casting of Judi Dench in the film. Eastwood’s latest film explores the public and private life of J. Edgar Hoover, the legendary FBI chief who was one of the most powerful, controversial and enigmatic figures of the 20th Century. J. Edgar also stars Naomi Watts, Judi Dench and Armie Hammer . By going out in October, Warner Bros. is releasing the movie in the heart of awards season. Almost all of Eastwood’s recent films have opened in the fall. Please Leave A Comment- Source- THR

Saoirse Ronan could be cast opposite Armie Hammer in Relativity's The Brothers Grimm: Snow White that's an revisionist adult retelling of the fairy tale from director Tarsem Singh. Armie Hammer, fresh off The Social Network, has closed a deal to play Prince Andrew Alcott in the pic. But Ronan (Atonement, and the upcoming Hanna ) is still only "in discussions" for the title role. Julia Roberts already has been cast. It's worth noting that Relativity plans to be in production first for a June 29th, 2012, release before Universal's Snow White And The Huntsman starring Twilight saga superstar Kristen Stewart gets going and comes out December 21, 2012. Supposedly, Viggo Mortensen is shaky in that version. Relativity Media has closed a deal with The Social Network breakthrough star Armie Hammer to play Prince Andrew Alcott in its upcoming untitled Snow White feature, based on the Brothers Grimm story, directed by Tarsem Singh (Immortals, The Cell). Ham

It's Another Tuesday, so kids you know what that means. DVD Tuesday . We got all the information on the DVD's that were released today. Let's hope this information help's you to decide what movie to Rent or Buy. The Fighter Mark Wahlberg stars in Paramount Pictures' inspirational docudrama exploring the remarkable rise of Massachusetts-born, junior welterweight title winner "Irish" Micky Ward. A determined pugilist whose career in the ring was shepherded by his loyal half-brother, Dicky ( Christian Bale ) -- a hard-living boxer-turned-trainer whose own career in the ring was nearly sent down for the count due to drugs and crime -- perennial underdog Irish Micky rebounded from a disheartening series of defeats to win both the WBU Intercontinental Lightweight title and the WBU Light Welterweight title thanks to a fierce combination of determination and hard work. David O. Russell directs from a script by 8 Mile's Scott Silver and Paul Attanasio (Th

Fans of ' The Expendables " have been clamoring for a sequel since the final round of alter kocker gunfire went off last summer. Now it looks like they'll get their wish-- but without Sylvester Stallone behind the camera. The follow-up movie is a priority at producer Millennium Films, where it's being developed by Stallone, the creative force behind the original. But Stallone, who both starred in and directed the 2010 summer hit, isn't, at the moment, planning on helming the new movie. Instead, he's been meeting with directors to tackle the sequel, said a person who was briefed on the project but was not authorized to speak about it publicly. The script for the new movie has been written by David Agosto and Ken Kaufman, the latter of whom counts the Clint Eastwood adventure "Space Cowboys" and family comedy "Curious George" among his credits, said the source. (Stallone co-wrote the script for the original with David Callaham.) A sp

Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class writer/director/producer Matthew Vaughn tells me that a major Hollywood studio is very keen to fully fund his next big project: The Golden Age about a retirement home where superheroes end up. And the title is also a reference to early comic books of the 1930s when Superman and Batman first appeared. It's based on the yet-to-be-published comic book written by Brit TV chat show host Jonathan Ross, who’s a huge comics buff. Vaughn is currently in LA editing X-Men: First Class for Fox, but tells me he wants to get actors attached to the new project before the script is written. His wish list is Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, and Warren Beatty to play the retired superheroes who help out their grandchildren when their middle-aged parent screw up the world. Vaughn believes the success of The Expendables and Red shows that audiences are open to the idea of older action heroes. “You have these great star names and they’re mainly playing supportin

We have the first images of Leonardo Di Caprio as J. Edgar . The 36-year-old actor filmed scenes for the Clint Eastwood -directed flick, which also stars The Social Network’s Armie Hammer (Clyde Tolson), Ed Westwick (Agent Smith), Judi Dench, Naomi Watts (Helen Gandy), Ken Howard (U.S. attorney General Harlan F. Stone), Damon Herriman (Bruno Hauptmann) and Josh Lucas (Charles Lindbergh). And don't forget to read my Exclusive interview with Damon Herriman and Clint Eastwood . Armie, who plays J. Edgar Hoover’s number two man at the FBI and rumored secret lover, recently dished that he won’t just be smooching Leo on-screen once. “It’s not a kissing scene - it’s a ton of kissing scenes,” Please Leave A Comment- Source- Justjared

SandwichJohnFilms had the pleasure to get an Exclusive Interview with Damon Herriman this weekend. A name you may not be to familiar with just yet,but trust me this is his year in the US. Damon Herriman was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He began acting in  television  at the age of eight, but it was not until he was cast as Frank Errol in The Sullivans two years later that his career began to take off. Herriman was cast as Mark Jorgensen, the bespectacled best friend of Ben Mendelsohn's Danny Clark in the Australian cult comedy classic, The Big Steal. Recently Herriman has made his way over the ocean and has made an inmpact here in the US. Playing a roadkill truck driver in the film House of Wax .  He has also starred in the Televison show The Unit, Cold Case and Red Belt . He currently plays the recurring role of Dewey Crowe in the FX series, Justified . His biggest role to date will be starring in the upcoming Clint Eastwood film J. Edgar , in which he will b