New Dream Team? Jim Carrey may join
Steve Carell in
Burt Wonderstone, a comedy about a Las Vegas magician. Carell's company is producing the film; Carrey is said to be "negotiating." (
Deadline)
From Miami Vice to Southern Discomfort:
Don Johnson has been offered the role of an evil plantation owner in Quentin Tarantino's
Django Unchained. Johnson would join a list of villains that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, and Kurt Russell. (
Variety)
It's Not TV, It's Liberace: Steven Soderbergh will direct
Liberace for HBO.
Michael Douglas is set to play the famed pianist, coupled with
Matt Damon as his lover Scott Thorson. Production begins next summer. (
Thompson on Hollywood)
Switching Sports: Sandra Bullock won an Academy Award for her performance in football-themed
The Blind Side, and now she's in talks to co-star in baseball-themed
Trouble With the Curve as Clint Eastwood's daughter. (
Twitch)
Green Beats Black and White Every Time: Because director
Alexander Payne insisted that
Nebraska, his next film, be shot in black and white, Paramount Pictures insisted that he cut the budget in half and agree to cast a big-name actor in the leading role. The studio's wish list includes Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Robert Forster, and Jack Nicholson. (
Vulture)
Another Happy Family: In a new interview,
Tilda Swinton reveals that, at the age of four and a half, she decided to kill her younger brother. In her teen years, she was sent away to boarding school and didn't speak for five years. All of this relates, somehow, to Swinton's new film,
We Need to Talk About Kevin. (
Guardian)