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Jon Bon Jovi and Seth Meyers are putting on their party hats for New Line’s all-star ensemble New Year’s Eve, being directed by Garry Marshall.
German actor Til Schweiger has also closed a deal to board the production.
Bon Jovi and Meyers join a cast that counts Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Abigail Breslin, Robert De Niro, Zac Efron, Ashton Kutcher, Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hilary Swank and Sofia Vergara among its cast.
The movie tells intertwining stories of a group of New Yorkers as they navigate their way through bittersweet drama and romance over the course of New Year’s Eve.
Bon Jovi is playing — here’s a stretch — a successful rock star who once dumped Berry’s character of a caterer but now finds himself face to face with again at a party.
Meyers will play a broke dad who wants his wife (Biel) to deliver the first baby of the year in order to win a $25,000 reward and finds himself in a heated competition.
Bon Jovi last movie appearance was National Lampoon’s Pucked in 2006. Meyers, head writer of Saturday Night Live, just wrapped I Don’t Know How She Does It with Parker.
Bon Jovi and Meyers are repped by CAA. Meyers is additionally repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
Schweiger, repped by Anonymous Content, appeared in Inglourious Basterds.
Trevor Nunn will launch his long-rumoured stint as artistic director of the Theatre Royal Haymarket in March by directing Sienna Miller in Terence Rattigan’s Flare Path. The play will open on 10 March (previews from 4 March) and play until 4 June 2011.
Although the rest of Nunn’s Haymarket season – and full casting for the upcoming production – is still to be announced the Daily Mail today (21 January) reported the season will contain “one of Shakespeare’s late plays; an early Stoppard; and Stephen Sondheim’s Follies” over the course of a 12-month season.
Miller, who last appeared in the West End in 2005 as Celia in As You Like It, will play Patricia Graham, a former actress caught up in a love triangle during World War II.
Flare Path is one of a number of Rattigan plays being revived this year to mark his centenary. According to the Mail’s Baz Bamigboye, “producer Matthew Byam Shaw and Theatre Royal executives had been discussing the production with Nunn for some time, but once the director zeroed in on Sienna the play was fast-forwarded.”
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Sienna Miller’s heading to New York and “New Year’s Eve,” joining New Line’s ensemble comedy.
The British actress is the latest addition to the pic, to be directed by Garry Marshall. Other cast includes Jessica Biel, Abigail Breslin, Robert De Niro, Ashton Kutcher, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Til Schweiger and Hilary Swank.
Biel and Kutcher were in Marshall’s “Valentine’s Day,” but the characters from that New Line pic won’t be in “New Year’s Eve” — which will be set in New York and follow intertwining stories of characters trying to navigate their way through romance on New Year’s Eve.
Marshall is expected to return to direct, as are producers Mike Karz and Wayne Rice, and screenwriter Katherine Fugate. New Line has given “New Year’s Eve” a Dec. 9, 2011, release date.
Miller was last seen in “G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra.”
BRITISH actress and fashionista Sienna Miller has pulled out of a planned appearance at a Heath Ledger tribute in Perth.
The fundraiser will be held at Movies by Burswood on February 12, and organisers I-Spy Experience yesterday proudly announced the late actor’s friend and Casanova leading lady Miller would be attending to mingle with VIP guests.
This morning they received an email from her PA, explaining that Miller -who wasn’t charging for her appearance- has had to cancel for contractual reasons.
“She deeply regrets that she can’t make it,” said organiser Grant Thomas.
“It is a shame, but it is a long way to come for one evening.”
It is understood she is shooting The Trials of Cate McCullogh with Kate Beckinsale in the United States.
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Director Stephen Sommers has allegedly quit Paramount’s sequel to 2009 blockbuster GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the studio has approached two agents representing other filmmakers to come on board and steer GI Joe 2. Sommers will not have any involvement in the follow-up.
During production of the first GI Joe, reports surfaced claiming that Sommers had clashed with his producers and Paramount. Last August it was suggested that he would return to direct the sequel.
GI Joe, starring Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller and Christopher Eccleston, grossed more than $300 million at the worldwide box office on a budget of $175 million.
Billy Zane and Jack Huston have joined the cast of indie pic “Two Jacks.”
Jamie Harris and Richard Portnow have also boarded the project, which stars Sienna Miller and Danny Huston.
Feature adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy-penned short story “Two Hussars” centers on two generations of the Hollywood-based Hussar family, namely, the father Jack (Danny Huston) and his son played by Huston’s real-life nephew Jack.
“Two Jacks” was adapted by Bernard Rose, who is directing. He previously helmed 1997′s Sophie Marceau-Sean Bean rendition of “Anna Karenina.”
Julia Verdin produces through her banner Rough Diamond.
Zane will play a movie star, while Harris (“The Green Hornet”) and Portnow (“Law Abiding Citizen”) will portray a director and studio head, respectively.
Sienna Miller and Danny Huston are toplining indie drama “Two Jacks,” based on Leo Tolstoy short story “The Two Hussars,” which Bernard Rose has adapted and is directing.
Julia Verdin (“Stander”) of Rough Diamond Prods. is producing; Huston exec produces. Rose and Huston have worked on three films based on Tolstoy stories including 2008′s “The Kreutzer Sonata.”
Jacqueline Bisset, Billy Zane, Izabella Miko and Lydia Hearst also star.
“Two Jacks” centers around two different generations of a family starting in 1992, when a legendary filmmaker returns to Hollywood after a lengthy absence to get financing for a new movie. In a series of wild adventures, he boozes, seduces a beautiful woman and fights with studio execs, winning the money he needs in a poker game.
Twenty years later, the filmmaker’s son (played by Jack Huston) comes to town to make his directorial debut amid curiosity as to whether he’s inherited his father’s gifts. The film’s shooting in locations around Los Angeles. Miller was last seen in “G.I. Joe: the Rise of Cobra” and Huston played Poseidon in “Clash of the Titans.”
Take this with a pinch (or handful) of salt  It’s career related so I thought I’d post it.
Sienna Miller is in talks to appear in Desperate Housewives, according to a source.
The 28-year-old actress is best known for her film career, although she is supposedly keen to move into television.
Sienna famously got involved with married man and father-of-four Balthazar Getty two years ago, and was criticised for openly flaunting the relationship.
She now hopes to make light of this with a racy role in the hit US show, which stars Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross and Eva Longoria Parker.
“Sienna’s been in talks to send herself up as a vicious husband stealer. She thinks the idea is hilarious. She’s a down-to-earth girl and is the first to poke fun at herself,” a source told Closer magazine.
Angelina Jolie has turned down offers to star in the 3D film Gravity, according to reports.
Warner Bros, which has also approached actresses Sandra Bullock, Natalie Portman, Carey Mulligan, Sienna Miller, Scarlett Johansson and Naomi Watts, put in two offers to Salt star Angelina, said Deadline.
Robert Downey Jr is already attached to play a team leader stuck in outer space in the sci-fi adventure, directed by Alfonso Cuaron, who is expected to start filming in 2011.
Angelina, who next appears in The Tourist with Johnny Depp, would have played the team leader’s female colleague, who is desperate to return home to her child.
The Hollywood star is set to make her directorial debut this autumn with a love story that takes place in 1990s Bosnia, and has written the script for the film.
She is said to be considering new projects such as collaborating with Tim Burton on Maleficent, playing the title role in Cleopatra and portraying top medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in the big-screen adaptation of Patricia Cornwell’s best-selling novels.
Actors Sienna Miller, Lucy Punch, Ben Foster, Melanie Griffith and Gena Rowlands have all joined the cast of the new film Yellow, according to Production Weekly.
Nick Cassavetes is directing from a script he co-wrote with his wife, actress Heather Wahlquist, who is expected to appear in the film as well. Not much is known about the story, other than that it will center on a woman struggling with her addiction to drugs and a bevy of other problems. It wasn’t noted which roles each of these actors would be playing.
No production schedule was given for the film. Yellow comes to theaters in 2012.
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