Controversial Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, announced that he met privately with Academy Award Winning actor, Sean Penn, on Wednesday. THR reports that Penn may have plans to shoot a film in Venezuela adapted from Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier’s 1953 novel, “The Lost Steps,” about the journey of an American anthropologist and composer into the jungle [...]
Close to 100 SAG (Screen Actors Guild) actors picketed outside Thursday during the taping of “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno. President Barack Obama was the marquee guest. The protest was designed to get Obama’s attention in hopes he might be able wield some influence in the issue of SAG’s contract stalemate. Scott Wilson, the [...]
We recently reported on Will Smith’s comments at the London premiere of Seven Pounds about his desires to play Barack Obama if a film were ever to be made about the President-Elect’s life and rise to prominence. Since then, there has been speculation that Spike Lee, noted director of the films Inside Man, Malcolm X, [...]
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