Anthony Mackie Knows Discomfort & Gain

He's up for Michael Bay's new filmThe ensemble for Michael Bay's first film in age groups free of giant robots bashing into each other, Discomfort And Gain, develops. Now Anthony Mackie is at predicts connect.Soreness already features Dwayne Manley, Mark Wahlberg, Erection dysfunction Harris and Make the most of Corddry in the crime story that has its roots in the real-existence tale told through the Miami New Occasions.Wahlberg and Manley will probably be bodybuilders who concoct an agenda including kidnapping, extortion and, ultimately murder. Naturally, nothing quite visits plan. Harris is onto play an individual detective named Erection dysfunction Du Bois who digs to the situation, while Corddry is John Mese, the prior accountant who has a health club where Wahlberg works.Now Mackie is at line to look as Adrian Doorbal, another bodybuilder aggravated by his progress who'll get taken up in Wahlberg's plan.Getting a script by Captain America authors Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, Bay will begin shooting over the following number of several days.Mackie, who last came out in Guy Around The Ledge, is positioned to experience a busy year, with roles in Gangster Squad (coming November 9) and Abraham Lincoln subsequently subsequently: Vampire Hunter (out here August 2).

Disney fields 'Moneyball' author's 'Coach'

LewisDisney is rounding the bases with "Moneyball" author Michael Lewis, not only optioning feature rights to his "Coach: Training on the sport of Existence," but furthermore giving the most effective-selling scribe the chance to pen the script.Gil Netter, who teamed while using author round the Oscar-winning tale "The Blind Side," is creating through his Gil Netter Prods. banner, having a first-look deal with Disney. Based on Lewis' book of the title, "Coach" notifies the actual story of Lewis' journey to locate his influential baseball mentor, Coach Fitz, whose techniques stood a tremendous impact on his generation of sports sports athletes and leaders."You'll find teachers getting an uncommon capacity to go in children's mind," Lewis written of his former coach in the 2004 NY Occasions article. "It's as if amazing capability to obtain there whatsoever offers them the legal right to stay forever."Launched by W.W. Norton & Company in 2005, "Coach" marks one of several Lewis projects getting Hollywood treatment. The author's groundbreaking book "Moneyball: The ability of Winning an Unfair Game" was produced through the new the new sony Pictures and contains made over $100 million worldwide since September. The baseball drama about Concord A's GM Billy Beane is nommed for six Oscars, plus a Best Actor jerk for Kaira Pitt.Lewis also provides the financial tale "Liar's Poker" in development at Warner Bros. together with the program B-produced economic pic "The Big Short" inside the works at Vital. Presently a adding editor at Vanity Fair, Lewis has furthermore written for your NY Occasions Magazine, Bloomberg as well as the New Republic.He's repped by CAA. Contact Stuart Oldham at stuart.oldham@variety.com

Billy Connolly joins The Hobbit

Looks like there's going to be another beardy face to remember among Peter Jackson's hirsute cast for The Hobbit, as Billy Connolly has just been cast as one of the film's many dwarves.Connolly will play Dain Ironfoot, cousin to Richard Amitage's Thorin Oakenshield, and one of the most fearsome warriors in dwarvish history.Peter Jackson has suggested that Connolly will be the final addition to The Hobbit's cast, insisting that the Scotsman has made his ensemble complete."We could not think of a more fitting actor to play Dain Ironfoot," said Jackson, "the staunchest and toughest of dwarves, than Billy Connolly, the Big Yin himself. With Billy stepping into this role, the cast of The Hobbit is now complete. We can't wait to see him on the battlefield!"We must admit, we're rather excited to see Connolly assume John Rhys-Davies' mantle as wise-cracking badass in chief. We'll be able to see him swinging his axe when The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens on 14 December 2012.

Tom Felton Joins Therese Raquin

Elizabeth Olsen and Glenn Close aboardAfter spending years tormenting Harry Potter and then being mean to primates in last year's Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, it would seem it's finally Tom Felton's turn to play the victim, as he's joined the cast of Therese Raquin.Theatre director Charlie Stratton has written and aims to direct the adaptation of Emile Zola's novel (which also became a play in 1873), which finds Therese (Elizabeth Olsen) as a lonely, unhappy girl sent to live with her aunt, Madame Raquin (Glenn Close).Our heroine grows up alongside Madame's own child, the sickly, spoiled Camille (Felton, proving that you can take the boy out of the Draco Malfoy role but not necessarily the Malfoy out of the boy), and when they're old enough, Madame convinces Therese to marry her cousin. But she's desperately depressed and ends up starting a passionate affair with one of her husband's childhood friends, Laurent. They eventually decide to murder Camille, drowning him during a boat trip. The crime (and the victim) haunt the pair to such a degree that the artistic Laurent is eventually unable to create anything that doesn't somehow reference the dead man. What follows is even more tragic. There's pretty much zero chance of a happy ending here...Felton will next be seen in sports drama From The Rough and horror pic The Apparition.

'Motor City' Adds Gary Oldman As Villain

Gary Oldman's Oscar nomination is an extremely very long time coming, so excuse the Englishman to obtain somewhat cast crazy inside the publish-ceremony celebration. In line with the Hollywood Reporter, Oldman is entering final discussions to see the villain of "Motor City," a movie about "just a little-time hood who's presented and shipped to prison, only to exact revenge years later to acquire back the woman he loves." Directed by Albert Hughes, who formerly helmed "It of Eli" and "From Hell," it'll use start shooting in April. In "Motor City," Dominic Cooper plays the hood, Amber Heard will be the girlfriend, and Oldman themselves will be the "kingpin-type which has his hooks to the lady." With talent such as this, how could it fail? Even if Hughes' previous projects haven't all lit the Hollywood world burning, he's a effective feeling of dark landscapes and moral greys. Oldman and Hughes formerly labored together on "Eli," through which he carried out a conniving boy from the gun trying to stake out his devote the publish-apocalyptic America. I'd say something about Hughes' ability to acquire a good performance from Oldman, but this can be Gary Oldman, you understand? The miracle flows through him and out to the world. Incidentally, in the event you haven't seen Oldman's Oscar-nominated role in "Mess Tailor Soldier Spy," get thee with a cinema. Reveal everything you consider the casting news inside the comments section and also on Twitter!