Jennifer Aniston & Owen Wilson are all about “Me.” Nicole Kidman turns the page on “Reader.” Plus, it’s sweet “Seventeen” for Zac Efron! It’s all in today’s Access Hollywood Casting Call…
Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson will star in the comedy “Marley & Me,” reports Variety.
The film is based on the John Grogan best seller about a persistent Labrador retriever.
Marley was adopted by Grogan and his wife, with the idea being the dog could give them a glimpse into parenthood.
However, the pup wreaks havoc, gets kicked out of obedience school and gets even worse when the children begin to arrive — yet through it all, becomes an indispensable part of the family.
Aniston has several projects in the works, including the romantic comedy “He’s Just Not That Into You” with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore.
Wilson will next be seen on the big screen in “The Darjeeling Limited,” alongside Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray. “Darjeeling” will be directed by Wes Anderson, who worked with Wilson on “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” and “The Royal Tenenbaums.”
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Teen heartthrob Zac Efron has signed on for his first big screen leading man role in the romantic comedy “Seventeen,” Access Hollywood has confirmed.
The film (think a backwards “Big”), follows a 36-year-old man in need of a major life do-over, who wakes up in the body of a hunky high school senior (Efron).
The news comes fresh on the heels of the uber-success of Efron’s “High School Musical 2,” which debuted to a record-breaking audience over the weekend on The Disney Channel.
“Seventeen” will re-team Efron with his “Hairspray” director Adam Shankman, who is producing the new film.
Filming could start as early as November.
Efron is also in talks to star in a remake of the 1984 Kevin Bacon film “Footloose.”
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Nicole Kidman and Ralph Fiennes will star in “The Reader,” reports Variety.
Based on the best seller by German writer Bernhard Schlink and set in modern-day Germany, the film follows a man who recounts the story of his erotic awakening in a covert love affair with an older woman in the wake of WWII.
Kidman can currently be seen alongside Daniel Craig in the sci-fi thriller “The Invasion” and will next be on the big screen in “Margot at the Wedding,” a romantic dramedy co-starring Jack Black.
Fiennes most recently starred as Lord Voldemort in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.”
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