Sarah Jessica Parker lines up her first post-“Sex” partner. Nicolas Cage puts pen to paper in “Ghost.” Plus, a “Desperate Housewife” heads to the big screen! It’s all in the latest edition of the Access Hollywood Casting Call…
Sarah Jessica Parker is in talks to star in the film, “The Ivy Chronicles,” per The Hollywood Reporter.
The film focuses on Ivy Ames, a NYC Upper East Side woman who after losing her job and her husband, must start over in a less-than-ritzy downtown apartment.
After pulling her children out of private school, Ivy launches a business to help upper-middle-class moms get their kids into elite kindergartens.
Prior to “Sex and The City’s” assault on the box office, Parker had signed on to star in the romantic comedy called “The Late Bloomer’s Revolution,” which HBO Films was set to produce with Picturehouse. However, when the production company dissolved, the status of the project was left hanging.
Parker, who played Carrie Bradshaw in the “Sex and The City” franchise, is attached to star in the upcoming comedy “A Family Affair,” about a woman who discovers her one-night stand was her future father-in-law.
Parker’s other recent film credits include “Smart People,” “Failure To Launch” and “The Family Stone.”
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Christina Ricci will lend her voice to the lead role in the animated CG feature “The Hero of Color City,” Variety reports.
Ricci., who is the first star attached to the film, will play one of several crayons, whose colorful world is threatened by an evil tyrant.
This is not the first time Ricci has lent her voice to a character – she also voiced Gwendy Doll in the 1998 toy battle film “Small Soldiers.”
Ricci most recently appeared opposite Emile Hirsch in “Speed Racer.” Next up for the actress is the drama “New York, I Love You,” alongside Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom and Shia LaBeouf.
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Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton and Pierce Brosnan will star in “The Ghost,” per Variety.
Roman Polanski will direct and co-write the film, based on the Robert Harris political thriller. Production is slated to begin in September in Europe.
In the film, Cage plays a ghostwriter hired to finish the memoirs of an ex-British prime minister (Brosnan) after the first writer turns up dead.
When the ghostwriter’s research uncovers certain skeletons in the official’s closet, his life is soon put in danger.
Swinton will play the prime minister’s wife. But when her marriage starts to crumble, she finds herself falling for the writer.
Cage last appeared on the big screen in the hit “National Treasure: Book of Secrets.”
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“Desperate Housewives” star Marcia Cross will star in the indie comedy “Peck,” according to Variety.
She joins the previously announced Adam Arkin, Camryn Manheim and Keir Gilchrist in the cast.
“Peck” follows a high school student who is constantly scrutinized by his parents and eventually develops an unlikely friendship with the school’s golden girl.
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