Neil Jordan has put together financing for his self-scripted film Ondine in which Colin Farrell plays a fisherman in southwest Ireland who reels in a sea nymph played by Alicja Bachleda (Trade). The film begins shooting in mid-July.
Meanwhile, Cameron Crowe is stirring up an as-yet-untitled romantic comedy starring Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon. Scott Rudin [...]

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SlashFilm points us to a June 7 entry at Cigarettes and Red Vines (“The definitive P.T. Anderson resource”) consisting of an unsourced rumor that Paul Thomas Anderson’s next project will be Power Play , based on Peter Bart’s novella about a power struggle between Las Vegas casino owners and Native American tribes. 
Bart got in trouble from his employers at Variety [...]

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My first response to the teaser trailer for The Pink Panther 2 was “What’s a French policeman doing lurking around the El Portal theater in North Hollywood?” and my second response was “Wait a minute, they’re making another one of these things?”
Then I looked the last one up at Box Office Mojo and found that [...]

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