Foxx And DiCaprio Slap Leather For "Django"

According to reports, actors Jamie Foxx ("Ray") and Leonardo DiCaprio ("Inception") have been cast in director Quentin Tarantino's currently prepping, 'bloody revenge' western genre feature "Django Unchained".

Written by Tarantino, Foxx will play the lead role, of a former slave named 'Django', a part that originally went out to actor Will Smith. DiCaprio will play a villainous plantation owner, named 'Calvin Candie'.

Premise of "Django Unchained" follows a German dentist-turned-bounty hunter, played by Christoph Waltz ("Inglourious Basterds"), who purchases the slave Django to help identify a wanted man. Becoming fast friends, the two wind up rescuing Django's wife from Candie.

The title of Tarantino's film, refers to director Sergio Corbucci's 1966 'spaghetti western' feature "Django", starring actor Franco Nero, about a gunslinger who rescues a woman from bandits.

No stranger to the "Django" canon of films, Tarantino had a featured cameo in director Takashi Miike's 2007 Japanese feature "Sukiyaki Western Django".

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"Dirty Girl" : Let Them Talk

Sneak Peek the new poster supporting the upcoming comedy feature "Dirty Girl", written and directed by Abe Sylvia, starring Milla Jovovich, Mary Steenburgen, Juno Temple and William H. Macy :

"...'Danielle' (Temple) is a troubled and promiscuous Oklahoma high school student in the 1980's. She argues with her mother (Jovovich) who is about to marry a Mormon. Amidst the chaos Danielle befriends 'Clarke' (Jeremy Dozier), a shy classmate. Together they flee in Clarke's father's car and embark on a road trip to Los Angeles, where Danielle expects to find her birth father..."

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"Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes": Evolution Becomes Revolution

Sneak Peek the new UK quad poster and teaser trailer, supporting the Vancouer-lensed sci fi thriller "Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes".

"...'Will Rodman' (James Franco) is working on a cure for Alzheimer's by performing tests on apes. The first test subject is 'Caesar'; it genetically modifies his way of thinking to create a new breed of ape with human-like intelligence. Caesar learns well, but human authority continues to test him and contain him. He eventually proves smart enough to break free from his cage and release the cure among other apes. Millions of apes begin to rally up a revolution. War breaks out between humans and apes. Rodman may be the only one able to stop them before the ape revolution succeeds in them becoming the dominant species on the planet..."

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"Alphas" : Your Will Is Her Power

From TorontoFilm.Net, Sneak Peek new character posters supporting the Toronto-lensed Syfy TV series "Alphas", premiering July 11, 2011 :

Sneak Peek "A Dangerous Method"

Sneak Peek the new teaser trailer to director David Cronenberg's upcoming historical biopic, "A Dangerous Method", from Sony Pictures Classics.

The period feature stars Viggo Mortensen as 'Sigmund Freud', Michael Fassbender as 'Carl Jung', Keira Knightley as 'Sabina Spielrein' and Vincent Cassel as 'Otto Gross', following the conflict between Freud and his pupil Jung.

Oscar-winner Christopher Hampton wrote the screenplay, adapting his 2002 stage play "The Talking Cure", based on the 1993 non-fiction novel "A Most Dangerous Method", by author John Kerr.

The film also marks the third collaboration between Cronenberg and Mortensen ("A History of Violence", "Eastern Promises") and his second movie with Cassel :

"...Set on the eve of World War I, 'A Dangerous Method' is based on the turbulent relationships between fledgling psychiatrist 'Carl Jung', his mentor 'Sigmund Freud' and 'Sabina Spielrein', the troubled but beautiful young woman who comes between them..."

Filming started lensing May 2010 in Vienna, Cologne and Bodensee, wrapping @ Lake Constance, July 22, 2010.

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