Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Casting For "Sex" And "Hotel"

Variety has casting news for two big screen adaptions coming our way..

Dave NcNary is up first:




"Dreamgirls" Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson (pictured) has joined the cast of New Line's "Sex and the City: The Movie."

Hudson, who's in final negotiations, will portray the assistant to Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw. Pic revolves around the lives of the four main "Sex and the City" characters, four years after the time frame of the finale of the HBO series, which wrapped its six-year run in 2004.

Pic will begin shooting in New York on Sept. 19.

Hudson recently completed work on the drama "Winged Creatures"...

The complete article can be found here

I never really liked the series all that much, but Hudson seems like she will fit in quite well, within the regular cast established dynamic...

Meanwhile, Tatiana Siegel offers up this:



Don Cheadle (pictured) is barking up a new tree. The actor has signed on to co-star in DreamWorks' live-action "Hotel for Dogs ."

Emma Roberts has already boarded the film, which is based on Lois Duncan 's 1971 children's book of the same name.

Story revolves around two orphaned teenagers who hide dozens of stray dogs in an abandoned hotel. Cheadle will play a beleaguered social worker who keeps the kids out of trouble. Jeff Lowell penned the screenplay.

Project, which begins shooting in early November, marks Thor Freudenthal's feature directorial debut...

You will find the entire article here...

The film adaptation of Duncan's I Know What You Did Last Summer was a decent horror thriller--I imagine "Hotel", while going for a different crowd, has the potential to be as good.

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