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Casting Bites: Yeardley Smith Goes to 'High School' & More

17 November 2008 3:15 PM, PST | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Just a month ago, we learned that Adrien Brody and Michael Chiklis were heading back to High School -- a rather unique comedy about a high school valedictorian (Matt Bush) who gets high with the school stoner (Sean Marquette), and then tries to use his smarts to get out of an upcoming drug test. Rather then messing with his own results, he schemes to get the entire school stoned to beat the system. Brody's the drug dealer, Chiklis is the principal, and now The Hollywood Reporter posts that Lisa Simpson, aka Yeardley Smith, will play a homeroom teacher while Luis Chavez (Crash) plays a druggie friend of the valedictorian.

Meanwhile, Variety reports that Navy NCIS actress Cote de Pablo is making the jump to the big screen with Scott Speedman's The Last Rites of Ransom Pride. The Calgary Herald describes it as "a violent ransom about a woman trying

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Monika Bartyzel

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*Update!* Bousman Wants More Leprechaun?

13 August 2008 12:34 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

**Update: Bousman just put up a blog on his MySpace page addressing this and other rumors...**

The following story is not a joke. It features actual quotes director Darren Lynn Bousman gave MTV regarding his wanting to resurrect the Leprechaun franchise. How much glue sniffing was involved cannot be confirmed.

Truth is there's really nothing to this story. It's just the insane ramblings of a filmmaker talking about a dream project. That Darren Lynn Bousman considers rebooting the Leprechaun franchise a dream project makes me wonder what goes through his head when he lays it on his pillow at night. I suppose it could be worse. I mean it's not like he's declaring he'd love to redo Dr. Giggles.

No doubt suffering from some sort of brain trauma stemming from the indefensible shafting his Repo! The Genetic Opera (review) is getting from Lionsgate, the Saw II-iv maestro told MTV,

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Thomas McCarthy on "The Visitor"

11 April 2008 6:19 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Aaron Hillis

Though he's the writer-director of the acclaimed 2003 dramedy "The Station Agent," Tom McCarthy is probably not the first face you associate with the film (Peter Dinklage was the bigger breakout, no pun intended). But that doesn't bother the New Jersey-born McCarthy, who has had his own share of on screen recognition (more on that later) since he began acting in film and television in the early '90s. (If his name still doesn't ring a bell, then you certainly didn't watch the brilliant final season of Hbo's "The Wire," in which he co-starred as the morally skewed Baltimore Sun reporter Scott Templeton.) McCarthy's second feature behind the camera is "The Visitor," a poignant and lightly funny drama about a widowed and utterly disillusioned economics professor named Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins, "Six Feet Under") who discovers, on a business trip from Connecticut, that a Syrian percussionist and

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Aaron Hillis

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The Visitor

10 April 2008 2:01 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Just two projects into his filmmaking career, writer-director-actor Tom McCarthy is already establishing himself as the best friend of the veteran character actor. His breakthrough debut, The Station Agent, gave Peter Dinklage a star-making lead role after a string of scene-stealing supporting turns. McCarthy's follow-up, The Visitor, does the same for Richard Jenkins, a Coen brothers fixture and ubiquitous supporting player with a pasty complexion and the hangdog face of a depressed mid-level bureaucrat. In a rare lead performance, Jenkins stars as a melancholy professor sleepwalking glumly through his life and career. His terminally beige existence begins to change when he encounters a vibrant international couple living illegally in an apartment he keeps in New York: an ebullient Arab drummer (Haaz Sleiman) and his understandably skittish African girlfriend (Danai Gurira). Jenkins begins taking percussion lessons from Sleiman, and as they give in to the rhythm, an unlikely friendship...

Nathan Rabin

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