Casting: Jessica Alba, Val Kilmer and Michael Caine
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These people just landed a part in a movie and you didn't:Sorry boys, but Jessica Alba has officially become a math nerd. Oh yes, Variety tells us the actress has signed on to star in An Invisible Sign of My Own, based on the book by Aimee Bender. Marilyn Agrelo (Mad Hot Ballroom) will direct the flick, which follows a woman who becomes obsessed with numbers and math ... and then lands a gig as a second-grade math teacher. Hot, steamy gratuitous love-making scene not included.
Val Kilmer has decided he needs more action in his life, as the dude has hopped onboard the crime thriller Fake Identity for Nu Image/Millennium Films. The film, to be directed by Dennis Dimster-Denk (or Triple D, as I like to call him), tells of a doctor (Kilmer) who, while working in Chechnya, helps a woman escape from her would-be assailant and then watches a whole movie's worth of crazy stuff happen to him. (Variety)
I know, I've totally been waiting for Michael Caine to kick some serious ass too! Luckily, Variety tells us the actor has joined the British crime thriller Harry Brown. Who's Harry Brown, you ask? Well, he's an "elderly former serviceman drawn to vigilantism while living in a run-down 'burb rife with gangs, guns and drugs." Daniel Barber directs, while Emily Mortimer co-stars as a policewoman. And LL Cool J raps ... "Caine gonna knock you out ..."
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(Page 1)2. Jessica Alba should just give up acting.
Posted at 4:27PM on Sep 8th 2008 by Anna
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1. I know that Hollywood always turns out the pretty people for these movies, but Jessica Alba in _Invisible Sign_? What were they thinking? There are other actors who are pretty and have box office cachet but behave as though they have a brain in their head...were Chloe Sevigny and Maggie Gyllenhaal not available?
Posted at 2:47PM on Sep 8th 2008 by Chelsea