LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Viola Davis is set to join Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Doubt," Miramaxs adaptation of writer/director John Patrick Shanleys Tony-winning play. Production began last week in New York.
Davis will play the mother of a young male student who has piqued what Sister Aloysius, the Mother Superior of the school (Streep), sees as the improper interest of Father Flynn (Hoffman).
Amy Adams ("Enchanted") is in negotiations to play Sister James, the young nun who has been an indirect witness to the dealings between Flynn and the son.
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Robert Pattinson, who played the Cedric Diggory role in several "Harry Potter" movies, has joined the cast of "Twilight," an indie teen-vampire thriller set to go into production in early 2008.
Pattinson will play a teenager who leads a double life as a vampire, and becomes romantically involved with his nonvampire high school classmate Bella (Kristen Stewart). Catherine Hardwicke ("Thirteen") is directing the film, which is based on Stephanie Meyers best-selling young-adult novel. Meyer wrote two sequels, and producer Summit Entertainment is hoping to turn the property into a film franchise.
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LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) - Regis Philbin will host the official 30-minute red carpet arrivals show preceding the 80th annual Academy Awards broadcast. It will be Philbins first stint hosting the warm-up, which will air at 5 p.m. PST on ABC on February 24 from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
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LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) - Josh Lucas is set to star in "Gods Spy," a thriller based on the true events that culminated in the discovery of Italian banker Roberto Calvi hanging under Londons Blackfriars Bridge in 1982, the producers said Friday.
The 15 million-budgeted picture, which will shoot in 2008 in Montreal, also features Jordi Molla, Giancarlo Giannini and Peter OToole.
Directed by Andy Morahan, the movie centers on a young Wall Street trader (Lucas) who is really a Jesuit priest working undercover to gain experience of the financial markets. He becomes embroiled in a political and financial conspiracy involving the Vatican Bank, the CIA, the Mafia and freemasonry.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
