***Director Kathryn Bigelow has cemented a cast for The Hurt Locker, which is, as far as I can tell, the first film by a major Hollywood director to be set in present day Iraq. The film was scripted by journalist Mark Boal, who spent time embedded with a bomb squad. He tells The Hollywood Reporter: "We wanted to show the kinds of things that soldiers go through that you can't see on CNN, and I don't mean that in a censorship-conspiracy way. I just mean the news doesn't actually put photographers in with units that are this elite."
***Variety's Brain Lowry watched I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry so that you never, ever have to. And though he concedes that "Sandler's fans should enjoy hearing him toss off lines about being 'big-time fruits' or having 'boarded the dude train'," ultimately "it will be slightly depressing if a barrage of schoolyard gay jokes passes for 'edgy' a quarter-century after Victor/Victoria."
***After the massive critical success of her feature directorial debut Away From Her, Sarah Polley will return to the other side of the camera to star opposite Jared Leto in Mr. Nobody. It's the first English-language feature for Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael, and THR's Borys Kit says the script is "a multilayered love story inspired by the 'butterfly effect, the chaos-theory notion that the beat of a butterfly's wings can cause a storm thousands of miles away."
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