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Would the Real Truman Capote Please Stand Up?

7 September 2009 4:05 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener in Capote

Photo: Sony Pictures Classics As I said in my What I Watched column on Sunday, I finally got around to watching the 2005 and 2006 Truman Capote films, Capote and Infamous. The first earned five Oscar nominations and one win for Phillip Seymour Hoffman who played the eccentric author to the delight of many. The second was released just over a year later to absolutely no attention whatsoever. This isn't a surprise. Technically Capote is a better film and was deserving of its nomination of Hoffman in the lead role, but to say it is a quality Best Picture candidate, Director or Adapted Screenplay is pushing it, but also comes in large part due to what I perceive to be a poor year in quality film. I mean, Munich was a Best Picture contender and Crash came out on top. Yikes. However, my commentary »

- Brad Brevet

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Douglas McGrath is 'Lucky'

19 August 2009 3:51 PM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Warner Bros. has signed Douglas McGrath to direct "The Lucky One," the adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks bestseller.According to Variety, the film's produced by Denise Di Novi, who has produced three other Sparks adaptations for the studio; "Nights in Rodanthe," "A Walk to Remember" and "Message in a Bottle."McGrath will also rewrite Will Fetters' script for "The Lucky One."McGrath wrote and directed the 2006 Truman Capote biopic "Infamous," starring Toby Jones and Sandra Bullock. Other credits include "Nicholas Nickleby."Published last year by Grand Central Publishing, "The Lucky One" centers on a Marine who survives three tours in Iraq. He attributes his good fortune to a photograph he carried of a woman he has never met, and he sets out to »

- Adnan Tezer

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Consider McGrath a 'Lucky One' After Capote Incident

19 August 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- You got to feel for a director who was stuck in the predicament that Douglas McGrath was in. His last outing as a director must have been hell. Despite getting the chance to make a film on a flamboyant character in American literature, Infamous, his film on Truman Capote was a second place finisher to Oscar-winning Capote. The project stalled for a year, and then Wip put it to sleep before Toby Jones had a chance to make the rounds and make the argument that two Capotes could indeed co-exist. Jones was solid, and the film was technically sound. If McGrath wants to avoid further bad luck, he'll make a title change request with the project he just embarked on - Variety reports that the director will helm The Lucky One - not to be confused with The Lucky Ones (that Iraq war flick with Rachel Adams). Warner Bros. »

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Douglas McGrath Gets Lucky

19 August 2009 12:14 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Infamous writer/director Douglas McGrath has signed up to direct The Lucky One, an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' Iraq War-set romance for Warner Bros.The Lucky One in question is a Us Marine who attributes his survival through three tours in Iraq to his lucky charm, a photo of a smiling woman he carries with him. When he returns home to North Carolina he tracks down the mysterious lady and romance ensures. Or does it?Frankly, we're not sure, but if you were to expect a heart-string tugging romance with a tinge of melodrama, you'd probably not be too far wrong. Sparks' novels have been adapted into movies with Grisham-esque regularity - he's the man behind The Notebook, Message In A Bottle, A Walk To Remember, Night In Rodanthe, which should give you some idea of what to expect. McGrath, meanwhile, has a strong track record in literary adaptations. »

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Mad Man Gets Sucker Punched, Dawson is 'Unstoppable' and Labute is 'Burnt Orange'

19 August 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Today's casting notes are mildly interesting, but nothing spectacular so why not a quick rundown of what's what? First off "Mad Men" star Jon Hamm has joined the cast of Zack Snyder's action fantasy Sucker Punch joining Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone, Abbie Cornish and Carla Gugino in the 1950s-set tale of a girl (Browning) confined to a mental institution by her stepfather, who intends to have her lobotomized in five days. She and her friends enter an alternate reality where they begin planning an escape. Hamm's character details are unknown, but his character's name is High Roller. [THR] Rosario Dawson has joined the turbulent production of Tony Scott's Unstoppable alongside Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. The film stars Washington as a veteran engineer who jumps into a locomotive with a young conductor (Pine) to stop an unmanned runaway train loaded with toxic cargo. [Variety] Neil Labute »

- Brad Brevet

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Douglas McGrath to Direct The Lucky Ones

18 August 2009 6:25 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Douglas McGrath has signed on to direct The Lucky Ones, the adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks bestseller for Warner Bros.

According to Variety, McGrath will also rewrite Will Fetters' script for The Lucky Ones.

Published last year by Grand Central Publishing, The Lucky Ones centers on a Marine who survives three tours in Iraq. He attributes his good fortune to a photograph he carried of a woman he has never met, and he sets out to meet his good-luck charm when he returns to North Carolina.

No production date has been set.

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