Chris Pine, Ian Alda, Andrew Connolly, Coby Getzug, Seán G. Griffin, Kevin Kearns, Zoe Perry, and Brett Ryback will star in the Center Theatre Group’s production of Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore, to run June 30-August 8 at the Mark Taper Forum. The production, which will open officially on July 11, will be directed by Wilson Milam.

The show is set in 1993 on a rocky island in County Galway where Padraic (Pine), a hard-boiled terrorist is lured home by the news that his beloved cat, Wee Thomas, is doing poorly. When Padraic discovers the cat has been murdered, he initiates a cycle of revenge-killing that threatens everyone in his path.

For tickets and information, call 213-628-2772 or visit www.CenterTheatreGroup.org.

Source: theatermania.com

Hello everyone,

I’ve added new old filming photos of Chris Pine on location of “Just My Luck” on March 30 to April 3, 2005. Enjoy.

GALLERY LINKS:

• Just My Luck: Filming – Apr 3, 2005
• Just My Luck: Filming – Mar 30, 2005
• Just My Luck: Filming – Mar 31, 2005

Chris Pine has signed to co-star in upcoming romantic comedy This Means War.

The Star Trek actor joins Reese Witherspoon in the project, directed by Terminator Salvation helmer McG, reports Entertainment Weekly.

The movie centres on two best friends who cross swords after they fall in love with the same woman. The feud apparently gets out of hand and ends up demolishing half of New York City.

The second male lead has yet to be cast. It is said that producers are eyeing Seth Rogen for the role.

Production is to begin in July.

Source: digitalspy.co.uk

According to The Wrap, it looks like Seth Rogen and Chris Pine are both in the running to star with Reese Witherspoon in This Means War.

In the film, two best friends, inseparable since childhood, who fall in love with the same woman (Witherspoon). The two men’s bond disintegrates and their ensuing battle escalates to mammoth proportions, with New York City demolished in their wake.

The Wrap goes on to say that Rogen might take over a role in the film that was originally offered to James Franco.

Aside from these rumblings, there really isn’t any solid casting news regarding these roles for this project.

This Means War comes to theaters in 2011 and stars Reese Witherspoon. The film is directed by McG.

Source: movieweb.com

Jack Ryan, the hero of The Hunt For Red October and Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger and that forgettable Ben Affleck one, is supposed to be an unstoppable CIA agent and a straight-up hero. So how does working on Wall Street fit into that? Apparently a career as a financial analyst was a major part of the character’s backstory in the Tom Clancy novels, and according to Pajiba, that’s going to be coming back into play in the new, Chris Pine-starring franchise reboot.

They’ve gotten a tip that the new script picks up with a younger Jack Ryan just after his stint in the Marines, when he’s working as a Wall Street stock broker transplanted to Moscow to work for a billionaire. In fact, the movie’s working title is Moscow, and the action takes place there when Ryan is set up as the fall guy in a plot to destroy the U.S. economy.

Clearly the new film would have to move away from the 80s/90s Cold War plots of the first films, but it is kind of hilarious to have Ryan on Wall Street, which somehow feels like another kind of 80s throwback. Of course, the notion of economic terrorism is very, very modern, as are our fears of Russia not as a nuclear powerhouse, but as a rising economy. Sounds like they’ve come up with a way to update Jack Ryan for a new decade, while still allowing us to fear those dirty Muscovites.

Source: cinemablend.com