Toronto 2010 line-up revealed; includes 'Beginners' and 'The Conspirator'

The Toronto International Film Festival announced (via Awards Daily) part of its 2010 line-up this morning. Robert Redford's The Conspirator (starring James McAvoy) will have its world premiere at the festival's gala program and Mike Mills' Beginners (starring Ewan McGregor) will have its world premiere at the special presentation program. The 35th annual film festival runs from September 9 and September 19. The festival will announce more titles in the coming weeks and you can head on over to indieWIRE for the complete list from today's announcement.

First trailer for 'There Be Dragons'

A new teaser trailer for Roland Joffé's Spanish Civil War film There Be Dragons has been unveiled. Actor Dougray Scott plays a "young journalist, estranged from his father, who begins to investigate the life of one of his father's friends, Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer. The journalist...follows their uneasy relationship from their childhood to their time during the Spanish Civil War." Dougray Scott doesn't appear in the trailer, but you can still watch it below:

'The Tempest' to close the Venice Film Festival

The Venice International Film Festival announced earlier today that Julie Taymor's adaptation of The Tempest (which stars Alan Cumming) will close the the festival on September 11. The Tempest is scheduled to open in December and the festival runs from September 1 to September 11.

Weekly schedule for Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Mo 7/26: Steve Carell, She & Him
Tu 7/27: Morgan Freeman, the Black Keys
We 7/28: Carrie Fisher, Ron Livingston
Th 7/29: Mary Louise Parker, Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Fr 7/30: Neil Patrick Harris, Christopher Gorham

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Angus Macfadyen signs up for 'Hirokin'

Angus Macfadyen has joined the cast of Alejo Mo-Sun's Hirokin alongside Wes Bentley, Julian Sands, Jessica Szohr, and Laura Ramsey. Hirokin is currently shooting in Los Angeles, and a film synopsis is below:

The story centers around a reluctant hero who must face the dark parts of his past and choose between avenging his family’ murder or helping to free people who have long faced abuse. Bentley will star as the problem plagued hero while Szohr will play a cunning temptress with Ramsey cast as the heroine. Macfadyen will play a tribal leader and Sands will be the nemesis of the film. Mo-Sun will be producing and directing the film based upon a script he developed himself. [Daemon's Movies]

More stills of Henry Ian Cusick in 'Law and Order'

All Things Law and Order (via Cusickgallery.net) has a batch of photos from the July 17 shoot of Law & Order: SVU. Photos of Henry Ian Cusick are below. Thanks again to Kathy for the heads up.

New interview with John Barrowman

A short interview with John Barrowman was published over at The Scotsman yesterday. An excerpt of John's interview is below:

"Have I ever been the shy retiring type?" he ponders. "Never. Not since the day I was born," he replies, triumphantly. "When I came out of my mother the doctor had to slap me to get me to shut up. At school the teachers let me get away with murder because I was able to talk my way out of anything."

"The first day I set foot on Wisteria Lane I remembered when I was that little boy who'd moved from Glasgow at nine years old and was taken on a vacation to Universal Studios in California. I was driven around what would become Wisteria Lane, which was then the road where they filmed The Munsters and various Doris Day movies, all the same houses are still there. And so for me as an adult to stand on that street knowing that I was there as a boy, dreaming that one day I would be involved in this business, well that was a really weird sensation. [Tim Randall]

Henry Ian Cusick on the set of 'Law and Order'

Henry Ian Cusick has been in New York shooting scenes from Law & Order: SVU. The season premiere is scheduled to air on September 22 on NBC. Thanks go to Kathy for sharing these photos of Henry (via Cusickgallery.net):

Scottish actors cast in HBO's 'Game of Thrones'

HBO released a fact sheet for its upcoming series Game of Thrones complete with casting details. Sweet on Sigma Films parsed through the cast list and reports that Jamie Sives (who plays Jory Cassel) will begin working on the show this week in Belfast. Other Scottish cast members include James Cosmo, who was recently cast as Jeor Mormont, Emun Elliot who will make a guest appearance as Marillion, and Rory McCann (as Sandor Clegane), Richard Madden (as Rob Stark), and Iain Glen (as Ser Jorah Mormont) have all been cast as series regulars.

Game of Thrones is based on George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series. The first season will be made up of 10 episodes with principal photography set to start on July 26 in Belfast, Northern Ireland and Malta. A synopsis is below:

“Game of Thrones” is a new original HBO series based on George R.R. Martin’s best-selling novels. In a world where summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime, the Westeros crown comes with a price. Betrayal, lust, intrigue and supernatural forces shake the four corners of the Kingdom, from the scheming south and the savage eastern lands, to the frozen north and the ancient Wall that protects the realm from the darkness beyond. Kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars and noble men vie for power in the bloody struggle for the Iron Throne.

You can head on over to ONTD! for a look at photos of the entire cast.

Weekly schedule for Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Mo 7/19: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mary Lynn Rajskub
Tu 7/20: America Ferrera, Dan Riskin, Fred MacAulay
We 7/21: Ted Danson, Kevin Pollak
Th 7/22: Michael Clarke Duncan, Daniela Ruah
Fr 7/23: Mindy Kaling, Paulina Porizkova, MGMT

Ewan McGregor's 'The Last Word' retitled?

There hasn't been too much news on The Last Word lately, but a brief article over at Deadline suggests that the film might have been renamed Perfect Sense. Director, David Mackenzie is reportedly still editing the film which stars Ewan McGregor as a chef. It's also listed under its new name over at IMDb, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the information is accurate. The project is a love story set in a city where people are slowly losing their sensory perception. No official release date has been announced.

Craig Ferguson announces that his wife is pregnant

Craig Ferguson and his wife Megan Wallace Cunningham are expecting. Craig revealed the wonderful news on Twitter a few hours ago:

Holy crackers! Mrs F is pregnant. How did that happen? ...oh yeah I know how. Another Ferguson arrives in 2011. The world trembles.

He also has a 9-year-old son, Milo, from a previous marriage.

Brian Cox cast in 'Rise of the Apes'

Brian Cox will star alongside James Franco, Frieda Pinto, John Lithgow, and Andy Serkis in Rupert Wyatt's Rise of the Apes - a reboot of Planet of the Apes. The film is an "origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy." Shooting will start sometime this year for a June 24, 2011 release date.

John Barrowman's appearance on the 5'o Clock Show

John was on the July 12 episode to promote Tonight's the Night. You can watch his appearance below:

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