A community has been left in shock after a young girl was taken from her home. Two young private detectives (Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan) are hired by the girls Aunt to look into the case, and they soon find themselves risking their lives in the search to bring Amanda home safely.There's been a lot of buzz about Gone Baby Gone, Ben Affleck's directorial debut, due to the Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Amy Ryan, I became interested in seeing the movie after catching a trailer for it on another Disney Blu-ray release. Casey Affleck, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, and Michelle Monaghan were wonderful to watch, and they're joined by a number of recognizable supporting cast members.We often see one or two exclusive features for the Blu-ray release, but this disc has the same material as the DVD, with an obvious upgrade to the audio and video. Listen to writer/director Ben Affleck and writer Aaron Stockard as they provide commentary on the movie, and optional commentar...
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Helen Mirren has signed on to play Nicolas Cage's momma in the sequel National Treasure: Book of Secrets, which features Ed Harris as the baddie.... Jennifer Hudson is in talks to join another freshly minted Oscar winner, Forest Whitaker, as well as nominee Jackie Earl Haley in Winged Creatures.... Ice Cube will star in Tough Love, a true-story-inspired comedy about an NFL star who makes his spoiled-brat kids spend a summer on the mean streets of Oakland.... MTV Films has bought the spec script I Want to ___ Your Sister, about a brother trying to protect his younger sis from lugs just like him. Um, Date? Marry?
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Universal can release Alpha Dog as planned on Jan. 12, despite objections from murder suspect Jesse James Hollywood, on whom the film is based. Hollywood's attorney plans to file an appeal with the 9th Circuit Court, contending that Alpha Dog (starring Justin Timberlake, Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone and Amber Heard) will make it impossible for his client to get a fair trial.... Ed Harris is in talks to play the former partner of Samuel L. Jackson's crime-scene cleanup man in Renny Harlin's crime thriller Cleaner.... The Devil Wears Prada's Anne Hathaway has boarded the supernatural thriller Passengers, playing a grief counselor who, in helping six plane-crash survivors, suspects a conspiracy when they start disappearing one by one.... Per Variety, The Longest Yard's Sheldon Turner is set to write the Rick James biopic Super Freak.
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Ed Harris doesn't like the M-word.
"Someone called it a miniseries, and I wanted to throw up," says the star of HBO's Empire Falls. "It's not a miniseries — it's a damn movie!"
If so, we hope Harris doesn't see the cable network's promos, which bill the star-jammed adaptation of Richard Russo's Pulitzer-winning novel as a "miniseries event." In any event, HBO will split the three-hour-plus small-town drama over the evenings of May 28 and 29 — all the better to qualify for a best miniseries Emmy.
You can't blame Harris for his unfamiliarity with TV terminology: He hasn't appeared on the small screen in nearly 10 years, since his 1996 TNT Western Riders of the Purple Sage. "I've been asked to do a bunch of TV stuff, and I came close a couple times," Harris explains. "But nothing quite grabbed me as much as I needed to be grabbed."
Then came Empire Falls' Miles Roby. When Harris first read the novel, he
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