Per Variety, Bradley Cooper will topline Clive Barker's Midnight Train, playing a photographer on the trail of a New York City subway-based serial killer.... Jonathan Demme is lensing He Comes in Peace, a documentary about Jimmy Carter, as the former president embarks on a book tour he started last month.... Pedro Almodovar's next film, El Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live In) will (surprise!) star Penelope Cruz, and "be totally different from my previous 16 [films]," he tells a Spanish daily. "It's a very tough story about revenge."
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Friends with Money, a comedy costarring Jennifer Aniston and Frances McDormand, has been picked to open the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, running Jan. 19-27. Among the other films making the cut at the prestigious event: Little Miss Sunshine, with Steve Carell and Toni Collette; Jonathan Demme's Neil Young: Heart of Gold; This Film Is Not Yet Rated, an expose of the MPAA's esoteric ratings system; and Lucky Number Slevin, with Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman.
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