Paul Bettany by Lester Cohen/WireImage.com
Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind) has joined the cast of The Secret Life of Bees, playing the widowed father of Dakota Fanning.... Phillip Noyce (The Bone Collector) will direct (a presumably corseted, meow) Scarlett Johansson in Mary Queen of Scots, which is set for an April start.... As snuck in here late Tuesday, Kate Winslet is replacing expectant Nicole Kidman in the WWII drama The Reader.
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Jason Isaacs, Brotherhood
When Jason Isaacs first comes on the phone, he mentions that he is covered in blood. Sounds like an interesting — but not atypically brutal — moment is in the works for Showtime's Brotherhood (Sundays at 10 pm/ET), where he plays prodigal hoodlum Michael Caffee, MIA for seven years and now back home in Providence, Rhode Island, to reclaim his turf, all the whole trying not to sully his legislator brother's political profile. But it turns out that Isaacs — whom you know from such film fare as The Patriot (he popped Mel Gibson's son) and the Harry Potter series — has his hands dirty for a diffe
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