Rob Marshall

Birth Name:

Rob Marshall

Birth Place:

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Profession

Director, Producer, Music department, Writer, Actor

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Critic's Guide to Tuesday TV: Sons, Parenthood, One Last Dance, and More

Once upon a time, I'd watch FX's Sons of Anarchy begrudgingly because it was popular. Now I'm watching because it's good. As in bad. As in: bad things happening to bad people. Consequences = drama. And that's rarely been more evident than as the fifth season gets underway Tuesday (10/9c), with the motorcycle club torn apart from within and without, capped by an act of retribution that's horrific even by this show's violent standards.

Tue, Sep 11, 2012

Critic's Guide to Tuesday TV: Sons, Parenthood, One Last Dance, and More

Nine Doesn't Add Up for Zeta-Jones; Portman In?

Catherine Zeta-Jones will not be playing Claudia in a big-screen adaptation of the musical Nine, now that Rob Marshall (who directed the Welsh stunner to an Oscar in Chicago) has declined to beef up the role. As of now, says the New York Daily News, Javier Bardem is on board as Guido, Sophia Loren his mother and Penélope Cruz his mistress. The short list to replace CZJ includes Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley and Kate Hudson. (Um, let's hope the costume designer hadn't gotten started yet.)

Mon, Nov 19, 2007

Is Nine Katie Holmes' Number? And More Movie News!

Casting is under way for director Rob Marshall's adaptation of the musical Nine, and thus far Katie Holmes, Demi Moore and Chicago's Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones have thrown their hats into the ring, says the New York Post.... Woody Allen hopes that his new (of course) untitled film, starring Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem and (of course) Scarlett Johansson, will do for Barcelona what Manhattan did for the Big Apple.... Richard Roundtree has boarded the Wachowskis' live-action Speed Racer, playing a driver turned commentator who's a hero to Speed and a sex machine to all the chicks.

Tue, Jul 3, 2007

Geisha's Ziyi Zhang Is Turning Japanese

The cultural conundrums of bringing Arthur Golden's popular novel Memoirs of a Geisha to the big screen could make your head spin: The story of Japanese women carrying out an age-old tradition in the 1930s is written by an American, directed by an American, told in English, and stars Chinese and Malaysian actresses. But director Rob Marshall (Chicago) said his priority was to find the right people to tell the story of Sayuri regardless of nationality. That's why his long search for her portrayer took him to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's Beijing native Ziyi Zhang. "I had to find a great star who could carry a film &#821

Fri, Dec 23, 2005