Casting Couch: Quentin Finds Fraulein; Pen??lope and Pedro Together Again (E! Online)
E! Online - • Quentin Tarantino is swapping muses. Uma Thurman is out and Diane Kruger (Troy) is in as the femme fatale in the Pulpmeister's highly-anticipated World War II drama, Inglorious Bastards.

Germany Already Writing Auf Tarantino's Bastards? (E! Online)
E! Online - Quentin Tarantino is entering Tom Cruise territory.

Is Quentin Tarantino Compromising ‘Inglorious Bastards’?
When Quentin Tarantino made his bold statement at Cannes that he would be there in one year with Inglorious Bastards, everyone laughed and shook their heads saying “Ooh, Quentin, you rascal, you” and then continued about their business. Pretty much immediately after the amusing quote, Tarantino went and finished his script and then started casting and scouting locations like a mad man; this told us he was actually serious and was out to prove it. So here we are. The movie is looking to start

Looks Like Tarantino has found his Shoshanna for ‘Inglorious Bastards’
Shoshanna Dreyfus is the lead female character in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards. The movie pretty much revolves around her so this is a huge role to cast. Dark horizons reports that French actress Melanie Laurent has been cast as Tarantino’s Shoshanna a french Jewish girl who is in hiding from the Nazi’s and at the same time run a movie theater. A source close to Laurent indicates the actress has already flown to Los Angeles to work with Tarantino. Laurent is a French actress

Is Melanie Laurent Tarantino’s Very Cute Bastard Female Lead?
Has Quentin Tarantino found his Jewish Princess for his World War II talky slaughterfest aka “Inglorious Bastards”? Maybe, maybe not. According to the blokes over at Dark Horizons, who quotes a French movie site called Monsieur Cinema, French actress Melanie Laurent has indeed won a leading role in the film. Which could only mean one thing: she’ll be playing Shoshanna Dreyfus, a Jewish girl who is the only survivor of a bloody Nazi manhunt that claims the lives of her entire family, a sequ

Kruger, Waltz & Rust Joining Inglorious Bastards
Inglorious Bastards writer/director Quentin Tarantino has cast actors Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz and Paul Rust in the Weinstein Co./Universal drama.

Indie Weekend Box Office: Snipped 'Sukiyaki Western Django' Draws First
Take one renegade Japanese director, set him to work on a Spaghetti Western, add a cameo by a talkative American filmmaker, and what do you get? First place in the indie four-day weekend box office race. Sukiyaki Western Django, directed by the prolific and extremely versatile Takashi Miike and featuring Quentin Tarantino in a small role, tore it up at the single Manhattan theatre where it opened, grossing $13,100, according to estimates compiled by Box Office Mojo. The version released in the US does not r

Quentin Snags a Few More 'Bastards'
Bastards, bastards, bastards! The best part about Quentin Tarantino appropriating the title for his upcoming movie from Enzo Castellari's high-energy original is that I get to satisfy my inner 11-year-old and tell you all about the latest Inglorious Bastards withour fear of recrimination from parental figures. Diane Kruger is the highest-profile new bastard, according to Variety, joined by Christoph Waltz and writer / actor / comedian Paul Rust. Kruger, the hellenic beauty who first made a splash on these

Troy stars reteam for Quentin Tarantino
German actress Diane Kruger is to reteam with Troy co-star Brad Pitt in Quentin Tarantino's new war movie Inglorious Bastards.Kruger will play a German movie star in the film, which features Pitt as a hillbilly leading a band of Jewish vigilante soldiers in World War Two. Comment on this Article She says, "I just found out I'm going to do Tarantino's next film with Brad Pitt and I'm very excited. Quentin just called."Both stars have been part of the Venice Film Festival in Italy this past week - Pitt w

Quentin Tarantino Gets His German Girl
German actress Diane Kruger, best known for her work in "Troy" and the "National Treasure" movies,...... <a href="http://www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/article_212168902.shtml"><b>More</b>

The 8 Foreign DVDs That Justify The Purchase of a Region-Free Player
The recent American release of Spaced may have earned the cult Britcom an entirely new legion of fans, but to owners of region-free DVD players—many of whom purchased their machines years ago just so they could check out the show—it was old hat. As Blu-ray, torrents and On-Demand programming slowly knock DVD off of its throne of dominance, true videophiles who prefer to own physical discs can still seek out plenty of rare offerings that have never been issued as NTSC Region 1 releases. There’s a num

Tarantino Snags a Bitch and Several More Bastards
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Germany Already Writing Auf Tarantino's Bastards?
Quentin Tarantino is entering Tom Cruise territory. A script of the director's star-studded, soon-to-film World War II epic Inglorious Bastards was leaked to the German press this...

Tarantino got Another BASTARD Girl
I’m following the development on the movie INGLORIOUS BASTARD because it fascinates me how Quentin Tarantino chooses one heartthrob star, Brad Pitt in the main role and then cast some of the ultimate freaks and geeks in Hollywood (Eli Roth, Mike Myers, Samm Levine, BJ Novak) and then some German actors (Til Schweiger, Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender) and then took a ‘hot’ route when it comes to casting the women. Last month, Diane Kruger joined the cast of the story about a rogue b

Troy stars reteam for Quentin Tarantino
German actress Diane Kruger is to reteam with Troy co-star Brad Pitt in Quentin Tarantino's new war movie Inglorious Bastards.Kruger will play a German movie star in the film, which features Pitt as a hillbilly leading a band of Jewish vigilante soldiers in World War Two. Comment on this Article She says, "I just found out I'm going to do Tarantino's next film with Brad Pitt and I'm very excited. Quentin just called."Both stars have been part of the Venice Film Festival in Italy this past week - Pitt w

Review: Sukiyaki Western Django
Filed under: Action, New Releases, New in Theaters, Quentin Tarantino, Cinematical Indie, WesternBy chance, two Takashi Miike movies, Dead or Alive and Audition, opened in my town with in a week of one another in 2001. It was pretty eye opening seeing the huge difference between them, the speedy carnage of the former and the slow suspense of the latter, and I became an instant fan. Since then I've managed to track down just six more Miike movies, and in that same time he has made over forty (including video

Indie Spotlight: New Releases for August 29
Filed under: Action, Animation, Comedy, Foreign Language, Independent, New Releases, Quentin Tarantino, Cinematical Indie, Indie SpotlightThe last weekend of the summer means the multiplexes will be crammed with Hollywood's leftover products, most of them rolled out without being screened for critics (never a good sign). But don't despair! The Indie Spotlight is here to fill you in on the limited-release, art-house films opening this weekend, and if they're not playing where you live, you can keep an eye ou

Another German Bastard
Quentin Tarantino finds Til Schweiger for Inglorious Bastards.

The Ingloriousness of it all
By Steven Zeitchik A cheeky Brit who valiantly fought zombies, the actress who played one-third of a Polanski love triangle, a noted torture-porn director, the biggest star in Hollywood and Ryan from the Office -- Tarantino's description of Inglorious Bastards...

‘Weeds’: How the Hell Are They Getting Out of This One?
Jenji Kohan has some serious moxie. This episode, the second to last this season, is nauseating. Lest we forget that this naughty, sunny drama is actually about one of the nastiest, dirtiest underground businesses in the world, Kohan brings it home. And once again, we're thinking, how — no, really, how — are they going to get out of this convincingly? Nancy gives everything up: the tunnel, Guillermo, her lucrative income. We saw that coming, but we didn't see this: Cesar, the asymmetrically eare

Corey Feldman An “Inglorious Bastard?”
Quentin Tarantino is beloved amongst fans of cult classics as the man with the Midas touch. Tarantino can take themes from older genres and reinvent them into new nostalgia money makers, can take older flagging careers and find the turn half forgotten stars into sought after celebrities all over again. So I was really excited when I heard a rumor floating around that the legendary director was thinking of adding one very special cast member to his latest project, “Inglorious Bastards.” “We recently l

Vulture’s ‘Inglorious Bastards’ Casting Scorecard
With shooting for Quentin Tarantino's ensemble WWII epic, Inglorious Bastards, scheduled to begin in October — and just eight and a half months until the movie's promised screening at 2009's Cannes Film Festival — casting news has been trickling in daily for the past few weeks. Which roles have been filled? Which ones are still open? And when will Quentin find a suitable Hitler? After the jump, with the help of the screenplay, we break it down for all the film's major-ish speaking parts —

Return of ‘Entourage’ is Can’t Miss TV
“Entourage,” the first-ever make-believe reality show, is back. (HBO, Sunday, 10 p.m.) Movies In the 1960s, Italian director Sergio Leone crafted a series of spaghetti westerns that placed stoic heroes in the midst of harsh, grimy, violent, sometimes macabre conditions to create hyper-realistic conflict. So what happens when Japanese cult director Takashi Miike pays homage to Leone’s “A Fistful of Dollars” by mixing samurai elements with the American western, adding loads of gun play and bloodshed

We Predicted It - FASTER, BRITNEY! SPEAR! SPEAR!
On December 4, 2006, we (jokingly) prophesied that Britney Spears would co-star with Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan in a remake of Russ Meyer’s exploitation classic, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Our prophecy now turns out to be at least one-third true. Britney apparently IS going to be starring in a Pussycat remake – directed by Quentin Tarantino, no less. You can read about it in the U.K. Telegraph, a story tastefully entitled Britney Spears to Play Lesbian Killer in Quentin Tarantino Film.