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

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

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This is the weirdest fucking cast, but okay.
Inglorious Bastards writer/director Quentin Tarantino has cast actors Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz and Paul Rust in the Weinstein Co./Universal drama. They join Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Mike Myers, Michael Fassbender, B.J. Novak and Samm Levine. Kruger ("National Treasure" films) plays German actress Bridget Von Hammersmark, who figures prominently in a plot to sabotage the Nazis. It is a role for which Nastassja Kinski was first mentioned. Waltz, who is best known in Germany for his television work, has la

PARIS actress Melanie Laurent heading back to Paris with Quentin?
Quentin Tarantino may have finally cast his third big lead for INGLORIOUS BASTARDS. According to a French website I’m unfamiliar of (translated link), Paris born actress Melanie Laurent has joined the Universal WW-II picture, her first Hollywood production. She will play the strong willed French Jew Shossana, who has a massive part in the picture and who I envisaged as a Audrey Tautou- type from A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT. But talk about type casting, something I am quick to voice my disgust at myself.

Owners of ‘Rear Window’ Source Material Finally Bring Themselves to Watch ‘Disturbia,’ Sue
A lawsuit filed yesterday in a Manhattan federal court alleges that Disturbia, the pre-Transformers Shia LaBeouf–starring binocular thriller that made $80 million at the box office last year, is a ripoff of Hitchcock's Rear Window, something practically everyone pointed out immediately upon the movie's release. DreamWorks, Viacom, and Universal, as well as executive producer Steven Spielberg, are accused of infringing on copyright for shooting Disturbia without first seeking permission from the trust

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Coming Tonight: Live Stream from Shia's Big Premiere
Tonight, ET is bringing you yet another live web event! We're bringing you to the premiere of Shia LaBeouf's new movie, 'Eagle Eye'! Come back here at 6:45 p.m. (PST) and watch as he walks the red carpet along with his co-stars Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Billy Bob Thornton and Michael Chiklis! In 'Eagle Eye,' the 'Indiana Jones' star re-teams with his 'Disturbia' director D.J. Caruso for the high-tech film, in which he plays a man who, along with Monaghan, is forced to act as a pawn for a mysterio

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GE's Immelt Takes Spielberg To Dinner; Zucker & Director Plot Universal Backlot
So one of my fab tipsters was dining at Trattoria Amici in Beverly Hills last night when he spied Steven Spielberg, Stacey Snider, Ron Meyer and GE bossman Jeffrey Immelt all sitting at a corner table and having a swell time. OK, I know what you're thinking: where was Jeff Zucker? Elsewhere. But before tongues wag, I'm told by a DreamWorks source that "Jeff [Zucker] had just spent the better part of the afternoon with Steven planning out the [post-fire] rebuild of the backlot with Universal. So Jeff's abse

Steven Spielberg, Dreamworks Sued For Disturbia’s Similarities to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window
When is it playful homage and when it is copyright infringement? The basis of a new lawsuit alleges that producer Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks lifted the plot, characters and protagonist for their 2007 hit, Disturbia, from the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock classic Rear Window. More specifically, the lawsuit claims that Spielberg and Co. should have sought the rights to the short story, “Murder From a Fixed Viewpoint,” the source material from which the Hitchcock film was adapted. “In the Distu

Samuel L. Jackson: The Lost Titanic Screen Test
This is totally what James Cameron's Titanic would have sounded like directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Samuel "mother effing" L. Jackson. Not sure why this guy is all over the Internet now, but I like it! Titanic totally would have benefited from this adrenaline shot to the eardrums! (Needless to say, languagewise, it's NSFW.)

Polanski and Tarantino get German funds
Polanski and Quentin Tarantino are set receive funds for their upcoming projects Ghost and Inglorious Bastards respectively from the German Government. Ghost will be based on an adaptation by Robert Harris and will star Pierce Brosnan and Nicolas Cage and will begin shooting in January and not in September. Tarantino is also set to start shooting his World War II film Inglorious Bastards from October. The film has made many people to take notice after a leaked script of the movie floated online. The fi

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>

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

Quentin Tarantino and the female bastard..
Mr Tarantino has been all over the place with his castings for ‘Inglorious Bastards’, and things are starting to come out about the female lead for the movie. Apparently he is in talks with Melanie Laurent to play Shoshana Dreyfus. Melanie hasnt been in very many American movies, so her resume would look pretty foreign to you as she is from France. You can check her out on IMDB though..thanks to AICN for the heads up. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for v

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

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