A new poster of Pedro Almodovar’s “Broken Embraces” has been unveiled. It basically looks the same as the Spanish version, but of course it’s in English so now you can actually read it. The film is set for a November 20th release in the U.S. and recently saw the release of an English language trailer. [HitFix]
Brett Cullen has joined the cast of the upcoming “The Runaways” biopic and will play the alcoholic father of Dakota Fanning’s Cherie Curie, bassist for the 1970’s all-girls band. The character will be drawn from Curie’s addiction memoir “Neon’s Angels.” [THR]
Randall Wallace (“Braveheart”) has been hired to rewrite McG’s “Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” the origin story of Captain Nemo and his submarine warship, the Nautilus. Nemo is a mysterious but noble antagonist in the book, a scientific genius with a thirst for knowledge and a desire for revenge against the forces of imperialism. The script was written by Justin Marks and Bill Marsilii. [THR]
Rebecca Miller’s “The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee” has been picked up for distribution by Screen Media. The film follows the story of a devoted wife (Robin Wright Penn) of an accomplished publisher thirty years her senior (Alan Arkin), the mother of two grown children, and a trusted friend and confidant to all who cross her path who has her world and persona tested when she follows her husband to a Connecticut retirement community. [Indiewire]
Spike Jonze has released an image of the set of “Where The Wild Things Are” themed Girl skateboards on his personal blog. An earlier blog post also adds that the director “has been in London for two months now” doing special effects for the film. [WeLoveYouSo]
Early ticket sales for the upcoming “Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince” are reportedly outpacing that of Michael Bay’s “Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen.” Bay’s film though pipped “Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs” at the box office over the holiday weekend and has now taken in over $600 million worldwide, making it the highest grossing film internationally in 2009 so far. [THR/EW/BoxOfficeMojo]