Robert Zemeckis’ “A Christmas Carol” is reportedly set to debut at the Cannes Film Festival. The film stars Jim Carrey in multiple roles as well as Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Robin Wright Penn. The announcement comes tomorrow, so we’ll see. [Latino Review]
Rumors have linked Hugh Laurie and Kiefer Sutherland for lead roles in Alex de la Iglesia’s upcoming adaptation of Belgian comic “The Yellow Mark.” The film follows a captain and a science professor on their quest in 1950’s London to track down a criminal known as The Yellow Mark. Stranger things have happen – not often though. John Hurt and Mark Strong are allegedly also up for roles. [FirstShowing]
A bunch of new, appropriately creepy images from Park Chan-Wook’s upcoming vampire romance film “Thirst” has been unveiled. “Twilight” fans need not apply. [/Film]
Vanessa Hudgens is set to be joined by young British actor Alex Pettyfer in “Beastly,” a film about a handsome rich kid with a mean streak who is then cursed in love after ditching a date. Terrible. [ET]
Ron Perlman is just as clueless as us on whether Guillermo Del Toro has a role in mind for him in his adaptation of “The Hobbit”: “[Del Toro is] a guy who loves the surprise, the element of surprise. I didn’t realize the whole seven years he was fighting for me for “Hellboy” that he was doing it. He just did that all on his own on the side. He didn’t want to bring me into it. I wouldn’t be surprised either way.” [IGN, who basically has gone fishing in this piece].
An update on the whole corrosive and vile, ‘Father selling daughter” fiasco that plagued young “Slumdog Millionaire” star Rubina Ali that was brought on by the dubious British tabloid press (and no one seemed to treat it with much suspicion sadly). The Jai Ho Trust has released a statement informing us that Ali’s welfare and that of her family were being looked after securely. Investigations, meanwhile, are still taking place regarding her father’s alleged actions. [EW]