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Helen Mirren May Take A 'Hundred-Foot Journey' With Lasse Halstrom; Chris Columbus & Robert Schwentke Line Up Gigs

  • By Jason McDonald
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  • June 4, 2013 11:25 AM
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From books about cooks to pixels on the loose and oil tankers in peril, this batch of news has something to satisfy everyone. Provided, of course, that you aren’t opposed to pixels, tankers, and cooks. And if you have some sort of weird aversion to those three specific things, well, I just don’t know what to say to you reader.
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More: The One Hundred-Foot Journey, Lasse Hallström, Helen Mirren, Pixels, Chris Columbus, Robert Schwentke, The Finest Hour

Robert Schwentke Heads To HBO To Direct Pilot Episode Of 'The Lobotomist'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • November 28, 2011 9:45 AM
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With "R.I.P.D." not slated to hit theaters until 2013, director Robert Schwentke will have a some time to kill until then. Late this summer, he lined up what is expected to be his next feature film, "The Poison Kitchen," a film set in the early days of the Nazi's rise to power, marking a change of pace for the director. With that film set lens to sometime next year, it looks like he'll make a quick detour to television first.
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More: Robert Schwentke, The Lobotomist

Robert Schwentke Will Cook Up Nazi History In 'The Poison Kitchen'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • August 9, 2011 3:36 AM
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Late last summer, director Robert Schwentke found himself in a very enviable position in Hollywood. Word on his elderly action pic "Red" was very strong and he had a few potential projects on his plate including the U-boat drama "Shadow Divers," the Robert Ludlum adaptation "The Osterman Weekend" and of course, "R.I.P.D." which now has Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Bacon set to star and should be shooting later this year. But things are moving fast and if all goes according to plan, Schwentke will have another project to shoot next year and one that will be quite different from his last couple of efforts.
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More: Films, Robert Schwentke, The Poison Kitchen

Jodie Foster Courted To Join Ryan Reynolds & Jeff Bridges In 'R.I.P.D.'?

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • June 27, 2011 1:45 AM
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After many years of worthy, middlebrow would-be-Oscar pictures and my-daughter-is-in-peril films, it finally seems like Jodie Foster is ready to have fun again. Playing a character described as "a magnificent c**t" in Spike Lee's "Inside Man" seems to have loosened the Oscar-winning actress up a bit, with subsequent roles including kids' flick "Nim's Island," voicing Maggie Simpson, and trading barbs in Roman Polanski's upcoming "Carnage."
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Robert Schwentke, Genre Films, Ryan Reynolds, R.I.P.D.

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