The French prison thriller A Prophet has topped nominations for this year’s European Film Awards, garnering six nods including one for best picture. Directed by Jacques Audiard, the movie is also in line for: * Best director. * Actor, Tahar Rahim. * Screenwriting, Audiard and Thomas Bidegain. * Cinematography, Stephane Fontaine. The gritty story of [...]

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Gwyneth Paltrow has signed on to The Danish Girl, a film chronicling the real-life story of the world’s first post-operative transsexual, Einar Wegener. Wegener will be portrayed by Nicole Kidman, and Paltrow will play Wegener’s wife, Greta, a portrait painter who one day asked her husband to stand in for a female model. Charlize Theron [...]

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Rock singer/actor Reeve Carney will play ‘Peter Parker’ in the upcoming Spider-Man musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, featuring the first stage characterization of the Marvel Comics’ villain, the ‘Green Goblin’.

The $40 million production will open on Broadway in 2010 @ New York City’s Hilton Theatre, currently under extensive renovation to accommodate the planned web-swinging stunts, directed by Julie “The Lion King” Taymor.

Music/lyrics for Spider-Man is by U2′s Bono and The Edge.

Carney, who has appeared in several films including Taymor’s upcoming adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest is the lead singer of the band ‘Carney’.

Spider-Man cast also includes Alan Cumming as ‘Norman Osborn’, aka the ‘Green Goblin’ and Evan Rachel Wood as ‘Mary Jane Watson’, Parker’s girlfriend.

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