According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Ang Lee has replaced Tobey Maguire, who was to play the role of “The Writer” in Life of Pi, with Rafe Spall, recently seen in Prometheus. Apparently, Lee decided that Maguire was too recognizable in a cast of unknowns. I guess he didn’t want the tiger upstaged by a spider(man)!
Entries Tagged as 'Hear It Here First'
Casting change for Life of Pi
September 6th, 2012 · No Comments · Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies
Tags: ang lee·life of pi·movie·tobey maguire
Hobbit finishes shooting
July 26th, 2012 · No Comments · Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies
Peter Jackson’s eighth Hobbit production diary video has been posted! It includes some footage of the director and cast at Comic-Con, plus the video they showed there. We get a few more peeks at the sets and characters, and a look at the last few days of principal photography in New Zealand. Now they’re working on post-production […]
Tags: comic-con·hobbit·movie·Peter Jackson·Tolkien
Old Jews on the Radio
July 25th, 2012 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First
The off-Broadway adaptation of Old Jews Telling Jokes is going strong since opening in May of this year. The show’s producer, Daniel Okrent, recently visited the WNYC’s Leonard Lopate, along with two of the performers from the show, Todd Susman and Audrey Lynn Weston. Listen here. Until you can make New York to see the show, you […]
Tags: Audrey Lynn Weston·Daniel Okrent·Leonard Lopate·old jews telling jokes·Todd Susman
First Pi scene online!
June 15th, 2012 · No Comments · Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies
The first clip from the upcoming Life of Pi movie has appeared online, and it’s pretty awesome. All 10 seconds of it! If we weren’t excited for November 21 before, we sure are now. See the clip, plus a few new images from the movie, at the official Life of Pi movie site.
Tags: life of pi·movie
The Search for Hector is successful
May 21st, 2012 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies
News out of the Cannes film festival: The movie version of Hector and the Search for Happiness, by François Lelord, has found its leading man. British actor Simon Pegg, known for roles in Shaun of the Dead and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, will play the title role of a psychiatrist who travels the globe trying to […]
Tags: Francois Lelord·hector and the search for happiness·movie·Simon Pegg
Early Oscar buzz for Life of Pi
April 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies
This week, the first images from the upcoming film Life of Pi, based on the book by Yann Martel and directed by Ang Lee, were released, and they’re impressive. Then, 20th Century Fox showed some preliminary footage of the film at the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas. According to firstshowing.net, the footage was “…magical, visually […]
Such a deal for Old Jews Telling Jokes!
April 20th, 2012 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First
Tickets have gone on sale for the off-Broadway stage production of Old Jews Telling Jokes, inspired by the website, which has been adapted into a book and two audio productions: Old Jews Telling Jokes and The Joke-Off. Check out the first photos of the cast on Broadway World. Old Jews Telling Jokes takes the stage at the Westside […]
From Minneapolis to the Galaxy
April 2nd, 2012 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies
One of our favorite readers is racking up some frequent-flyer miles. Simon Jones, reader of HighBridge titles including the Lionboy series and The Labrador Pact, is appearing in the Guthrie Theater’s acclaimed production of Noël Coward’s Hay Fever now through April 22. Simon plays David Bliss, the head of an eccentric family in this delightful […]
Tags: Guthrie Theater·Hay Fever·Labrador Pact·Lionboy·Simon Jones·The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Old Jews Telling Jokes Off-Broadway
March 22nd, 2012 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First
The cast has been announced for the Off-Broadway production of Old Jews Telling Jokes, which begins performances in May at the Westside Theater in New York. Bill Army, Marilyn Sokol, Todd Susman, Audrey Lynn Weston, and Lenny Wolpe will be featured in the show, which was inspired by the Old Jews Telling Jokes website, which […]
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Literary Death Match in Minneapolis
February 29th, 2012 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First
No, we didn’t make that up for a catchy headline. It’s a real event taking place Thursday night, March 1 at the Nomad World Pub. Literary Death Match puts on these events all over the country, and the Minnesota installment just happens to include not one, but TWO, HighBridge authors. Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer, […]
Tags: bad dog·kao kalia yang·latehomecomer·literary death match·martin kihn·nomad world pub