Applegate, Day ready to go the Distance
Charley Day, one of the stars and creators of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia and Christina Applegate have joined Drew Barrymore and Justin Long in the romantic comedy Going The Distance.
Nanette Burstein (American Teen) is directing the New Line project.
The story by first-time scribe Geoff LaTulippe follows a couple (Barrymore and Long) as they try to maintain a long-distance relationship. Day will play Long’s best friend and Applegate is cast as Barrymore’s sister. Day writes and executive produces as well as acts in Philadelphia with Glenn Howerton and Rob McElhenney.
Applegate stars in the recently cancelled ABC sitcom Samantha Who?, whose last episodes air this summer. On the big screen, she last appeared in The Rocker and next lends her voice to Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.
Pearce, Madison not afraid of The Dark
Guy Pearce is in final negotiations and Bailee Madison is set to star with Katie Holmes in Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark, a supernatural-thriller based on a 1973 telefilm.
The original ABC movie centered on a young girl who moves in with her father and his girlfriend and discovers they are sharing the house with demonic creatures. Madison (Bridge To Terabithia) will play the girl, who discovers the creatures and is fascinated by them — until they prove dangerous. Pearce will play the father, an author frustrated by his daughter’s tales of monsters, not believing her even when his girlfriend (Holmes) backs her.
Troy Nixey, a protege of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, is directing the film for Miramax. Del Toro wrote the script with Matthew Robbins.
Madison next appears in Jim Sheridan’s Brothers alongside Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman. Due for release next year are An Invisible Sign Of My Own, with Jessica Alba and Betty Anne Waters, with Hilary Swank.
Pearce has a cameo in Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker and next appears in The Road, Dimension’s adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel.
Amy Adams to join Wahlberg, Bale in Fighter
Amy Adams is in final negotiations to star opposite Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg in the boxing-themed true-life drama The Fighter.
David O. Russell (Three Kings,I Heart Huckabees) is directing the feature for Relativity Media and Paramount Pictures will distribute the film domestically.
The movie revolves around boxer Irish Mickey Ward (Wahlberg) and his trainer half-brother Dick Eklund (Bale), chronicling their early days on the rough streets of Lowell, Mass, through Eklund’s battle with drugs and Ward’s eventual world championship.
Adams will play Charlene, a tough bartender and former college high-jumper who dates Mickey.
Melissa Leo has been cast as the mother of the two central characters.
Adams next appears opposite Meryl Streep in Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia, which opens August 7. The actress, now onscreen as Amelia Earhart in Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian, has wrapped production on Anand Tucker’s romantic comedy Leap Year.
Dukakis, Fricker to star in Cloudburst
Veteran actresses and fellow Oscar winners Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker are teaming up for a road-trip comedy, Cloudburst.
Dukakis and Fricker will play a couple, together for 30 years, who break out of a nursing home and head to Canada to get married, picking up a young male hitchhiker along the way.
Thom Fitzgerald, who worked with Dukakis on the films The Event and 3 Needles, is writing and directing the feature for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.
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