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‘Beautiful Creatures’ Gets High School Clique Leader

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 16, 2012 @ 10:39pm
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Beautiful Creatures Gets High School Clique Leader

TV stars Margo Martindale (“Justified”) and Zoey Deutch (pictured; “Ringer”) are in final negotiations to join the cast of Alcon Entertainment’s Beautiful Creatures, says Variety.

Richard LaGravenese is writing and directing the supernatural love story based on the first novel in Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s popular series. Alcon has film rights to all three books, hoping “Creatures” will kick off a possible franchise at Warner Bros., which will distribute.

Newcomers Jack O’Connell and Alice Englert star as Ethan and Lena, teenage lovers who uncover dark secrets about their families, their history and their town. Martindale will play Lena’s Aunt Del, who helps to protect her from the family’s dark side. Deutch will play Emily Asher, Ethan’s ex-girlfriend and the ringleader of the high school’s popular clique that conspires against Lena. Pic co-stars Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis, Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum and Project X star Thomas Mann.

Filming begins next month in and around New Orleans. READ MORE

Jeremy Irons Joins Up With The ‘Beautiful Creatures’

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Posted by EvanDickson on March 14, 2012 @ 12:27am
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JeremyIrons31312 Jeremy Irons Joins Up With The Beautiful Creatures

Jeremy Irons (Die Hard With A Vengeance, “The Borgias”) has been announced to star in the upcoming adaptation of Beautiful Creatures, the first novel in Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s popular series that is being produced by Alcon Entertainment.

Per Variety, “Jeremy Irons is in final negotiations to join the cast of Alcon’s ‘Beautiful Creatures’ taking the role of a mysterious and reclusive uncle in the supernatural love story.”

Richard LaGravenese is writing and directing the supernatural love story, which stars Jack O’Connell (Eden Lake) and Alice Englert as two star-crossed teens who uncover dark secrets about their families, their history and their town. Thomas Mann (Project X, Fun Size) was also recently announced as part of the cast.

Viola Davis, Emma Thompson and Emmy Rossum co-star, with the latter thesp playing a witch who is Englert’s cousin and enemy. In the first book, “high-school student Ethan Wate meets and becomes bewitched by Lena Duchannes, a 16-year-old whose family has moved to the small South Carolina town where he lives. The two must confront a curse that has haunted her family for generations as she comes to grips with her powers.”

Production on the Southern pic starts next month in New Orleans. READ MORE

‘Project X’ Nerd Plays With ‘Beautiful Creatures’ Magic

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 06, 2012 @ 3:39pm
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Project X Nerd Plays With Beautiful Creatures Magic

Hot off his starring turn in Warner Bros.’ hit comedy Project X, Thomas Mann (pictured, center) – who will also be seen in Fun Size and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters – is in negotiations to join the studio’s adaptation of Beautiful Creatures, the first novel in Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s popular series that is being produced by Alcon Entertainment, reports Variety.

Richard LaGravenese is writing and directing the supernatural love story, which stars Jack O’Connell (Eden Lake) and Alice Englert as two star-crossed teens who uncover dark secrets about their families, their history and their town.

Viola Davis, Emma Thompson and Emmy Rossum co-star, with the latter thesp playing a witch who is Englert’s cousin and enemy.

Mann is in talks to play Link, O’Connell’s best friend who’s fond of both music and magic, which Rossum’s character uses to get Link to obey her commands.

“In the first book, high-school student Ethan Wate meets and becomes bewitched by Lena Duchannes, a 16-year-old whose family has moved to the small South Carolina town where he lives. The two must confront a curse that has haunted her family for generations as she comes to grips with her powers.”

Production on the Southern pic starts next month in New Orleans. READ MORE

A New ‘Beautiful Creature’ Cast

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Posted by MrDisgusting on March 02, 2012 @ 10:09pm
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“Shameless” star Emmy Rossum is in final negotiations to join the cast of Warner Bros. and Alcon Entertainment’s supernatural love story Beautiful Creatures, reports Variety.

Richard LaGravenese will direct from his own adaptation of the first novel in Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s popular series of novels, all three of which were published by Little Brown Books.

“Set in the South, story follows two star-crossed teenage lovers — a local boy and a mysterious new girl — who uncover dark secrets about their families, their history and their town.”

Jack O’Connell and Alice Englert are set to star alongside Viola Davis and Emma Thompson. Rossum will play Ridley, Englert’s cousin who became a dark witch on her 16th birthday, which turned the two girls into enemies.

Erwin Stoff is producing with Alcon toppers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove. Pic starts shooting next month in New Orleans. READ MORE

Warners Slates ‘Beautiful Creatures’ For 2013

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 15, 2012 @ 6:39am
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Now that the long-gestured Beautiful Creatures is gearing up for production, Alcon has slated the Richard LaGravenese-directed genre flick starring Viola Davis, Jack O’Connell, Alice Englert and Emma Thompson for release on February 1, 2013.

“The first of a five-novel series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. In the first book, high-school student Ethan Wate meets and becomes bewitched by Lena Duchannes, a 16-year-old whose family has moved to the small South Carolina town where he lives. The two must confront a curse that has haunted her family for generations as she comes to grips with her powers.”

The pic is to be released via Warner Bros. Pictures. READ MORE

Two More Youngsters Haunted By ‘Beautiful Creatures’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 08, 2012 @ 5:34am
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Jack O’Connell (pictured below) and Alice Englert are in final negotiations to join Viola Davis in Beautiful Creatures, Alcon’s adaptation of a novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, reports THR.

Richard LaGravanese adapted the book, the first in a series, and is directing. Warner Bros., which has an output deal with Alcon, is releasing the movie.

“Set in the South, Creatures centers on two high school teens who must confront a curse that has haunted the girl’s family for generations.”

O’Connell appeared in the British TV series “Skins” as well as movies such as the Michael Caine-starrer Harry Brown and the Australian horror movie Eden Lake, which featured then-rising actor Michael Fassbender and was directed by The Woman in Black‘s James Watkins. READ MORE