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Laura Hillenbrand's best-selling nonfiction novel comes to life with this spectacular big-screen adaptation. Set in the 1930s, SEABISCUIT weaves its story around three men who turned a seemingly untamable horse into a bona fide champion. Jeff Bridges is Charles Howard, a thriving entrepreneur who gives horse racing a shot when .. Read more

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  Sinise sparks Seabiscuit translation for Iraqi kids

  • 22 Mar 2009

  Forrest Gump star Gary Sinise has funded a reprint of beloved horse racing book Seabiscuit in Arabic, so Iraqi schoolchildren can read it. The actor teamed up with the book's author, Laura Hillenbrand, after learning that kids in Baghdad had become big fans of her tale of a heroic racehorse - after a U.S. colonel had attempted to translate segments for them. Sinise tells WENN, "Laura wanted to get it translated to Arabic because one of the colonels was reading the book and the Iraqi kids... Read more

  

  Damon: 'RFK role is a big responsibility'

  • 11 Mar 2010

  Matt Damon is feeling the pressure of playing tragic U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy in a forthcoming biopic, because the role comes with "a lot of responsibility". Damon is in talks to play the politician who was assassinated in 1968, just five years after his brother President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas, Texas. The movie will be directed by Seabiscuit helmer Gary Ross, and based on Evan Thomas' biography of Kennedy, titled His Life. Damon has confirmed he'll take the starring... Read more

  

  Damon lands Kennedy role

  • 25 Feb 2010

  Matt Damon is preparing to follow in the footsteps of stars including Casey Affleck and Martin Sheen by playing tragic U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The actor is in talks to star in a new biopic about the politician, who was assassinated in 1968, just five years after his brother President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy has previously been portrayed on screen by Sheen in 1974 TV movie The Missiles of October, by Affleck in The Kennedys of Massachusetts, and more... Read more

  

  Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

  • 24 May 2007

  It takes an age before Johnny Depp shows his face in Pirates the Third, and when he does, it's the tip of his nose that looms into screen left, eventually succeeded by a flaring nostril. I doubt there's been a larger, longer close up of a proboscis this side of Seabiscuit. There's no rhyme or reason for it, really, but our indulgence is rewarded when not one, not two, but an entire crew of digital Johnnies hive into view, flouncing and flailing for all they are worth. One even lays an egg.... Read more

  

  Tobey Maguire to sell his soul?

  • 29 Jan 2007

  Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire is on track to sell his soul in Hollywood , having bought the rights to the story of a man who sold his soul online. Maguire, who has starred alongside Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina and Willem Dafoe in the Spider-Man franchise, has led a bid for the story of Gerald Fraller, a 29-year-old who put his soul up for sale on a website. Maguire's production company is believed to have bought the rights to the story with a view to producing a new film about Fraller's life... Read more

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