Irish Eye On Hollywood

In early December, director Jim Sheridan’s next film Brothers will also be released. Featuring Jake Gyllenhall and Tobey Maguire as the titular siblings, Sheridan (In America, In the Name of the Father) is aiming for another Oscar in this drama about an Afghan War veteran (Maguire) who returns home to a wife (Natalie Portman) who may have fallen in love with Gyllenhall’s character.

Anjelica Huston – daughter of Irish-American Hollywood legend John Huston, whose last film was James Joyce’s The Dead – will ring in the new year co-starring in a romantic comedy entitled When in Rome. Also starring Kristen Bell and Jon Heder (forever known as Napoleon Dynamite), When in Rome is about an ambitious New York woman (Bell) who runs off to Rome in search of love. She comes across a seemingly magic fountain, which sends an odd assortment of potential lovers her way. When a nosy reporter (Josh Duhamel) begins sniffing around the story of the magic fountain, it could be that true love has been found.
Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) and Irish-American thespian Martin Sheen have signed on to star in an Irish movie project, which will actually be shooting in the Tipperary town where Sheen’s mother was born. The film, entitled Stella Days, features Sheen as a movie-loving priest, and is based on the life of an Irish priest by the name of Father Dean Cahill, who set up a movie theater in the tiny town of Borrisokane in the 1950s and 1960s. In Stella Days, Sheen’s character fears he has lost his passion for the priesthood. That is, until the locals – and the movies – light a new fire inside of him. Thaddeus O’Sullivan (Ordinary Decent Criminal) is among those who have been mentioned to serve as director of Stella Days. The film is based on a book by Michael Dorley Dubhairle entitled Stella Days: The Life and Times of a Rural Irish Cinema.

Ridley Scott’s The A-Team is just one of several movies Liam Neeson has coming out soon. In 2011, you’ll see Neeson with the aforementioned Russell Crowe and Irish-American actress Olivia Wilde (best known for TV roles in House and the Irish New York drama The Black Donnellys) in The Next Three Days. Based on a French film entitled Anything for Her, The Next Three Days also features Irish-American veteran Brian Dennehy, as well as Elizabeth Banks (W). The film will be directed by Paul Haggis, who won an Oscar for 2004’s Crash.
Neeson will also be seen in an upcoming film about Irish showbands in America entitled The Virgin of Las Vegas. U2 frontman Bono is among the producers.

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