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This could be interesting, so pay good attention folks! Ben Kingsley, Julian Sands, Jena Malone and Michele Martin are all set to star in the upcoming Charles Huddleston‘s project titled A Doll’s House. If this sounds familiar – then it should be, because we’re talking about an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play of the [...]

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They say art is timeless. That may not always be true, but we can probably say this much: all art eventually becomes timely again. Case in point, Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House, which is being adapted and set amongst the modern economic crisis by writer/director Charles Huddleston. He's already lining up a hell of a cast, as well: Variety reports that Ben Kingsley, Julian Sands, and Jena Malone are on board for the film. Ibsen's play, originally premiered in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1879, centers around a family struggling with financial troubles and secrets that threaten to split them apart. Huddleston adapted the play along with Michele Martin (who previously co-wrote Dadgum, Texas with Huddleston). Martin is also acting in A Doll's House, playing the lead female role of Nora Helmer. Kingsley and Malone will be taking on the roles of Dr. Rank and Christine Linde, friend of Nora's.

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Ben Kingsley, Jenna Malone, Michele Martin and Julian Sands have all been cast in Charles Huddleston’s contemporary look on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House. Both Huddleston and Martin wrote the screenplay for the film about marriage falling apart during the holiday season. According to Variety the filming is expected to begin in Cincinnati in January of 2012.

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Ben Kingsley, Julian Sands, Jena Malone and Michele Martin have scored the lead roles in the film adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 19th century classic play "A Doll's House" says Variety.

The story centers on a young woman's marriage to an overbearing husband, with the action shifted to be set during today's recession. Martin will play Nora Helmer, the naive young wife of a banking executive.

Malone will play a friend of Nora's who has to decide between her loyalty to Nora and her own future. Kingsley is attached for the role of Dr. Rank, a friend to the Helmers. Sands will play a professional in the seedy world of lending desperate people money.

Charles Huddleston will direct from a screenplay he adapted with Martin. Shooting kicks off in January in Cincinnati.

We’re hearing from Variety that James Franco and Harmony Korine will make their second pairing in Spring Breakers, something I would call a drama — but you never know with this guy. The film follows “four college-aged girls who rob a fast food restaurant to afford spring break in Florida, only to get arrested upon their arrival.”

Franco has been locked to play “Alien, a rapping drug and arms dealer who bails them out and entices them to kill his arch-rival, a murderer who is appropriately named Arch,” and Emma Roberts is in talks for the part of “one of the girls, Candy, a Southern brunette who feeds off danger.” Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez are also in talks (why are you looking at me like I’m joking?). Should they join, the latter will appear as “a religious girl who isn’t a thrill-seeker like the rest of the group.

Ben Kingsley, Julian Sands, Jena Malone, and Michele Mart&#237n have signed on to star in A Doll's House for Cinema Alterna and director Charles Huddleston.

The project is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1978 play, set in modern times. The story centers on Nora Helmer (Michele Mart&#237n), a young wife trying to escape from her overbearing husband, in the midst of today's economic recession. Ben Kingsley will play Dr. Rank, a family friend of the Helmers, while Jena Malone is set to portray Christine Linde, one of Nora's close friends. Julian Sands will portray Nathan Gynt, a shady loan shark.

Charles Huddleston will direct from a script he co-wrote with Michele Mart&#237n, adapted from Henrik Ibsen's play. Here's what Charles Huddleston had to say about updating the play for the 21st Century.

"Ibsen's tale of a family unraveling in the face of the debt crisis...

The cast has been set for the feature film adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play A Doll’s House. Ben Kingsley, Jena Malone, Julian Sands (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), and Michele Martin (Assisting Venus) are set as the leads in the adaptation. Charles Huddleston (Assisting Venus) is directing the pic which will be a modern day version of Ibsen’s play. The film centers on “a young woman’s escape from an overbearing husband set during today’s recession.” Variety reports that Martin will play Nora Helmer, the young wife of a banking executive. Malone will take on the role of Nora’s friend Christine, who must choose between her loyalty to her friend or her own future, with Kingsley playing the Helmers' friend Dr. Rank and Sands set as Nathan, “a professional in the seedy world of lending desperate people money.” Ibsen’s Norwegian play was...

A modern-day take on Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House is on the way. Variety reports that the cast includes Ben Kingsley, Jenna Malone, Michele Martin and Julian Sands. The project will be directed by Charles Huddleston and written by Huddleston and Martin (the pair previously collaborated on the indie projects Dadgum, Texas and Assisting Venus , the latter of which also starred Sands). Ibsen originally wrote A Doll's House in 1879, telling the story of a failing marriage against a Christmas backdrop. The updated version, to film in Cincinnati in January of 2012, will make use of the present-day American economy. Martin will play Nora Helmer with Malone as Mrs. Linde and Kingsley as Dr. Rank. Sands' role is that of "Nathan Gynt" (possibly a variation of the...

The 7th annual Atlanta Underground Film Festival is like having four different fests crammed into an exhaustive three days on Aug. 27-29. It’s an outrageous underground fest, an animation festival, a documentary fest and a horror movie festival: The culmination of a month of fests run by Atlanta’s Festival League. There’s tons of short films, documentaries, features and more.

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Jeff Fahey to star in Dadgum, Texas Actor Jeff Fahey of Lost and the upcoming controversial Robert Rodriguez film Machete has been cast in the small-town comedy Dadgum, Texas from independent production company Terran Enterprises and director Charles Huddleston.

Dadgum, Texas stars Michele Martin as Jennie Lee "Baby" Magee, a young woman "fixin' to get herself hitched," and Martin Morales as her flamboyant wedding designer, Sanchez Horowitz. Jennie Lee's happiest day before the happiest day of her life is progressively and hilariously destroyed when she finds out the perfect life she thought she had was a lie and the wedding dress store is held up by two bumbling bandits. Fahey plays Jennie Lee's proud father and the mayor of the small town of Dadgum. Jennie Lee's mother, oblivious to the insanity around her and obsessed with planning a perfect wedding, is played by Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, who starred...

"Lost" star Jeff Fahey, who can next be seen on the big screen in Robert Rodriguez's Machete , has been cast in the small-town comedy Dadgum, Texas from independent production company Terran Enterprises and director Charles Huddleston. The film stars Michele Martin as Jennie Lee "Baby" Magee, a young woman "fixin' to get herself hitched," and Martin Morales as her flamboyant wedding designer, Sanchez Horowitz. Jennie Lee's happiest day before the happiest day of her life is progressively and hilariously destroyed when she finds out the perfect life she thought she had was a lie and the wedding dress store is held up by two bumbling bandits. Fahey plays Jennie Lee's proud father and the mayor of the small town of Dadgum. Jennie Lee's mother,...