Source: WFSB

Hollywood came to Derby Saturday, where parts of Griffin Hospital were turned into a movie set.

“The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” stars Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Robin Wright Penn.The director is Rebecca Miller, daughter of the late playwright Arthur Miller of Roxbury.Earlier this week, some scenes were filmed around the town of New Milford, and other scenes are scheduled to film in Southbury, Danbury, New Milford and Stamford.

The drama is set to hit theaters sometime next year.

Source: The Republican

The buzz can be confirmed: actor Keanu Reeves has visited, and will return to Southbury later this month to film his latest movie. Reeves and fellow stars Winona Ryder, Robin Wright Penn, Julianne Moore and Alan Arkin have roles in the movie “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” which will be shot in Southbury later this month. A production crew and a couple of actors and actresses, including Reeves, were in town Monday and Tuesday doing site work for the upcoming shoot, which will be in and around a condominium in the vicinity of Grove Pond Lane off Krueger Circle in the village.

Source: REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN

The buzz can be confirmed: actor Keanu Reeves has visited, and will return to Southbury later this month to film his latest movie. Reeves and fellow stars Winona Ryder, Robin Wright Penn, Julianne Moore and Alan Arkin have roles in the movie “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” which will be shot in Southbury later this month. A production crew and a couple of actors and actresses, including Reeves, were in town Monday and Tuesday doing site work for the upcoming shoot, which will be in and around a condominium in the vicinity of Grove Pond Lane off Krueger Circle in the village.

Source: The Province

Keanu Reeves and co. wrapped up location work at the PNE Forum last week for their sci-fi remake. Director Scott Derrickson has taken a step up in scale from his B.C.-filmed The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
The film has been set a release date of December 12th, 2008.

First trailer for the upcoming film Street Kings has been released. Street Kings hits theaters on April 11th 2008.

You can view the trailer in several sizes at Yahoo! Movies. Screencaptures have been added to the gallery, just click on the images below.

Keanu Reeves, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Alan Arkin and Monica Bellucci have joined the all-star cast of “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” from writer-director Rebecca Miller.

Adapted by Miller — the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and wife of Daniel Day-Lewis — from her forthcoming novel, the comedy-drama “centers on a dutiful 50-year-old wife whose husband falls for a younger woman, freeing her to explore her buried sensuality and leading to a very quiet nervous breakdown.”

Robin Wright Penn already is on board as the title character. Julianne Moore and Winona Ryder have been cast as well.

Arkin plays the husband who leaves Wright Penn for Ryder. Bellucci will play his first wife.

Reeves will play Wright Penn’s younger lover, while Gyllenhaal plays Wright Penn’s diet-pill-addicted mother in flashback sequences. Moore portrays a lesbian novelist.

Reeves is now shooting “The Day the Earth Stood Still” for 20th Century Fox.

Source: Comingsoon.Net

Fox Searchlight Pictures has retitled “The Night Watchman” to Street Kings. Opening in theaters on April 11, the police thriller stars Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Naomie Harris, Jay Mohr, John Corbett, Cedric the Entertainer, Amaury Nolasco, Terry Crews, Common and The Game.

In the film, directed by David Ayer, Keanu Reeves plays Tom Ludlow, a veteran LAPD Vice Detective. Ludlow sets out on a quest to discover the killers of his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington (Crews). Whitaker plays Captain Wander, Ludlo’s supervisor, whose duties include keeping him within the confines of the law and out of the clutches of Internal Affairs Captain Biggs (Laurie). Ludlow teams up with a young Robbery Homicide Detective (Evans) to track Washington’s killers through the diverse communities of Los Angeles. Their determination pays off when the two Detectives track down Washington’s murderers and confront them in an attempt to bring them to justice.

Written by James Elroy and Ayer (Training Day), Street Kings is produced by Erwin Stoff, Alexandra Milchan and Lucas Foster.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Golden Globe nominee Jon Hamm of “Mad Men” will star opposite Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly in the sci-fi remake “The Day the Earth Stood Still” for Fox.

Hamm will play Dr. Granier, a NASA official who recruits Helen (Connelly) for the scientific team investigating an alien’s arrival on Earth. Reeves plays Klaatu, the alien who has a simple message: Live in peace or be destroyed.

Scott Derrickson (”The Exorcism of Emily Rose”) will direct the update of Robert Wise’s 1951 classic from a screenplay by David Scarpa. Erwin Stoff and Paul Harris Boardman are producing the project. Principal photography began Dec. 12 in Vancouver. Hamm started shooting Tuesday, according to the studio.

Hamm is up for a Golden Globe as lead actor in a drama for his role on AMC’s “Mad Men,” which also earned a nom for drama series. He next will be seen with Josh Lucas in the indie thriller “The Boy in the Box.”

Jennifer Connelly will star opposite Keanu Reeves in a remake of the 1951 sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still. She will portray the part of a widow and young mother who meets Reeves’s character, Klaatu, an extraterrestrial who attempts to convince mankind to live peacefully or face annihilation from other planets. Filming is due to start next year, with the director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Scott Derrickson, at the helm.

Twentieth Century Fox has announced they’re going for a Christmas 2008 release for The Day the Earth Stood Still, the remake of the 1951 classic. The movie was originally set for a May 9 release date, though it’s not clear whether that was 2008 or 2009.