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Stars stand up to cancer

Source: 9 WSYR Tobey Maguire, Casey Affleck, Keanu Reeves and Susan Sarandon are among the stars taking a stand for cancer research as part of a new television special. The celebrities appear in a new TV ad for the upcoming Stand Up To Cancer telethon on September 5. The hour-long commercial-free special will feature performances from rock and pop’s biggest names and appearances from movie stars.

Hollywood Comes To Area

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 [...]

Filming in Southbury this month

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 [...]

Keanu Reeves being filmed in Southbury

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 [...]

The Day the Earth Stood Still

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.

Street Kings trailer

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.

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

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.” [...]

The Night Watchman Retitled to Street Kings

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 [...]

Hamm probes space visitor in ‘Stood Still’

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 [...]

Connelly joins Reeves in sci-fi remake

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.