Tag: Julia Roberts

  • Dan Stevens replaces Armie Hammer in Julia Roberts-starrer Watergate sequence ‘Gaslit’

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Actor Dan Stevens has joined Hollywood stars Julia Roberts and Sean Penn in Watergate sequence “Gaslit”, an upcoming anthology primarily based on award-winning podcast “Slow Burn”. According to Variety, arrange at Starz, the primary season of the Robbie Pickering-created present will give attention to the Watergate scandal that introduced down the presidency of Richard Nixon in 1974.

    Stevens, who has beforehand starred in tv hits corresponding to “Downton Abbey” and “Legion”, will play former White House counsel John Dean changing actor Armie Hammer, who fell off the present within the wake of sexual assault allegations.

    “The show focuses on the untold stories and forgotten characters of the scandal – from Nixon’s bumbling, opportunistic subordinates, to the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes, to the tragic whistleblowers who would eventually bring the whole rotten enterprise crashing down,” the plotline reads.

    Roberts will star as Martha Mitchell, a celeb Arkansan socialite and spouse to Nixon’s loyal Attorney General, John Mitchell (Penn). “Captain Fantastic” director Matt Ross will helm the sequence, which shall be produced by UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, for Starz.

  • George Clooney, Julia Roberts reteam for ‘Ticket to Paradise’

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts are set to reunite for upcoming film “Ticket to Paradise”.

    The movie, which hails from Universal Pictures and Working Title, will likely be directed by “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” helmer Ol Parker, reported Variety.

    Clooney and Roberts will play a divorced couple who groups up and travels to Bali to cease their daughter from making the identical mistake they suppose they made 25 years in the past.

    The two actors beforehand collaborated on two “Ocean’s” Eleven” films and also for 2016 movie “Money Monster”.

    “Ticket to Paradise” has a script from Ted Melfi based mostly on an concept by Parker and Daniel Pipski.

    Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce alongside Deborah Balder Stone and Sarah Harvey.

    Clooney most not too long ago featured in Netflix’s sci-fi film “The Midnight Sky”.

    Roberts will subsequent star as Martha Mitchell within the TV sequence “Gaslit”.