Directed by Larysa Kondracki, making her feature film debut, The Whistleblower has an impressive cast, including Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn, Monica Bellucci, Benedict Cumberbatch and Luke Treadaway. Larysa Kondracki co-wrote the script alongside Eilis Kirwan. The Whistleblower does not yet have a distributor, so a release date is currently unknown. However, with a cast list this impressive, expect a studio to snap the film up in the not too distant future.
Official synopsis: Kathryn Bolkovac (Weisz) is a Nebraska cop who is thrust into the gravelly snake pit of UN regulated Bosnia. She works as part of a private corporate army, training Bosnian police to restore order to the war-torn country. As she begins to get the lay of the land in her new environment, she starts to see signs of a terrible underground industry whose patrons are not only from within the corporation but from within the United Nations as well. After finding a woman who has escaped from a human trafficker selling sex slaves to hidden brothels in the area, Kathryn begins to see how expansive an industry it has become in the years following the war. As she gathers more and more evidence to bring to light she discovers the last thing she ever expected, that there is no way for the corporate army and UN officers to be held accountable for their actions. Based on the harrowing true story of a single womans quest for justice in the face of a truth no one wanted to expose and organizations facilitating the very crimes they were created to stop. But is one woman enough to go up against the United Nations and its corporate conspirators.

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Ben Affleck and Rachel Weisz have joined the growing cast of the Untitled Terrence Malick Project, according to The Wrap. We reported back in February that Christian Bale, Javier Bardem, Rachel McAdams and Olga Kurylenko had joined the new Terrence Malick film and now this new story reveals that Affleck would be replacing Christian Bale in the film. However, Affleck’s reps wouldn’t confirm the casting, while Weisz’s reps did confirm her casting. There hasn’t been any information released on the story of this new film, but it had been previously described as a, “romantic drama” and a “powerful love story.” It was said that production was slated to start this October in Oklahoma. Untitled Terrence Malick Project comes to theaters in 2011 and stars Rachel McAdams, Christian Bale, Javier Bardem, Olga Kurylenko, Ben Affleck, Rachel Weisz. The film is directed by Terrence Malick.

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Hollywood actor Russell Crowe of Gladiator fame has replaced the late actor Heath Ledger in the forthcoming Australian movie Dirt Music. The movie is an adaptation of a Booker prize shortlisted novel by Tim Winton. Initially, Ledger was signed to play the male lead role in the film opposite Rachel Weisz. But, the actor left the project to take up the role of the Joker in The Dark Knight. Moreover, the actor passed away in 2008 thus clearing the way for Crowe. Phillip Noyce, the director of the film, has now confirmed that the movie will start rolling with Russell Crowe in the lead. He added, “We were almost prepared with the money and the lead actors Heath and Rachel Weisz. But, then Health wanted to play the Joker so none could argue with that. It took some time to find out someone suitable to play the lead role ‘Luther’.” With Dirt Music, Crowe will be seen in an Australian movie in more than a decade.

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Rachel Weisz has reportedly entered talks to star in upcoming drama The Deep Blue Sea. The film is an adaptation of a 1952 play by writer Terence Rattigan, reports Deadline. Weisz is circling the role of a 40-year-old woman named Hester Collyer who leaves her husband and becomes “sexually enslaved” by an alcoholic former fighter pilot. Actress Greta Scacchi previously played the role in a recent stage revival. Peggy Ashcroft was the first actress to play the role. House of Mirth helmer Terence Davies is directing the picture.

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Actress Rachel Weisz is already feeling the huge responsibility of playing Jackie Kennedy in husband Darren Aronofsky’s new film – because she’s a Brit portraying an American icon. The Mummy star will lead the cast in Jackie, which follows the beloved former U.S. First Lady as she copes with the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, in 1963. And, although she can’t wait to get started on research for the role, she’s also a little anxious about how America will accept her as Jackie. She tells WENN, “It’s a recent project so the script is being developed and it’s a great script. I will have to start to do some reading. “Jackie Kennedy is American royalty and a 20th century icon, so it’s extremely scary, daunting, challenging and a huge responsibility. I don’t know exactly how I will play her yet because I haven’t started really working on it, but of course it’s a big responsibility.”

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Back in September we heard about an intriguing project that Jennifer’s Body director Karyn Kusama has had her eye on for some time. The pitch doesn’t have a title, but it is described as a “[David] Cronenberg-inspired body horror” tale focusing on gender issues and the intent is for the movie to star Rachel Weisz. MTV spoke with Kusama shortly afterwards, and she spoke a little more about the plans. She’s been trying to secure funding for it for almost a decade now, but the idea is for Weisz to play “two characters, or essentially two halves of the same character, but she is both male and female.” We recently spoke with the actress, who will star in Agora this summer, and she gave us an update on where things are at for the project. “It’s something we’ve talked about doing but there are no immediate plans for it. Sometimes it takes awhile for these things to get off the ground,” she explained. Eight years definitely qualifies as “awhile.” It could have something to do with the subject matter, Weisz playing a dual-gendered role. “[It's called] ‘The Invisible X,’” she said. “It’s actually about a man who turns into a woman. Its an amazing script.” She went on to say that the movie does indeed have the “tone” of a Cronenberg film, and that Kusama is currently working on a rewrite. The big roadblock up until now has just been getting funding for the indie. “These independent films can take a long time to get together,” Weisz explained. “Its almost impossible to make things now that aren’t genre pictures.”

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