The Flip Side

Paul Dano

Remember Dwayne, the brother in “Little Miss Sunshine” who refused to speak?  How about Paul and Eli Sunday in “There Will Be Blood”?  Well actor Paul Dano’s been getting good roles right and left.  And rightly so.  According to imdb he’s just finished working on “Where the Wild Things Are” and is about to start “The Good Heart” about a bartender who takes a homeless man under his wing.  He’s also rumored to be in “The Stanford Prison Experiment” which sounds creepy.  Most recently he’s been tapped to star with Zooey Deschanel in “Gigantic” (a romantic comedy).  Check out his imdb page here.

A mysterious stranger shows up on the doorstep of a desperate married couple’s (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) home with a mysterious box. If they press the button inside the box, they’ll instantly get the money to save their ailing son, but in exchange, someone, somewhere in the world will die.  But the temptation to save their dying son becomes too much, and Norma (Diaz) pushes the dreaded button and a gun shot goes off somewhere nearby. Consumed with guilt, Norma must do everything in her power to solve a murder she has knowingly caused. That is the plot synopsis for Richard Kelly’s new film The Box. Check out the first photo from the film above (please excuse the poor resolution, it’s the best we’ve got).  This film also stars Frank Langella (the greatest Dracula of all time).

James Marsden and Cameron Diaz

Frank Langella

Stephen King

From icydk.com:
“Ghost Brothers of Darkland County,” a new Southern Gothic musical by Stephen King, the horror writer, and John Mellencamp, the musician, is to open in April 2009 at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta .

In a recent interview in Rolling Stone, Mr. Mellencamp said that if the musical, about the reverberations of a tragedy in small-town Mississippi , did well in Atlanta , it would head to Broadway.

John Mellencamp