This new poster for The Butler certainly wants to make sure we know Lee Daniels’ film has a very starry cast, many of whom are playing various Presidents and their wives over the years.
The main role is taken by Forest Whitaker, who plays real-life figure Eugene Allen, who rose through the ranks at the White House from 1952 through 1986, where he served eight different Presidents and eventually became the head butler. It gave him a unique vantage point on the civil rights struggle.
The cats includes Robin Williams and Melissa Leo as Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, John Cusack as Richard Nixon, Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan, Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson, James Marsden and Minka Kelly as JFK and Jackie O and Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan, while the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Alex Pettyfer, Lenny Kravitz, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Redgrave, Jesse Williams, Mariah Carey, and David Oyelowo also star.
The movie is due out in the US in October, and is likely to be hoping for a strong Oscar run.
Footloose may not have been the big break Kenny Wormald might have hoped, but now he’s going indie with The Living. 
Former Saturday Night Live writer Bob Odenkirk has long been a bit of a cult comedy figure. More recently he’d gained a lot of new fans thanks to playing Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad. Now the multi-hyphenate is set to write and star in Girlfriend’s Day. Michael Stephenson (Best Worst Movie, The American Scream) will make his narrative directorial debut with the movie.
Everyone seems to agree making a movie about Alan Turing is a good idea, and the script The Imitation Game has generated huge amounts of buzz, but it’s taken quite a while to get it off the ground. That’s partly due to Leo DiCaprio signing on to star and then leaving the project behind, as well a several directors coming and going.
Nikolaj Arcel earned huge acclaim for directing the Oscar-nominated period drama A Royal Affair, as well as co-writing the screenplay for the Swedish adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Now he’s going Hollywood, as 
Kristen Stewart has signed up for her next two movies, with 
Boyd Holbrook’s star is certainly rising. He’s popped up in The Host and Behind The Candelabra, and will soon be seen in The Skeleton Twins, Terrence Malick’s new movie, Out Of The Furnace and A Walk Among The Tombstones.
A fine young cast is coming together for The Road Within, a remake of the German movie, Vincent Will Meer. 
It’s not often a TV series can boast a cast including Tim Robbins, Kristen Wiig, Michael Sheen, Tobey Maguire, Haley Joel Osment, Jessica Alba, Val Kilmer, Steve Tom and Will Ferrell, but The Spoils Of Babylon can. The series comes from Ferrell, Adam McKay, and several other Funny or Die guys, with the show set to air on IFC in the US.