imdb roundup

Let's check in, via IMDB, on what some of my favorite actors are up to:

Marisa Tomei - she has two small films coming out this month - Loitering With Intent and Spare Parts.  There is a Judd Apatow movie coming soon called Trainwreck.  And then another small film in preproduction called Lemonade.  None of these I am too excited about, but then again, she's good in everything.  I am still waiting for some type of release for that rom-com she has with Hugh Grant called The Rewrite - no idea when that one is getting a US release, although reviews overseas have not been great.

Michelle Pfeiffer - nada since The Family.  Michelle!!!  Come on, aren't the kids all grown by now?  You need to get your butt out there and show them who's boss, cuz we know you are!

Naomi Watts - This girl is busy.  She's got a part in those Divergent sequels and movies costarring with (ugh) Matthew McConaughey (Sea of Trees directed by Gus Van Sant) and (meh) Jake Gyllenhaal (Demolition).  And there are a whole bunch of upcoming stuff too.  Unfortunately I am not falling over my chair over any of these projects.

Keanu Reeves - The most awesome and mysterious guy in Hollywood has a few meh projects (a movie with Mira Sorvino and an Eli Roth thriller called Knock Knock), but what's kinda exciting/curious is the tv miniseries Rain in which he plays assassin John Rain, a character from a series of espionage novels.  I am not familiar with those books or the character (not a fan of that type of fiction) but I would love to see Keanu on my tv.

Emma Watson - Hermione has two thriller movies in the work - Regression in which she plays daughter to Ethan Hawke who may or may not have committed a crime (yeah that's a lame ass description but it's directed by the guy who made The Others so it's got potential) and Colonia in which she has to infiltrate an infamous Chilean cult in order to find her abducted boyfriend (it's based on a true story).

Julie Delpy - Celine wrote and directed something called Lolo - I am not idea what it's about.  And then there is some movie she's about to do called Wiener-Dog, which is described as "several stories featuring people who find their life inspired or changed by one particular dachshund, who seems to be spreading comfort and joy."  Okaaay...

Keira Knightley - She's preggers so the only thing she has in the can is Everest, in which she has supposedly a very small role opposite Jake Gyllenhaal.  I hope she's an actual climber and not just a wife or girlfriend.  Anyways, cannot wait til she starts working again after the baby.  I want another Joe Wright collab!!!  (Atonement and Pride and Prejudice are two of my favorite films ever!)

Garrett Hedlund -He's gonna be Captain Hook in Pan next, directed by Joe Wright.  Supposedly this Hook is a swashbuckling good guy like Indiana Jones.  Works for me.  And then there might be a sequel to Tron, which I am ambivalent about.

Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant with Tom Hardy directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (21 Grams, Birdman, Amorres Perros).  "The frontiersman, Hugh Glass, who in the 1820s set out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling."  Sounds awesome to me!