* As Breaking Bad rolls into the final stretch, Aaron Paul has been making bigger moves into feature film, starring in last year's Smashed and leading the upcoming Need for Speed. Now he's set his next project, Hellion, which marks the directorial debut of Kat Candler. Paul will be joined by Juliette Lewis in the indie drama, based on Candler's short film set in a small Texas refinery town and officially described as: “All hell breaks loose when seven-year-old Petey is left with his hell-raising brothers. But things go from bad to really, really bad when Dad gets home.”
* Joel Edgerton is set to make his directorial debut on Weirdo, an indie drama he'll also write and take a co-starring role in. Talking to Screen Daily, Edgerton says “It’s about a guy who is forced to face the past when it comes back in the form of an old school friend. But he continually lies about it (the past) and it haunts him in a bad bad way." Edgerton was recently in Toronto for the premiere of Felony, which he wrote and starred in, and he recently wrapped the plagued western, Jane Got a Gun.
* Guy Ritchie has found his villain for the 1960s-set spy flick, The Man from UNCLE, and it's Italian actor Luca Calvani. He'll play a wealthy shipping heir and Nazi gold smuggler, taking on espionage agents Solo and Kuryakin, played by Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer. Hugh Grant, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, and Jared Harris co-star, with production beginning just a few days ago. Calvani isn't generally known to American audiences, but he had a role opposite Clive Owen in The International.
