* The Weinstein Company has been kicking Andrew Dominik's crime thriller Killing Them Softly all around the fall season map. The Brad Pitt-starrer was originally meant to come out on September 21st, before getting bumped to October to accommodate the release of The Master. Now it's been moved again, this time all the way to November 30th, where the studio hopes to position it better for awards consideration. The film stars Pitt as a mob enforcer investigating the robbery of a mafia-controlled high stakes poker match.
* 80s heartthrob Christian Slater(Heathers) is the latest oddball addition to Lars von Trier's two-part erotic thriller, The Nymphomaniac. He'll play the father of Charlotte Gainsbourg's character, a woman reliving her sexual history from youth up to the age of 50. He joins Stellan Skarsgard, Shia Labeouf, Connie Nielsen, Jamie Bell, Udo Kier, and the newly added Stacy Martin. Slater will be seen next opposite Sylvester Stallone in Bullet to the Head. [Variety]
* Brad Pitt is about to bring to the big screen a story I've long been hoping would be told in full. He's set to produce and possibly star in an adaptation of Edwin Black's book, IBM and the Holocaust. The novel tells of former IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson and how his relentless pursuit of profit led to his aiding the Third Reich in tabulating census data using IBM's punch card machines. The data was then used to help facilitate the Holocaust, and Watson was honored by the regime with a medal in 1937. It's an incredible story, and the film will likely draw a lot of attention from directors and actors alike. [Vulture]
