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The Daily Dish: July 28

Posted on Tuesday, July 28, 2009
by Andrea Miller - Cineplex Entertainment

Josh Radnor

-- Ted Mosby - director? Josh Radnor, one of the leads on CBS's hit show “How I Met Your Mother”, has just wrapped his feature film directorial debut with HappyThankYouMorePlease . Catchy name, right? Radnor, who plays Ted Mosby on the beloved non-traditional sitcom, wrote the script during his down-time on the series and stars in the pic alongside Malin Akerman (who dons a bald cap and shaved her eyebrows to portray a woman with alopecia), Tony Hale, Richard Jenkins and Kate Mara. Happy follows the lives of six New Yorkers who aren't ready to grow up, which may sound more than a touch familiar to those who follow the exploits of the “HIMYM” crew. The years-in-the-making project struggled to get funding, Radnor revealed to Variety, but it all came together recently: "The script had gained fans, and we got a great cast. The hardest thing was switching back and forth from director to actor, though giving direction in the middle of those scenes gave me a weird and intoxicating sense of ultimate power."

-- Ben Affleck bags Jon Hamm The Good Will Hunting and Pearl Harbor star will direct Jon Hamm ("Mad Men") and Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) in The Town , based on the novel by Chuck Hogan. And Affleck will be pulling double duty, also appearing in front of the camera as a bank robber who falls for the teller he holds up. The story revolves around the Boston crook, his lady love (Hall) and the FBI agent hot on his heels, played by the devastatingly handsome Hamm. Town is set to begin shooting in Boston this September after “Mad Men” wraps its third season.

-- Cronenberg to adapt DeLillo novel Canadian auteur and cinematic tour-de-force David Cronenberg is set to adapt "Cosmopolis", a novel about a 28-year-old billionaire who ventures across Manhattan for a haircut and is interrupted by, among other things, a rapper's funeral, his new wife, a political riot and an assassin looking to kill him. Don DeLillo, an author known for investigating 21st themes like paranoia, alienation and an increasingly fractured, global world, seems to be a perfect fit for the slightly left-of-centre mind behind The Fly,Naked Lunch, A History of Violence and Eastern Promises. There’s been no word yet on casting but the film is set to begin shooting in 2010 in New York and Toronto. “Cosmopolis”, DeLillo's 13th novel, was originally published in 2003.

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