Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly are also among the cast members in the big-screen adaptation of the Tony-winning play.

Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly have all assembled in Paris to shoot Roman Polanski’s big-screen adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning comedy The God of Carnage.

The story follows the aftermath of a showdown between two children aged around eleven in a local playground when the parents of the victim invite those of the bully to talk it out. Carnage ensues after an initially cordial meeting turns sour.

The movie, simply entitled Carnage, stars Winslet (The Reader) and Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) as husband and wife Nancy and Alan, opposite Foster and Reilly (We Need To Talk About Kevin) as Penelope and Michael, respectively.

Reza joined Polanski in adapting the play for the big screen which is set in Brooklyn. The play was originally set in Paris when it premiered back in 2006, but changed to Brooklyn when it transferred to Broadway in 2009.

Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden played the parents in the original Broadway production.

“As soon as I saw the play I thought it would make an exciting movie,“ said Polanski. “It’s a challenge to make a film in real time, without a single ellipse.”

It is being produced by Said Ben Said through SBS Productions and is set up as French-German-Polish co-production between SBS Productions, Constantin Film Produktion and SPI Poland.

ICM is repping sales of the movie in the U.S. and Canada with SBS handling international sales.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

The Franco-Polish director Roman Polanski began yesterday on the outskirts of Paris shooting his new movie, Carnage, an adaptation of a play by Yasmina Reza “Dieu du Carnage” in which Kate Winslet and also Jodie Foster will be involved, said the newspaper Le Parisien.

The newspaper said that Polanski worked on the script for his next job during the seven months under house arrest in his villa met Gstaad (Switzerland) after his arrest in Zurich in September 2009 and spending two months in prison pursuant a search and arrest warrant requested by the United States. The director, accused the U.S. of having sex with a minor 33 years ago, shot the film in English and in studies of the department of Val-de-Marne, a suburb of the capital gala.

Le Parisien recalled that the request for extradition from the United States remains in force for the open judicial proceedings against the artist is not canceled, why conference in Paris a film whose action has been decided to locate in New York.

The film tells the story of two couples trying to resolve their differences with civility when the son of one of them beats the other in the park, and the cast is also the Austrian Christoph Waltz, who won an Oscar for Best Actor Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino.

Source: CoffeToday

The Revolutionary Road actress — who separated from her film director husband Sam Mendes in March — has reportedly called time on her romance with male model Louis Dowler after just four months of dating.

Despite being “very grateful” to the 35-year-old hunk for allowing her to get over the breakdown of her marriage, Kate is said to have ended the relationship to “concentrate on her career and children”.

A friend of the star told MailOnline: “Louis was just the tonic Kate needed after her painful split from Sam and they had a wonderful time.

However, they have realized their relationship isn’t working and Kate needs space to be on her own.

“She is very grateful to Louis for helping her pick her life back up after her marriage ended and they had a lot of fun together, but she felt it had come to an end and wants to concentrate on her career and children.”

Prior to the split, Kate — who has a six-year-old son Joe with Sam, as well as ten-year-old Mia from her first marriage to director Jim Threapleton — had reportedly been contemplating marriage with the British model.

A pal recently said: “As far as Kate is concerned, they could go all the way together — get married, have kids. She’s the happiest we’ve ever seen her, he really brings out a wonderful, carefree side to her that we haven’t seen for years.”

Source: TVNZ