The director Bennett Miller, nominated for an Oscar in 2006 for biographical detective drama “Capote” is currently on a roll in Hollywood due to public and critical success enjoyed the sports themed biographical drama “Moneyball”, which was released in theaters on September 23 and already is considered a possible candidate for the American Academy Film Awards 2012.

Dorninc to revive a project of the soul, which makes the work table in 2007, but that did not have time to deal seriously because of other professional commitments, the director Bennett Miller has teamed up with the writers Max E. Frye (“Palmetto”, “Where the Money Is”) and Dan Futterman (“Capote”, “In Treatment”) to translate to the big screen the real story of John du Pont, heir to the multi-chemical company Du Pont, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and shot dead on January 26, 1996 the gold medalist wrestler David Schultz in the Olympic Games because in his mind ill formed idea that the victim would be involved in an international conspiracy that aims to kill him.

Passionate collector of stamps and the study of birds, John du Pont built on his property in Pennsylvania a great gym for fighters called Team Foxcatcher, where the film’s title derives Bennett Miller - “Foxcatcher”. David Schultz was an old friend of John du Pont, who repeatedly tried to help him take control of the suffering mental illness, family members accused of exaggerating the severity of symptoms du Pont that shows their property.

After the murder, which was witnessed by David Schultz’s wife and head of security guards on the property du Pont, the millionaire was shut for two days inside the house and called police negotiated by phone on the spot. Authorities have stopped the power supply and managed to capture the assassin when he left the house to repair the heating system. While satisfying a prison sentence from 13 years to 30 years in State Correctional Institute – Mercer, a minimum security prison in Pennsylvania, John du Pont died on 09 December 2010 at the age of 72.

Although rather remarked in comedy roles in films like “The 40 Year Old Virgin”, “Get Smart”, “Evan Almighty” or “Dinner for Schmucks”, not to mention the role that he played Michael Scott time of 7 seasons in the TV series “The Office”, Steve Carell gives signs that he wants to make a major change in his career and turn to drama, after he agreed to play in the drama “Dogs of Babel” Bennett Miller is preferred to get inside the schizophrenic killer John Du Pont in the drama “Foxcatcher”.

Find out more about “Foxcatcher” from IMDB.

The actor Kevin Bacon has just joined Steve Carell, Julianne Moore (recently seen in Chloe), Emma Stone (recently seen in Zombieland and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past) and Ryan Gosling in a comedy without title for the moment produced for Warner Bros.

John Requa and Glenn Ficarra (I Love You Phillip Morris) will direct this feature film according to a script written per Dan Fogelman (Bolt).

The story line will concentrate on a man whose wife (Julianne Moore) wishes to divorce. In order to save his marriage, he will urge a coach of astute life (Ryan Gosling) to transform it.

Kevin Bacon will play a colleague of the woman, an alpha male who has an extracurricular relation with her.

The feature film is produced by Denise Di Novi and Carrell via its production company named Carousel.

The filming should start this month.

Kevin Bacon had to complete the filming for the action thriller Elephant White in Thailand last month. This feature film, carried out by Prachya Pinkaew., also stars Djimon Hounsou. Let us recall that Bacon collected a price at the SAG Awards for his interpretation in the historical drama Taking Chance premiered on HBO 2009.

Date Night is the kind of feature-length film creature which seems to be a habit, but not necessarily an unpleasant one. The motion picture owes all to the brilliance of its stars, who are Steve Carell and Tina Fey. They are an old couple which seeks to put imagination in their every day life. A little unspecified and already forgotten once you leave the cinema room, except that the laughs functions generally well.

Phil (Steve Carell) and Claire (Tina Fey) are married, they have children and they are liked rather well in their large house in the New Jersey. Our lovers feel the routine however to settle in their couple. In order to reinvigorate the flame, they decide to go downtown (in New York city, of course!) and to usurp a reservation allowing them to eat in a crested restaurant. Here is the first error of a long infernal night whereas they are taken in by individuals armed to the teeth who do not want to laugh. Well, there is an error on the identity some share, and even the police force will be able to regulate this annoying problem with difficulty.

Shawn Levy is not a large director. In the past, he offered his batch of useless stories, but also the two volumes of Night at the Museum. It is near these entertainments without side effect that it is necessary to position Night Date. The film does not revolutionize absolutely anything in the field of screen play with its banal soundtrack and its met adventures. It is rather about a waited race with obstacles where the action and the laughter are of setting, with a few moments of less animated breaks making it possible to the heroes to philosophize on their union. It is thus the equivalent of fast-food: quickly consumed and quickly (finally, normally) digested.

That does not prevent that it is possible to tap a certain guilty pleasure of it. Steve Carell and Tina Fey are two of the best American humorists of the last years and they use this vehicle which is far from being with their height to put themselves forward. And that functions. The first is able to leave a corrosive counterpart at the flash speed, charming by its autoderision moments. The second astonishes more in her way of using the irony while playing with her irresistible jokes. A perfect duet being supplemented and who knows how to improvise without putting too much. That gives several insane moments, as when the lovers imagine the conversations of their neighbors at table. Their playing field is not only centered on them, which makes it possible to see several known faces returning the ball with delight to them. So, Mark Walhberg (The Lovely Bones, Max Payne), James Franco (Milk, Pineapple Express, the TV series General Hospital), Mark Ruffalo (Shutter Island, Sympathy for Delicious) and Common (Terminator Salvation, Wanted) can be seen in this motion picture.

It will thus be necessary to take Night Date for what it is: an inoffensive comedy but funny enough, finishing too quickly with the traditional bloopers, which makes it possible to appreciate the humor and the chemistry between Steve Carell and Tina Fey. It is perhaps little, but that can brighten in these days of abundant rain in the cinema industry.