SHOE ADDICTS and CABRET Movies
Halle Berry has signed to star in Shoe Addicts Anonymous, a movie based on the bestseller by Beth Harbison (St. Martins, 2007), according to the movie news site Deadline. It will be directed by Paul Weiland (Made of Honor). No shooting dates have been announced, but Deadline says it will begin before Berry opens on Broadway in The Mountaintop this Fall.
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Hugo Cabret, the live-action 3-D movie directed by Martin Scorsese and currently shooting in London, has added Emily Mortimer (Shutter Island) and Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man) to the cast that includes Jude Law, Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen, according to TheWrap. Asa Butterfield (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) plays Hugo. Based on the Caldecott award winning The invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick (Scholastic, 2007), the movie is currently scheduled to open on Dec. 9, 2011.