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Lee Toland Krieger has nabbed Elijah Wood for his new romantic comedy "Celeste and Jessie Forever." The film follows a young couple, played by Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg, as they attempt to maintain a friendship in the midst of their divorce. The Hollywood Reporter says Wood will play a metrosexual who attempts to be Jones' "saucy gay friend."
Shane Acker's animated adventure "9" debuted in theaters this week, and it features the voice of Elijah Wood as a puppet-like being trying to survive in a world where machines won a nasty battle against humans. Here is what some of the Web's critics have to say about the flick:
• William Goss @Cinematical: "For the most part, '9' makes a gorgeous and often thrilling case for its own feature-length existence..."
• CinemaBlend's Josh Tyler: "Though lacking in scale the movie’s look is consistently impressive and the story, though stretched too thin, is fairly creative."
Seen on: August 28, 2009
The players: Director: Shane Acker, Writer: Pamela Pettler, Cast: Elijah Wood, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly
Facts of interest: "9" was co-produced in Luxembourg, my home country. Neat!
The plot: In a world in which humanity was defeated in a battle against machines, a rag doll named 9 sets out on a mission to save what is left on the planet.
Our quick thoughts: Director Shane Acker took an acclaimed short film he created and developed it into a big-screen adventure with the support of producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov. Sounds neat, doesn’t it? The result is Focus Features’ “9,” a decent animated action film that boasts incredibly intriguing visuals but fails to impress in the story department.
Opening this week are Shane Acker's "9" with the voice of Elijah Wood; "Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself;" Stewart Hendler's "Sorority Row;" and Dominic Sena's "Whiteout" with Kate Beckinsale:
9 (in theaters this Wednesday)
Synopsis: The time is the too-near future. Powered and enabled by the invention known as the Great Machine, the world’s machines have turned on mankind and sparked social unrest, decimating the human population before being largely shut down.
Reid Volk