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After starring as God in the upcoming comedy sequel Evan Almighty, Morgan Freeman is stepping things up a bit and will portray Nelson Mandela in the drama The Human Factor. The story will take place in 1995 as the recently anointed South African president uses his county's status as Rugby World Cup hosts to demonstrate its post-Apartheid credentials, according to Variety.
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Angela Bassett will play a widow in the romance Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns. Shooting is set to begin in Atlanta this summer. Bassett, whose credits include What's Love Got To Do With It and Strange Days, will play a single mother who meets the southern side of her family when she attends her husband's funeral, and falls in love along the way, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Alicia Keys would appear to be in line to star in the drama Catfish, about a Mississippi woman who stages a massive strike after a corporation destroys her town. Keys and producing partner Jeff Robinson bought the screenplay after it was unveiled at New York's Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. Keys recently starred in the crime caper Smokin' Aces and will next be seen in the romantic comedy The Nanny Diaries, according to Variety.
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David Strathairn has joined the cast of the remake of Korean horror film A Tale of Two Sisters. The Oscar nominated star of 2005's Good Night, and Good Luck will play the father of mentally disturbed girls who are tormented by their stepmother, played by Elizabeth Banks. Filming begins in Louisiana next month, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Date Published: June 26, 2007
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