“The Killer Inside Me” which stars Jessica Alba, Casey Affleck and Kate Hudson is 1 of 26 movies selected for this years Berlin Film Festival.

“Howl,” Rob Epstein’s biopic of beat poet Allen Ginsberg, starring James Franco, and Michael Winterbottom’s “The Killer Inside Me,” about a sociopathic Texas lawman, starring Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson, will screen at the Berlin Film Festival.

The pics are among five U.S. indie titles unspooling in the Berlinale’s official selection, which also include Lisa Cholodenko’s Sundance screener “The Kids Are All Right,” with Julianne Moore and Annette Bening. Pic, about two children conceived by artificial insemination who find their birth father, will screen out of competition.

Rounding out the American indie selection are Noah Baumbach’s “Greenberg,” starring Ben Stiller and Jennifer Jason Leigh, screening as a world premiere, and, unspooling out of competition, Nicole Holofcener’s “Please Give,” starring Catherine Keener and Amanda Peet.

Other notable screeners include Thomas Vinterberg’s “Submarino,” which will have its world premiere at the fest; Zhang Yimou’s “A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop;” and Oskar Roehler’s “Jud Suess – Film ohne Gewissen,” the story of Ferdinand Marian, the actor who appeared in Veit Harlan’s notorious anti-Semitic Nazi-era film, “Jud Suess,” about the rise and fall of 18th-century German-Jewish financier Joseph Suess Oppenheimer.

A total of 26 films will screen in the official selection this year.

Previously announced pics include Roman Polanski’s “Ghost Writer” and Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island.” Wang Quan’an’s “Apart Together” opens the fest, which runs Feb. 11-21.

Additional titles screening in the official selection include:

“Caterpillar,” by Koji Wakamatsu (Japan)
“A Family,” by Pernille Fischer Christensen (Denmark)
“A Somewhat Gentle Man,” by Hans Petter Moland (Norway)
“If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle,” by Florin Serban (Romania/Sweden)
“How I Ended This Summer,” by Alexei Popogrebsky (Russia)
“Mammuth,” by Benoit Delepine, Gustave de Kervern (France)
“Puzzle,” by Natalia Smirnoff (Argentina/France)
“Shahada,” by Burhan Qurbani (Germany)

Source: Variety.com

“The killer Inside Me” will have its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival later this month (January 24), and will have 3 other additional screenings ending January 30th.

For tickets and more information, head over to Sundance.org

An Invisible Sign of My Own – For those who don’t know the story, Mad Hat Ballroom, Marilyn Agrelo’s doc film wasn’t good enough to get into Sundance, but was the hot title pick up from Slamdance. Based on Aimee Bender’s book, Jessica Alba, J.K. Simmons, Chris Messina and Sonia Braga star in the film that “centers around Mona Gray (Alba) is a 20-year-old loner who, as a child, turned to math for salvation after her father became ill (Simmons). As an adult, Mona now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises”. Sundance Selection Forecast: 70% Chance. With Alba in a parka, Kimmel International will want to use the fest to close up final sales and production co. Silverwood Films have been provided Sundance fair since 2006.

The Killer Inside Me – With Michael Winterbottom already coming to the fest for The Shock Doctrine, I’m thinking that he might bring this film in the same suitcase. Written by Robert Weinbach and John Curran and based on Jim Thompson’s novel, the story follows a West Texas sheriff (Casey Affleck) and his downward spiral from a boring small-town cop into a ruthless, sociopathic murderer. Jessica Alba plays a prostitute. Sundance Selection Forecast: 50% Chance. Low budget pulp film is available for domestic pick-up. Look for the title to end up in Berlin as well.

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“The Killer Inside Me” Trailer has been released. Something different from Jessica. Loving it. Check it out below.

BeyondHollywood.com has posted the first still images from “The Killer Inside Me”, and your first look at Jessica as prostitute Joyce Lakeland. In other movie news, IMBD has added ‘First Love, Then Marriage‘ to Alba’s profile.

Hey, look, it’s Jessica Alba as a prostitute! A really classy looking prostitute, anyway. I was expecting truck stop dirty, but apparently Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s “The Killer Inside Me” is a period movie, with fedoras, classic cars, and movie picture shows and all that period stuff. From the guy who gave us “Nine Songs”, this is not quite what I was expecting. Aw, well, you can’t always get what you want. Some images from the movie, set for sometime in 2010, have surfaced over at Quiet Earth.

Source: BeyondHollywood.com

Below is a videos of Producer Andrew Eaton from the ‘Killer Inside Me’ talking about the film. He stated that Jessica’s scenes were filmed in smaller parts of the town, which is the reason we didn’t get to see any on set pictures.

Producers of a movie being shot in Oklahoma said they need more extras to play farmers and senior citizens.

“The Killer Inside Me” has been shooting scenes all over the state, including some with stars Kate Hudson, Casey Affleck and Jessica Alba.

Scenes will be shot in Enid later this month. Extras will get paid $6.55 per hour with a four-hour minimum. Men who are cast as extras may have to get their hair cut.

For more information, visit the casting Web site.

Source: Koco.com

A movie slated to star actors Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson and Jessica Alba will be filmed in Oklahoma beginning March 23, a local casting director said Wednesday.

Scenes for “A Killer Inside Me” will be shot in Oklahoma City, Guthrie, Tulsa, Cordell and surrounding areas, said Chris Freihofer, who operates Freihofer Casting in Norman.

Freihofer will recruit local actors and extras for the film, which will be directed by Michael Winterbottom.

Jill Simpson, director of the Oklahoma Film and Music Office, declined to comment on the project, pending approval of the movie’s producers.

The movie will be a crime thriller based on a 1952 novel by Jim Thompson, who was born in Anadarko in 1906. The storyline involves a likable rural deputy sheriff, portrayed by Affleck, who has the mind of a murderous psychopath.

Thompson also co-wrote the screenplays for two films by Stanley Kubrick, “The Killing” in 1956 and “Paths of Glory” in 1957. He died in 1977.

Source: KJRH.com

A few new cast members have been announced to star in the psychological thriller ‘The Killer Inside Me’ opposite Casey Affleck and Jessica Alba.  The new members include Kate Hudson (Almost Famous, Bride Wars), Ellias Koteas (Shooter, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Bill Pullman (Scary Movie 4, Independence Day) and Ned Beatty (Network, Deliverance).

The crew is set to hire as many as 30 local people to help out on set, so if you live in the area, it’s worth checking out .Shooting will start next month in Santa Fe County, New Mexico.

Casey Affleck and Jessica Alba are teaming with director Michael Winterbottom for “The Killer Inside Me,” an adaptation of a novel from noir author Jim Thompson.

The story follows a West Texas sheriff (Affleck) and his downward spiral from a boring small-town cop into a ruthless, sociopathic murderer. Alba plays a prostitute.

The novel was made into a 1976 film starring Stacy Keach.

MuseFilm’s Chris Hanley, Cyclone Prods.’ Robert Weinbach, Revolution Films’ Andrew Eaton and Bradford Schlei are producing the latest adaptation, which was written by Weinbach and John Curran.

Oklahoma-based Idion Entertainment Group is financing, as is Barbarian Films and OceaniaMedia Finance. A mid-January start date is being eyed.

Affleck, repped by Endeavor and Brillstein Entertainment Partners, most recently starred in “Gone Baby Gone,” while Alba, repped by Thruline Entertainment, most recently appeared in “The Love Guru.”

Endeavor-repped Winterbottom’s most recent film was “A Mighty Heart,” starring Angelina Jolie.

Source: HollywoodReporter.com