Jude Law has bounced from a number of projects lately (those being Queen of the Desert and Jane Got a Gun,) but the actor is hell-bent on making more movies…or so it would initially seem. Deadline has the story this afternoon that Focus Features is backing a thriller called Black Sea with Law in the starring role from director Kevin Macdonald. As we know from Law’s reasoning behind bouncing from Jane Got a Gun is that he does these low-key productions for the director and Macdonald has helmed two well-received flicks in the past, The Last King of Scotland as well as State of Play.
The contemporary-set Black Sea has the Sherlock Holmes star playing a sub captain, fire from his job, turning to a shadowy financier to look for a sunken submarine loaded with gold in the Black Sea. He embarks on a journey to find this treasure as he hires a rag tag crew to get the job done. This follows Law’s most-recent film Side Effects and Anna Karenina before that. With The Grand Budapest Hotel and Dom Hemingway already in post-production (but yet to release,) this addition should be a good fit for the actor going forward.
Since low-budget psychological thrillers are really difficult to promote, we are not at all shocked to see a third trailer released for Steven Soderbergh’s follow-up to Magic Mike. While there may not be a whole lot more new footage to show (if there is at all,) here is the latest cut for those of you obsessed with the director who has been heard loud and clear about his intentions to leave the hell that is film production for the small screen. The next pic audiences will see from the Oceans trilogy director will be one for HBO Films called Behind the Candelabra starring Matt Damon and Michael Douglas. 
There are three pretty beautiful looking posters to show off today for Joe Wright’s upcoming adaptation of Anna Karenina. The film starring Jude Law, Keira Knightley, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson is a period piece against the backdrop of Russian aristocracy in the nineteenth century. While Leo Tolstoy wrote the novel, Academy Award-winner Tom Stoppard did his best to put his story on the big screen yet again and from what people are saying out of the effort’s Venice Film Festival premiere, the movie appears to be a winner.
One of the award contenders this year is more than likely going to be Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina. The Tolstoy novel adapted for the big screen by Academy Award winning scribe Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love) will act as the third teaming between Wright and Keira Knightley who previously worked together on Atonement and Pride & Prejudice—both of which were critical gems that scored respectable global box office performances.
One of the more sure fire bets to play big during award season this year is Anna Karenina. This will be director Joe Wright’s third pairing with Keira Knightley, but perhaps the biggest omen of success comes with the knowledge that Shakespeare in Love scribe Tom Stoppard has adapted the Tolstoy novel. Regardless of whether this will be perceived as a bankable package, that is enough to get most industry watchers to pay attention.
Check out the latest trailer for DWA’s Rise of the Guardians. This time around, Chris Pine’s Jack Frost gets some much needed love as feature’s first trailer noticeably left him out in favor of Alec Baldwin’s Santa. 
The trailer just hit for the latest effort from The Constant Gardner director Fernando Meirelles. 
Last night’s Weekend Update segment on Saturday Night Live had a special edition of Nic Cage’s Get in the Cage starring Andy Samberg as Nicolas and featuring an appearance by Jude Law. Law was on the show to promote Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law were on BBC’s The Graham Norton Show this week where they shared a story from the set of their new movie where something unfortunate happened to an extra. Here is a clip from that portion of the interview with the Sherlock Holmes actors which will air in its entirety tomorrow night on BBC America. 
The reviews are in and it appears that critics are praising Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as a great example of cinematic escapism. While the movie is far from perfect, the majority of critics (not all) are saying the sequel is better than the 2009 film which launched the Robert Downey, Jr.-lead franchise. The highlights of the film are said to include more of that Sherlock/Watson chemistry that helped make the original what it was and the addition of a more suitable villain.