Oscar winner Sean Penn has put his Hollywood career on hold.
He’s reportedly pulled out of his next two films: the drama “Carlel” and the Farrelly brothers’ “Three Stooges” comedy update with Jim Carrey and Benecio del Toro.
He’s said to be taking the time to focus on his family, not his rising career.
But if he [...]

Academy Award winner Sean Penn, in town today to promote a documentary about Kern families wrongly convicted of child molestation, said the film’s main theme is the “populist hysteria that can be generated through fear-mongering.”
And this might not be the last the city sees of Penn, who hinted at a future project.
The actor is both [...]

Sean Penn has been cast in The Three Stooges. This would be great news if Sean Penn was funny.
But Sean Penn is not. Sean Penn is the most serious person in the world.
Now all you naysayers will likely ignore that he’s the most serious person in the world, and point out that he’s Spicoli, the [...]

As said before,Penn will play Larry in `The Three Stooges’. Here’s the confirmation:
The studio MGM says the double Oscar winner has signed on to play Larry in the Farrelly brothers’ big-screen update of “The Three Stooges.”
Jim Carrey was “in negotiations” for the role of Curly, said MGM spokesman Grey Munford. The studio first featured the [...]

Benicio del Toro has played many an eccentric role in his long career but this one may go down as most bizarre to date. The boricua thesp is reportedly in talks to play Moe in a movie version of The Three Stooges directed by the Farrelly Brothers. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sean Penn and [...]

In recent days, journalists around the globe have reported on the efforts of Asian governments to censor speech and images in support of gay rights from the broadcast of last Sunday’s Oscars. According to the AP, the Hong Kong-based, Murdoch-owned STAR network, reaching more than 300 million viewers in 53 countries, muted any mention of [...]

Recent Oscar winner Sean Penn is urging California to officially recognize Harvey Milk’s birthday, the AP reports. On Tuesday, Penn will appear alongside State Senator Mark Leno to reintroduce a bill that would make the late gay-rights activist’s birthday, May 22, a “day of significance.” Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the proposed bill last year on [...]

PARIS : Hollywood rebel Sean Penn, winner of the best actor Oscar for his role in “Milk”, has said that he hopes the film would soon get a showing before President Barack Obama.
“Eventually we are hoping for a White House screening,” the 48-year-old actor told reporters ahead of the French launch of the acclaimed biopic [...]

Okay, I need to brush up a bit more on Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn and expected to bow sometime this 2009 as a third-hand report from Empire Magazine by way of Hollywood Elsewhere that first showed up in the CriterionForum on Friday. The quote apparently is found [...]

According to imdb Penn will star in two new movies: The Three Stooges(a Comedy that will be release at November’s 20th) – playing Larry Fine – and Fair Game(a Biography that will be release at 2011) – playing Joseph Wilson.

Here’s a short synopsis of Fair Game:
Plame’s status as a CIA agent was revealed by White [...]