Jennifer Garner to star in Butter

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/04/07/jennifer-garner-to-star-in-butter/

Jennifer Garner has officially signed on to star in Jason Micallef’s political satire Butter for Mandate. The Nicholl Fellowship-winning screenplay was listed at the #3 spot on the 2008 Black List (a listing of the best unproduced screenplays of that year).

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Described as Election meets Best in Show, Butter tells the story of a black orphan who is adopted by a Midwestern family, and discovers she has an uncanny talent for butter-carving. She finds herself up against Laura Pickler (Garner), the ambitious wife of the retired reigning champion, turning a small town’s annual butter-sculpting contest into a center for controversy and jealousy. [THR]

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I love Jen and the idea sounds fun.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

hmmm butter and Jen lol.

The movie itself sounds interesting...

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=65149

Jackman, Silverstone and Wilde Board Butter

Source: Variety, Movieline
April 13, 2010


Variety and Movieline have learned that Hugh Jackman, Alicia Silverstone and Olivia Wilde have joined the cast of The Weinstein Company's Butter, which starts filming later this month.

To be directed by Jim Field Smith, the comedy follows a young orphan who, after being adopted by a Midwestern family, discovers she has an uncanny talent for butter-carving. She eventually finds herself up against the ambitious wife of the retired reigning champion in a town's annual butter-sculpting contest.

The film is produced by Jennifer Garner, who also stars as an ambitious Midwestern woman trying to win a local butter-carving contest.

Jackman portrays an old flame of Garner's character, while Silverstone will play the adoptive mother of a teen girl (Yara Shahidi) who becomes a major contender in the butter-carving competition.

Ashley Greene plays the step-daughter of Garner's character.

Wilde is taking on the role of a tattooed stripper who is also the mistress to a term-limited butter-carving champion (Ty Burrell).

Sexplosion!

 

[TheComicbookKid]

Flat-chested stripper? This better be a comedy.

 

[Octoberist]

i like the title

 

[Prison Mike]

I would rub butter all over Jen...and Olivia...and Alicia...

 

[GL1]

Oddly the little girl in Butter is also in Salt.

There is something profoundly wrong with Hollywood.

 

[xwolverine2]

it sounds like an original great film

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=68576

he film is set in the Midwest U.S., where an adopted girl (Yara Shahidi) discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman (Jennifer Garner) in their town's annual contest. Hugh Jackman, Alicia Silverstone, Ty Burrell, Ashley Greene and Olivia Wilde also star.

 

[MadVillainy]

I thought this was related to Salt. HE-YO!

But seriously there is a good cast behind it

 

[Figs]

Probably just as mediocre though.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

lol i thought this was going to be a spoof of salt

 

[dark_b]

is Olivia Wilde official the new it girl?

 

[Crockett]

A movie about butter-carving doesn't sounds that appealing but it a good cast so it might has the potential to turn out good.

 

[Crockett]

is Olivia Wilde official the new it girl?

If she is, I'm not complaining.

 

[danoyse]

From what I've read, it's supposed to be a spoof on the Hillary vs. Obama faceoff during the 2008 Iowa primaries. This was in NY Magazine a few months ago when Hugh was cast:

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/04/vulture_exclusive_kate_hudson.html

Vulture has been avidly tracking the Weinstein Company's Butter, the Black List–featured comedy that employs the annual Iowa State Fair butter-carving contest as a metaphor for 2008’s Hillary versus Obama showdown. Movieline reported today that Olivia Wilde has stepped in to replace Kate Hudson as the stripper who seduces Ty Burrell’s carving champ. (Butter’s shooting was going to bump up against Hudson’s other project, Something Borrowed, for which we hear she’s being paid $10 million. That’s a lot of Parkay, as they say. Actually, wait, no one says that.) But we also hear that Hugh Jackman is now in talks for the role of Boyd Bolton, the sleazy car dealer who seduces Burrell's character's wife Laura, the hopeful new butter champion played by Jennifer Garner.

Personally, we're intrigued to see how the Christian Coalition will react to the scene (excerpted below) in which Jackman prays to the Almighty in gratitude after an illicit interlude with Garner.

You can click on the link for the little script excerpt, which might be a little too R-rated for here.

It sounds like it's going to be really funny.

 

[dark_b]

If she is, I'm not complaining.

Olivia

http://thinkmcflythink.squarespace.com/movie-news/2010/8/5/butter-first-look.html

 

[akfj]

So, we've had Milk, Salt, and now Butter.

There's still so many ingredients left to use that Hollywood will never run out of ideas.

 

[Hunter Rider]

From what I've read, it's supposed to be a spoof on the Hillary vs. Obama faceoff during the 2008 Iowa primaries. This was in NY Magazine a few months ago when Hugh was cast:

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/04/vulture_exclusive_kate_hudson.html



You can click on the link for the little script excerpt, which might be a little too R-rated for here.

It sounds like it's going to be really funny.

Just read the script excerpt, definite change of pace for Hugh and prayer.

 

[Crockett]

Olivia

http://thinkmcflythink.squarespace.com/movie-news/2010/8/5/butter-first-look.html

Nice first look vid, interesting that is a political satire. Wow, both Olivia Wilde and Ashley Greene is in the movie. That's just awesome.

 

[danoyse]

Just read the script excerpt, definite change of pace for Hugh and prayer.

I can't wait.

They just showed some more on Entertainment Tonight, where they interviewed the guy who actually carved the butter sculptures for the movie.

 

[TNC9852002]

I already saw Butter..

with Shemar Moore and Ernie Hudson..

 

[Doctor Jones]

Man, I seriously thought this had something to do with Salt. Don't ask me how.

 

[CelticPredator]

I cant wait for "CRUSHED RED CAYENNE PEPPER"

 

[xwolverine2]

wait how the **** is kate hudson getting paid 10million!....

:|

in what world is she that special or talented?? i guess your salary turns to gold when you sleep with mathew maconoheyyy