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Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin are the onscreen equivalent of peaches and cream (or any pleasing combination, actually), but the latest casting on Jason Reitman‘s Labor Day might just be my favorite. As Variety reports, Tom Lipinski (Suits) is the top choice to play a young version of Brolin‘s character — specifically, “Frank Chambers an escaped convict who seeks shelter with a depressed single mom (Winslet) and her young son over a long Labor Day weekend.”

In flashback sequences, we’ll encounter Frank as a young Vietnam veteran who discovers that, twixt his departure and return, the love of his life is “no longer the innocent teenage girl he left behind.”And while I haven’t a clue if Lipinski is actually a decent actor — these sounds like crucial scenes, in the grand emotional scheme of things — the resemblance between the both of them is almost too good to pass up.

C. Thomas Howell has added one more credit to his incredibly busy 2012 slate. Variety reports the omnipresent character actor, who recently wrapped on The Amazing Spider-Man along with five other films expected to come out this year, has just signed on to writer-director Cole Mueller's crime drama Magic Hour. Howell, whose been working as an actor since age 7, joins of cast filled with newcomers and up-and-coming performers that includes: Trevor Morgan, Kris Lemche, Josh Emerson, Courtney Daniels, Kevin McNamara and Mark Alan. Also lined up for Magic Hour is William Russ, who may be best known as the loving father on Boy Meets World. Magic Hour will be Mueller's sophomore effort, following the con artist-centered thriller Green Guys, which also starred Lemche and Russ. This time around, Mueller's script is not focusing on flim-flam men but rather zeroing in on the rise and fall of a young man who...

C. Thomas Howell joins indie crime drama Magic Hour directed by Cole Mueller, starring Trevor Morgan, William Russ. The Busted Buggy Entertainment and Sunside Film-produced film is being scripted and helmed by Mueller, with production wrapping at the end of this month, reports Variety. Pic was shot in Newport Beach, Huntington Beach and Anaheim, and is set in thr early '90s, telling of a young man who becomes part of a Venice Beach Crime family. Kris Lemche, Josh Emerson, Courtney Daniels, Kevin McNamara and Mark Alan also star. Howell's biggest upcoming film is of course Sony's The Amazing Spider-Man, starring Emma Stone...

C. Thomas Howell joins indie crime drama Magic Hour directed by Cole Mueller, starring Trevor Morgan, William Russ. The Busted Buggy Entertainment and Sunside Film-produced film is being scripted and helmed by Mueller, with production wrapping at the end of this month, reports Variety. Pic was shot in Newport Beach, Huntington Beach and Anaheim, and is set in thr early '90s, telling of a young man who becomes part of a Venice Beach Crime family. Kris Lemche, Josh Emerson, Courtney Daniels, Kevin McNamara and Mark Alan also star. Howell's biggest upcoming film is of course Sony's The Amazing Spider-Man, starring Emma Stone...

Green Guys Movie PosterGreen Guys is a crime thriller that has moved in to post-production with a new trailer available here. In the film four young men create a ponzi scheme, or a pyramid styled investment structure, which soon crumbles due to corruption and infighting (Green). The first trailer below shows how credibility is more important than quick rich schemes in the financial markets as the characters battle to stay alive and financially afloat.

The synopsis for Green Guys here:

"Green Guys is a film about four young con artists that start a top-secret ponzi scheme - and are torn apart by their own greed and corruption" (Green).

Release Date: 2010.

Director/writer: Cole Mueller.

Executive Producer: Sean Meier.

Producers: Ryan Bragg, Sean Meier, Cole Mueller, Bryan Chesin, Megan Takimoto, Dane Delima, and Desmond Dolly.

Cast: Kris Lemche, David J. Phillips, Christopher Redman, Darrel Davenport, Nathan Marlow, Roberto Sanchez, William Russ,...