"What" is up next for Keener, Wright Penn

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-03-20 17:13

Actress Catherine Keener poses at the Los Angeles premiere of the film 'Friends with Money' in Hollywood March 27, 2006 file photo. [Reuters]

Catherine Keener and Robin Wright Penn are joining an all-star cast headed by Robert De Niro in the Hollywood comedy "What Just Happened?"

De Niro plays a desperate movie producer trying to survive the treachery of Hollywood and a broken second marriage. Keener will play the studio head he is courting, while Wright Penn will portray his ex-wife.

Stanley Tucci, John Turturro and Kristen Stewart co-star. Bruce Willis and Sean Penn also will be featured in small roles, playing themselves.

Principal photography is set to begin this week in Los Angeles. Barry Levinson ("Man of the Year") is directing the project for Todd Wagner and dot-com mogul Mark Cuban's 2929 Entertainment, based on an original screenplay by producer Art Linson ("The Black Dahlia").

Keener recently completed filming on Spike Jonze's "Where the Wild Things Are." After "What Just Happened," the actress will film Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York."

Wright Penn appeared in the Dakota Fanning rape movie "Hounddog," which screened in January at the Sundance Film Festival. She recently completed work on director Robert Zemeckis' "Beowulf."