Ray Liotta joining "Cogan's Trade"

Ray Liotta is now cast in Andrew Dominick’s crime thriller "Cogan's Trade", based on the George V. Higgins 1974 novel.

Liotta will joined the exciting talented ensembles cast that includes Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Javier Bardem, Sam Rockwell, Casey Affleck, Mark Ruffalo, Vincent Curatola and Richard Jenkins.

Liotta will play Mark "Markie" Trattman, the unfortunate hustler who runs the game in a motel room and finds things only going downhill from there.

Brad Pitt is set to play Jackie Cogan, who is hired by the mob to investigate a high stakes poker heist.

Target release date will be early 2012.

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Michael Cera's "Youth in Revolt" Red Band Trailer

Checkout the red band trailer for Miguel Arteta's "Youth in Revolt" which premiered in Funny or Die, out in theaters on January 8, 2010.

Starring Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Steve Buscemi, Ray Liotta, Justin Long, Jean Smart, Ari Graynor, Fred Willard, Zach Galifianakis, Mary Kay Place and Rooney Mara. [Watch the Red Ban Trailer Below..]

Based on C.D. Payne's novel, it is about Nick Twisp (Michael Cera), a cynical sex-obsessed 16-year-old who, while on vacation in a trailer park, meets Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday), an intellectual. The only things really standing in his way are Sheeni's poetry-writing ex-boyfriend Trent, (Jonathan B. Wright) Nick's temperamental divorced parents (Steve Buscemi and Jean Smart), and Nick's mom's boyfriends (Zach Galifianakis and Ray Liotta).