{"id":3350,"date":"2007-06-15T18:57:42","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T16:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2015-05-20T11:03:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T09:03:38","slug":"emilie-in-ball-dont-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2007\/06\/emilie-in-ball-dont-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Emilie in &#8220;Ball Don&#8217;t Lie&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zap2it.com reports today, with reference to Variety, that Emilie de Ravin, Nick Cannon and Ludacris are starring in the indie drama &#8220;Ball Don&#8217;t Lie&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This movie is about a basketball prodigy dealing with life&#8217;s hard knocks. The director Brin Hall wrote the script with Matt de la Pena.<\/p>\n<p>Emilie&#8217;s &#8220;Lost&#8221; co-star Harold Perrineau or James Pickens Jr. (Grey&#8217;s Anatomy) are starring too. <\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zap2it.com\/movies\/news\/zap-balldontliecasting,0,4975383.story?track=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Zap2it.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Lost&#8217; Mom Plays &#8216;Ball&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nEmilie De Ravin, Nick Cannon and Ludacris lead varied ensemble<\/p>\n<p>June 15, 2007<\/p>\n<p>What kind of movie could bring together the collective talents of Emilie De Ravin, Nick Cannon and Ludacris?<\/p>\n<p>How about the indie ensemble &#8220;Ball Don&#8217;t Lie,&#8221; which features Grayson T. Boucher in the lead role as a basketball prodigy dealing with life&#8217;s hard knocks.<\/p>\n<p>According to Variety, Brin Hall is directing from a script he wrote with Matt de la Pena based on de la Pena&#8217;s novel of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>The film&#8217;s cast features a bevy of familiar faces including De Ravin&#8217;s former &#8220;Lost&#8221; co-star Harold Perrineau, Rosanna Arquette (&#8220;What About Brian&#8221;), Ricardo Chavira (&#8220;Desperate Housewives&#8221;), Steve Harris (&#8220;The Practice&#8221;), James Pickens Jr. (&#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221;), Dania Ramirez (&#8220;The Sopranos&#8221;), Matthew St. Patrick (&#8220;Six Feet Under&#8221;), Mykelti Williamson (&#8220;Forest Gump&#8221;), Robert Wisdom (&#8220;The Wire&#8221;), Evan Parke (&#8220;King Kong&#8221;) and Cress Williams (&#8220;Close to Home&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Claire on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Lost,&#8221; De Ravin&#8217;s feature credits include &#8220;The Hills Have Eyes&#8221; and &#8220;Brick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last seen in &#8220;Bobby&#8221; and heard in &#8220;Monster House,&#8221; Cannon has &#8220;Goal II: Living the Dream,&#8221; &#8220;Day of the Dead&#8221; and &#8220;American Son&#8221; on tap.<\/p>\n<p>Chris &#8220;Ludacris&#8221; Bridges has appeared in multiple episodes of &#8220;Law &#038; Order: Special Victims Unit,&#8221; as well as &#8220;Hustle &#038; Flow,&#8221; &#8220;Crash&#8221; and the upcoming &#8220;Fred Claus.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zap2it.com reports today, with reference to Variety, that Emilie de Ravin, Nick Cannon and Ludacris are starring in the indie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2386,3],"tags":[1444,480],"coauthors":[2262],"class_list":["post-3350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emilie-de-ravin","category-leading","tag-ball-dont-lie","tag-emilie-de-ravin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29721,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions\/29721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}