This is the inaugural year for the Cowboy Christmas Youth Challenge, Sunday through Dec. 31 at the Kirk Fordice Equine Center on the Mississippi Fairgrounds.
Paramount Pictures will have an open casting call there Sunday through Tuesday for the lead role of Mattie Ross in a Coen Brothers remake of the famous John Wayne Western True Grit.
The movie, to be shot next spring, will star Jeff Bridges in Wayne’s Rooster Cogburn role, as well as Matt Damon and Josh Brolin, said Rachel Tenner, a casting director for the film….(read more)
