Because we know it’s hard to focus the morning after a long weekend, here are 5 items in short form to start your day off right:
1. Natalie Portman’s performance in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan has been garnering rave-with-a-capital-R reviews, and now it’s rumored she’s been offered the lead (a first-time astronaut stranded on a space station) in Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity. (We very much enjoyed Duncan Jones’ Moon, and so are looking forward to this.) Angelina Jolie passed on the part twice, which led to a lot of hand-wringing and brow-furrowing as everyone began to whisper that the film wouldn’t be made AT ALL, even though Cuaron was reportedly also considering, or at the very least thinking about considering, Scarlett Johansson or Blake Lively. [Hollywood Reporter]
2. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (the Tudors, personal favorite Match Point) will play a Jewish diplomat having an affair with a Swiss woman (supermodel Natalia Vodianova) at the outbreak of World War II, in Belle du Siegneur, based on the novel by Albert Cohen. First-timer Glenio Bonder is directing. Rock legend Marianne Faithfull will make an appearance as well… [Deadline]
3. James Franco masturbates. A lot. He admits this. Of more interest, at least to some, he also talks about filming 127 Hours’ amputation scene in this incredibly short Q&A with the Hollywood Reporter.
4. YES. Raekwon has teamed up with Damon Dash and is co-directing a film called C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me). So far there are almost no details whatsoever (which doesn’t at all detract from the awesomeness of this news) except that he may be staying behind the camera, possibly, at least for now, telling Vulture “I’m playing the outskirts on this one because I kind of feel like that’s where I’m at. You know, I don’t know. At this point, I probably won’t be in it, but we don’t know”.
5. It’s rumored that Summit is working on, yes, another Twilight movie, this one based on Stephanie Meyer’s spin-off The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. (For those of you who haven’t read the series six or seven times, like myself, Bree Tanner was introduced as a 3-month-old vampire in Breaking Dawn, and killed less than ten pages later. Maybe even five.) We find this somewhat confusing, or potentially redundant, since as far as we know, Meyer gave Breaking Dawn screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg a copy of the at the time unpublished novella so she could incorporate some of Bree’s storyline into the film (we could speculate that this was because the Breaking Dawn book is not nearly captivating enough on its own to warrant TWO movies, but we won’t complain about anything that provides us with more Robert Pattinson and/or Kristen Stewart). The Bree Tanner rumormill also spins out this tidbit: Let Me In star Chloe Moritz and the younger Fanning, Elle, have been mentioned as. [Cinematical]
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