It's a busy time for Tinseltown:
- Another 20-something city girl: Anne Hathaway will play the lead role [1] in the film version of a book I really enjoyed: The Opposite of Love [2]. The movie is about "a commitment-phobic attorney who finds her well-constructed life coming apart at the seams when she rebuffs her ready-for-marriage boyfriend."
- Before I was legend: Well, it's official — Will Smith will reprise his role as Dr. Robert Neville in an I Am Legend prequel [3]. This movie "will cover the final days of humanity in New York City before a man-made virus creates a plague that wipes out the population, leaving Neville alone with the mutated inhabitants."
- What's the latest in vampire news, Buzz?: Funny you should ask! Cloverfield [4] director Matt Reeves's next project is a "vampire tale" titled Let the Right One In [5], a remake of a Swedish film about "a young boy who befriends a female neighbor who moves to town." I bet she's not your ordinary neighbor.
- More vampires, not so much movie related: Mostly I'm just excited about this news because it's about Guillermo del Toro (yay!!) who "is collaborating with crime author Chuck Hogan on a trilogy of vampire novels [6], starting next Summer with The Strain. I love that guy (del Toro, not Chuck Hogan).
Depp, Oprah, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers news if you .
- Disney just loves Johnny Depp, but then again, who doesn't? Along with taking on the role of the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland [7], Disney announced that Johnny Depp will also star in a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean [8] movie, and he will star as Tonto in The Lone Ranger [9].
- O, that voice! In more Disney news, Oprah Winfrey will give voice to Eudora in the New Orleans-set animated princess movie, The Princess and the Frog [10].
- Wondering what Jonathan Rhys Meyers is up to these days? Well, I'll tell ya. Meyers is teaming up with John Travolta in the thriller From Paris With Love [11]. The story follows "a young embassy worker and an American secret agent who cross paths while working on a high-risk mission in Paris." Travolta, though? Really?
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