Jessica Biel has been cast as the lead in the romantic comedy “Easy Virtue,” based on the Noel Coward play, for London-based Ealing Studios.

Endgame Entertainment is financing the indie project.

Biel plays an American divorcee, Larita Huntington, who travels to the South of France and marries young wealthy Englishman John Whittaker, played by Ben Barnes, on the spur of the moment. The couple return to England to face his unapproving family, including his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Whittaker, played by Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Stephan Elliott is directing the film from a screenplay he and Sheridan Jobbins penned. Ealing’s Barnaby Thompson is producing. Principal photography starts next week in London.

“Stephan is a terrific director,” Endgame CEO James D. Stern said. “It’s a great cast and I’m just charged up and optimistic about it.

“It’s a funny, lovely movie with a point,” he added.

“Easy Virtue” is based on Coward’s 1924 three-act play of the same name.

Alfred Hitchcock was the first to adapt it in film, with the 1928 silent movie “Easy Virtue.”

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Ohmygosh! Yay Jesse!

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Pop superstar Justin Timberlake is set to take his relationship with actress Jessica Biel to the big screen.

The couple are currently looking for a movie project to work on together and are trying to agree on a suitable genre.

A source tells Irish newspaper the Sunday World, “Justin is very keen to do a comedy while Jessica wants to do something grittier because she’s concerned about her image.”

Timberlake took a break from making music in 2004 to kick-start his acting career and has since stared in a variety of movies including Alpha Dog, Southland Tales and as the voice of young King Arthur in last year’s Shrek The Third.

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This is really exciting if true! Cannot wait to see what comes from this!

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Striking Hollywood writers have reached a deal with Tom Cruise’s production outfit United Artists Films to resume working while the strike continues against other studios.

The deal announced Monday was the first reached with big-screen producers by the Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike since Nov. 5. Terms were not disclosed.

“United Artists has lived up to its name. UA and the writers guild came together and negotiated seriously. The end result is that we have a deal that will put people back to work,” said Patric M. Verrone, president of the Writers Guild of America West.

The guild said the agreement addresses key issues of writers, who walked off the job over their cut of potential profits from programming on the Internet and other new media.

The deal does not include MGM, the main parent company of United Artists.

In a statement, MGM said it “understands the desire of United Artists to resume its business activities but respectfully disagrees with its decision to sign an interim agreement.”

United Artists is not a member of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents MGM, Sony, Disney and other major studios in negotiations with the guild. Contract talks with the writers broke off Dec. 7, with no new negotiations in sight.

The producers alliance downplayed the significance of the United Artists agreement.

The next United Artists release, director Bryan Singer’s World War II thriller “Valkyrie,” also stars Cruise and is due out Oct. 3. Among other United Artists films in development is “Die a Little,” a crime thriller starring Jessica Biel.

This is REALLY good news, with the writers strike, I had no idea if it was going to go through or not!
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Hello Everyone!
I have some GREAT news for you all! I work at Blockbuster so they released their Top 100 rented movies in 2007 and three of the four released films made it!!

09 – The Illusionist
42 – I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
60 – Next

So congrats to Jessica on all the success on her films! Thats AMAZING that The Illusionist made the Top 10!

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If there was ever any doubt that nerds love BitTorrent, TorrentFreak has a great list of the most popular movies and TV shows of 2007 that were downloaded through torrent sites — and it is chock-full of geek entertainment.

Topping the list of movies was Transformers, followed by other guy-friendly fare like Knocked Up, 300, and The Bourne Ultimatum. But also finding their way onto the list were some surprises, such as Mark Wahlberg’s flop Shooter, the Nicholas Cage flop Next (though having Jessica Biel probably didn’t hurt), and the shouldn’t-have-been-a-flop Hot Fuzz (from the guys behind Shaun of the Dead).

As for TV, sci-fi and action shows were in high demand, with Heroes coming in at No. 1; Battlestar Galactica, Lost, 24 and Prison Break also proved to be popular. Breaking the male grip on the list was Desperate Housewives, at No. 6.

1 Transformers (569.259)
2 Knocked Up (509.314)
3 Shooter (399.960)
4 Pirates Of The.Caribbean At World’s End (379.749)
5 Ratatouille (359.904)
6 300 (358.226)
7 Next (354.044)
8 Hot Fuzz (352.905)
9 The Bourne Ultimatum (336.326)
10 Zodiac (334.699)

Too bad! I wish more people would have actually um BOUGHT it or seen it at the theaters so it would have realistically done better.

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