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As you’ve probably heard, Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake are the most recent celebrity couple to tie the knot. The duo recently exchanged vows at their private nuptials in Puglia, Italy.
While many relationships in Hollywood don’t tend to last longer than a few months, Jessica Biel has faith that hers is sticking. So much faith that she’s legally changing her last name. Jessica Biel told People.com she will now go forward as Jessica Timberlake. | Full Story
A new trailer for the upcoming romantic comedy Playing for Keeps has been released. Playing for Keeps is an upcoming film directed by Gabriele Muccino and starring Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Judy Greer and Dennis Quaid.
A released synopsis describes the film as:
A romantic comedy about a charming, down-on-his luck former soccer star (Butler) who returns home to put his life back together. Looking for a way to rebuild his relationship with his son, he gets roped into coaching the boy’s soccer team. | Full Story
20th Century Fox is set to begin production on The Wolverine next week and they still haven’t found an actress to play Viper/Victoria. Last week, the company put an offer out to Jessica Biel to fill the spot but the actress turned the role down in the negotiation stage.
One thing with Hollywood studios though, they will fill their parts even if they have to find a non-acting musician to play the role. | Full Story
Jessica Biel will no longer be playing a role in director James Mangold’s The Wolverine, according to a report by Collider.
Talks between Biel and 20th Century Fox have reportedly broken down, and now the studio is scrambling to find an actress to replace her as Viper in the Marvel film. The studio has already begun talking to other actresses as the production start date closes in. Filming for the sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine begins next month in Australia and Japan. | Full Story
Jessica Biel has been cast to play in The Wolverine. The 7th Heaven actress will star as Viper, in 20th Century Fox picture.
Victoria/Viper’s character has a long run in the X-Men mythology series and will play a major part in the film. According to Marvel, Biel’s character will have an internal good and bad switch as she hang around Wolverine but is mostly a loyal to the X-Men and Avengers. | Full Story
The trailer to Pascal Laugier latest movie, The Tall Man, has made its way on to the web.
The Tall Man centers around a small town where children have gone missing over the years, leaving superstitious locals to repeat tales of the tall man, a legendary, dark figure who runs off with children.
Biel will play Julia Denning, a nurse who has seen better days. When her son David (Jakob Davies) disappears, she will stop at nothing to find him and uncover the secrets behind the abductions. | Full Story
After a sneak peek teaser was released last week, the full trailer for the upcoming sci-fi thriller Total Recall has made its way online. The film, which stars Colin Farrell as Douglas Quaid, is a newly updated version of the original 1990 film of the same name.
Total Recall centers around the dystopian future of 2084 where Euroamerica (formerly the United States and the European Union) and New Shanghai (formerly China and South East Asia) fight for supremacy on the planet. Douglas Quaid is a simple factory worker suffering from violent nightmares that leave him wondering if he’s a spy whose memory and personality were erased and replaced. | Full Story
Columbia Pictures has released a teaser for the upcoming remake Total Recall. The official trailer will be released April 1st during the halftime game between the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat, which will show on ABC.
Total Recall is a thriller about the distortion of reality and memory. Douglas Quaid seems to have the perfect life with his beautiful wife, but when Quaid begins to experience memory lapses he becomes a haunted man. | Full Story
Jessica Biel has joined Scarlett Johansson in a new movie about the making of Psycho. Yesterday, the actress signed on to play the second female lead in the film.
Biel will play the role of Vera Miles, who played Lila Crane in the 1960 classic. Anthony Hopkins plays Hitchcock, Scarlett Johansson will play Janet Leigh, Helen Mirren will play Alma Reville and James D’Arcy is reportedly up for the role of Anthony Perkins. | Full Story
Jessica Biel showed off what appeared to be her engagement ring during a “Saturday Night Live” after party in New York, according to a report by People.
This may have been the first time the 29-year-old actress has allowed the public to see her wearing the ring since she got engaged to her long-term boyfriend, 31-year-old Justin Timberlake, over the Christmas holidays, according to the report.
Biel and Timberlake were “very lovey all night and kissed a few times” during a party Saturday at Ristorante Asellina, a source told the magazine. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
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