Negotiations are underway for Jennifer Connelly (Requiem for a Dream) and Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine) to star in the indie drama, Writers. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Josh Boone who also wrote the original screenplay. The plot of Writers centers on the familial relationships between a well-established novelist (Kinnear), his ex-wife (Connelly) and their children: a college-age daughter and teenage son. THR reports that Judy Cairo (Crazy Heart) of Informant Media will produce the project. Her upcoming works include Hysteria, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy and Jonathan Pryce and The Expatriate, starring Olga Kurylenko and Aaron Eckhart.

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Paul Bettany thinks his wife Jennifer Connelly is “mesmerizing”. The Broken Lines star – who has been married to the actress for eight years – explained while his spouse is “very beautiful”, he finds it frustrating that she always “moves at her own pace”. He said: “My poor wife. She moves at her own pace – she’s sort of slightly in slow motion, it’s mesmerizing and very beautiful – and I’m like, ‘C’mon, c’mon’, we’re going to be late.” Paul explained his home life has changed since becoming a father to Stellan, eight, and seven-month-old Agnes, as well as raising Kai, Jennifer’s 14-year-old son from a previous relationship, as he turns down movie projects because his kids need to know he’ll be around. He added in an interview with Observer Food Monthly magazine: “I don’t want to sound like it’s been a sacrifice for me. Sometimes you make decisions to not work and be with your family. “I have children – they need to know Dad’s going to come home.” However, Paul admitted while as an actor he can make mistakes, the same cannot be said for being a parent. He explained: “You can fudge a lot as an actor but you can’t fudge being a parent.”

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Following his Oscar win for penning Gus Van Sant’s poignant biopic Milk, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black decided to take to the director’s chair himself to helm his next script, What’s Wrong With Virginia. The drama, which co-stars Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris and Emma Roberts, was completed in 2010, and soon scored a spot at the Toronto International Film Festival. However, there it had a lackluster showing and was subsequently lost amid such high-profile productions as Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go, and John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole. From there, it faded from the spotlight and was left with no promise of theatrical release. However, THR now reports that this has all changed thanks to the Toronto-based, indie distribution company Entertainment One, who has just purchased the rights to distribute the feature throughout North America.
The melodrama, now called simply Virginia, centers on the tumultuous relationship between a mentally unstable single-mom (Connelly) and her lonely teen son (Harrison Gilbertson), who is on a desperate quest to uncover the identity of the father he’s never known. Convinced his real dad is the local Sherriff (Harris), who is by all accounts and upstanding family man, the boy begins some amateur detective work that takes him into dangerous terrain as he falls for the Sherriff’s lovely daughter (Roberts). Toby Jones, Carrie Preston, and Yeardley Smith co-star.
Entertainment One (also known as eOne) has announced plans to release Virginia as early as this spring. Dylan Wiley, eOne Films US vp of theatrical marketing and distribution, believes the drama will be a great fit, saying: “We’re excited to add Virginia to our 2012 slate and thrilled to have found a film that complements both our Canadian and US line-ups so well.”
No specific release date has yet been announced.

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Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly were kept busy this Christmas after hosting 25 of their friends for the holidays in Vermont. The Wimbledon star has compared his hectic festive season to “running a hotel” – and has vowed never to tackle such an ambitious task again. He tells Britain’s The One Show, “We had this place up in Vermont and I invite the whole of England, all of my friends, over. “We had about 25 people living there for about two weeks. We do all the cooking and cleaning – it’s like running a hotel. “It’s a nightmare, I’m not doing it anymore!”

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The celebrity couple is parents to eight-year-old Stellan and baby daughter Agnes, while the actress is also mother to 14-year-old son Kai from a previous relationship. Both stars agreed that one of them should always take time off when the other lands a job, but the chance to film financial drama Margin Call prompted Bettany to break the promise while his wife was away on a shoot in Michigan. As a result, Stellan and Kai – as well as the family’s dog – found themselves sleeping on set as the cameras rolled. Speaking on Britain’s The One Show, Bettany says, “We try as best as we can to work one-on one-off, it’s really simple and it hardly ever works. It didn’t work (on Margin Call). It just came up, it was a great script, she was working in Michigan. I read the script, I met the director, I really wanted to do it – it had Kevin Spacey and Stanley Tucci and I said please let me do it… “There were night shoots, so consequently I had my kids on set with me. There were no trailers – it was a tiny movie but I had this little office space on the trading floor we were shooting on and I had an inflatable mattress in there with my kids asleep and my dog.”

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The A Beautiful Mind star is a keen walker and her husband Paul Bettany reveals she uses the activity to escape the limelight. He says, “I am a city boy but my wife loves the outdoors and consequently I do a lot of hiking, and I mean proper hiking up in the mountains. Her reason for that is you never get paparazzi up in the mountains.” Bettany jokes, “If you do, you can kill them and bury them and no-one will ever know.”

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