According to the Reporter, Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish (hmmm...) and Sean Bean have boarded Last Battle Dreamer, a Viking epic pegged as "a love story written in fire and blood" — just like my blog!.... Leonardo DiCaprio is circling producer Scott Rudin's forthcoming adaptation of the Robert Graves novel I, Claudius.... Per Variety, Jeff Daniels and Neal McDonough have joined Traitor, an espionage thriller starring Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce.... Christini Ricci's oft-postponed Penelope will premiere her profound proboscis on Feb. 1, 2008.read more
Ryan Phillippe's coziness with his current leading lady, Stop Loss costar Abbie Cornish, may be what did in his marriage to Reese Witherspoon. After incriminating Blackberry missives between him and the 24-year-old Aussie were discovered by Reese, "Ryan admitted it was true and said, 'We need to just end this.' Reese literally had no choice," an anonymous source tells Us Weekly.... Us also reports that Studio 60's Matthew Perry is romancing The Class' Lizzy Caplan, whom he was introduced to two months ago by Friend Matt LeBlanc.... Jason Bateman and his wife of five years, Amanda Anka, welcomed their first child, a girl named Francesca Nora, on Saturday, says People.read more