Not surprisingly, the box-office success of Twilight has led the CW to stake out some territory in the teens-and-vampires genre by picking up a pilot for Vampire Diaries, a Kevin Williamson-penned adaptation of a 15-year-old series of novels.
Also coming down the pike at the CW: a look at D.C. politics, through the eyes of some undoubtedly young and pretty folk. Get the details, after the jump.
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Christian Bale is in talks to play FBI manhunter Melvin Purvis to Johnny Depp's John Dillinger in Public Enemies, a Michael Mann-directed adaptation of Brian Burrough's Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43. (Did Tracy Jordan come up with that title?).... Charlize Theron is Viggo Mortensen's wife in the big-screen version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road.... Hugh Dancy and Krysten Ritter ('Til Death) have been cast as a magazine editor and Isla Fisher's best gal pal, respectively, in Confessions of a Shopaholic.... Orlando Jones is a gay man who micromanages the pregnancy of his and his partner's surrogate (Criminal Minds' A.J. Cook) in the indie dramedy Misconceptions.
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From one of Julia Robert's students in Mona Lisa Smile to one of Rory's best Yale pals on Gilmore Girls, Krysten Ritter is working with the best in the business and getting so much exposure, you can catch her on TV more than once a week. Taking a break from Gilmore's bright-eyed Lucy, Ritter plays another coed tonight on Fox's 'Til Death (8 pm/ET), starring Everybody Loves Raymond's Brad Garrett. And when you're done laughing up her comedy spot, check out her other Fox appearance this wee
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