Cheryl Hines courtesy HBO
Curb Your Enthusiasm's Cheryl Hines will make her feature-directing debut with the indie Serious Moonlight, from a screenplay by the late Adrienne Shelly.... Also per Variety, Michelle Williams and Gael Garcia Bernal are a New York City couple in crisis in Mammoth.... From the Reporter, Mark Ruffalo and Ethan Hawke play Boston-bred thugs in the true-life crime drama Real Men Cry. Amanda Peet is Hawke's missus.... Cuba Gooding Jr. is a paramilitary operative who discovers a conspiracy in the action thriller The Way of War.
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Michelle Williams and Heath Ledger by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com
Aussie hunk Heath Ledger and Dawson's Creek alumna Michelle Williams, who met on the set of Brokeback Mountain in 2005, "quietly and amicably split a few weeks ago," a source tells Us. "The relationship had been rocky recently. They tried very hard to make it work but... they just grew apart." The couple have a 23-month-old daughter, Matilda.... Donald Trump's first Apprentice, Bill Rancic, exchanged vows with E! News anchor Giuliana DePandi on Saturday.... Usher and Tameka Foster followed up their Aug. 3 civil wedding ceremony with a Sept. 1 wedding in Atlanta.Related: Private Practice's Kate Walsh Ties the Knot
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Per Variety, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, whose only previous cinematic scene-sharing was in 1995's Heat, are cops tracking a serial slayer in Righteous Kill.... Felicity Huffman and Bill Pullman have come on board Phoebe in Wonderland, in which a drama teacher (Patricia Clarkson) tries to tame a rebellious girl (Elle Fanning).... Jason Bateman will produce and star in The Remarkable Fellows, a buddy comedy based on an outline from the Arrested alum, and concerning two brothers who exact revenge for other people.... Frank E. Flowers (Haven) is writing, with eye to direct, a remake of 1981's Taps.... Michelle Williams, Bryce Dallas Howard and Evan Rachel Wood are set to star in the biopic Bronte.
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Well, this film seems to be coming together quickly and promisingly. The big-screen take on Broadway's Mamma Mia! that I told you about just yesterday? Variety reports that Meryl Streep is already set to star as the mother of an altar-bound young girl determined to meet her biological dad. Yes, Streep sings, though Mamma Mia! will be her first full-blown musical.... Acclaimed crime novelist Michael Connelly (Love. Him.) and his longtime collaborator Terrill Lee Lankford (I'm sure he's nice, too) are penning the screenplay for a feature remake of the '80s series The Equalizer.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Michelle Williams are in talks to star in Synecdoche, New York, the directing debut of Oscar-winning scribe Charlie Kaufman. Hoffman will play a theater director, and Keener and Williams his first and second wives.
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Numbers' David Krumholtz is joining Michelle Williams in Woody Allen's next film, set in Paris.... Speaking of Brokeback babes, Kate Mara (now a nutty CTUer on 24) is Mark Wahlberg's love interest in The Shooter.... Queen Latifah is a Welfare Queen in a fact-based story about a woman who scammed the welfare system.... Will Smith is attached to star in the action-thriller Greenbacks.... Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst will make his feature directorial debut on the indie The Education of Charlie Banks, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Ritter and Chris Marquette.
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Michelle Williams in Brokeback Mountain
Michelle Williams' Oscar-nominated turn in Brokeback Mountain has earned her a failing grade from the Christian high school she attended. "We don't want to have anything to do with her in relation to that movie. Michelle doesn't represent the values of this institution," the Santa Fe Christian School headmaster tells the San Diego Union Tribune. "I hope we offered her something in life, but she made the kinds of choices of which we wouldn't approve. Brokeback Mountain promotes a lifestyle we don't promote. It's not the word of God." But selling M&Ms for $5 a box as a fund-raiser, that's cool with Him.
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Lead actress nom Keira Knightley
Nominations for the 78th-annual Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning, and leading the herd was — yep — Brokeback Mountain, lassoing eight nods, including best picture, best director, and acting bids for Heath Ledger (in the lead category), Jake Gyllenhaal (supporting) and Michelle Williams. Challenging the cowboy romance for best-pic honors are Capote, Crash, Munich and Good Night, and Good Luck. The lead-actor race pits Ledger against SAG-Golden Globe winner Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote), Globe winner Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line), Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow) and David Strathairn (Good Night), while the lead-actress contenders are SAG-Globe winner Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line), Globe winner Felicity Huffman (Tran
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The big winners at the 11th Annual Critics' Choice Awards, broadcast Monday night on WB, were Brokeback Mountain (for best picture, director Ang Lee and supporting actress Michelle Williams [tied with Junebug's Amy Adams]), Capote's Philip Seymour Hoffman (best actor) and Walk the Line's Reese Witherspoon (best actress). Cinderella Man's Paul Giamatti was named best supporting actor.
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Nominations for the Jan. 29 Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced today, and Brokeback Mountain led the pack with four nods, including Heath Ledger (in the lead actor category), Jake Gylenhaal (supporting actor) and Michelle Williams (supporting actress). Capote (with lead actor Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Crash (supporting actors Don Cheadle and Matt Dillon) followed with three noms each. Among those in the lead actress race is Desperate Housewives' Felicity Huffman, for her role in Transamerica. For a complete list, visit sagawards.org.
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Eva Longoria of Desperate Housewives
Eva Longoria probably isn't feeling too Desperate this morning. The perpetual award-show bridesmaid scored a long-overdue Golden Globe nod on Tuesday morning, joining cast mates Felicity Huffman, Teri Hatcher and Marcia Cross in the lead actress (comedy) race. Still, Eva's probably not the happiest of the Housewives today. That award goes to Huffman, doubly nominated for the sudser and her gender-bending turn in Transamerica. Housewives itself overcame all that sophomore-slump chatter to score a nod for best comedy, where it will face off against newcomers Everybody Hates Chris, My Name Is Earl and Weeds, as well as HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage. Other newcomers to the Globes race include Fox's Prison Break and its star, Wentworth Miller; The Office's Steve Carell;
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