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This past weekend, Meet Bill was released in limited theaters. Elizabeth co-stars with Aaron Eckhart and Jessica Alba as Jess, Bill’s wife who is cheating on him. Make sure to check out the film’s official site and go see the movie if it’s playing near you. ;)

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Welsh actor IOAN GRUFFUD is set to play former British Prime Minster TONY BLAIR in the new OLIVER STONE movie W.
The star is also joined by actress Thandie Newton in the film, based on the life of U.S. President George W. Bush. Newton is reported to be in line to play secretary of state Condoleezza Rice.
No Country For Old Men star Josh Brolin will play Bush in Stone’s drama, which will also feature James Cromwell, Elizabeth Banks and Ellen Burstyn.
Cromwell and Burstyn will play the current President’s parents George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush respectively, while Banks will portray First Lady Laura Bush.
W is due to began filming on 21 May (08).

From Contact Music

Rosamund Pike and Radha Mitchell have joined Bruce Willis in Disney’s The Surrogates.

Variety reports the film is directed by Jonathan Mostow from a screenplay by Michael Ferris and John Brancato. It is based on the graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele. The film is scheduled to start shooting this month in Boston with Mandeville’s David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman producing with Max Handelman and Elizabeth Banks.

The film is set in the near future where humans live in isolation and interact through the use of surrogate robots – which are designed to be better looking versions of the humans.

From Monsters and Critics

Elizabeth Banks on Playing Laura Bush
How does the actress go from playing a sex-crazed clerk in ”The 40 Year-Old Virgin” to the dignified role of the First Lady of the United States in Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush biopic? EW.com finds out

Elizabeth Banks has starred opposite many a comedic leading man, including Steve Carell (The 40-Year-Old Virgin), Vince Vaughn (Fred Claus), Eddie Murphy (this summer’s Meet Dave), and Seth Rogen (Kevin Smith’s upcoming Zack and Miri Make a Porno). But now she’ll soon get serious with her just-announced role as First Lady Laura Bush in Oliver Stone’s biopic W. And while the amusingly ironic juxtaposition of Zack and Miri Make a Porno with a film about George W. Bush is not lost on Banks, the actress is much more focused on perfecting her interpretation of Mrs. Bush. EW.com spoke to Banks about her involvement in this sure-to-be controversial film.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How do you research the sitting First Lady?
ELIZABETH BANKS: I’m reading — I have about six books. I have the A&E biography that they did, I have all of her speeches, anything that I could find. I just bought her episode of Charlie Rose. I have a lot on my iPod right now. I’m very interested in getting her voice. I feel like if I get her hair and her voice right, it will go a long way toward creating the character.

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Elizabeth Banks is in final talks to portray First Lady Laura Bush in Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush biopic, ”W”

Elizabeth Banks (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Spider-Man) is in final negotiations to play First Lady Laura Bush in director Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush biopic, W. Josh Brolin is already on board to play Bush. Stone, who wrote the screenplay with his Wall Street co-writer Stanley Weiser, has been openly critical of Bush’s invasion of Iraq, but he has said the biopic will present a fair and accurate portrait, focused on things like his relationship with his father, President George H.W. Bush, his wild younger days, and his conversion to Christianity. Stone was quoted in Variety last January as saying, ”People have turned my political ideas into a cliche, but that is superficial. I’m a dramatist who is interested in people, and I have empathy for Bush as a human being, much the same as I did for Castro, Nixon, Jim Morrison, Jim Garrison, and Alexander the Great.” Shooting on W is scheduled to start in late April. Banks just finished shooting on Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno. She next appears in the Eddie Murphy comedy Meet Dave and in Bill with Aaron Eckhart and Jessica Alba.

From EW.com