Paltrow Plays With The Danish Girl

I guess if you want to make audiences feel more comfortable watching a movie about a transsexual and their sexual partner, you might as well cast it with those who are friendly on the eyes. So is the case for The Danish Girl, which just landed Gwyneth Paltrow.

Gwyneth Paltrow for The Danish Girl
Paltrow has been cast to star opposite Nicole Kidman in The Danish Girl. Based on the David Ebershoff novel and directed by Thomas Alfredson off a script by Lucinda Coxon, The Danish Girl revolves around a man's (Einar Wegener) transformation after his wife Greta, a portrait painter, asks him to stand in for an absent female model.

Former Bond Girl Heads To Wuthering Heights

Gemma Arterton had her big moment last fall, when she popped up briefly as Bond girl Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace before getting axed in the name of a giant red herring. But she's about to get a whole lot more screentime, playing tortured young Cathy opposite Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick's Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, an adaptation of the classic Emily Bronte novel. THR is reporting that Peter Webber, who made the period piece Girl WIth a Pearl ...

Killer Imports: The Machine Girl

Killer Imports is a regular feature on Film Junk where we explore foreign-language films from around the world that havent yet had their chance to shine. The Machine Girl sounds like a bad translation for The Bionic Woman. The literal translation for the title of this Japanese movie is The One-Armed Machine Girl, which sounds like a female Terminator with one-arm torn off. A more accurate title for this movie would be The Girl with the Machine Gun Arm, or if alliteration is desired, The Girl with the Gatling Gun Arm. But I guess one look at the DVD cover would clear up the confusion. I suppose this review continues my trend of reviewing movies with female protagonists. To be honest, I ...

MySpace Suicide Case Gets Movie Treatment

The case of Megan Meier, a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide after being harassed by a former friend and the friend's mother, was tragic and sad and all over the headlines last year. And now, in the final act of media bad taste, it's going to be a movie. This week's Production Weekly lists the project E-Venge, from the independent production company Rocklin Entertainment, with a description that deliberately references the Meier case: "Inspired by recent events, a grieving mother ...

Gossip Girl Spin-off in the Works

The CW is looking at a possible spin-off to the hit teen drama series, Gossip Girl. The trades say the network may use one of the upcoming episodes as a backdoor pilot to the potential new series. The O.C. and Chuck creator Josh Schwartz is also behind Gossip Girl, which follows privileged teenagers as they attend an elite private school in New York City. It stars Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle. Rumors of a Girl spin-off have been circulating for some time, in part because Alloy Entertainment's Gossip Girl book series, which the TV show is based on, already has a spin-off of its own, The It Girl. But according to insider sources, a televised Gossip Girl spin-off would not be The It Girl. The spin-off would likely center on one of the show's nine regular characters -- although there's always a chance a new character could be planted in the backdoor pilot. Gossip Girl airs Mondays at 8pm.