Variety – Screen Gems has locked down Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester as its cast of country singers in “Love Don’t Let Me Down,” which Tobey Maguire is producing.
Production on the drama is set to start in January in Nashville.
Pic, which Shana Feste wrote and will direct, revolves around a rising young singer-songwriter (Hedlund) who becomes involved with a fallen country singer, to be played by Paltrow. As they embark on a career resurrection tour with her husband and manager (McGraw) and a beauty queen-turned-singer (Meester), romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.
Maguire will produce with Jenno Topping through their Maguire Entertainment shingle.
Paltrow most recently played Pepper Potts in “Iron Man” and will reprise the role in next summer’s sequel.
McGraw most recently co-starred opposite Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side” and has also appeared in “Four Christmases,” “The Kingdom” and “Friday Night Lights.” Hedlund headlines Disney’s remake of “Tron,” while Meester is a regular on the CW’s “Gossip Girl.” She stars in Screen Gems’ upcoming thriller “The Roommate” and Fox’s “Date Night.”
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UsMag – Gwyneth Paltrow has a gender-bending new role to add to her resume.The actress, 37, has signed on to star in The Danish Girl opposite Nicole Kidman, in a role that brings the story of the first post-operative transsexual to the big screen.
According to Variety, Paltrow will join previously cast Kidman, 42, as Greta, the supportive wife of Kidman’s Einar Wegener.
In the love story, Paltrow’s portrait painter Greta asks her husband to stand in for a female model — and encourages him to continue donning a dress and stockings after her portraits become increasingly more popular. When Einar transforms into Lili, Greta’s original plan causes tension in their marriage.
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UsMag – Chris Martin’s rep is denying a new Star tabloid story that claims the Coldplay rocker, 32, recently kissed 26-year-old actress Kate Bosworth.
Star quotes an unnamed as saying that Martin was “totally making out with Kate in front of other people” at an unnamed event.
But Martin’s rep tells Usmagazine.com: “This story is entirely untrue.”
Martin and his wife of six years, Gwyneth Paltrow, are “more than fine,” a source tells Us.
The source says the alleged Martin-Bosworth make-out “simply never happened.She may have been in the same room with him, but he is not having an affair
ME & MY Excessive 33 ROOMS…
Daily News – Gwyneth Paltrow and husband Coldplay frontman Chris Martin are expanding their London home to a 33-room mansion that will cost about $11.5 million.
Just as Madonna and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver did, the couple, who bought their relatively modest home for $2.5 million from Kate Winslet in 2004, snapped up the property next door two years ago for $5 million. Renovation began last week. “It will be a massive house. What they have already is a substantial family home, but to double and add a bit on will make it a real mansion,” a neighbor told the London Daily Mail. “No one objected as they are not going to change outside appearance of the property and the extension is on their own land and a few other houses [Wait!Theres Tons More…]
Gwyneth Paltrow Trying to
Dismantle Coldplay…
Gossip Betty – Back in 2004 newlywed Gwyneth Paltrow was asked whether she would consider singing with her new husband Chris Martin’s band, Coldplay. The Oscar winner said no, explaining, “People ask if I will sing with the band or do a duet, but always in front of my mind is the Yoko effect. I don’t want to be known as the girl who split up Coldplay.” [Wait!Theres Tons More…]
Daily News – Gwyneth Paltrow and husband Coldplay frontman Chris Martin are expanding their London home to a 33-room mansion that will cost about $11.5 million.Just as Madonna and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver did, the couple, who bought their relatively modest home for $2.5 million from Kate Winslet in 2004, snapped up the property next door two years ago for $5 million. Renovation [Wait!Theres Tons More…]
Gwyneth Paltrow is not making any new friends these days. The actress recently wrapped filming on “Iron Man 2″ (due to hit theatres in May 2010), where she wasn’t a crew favorite, FOX411 has learned. A source says some of the “Iron Man” team had secret hopes of her character being recast, or even killed in the movie, but are resigned to the likelihood that she is locked in as the character Pepper Potts. Gwyneth did nothing to make friends with fellow superhero Scarlett Johansson, playing the Black Widow, says the insider, and crew actually preferred to be around her husband, Coldplay frontman, Chris Martin.”Gwyneth is extremely cool at work. She’s just a step above professional, too snobby,” the on-set source tells FOX411. [Wait!Theres Tons More…]
Daily Mail – Most women would give anything to have Gwyneth Paltrow’s slim, healthy figure. In fact, the key to achieving it is giving up virtually everything. That’s giving up orange juice, dairy, alcohol, sugar, wheat, caffeine and processed foods, raw fish and soy. And giving up a proper breakfast and lunch, if you want to have dinner, as you’re only allowed one main meal a day. It’s also about slurping several spoonfuls of olive oil each night to help ‘lubricate’ whatever you are allowed to eat on its way down. The actress has revealed the rather depressing details
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Gwyneth Paltrow speaks almost perfect Spanish – and she does it with an Iberian accent.The Oscar-winning actress says she traveled to Spain as a teenager, fell in love with the country, and embraces the culture to the point that she visits at least once a year and makes sure her young children, [Wait!Theres Tons More…]
“Gwyneth Paltrow” – as a lifestyle brand name instead of just her name….
hmmm. I’m picturing something like this…
(With additional photoshopping of course…)
Daily Mail – Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is set to end her lucrative contract with cosmetics giant Estee Lauder so she can focus on her own lifestyle brand Goop.com. The £1million-a-year deal has been the jewel in Gwyneth’s sponsorship crown since she replaced Elizabeth Hurley as the younger, fresher face of Estee Lauder in 2005. ‘But now she wants to expand her personal influence to become an Oprah Winfrey-like lifestyle guru via her website,’ says a source.
Flower girl: Gwyneth Paltrow has been the face of Estee Lauder since 2005
‘She wants to become a brand as herself and she would have been limited if she was tied down to this cosmetics deal. Ending it was a priority for her.’ Gwyneth’s husband, Coldplay singer Chris Martin, 32, is said to be keen on the idea and has been encouraging his 36-year-old wife to make the break.
