Francois Durand/Getty ImagesRobert Pattinson is going from Bella to Bel Ami.
As if the news that Breaking Dawn, the fourth installment of the Twilight series, was officially a go didn't put Pattinson fans into enough of a twitter, the burgeoning star has just guaranteed yet another opportunity to see his swoon-worthy visage on the big screen.
According to Variety, Pattinson is set to star in Bel Ami, an adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's novel about a morally corrupt, power-hungry playboy journalist. Pattinson will play the rogue writer; Bel Ami is his nickname.
"It's a totally amoral character," Pattz told Variety.
Declan Donnellan directs the film, which will shoot in Paris early next year.
Meanwhile, Justin Timberlake has game, Oscar nominee Melissa Leo gets into the ring with The Fighter, Dancing With the Stars cohost Samantha Harris does some two-stepping of her own, and Chris Pontius goes Somewhere with Sofia Coppola.
• Justin Timberlake is going through hoops for his next gig. The superstar singer is lending his pipes to the NBA, narrating the NBA Entertainment documentary Dream Season: 23 & 24, which will highlight Kobe Bryant's and LeBron James's run to the championship. The hourlong special airs on ESPN May 21.
• Melissa Leo is not done professionally with Christian Bale. The Frozen River star is in talks to join Bale and Mark Wahlberg in the drama chronicling Boston fighter "Irish" Mickey Ward's journey to become the world lightweight champion. Per Variety, Leo plays the mother of the two stars, who play half-brothers. David O. Russell directs the film, shooting this summer.
• Jackass's Chris Pontius is making a run for the arthouse crowd, signing on to star opposite Stephen Dorff in Sofia Coppola's latest auteur effort. Per the Hollywood Reporter, Pontius has joined the cast of Somewhere, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola's offspring, following a bad-boy actor shacking up at the Chateau Marmont who reexamines his life after a surprise visit from his preteen daughter.
• Dancing With the Stars cohost Samantha Harris is heading from the parquet to the Great White Way, signing on to make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago. Harris' run will last six weeks in New York and be followed by a one-week engagement on the show's national tour when it stops in Greenville, S.C. Curtains rise on Harris's run July 7.
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