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What Lautner and Swift Did for Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day will be that much sweeter with a song from Taylor Swift, don't ya think?
The singer, who plays opposite Taylor Lautner in the upcoming ensemble romantic comedy from director Garry Marshall, will likely be writing and performing a tune for the flick.
"We hope she does," Marshall told me yesterday at Variety's inaugural Power of Women luncheon in Beverly Hills. "But when people write songs, they always want to see the movie.
"[Taylor] wants to see the part that she's in," he added. "I just finished, so I need to edit for a second."
Marshall had hoped that Lautner and Swift would have bigger roles in the movie. Sadly, their busy schedules didn't allow for it.
"She writes songs and sings and he does the vampire thing," Marshall said. "But I discovered Taylor Lautner ran track back in Minnesota. That's why I have him jumping hurdles in the movie. She likes to dance and he likes to jump a hurdle, so we made up the scene for them."
Valentine's Day also reunites Marshall with Julia Roberts. He was quick to shoot down the never-ending rumor that there will be a sequel to their hit Pretty Woman.
However, Marshall did reveal that he's considering another Pretty Woman project. Read on for the scoop...
Rate-a-Trailer: Will You Heart Valentine's Day?
While watching this first look at the upcoming romantic comedy Valentine's Day, we were trying to figure out who isn't in it.
After all, the ensemble cast is quite the laundry list, including the likes of Jennifer Garner, Bradley Cooper, Anne Hathaway, Julia Roberts, Patrick Dempsey, both Jessica Biel and Alba, as well as Ashton Kutcher, who obviously managed to stop twittering long enough to take part.
And while the trailer itself doesn't really reveal much in the way of storyline (it is just a teaser, after all), what little it does show seems mildly amusing and pretty harmless.
The movie hits theaters in February 2010. Just in time for, well, you know.
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Joe Jonas: Valentine's Day Just Got a Little Sweeter
Joe Jonas is moving up the movie-star ladder.
I just got word that Joe is close to joining Hollywood hotshots like Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, Jessica Alba, Patrick Dempsey, Jamie Foxx and Queen Latifah in director Garry Marshall's romantic comedy Valentine's Day.
Yup, the same movie that also has appearances by Joe's ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift, Twilight star Taylor Lautner and Emma Roberts.
No word on Joe's role, but...
Julia Roberts Grills Letterman, Declares Him King
After taking over the interrogating, Julia Roberts took a side in the latest late-night talk-show battles.
Last night's Late Show started off innocuously enough, with Roberts chatting up David Letterman about his recent wedding.
"I don't know if I can look you in the eye anymore," she said at the beginning. "Last time I saw you, you were single and then I like hypnotized you in my white suit or something and you went off and married Regina!"
Indeed, the p.m. talker married longtime love Regina Lasko two days later, on March 19, 2009.
Then Roberts started asking the tough questions.
"So she's Mrs. Letterman?"
"No, she's Dave," he responded.
"You are so much funnier than other people who talk at this time of the evening," she mused.
There you have it. Guess you can add her to the Letterman supporter list just under Howard Stern.
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Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal to Do Drugs?
First comes marriage, then comes Viagra.
After playing an unhappily married couple in Brokeback Mountain, Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal are in talks to reteam for Love and Other Drugs. The flick is director Ed Zwick's adaptation of Jamie Reidy's delightfully titled nonfiction book Hard Sell: Confessions of a Viagra Salesman, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Gyllenhaal would play a role based on Reidy, a Pfizer drug rep who romances a Parkinson's patient played by Hathaway.
Sex, drugs and beautiful stars? Sounds great. But if the film lasts more than four hours, somebody better call a doctor.
And who is Julia Roberts about to devour?
Rise 'n' Shine: Lady Gaga Shows "Paparazzi" Her Poker Face
• Lady Gaga's latest video for "Paparazzi" is evocative, satirical, sexy and long, but go ahead and give it a gander. It's worth a watch. Then cleanse yourself with something a little more bubbly (and not bubble suity) by listening to the Jonas Brothers' latest.
• Here's something you should all know: The Hogans do not know best. They are much ado about mudslinging and drama, Brooke's boob jobs, Linda's drug use and the Hulk's boa-wearing.
• Benji and Joel Madden were apparently born Benji and Joel Combs, which might make them related to Sean "Diddy" Combs or something. Do you think that's why they legally changed their names?
• Kiefer Sutherland may be keeping his head to himself in the latest issue of British Elle, but not his thoughts on ex-fiancée Julia Roberts.
• Just in case you've been hiding under a rock and missed the gazillion Gosselin tidbits of Jon & Kate Plus 8 news we've been posting for the past few weeks, don't miss our Jon & Kate Twisted Fate special, airing tonight on E! at 10:30 ET/PT.
• Stephanie Pratt and Frankie Delgado have their panties in a bunch about Paris Hilton's comments about The Hills.
• Dear Jesse McCartney: Chocolate milk? Really?! Love, Rise 'n' Shine
When you look at Big Pic, have you ever wanted to be a pen so badly?
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Funny Valentines: Roberts, Hathaway, Alba, Garner & Biel
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Star-studded doesn't even begin to cover it.
New Line has recruited a veritable who's who of Hollywood to star in the Garry Marshall-directed rom-com Valentine's Day.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Marshall will reteam with his erstwhile Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts, along with an ensemble that includes Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Bradley Cooper, Ashton Kutcher and Shirley MacLaine.
The film will follow five overlapping stories and all take place on Hallmark's Cupid's holiday in Los Angeles.
Some of the storylines already penciled in for the big-screen bonanza: Roberts plays an Army officer on leave from Iraq who strikes up a conversation with Cooper, whose boyfriend is a closeted football player; Kutcher owns a flower shop and plans on proposing to girlfriend Alba, only to discover he's in love with best pal Garner; Hathaway is an agent's assistant who's dating the mail boy; and Biel tries her hand as an unlucky-in-love publicist.
As if that weren't enough star power for you, Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Dermot Mulroney, Simon Baker, Joss Stone, Kevin Costner, Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth and Michael Madsen round out the day's castings...
Tom Hanks Talks Julia Roberts and Her F-Bombs
Despite her potty mouth, Julia Roberts is still a pretty woman in Tom Hanks' eyes.
The actor received quite the toast roast from his Charlie Wilson's War costar at an event in his honor at Lincoln Center last week. Instead of feting the star, Roberts went on an F-bomb infused tirade about his worst works and how much everyone bleeping loves him.
While promoting his latest film, Angels & Demons, Hanks smiled as he talked about the evening that would have been an awards-show producer's worst nightmare.
"She laid into me, and then everybody else started doing the same thing," he tells E! News. "She is so much of a template, that lady! Everybody loves [Julia], and she decided to get right to the point and cut loose and turn the evening into what it was really meant to be."
Which was, it seems, preferable.
"It was a fabulous night, it was great fun," Hanks said. "Everybody laughed."
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Julia Roberts: Pretty Woman but Giant Potty Mouth
Julia Roberts has a trucker mouth—who knew?!
The Pretty Woman was in New York City Monday night for the Film Society of Lincoln Center event honoring fellow Oscar owner Tom Hanks. But apparently, somebody forgot to clue in the actress that she meant to toast her Charlie Wilson's War colleague...not roast him.
"All right, well, it's late, and I'm paying my babysitter overtime, and I have to pee," she began. "So Tom, everybody f--king likes you. All my bits are gone."
Instead of saluting Hanks' estimable cinematic career, she deigned to point out a few of his turds more forgettable features...
Knowing Scares Off Bromance, Julia Roberts
In a three-way race at the box office, there was only one winner: Nicolas Cage's Knowing.
The thriller grossed an estimated $24.8 million, topping expectations and the weekend standings.
I Love You, Man, the trendy No. 1 pick going into Friday, opened in second, with $18 million. Duplicity, the supposed litmus test on Julia Roberts' career, was said to have put up solid numbers in Canada, which south of the border means the movie opened in third with a so-so $14.4 million.
Drilling down into the numbers:
Five Reasons Julia Roberts Is Too Old (or Not)
Is Julia Roberts too old?
On the occasion of the Friday release of Duplicity, Roberts' first true star vehicle since before 9/11, we ran the numbers, and, well, it sorta turned out Newsweek's "Hollywood ancient" assessment was spot-on.
The 41-year-old Roberts, the stats say, is past her box-office prime. Unless she's not. Which the stats also say, provided you listen carefully.
First things first—the reasons why Roberts' career should be fitted for support hose:
Julia and Clive Shine in Twisty, Sexy Duplicity
Review in a Hurry: Julia Roberts and Clive Owen power-suit up for a high-stakes game of corporate espionage. But is it spy vs. spy or spy hearts spy? A slick but somewhat convoluted crime caper, Duplicity practically glows from all the high-wattage power of its incandescent stars.







