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It's not surprising, given the success of Amy Adams' first warbling, gown-clad turn, that Disney would press ahead with a sequel to Enchanted. And now the Mouse House has hired both a writer (I Am Sam's Jessie Nelson) and a director (Anne Fletcher of The Proposal) to get it in gear.

Considering that the original floundered for years in development limbo, the studio would like this one to flounce in front of cameras a little quicker, with, according to Variety, the aim of possibly having it in cinemas next year.

Fletcher should be a good fit, since she's a former choreographer who can handle a dance scene with the best of 'em.

Now, though, the big question will be whether Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden and possibly Susan Sarandon would all return for another go-around.

And what will the plot be? No one is saying yet - we'd throw out a guess at Adams's Giselle being flung back into animated fairytale-land, but with the likely tight schedule, we doubt they could get that much created in time...

Amy Adams is pregnant. The Enchanted actress, 35, and her fiancé Darren Le Gallo are reportedly expecting their first child together. The pair have been together for seven years, after they met in an acting class in 2001.

They got engaged in July 2008. Adams made her screen debut in the 1999 black comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous and, after a series of television guest appearances and roles in B-movies, she landed the role of Brenda Strong in 2002's Catch Me If You Can.

However, her breakthrough role was in the 2005 independent film Junebug, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
The Night At The Museum actress can next be seen in the rom-com, Leap Year, which is due for release in the US on 8 January.

American actress Michelle Williams wants to inhabit the skin of Marilyn Monroe before she decides to take up an offer to play her on the silver screen. The former partner of Heath Ledger and mother of his child is a highly regarded actress who beat such stars as Amy Adams and Scarlett Johansson for the role in My Week With Marilyn.

But first Williams wants to "live" with Monroe for a while. The move might be seen as a make or break one for Williams, who has a blonde beauty not unlike that of Monroe.

But the part in the movie, which tells the story of the making of The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier, is not meant to impersonate Monroe. "She’s not going to be a Monroe lookalike," said a source close to Williams in Brooklyn, where she and Ledger lived.
The movie will be based on a diary kept by Colin Clark, who worked for Olivier and was 23 and third assistant director on The Prince and the Showgirl. His assigned task was to keep Monroe, 30, out of Olivier's hair. The movie has been written by Adrian Hodges and is backed by BBC Films.

Amy Adams is turning producer on her next project. The breakout star of Junebug, who's since gone on to bowl us over in Julie and Julia, Enchanted and Doubt, is clearly fan enough of Adena Halpern's novel My Ten Best Days that she wants to oversee its journey to the screen. That or she knows a starring role when she sees one.

The novel is set in the afterlife: specifically Heaven, which is structured into seven levels, of which the seventh is the most desirable (meaning you can eat what you like and never get fat). Main character Alex wants to stay there with her Uncle Morris and her grandparents, in a perfect house that never needs cleaning, but is in danger of being demoted unless she can provide evidence of having lived a worthwhile life. Hence her homework essay on her ten best days.

Now, we're slightly bummed to learn that Heaven a) has a hierarchy, b) involves homework and exams, and c) means you have to live in the same house as your relatives. There are also echoes of What Dreams May Come and The Lovely Bones, but this will clearly be far more lightweight than either, and on that level could be fun. Heaven portrayed as a kind of Tim Burton 1950s suburbia, for example, could give this the slightly spiky edges it'll need to avoid just being twee.

Josh Klausner, who used to direct second unit for the Farrelly Brothers before turning to writing (he's been working on Shrek Forever After) is writing the script, and Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) is tipped to direct. Hopefully that's a team that knows how to aim for the funny and hold back on the cloying. 

The trailer for the Amy Adams-Matthew Goode romantic comedy, Leap Year, has gone online over at MSN.

Regular readers will know that we’ve been harsh on this film from the off, fearing that the premise – Adams plays a girl who flies to Dublin on Feb 29 to propose to her boyfriend, taking advantage of an old Irish tradition, but winds up on a torturous journey accompanied by Goode’s charming rogue – would lead to an avalanche of hackneyed Oirish clichés and jokes so old that they pre-date Frank Carson.

And, now that we’ve seen the trailer, we feel pretty damn vindicated. For example, there’s a bit where Adams and Goode are waylaid by a herd of cattle in the road. Well, of course they are. You can’t go anywhere in Ireland without being waylaid by a herd of cattle in the road.

Factor in some truly tired gags, and it all looks fairly underwhelming. However, the considerable charms of Adams and Goode, and the pretty cinematography, may just save the day.

Leap Year is out here early next year (which, of course, isn’t actually a leap year). To see the full trailer, click here.
 

Zach Galifianakis and Amy Adams have signed on to star in the long-gestating comedy drama, Town House.

Galifianakis, stretching his wings a little after booking a series of comedic roles in the wake of his breakout performance in The Hangover, will play an agoraphobic man who lives, with his teenage son, in a large house bought and paid for by his late rock star dad. When the royalty cheques stop arriving, the man has to reassess his life and attitude, with the help of a friendly prostitute, in the shape of Adams.

About A Boy meets Pretty Woman, anyone? Now here’s material that could go either way, with enormous potential for tipping over into the irredeemably mawkish. But we have faith that Galifianakis, who doesn’t seem to have a sentimental bone in his body, can turn this the other way, into a sharp and affecting comedy drama.

No director is yet attached to the Fox 2000 movie, which had its origins in 2007 when Once writer John Carney wrote the screenplay. The writers’ strike put paid to that, though, but the interest of Galifianakis and Adams has reignited it.

Ridley and Tony Scott will produce the movie via their company, Scott Free, and with shooting tentatively set for the summer, expect a director announcement to happen asap.

 

Christian Bale keeps going "missing" on the set of his new movie.

The actor has bemused co-stars on his new movie 'The Fighter' - which he is filming in Massachusetts with Mark Wahlberg and Amy Adams - with his insistence on "getting into character" and refusing to be seen when he isn't filming.

A source told 'E!': "You only see him when it's time for his scenes. Other than that, no one has any idea where he is. He just goes missing."

Bale is determined to accurately portray former crack addict Dicky Eklund in the movie - which follows the life of boxer 'Irish' Mickey Ward - and has stunned people with his appearance.

The source explained: "Christian has lost almost as much weight as he did for 'The Machinist'. He is so gaunt. They have even thinned his hair - he just looks sickly."

The 35-year-old star famously lived on just a can of tuna and an apple a day and lost 60lbs while filming 'The Machinist', in which he played a paranoid insomniac.

Amy Adams had "growing pains" when she turned 30.

The 34-year-old actress feared she would never make it in the film industry and her neuroses almost got the better of her when she hit the landmark age.

She said: "The summer I turned 30, I remember it vividly. I had such growing pains that summer. I had just filmed 'Junebug' and though the experience of making it was transformative, it was a small, independent movie. I didn't know if anyone would even see it.

"I'd auditioned thousands of times by that point and been in 'Catch me If You Can', and yet nothing was really working out in terms of getting work."

Amy thought she would be catapulted to success after appearing alongside Leonard DiCaprio in 2002's 'Catch Me If You Can', and was devastated when subsequent roles failed to materialise.

Amy Adams loves her fiance because he always runs her a hot bath.

The actress says actor Darren La Gallo - who she has been in a relationship with for six years - is very thoughtful and is always doing little romantic things to make her happy.

She said: "Darren gives up a lot and gives me a lot. He comes to visit me on set. He draws me a bath when I get home. He's an actor and also an artist and he sends me drawings. Just lots of sweet little things to keep us connected."

Amy was thrilled when Darren asked her to marry him on the set of her latest movie 'Julie and Julia' - which is about world-famous chef Julia Child and writer Julie Powell, who challenged herself to cook Julia's recipes - but admits her mind was elsewhere when he popped the question.

She explained to Parade magazine: "I got engaged the night before we wrapped 'Julie and Julia'. It was funny because I was actually running lines from the script in my head while we were taking this romantic carriage ride in Central Park (New York). I felt really bad for Darren. I was like, 'You should get a re-do because you were cheated.' All I was thinking about was my last day at work."

Scarlett Johansson is being lined up to play Marilyn Monroe.

The 24-year-old blonde beauty is reportedly at the top of a list of actresses being considered by director Simon Curtis and producer David Parfitt for new film 'My Week With Marilyn'.

Kate Hudson, Amy Adams and Michelle Williams have also been mentioned as possible stars of the film, according to newspaper columnist Baz Bamigboye.

The movie will be based on the diary of Colin Clark, an employee of Laurence Olivier, who looked after the blonde bombshell when she came to London to film Olivier's 'The Prince and the Showgirl' in 1957.

In the diary, Clark talks about showing Marilyn around Queen Elizabeth's private apartments at Windsor Castle and other "behind-the-scenes" trips.

Clark published excerpts of his diary in 1958, but left the details of one week out. These chapters weren't released until he died in 2002, and will form the basis of the movie.