George Clooney clowns around, Jessica Biel wears a baby bump, Britney is armed and dangerous, and more: see sneak peeks of the stars filming their next projects.
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are heating up the big screen again as lovers in The Gangster Squad, a 1940s-set film about the invasion of the East Coast Mafia in Los Angeles. Gosling plays Det. Jerry Wooters, a cop chasing the notorious real-life mobster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn). Good guy and bad guy vie for the affections of Grace Faraday (Stone), who is equally tempted by both. Given Gosling and Stone’s palpable Crazy, Stupid, Love chemistry, we can expect things to get even steamier in this upcoming romantic drama.
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J.Lo isn’t letting her recent divorce from Marc Anthony get in the way of her professional life. After taking a hiatus from moviemaking to devote her time to motherhood, she’s back in the game and currently filming the action-thriller Parker in Miami alongside costar Jason Statham. Director Taylor Hackford told The Hollywood Reporter that Lopez plays “a real estate agent who finds that a little larceny may in fact be in the cards for her."
George Clooney clowned around on the set of a Chinese Mercedes-Benz commercial in Beverly Hills, Calif., where fans reportedly made a beeline for the 50-year-old actor in between shots. Having split with longtime girlfriend and Italian model Elisabetta Canalis last June, Clooney was recently spotted getting cozy with former wrestler Stacy Keibler at the Toronto International Film Festival. Keibler told People she was just “living in the moment” when a relationship sparked between her and Clooney. “I was actually not really searching for a boyfriend,” she added. Clooney is doing his part to live in the moment as well. His Ides of March costar, Ryan Gosling, recently told USA Today, “Everybody in the world, no matter how much fun they think they are having, George Clooney is having more fun.”
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Halle Berry dons a wig and ‘70s attire in Scotland on set of the forthcoming sci-fi film, Cloud Atlas. Based on an award-winning novel by David Mitchell, Atlas takes place over several centuries and is centered on six different characters whose lives are all intertwined in one convoluted way or another. Tom Hanks, Jim Sturgess, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant are other notables in the movie’s star-studded cast. A few days after filming this ‘70s-period sequence, Berry broke her foot while vacationing with beau Olivier Martinez and daughter Nahla in Mallorca, Spain. Even though Berry is stuck in a knee-length cast, Warner Bros. is prepared to work around the injury. “Production has adjusted their schedule and will continue filming,” the studio said in a statement.
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Britney Spears looks armed and dangerous on the London set of her music video “Criminal,” and if this picture is any indication, the pop star’s boyfriend and manager, Jason Trawick, will be making a cameo as her partner in crime. In one scene, the pair allegedly rob a grocery store together. “I've never shot on location out of the country of America for a video," Britney said in an interview with AOL. There was a time when the sight of Britney brandishing a pistol would have been more alarming, but luckily the songstress has landed on her feet since her emotional breakdown in 2007.
Green Lantern star Ryan Reynolds kicks back with costar Jeff Bridges in between takes on the set of their new film, R.I.P.D., in Boston. Reynolds will once again play a supernatural hero in the forthcoming feature, which is adapted from the Dark Horse Comics series. Reynolds stars as Nick Walker, a recently slain cop who signs on for 100 years of service with the afterlife police force, a.k.a. the Rest in Peace Department. He teams up with Bo (Bridges), a veteran in the department, to hunt down the undead man who murdered him (Kevin Bacon). Robert Knepper, who plays the villain on Fox’s Prison Break, just joined the R.I.P.D. cast as another “deado,” one of the ghosts whose evil spirits are not yet ready to leave the world. Sports Illustrated supermodel Marisa Miller will also have a role in the film, as will Mary-Louise Parker and Stephanie Szostak.
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Jessica Biel is not pregnant but she was rocking a baby bump during a reshoot for New Year's Eve, the star-studded romantic comedy that wrapped filming earlier this year. The love story follows an ensemble of intertwined couples and single characters on New Year’s Eve, in the same vein as 2010’s Valentine’s Day. Ashton Kutcher, Robert De Niro, Katherine Heigl, and Sarah Jessica Parker are just a few on a long list of Biel’s A-list costars.
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Alicia Silverstone gradually fell off the map after charming audiences as the hilariously ditzy Cher Horowitz in Clueless, based loosely on Jane Austen’s Emma. But she could potentially stage a major comeback in Gods Behaving Badly as Kate, a mortal who crosses paths with a group of Greek gods living together in a brownstone in modern-day New York City. The film also stars big-name actors Christopher Walken as Zeus and Sharon Stone as Aphrodite. Silverstone was spotted zipping around on a moped while filming a scene from the upcoming flick, which hits theaters in 2012.
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Josh Brolin got into character on the set of The Gangster Squad, in which he plays one half of a cop duo (alongside Ryan Gosling) on a mission to capture mobster Mickey Cohen. Brolin’s character John O’Mara is part of a minority of police officers not paid off by the notorious Cohen.
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Penelope Cruz was spotted looking a little less glamorous than usual on the set of her upcoming film Venuto Al Mondo. The Spanish actress donned gray hair for her role as a mother returning to Sarajevo with her son, whose father died in the 1990’s Bosnian conflict. The movie is based on Margaret Mazzantini’s bestselling book and will be directed by Sergio Castellitto, the Italian actor/director with whom Cruz previously collaborated on the movie Don’t Move. Cruz has been accompanied on location in Bosnia by husband Javier Bardem and their son, Leo.
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The stars of Magic Mike laughed onset in Los Angeles Sept. 21. Channing Tatum will play Mike Martingano in the movie based loosely on his own experience as an exotic before launching his acting career. Tatum will be accompanied in this Steven Soderbergh flick by leading ladies Olivia Munn and Wendi McLendon-Covey, as well as Matthew McConaughey, Joe Manganiello, and Alex Pettyfer.
