Apologies for the lack of updates recently but with all the Christmas family activities to attend, the copious amount of food and drink this season annually brings that leaves my head in no place to type morning, noon or night and the fact Hollywood is in hibernation for a week, I'm sure you can all forgive me. And at the end of the day this weekend is more or less the only full days off I get from Obsessed With Film all year. Though I promise normal OWF duties will return tomorrow but as I like to keep you guys abreast of developments on
The Dark Knight Rises, I just wanted to point out a news tidbit that hit today which rules out a probable 2011 Oscar winner from starring in the Summer 2011 shot film.
As you've probably heard, 29 year old
Natalie Portman has announced her pregnancy to her
Black Swan choreographer today which categorically means she won't be in
The Dark Knight Rises, a movie she
is said by Deadline to have met with Christopher Nolan about alongside a bunch of other names (including
Rachel Weisz, Keira Knightley and
Anne Hathaway) some weeks back. So you can scratch Portman firmly off your Batman 3 pool. She won't be Catwoman, Talia Al Ghul, Sarah Essen, Vicki Vale or whichever two female characters Nolan has in his final Bat-film (one said to be a love interest, the other a villain). Expect to hear lots of info about this film in January which is less than a week away now, so only a little while longer to hold out until The Dark Knight Rises jigsaw puzzle becomes a lot clearer. Oh and whilst I'm here, there was a separate piece of Portman news that hit the web today that wasn't about her pregnancy/engagement. There's a new watercolour inspired pink poster for her film
The Other Woman that's been released today by IFC and is below... The film debuted at the TIFF in 09 under the title Love and Other Impossible Pursuits but will open under this new moniker (probably because of the Anne Hathaway rom-com
Love and Other Drugs whose title is almost identical) on a limited U.S. run on February 4th, but it will hit U.S. on demand this Saturday, New Year's Day. Directed by
Don Roos (The Opposite of Sex), the adaptation of
Ayelet Waldman's novel and which also stars
Scott Cohen and
Lisa Kudrow, went down like a lead balloon at TIFF last year and looks to be a stinker that nobody knew what to do with until Portman's Black Swan buzz became defeaning, and IFC saw an opportunity here to make some money from what is a tough-sell
Vulture, who debuted the poster today, carry this synopsis;
...stars Portman as a lawyer who wins her married boss away from his wife (Lisa Kudrow), but must deal with the consequences, including her newly acquired stepson and unexpected tragedy.
And here's the trailer, albeit in Russian (couldn't find English one)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kJZNrYdyog