It’s time for The Notebook fans to grab a box of tissues and plan for their Februaries and romance-filled Valentine’s Day dates. Cinematical has just received this exclusive snuggle-centric poster for Dear John, which just so happens to be the latest adaptation from Notebook scribe Nicholas Sparks. Directed by Lasse Hallström (helmer behind The Cider House Rules) Dear John stars Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, and will be hitting screens on February 5.
This time around, Sparks’ story focuses on a soldier home on leave (Tatum), and the “idealistic college student” he falls for during her Spring vacation (Seyfried). Over the course of seven years, they must face his increasingly dangerous deployments, seeing each other face-to-face rarely, but keeping the affair alive through overseas love letters that “eventually triggers fateful consequences.” War movies might be the sore vein to tap in Hollywood, but something tells me this flick will fly free of those restraints.
Though their honeymoon in Bali was cut short by a bout of food poisoning, newlyweds Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan made sure to mark the occasion in a permanent way – with matching tattoos that spell out “side by side” in Balinese.
“It was a joint decision,” Tatum, 29, told People at a Los Angeles screening of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. “We always wanted to get a tattoo of something together.”
But the two, who met while filming 2006’s Step Up, wanted their ink to be meaningful. “We weren’t going to do each other’s names,” Tatum said, laughing. “We wanted to do something symbolic.” So, the happy couple chose a phrase that they hold near to their hearts, and now, even closer to their skin.
“It was in one of our vows to each other,” the actor said, as his wife showed off her recently-inked left foot. “We took it from that.”
In a five-and-a-half-minute MSN Cinemash short that sends up the classic boy-meets-girl-meets-Catskills-dancer tale, Channing Tatum (of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and Charlyne Yi of Knocked Up) assume the roles that Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey made famous in 1987 – complete with hilarious ’80s hair, sweaty male toplessness, and campy dialogue.
“I’m scared of being put in the corner, Johnny, and most of all I’m scared of walking out of here and never feeling my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you,” Yi whines passionately. “Dance with me.”
If Channing Tatum hasn’t read the Twilight books, he may want to start.
At least one very important person in the movie adaptations of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire love story thinks Tatum would be perfect to play bad-boy vampire Riley in Eclipse, the third in the four-book series.
“There’s a very big battle at the end with Riley, and I think Channing would do that so well,” Twilight and New Moon screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who is currently writing the Eclipse script, told us this weekend at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival benefit for the Writers Guild Foundation.
“And there are some complexities to that character,” she adds. “He really is tragic. He’s a puppet for Victoria [bad-girl vampire played by Rachelle Lefevre]. So he has to break your heart a little bit at the end when he realizes that she doesn’t want him. Channing could do that beautifully.”
Rosenberg also confirmed some good news for Robert Pattinson fans… (more…)
