Pictured: Bruce Willis and his wife, Emma Heming, Elizabeth Banks,  Radha Mitchell and Rumer Willis.

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Elizabeth Banks is known for quirky, funny roles in movies like Zach and Miri Make a Porno, but for her next movie, she’ll be teaming up with cinematic heavyweight Russell Crowe and all his Oscar gravitas for drama The Next Three Days.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film is based on Pour Elle, a French thriller, about a man who tries to save his wife after she’s arrested and convicted for a murder she says she didn’t commit.

Russell and Elizabeth will star as husband and wife in the movie, which will be directed, written and produced by Paul Haggis, the Oscar winner behind 2004’s Crash.

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Winners at Thursday’s 14th annual Critics’ Choice Awards:

• Picture: “Slumdog Millionaire”

• Actor: Sean Penn, “Milk”

• Actress: Tie: Anne Hathaway, “Rachel Getting Married,” and Meryl Streep, “Doubt”

• Supporting actor: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight”

• Supporting actress: Kate Winslet, “The Reader”

• Acting ensemble: “Milk”

• Director: Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire”

• Writer: Simon Beaufoy, “Slumdog Millionaire”

• Animated feature: “WALL-E”

• Young actor/actress: Dev Patel, “Slumdog Millionaire”

• Action movie: “The Dark Knight”

• Comedy movie: “Tropic Thunder”

• Picture made for television: “John Adams”

• Foreign language film: “Waltz With Bashir”

• Documentary feature: “Man On Wire”

• Song: “The Wrestler,” Bruce Springsteen, “The Wrestler”

• Composer: A.R. Rahman, “Slumdog Millionaire”

• Joel Siegel award: Richard Gere

Pictured: Kate Beckinsale, Kristen Bell, Elizabeth Banks, Penelope Cruz, Diane Lane & Josh Brolin, Anne Hathaway, Ben Stiller & Christine Taylor, Emile Hirsch, Amanda Bynes, Katy Perry, Evan Rachel Wood, Amy Adams, Dakota Fanning, Richard Gere, Eva Longoria, Marisa Tomei & Julia Ormond.

Pictured: Winona Ryder, Sean Penn and wife Robin Wright Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks & Marisa Tomei.

Pictured: Elizabeth Banks, Seth Rogan & Sarah Chalke.