Nicole Kidman will star in and produce the bigscreen adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Broadway play “Rabbit Hole” for Fox Searchlight. 

Story concerns a happily married couple whose lives are disrupted after an unexpected tragedy and the intensely emotional, redemptive journey they must undertake to regain happiness.

Kidman recently wrapped New Line’s “The Golden Compass,” the first film in Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy. She will next be seen in Noah Baumbach’s upcoming pic for Paramount Vantage and in Warner Bros.’ “The Invasion” opposite Daniel Craig.

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I gotta give her kudos…she really is an amazing actress.  But why are her movies always so bloody depressing!?

Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, Martin Klebba as Marty and Keith Richards as Sparrow’s swashbuckling dad from the set of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (it’s now officially “World’s” and not “Worlds”). Directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, the highly-anticipated third installment sails into theaters on May 25.

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According to Courtney Love, the Kurt Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven is going to be made into a movie. She posted this yesterday at moonwashedrose.com:

“i wonder what kurt would be weariongthese days? i think about stuff likethat sometimes. it was a hard saturn return the hatdest ever but if hed have just giot over it, lived through it, ignored those assholes about whatthey said about drugs, broke up his band like he wanted, did the record he wnjated to make, its not news he wanted to bnreak up his band, Charlie Cross Knows and wrote it in heavier than heaven wich is goibngto be a moviem i cant name names its better Vazriety announce it rather than me but youll all be happy, i perdsonallythink “me” is a little too pretty , but ive talked with her and swhe assures me im full of shit, wich is why i like her she says stuff like that, plus ivenever once seen her at Hyde and she keeps her bizness clean, HE is a choice between two actors , one evryonethinks of as sweeet and perfect and unassumingm, but whod ioes have alot of rage in him the othe rwears his rage welll, the good news is everyone eanst to do it and i dont have to beg anyone, okay that pughta keep yal;l guessing, but that films NOT gettiong made til im in the set out of actor jail, bercause im not making a movie about myself until im out of actor jail wich ishappening but nbiot toil the end of jan bvegijning of feb am i getting to announce this all.”

2005’s Last Days was originally supposed to be a biopic, but Gus Van Zant changed it because he was afraid Love would sue.

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Demi Moore took a self-imposed hiatus from acting after deciding to raise her family instead - and is only returning because her kids became sick at the sight of her.

The Ghost actress gave up acting after her flop 1997 film GI Jane and, apart from a cameo in Charlie’s Angels, spent most of her free time raising children Rumer, Scout and Tallulah after she divorced from Die Hard tough guy Bruce Willis in 2000.

And Moore says she only appeared in new Emilio Estevez movie Bobby because her children pestered her to get out of the house and start acting again. She says, “I knew if I wasn’t with them they could have bigger problems than normal teens. I wasn’t retired from acting, I figured I’d do it again when I could. “Now work has become important again because my children were starting to ask if I was ever going to work again.”

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Will Smith continued his run of #1 box office debuts with “The Pursuit of Happyness,” which took in $27 million, finishing ahead of the dragon tale “Eragon,” with $23.45 million and the live-action version of EB White’s children’s fable “Charlotte’s Web.” Besides “Happyness,” Smith previously won the weekend ticket take with “I, Robot,” the “Men in Black” films, and last year’s “Hitch.” Meanwhile, “Dreamgirls” opened strong in limited release, with $360,000, as did “The Good German,” the latest Steven Soderbergh – George Clooney collaboration. Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto” took a steep dive, picking up just $6.3 million in its second weekend.

Did anyone go see it this weekend?  I’d like to see it… Instead, I took the boys to see “Charlottes Web” which was totally cute.  Except Charlotte freaked me out - she looked so real.  And I hate me some spiders.

Like - what’s it like to kiss Matt Damon AND Brad Pitt.

Angelina – ever the diplomat – said that the difference is simple.

“You know, one’s a friend, and one’s my love,” she said. (Nicely played, Ang.)

Sawyer then wondered if the love scenes were awkward for Damon (who’s totes BFF with Pitt). “How do you do a love scene with the girlfriend of your good friend, especially if they’re Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt?”

“It’s weird…We all know each other…” Damon said.

Jolie added: “In reality both the people we’re involved with couldn’t have cared less about that because they know us. You know, it’s one of those things where it’s like the least threatening person…You know, ‘Good luck to you guys, I hope it’s not too awkward.’”

In the film, Damon plays one of the first CIA spies and Jolie plays his wife who is crushed by her husband’s secrets.

“I think early on when we realized this was going to be the film where I am the weak victim and he is the cruel, cruel, terrifying scary man,” Jolie said.

Damon, 36, said that all the famously independent actress had to do was play her polar opposite. In one scene, Damon said, Jolie has to act “so apologetic and just so unlike Angie.”

Jolie, 31, has two adopted children – one from Cambodia and one from Ethiopia. Sawyer asked why she hasn’t adopted a needy American child.

“Well, I don’t see borders in the world,” Jolie explained. “I mean I work with programs here for all children.”

But Jolie says when she has adopted in the past, she has based her decisions on her emotions. “Well, to be honest, it’s just been, I’ve been led by something emotional…I’ve been moved by the countries.”

Another question following Jolie is when — or whether — she and Pitt will wed. Damon got married while making The Good Shepherd.

Damon, who married live-in girlfriend Luciana Bozan while making the film, said he was surprised how marriage changed their relationship.

“It had more of an impact on me than I thought it would,” Damon said. “We already had the house in Florida and everything, and so I didn’t. … I didn’t think it was going to really change anything necessarily, but it actually did.”

So will Pitt and Jolie ever take the plunge? In the October issue of Esquire, Pitt stood up for gay rights and proclaimed, “Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able.”

“I think he was … he was commenting just on the state of [what] we all wish for,” Jolie explained. “That’s not really a comment on whether or not we would or if we plan to.”

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Julia Roberts will produce a feature adaptation of Lolly Winston’s bestselling novel “Happiness Sold Separately,” with an eye to star in the pic.

Scott Coffey (”Ellie Parker”) will direct and adapt.

“Happiness Sold Separately” is centered on a suburban wife and her withdrawal from her husband as he begins an affair with the nutritionist at their gym.

Coffey said, “I couldn’t get Julia out of my head when I was reading Lolly’s book. Elinor is such a strong, complicated woman, and bringing her to the screen required Julia’s integrity, empathy, humor and legs.” 

Roberts is in production on Universal’s “Charlie Wilson’s War” and is voicing the title character in “Charlotte’s Web.” She’s attached to star in and produce “The Friday Night Knitting Club” for U and Christine Peters, and is developing a feature based on the American Girl doll characters with Walden Media and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas.

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