New couple alert?

I still don’t know what to think about these two getting together? Rebound?

She and Owen Wilson have been spotted on a date in Los Angeles, according to the new issue of Star magazine.

The two dined Sunday at the Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica before retiring to his Malibu home.

“He couldn’t keep his hands off her,” a witness tells the mag.

Apparently, sparks flew between the two Texans when they were in Austin on Oct. 16 to appear in a video with Willie Nelson.

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Owen Wilson made a public appearance Thursday night – briefly showing up at the Los Angeles premiere of his movie, The Darjeeling Limited.

Wilson, 38, sidestepped the red carpet and entered the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theatre through a private entrance, surprising the audience by joining costars Jason Schwartzman, Natalie Portman and Anjelica Huston onstage.

Shown a very warm welcome back into the spotlight, Wilson was introduced by director Wes Anderson as “my best friend,” and the audience erupted into applause. Onstage, Wilson looked healthy and confident in a dark suit and white button-down shirt.

It is Wilson’s first major appearance since being hospitalized in August after what police called a suicide attempt.

As the cast left the stage for the film’s presentation, Wilson was embraced by producer/writer Roman Coppola and then Huston, who shared her support by telling PEOPLE what a “cool guy” Wilson is.

“I have to say, I have a crush on Owen.” Huston, 56, said before Wilson (who also costarred with her in Anderson’s 2001 The Royal Tenenbaums) joined her for a few moments in the front row. He then exited the theater.

“Owen is doing very well and he is with us tonight, and I love him,” Wilson’s Darjeeling costar, Schwartzman, told PEOPLE on the red carpet.

Ben Stiller says things are looking up for his longtime pal and frequent costar Owen Wilson.

“He’s doing really well,” Stiller, 41, tells Ellen DeGeneres on her show Friday.

“I sort of like to protect his privacy, ’cause I feel like it’s his own thing,” says Stiller. “But he’s a really good friend of mine. He’s an incredible guy and I wish him as everybody does, all the best.”

Wilson, 38, was set to begin shooting the comedy Tropic Thunder with Stiller this month, but was hospitalized on Aug. 26 for what police called a suicide attempt. He dropped out of the film after issuing a statement requesting that he be allowed to “receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.”

Wilson’s withdrawal from the project – which is about actors on a war movie location where a real battle erupts – was reportedly a mutual decision between him and Stiller, and Matthew McConaughey has stepped in to join the ensemble cast that includes Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr. and Nick Nolte.

Speaking at Thursday night’s Westwood premiere of his and his son’s latest movie, The Heartbreak Kid, Ben’s dad Jerry Stiller, 80, expressed concern for his son’s best friend and said he was “surprised” to hear of Wilson’s apparent suicide attempt – but he was sure that Wilson would “recover.”

“I know that he’ll put his life together,” the elder Stiller, who also costarred with Wilson in 2001’s Zoolander, told PEOPLE. He added that his son has been “very close to Owen for most of their careers,” and that Ben had been an “advocate” in “intervention and all that stuff.”

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Matthew McConaughey has jumped into the ensemble cast of “Tropic Thunder,” the Ben Stiller-directed DreamWorks comedy.

McConaughey takes the role that Owen Wilson lost after he was hospitalized.

McConaughey joins an ensemble cast that includes Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Nick Nolte, Bill Hader and Steve Coogan.

The movie is about a group of actors who gather on a remote island to shoot a big-budget war movie and are forced to become the soldiers they are playing.

McConaughey, who this year finished the Andy Tennant-directed “Fool’s Gold” and the S.R. Bindler-directed “Surfer Dude,” carved out a week in his schedule to shoot the role.

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Owen Wilson’s recent suicide attempt wasn’t the first time the troubled movie star had tried to take his life, according to shocking new U.S. reports. The Wedding Crashers star allegedly slashed his wrists and was found distressed at his Santa Monica, California home by his brother Andrew on August 26. He was taken to a nearby hospital emergency room and then spent a week under supervision at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Official reports confirm Wilson attempted suicide, and now a family friend has told tabloid the National Enquirer that the recent incident wasn’t Wilson’s first cry for help. The unnamed source tells the publication, “A good portion of his (Wilson’s) life has been dedicated to fighting depression and addiction… This is the third time he’s tried killing himself.” And the source insists Wilson’s break-up with girlfriend Kate Hudson wasn’t to blame for the suicide attempt, as has been suggested - he was actually distraught after failing to come up with material for a friend’s film project. The insider adds, “Owen felt demoralized after letting down his pal.”

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Actor Owen Wilson is in surprisingly good spirits after attempting to commit suicide on August 26, according to his friend, director Wes Anderson.

“Obviously he has been through a lot this week,” said Anderson, who directed the actor in his latest film The Darjeeling Limited.

“I can tell you he has been doing very well, he has been making us laugh.”

Wilson and Anderson, both 38, cowrote The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and Bottle Rocket. Anderson also directed the actor in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

“When he is ready he’s going to speak for himself much better than any of us could,” said the director, who was addressing a news conference to promote The Darjeeling Limited, which is being shown at the Venice Film Festival.

Wilson was rushed to the hospital last week after police responded to a call about a suicide attempt at his Santa Monica home.

In “Darjeeling,” Wilson plays one of three estranged brothers (with Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman) who travel by train across India in an attempt to find their long-lost mother.

Wilson’s character is depressed by his father’s death, and he wears bandages on his face and wrist throughout the movie, suggesting a recent suicide attempt.

According to the Associated Press, when asked what it was like to work with Wilson, Brody said that the actor was a fun-loving addition to the set.

“Owen has a tremendous sense of humor and he’s very mischievous,” Brody said.