“I think, people are making it a far more interesting story than it actually is,” he says. “The age of the character versus my real age was always a concern of mine. Peter and I tried to make it work and ultimately it just didn’t. I think the film is much better off with Mark Walhberg in that role. Peter Jackson is an incredible filmmaker and I’m here to tell you that he has things up his sleeve that are going to blow peoples’ minds. I’m going to be the first person in line to buy tickets.”

As for the report that he was difficult to work with, Gosling says, “The media always slant things in a negative direction. If somebody said I was easy to work with, they’d make that sound bad, too.”

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It’s a sight you never thought you’d see - a stark naked Philip Seymour Hoffman in the very first frame of Sidney Lumet’s latest, “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.”

The Oscar-winning actor and an equally nude Marisa Tomei kick off the harrowing thriller with a steamy sex scene that had everyone talking Wednesday night at the Cinema Society screening of Lumet’s 45th film.

Hoffman, Tomei and co-star Ethan Hawke were on hand for the Sagatiba Rum-sponsored showing and the star-studded after-party on the roof lounge of the Gramercy Park Hotel.

Among those enthralled by the tale of a robbery gone horribly awry were Lauren Bacall, Sheryl Crow, Patricia Clarkson, Tommy Hilfiger, Rachel Roy, Cynthia Rowley, Sante D’Orazio, newly pregnant Julianna Margulies and supermodel Hana Soukupova (whose apartment was used for one of the grittier scenes).

Meanwhile, guests downstairs at the Rose Bar were getting a scene of their own. Ryan Gosling proved he’s over his ex, Rachel McAdams, by cozying up to a “hot brunette who kept showing him her phone.”

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Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead:

Master filmmaker Sidney Lumet directs this absorbing suspense thriller about a family facing the worst enemy of all itself. Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Andy, an overextended broker who lures his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke), into a larcenous scheme: the pair will rob a suburban mom-and-pop jewelry store that appears to be the quintessential easy target. The problem is, the store owners are Andy and Hanks actual mom and pop and, when the seemingly perfect crime goes awry, the damage lands right at their doorstep. Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei plays Hoffmans trophy wife, who is having a clandestine affair with Hawke, and the stellar cast also includes Albert Finney as the family patriarch who pursues justice at all costs, completely unaware that the culprits he is hunting are his own sons. A classy, classic heist-gone-wrong drama in the tradition of The Killing and Lumets own The Anderson Tapes, BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOW YOURE DEAD is smart enough to know that we often have the most to fear from those who are near and dear.

Yesterday I reported that Mark Wahlberg had been called in the day before shooting began to replace Ryan Gosling. The reason given was “creative differences”. Well, looks like Ryan may have been replaced because he was too difficult? Here is what Page Six had to say:

Those old “creative differences” are to blame for director Peter Jackson’s firing of Ryan Gosling from “Lovely Bones.” “Peter couldn’t stand Ryan,” said one source. Though Variety reported that Gosling had “stepped down” and was replaced by Mark Wahlberg, our source said, “Ryan cut his own hair, and was fighting with wardrobe. He was so demanding . . . Peter booted him two days before filming started.” The flick is based on the best-selling novel by Alice Sebold. A rep for Gosling did not return calls.

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UPDATE: Ryan too fat for the part, according to Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson was said to be quite surprised that Gosling had showed up to start work on “The Lovely Bones” looking like he’d donned a fat suit. According to sources, the 26-year-old Gosling had apparently told the director he was going to gain weight to age himself up to play the part of a grieving father, but Jackson was still expecting some movie star allure — not paunch and a beard. By Friday, Gosling had left the high-profile production over those pesky “creative differences,” and, by Sunday, he’d been replaced by 36-year-old Mark Wahlberg, who actually could be old enough to father a teenager.

Gosling’s departure comes on the heels of his indie pic “Lars and the Real Girl,” which, according to Boxofficemojo.com cost $12 million. So far the film has earned $316,000, and will go wide this weekend. A DreamWorks representative declined to comment, as did Gosling’s manager.

Still, “The Lovely Bones,” which starts shooting today in Pennsylvania, will continue relatively unhampered.
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Only one day before shooting was scheduled to begin, Mark Wahlberg has replaced Ryan Gosling in the Peter Jackson-directed “The Lovely Bones” for DreamWorks reports Variety.

An adaptation of the Alice Sebold novel, the story follows a couple whose world is shattered after their daughter is murdered. The girl watches over her family and her killer from heaven.

Gosling’s departure was attributed to “creative differences” and comes after the acclaimed thesp grew a beard and stacked on 20 pounds in preparation for the role of the grieving father.

Wahlberg’s quick sign-up seems to have been affected by the delay of the Darren Aronofsky-directed “The Fighter” at Paramount which he’d been in training for. That film now won’t begin production until next Fall once Aronofsky completes work on the Nic Cage-led drama “The Wrestler.”

‘Bones’ begins shooting today in Pennsylvania, where Wahlberg most recently wrapped the lead in the M. Night Shyamalan-directed “The Happening” for Fox.

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A moment of silence, please…

Here’s an exerpt of Ryan’s recent interview with GQ:

Sometime after The Notebook wrapped, Gosling and his costar Rachel McAdams started dating. The movie won them a Teen Choice Award for Best Kiss, and they reenacted their winning lip-lock onstage in front of screaming fans. Gosling, in a DARFUR T-shirt, looked like the happiest dude on Earth. They were young and famous and famously in love—recall, if you will, Saturday Night Live’s “Lazy Sunday” skit, in which Andy Samberg raps about loving cupcakes “like McAdams loves Gosling”—and the degree to which strangers felt a personal stake in the relationship creeped Gosling out.

“I mean, God bless The Notebook,” Gosling says. “It introduced me to one of the great loves of my life. But people do Rachel and me a disservice by assuming we were anything like the people in that movie. Rachel and my love story is a hell of a lot more romantic than that.”

They broke up, is the thing. It’s been a few months. Gosling says it wasn’t the attention that did it, but other than that he doesn’t really know what to say. “The only thing I remember is we both went down swingin’ and we called it a draw,” he says.

The Notebook people have taken it harder. “Women are mad at me,” Gosling says with a rueful smile. “A girl came up to me on the street and she almost smacked me. Like, ‘How could you? How could you let a girl like that go?’ I feel like I want to give people hugs, they seem so sad. Rachel and I should be the ones getting hugs! Instead, we’re consoling everybody else.”

This makes me sad!! I want them to be together! Forever! How dare they have a life of their own!

My main man Ryan Gosling was at the premier of his new movie “Lars and the Real Girl”. I have watched the trailer for this and it looks FUNNY. I love me some Ryan Gosling. Hello….The Notebook!

Ryan Gosling has denied reports he’s had plastic surgery on his nose. The 26-year-old is the subject of online speculation he’s had the bump on his nose reduced.

But a spokesperson for Gosling says, “It’s ridiculous. There is no truth to it.”

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