47-year-old Sandra Bullock wore a stunning black satin pantsuit by Alexander McQueen on the red carpet last night at the premiere of her new movie, ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’.

At the premiere she was joined by her costars, Tom Hanks and newcomer Thomas Horn (who was a previous Teen Jeopardy winner!).

The movie, which has a limited opening on Christmas day, centers around a young boy who loses his father on 9/11. He sets out on a journey to uncover a mystery left behind by his dad.

On Thursday, Bullock also appeared on NBC’s Today to explain why she opted for a role that gave her only 24 minutes of screen time.

“It’s truly this amazing story of this child’s point of view of what happened in his life that was this horribly tragic event,” she said. “And to see it through his eyes is far more, I think poignant and impactful, than to see it through an adult’s eyes.”

Asked why an actress of her status would agree to a smaller part rather than a starring role, Bullock replied: “I’ve already had those moments, I think. I mean, there might be more, I don’t know, but I don’t know how many moments and opportunities like this there’ll be — with stories like this, with directors and casts like this — it’s like the rare moments in life where all the elements are there, and they all come together for some strange or bigger reason.”

“You can’t say no to that,” she added.

Extremely Loud also stars Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright, John Goodman and Zoe Caldwell.

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I do not understand this outfit Julia Robert’s is wearing! That blue suit is not very flattering at all!

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Oscar® winners Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts reunite for a dramatic comedy about how the hard knocks from today’s recession inspire one everyday guy to undergo a personal reinvention: Larry Crowne.

Until he was downsized, affable, amiable Larry Crowne (Hanks) was a superstar team leader at the big-box company where he’s worked since his time in the Navy. Underwater on his mortgage and unclear on what to do with his suddenly free days, Larry heads to his local college to start over. There he becomes part of a colorful community of outcasts, also-rans and the overlooked all trying to find a better future for themselves…often moving around town in a herd of scooters. In his public-speaking class, Larry develops an unexpected crush on his teacher Mercedes Tainot (Roberts), who has lost as much passion for teaching as she has for her husband.

The simple guy who has every reason to think his life has stalled will come to learn an unexpected lesson: when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might discover your reason to live.

Call me crazy – but doesn’t Tom Hanks seem very Forrest Gump in this trailer?

“Step to me, get beat down like Rodney King.” These and other words can be heard in this “freestyle” by Tom Hanks‘ son Chet, better known as CHET HAZE, Northwestern University’s most famous currently enrolled student/ MC.

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And the Strangest Emmy Accessory Award has to go to Rita Wilson’s shoes. What in the world was she thinking!? I would think that Rita Wilson certainly tops most of the Worst-Dressed lists today. I just don’t understand this ensemble!

The actress and producer, 53, wore a white Prada dress draped with crystals. And those shoes! Those lucite-looking shoes are atrocious! They are apparently heels from Miuccia Prada’s Spring 2010 runway collection.

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have been married since 1988. Last night Tom picked up the Emmy for Outstanding Mini-Series for The Pacific, which he produced.

Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks, both Oscar winners, have signed on to star in a movie about a nine-year-old boy who loses his father in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is adapted from a 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Bullock and Hanks will play the boy’s parents, while the role of the boy, Oskar Schell has not yet been cast.

Bullock and Hanks are in talks to play the boy’s parents, with producers currently searching for a child to play the lead, Oskar Schell, in preparation for a mid-to-late January shoot in New York City. It’s a plum role, as the story orbits around Schell, a precociously intelligent, tambourine-playing vegan, scientist, artist and pacifist, and his search for a lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father.

However, Thompson suggests the movie will feature multiple narrators and time frames, and there is also a segue in which the child’s grandparents reveal how they met and married during the second world war. Studios Paramount and Warner Bros are teaming up on the project, with Scott Rudin, the Oscar-winning producer of No Country for Old Men, also in the frame. Together, Daldry and Rudin delivered best actress wins for Nicole Kidman in The Hours and Kate Winslet in The Reader, so the film looks like potent awards season bait.

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PICS: Here she is today with her bodyguard shopping at an antique store in Austin, Texas.

A buff Wilmer Valderrama and Tom Hanks film “Larry Crowne” on location in Altadena, California today. I’m not exactly sure what role 30 year old Valderrama is playing, but he joins cast members Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.

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