Away We Go - Trailer for Sam Mendes' latest film

A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family.

In addition to John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph, this also stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, Catherine O'Hara, Jeff Daniels, Chris Messina, Paul Schneider, and Cheryl Hines. Focus Features will premiere Away We Go in limited theaters starting on 5th June.

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Big deal for Diehl's books - Hooligans, Sharky's Machine, Crazy Heart and more.

Informant Media has optioned "Hooligans," a novel by the late author William Diehl, whose books include "Sharky's Machine" and "Primal Fear."

The sale includes both the novel and a script that Diehl wrote before he died. Novel is the story of a band of rogue cops who reassemble to settle an old score in a Southern coastal town that is changing as it legalizes gambling.

Informant Media's Judy Cairo and Michael A. Simpson will produce with AEI's Ken Atchity and Chi-Li Wong. Simpson, Diehl's longtime screenwriting partner, is refining the script. Informant Media most recently completed "Crazy Heart," which stars Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall and Maggie Gyllenhaal, with Butcher's Run Films and MTV Films.

Separately, Diehl's "Sharky's Machine" is set up for remake at Warner Bros., with Phil Joanou attached to direct and Mark Wahlberg exec producing.

AEI, which reps the Diehl estate, also recently optioned his 1990 novel "27" to Breaking Ball Films, whose Scott Abramovich is writing the script. AEI is producing a screen version of the Diehl novel "Eureka" with Neil Canton and Danny Davids.

Source: Variety

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The Dude talks about Tron 2 or should that be Tr2n

Jeff Bridges chats to the Guardian about his latest movie, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. Amongst all that are some words about The Big Lebowski, Crazy Heart and a little bit about the Tron sequel Tr2n. I really want one of the Widelux cameras that he uses to take photos behind the scenes on all his movies.

You visited the inaugural Lebowski Fest. What was it like seeing thousands of Dudes?

Ah, man, it was great. That was my Beatles moment. I got a little band together and played, unannounced. I came out and played to this sea of Dudes! It was awesome. I hope to return and do some tunes with John Goodman. We'd love to do that one day. Lebowski Fest - it's fantastic fun. There's one coming up but I can't go because I'm off to shoot a film. It has been going on a couple of years now all over the States two days of bowling, music, heavy partying, and all these people are dressed up. You see some of the most obscure references, and the movie plays on the walls all the time.

I heard that the girls in the The Big Lebowski dream sequence played a trick on you on set?

Oh yeah, that was kind of funny. It was when The Dude sort of flies through all these women's legs, smiling when he's looking up all their skirts. Well there I am, lying back on this skateboard, and when I go under the first girl, she's got all this pubic hair sticking out of her leotard. Then when I went under the next girl, she's got even more hair, the girls were getting bushier and bushier. Basically, all the girls had decided to play a joke to confuse The Dude!

Did you ever expect The Dude to be your most successful character?

I don't think of it that way. I was nominated for an Academy Award forplaying a president, which is about as un-Dude as you can get. Then Iron Man, too, was very un-Dude-like. I love to shake it up and keep my own persona slightly confusing. That way people will be able to slip me into the character at hand.

In your next film, Crazy Heart, you play a country singer. That's got to be exciting for a musician, right?

Oh yeah! We're shooting that with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Colin Farrell, while T-Bone Burnett - my great friend, we go back to Heaven's Gate - is doing the music. I mean, getting to play a country singer and work with T-Bone, this was an easy one to say "yes" to. I get to play music too.

Iron Man turned out to be one of the biggest films of the year. Why do your first big blockbuster now?

The big draw for me with Iron Man was [director] Jon Favreau. I got thescript and wasn't sure I wanted to do it, but when I heard that Jon wasinvolved… I was a big fan of his from the moment I saw him in Swingers,and I'd been following his career. I found it intriguing to have him directing a big comic book movie. When he told me he had Robert Downey Jr, I thought that'd be wonderful. Jon had a very hard time convincing the powers that be that Robert was the right man, but he was such a wonderful off beat choice.

You've been busy this year, but over the last couple of years you've made fewer movies. Why?

I spend a lot of time trying to resist doing anything, really! Honestly, there are a lot of things I love to do other than making movies, and I know that once I commit to a film it's going to prevent me from doing any of these other things. So I do try and not commit; I try hard not to engage. But sometimes there's an element in it which I just can't resist. It changes with each movie. You can just get a feeling, and you don't know what that is until you do the movie.

Is that why you signed up for the new Tron movie?

Yeah, that's another unique, wild experience that was too good to turn down. Engaging in that world again feels just like it did all that time ago. Basically, I'm still a child, I love being childlike, and here was another chance to play with these crazy toys. And the cutting-edge technology makes it exciting. Doing the teaser trailer for Comic-Con, I had my first experience of motion capture. And that's turning the industry on its head. It's amazing being part of that.

There's such a retro love for Tron. How do you bring it up to date?

Well, when we made Tron there was no internet, no cellphones. But now we have motion capture, so I think we'll get a far more successful version of the story, which is someone literally getting sucked into a video game. When we did King Kong in the 70s, one minute you'd have a shot of Rick Baker in this big suit and then you'd cut to this 80ft stiff model, and they looked nothing alike. Compare to that Peter Jackson's King Kong the technology is there and they did a wonderful job. I thought they created a beautiful Kong. So I hope that'll be the same for Tron.

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Gyllenhaal as Catwoman?

Since The Dark Knight hit there have been all sorts of rumours as to who will be starring in the next one. Angelina Jolie as Catwoman, Johnny Depp as the Riddler, Phillip Seymore Hoffman as the Penguin. All have been knocking about. Of course nothing has been set in stone as Christopher Nolan has not got anything going for the next movie as yet. Although I'm sure he has lots of ideas.

** Possible Spoilers ** One theory that works very well and ties in with the The Dark Knight is by having the character of Rachel Dawes become Catwoman. The full idea is here.

I really like this idea. It ties in with the fact Rachel's character didn't really do much in both movies, the way she looked when she realised Batman had turned up to save Harvey Dent as opposed to her (she had no way of knowing the Joker manipulated the whole thing), we never saw her body (which, in comic book terms, means she will be alive! Bucky Dead no longer applies) and so she will be majorley pissed at poor Bruce.

Maybe she will come back in the sequel, maybe she'll have amnesia about who Batman really is? Maybe she won't. It's all still very early days for this kind of talk I know, but I can really see this being the way of bringing in Selina Kyle (Catwoman) and tying it into the emotional turmoil that has battered Bruce Wayne in the previous movies. We shall have to wait and see. What do you think?

(BTW, the above image is by Adam Hughes a great comic book artist).

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