Amie

I hate the tan (or any sort of tan that isn't natural really), it ages her She always looks much better when she's a bit on the pale side

I do like Penn's shirt but I don't like the fact that he wore it to an event for the show. I don't know... it wasn't the right time and place for that. His outfit in general is just terrible, reminds me of my old English prof that kept trying to be hip especially with that horrible corduroy jacket.

I don't know about that. The date stamp on that tweet is Sunday, and the earlier tweet on the 19th makes it sound like whatever he is working on in Paris will happen on a Monday. He also mentions New Orleans and says "reunited" in that previous tweet on the 19th .... referring to Blake? There were no pix of her going to N.O. until the 20th. Maybe he worked with her on the Chanel shoot and that's why he posted the old pic. His friend says he can't post the new ones, and happens to mention Elle, the mag we were speculating about before based on tweet about an Elle intern who met Blake. Lots of coincidences. On the other hand, that intern was in NY. and other tweets place her coming back to Boston on Monday afternoon. And would a stylist have immediate access to new pix taken for a major magazine like Elle? Anyway, if it is some kind of hoax it's a pretty sophisticated one.

Yeah I was also thinking that it's possible she did her cover shot in NY back when I posted that tweet on the 4th? or 9th? of January and then the photo shoot she's working on now could be the editorial part. It's quite possible. Like you said, it's an awful lot of coincidences (esp New Orleans and that tweet that Anil mentioned that put her in Paris on Monday) for it not to pan out somehow.

Oh yeah so she's def gonna be in ELLE. I posted another tweet about it a couple of weeks ago too. Wouldn't be too surprised to hear she was in Paris though, we've not had a sighting since she came back to NY on Monday. Paris is just a 6hr flight.

JAY @Unconquerable24

My baby was in Paris this past weekend styling Blake lively for a shoot. Wanna post pics.

But that'll have to wait till the magazine cover premiers.

The photos will be in Elle!.... I think lol

@jesstinybird I know me too! The photos were gorgeous.

I think this is the Twitter account for the stylist, but I can't tell if it's a new pic of Blake or not:

Instagram

Devyn Mackey:Stylist @iCassiusMFresh

Wrkn in Paris instagr.am/p/jsJjj/

1:40 PM - 22 Jan 12 via Instagram

Devyn Mackey:Stylist @iCassiusMFresh

oh no have fun in new orleans.... paris he i come can't wait til monday #reunited

7:19 AM - 19 Jan 12 via web · Details

ETA: It kind of looks like her Chanel handbag shoot, no?

Crap... so we've been had? Not cool

Oh yeah so she's def gonna be in ELLE. I posted another tweet about it a couple of weeks ago too. Wouldn't be too surprised to hear she was in Paris though, we've not had a sighting since she came back to NY on Monday. Paris is just a 6hr flight.

JAY @Unconquerable24

My baby was in Paris this past weekend styling Blake lively for a shoot. Wanna post pics.

But that'll have to wait till the magazine cover premiers.

The photos will be in Elle!.... I think lol

@jesstinybird I know me too! The photos were gorgeous.

Another source of frustration for Soderbergh is that medium-sized movies, such as Haywire and Contagion, are becoming an endangered species. "The data will tell you that between $25m and $75m is the dead zone in terms of profitability. They're movies. It's not cereal ... the audience isn't sitting around going, 'There's no way I'm seeing a movie if it cost between $25 and $75m.'" . . .

Hollywood's treatment of women is another sore subject. "People just aren't writing a lot of great roles for women. They haven't been for a while but they're certainly not now because the perception in the business is that there are maybe one or maybe two women that mean anything, and that's just horrible."

That bolded part is so telling. It's so hard for women to work upwards in the biz where if you're not Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet then you're not a good actress. Blake has been working and putting in solid work for so long that it's just humiliating and unfair to drag her out over the coals like this. And she keeps getting better with every new project.

She so doesn't deserve this. Which other actress does this happen to? Urghh I'm just so upset What do they have against her really? Soderbergh has worked with Sasha Grey and Gina Carano yet it's Blake that people have a problem with? It's just unfair because they're tainting her image/rep too. Have you seen the headlines? "Blake Lively tanks project" and so on... I'm so so upset.

Omggggg I totally love and ADORE Catherine Zeta Jones obviously Soderbergh does too since this is the third movie after Traffic and Ocean's Twelve that they'll be working together on.

Two of my favorite ladies in this film, it's almost too good to be true

EXCLUSIVE: Catherine Zeta-Jones has been set to star in Side Effects, the thriller that Steven Soderbergh will direct. She joins Blake Lively, Jude Law and Channing Tatum, who are also negotiating. The Scott Z. Burns scripted film is being financed by Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures, with production to start in April in New York on a thriller that has a budget in the $30 million range. Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing with Greg Jacobs and Burns. Open Road recently signed on to distribute in the U.S.

The film is a potboiler in the Jagged Edge-Basic Instinct mold, and Zeta-Jones will play Dr. Erica Siebert. Lively plays a troubled and depressed woman who is taking serious amounts of prescription drugs, which leads her into a relationship with another doctor (Law). Her intake is ostensibly designed to help her deal with the anxiety surrounding the pending release of her husband (Tatum) from prison. Burns wrote it several years ago and set it up at Miramax under the title The Side Effects, intending to direct it but never getting there because of his busy scripting schedule that included the Soderbergh projects Contagion, The Informant! and Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Zeta-Jones and Soderbergh previously worked together on Traffic. Her latest film, the Stephen Frears-directed Lay the Favorite, premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival and a distribution deal is expected shortly. Her upcoming projects include Playing the Field with Gerard Butler, Rock of Ages and Broken City, the latter of which stars Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe and is now shooting. Zeta-Jones is repped by WME.

*ETA*

Annapurna ankles 'Side Effects'

Banner backs out of Soderbergh thriller plans with Open Road

By RACHEL ABRAMS

Despite a release last week from distributor Open Road, it appears that Annapurna Pictures will not be financing Steven Soderbergh's "Side Effects."

Open Road, which had signed on to distribute the film domestically, announced Jan. 18 that the two companies would partner on the film, produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Gregory Jacobs and Scott Z. Burns, who also wrote the screenplay. Annapurna's Megan Ellison, Marc Butan and Ted Schipper were to have served as exec producers.

Annapurna's decision to drop off the film came late on Friday, sources told Variety. At one point, project had three high-profile thesps attached -- Channing Tatum, Blake Lively and Jude Law -- but their current involvement is unclear.

Meanwhile, Open Road said it's still onboard: "The Open Road deal to release the picture is in place," a spokesperson for Open Road told Variety.

Plot details are still under wraps.

While the film currently has no financier, sources tell Variety that the film has multiple offers and will likely lock down a deal before Sundance is over.

Annapurna is behind a number of notable projects slated for release this year, including John Hillcoat's "Wettest County," the Brad Pitt-toplined "Cogan's Trade" and Kathryn Bigelow's untitled project about the capture of Osama Bin Laden.

Annapurna did not return requests for comment.

I'm pretty sure Blake will still be in it though, she wouldn't go to the Haywire screening if she weren't.

Omgahhh, so cuteeeee

GQ Spain February cover girl!

She's not much of a GQ/sexy-skin-photo shoot kinda girl but it's still nice to see her get a bit of international recognition.

Thanks all for the great pictures and news! Wasn't expecting the pictures and so much information at all (esp the pics) so it was nice to come home too. She looks so happy and they just look so compatible and satisfied, I'm loving it! Happy for Ryan's new project although like you guys I can't stand Reese too despite her having starred in some of my all-time favorite movies

A minor detail from a recent Soderbergh interview:

Q:You seem to be busier than ever at the moment; "Contagion" last September, "Haywire" in January, "Magic Mike" in the Summer, and "The Bitter Pill"...

A:It's not supposed to come out until March. But you never know.

Oh and Channing Tatum mentioned in a Collider interview that he's going to be play a stockbroker in this movie. I'm guessing he got sent to prison for white collar crimes

Is it possible that we'll get 3 Blake films this year? Is this real life or fantasy? lol.

The film's name was always a toss-up between The Side Effects and The Bitter Pill. It was originally set up as The Side Effects, later changed to The Bitter Pill and now Soderbergh says he wants to change it back to The Bitter Pill because it gives it a harder edge:

Meanwhile, Soderbergh is prepping his next movie, a suspenseful drama starring Tatum and Blake Lively that's been referred to in the press as both Bitter Pill and The Side Effects. "The title I want is Bitter Pill," Soderbergh said. "It's a thriller and it's hard-edged, so I think that's the better title."

Forward: Can you tell us about your next feature film?

Oliver Stone: “Savages” is an antidote to “History” [laughs]. It’s fiction, set in California and Mexico. It’s about the drug war, to the degree that it involves Mexican cartels against California independent [marijuana] growers.

Forward: Was it shot in Mexico?

Stone: No, but it has a Mexico — we faked it, we didn’t go down there.

Forward: Is it correct that Salma Hayek plays the head of the Mexican drug cartel?

Stone: She plays the head of one of the cartels, yeah. Her character took over after her husband was killed.

Forward: When will it be released? Next September?

Stone: Maybe sooner; we’ll see.

The sooner, the better!

Yes we Cannes, Cannes, Cannes! :brows:

Oh btw, Halolulu RT'd someone who said they were sitting behind them and the person was located on New Orleans... I swear they go to the most random places but then again they have the whole Green Lantern, NOLA connections.

Maybe they're going to Vegas...?

#Chanel flying 200 fashion VIPs 2 Vegas via private jet on Friday 2 fete launch of extravagant "Numeros Prives" installation @WynnLasVegas.

...to meet up with the rest of these guys for the Chanel event. Or they could be flying to Paris for Chanel's couture show which takes place on Wednesday?

*Courtesy of Anka88 on SuperiorPics*

Aww she went to the Haywire premiere in NY tonight, joining the 'Soderbergh family' already I see

The outfit makes her look lumpy though but she looks very pretty still.

From Deadline:

EXCLUSIVE: Open Road is locking a distribution deal for Side Effects, the Scott Z. Burns script that Steven Soderbergh will direct as his next film. Blake Lively, Jude Law and Channing Tatum will star. The film is being financed by Mega Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures, with production to start in April on a thriller which has a budget in the $30 million range. This is a surprise outcome. Deadline revealed in early December that Summit was the frontrunner for a script (which had been called The Bitter Pill at the time). The script wasn’t distributed widely, at least initially. David Linde’s Lava Bear and Paramount were the other initial places (producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura’s deal is there), though a few equity financiers mulled the project as well. Soderbergh sparked to the film after Warner Bros halted The Man From U.N.C.L.E. after disagreements over budget and difficulty finding the lead after George Clooney dropped out because he was getting surgery. The film is a potboiler in the Jagged Edge-Basic Instinct mold and Lively plays a troubled and depressed woman who is taking serious amounts of prescription drugs, which leads her into a relationship with a doctor (Law). Her intake is ostensibly designed to help her deal with the anxiety surrounding the pending release of her husband (Tatum) from prison. Burns wrote it several years ago and set it up at Miramax under the title The Side Effects, intending to direct it but never getting there because of his busy scripting schedule that included the Soderbergh projects Contagion, The Informant! and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Deal was shopped by UTA and Anonymous Content

According to the director, this movie has 2 meaty female parts. I wonder who's gonna take the other part

On Letterman, yesterday 01/18

Question: Serena is starting to feel like a guest star on Gossip Girl. What gives? —Emily

Ausiello: That’s pretty much the question I posed to Safran. “If you feel like Serena has been lighter this year, it’s honestly just where the story has taken us,” he tells me. “Last season was very much about Serena. That was the way we sort of looked at it. She had Juliet last year and that was the big driving story. This year we gave Blair the big driving story. And next season — if there is a next season — I would imagine the driving story, should it be the last season, will be the two of them and their friendship.”

If there is any justice in the world, this would be the last season. The last episode was just AWFUL, like the worst episode of television I've seen in a long, long while. :yuckky:

No wonder Ryan is at the gym so often Blake needs to realize that not everyone has her superhuman metabolism.

Hey girls, just wanted to alert you guys to my name change, this is the commenter formerly known as aomgthereckless <-- Bellazon butchered my name at registration so I finally got to change it to something shorter

I actually didn't care for it either, the script was atrocious and some of the effects were noxious when they weren't being downright silly lol. But Blake had to do commercial sooner than later, it was something her team was pushing her to do. Love her remarks in this interview, she just presents as so smart and cultured:

It’s never to me about a formula. People say, "Well, whose career do you follow? Where do you see your career going? What movie do you want to do next?" And I can’t tell you what type of movie I would go and do next. I would have to read the script and feel for a character. And if I feel in my gut for a character, I know that that’s somebody I have to play.

So, to me it’s about doing things you’re passionate about, and I think that that comes through. After my first year on Gossip Girl, everybody said, "You’ve got to do a big commercial movie, ride this wave." And I did a tiny Rebecca Miller film, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, where Alan Arkin was 74 played my husband, and I was 19. And that was a really different, weird, dark story. But it was one that refueled me creatively.

And then going back into 10 months of playing the same character you look for that again. But I didn’t find that the next year. So, everybody said, “Come on, now you’ve got to do the commercial movie. You didn’t do it last year and you want to show that you can exist on both platforms of TV and movies.’” But there wasn’t anything I was passionate about.

So, I traveled for a month. I work on other characters so often, developing other characters—I need to develop my own character, too. You need to bring those experiences with you to your characters. So, for me, it’s about connecting with something. And I don’t know, I’ve just been really, really lucky.

I'm glad she's got that out of the way (although it had to be on an unfortunate film), so that she can take on more complex and challenging roles.

Other positive news, Quentin Tarantino seems to be one of the few people who liked Green Lantern Maybe a role for Blake in one of his movies huh?

Yh most blog/gossip sites are very anti Blake/ pro Leighton so dont pay too much attention to them. I dont even read sites like ONTD, DListed any more (lainey isnt as bad, I find her obssession with Blake very amusing). Even when she was in 3 yr relationship with Penn they called her a whore so it just goes to show their irrationality (likeOMG 3 boyrfriends!!). Plus the fact that she keeps on winning kills them. I remember how they were SO ecstatic when Green Lantern flopped and Hick got bad reviews - they thought she was done, you could almost here the glee in their voices (lol).

But then she got offered Pride, Prejudice and Zombies (but turned it down) and now she's gotten the lead in a Steven Soderbergh movie. Trust me it kills them that she keeps on proving them wrong - so the only thing they can do is call her names etc. They are like she's gonna be like Mischa Barton etc. even though Blake has done way more movies than Mischa ever did. Plus despite the GG schedule she still gets more quality work than most of the young full time movie actresses.

I could care less about Leighton but her fans make me not like her. Like they need to care more about Leighton rather than obssesing about Blake. No offence but if Leighton is as superiorly talent as they make her out to be, then shouldnt she be getting better work. I'm just saying!

I think what really peeves them the most is that Blake gets QUALITY work, with prestigious directors and co-stars, rather than just any old thing. SO when I see childish comments like that I just revel in the fact that her success is whats driving them mad.

Lainey is just a ridiculous joke and I've said it many times over, her obsession on Blake borders on absolutely creepy.

The stupid thing about them rejoicing over the fact that GL and Hick flopped is that if we listed their faves' Rottentomatoes filmography, Blake has one of the best records in choosing roles among young actresses and especially coming from TV too.

Yeah, what burns is that she doesn't "know her place" (and that reflects more badly on them than anything, God forbid a young woman be ambitious), they want her to be doing foolish rom-coms and Katherine Heigl type movies but Blake doesn't make their job easy for them lol. I just find their hate so funny because it's just soo desperate and they keep saying Blake is going to be like Katie Holmes while Leighton will be the Michelle Williams when all evidence points to the contrary. Michelle was hated the way Blake is now during her DC days, and she had the same similar thankless "bombshell with a past going good" role that Blake does now, while Katie had the bitchy, animated, sarcastic villain you love to hate that Leighton does now. And people really hated Michelle, calling her many of the same names they call Blake now (sluts, ugly etc). And the way the flip facts about Blake and Leighton is astounding, over on IMDb they were saying Blake is doing commercial movies while Leighton is the serious one doing indies which is so silly because with this Soderbergh project, Blake is about to start her 4th indie, while Leighton is doing tripe like The Roommate, Monte Carlo and an Adam Sandler movie but her fans harp on her one indie.

I hate comparing them really cos I don't mind Leighton in general but Leighton fans are just too ridiculous and it gets really frustrating seeing them spew all this crap about Blake because we Blake fans are generally too passive and non-confrontational. Just because Leighton's brand of hysterical overacting suits Gossip Girl's heightened reality doesn't make her a good actress. She hasn't gotten any stunning or outstanding reviews the way Blake has and the way they call Blake a bad actress is just foolish because how would you judge good acting with a poorly written show like GG or a poorly written movie like GL. Even Armie Hammer was horrible in GG ffs. Oh well...

*Kanye Shrug*

ETA Sannei, I didn't see your response before typing mine out but I pretty much agree with everything you've written

^You need to avoid those articles. I totally understand, they get my blood boiling too with the amount of sexist hate they spew, especially from fellow women. I've just learned there are some websites I have to avoid to have peace of mind when it comes to Blake. I generally avoid: Dlisted, Laineygossip, Celebitchy, JustJared comments section, TheGloss, Pajiba, Slashfilm to name a few. Those are just some sites that hate Blake Lively for no good reason and will twist every truth or fact to fit their purposes. Most feel she's "stealing" Leighton's spotlight. Most of the commenters on OhNoTheyDidnt are very pro-Leighton as well so it can get a bit dicey there although there are few brave and intrepid Blake stans that generally cool things down. A few good blogs to read are Pinkisthenewblog, the guy that runs that blog actually defends Blake against some very sexist comments and double standards which I really respect, Screenrant, Fanforum, Usweekly, People and the likes.

People don't understand that she has taken such a risk by putting herself out there in the process of building her career, and this is the ugly that tends to come along with that. People think everything comes very easily to her without taking into account the amount of hard work and rejection she has had to face to get the best of the best. You can see she respects her career and that makes me such a fan of hers.

Just focus on the good parts like that and how hard-working and kind she is. No one who has met her has anything bad to say about her which is more than what anonymous bitter bloggers will ever know. Even better are the high praises people in the industry have for her. If you knew Steven Soderbergh's process and selectivity, you'd know that to get cast in a lead role in his movie is a really big deal, so haters can stick to eating crow and calling her names just as she's getting bigger and better

Hope that helps