Blake Lively Movie Updates

Joshua Satine has been cast in Lionsgate’s thriller A Simple Favor.

The Handmaid's Tale filmmaker Reed Morano will direct The Rhythm Section.

Four days after Deadline scooped that Bruce Willis exited the ensemble cast of Woody Allen’s new film, Steve Carell has been tapped to take over the role.

The romantic drama The Age Of Adaline has been through a couple of incarnations, but it is now set to go into production in March as a co-production between Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Lakeshore Entertainment.

"The Side Effects" (the project has reverted to its initial title after flirting with the name "The Bitter Pill"). Announced late last year, with several companies vying to make the project, now, two weeks into 2012, The Playlist can reveal that the financing looks to be locked down, and Soderbergh has found ...

I'm told that Jennifer Lawrence is in pole position for the role in The Silver Linings Playbook, the drama that David O Russell will direct with Mark Wahlberg starring.

Disney has completed the casting of its coven for Oz, the Great and Powerful, tapping Michelle Williams to play Glinda, the good witch.

Stone is arranging a Pulp Fiction reunion of John Travolta and Uma Thurman, as the two actors are in talks to join the ensemble cast. Also joining is is The Town’s Blake Lively, who beat out a group of young actresses to play the role of O. Travolta will play Dennis, a burned out DEA agent, and Thurman will play O’s mom, Paqu.

Blake Lively has emerged as the front-runner for the female lead in Oliver Stone's "Savages," a role she may have to choose over playing Glinda the Good Witch in Disney's "Oz."

Juliette Lewis is staying busy in the indie realm, grabbing co-star roles in independent pics Hick, starring Chloe Moretz, and Single Shot with Alessandro Nivola and William H. Macy.

Insiders say that Warner Bros is making a full court press for Sandra Bullock to play the role of a space station team member who tries to find her way back to earth and her daughter after the space station she is working on is destroyed by a debris field from an exploded asteroid.

At Warner Bros., Blake Lively and Scarlett Johansson are vying for the chance to star in "Gravity."

Blake Lively has nabbed the female lead opposite Ryan Reynolds in Warner Bros.' "Green Lantern." Lively will play Carol Ferris, who runs her father's aerospace company and hires cocky test pilot Hal Jordan (Reynolds), who later becomes the intergalactic policeman Green Lantern.