Derek Cianfrance continues casting his follow-up to Blue Valentine...

...by casting some female leads to go along with his previously announced male ones. Here's the story from Deadline:

va Mendes is set and Greta Gerwig is in talks to star alongside Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper in The Place Beyond The Pines, a multi-generational crime drama that Blue Valentine's Derek Cianfrance will direct for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. The drama tracks the tragic consequences of a showdown between a motorcycle rider-turned-bank robber (Gosling) and a cop-turned-politician (Cooper). Mendes will play the robber's love interest and mother of his child, and Gerwig is in talks to play the politician's wife.The film begins production next month. Mendes most recently starred in Last Night and The Other Guys while Gerwig starred in Arthur and Greenberg and has just begun shooting Lola Versus, the Daryl Wein-directed Fox Searchlight comedy that also stars The Killing's Joel Kinnaman.

Kimmel, Lynette Howell, Alex Orlovsky and Jamie Patricof will produce. SKE's Jim Tauber and Matt Berenson will be exec producers. Howell, Orlovsky and Patricof teamed on Blue Valentine. Cianfrance wrote The Place Beyond the Pines with Ben Coccio. Sierra/Affinity's Nick Meyer is selling foreign.

-Joey's Two Cents: I'm glad to see Gerwig getting higher profile roles...thoughts?

Who might co-star with Ryan Gosling in Derek Cianfrance's follow-up to Blue Valentine?

Via Variety:

Sidney Kimmel Entertainment has come on to finance and produce multi-generational crime drama "The Place Beyond the Pines."

Project's been in development since last year, with "Blue Valentine" writer-director Derek Cianfrance directing from a script he co-wrote with Ben Coccio. Ryan Gosling is attached to star, and producers have offered Bradley Cooper a starring role.

Gosling will portray a pro motorcycle rider who turns to bank robberies to support his newborn son, when he crosses paths with a rookie police officer -- the role Cooper is being lined up to play -- their confrontation spirals into a generational feud.

Project is being sold at Cannes with Sierra?/?Affinity handling foreign sales. CAA and WME Global packaged and will handle domestic sales.

Principal photography will start this summer.

Sidney Kimmel, Lynette Howell, Alex Orlovsky and Jamie Patricof will produce. Howell, Orlovsky and Patricof also produced "Blue Valentine," in which Gosling starred.SKE prexy Jim Tauber and SKE Production president Matt Berenson will exec produce.

-Joey's Two Cents: Seems like Bradley Cooper is everywhere these days...thoughts?

Bradley Cooper is the Devil

No, really! Here's the story from Variety:

After helping launch The Hangover franchise, Legendary Pictures wants back in business with Bradley Cooper, who's in early talks to play Lucifer in an adaptation of John Milton's epic 17th-century poem Paradise Lost.

An official offer has yet to be made, but Cooper is eager to take the part and negotiations are expected to begin shortly. Reps for Legendary declined to comment.

Thesp's involvement breathes new life into Alex Proyas' adaptation of Paradise Lost, long in the works at Legendary. It's also the latest fanboy-targeted tentpole to move forward at the blossoming production company, which is lensing Wrath of the Titans and Jack the Giant Killer, backing The Dark Knight Rises and The Man of Steel and developing Pacific Rim with Guillermo del Toro as well as a Godzilla reboot.

Paradise Lost tells the story of the epic war in heaven between archangels Michael and Lucifer, including the latter's role in Adam and Eve's fall from grace. Pic will be crafted as an action vehicle that will include aerial warfare, possibly shot in 3D.

Legendary's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producing with Vincent Newman (We're the Millers), who has been developing the project for years at his Vincent Newman Entertainment banner.

Stuart Hazeldine developed the primary draft of the screenplay, originally written by Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi. Lawrence Kasdan provided a polish as well as Ryan Condal, who delivered the most recent draft.

New Hangover II Trailer Released – Another Pulled for Wiener Munching Monkey Stunt - Watch

One of the new trailers for the soon to be released “Hangover II” has been pulled from movie theaters because, well, um, there is a shot of a monkey biting a man’s wiener.

The clip sows Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, and the schlong munching monkey on a bus in Bangkok, where Galifianakis' character puts a water bottle in the pants of an old man and the monkey jumps on the guy's lap and starts gnawing away at his private parts.

Galifianakis said,

"When a monkey nibbles on a wiener, it's funny in any language, but it's also pushing the envelope in any language, too.”

Of course the MPAA has required Warner Brothers to edit the trailer and make a new one available as soon as possible. “Hangover II” is due for release May 26, 2011 and even though the plot has been kept under wraps we do know a little about it.

In the follow-up to the record-breaking hit comedy “The Hangover,” Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and Doug (Justin Bartha) travel to exotic Thailand for Stu’s wedding.

After the unforgettable bachelor party in Las Vegas, Stu is taking no chances and has opted for a safe, subdued pre-wedding brunch. However, things don’t always go as planned.

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in Bangkok can’t even be imagined.

Watch the new (and since banned) “Hangover II” Movie Trailer