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Mary Makes Her Way Into The Cellar

Chalk up a new film for our girl! Variety is reporting that Mary is set to star in Paramount and Bad Robot’s “The Cellar.”

The majority of the movie takes place in an underground cellar, and revolves around a young woman who wakes up in the cellar after a severe car accident and fears she has been abducted. Her captor, a doomsday prepper (Goodman), tells her he saved her life and that there has been a terrible chemical attack that has left the outside uninhabitable. She does not know what to believe and as tensions rise, she decides she must escape, regardless of the terrors that await outside.

The film will also star John Goodman and filming is scheduled to begin in the fall.

Congrats, Mary! 🙂

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Mary Among TV Networks Wishlists of Actors

Mary is among a list of actors and actresses who are being courted by television networks to possibly star in a new series. Keep in mind, Mary has already filmed the pilot for the HBO/Cinemax series Quarry alongside Logan Marshall Greene. That series, however, has yet to be picked up. Keep reading for more info:

With more than more than 80 pilots — some of them already picked up to series — the race to cast the hundreds of roles in the dramas and comedies in contention for the 2014-15 is well underway. Casting directors now find themselves in the annual scramble to lure stars who are both available and willing to commit to either multiple seasons, or in some cases, short-order limited series.

The increase in “limited” — or “event” — programming is helping to lure big names from the film world, with Hilary Swank, Diane Lane, Jennifer Garner, Luke Wilson, Ryan Phillippe and James Marsden all of receiving multiple offers.

While it’s unclear just how many of the box-office heavy-hitters will actually take on a pilot, it’s Final Destination 3 star Mary Elizabeth Winstead, 29, and Magic City‘s Jeffrey Dean Morgan, 47, who have vaulted to the top of pilot season’s wish list. Both actors, multiple sources say, aren’t over-exposed and are being courted because there are not a lot of actors available in those age ranges.

“Everyone wants to find that discovery that’s not really a discovery — that person people know and recognize but they’re not sure where they know them from,” the talent agent says, with another noting Watchmen star Morgan is “sexy for network TV but not sexy enough for film.”

Hopefully this means we’ll hear about Quarry (or possibly another pilot) soon! I’ll be sure to keep you all posted about what’ll happen.

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Mary Scores the Lead in Untitled Chris Messina Film!

Exciting news!! According to Showbiz 411, Mary has landed the lead role in a as-of-untitled new film project from The Mindy Project‘s Chris Messina. This will mark Messina’s directorial debut with Winstead in the lead. The plot is as follows:

“Workaholic attorney, Alex [Winstead] is forced to reinvent her life after her husband suddenly leaves. Now faced with the humdrum and sometimes catastrophic events that permeate the fabric of our lives, Alex discovers both a vulnerability and inner strength she had not yet tapped all while trying to hold together her broken family.”

Troy Garity, Derek Luke and Don Johnson (“Django Unchained”) are set to co-star with Mary. The movie is written by Jessica Strong with Katie Nehry and Justin Shilton based on characters the latter two created.

Congrats, Mary! 🙂

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Mary Updates Us On Upcoming Projects

Just when it was recently revealed that Mary was cast in Seven Years, Three Days, Mary has offered her Twitter followers an update on all things to come. She tweeted:

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Expect official announcements on upcoming projects soon and we’ll keep you up to date on everything! Also, be sure to follow miss-winstead for even more updates via Twitter @misswinsteadcom. Exciting times are ahead!!

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Mary Cast in Seven Years, Three Days

It’s been announced on Twitter that Mary has been cast in director Jesse Zwick’s Seven Years, Three Days alongside Emma Roberts, Jason Ritter and Max Minghella. More information will be posted once it comes through. Filming will begin this June in New York City.

Congrats, Mary!

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New Bullett Magazine Outtake; Mary Updates on Upcoming Album

Lots of news is happening for our gal Mary! First up, I’ve added a great new outtake from Mary’s Bullett Magazine shoot she did last summer with photographer Michael Donovan (via Sah D). If you missed the interview from the shoot, click here to read it as well as the behind the scenes footage here. Additionally, head to the gallery to check out the new outtake!

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Also, Mary tweeted out some exciting news! She’s finally completed her first album!

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Back in July, Mary talked about working on her album with Dan the Automator and said “the inspiration behind it is, like, French ’60s pop—Jane Birkin, and stuff like that. It’s kind of married with Dan’s sensibility, which is his beats and a little bit of that low-key hip-hop vibe.”

And finally, as a reminder, Mary will be in Dallas tomorrow to receive her Dallas Shining Star Award at the 2013 Dallas Film Society Honors. Congrats!

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Mary Elizabeth Says She’d Love to Work with Edgar Wright Again

During the Independent Film Spirit Awards, IFC spoke with Mary Elizabeth Winstead on the red carpet and asked if she’d like to work with her Scott Pilgrim Vs the World director Edgar Wright again:

Wright is known for using his favorite actors in multiple films, so we couldn’t resist asking Winstead when we caught up with her at the Spirit Awards if she would ever want to work with the director again.

“Oh yeah,” she told IFC on the red carpet. “I mean, he’s so busy. I can never keep track.”

Wright definitely does know how to keep himself busy, having just completed “The World’s End” and now gearing up for his Marvel superhero movie “Ant-Man.” When we asked Winstead if she would try to finagle herself a part in that movie — after all, it still hasn’t cast any leads yet — she laughingly admitted that she’d love to be involved.

“Sure, I can be in ‘Ant-Man.’ Why not?” she said. “I love him and hopefully we’ll work together again.”

“Ant-Man” is slated to launch the third wave of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films after “The Avengers 2? hits theaters. It was announced back in October that the movie will have a November 6, 2015 release date, which means Wright has plenty of time to figure out the way he wants to approach the lesser known superhero’s story — and who he wants to cast as its leads.

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The Spectacular Now Scheduled for August Release

In an interview with Screen Crush, star of The Spectacular Now Miles Teller, told the site that TSN will have an August release date. Here’s what he said:

You finished wrapping up ‘The Spectacular Now’ a while ago, and I haven’t seen it, but a couple of my colleagues have and they were very impressed with your performance. So congratulations on that.

Thank you.

I’ve been reading that it’s going to SXSW.

Yeah, I think it’s playing March 11 at SXSW.

What’s the current plan to bring this film to the masses more?

Yeah, it was picked up by A24. A24 is a distribution company, they’re doing ‘Bling Ring,’ Sofia Coppola’s movie. They’re also doing ‘Spring Breakers.’ I think the goal for this is August 2 it’ll start out in select cities and then platform.

I think ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ and the fact that movie did so well and really found a big audience, I think that kind of opened the door probably a little bit for this.

Tickets aren’t available yet, but according to the SXSW website, Spectacular Now will be playing March 11 at 9:30 pm at the Topfer Theatre. Meanwhile, the film will be closing the Atlanta Film Festival on March 23.

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Mary to Test for New Jason Bateman Comedy, This Is Where I Leave You

Ah! Would love to see Mary starring in a Jason Bateman film! According to THR, Mary is on a short-list with other actresses to test this upcoming Monday on a new WB film called This Is Where I Leave You.

Based on the book by Jonathan Tropper, the film centers on a man (Bateman) whose father dies and tasks his dysfunctional family with one last request: to spend seven days following the funeral together under the same roof.

Most of the actresses (which include Ari Graynor, Isla Fisher, Zoe Saldana, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kathryn Hahn and Amy Adams), are reading for the part of Penny, the love that got away who works at her father’s company.

Hahn is reading for the part of Bateman’s wife, a woman who is having an affair with his boss.

Best of luck to Mary on Monday!! 🙂

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Bruce Willis Says a Die Hard 6 is Happening

While making an appearance on BBC’s One Show, Bruce Willis was asked if fans could expect a sixth film in the Die Hard franchise to which he simply responded, “yes”.

A Good Day to Die Hard meanwhile will hit theaters on Valentine’s Day. In the film, John McClane (Willis) travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working to prevent a nuclear-weapons heist, causing the father and son to team up against underworld forces.

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If it ever happens, hopefully Willis will re-team with Mary’s character Lucy in some way.

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