Did you ask Santa Claus for a new Katherine Heigl comedy for Christmas? Were you despairing that he’d forgotten all about you and you’d have to pop in your dvd of Killers instead? Well, cheer up bunky. Heigl’s coming and she’s got pepper spray and handcuffs in One For the Money.

SYNOPSIS:  Katherine Heigl brings Stephanie Plum – the popular heroine of Janet Evanovich's worldwide best-selling eighteen-book mystery series – to vibrant life in Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment's One For the Money. 

 A proud, born-and-bred Jersey girl, Stephanie Plum's got plenty of attitude, even if she's been out of work for the last six months and just lost her car to a debt collector.  Desperate for some fast cash, Stephanie turns to her last resort: convincing her sleazy cousin to give her a job at his bail bonding company…as a recovery agent.  True, she doesn't even own a pair of handcuffs and her weapon of choice is pepper spray, but that doesn't stop Stephanie from taking on Vinny's biggest bail-jumper: former vice cop and murder suspect Joe Morelli (Jason O’Mara) – yup, the same sexy, irresistible Joe Morelli who seduced and dumped her back in high school. 

Nabbing Morelli would be satisfying payback – and a hefty payday – but as Stephanie learns the ins and outs of becoming a recovery agent from Ranger (Daniel Sunjata), a hunky colleague who's the best in the business, she also realizes the case against Morelli isn't airtight. Add to the mix her meddling family, a potentially homicidal boxer, witnesses who keep dying and the problem of all those flying sparks when she finds Morelli himself…well, suddenly Stephanie's new job isn't nearly as easy as she thought. 

Well, they sure make it sound entertaining! I’ve never read a Janet Evanovich novel, let alone the Stephanie Plum series. Katherine Heigl is talented and when given the right material, she’s funny, in fact, she’s usually pretty funny even when given mediocre material. She just doesn’t know how to choose well. (Not a problem exclusive to her either. I think a good portion of successful actors owe their successat least as much to the ability to choose material as they do to talent. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, what’s on the page that an actor signs on for is so very often not what ends up on screen and a lot of the time it’s through no fault of their own. I’m sure Killers sounded great during the pitch.)

Okay, where does that leave us with this clip? *sigh* It really has very little to do with Heigl. The clip is all about the supporting players and trying to make Debbie Reynolds relevant even as they’re turning her into a daffy old lady with gun. I don’t think I cracked a smile.  See for yourself.

Billed as an action-comedy and directed by Julie Anne Robinson the film also stars John Leguiziamo and Debra Monk and will be in theaters next Friday, January 27

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We've got a lot of little tidbits that have been coming in lately, like great new images from flicks we've been talking about.

Here's a new Image from One for the Money with Katherine Heigl and Daniel Sunjata. Apparently she's impressed with the size of  his gun. Heigl plays Janet Evanovich's popular character, Stephanie Plum. The film opens Jan. 27 in the US and 24 Feb. in the UK.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is the story of a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player, and pacifist searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks. Thomas Horn plays Oskar, Sandra Bullock plays his mother. The film gets a limited release December 25.

The Iron Lady is a look at the life of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power. It gets a limited release December 30.

I'm really looking forward to Red Tails. A crew of African American pilots, the "Tuskegee Airmen", having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard. The aerial shots look amazing. The film opens January 20 in the US.

Here's a first look at Matthew McConaughey in Mud, a drama centered on two teenage boys who encounter a fugitive and pact to help him escape from an island in the Mississippi. Also starring Reese Witherspoon and Michael Shannon and directed by Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter), it's not due out until 2013.

In one of the two versions of Dickens' Great Expectations now in production, Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) stars as Pip, alongside Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes.   Mike Newell directs. It's out sometime in 2012.

Last, but not least, we have a great new image from Disney/Pixar's Brave, featuring Lord MacGuffin, who will be voiced by Kevin McKidd. Set in Scotland in a rugged and mythical time, Brave features Merida, an aspiring archer and impetuous daughter of royalty. Merida makes a reckless choice that unleashes unintended peril and forces her to spring into action to set things right. It's out June 22.

Not too long ago we showed you the first poster for Katherine Heigl in the big screen version of Janet Evanovich's first book in the Stephanie Plum series, One For the Money. Well, they must finally be serious about releasing the thing (after two rescheduled dates) because now we have a trailer. The film is directed by Julie Ann Robinson whose feature debut was The Last Song with Miley Cyrus. She's also a veteran of numerous "Grey's Anatomy" episodes (as well as a lot of other tv) and pairs Heigl with Jason O'Mara, an Irish actor who's become a real presence on American tv, but I'm glad he's getting some film work. (Even if I'm not sure about this particular film.)

Unemployed and newly-divorced Stephanie Plum lands a job at her cousin's bail-bond business, where her first assignment puts her on the trail of a wanted local cop from her romantic past. Something about this trailer makes me hope they continue with the other books because I have a feeling this is going to feel very much like an episode in the series.

Heigl's got a lot of people in her corner on this. In addition to director Robinson, the script was cowritten by Kristen Smith and Karen McCullah Lutz (among others), cowriters of another Heigl vehicle, The Ugly Truth. Producers  Gary Lucchesi and Tom Robinson worked on that film as well. (There are a few other producers on this one, among them Heigl herself.) I'm not a Heigl-hater and I really do hope she finds something that makes good use of her talents. I'm just not convinced this is it. The rest of the cast of One For the Money includes Debbie Reynolds as Stephanie's grandmother, Sherri Shepherd and Daniel Sunjata ("Rescue Me", "Grey's Anatomy") and will finally open January 27, 2012.

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One for the Money, starring Katherine Heigl doesn’t hit theaters until January but here’s a first look at the poster. Heigl plays Stephanie Plum from the wildly popular series of novels by Janet Evanovich. Fans of the books have been making their own trailers, including their casting choices and posting them to Youtube almost since this book, the first of the series, was published.

Here’s the official synopsis: Stephanie Plum’s got plenty of attitude, even if she’s been out of work for the last six months and just lost her car to a debt collector. Desperate for some fast cash, Stephanie turns to her last resort: convincing her sleazy cousin to give her a job at his bail bonding company … as a recovery agent. True, she doesn’t even own a pair of handcuffs and her weapon of choice is pepper spray, but that doesn’t stop Stephanie from taking on Vinny’s biggest bail-jumper: former vice cop and murder suspect Joe Morelli – yup, the same sexy, irresistible Joe Morelli who seduced and dumped her back in high school.

Why am I getting a The Bounty Hunter vibe from this?  I’m not a Heigl hater. I don’t want her torn apart by a pack of wild Stephanie Plum fans.

Directed by Julie Anne Robinson (The Last Song) and cowritten by Kirsten Smith (The Ugly Truth) One For the Money also stars Jason O’Mara, Daniel Sunjata, John Leguizamo, Sherri Shepherd and Debbie Reynolds.

One for the Money hits theaters January 27, 2012!

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Yay!  I love her!  Katherine Heigl and her mother, Nancy, are going to co-produce an adaptation of Ann Hood’s best-seller ‘The Knitting Circle.’  It’s going to be an HBO movie Katherine will also star in it as the main character, a mother mourning the loss of her child. She turns to a knitting circle to help overcome the grief that has taken over her life.

Ashton Kutcher & Katherine Heigl Premiere ‘The Killers’

I love everything she does, so you know this is going to be a really well done, touching story.  I can’t wait!

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Ashton Kutcher and costar Katherine Heigl took to the red carpet at the premiere of their film The Killers due in theatres this Friday, June 4.  They brought their hot spouses Demi Moore and Josh Kelley to the premiere.  The film looks pretty good. What do you think?  Will you go see it?

I’m not a big fan of Katherine Heigl’s outfit for the premiere.  It’s a bit too ‘busy’ for me.  But Demi’s is divine.  She always looks like a million bucks.  I had a dream the other night I was making out with Ashton Kutcher.  So random. Don’t get me wrong, the dude is cute and all, but it’s not like I have dirty thoughts about him on a regular basis like some other celebrity mansicles.

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