New Year, lots of new movies! We’ve got some first looks and a bit of news on a slew of films coming your way in the next few months.

First up is Your Sister’s Sister which received a standing ovation at its Sundance screening this weekend. It stars Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel’s Getting Married) who reportedly replaced Rachel Weisz after she dropped out due to ‘scheduling conflicts’.

The film tells the tale of Iris (Blunt) who invites her friend Jack (Mark Duplass-one half of the directing team of the Duplass brothers) to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah (DeWitt), Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.

Apparently, according to the video below, about 85% of the movie was improvised. The best thing about the video, is Blunt and DeWitt’s reaction to Michael Fassbender’s The Hollywood Reporter cover story.

Your Sister’s Sister, which had its world premiere at TIFF, is slated to open the Seattle International Film Festival at the end of May. No word yet on what happens after that but I think it’s a safe bet it will get a theatrical release this year.

7500 is a thriller which stars Amy Smart, Ryan Kwanten, Scout Taylor-Compton, Jerry Ferrara, Jamie Chung, Christian Serratos, Nicky Whelan, Leslie Bibb and Johnathon Schaech. The story follows an estranged married couple (Smart, Kwanten) that boards a flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo only to encounter malevolent supernatural forces on the airplane. Written by Craig Rosenberg (The Uninvited) and directed by Takashi Shimizu (Grudge 2), 7500 lands in theaters August 31 in the US.

The Oranges stars Hugh Laurie as a who guy falls for the daughter (Leighton Meester) of a family friend (Oliver Platt), making life just a bit awkward for himself and the family. Queen of the Indies, Catherine Keener plays his wife while Alison Janney plays the wife of the friend. Alia Shawkat, Adam Brody, Tim Guinnee and Boyd Holbrook round out the cast. The Oranges is directed by Julian Farino (Entourage, How to Make it in America) from a first script by Ian Helfer and Jay Reiss. No word on a release other than “2012”. It’s been in the can since late 2010, but screened at TIFF in ’11 and ATO pictures has just dropped this first still. With a cast like this I can’t imagine it won’t get a theatrical release. We’ll keep you posted.

The release of The Good Doctor which stars Orlando Bloom as physician Martin Blake and Riley Keough (who will forever be known as Elvis’ granddaughter) as his patient, was delayaed after it was originally slapped with an R rating for “some crude sexual references” by the MPAA's Classification and Rating  Administration. However, Co-producer Jonathan King and writer Julia Lebedev appealed the rating and won a reversal, so now the movie will be rated PG-13 for “thematic material, disturbing situations and some crude sexual content.” It had better be good to justify the fuss.

Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts improving, Martin fears losing her, so he begins tampering with her treatment, keeping Diane sick and in the hospital right next to him.

I’m sure we’ll here more once an exact date is announced. For now, color me skeptical.

Another TIFF favorite that is sure to get a US release now that Michelle Williams has been nominated for a Genie Award (Canada’s Oscar) for her performance in Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz, described as a funny, bittersweet and heart-wrenching story about a woman struggling to choose between two different types of love. Seth Rogan, Sarah Silverman and Aaron Abrams costar.

Finally (for this post anyway), we have your first look at This is 40, which is being called the sequel to Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up. It stars Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann reprising their roles as Pete and Debbie and basically it’s a look at their lives a few years after the events from that film. Pete's music label is in trouble, consequently Debbie, with her dress shop staffed by Megan Fox andCharlyne Yi, becomes the primary breadwinner.

Melissa McCarthy has been added as the mother of a classmate of one of Pete and Debbie’s kids. Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl are not in it, but Jason Segel is back, as are Maude and Iris Apatow as Pete and Debbie’s kids.

Mann told the LA Times, “"It's the kind of stuff about marriage that you don't get to see in movies.  It's about getting older. What the hell happened? Am I making all the right choices? Is this where I'm supposed to be? Is this it?”  Married or not, everyone asks themselves those questions when they hit 40. The answers will probably be the same as  the ones we get when we look in the mirror and ask those questions, but at least in Apatow’s hands the asking will be funnier.

Universal has staked out prime awards season territory for This is 40 with a release date of December 21.

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Oh goody, there's a new Adam Sandler movie on the horizon.

Donny’s Boy is a new film coming to a multiplex near you (since an art house won’t touch anything with Sandler’s name on it, just on general principals) next June, smack in the middle of summer block-buster season.  

Generally, I like to highlight films that could probably use the exposure, the films you probably have never heard of and so will skip right over them when and if they ever get a release…unless someone (read: Me) tells you about them.  Then of course there the films that fascinate me either because I want to see them or they just seem like they’re going to be a trainwreck I won’t be able to believe anyone threw money at.  Anything with Adam Sandler falls into the latter category until proven otherwise. And I will admit that Judd Apatow’s Funny People did prove otherwise, even if it was so badly marketed that most of the Adam Sandler fans out there actually hated it. Spanglish wasn’t bad either.  I digress, as usual, but I have a point.

The simple storyline: A father moves in with his son right before his wedding and soon begins sparring with his daughter-in-law.

The twist? Sandler plays the father. Andy Samberg (who incidentally, is only 12 years younger than Sandler) plays the son. Leighton Meester plays the bride-to-be.

While still in his teens, Donny (Adam Sandler) fathered a son, Todd (Andy Samberg), and raised him as a single parent up until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for years, Todd’s world comes crashing down on the eve of his wedding when an uninvited Donny suddenly shows up. Trying desperately to reconnect with his son, Donny is now forced to deal with the repercussions of his bad parenting skills. 

Donny’s Boy was originally titled I Hate You Dad, but never mind that. Todd’s mother is played by Susan Sarandon who was one of Donny’s teachers, with whom he had an affair. Do you see why I’m maybe thinking this falls into that trainwreck category I mentioned earlier?

The rest of the cast includes Sarandon’s daughter Eva Amurri, Will Forte, James Caan, Milo Ventimiglia, Blake Clark, Ian Ziering, Todd Bridges, Colin Quinn (as well as Ciara, Vanilla Ice and Tony Orlando- I swear I’m not making this up). It was directed by Sean Anders and John Morris, the writers of Hot Tub Time Machine and She’s Out of My League. It was written by David Caspe (Happy Endings) and then rewritten by Ken Marino and David Wain (who both wrote Wanderlust).   Yeah…

Donny’s Boy opens June 15 in the US and 7^th September in the UK. 

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Leighton Meester on the first day of shooting the new season of 'Gossip Girl'

Leighton Meester is suing her own mother. Weird, right?  Well the Gossip Girl star sends her mom, Constance, $7500 a month to pay for her brother’s medical expenses, because he has severe medical issues. Well, she has been blowing all the money on Botox, hair extensions and plastic surgery.  How messed up is that?

That isn’t even everything either.  Before this all came out, her mom said that they had made an oral contract that Leighton would send her $10k a month and if she didn’t do it, she’d sue HER for $3 million.

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This woman is a complete loser.  It’s disgusting.  Who does that to their own child?

I feel horrible for her!  I’d cut her off and find someone to care for the brother, away from Constance.

Photo:  Mr Blue/WENN

Leighton Meester for Vera Wang's 'Lovestruck'

Leighton Meester is the new face of Vera Wang’s fragrance, Lovestruck.  It was standing room only at Vera Wang’s Park Avenue apartment as the designer and Leighton presented the fragrance.

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Meester looked stunning in a Vera Wang gown,

“Everyone else was in three parkas and Leighton is standing there in a strapless evening dress with a very thin fabric,” said Wang, noting that the ad was shot on a particularly frigid winter day on Mercer Street in SoHo. Naturally, this caught the attention of every tourist with an iPhone — but while Wang wasn’t wild about unauthorized visuals floating about, she did appreciate the spontaneous market research. “When I heard tourists saying, ‘ I want to look like her,’ I knew we were right on the money,” said Wang. “There’s nothing like the real client in the street, and I mean the street literally — and in windows literally.”

Meester says of the shoot,

“I was above it all, literally,” she said with a laugh of her fourth-floor perch on the fire escape where the ad was shot. “So I was just kind of entertaining myself — I did a little singing, did a little dance.”

Um, yeah.  I want to look like that too.  Vera certainly knew what she was doing when she picked Leighton.  Amazing.  Truly a beautiful ad.

Photo: WWD

Gwyneth Paltrow showed some skin in a while Emilio Pucci at last night’s premiere of Country Song in Los Angeles that also stars Garrett Hedlund, Leighton Meester and Tim McGraw:

A drama centered on a rising country-music songwriter (Hedlund) who sparks with a fallen star (Paltrow). Together, they mount his ascent and her comeback, which leads to romantic complications involving her husband/manager (McGraw) and a beauty queen-turned-singer (Meester).

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She both acts and sings in the film and talked to Access Hollywood about the Golden Globe snub for the movie:

“You know, it’s just one of those [things]… you know, what are you going to do?” she told Access. “It’s like you can’t control the way things go.”

“I think that they put the movie in the drama category instead of the musical category, so I guess it was just… you know. It was a good year for lots of people,”

And thanks to the  filming of this movie in Nashville, she could eat a deep-fried battered cockroach and not bat an eye:

“Fried food is my weakness. I don’t have a sweet tooth. You could fry a cockroach in batter and basically I’d eat it.”

“Never have I met such warm people, heard such good music, eaten so much fried chicken. I could go on and on. At a place called Whiskey Kitchen the sweet potato fries are delicious, the fried chicken sliders do the trick, and the biscuits are the best I sampled in the city of Nashville. What more could you ask for?”

The movie is in theatres January 7, 2011.

Photos:  Starbux/WENN

Gossip Girl, Leighton Meester just landed herself a new job.  Not that she needed it, but any girl who loves fashion would die for this gig.

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Leighton has been named as the new face of Missoni.  Her gal pal dished to In Touch,

“Leighton is thrilled to be working with Missoni! She has such great style and has always loved their clothes.”

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So now she’s an actress, singer, and model.  What can’t she do?  Cook?  Hmmm.  Is it really possible to be good at everything?  I guess we will have to wait and see.

Photo: WENN

Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester hasn’t given up on her second career as an aspiring singer.  She’s just taking her time. With “Good Girls Go Bad” under her belt, and a song on the ‘Country Strong‘ soundtrack, she’s well on her way.

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Leighton is starring in the country flick with Gwyneth Paltrow who is also trying to launch a music career.

Leighton talked to In Touch about the upcoming album,

“I’m still writing, and I’m working with a band. I’m going to start performing again soon.  It’s a different sound, because I’ve been going through a lot this year.  I’m in no rush. I want it to be perfect!”

Leighton Meester The Face Of Vera Wang’s New Fragrance

Well that’s a good way to do it.  Take your time, and make sure that people will actually want to buy the album.  With these TV and movie stars going the music route, it’s getting to be an even bigger competition out there.  If I was a struggling artist, trying to land a record label, I’d be ticked off at the movie stars for hogging all the fame.  Can’t they just be good at one thing?!

Photo:  Mr. Blue/WENN

Leighton Meester sure knows how to represent ’Herbal Essences’ in style.  It’s obvious that she’s a total babe.  But, what I can’t get my eyes off of are those shoes!  They are ridiculously cute!  Not the most comfortable looking shoes, but who cares when your feet look sexy.

Leighton Meester The Face Of Vera Wang’s New Fragrance

Leighton was at the Hesperia Hotel in Madrid to do this photocall for the shampoo/conditioner brand.  What I find funny is that the stars who represent these supermarket brand beauty products aren’t actual “users.”

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You know that they only get the finest, most expensive salon products that you and I would probably choke over when we got the bill.  I mean really, do you think Leighton Meester uses Herbal Essences on a usual basis?  Yeah, me either.

Photos: Sean Thorton/WENN