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Gabriel Yared is writing the score for the upcoming drama In the Land of Blood and Honey. The film marks the directorial debut of Angelina Jolie who also wrote the screenplay for the project. The movie starring Rade Serbedzija, Nikola Djuricko and Goran Kostic is set during the bloody civil war in the former-Yugoslavia in the early ’90s and tells the love story between a Serbian man and Bosnian woman who meet on the eve of the war and the effect the crisis has on their relationship. The movie will reportedly also feature additional music by Dado Dzihan (Dado Jehan) as Waves and Patterns. The project is produced by Gk Films (The Tourist, The Town). FilmDistrict has picked up domestic rights and will be releasing the film on December 23, 2011 in time for Awards consideration.

The Oscar-winning composer (The English Patient) also has the drama Belle du Seigneur coming up. The...

Clearly spending time nearly getting blown up in From Paris with Love hasn’t turned Jonathan Rhys-Meyers off to all things French, though for his next European adventure, he’s sticking with something a little more romantic, if still dangerous. The actor has signed on to the lead role in the adaptation of Albert Cohen’s novel Belle Du Seigneur.Glenio Bonder is behind the camera for the first time, directing the tale of a Jewish diplomat (Rhys-Meyers) who falls for, and starts an affair with, a married Swiss woman as World War Two kicks off. And his love interest? Model Natalia Vodianova, last seen in monstrous form providing the performance for Medusa in Clash of the Titans.Marianne Faithfull has also signed on to the movie, which has been co-written by James Dearden (no stranger to forbidden lust after his work on Fatal Attraction) and Life is Beautiful’s Vincenzo Cerami.

The last time Jonathan Rhys-Meyers made a movie set in France, it was the pulpy and entirely ludicrous From Paris With Love, in which he toned down the raw sexuality and chased John Travolta and his hairpiece around for an hour and a half. Now The Tudors star is going back to France and doing it right this time. Deadline reports that he's set to star in Belle Du Seigneur, an adaptation of Albert Cohen's massive French novel about an affair between a Jewish diplomat and a married Swiss woman on the eve of World War Ii. He'll be starring opposite Natalia Voidanova, whose most significant role so far as as the heavily CGI-altered Medusa in Clash of the Titans. It doesn't exactly seem like a fair match of acting talent, but at least they're equally pretty, so no need to squabble over high cheekbones. Doing the directing will...

Deadline reports Jonathan Rhys-Meyer, Henry VIII of The Tudors, will play the lead in the World War II era love story, Belle du Seigneur, opposite model Natalia Vodianova, who recently played Medusa in Clash of the Titans.

First time film director, Glenio Bonder, who is best known for his commercial work, will helm the project, which begins shooting October 25.

Based on Albert Cohen’s bestselling French novel, the film centers on “Solal, Under-Secretary of the League of Nations, who risks his reputation over an obsessive love affair with the rebellious, bored wife of a pompous League official,” according to Publishers Weekly.

Penned by James Dearden (Fatal Attraction) and Vincenzo Cerami (Life Is Beautiful) the adaptation of the 992 page novel is guaranteed to take some dark turns.

Will you come out for Belle Du Seigneur?

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Here are two quick pieces of casting news for your reading pleasure. First up, Showbiz 411 reports that Oscar Isaac (Robin Hood) has joined the cast of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive. The film centers on a stunt driver (Ryan Gosling) who moonlights as a getaway driver and ends up on the run with a contract on his head and an ex-con’s girlfriend (Carey Mulligan) in his car. The film also stars Bryan Cranston with Albert Brooks is playing the villain. No word on what role Isaac will play. The up-and-coming actor will next be seen in Madonna’s W.E. and Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch.

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According to Deadline, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers has signed on to star in the romance Belle Du Seigneur and “will play a Jewish diplomat who gets into a passionate affair with a married Swiss woman,...

"The Tudors" star Jonathan Rhys-Meyers has joined the cast of the French romantic drama "Belle Du Seigneur" reports Deadline.

Based on Albert Cohen’s bestselling novel, Meyers will play a Jewish diplomat who gets into a passionate affair with a married Swiss woman (Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova) on the eve of the Second World War. Marianne Faithfull also has a role.

Glenio Bonder makes his directing debut on the project which begins filming October 25th in Geneva before moving south to Italy.

James Dearden (Fatal Attraction) and Vincenzo Cerami (Life Is Beautiful) penned the script while Thierry de Navacelle, Jimmy de Brabant and Jean Luc Van Damme will produce.

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers will play a Jewish diplomat who gets into a passionate affair with a married Swiss woman, played by Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova (Clash of the Titans), on the eve of the Second World War. Marianne Faithfull also appears. First-time director Glenio Bonder starts filming October 25 on location in Geneva, Switzerland and then in Italy. James Dearden (Fatal Attraction) and Vincenzo Cerami (Life Is Beautiful) have written the script, based on Albert Cohen’s bestselling French novel. Bonder is a commercials director whose clients include Calvin Klein and British Airways. Thierry de Navacelle, Jimmy de Brabant (co-producer Girl With a Pearl Earring), with Jean Luc Van Damme (Goodbye Bafana) co-producing. Stealth Media Group, the Los Angeles and Brighton-based sales agency, is handling international distribution.