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Sound the Fargo reunion klaxon! For The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Jesse Plemons – star of Breaking Bad, Bridge of Spies and Black Mass – will reteam with actor/director and real-life girlfriend Kirsten Dunst for The Bell Jar, a new spin on Sylvia Plath’s literary classic of ’63.

There, Plemons will join Dakota Fanning, who landed the lead role of Esther Greenwood during the summer months. Meanwhile, Lenny Shepherd is the name of Plemons’ character, and we understand that production is expected to kick into gear early next year.

Acting as the directorial debut of Kirsten Dunst, there are precious few story details available for this new interpretation of The Bell Jar. That being said, we’re inclined to believed Dunst will remain fairly faithful to Plath’s novel, as opposed to churning out a modern redo of Larry Peerce’s own film adaptation from 1979.

What we do know for...

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In the spring of 1999, Sofia Coppola’s feature directorial debut, a big screen version of Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel “The Virgin Suicides,” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. A delicate, deeply feeling and achingly human portrait of suburban ennui and teenage depression, the film was anchored by a performance by a then-17-year-old Kirsten Dunst. As Lux Lisbon, the prettiest and wildest and most broken of the five Lisbon sisters that the film so intimately chronicles, Dunst was tasked with straddling the gap between deep pain and flickering hope.

The film follows the Lisbons after their youngest sister, Cecilia, twice attempts suicide, completing the act on her second try, all during party thrown by her terrified parents in hopes of cheering her up enough to keep her alive. The Lisbons, by and large, are suffocated by their...

Deadline brings word that Kirsten Dunst is set to make her first foray behind the camera with The Bell Jar, a new adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s semi-autobiographical novel of the same name that has already secured Dakota Fanning to headline.

Johnson, who has lined up roles in Brimstone and Ewan McGregor’s crime drama American Pastoral (which, incidentally, also marks McGregor’s directorial debut), will lead the feature film as Esther Greenwood. Nellie Kim, meanwhile, penned the script opposite Dunst.

For those unfamiliar with Plath’s source material, The Bell Jar is set against a post-war 1950s, where Greenwood secures an internship with a high-profile magazine in New York City. However, a crippling mental illness begins to take hold as Greenwood returns home to Boston.

This isn’t the first time that The Bell Jar has found its way onto the silver screen; in 1979, a movie adaptation placed Marilyn Hassett in the lead role,...

Kirsten Dunst is going to chase that (well-deserved) Emmy nomination high by tackling her first feature film in the director’s chair. The Fargo actress has a couple of shorts under her belt—Welcome and Bastard, which screened at Sundance and Cannes, respectively—but now Deadline reports that she’ll helm an adaptation of The Bell Jar. And with that, a collective, not-quite-contented sigh just went up across English literature classrooms everywhere, or at least the ones that are in summer session.

Dunst and co-writer Nellie Kim (no, not the Russian Olympic athlete, though that was our guess, too) have already adapted Sylvia Plath’s powerful novel into a script. Dunst has also landed Dakota Fanning in the lead role of Esther Greenwood, the novel’s protagonist who descends into madness following an internship in New York. Esther chafes at the idea of marriage, an aversion that helps get her...

FX invited you back to Fargo this Monday night, uncorking a second season set 27 years prior to the first but just as chockablock with complicated murder scenarios. Will you bundle up and stay a while?

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Setting in motion the acclaimed drama’s sophomore run is the plight of Rye Gerhardt (played by Kieran Culkin), the “runt” son in the Gerhardt crime family based out of Fargo. (Burn Notice‘s Jeffrey Donovan and Insidious‘ Angus Sampson play his big bros, Dodd and Bear, while Designing Woman Jean Smart is family matriarch Floyd.) Rye hasn’t been earnin‘, as they say,...

Get ready to shout “Bastard!” — but not in an angry way.

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FX has set the premiere date for The Bastard Executioner, the highly anticipated period drama from Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter — and scheduled the returns of its hit anthology franchises American Horror Story: Hotel and Fargo, the network announced on Friday.

The Bastard Executioner will premiere Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 10/9c.

American Horror Story: Hotel kicks off its stay on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 10/9c.

Fargo, meanwhile, returns Monday, Oct. 12 at 10/9c.

RelatedEd Sheeran Joins Bastard Executioner...

Next month's "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" is a long overdue sequel to 2005's stylistically groundbreaking comic book adaption "Sin City" (the comic book creator, Frank Miller, ended up co-directing the film with Robert Rodriguez, as he does again here). The first film was bold and provocative, plunging you neck-deep into the seedy world of cops, criminals, dangerous women, and straight-up psychopaths, but in a way that was dizzy and fun, rendered in starkly black-and-white comic book compositions. It was film noir writ large. And "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" looks bigger, bloodier, and even more brutalizing, if this new clip is any indication.

The brief clip (running a little over a half-a-minute) is centered around Jessica Alba's character Nancy, who appeared in the first film both in flashback (when she was terrorized by a character called The Yellow Bastard) and in present day (where...

From the big screen to her big day, Natalie Portman has marked some important moments in her life wearing Rodarte. The dance costumes worn by the actress’ character in the psychological thriller Black Swan, the gown she wore to accept the Oscar for her performance in the same film and, reportedly, her 1950s-style tea-length wedding dress all bore the Rodarte label.

Self-taught designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy — who founded the line from their parents’ Pasadena home in 2005 – have also contributed to the Hollywood aesthetic with projects that don’t involve Portman, creating costumes for the Kirsten Dunst-directed short Bastard...

Find it hard to keep up with what films are casting and which actors and actress are doing what? You're not the only one. It's all but impossible to keep up with everything, which is why we bring you Casting Bits. Today we've got a bunch of big names in smaller movies, a few studio productions sprinkled in and then a couple we missed in recent days. After the jump read about: Miley Cyrus cast as Adam Sandler's daughter in Hotel Transylvania Rufus Sewell is confirmed to join Paradise Lost, as Lucifer's buddy Samael Clive Owen is an Nsa agent in Recall, written by Paul Schrader Elizabethtown co-stars Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom team up again in Cities Genesis Rodriguez is an FBI agent in The Last Stand Comedians Tracy Morgan and Eddie Griffin are reportedly battling to play the Ol' Dirty Bastard in a coming biopic Alona Tal...

Jena Malone is one tough cookie and definitely not an actor to shy away from a challenging project.

She's just signed on for the lead role in "Lonely Hunter," the life story of Southern gothic author Carson McCullers. Deborah Kampmeier, who was last seen behind the lens of the controversial Dakota Fanning flick "Hounddog," will be directing. It's definitely a dicey move for Malone, but a welcome one.

Malone's no stranger to the rough-and-tumble Southern gothic genre; she made her debut in the intense adaptation of Dorothy Allison's "Bastard Out of Carolina." While "Bastard" takes place in a very different era than when McCullers was living, it's hard to imagine one existing without the other. After that, she stole Donnie Darko's heart (and ours) right before the world went kaplooey, and has gone on to rock indies like "Into the Wild" and blockbusters like "Sucker Punch" alike.

Besides being an immensely gifted writer,...

HollywoodNews.com: Our selected celebrity to be included in our “Hot Hollywood Celebrity Photo Gallery of the Day” is Kirsten Dunst.

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Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, singer and model. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories (1989). At the age of 12, Dunst gained widespread recognition playing the role of vampire Claudia in Interview with the Vampire (1994), a performance for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. The same year she appeared in Little Women, to further acclaim.

Dunst achieved international fame as a...

By Howard Burns

(Moving Pictures, winter issue, 2011)

Heroes — it seems we need them now more than ever. Hollywood is aiming to give us a whole lot of “comic” relief over the next 24 months by releasing a spate of films based on characters that were first brought to life on the pages of comic books and graphic novels.

“The Green Hornet,” profiled by Moving Pictures in interviews with star Seth Rogen and director Michel Gondry, is but the first in a long line of comic-book titles coming to a theater near you. In 2011 alone, we can expect “Priest,” “Thor,” “Green Lantern,” “Captain America: The First Avenger” and “Cowboys & Aliens,” along with the continuing sagas of “Transformers,” “Men in Black” and “Sin City,” to name just a few.

Next year looks to be even bigger, with Spider-Man, Superman, Batman, Iron Man, the Avengers and that pesky Ant-Man among those returning to lead the charge for truth,...

Brian Geraghty, Josh Peck and Margarita Levieva have signed to star in "ATM," a thriller from the Safran Co. and Gold Circle Films. David Brooks is directing from a script by "Buried" scribe Chris Sparling.

The companies are hoping to evoke Hitchcockian vibes with their tale of three co-workers who make a late-night visit to an Atm and end up in a desperate fight for their lives when they become trapped by an unknown man.

Geraghty, Peck and Levieva play the co-workers.

A late-September start in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is being eyed.

Peter Safran, who also produced Sparling's "Buried," is producing along with Paul Brooks ("The Haunting in Connecticut"). Dan Clifton is executive producing.

Geraghty starred opposite Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie in "The Hurt Locker." He also recently starred in Kyle Patrick Alvarez's indie drama "Easier With Practice" and toplined Kirsten Dunst's short film, "Bastard," which premiered at...

Celebrities are a revered group of people whom we regard as living Gods. But, in the immortal words of our most revered celebrity, Martin Lawrence, “some of you don’t wash your ass.” Here are the 30 Most Unwashed Celebs. 30 Courtney Love 29 Dog The Bounty Hunter 28 Michael Pitt 27 Britney Spears 26 Kate Moss 25 Mickey Rourke 24 Pete Doherty 23 Mischa Barton 22 Jonah Hill 21 Sam Ronson 20 Brad Pitt 19 Taylor Momsen 18 Adam Duritz 17 Amy Winehouse 16 Kristen Stewart 15 Davendra Banhart 14 Adam Sandler 13 Flava Flav 12 Colin Farrell 11 Rip Torn 10 Johnny Depp 9 Ron Jeremy 8 Kirsten Dunst 7 Joaquin Pheonix 6 Robert Pattinson 5 Olsen Twins 4 Russell Crowe 3 Spencer Pratt 2 Ke$Ha 1 Ol’ Dirty Bastard (R.I.P.)...

By Steve Pond

James Franco, Kirsten Dunst and Glenn Close are among the filmmakers whose shorts will be screened at the 2010 Palm Springs International ShortFest, which runs from June 22 through June 28 at the Camelot Theatres in the California desert resort.

Franco’s “The Clerk’s Tale” (photo below) and Dunst’s “Bastard” will be shown as part of a lineup of 314 shorts, including 58 world premieres, 55 North American premieres and 24 U.S. premieres.

Actress Glenn Close’s short film “Pax” will also screen, while other films...

Short films directed by Glenn Close, Kirsten Dunst and James Franco will be among the 314 films set to unspool between June 22-28 at the Palm Springs International ShortFest.

Now in its 16th year, the fest, taking place at the Camelot Theatres in Palm Springs, Calif., has scheduled 52 themed programs, which include 58 world premieres, 55 North American premieres and 24 U.S. premieres.

Close will be represented by the doc "Pax," which she narrates and co-directed with Sarah Harvey; Dunst's film, "Bastard," stars Brian Geraghty, Juno Temple, Lukas Haas and Joel David Moore; Franco will present three shorts -- "The Clerk's Tale," "The Feast of Stephen" and "Herbert White" -- and take part in an onstage conversation June 26.

The fest's opening night consists of a program of live-action and animated comedies called "Laughing Out Loud." The fest also will have a special focus on Australia, dubbed "On Top Down Under," including both screenings and a reception.

Short films from actors (now we should add and) directors Kirsten Dunst and James Franco closed the Cannes’ Critics Week sidebar on May 20.

So, Kirsten Dunst is at Cannes with her second short film titled Bastard. We guess nobody is really surprised with this information, ’cause we all know she already has this kind of experience, and that’s exactly why we’re here today to share with you some details about Bastard.

The short tells the story of a young couple in crisis who finds their way to a desert motel where three odd men plan to meet them for questionable reasons.

Here’s what Dunst had to say about her project: “This film explores what makes the unbelievable believable. When we hear a story that seems mysterious or far-fetched, we put more trust in its accuracy the longer ago it took place.

As the centuries pass, the truth becomes more malleable.

Kirsten Dunst took a break from her succession of red carpet gowns at the Cannes Film Festival and put on a little black bikini on Saturday for a swim at the Eden-Roc pool. She was back in a long Chanel number later in the evening, though, when she joined other stars like Diane Kruger, Javier Bardem, and Penelope Cruz for the closing ceremony. Kirsten had some downtime between her fancy nights out, as she made the rounds promoting her directorial debut called Bastard. Soon, though, Kirsten will be back in the rather unglamorous surroundings of a NYC courtroom - she's due to testify again against the man accused of robbing her hotel room in 2007 after the first trial ended in a hung jury. View 15 Photos › To see more Kirsten in a bikini, just read more. View 15 Photos ›...

Diane Kruger was animated this morning during an interview in Cannes. She was fresh-faced and lively despite an evening of partying yesterday, when she attended the star-studded amfAR charity gala with Ryan Gosling, Jennifer Lopez, and more. Kirsten Dunst also joined in the charitable good times last night, and she too was up today for a stroll along the water. Kirsten is in France to screen a short film she directed called Bastard, after spending time in Canada recently shooting Upside Down with Jim Sturgess. She's lined up another costar in Kristen Stewart, as both girls have signed on for roles in On the Road. View 10 Photos › To see more photos of the girls just read more. View 10 Photos ›...

By Roger Friedman

HollywoodNews.com: James Franco will have to shoot his “Planet of the Apes” prequel quickly this summer. In September he heads to Yale University to begin graduate work in both the writing and film departments.

“It’s a first,” he said, his trademark grin spreading from ear to ear. I caught up with the multi-tasking Franco on Thursday night in Cannes. He showed his 13 ninute short film, “The Clerk’s Tale,” at the Critics Week finale. It was preceeded by Kirsten Dunst’s 6 minute short, “Bastard.” Both stars were there, and got a lot of applause for their work. But it was Franco the kids were screaming for.

The actor, who’s also in “Howl,” this fall (from Sundance) and “Eat, Pray, Love,” has managed to make a lot of films while attenting New York University film school and Columbia University’s writing program. His Nyu classmates...

Celeb Sightings: Spider-Man co-stars James Franco and Kirsten Dunst were reunited while screening their short films (The Clerk's Tale and Bastard, respectively) at the fest. Should we start the rumor they're dating to take the heat off Ryan and Michelle? The headline "Kate Beckinsale Loses Earring to Breasts" tells you all you need to know about these photos. Speaking of Beckinsale, she's made Vulture's list of the loopiest red carpet dresses of the fest. Somehow they missed Rachel Bilson's tuxedo thingamajig. This is what Chris Tucker looks like now? Valerie Plame and Naomi Watts, who plays her in Fair Game, go do the red carpet cheek to cheek.

Our Coverage: About Fair Game, Joe Utichi writes,"It's mature, smart and engaging and, critically, strikes a new tone for Liman's work, suggesting he's got plenty of versatility ... may not be a perfect film, if it's a statement of intent then...

Kirsten Dunst’s short film Bastard will be premiering on the closing night of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and two high-resolution images from the film have come online. Co-written and directed by Dunst, here’s what she said about her movie:

“This film explores what makes the unbelievable believable. When we hear a story that seems mysterious or far-fetched, we put more trust in its accuracy the longer ago it took place. As the centuries pass, the truth becomes more malleable. We grow less skeptical of what we might otherwise dismiss as incredible. Our perspective changes. This film addresses the eerie transformation of a familiar myth when displaced to the present.”

Bastard stars Brian Geraghty, Juno Temple, Lukas Haas, Joel David, Moore Lee, Thompson Young, and L.M. Kit Carson. Hit the jump to check out the high resolution images.

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Kirsten Dunst has joined Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley (Control), and Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy) in the big-screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road to be directed by Walter Salles and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Variety reports. It continues her string of forthcoming indie films that also includes Andrew Jarecki’s long-wrapped All Good Things with Ryan Gosling, Juan Diego Solanas’ currently lensing Upside Down, and Lars von Trier’s sci-fi thriller Melancholia, which shoots later this summer with her topping a cast that includes Alexander Skarsgaard, Stellan Skarsgaard, Kiefer Sutherland, and Charlotte Rampling. And she’s just directed her second short film,...

red carpet lineup. random celebs who've been out and about this week...

With Tribeca handing out their awards last tonight and me coming back to life (things have been crazy) I thought we'd talk about some people attending New York's glitzy festival. I'm asking a comment question in red for each of them because I'm "reader discussion guide" annoying like that. Maybe I should have been a T.A.? Tribeca doesn't have the same prestige or art-driven mentality as the far older New York Film Festival (always in the fall) but it does pack theaters all over town, offer up a diverse 'something for everyone' slate and bring out the celebrities in droves. To hawk their films. Though I did see Ben Stiller and Denis Leary as audience members at the religious satire The Infidel.

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Ellen Barkin plays a sullen drug addict in The Chameleon and...

Andrew Paquin put his directorial debut Open House on the market at Tribeca and spilled the shoot’s bloody details to Collider, along with two of his stars, Rachel Blanchard (Snakes On A Plane) and Brian Geraghty (fresh off The Hurt Locker’s Oscar wins). As the title indicates, Alice (Blanchard) opens her home to prospective buyers. A cold-blooded killer (Geraghty) slips in and hides out until he can take her hostage and slay some houseguests with the help of his sociopathic partner, Lila (Battlestar Galactica’s Tricia Helfer). True Blood’s Golden Globe winner Anna Paquin (yes, she’s Andrew’s sister) and her real-life fiancée/series co-star Stephen Moyer make extended cameos.

Hit the jump for the full interviews to hear why Paquin’s house suffered for his art, what it’s like to direct your future brother-in-law in a sex scene that did not involve the bride-to-be,...

Spiderman co-stars Kirsten Dunst and James Franco will each be presenting both of their short films on the closing night of Critic's Week in Cannes. Franco's 13-minute short The Clerk's Tale will receive its world premiere screening and the pics for the short are sublime as they are 1970's magazine-like in their look. The short, which I imagine Franco filmed as part of his work at Nyu is based on the eponymous poem by Spencer Reece, The Clerk's Tale is a psychological portrait of a gay man trapped in the monotonous routine of life at a high-end menswear store. - Spiderman co-stars Kirsten Dunst and James Franco will each be presenting both of their short films on the closing night of Critic's Week in Cannes. Franco's 13-minute short The Clerk's Tale will receive its world premiere screening and the pics for the short are sublime as they are 1970's magazine-like in their look.

Spiderman co-stars Kirsten Dunst and James Franco will each be presenting both of their short films on the closing night of Critic's Week in Cannes. Franco's 13-minute short The Clerk's Tale will receive its world premiere screening and the pics for the short are sublime as they are 1970's magazine-like in their look. The short, which I imagine Franco filmed as part of his work at Nyu is based on the eponymous poem by Spencer Reece, The Clerk's Tale is a psychological portrait of a gay man trapped in the monotonous routine of life at a high-end menswear store. For Spencer, every day is a sequence of mundane tasks and empty exchanges. He fits a customer, straightens a display, takes his usual break at his usual time. But all the while the presence of an aging gay colleague eats away at him. Watching this older man, with his affects and almost grotesque habits,...

Paris -- The Festival de Cannes Critics' Week sidebar has added a "Bastard" to its closing night festivities with Kristen Dunst heading to Cannes to present her short film alongside fellow thesp-turned-helmer James Franco with his short "The Clerk's Tale," organizers said Thursday.

The sidebar will kick off May 13 with Out of Competition title "Le Nom des Gens," Michel Leclerc's political comedy starring Jacques Gamblin and Sara Forestier, and runs through May 21 in Cannes.