Hey, if it can work with movies such as Love Actually and He’s Just Not That Into You [pictured], why not gather another bunch of big names for a romantic comedy? For your consideration, I give you Valentine’s Day, which stars Julia Roberts, her young niece Emma, Topher Grace, Hector Elizondo, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Shirley MacLaine, Bradley Cooper and Ashton Kutcher, and focuses on five slightly interconnecting stories playing out on the day of love in Los Angeles.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, in one story, Grace plays a mailroom worker in the town’s biggest talent agency who’s dating Hathaway. Another has Elizondo and MacLaine playing an older married couple. And in yet another, the young Emma Roberts — working for the first time on the same movie as her aunt Julia – portrays a teen who wants to lose her virginity to her boyfriend. Whoa, it’s hard when they grow up, isn’t it?
In other casting news: Katherine Heigl is doing another romantic comedy herself called Life As We Know It about two unattached people, whose mutual married best friends die in an accident and leave their daughter to be cared for by the both of them. And fall in love, I’m sure. Careful, Katherine with all these rom-coms or you’ll outgrow them and have no where else to go.
Cher is taking another stab at acting. In her first movie role in a decade, she is starring with singer Christina Aguilera in Burlesque about a small-town farm girl who comes to L.A. and finds success at a neo-burlesque club run by Tess (Cher), a former dancer/singer who struggles to keep the club open. Oh, Cher, why do this? It sounds dreadful. You won an Oscar for crying out loud! Remember?
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