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Anyone who saw this summer's The Devil Wears Prada remembers the the bitchy assistant Emily flawlessly played by British actress Emily Blunt. Kissing Meryl Streep's ass and shooting Anne Hathaway cold looks were enough to secure Ms. Blunt a place in the highly contested Hollywood rolodex. It has just been announced that she will be starring opposite Susan Sarandon in writer David Auburn's The Girl in the Park.

There are many reasons to love Julie Delpy. She’s gorgeous, talented (writer, director, actor, singer, smoker extraordinaire), and French (how can you not like that accent?). Now the Parisian artiste has given us one more reason to love her – 2 Days in Paris. No, it’s not a contest from Travelocity; it’s Deply’s new screenplay in preproduction. Deply, who received an Oscar nom in screenwriting for Before Sunset, will direct, edit, and star opposite Adam Goldberg.

When Indie veteran Ken Loach steps up to the camera the industry tends to take pause. The outspoken 70 year old director has a proven track record that dates back four decades and includes five Cannes Special Jury awards and now the coveted Palme d’Or award for 2006. This year’s winning film The Wind that Shakes the Barley has reportedly just been picked up for US distribution by IFC’s First Take program. IFC has chosen to promote the film in its controversial “day-and-date” model, with limited theatrical release to coincide with video-on-demand release in spring 2007.

Ryan Gosling (The Believer, The Notebook) gives a tour de force performance as Dan Dunne, an inner city middle school history teacher and girls basketball coach battling the demons of his past, present, and future that have manifested themselves into a serious dependency on drugs and alcohol. The title of the film is Half Nelson, a term borrowed from the world of professional wrestling—a “half nelson” is a hold which is nearly impossible to break free from. Half Nelson marks the feature narrative debut from filmmaking team Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (both write, he directs, she edits), who have previously collaborated on Jovenes Rebeldes (Young Rebels), a feature length documentary about Cuban hip-hop groups, and numerous short projects, including the 20-minute Gowanus, Brooklyn (a condensed shot-on-video version of Half Nelson) which won the Grand Jury Prize in short filmmaking at the 2004 Sundance film festival.

Debuted in 2004 and winner of the Grand Jury Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, Calvaire (The Ordeal) is the latest French language horror film to arrive on the American screen. The first feature-length work from Belgium-born writer/director Fabrice Du Wlez, Calvaire is the story of Marc Stevens, a traveling singer and performer on the road working the retirement home circuit a few days before Christmas. When his van breaks down en route to his next gig he finds himself stranded in the middle of the countryside and forced to take shelter in the ramshackle Bartel Inn. While the innkeeper, Mr. Bartel (Jackie Berroyer), seems hospitable and friendly at first (he feels a connection to Marc, because Bartel is a former comedian), it is not long before Marc is no longer Bartel’s guest, but his prisoner.