Adena Halpern’s Novel “The Ten Best Days of My Life” screen rights have been attained by Twentieth Century Fox. The film will develop for Amy Adams and potential directing medium for Shawn Levy.

According to Variety, the story is about a woman (Adams) who dies and goes to heaven but is in danger of being demoted to a lower level of paradise unless she can prove herself by recounting her 10 best days.

This project will be Adams debut as a producer together with Levy and his 21 Laps banner.

Deal joins up Adams and Levy once again. They recently worked together when Adams played Amelia Earhart in the director’s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.

 

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17anand Spyglass Entertainment’s Leap Year will be directed by Anand Tucker who is known for his work on Shopgirl.

A romantic comedy, the film will tell the story of a woman who travels to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on a  leap day, February 29, as part of an Irish tradition in which a man receiving a marriage proposal on that day has to say yes.

Amy Adams is attached to act. The script has been penned by Harry Elfront and Deb Kaplan. Shooting is set to begin in March 2009 in Ireland.

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Daughter of the Queen of Sheba is the next independent film Amy Adams will star with no director attached yet.

The script was penned by Karen Crone, which is based on the bio of NPR correspondent Jacki Lyden, centers on how a woman uses her mother’s irrational and unreasoning ideas to empower herself.

According to Variety, Lyden was NPR’s first correspondent on the air in the aftermath of 9/11 and went to Afghanistan for the radio pubcaster soon after the Taliban fell. She’s working on a book about the secret lives of a small group of Iraqi friends and reported on the slaying of her translator by an American soldier.

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Amy Adams is mystical.  She is wonderful in Sunshine Cleaning trailer. Adam’s scenes are so poignant with Emily Blunt and Alan Arkin. Enjoy! The trailer is funny — have a good laugh.

Once the high school cheerleading captain who dated the quarterback, Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) now finds herself a thirty something single mother working as a maid. Her sister Norah (Emily Blunt) is still living at home with their dad Joe (Alan Arkin), a salesman with a lifelong history of ill-fated get rich quick schemes. Desperate to get her son into a better school, Rose persuades Norah to go into the crime scene clean-up business with her to make some quick cash. In no time, the girls are up to their elbows in murders, suicides and other…specialized situations. As they climb the ranks in a very dirty job, the sisters find a true respect for one another and the closeness they have always craved finally blossoms. By building their own improbable business, Rose and Norah open the door to the joys and challenges of being there for one another — no matter what — while creating a brighter future for the entire Lorkowski family.

 

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Amy Adams is in negotiations to star in Leap Year, a romantic comedy.

Adams will play an uptight woman who travels to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on leap day, Feb. 29, following an Irish tradition in which women propose to men on that day and the man has to say yes.

The weather disrupts her trip, and she has to solicit help from a surly Irish innkeeper to make an unplanned cross-country journey to succeed at the perfect proposal in time.

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Doubt holds strong actors, my favorites; Meryl Streep, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams, whom I truly enjoyed in Charlie’s War.  

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Doubt takes place in 1964 and focuses on a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him of abuse with a black student. He denies the allegations, and much of the play’s quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality and authority.

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Mary Lynn Rajskub is set to work with Amy Adams and Meryl Streep in “Julie and Julia,” presently filming in New York. It’s a true story about Julie Powell (Adams), who spent a year cooking all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s classic cookbook, “Mastering the Art of French Cuisine,” and blogging about her trials and tribulations. Rajskub (”24″) is set to play Powell’s best friend, Helen. The story focuses on Child’s life in France in the 1940s and 1950s, based on her biography. Streep plays Child, and her “The Devil Wears Prada” co-star Stanley Tucci plays her husband, Paul. Nora Ephron is directing.