Uh oh, trendy hipster movie alert. Twee darlings Ryan Gosling (Lars and the Painfully Whimsical Script) and Michelle Williams (Dudes Doin' It, Wyoming Edition) are set to costar as wistful lovers in a movie melancholicly titled Blue Valentine. Imagine the twinkly music and the shaky-cam shots of mournful streets blurring into focus and, perhaps, the voiceover! [Variety]

Ohh dear. Are you sitting down? Can I get you some tea? Here, have one of these cookies. OK, hon, I have some bad news. You know how much you wanted David E. Kelley to have a new show about lawyers on TV? And remember how it looked like his Kristin Chenoweth show, delightfully titled Legally Mad, was going to be that show? Well, love, unfortunately... Oh, this is so hard. Wait, what's that? The idea of another one of Kelley's aggressively quirky horrid lawyer shows on the air makes you want to burn the Earth down? Oh, well. Me too. So, fuck it. It didn't get picked up. Neither did Lauren Graham's sitcom. Yeah. Drink? [Variety]

Still have a hankering for the heady days of Hawaii Five-O and Magnum P.I.? You know, butt-kickin' crime-fightin' in the balmy bliss of America's most beautiful colony. Well, Jerry Bruckheimer has heard your late night whimpering and is coming to your aid. His Honolulu set procedural Cooler Kings has been greenlit by A&E. The show is about a group of Igloo salesmen who decide to solve mysteries on their lunch breaks. Right? [Variety]

Speaking of A&E, Kevin Costner would like to take that wolf up on its offer of a second dance and head back into the West...ern genre. He's in talks with the net to produce, definitely, and act in and direct, maybe, something about the post-Civil War wild wild West. Sort of like that TNT series from a while back except, we'd imagine, with less Skeet Ulrich. [THR]

Simon Baker the Mentalist will soon be dealing with a mental case. He's playing a lawyer out to expose Casey Affleck as the small town sheriff turned horrid murderer that he is in Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me. The Winterbottom factor makes me intrigued, though the presence of Jessica Alba as a hooker and Kate Hudson as a schoolteacher girlfriend gives me pause. [THR]

Oh, cute. Dermot Mulroney is directing a movie. He was so good on The Practice. [THR]

· Announcing the First Agency-Hopper of 2009 is always a joyous occasion, and so forgive us if we're beaming a little as we relay the news that Antonio Banderas has left the CAA Death Star to leap into Ed Limato's agenty embrace at WMA. [Variety]
· The Vancouver Film Critics Circle have announced the nominees for their year-end awards: Milk, WALL-E, and Slumdog Millionaire are all in contention for best picture, which suggests to us that Vancouver film critics are incorrigibly wide-eyed dreamers, and possibly gay. [Variety]
· The Painted Veil director John Curran will direct The Beautiful and the Damned, about F. Scott Fitzgerald's tumultuous relationship with Zelda Sayre, with Keira Knightley in the Zelda role. Said Knightley, "I don't know—I just wanted to try something different so I thought I'd give period drama a try." [Variety]
· Forest Whitaker is in negotiations to star in The Expendables, an action film written and directed by Sylvester Stallone, to be followed by a string of deficient Expendables sequels and one last Expendable hoorah about 20 years later. [THR]