'Atonement' Director Calls Off Wedding In Story Too 'Seinfeld' To Be True

Molly Friedman — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:20:00 EDT

What appears to be a very highbrow and British tale about the split between Atonement director Joe Wright and his (now ex) fiancée, the strawberry blonde stunner Rosamund Pike, instead sounds like a neuroses-filled, laugh track-accompanied episode of classic Seinfeld material. Wright and Pike got engaged this past September, having met on the set of Pride & Prejudice, but due to calamitous series of unfortunate events involving wedding invitations, photos of the pair in a hot tub, and late night lap dances, the previously boring but gorgeous couple are making headlines for an engagement gone suddenly and horribly wrong. Details on the sordid, beyond comical story after the jump.

Just to get you more acquainted with this atypically hot British couple, Pike first turned heads as the more demure and elegant Bond girl to Halle Berry's infamous orange bikini-wearing, Brosnan-bedding Jinx in Die Another Day, and Wright is the Joaquin Phoenix lookalike BAFTA winner whose two big-budget directorial efforts both earned wide critical acclaim (Atonement and P&P). If any pair deserved to usurp Posh 'n Becks from their Power British Couple pedestal, our vote would have gone to these two. But sadly, as the Daily Mail reports, silly Rosamund made the mistake of sending out hundreds of wedding invitations decorated with a not so proper image:

"'The invitations featured a picture of them together in a hot tub,' says a pal. Joe dumped her for sending them without consulting him and she had to tell all the guests the wedding was off.'"

While Rosamund has reportedly been "devastated" following the abrupt break-up, Wright has put on his best bad cad hat and spent his time with strippers and lap dancers. But Pike should really look on the bright side: sources say Wright's racy evenings as a bachelor are taking place at "his regular lap-dancing club," and a strip club where he's "a regular...all the dancers know him." Better off without him right, Rosamund? Sort of? Yeah, he really is far too good-looking for even that bit of info to help.

[Photo credit: Getty]

'ATONEMENT' DIRECTOR JOE WRIGHT CALLS OFF WEDDING TO 'BOND' GIRL ROSAMUND PIKE [HuffPo]

Putting A Sleepy Sundance To Bed

Mark — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:17:52 EST

· As a disappointing™ Sundance limps towards the finish line, buyers are proving immune to the charms of Big Name Stars like Robert DeNiro and Tom Hanks, whose films (What Just Happened and The Great Buck Howard) have "held all of the appeal of three-day-old fish." [Variety]
· Sundance? More like Stunned'dance, quips the Reporter as the sound of a rimshot slowly fades into the eerie quiet of Park City's Main Street. Are we right, ladies? [THR]
· Universal signs Atonement's Joe Wright, red-hot from seven Oscar nominations (though not one for directing; thanks, Jason Reitman!) to a two-picture deal. [Variety]
[After the jump: Marvel and the WGA make nice on an interim basis; Disney tries to squeeze even more money out of the Toy Story franchise.]

· Marvel Studios joins Lionsgate in signing an interim deal with the WGA, a move that should get a handful of uncredited superhero-movie specialists back to punching up scripts for Magneto and Deathlok scripts immediately. [THR]
· Disney will re-release Pixar's Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in 3-D in late 2009 and early 2010, hoping kids will scream until their parents take them to see the vastly improved version where Buzz Lightyear flies out of the screen every three minutes. [Variety]

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'Atonement' Director Calls Off Wedding In Story Too 'Seinfeld' To Be True

Putting A Sleepy Sundance To Bed