There’s a great deal of mystery around Terrence Malick films. Probably because even he isn’t entirely sure what the film will be until he gets in the editing room.

However, a new official synopsis has been released for Knight Of Cups.

“The Knight of Cups is a story of a man, temptations, celebrity, and excess.”

The film is said to have a background of the movie business. Of course the second Malick film, which shares several of the same actors, is set in the music business.

Can’t wait to see what Malick is cooking with these films.

While I’ve got you, I’ve updated the Knight of Cups film page and I’ve added Thor 2 and the second Malick film to Natalie’s filmography, although they don’t have much info yet.

Natalie is talking in Cincinnati today – poster Baltoh says it was a talk at Union Terminal and then another talk at the University of Cincinatti – and the first photo has arrived. And man (or should it be woman), what a beautiful photograph it is.

Rachel will hopefully be around to post a whoooole lot more later on.

Yesterday LightsCameraReaction posted this Tumblr update saying that Natalie, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling were filming in Austin. I wasn’t sure if that was based on fact or just hearing that the still untitled second Terrence Malick film would soon be shooting there.

Since then there have been tweets aplenty. Can’t say conclusively that Natalie is there (remember the tweet about her filming Knight Of Cups while she was still in Europe?) but I wouldn’t be surprised if we get some set photos confirming it soon.

Here are some of those tweets.

Natalie portman and Ryan were in the new communication building about 15 minutes ago!!!

So @RyanGosling was on The Drag in Austin today?

Apparently Natalie Portman and Christian Bale are with him. Time to stalk?

John Legend, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, & Ryan Gossling all on campus?

Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, and Ryan Gosling are on the Drag?? Cool. Glad I went home early today.

A big thanks to Fanatical for finding these scans from Tatler UK and then Harper’s Bazaar Arabia. It’s part of the Dior interview but there are a few new tidbits within. Like Natalie’s composting skills, her dream role, and the phone number of her favourite Osteopath

Natalie spoke at an event for Obama in Las Vegas a few weeks back, and she’s doing it again in Cincinnati on Wednesday. A city that she campaigned in, for Obama of course, 4 years ago.

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I held off on doing this update in the morning as I wanted to get some confirmation to go with the report. I now have the thumbs up that this is definitely not a made up rumour. How close Natalie might be to signing on, I’m not sure.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. The project is Garden of Beasts, which is adaptation of an Erik Larson non-fiction book of the same title. The book is about America’s ambassador to Germany prior and during World War 2. The ambassador sees the horror of Hitler’s plans unfold as his daughter becomes sexually entangled with prominent Nazi members.

The ambassador is looking like it will be Tom Hanks, Natalie is in talks to play the daughter and Michel Hazanavicious (last years Best Director for The Artist) is in negotiations to direct.

With the subject matter and Michel and Hanks, this could be quite the prestige picture. Natalie once remarked that she wasn’t a big fan of the Nazi/Jew genre of films (beyond the obvious reasons), so this story must be different enough to entice her.

Natalie was photographed at LAX airport yesterday. Not sure if she’s arriving or leaving (presumably to Terrence Malick’s film in Austin or Thor 2 in England) but it doesn’t appear than Benjamin and Aleph were with her. Unless they’ve gotten better at keeping a distance to have the photographers only focus on Natalie.

Filming has begun on Thor 2 and while we have no Natalie yet, there is a gorgeous Jamie Alexander (who plays Sif) looking badass on a horse, along with many more shots of Marvel mayhem.

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Then we have Idris Elba revealing that his Heimdall character will have a meatier role in the sequel. That’s great news as he really was one of the stand out elements of the first film.

Finally, a very important villain in the Marvel universe MAY show up in Thor 2. If you want to know who that is and what it could mean, head over to The Playlist.

Natalie, Benjamin and Aleph enjoyed a family getaway last week and photos have shown up online showing the happy trio having a great day on the beach of the Turks and Caicos Islands in the West Indies.

The photos I’ve uploaded do not show Aleph, but Rachel will probably be doing a proper update later and Aleph will be visible in those.

A few weeks back I recall a tidbit item about a Natalie Portman musical. No, not a musical starring Natalie, rather it’s ABOUT Natalie. Well, like Frankenstein, it lives. Maybe it’s sharply written and satirical, or even crazily brilliant like Being John Malkovich.

But based on the poster and video advert…probably not. Anyone see this? I’m curious at least.