It’s been a long time coming but Natalie will be starring in and producing (under the Handsome Charlie banner) “Love and Other Impossible Pursuits”. The feature film, which starts filming in just 2 weeks, is about “a young woman who finds the key to recovering her marriage in her relationship with her precocious stepson”.

Don Roos is directing his own script and while he isn’t exactly a huge name, and this film is definitely a low budgeted indie, he has a pretty good record with small films. I heard very good things about Happy Endings and Opposite of Sex was fantastic.

Jennifer Lopez was originally cast but dropped out, leaving the film in real trouble. Natalie stepping in has “rescued” the project.

Read the full Variety report after the click.
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Natalie is back in Hollywood today. Faded Youth is reporting that she and her dog were apparently swarmed by the paparazzi while picking up her laundry at the dry cleaners.

We've got two new additions to the recent Picasso exhibition gallery.

During Cannes we did speculate as to whether Shia Lebeouf (Transformers), a self confessed Nat fan boy, would try and meet her while he was there for Indy 4. TWIST:…