By Sarah Sluis
Busy filming the follow-up to Twilight, New Moon, Summit is wasting no time putting together the third film, Eclipse. Trying to capture their teen audience before they age out of the series (not that the 
Harry Potter films have had that problem), they've brought on a different director for each film to speed up the process. David Slade will direct the third installment. He's no stranger to vampires, having recently directed horror film 30 Days of Night. A more interesting part of his resume is Hard Candy. At the time, our reviewer Frank Lovece called it a "low-budget gem" that starred "a little-known American actor and an award-winning 17-year-old Nova Scotian actress," otherwise known as Patrick Wilson (Watchmen) and Ellen Page (Juno) The plot, which seems reminiscent of Japanese torture-romance horror films, involves an online romance between the two actors, one playing a fourteen-year-old, the other a thirty-two-year-old photographer. When they meet, the young girl drugs and abuses the photographer, who she wants to punish for being a pedophile. With horror and torture under his belt, Slade seems an unusual choice for the director spot. However, when you're dealing with a love triangle where one character must resist his urges to murder his girlfriend, Slade's background sounds right on target.
On a lighter note, Cameron Diaz is in final talks to play an ambulance-chasing lawyer in workplace comedy Bobbie Sue.
She goes from the streets to a gig at a prestigious law firm when
they decide 
the tough, pretty blonde would be a strategic face for a
sexual discrimination suit. I can only hope this means Diaz has abandoned
her plans to play an "acerbic" wingman in Swingles, the obnoxiously titled film that had me groaning. While I suspect there's a romance in the film along the lines of Gerard Butler-Katherine Heigl in upcoming The Ugly Truth, the details of the plot have not been released. Since workplace comedy seems to be the new romantic comedy, Elizabeth Banks announced she will star in Forever 21 for DreamWorks. Though the high-concept plot has not been released, there are no indications that it is related to discount clothing store Forever 21.
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