Variety just posted an article that confirms Rachel is part of the cast of “A Most Wanted Man” with Philip Seymour Hoffman, who she mentioned in 2009 as her favorite actor, and Anton Corbijn will be directing. The film also financed and filming is expected to start in September of this year in Hamburg, Germany.

Back in April the Tracking Board first reported that Rachel was the front runner for “A Most Wanted Man“. We are so excited Rachel now has two films line upped! She will start filming “About Time” in London next month.

Update: THR confirmed Rachel “signed on” to join “A Most Wanted Man“, they also reveal she will play “a woman who becomes involved in the international intrigue” which must mean she is Annabel Richter, the lawyer in the original book. Thanks to Wendy for the heads up!

Senator Film Production and Solveig Fina are co-producing “A Most Wanted Man” with Amusement Park Films, Potboiler Film and Ink Factory.

Senator’s distrib arm, Senator Film Verleih, will release the film in Germany next year.

Pic has so far secured €900,000 ($1.15 million) from Hamburg funder Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (FFHSH) and is in line for additional coin from other local subsidies.

Anton Corbijn (“Control”) is directing the John Le Carre adaptation Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rachel McAdams.

Film is co-developed and co-financed by the U.K’s Film4 with Tessa Ross as executive producer.

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The nominations for this year’s Teen Choice Awards were announced today and Rachel is nominated for Choice Movie Actress: Drama. Her films “The Vow” and “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadow” also got nominated.

Choice Movie Actress: Drama
Sandra Bullock, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
Viola Davis, “The Help”
Scarlett Johansson, “We Bought a Zoo”
Rachel McAdams, “The Vow”
Emma Stone, “The Help”

You can vote via TeenChoiceAwards.com, you have to register first. The award ceremony will be held July 22, 2012 and you can vote every day until the show. Rachel’s co-stars also got nominated, so be sure to vote for them as well! And don’t forget to vote for Rachel and Channing for the MTV Movie Awards!

Sadly no (upcoming) film of Rachel was selected for this year’s Cannes Film Festival but 3 of her upcoming films will hit the market to try and find US and international distributors. Deadline is mentioning that “Passion“, “To The Wonder” (previously Untitled Terrence Malick project) and “A Most Wanted Man” are among the ‘hot film titles‘ for U.S. buyers.

The article doesn’t mention Rachel as part of the cast of “A Most Wanted Man” so we are not sure Rachel officially signed on because she could be an attraction for buyers. We hope all films will find distributors, so we hope we will get a release date for them in the next days to weeks.

Variety also wrote a more in-depth article about “Passion” searching for distributors. If you are planning on going to the festival in Cannes be sure to look out for the promotional banners for “Passion“!

In a rights split pact that could become more common as the international sales sector evolves, Said Ben Said’s SBS Prods. is dividing international sales duties with Wild Bunch on Brian De Palma’s “Passion,” one of the biggest European titles being brought into the Cannes Market this year.

Paris-based production-sales house SBS — which specializes in content considered higher-end for Europe, made by prestige auteurs (it produced Roman Polanski’s “Carnage,” for example) — will sell Italy, Germany, Spain, U.S., Australia and France.

Wild Bunch is repping Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, U.K. and Scandinavia.

Ben Said, producer of “The Girl on the Train,” said the sales split is a case of exploiting strengths and maximizing revenues.

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It looks like we finally have the official title for the Terrence Malick project. Filmratings.com, the official website that list MPAA’s ratings, list the movie as “To The Wonder” and currently list it as a R-Rating

Title: To The Wonder (2012)
Rating: R
Reason: Rated R for some sexuality/nudity.
Company: Redbud Pictures LLC.
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It was previously reporter that the film was titled “The Burial” but the producers confirmed that it was a fake title. The distributor FilmNation still list the movie as untitled on their official website, so I am not sure “To The Wonder” is the final title. It was recently confirmed that the film wasn’t part of the Cannes Film Festival selection.

It does seem like the film is (almost) done since it already got rated. Let’s hope we will get some official news about the release soon. Thanks to Projectedlight from the IMDB board for the find!

Emma Freud, the partner and script editor of director Richard Curtis, send some interesting messages on her official twitter earlier today. She mentioned she saw some of Rachel’s films and she asked her followers why. She later confirmed that the correct answer was that Rachel is starring in “About Time“.

Watching The Notebook. Last night watched Mean Girls. The night before, Morning Glory. Hmmmm… Wonder why… #itsaquiz
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The Hollywood Reporter broke the story last week about Rachel being in talks for “About Time” but now it seems like it’s official. I am not sure this means that the negations are finalized but Freud’s tweet sure implies this.

The movie is directed and written by Richard Curtis and stars Domhnall Gleeson (male lead), Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie, Lydia Wilson and Vanessa Kirby. Go to our previous post for more information, production for the movie will begin next month and will wrap up in August.

The Hollywood Reporter is exclusively reporting that Rachel is in talks to star in the romantic comedy “About Time” from Richard Curtis. It also seems like “Most Wanted Man” is also likely to happen, because she will shoot it after “About Time” according to THR.

Rachel McAdams is in negotiations to star in About Time, the latest romantic comedy from British filmmaker Richard Curtis.

Curtis, who wrote and directed Love Actually and penned Bridget Jones’s Diary, wrote the About Time script and is directing. The story is described as a fantastical feel-good movie about a man and his ability to travel back in time. He eventually meets the girl of his dreams. Domhnall Gleeson, son of actor Brendan Gleeson, will play the male lead. Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie, Lydia Wilson and Vanessa Kirby are set to co-star.

McAdams would play the dream girl, a role Zooey Deschanel had once been attached to play. Production is set to begin in London in June. Working Title’s Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Liza Chasin and Amelia Granger are producing.

McAdams is coming off a starring turn in The Vow, the romantic drama with Channing Tatum that grossed a whopping $183 million worldwide on a budget of only $30 million. After she shoots About Time, McAdams will make Most Wanted Man, a thriller that Anton Corbijn is attached to direct. That movie has a tentative September start date.

She next will appear in theaters in Terrence Malick’s untitled latest project, whose all-star cast also includes Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem and Rachel Weisz.

McAdams is repped by UTA, Magnolia Entertainment and Hirsch Wallerstein.
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Keep in mind that it’s reported that Rachel is in talks to star in “About Time” and “Most Wanted Man“, so it’s not official yet.

Rachel and her co-star Channing Tatum are nominated for this year’s MTV Movie Awards in the ‘Best Kiss‘ category. The other nominees are Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1), Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games), Emma Watson and Rupert Grint (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2) and Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling (Crazy, Stupid, Love). You can vote for Rachel & Channing at MTV.com.

You can vote until June 2nd and the show will be the next day.

In a tender memory-jogging makeout, devoted husband Channing Tatum woos his car crash survivor wife, Rachel McAdams with a second first kiss.

It’s been a while since we heard something about a new possible project, but now the Tracking Board is reporting that Rachel is considered for the thriller “A Most Wanted Man” with Philip Seymour Hoffman and (possibly) director Anton Corbijn.

Coming off the sleeper-hit “The Vow,” Rachel McAdams is now circling to star opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman in the thriller A MOST WANTED MAN for director Anton Corbijn (The American). Producers are also looking at Carey Mulligan, Amy Adams and Jessica Chastain for the role, with McAdams currently the frontrunner.

Word is that producers may be looking into replacing Corbijn in the near future.

Penned for the screen by Andrew Bovell and based on the novel by John le Carre, when a young Muslim immigrant is taken in by a Turkish family, a British banker (Hoffman) must protect him from U.S., British and German secret service agents. McAdams would play the role of Annabel Richter, a fearless and intelligent lawyer who is tasked with tracking down the Turkish man.

Gail Egan to produce alongside Stephen Mark Cornwell, Oliver Butcher, Malte Grunert, Andrea Calderwood and Simon Cornwell. Tessa Ross will executive produce.

McAdams was last seen earlier this year in the romancer “The Vow” for director Michael Sucsy, which grossed over $124 million domestically. She is currently in production on “Passion,” the mystery-thriller opposite Noomi Rapace and Dominic Cooper.

She is repped by UTA and Magnolia Entertainment.
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We assume Rachel wrapped up filming for “Passion” since she was seen in Los Angeles earlier this week. We hope she is in town to meet for this project!

We came across an interview with Rachel and her co-star Channing Tatum while they were promoting their movie in London and they talked about Channing’s upcoming movie “Magic Mike” with director Steven Soderbergh.

Rachel visited the set of the movie one time, and Channing mentions that Rachel came to set to meet director Steven Soderbergh because Rachel and Soderbergh were talking about doing a movie together.

“She came to set to meet Soderbergh, because they were talking about doing a movie together. It was pretty hilarious [to see Channing as his character, who is a stripper] because I was like: ‘You haven’t seen this side of me’.”

“Magic Mike” was filmed in october/september of last year in Tampa, Florida. We really hope Rachel and Steven Soderbergh will work together in the future since we love his work. We haven’t found more information about this possible project. Rachel is currently filming “Passion” with director Brian De Palma in Berlin.

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Rachel will start shooting her new upcoming movie “Passion” in Berlin next Monday (March 5) with co-star Noomi Rapace and director Biran de Palma for 10 weeks. The movie will shoot entirely on location in Berlin, including at the Sony Center, Bode Museum and restaurant Margaux.

Dominic Cooper and German actress Karoline Herfurth recently joined the cast. Rachel was seen at the Toronto Airport this weekend because pre-production for the movie began on Sunday (February 26). We really hope we will get some on set pictures of Rachel!

Some other film related news; last year we reported that Rachel was possibly attached to “The Emperor’s Children” with Keira Knightley, Emma Thompson and director Scott Cooper. They were aiming to start shooting the movie in April, but it looks like it’s pushed back since the director will start shooting another movie before summer and we assume Rachel is still filming “Passion” in April.