Amy Adams is in final negotiations to star opposite Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg in “The Fighter,” which David O. Russell is directing for Relativity Media. Paramount is distributing the drama domestically.

The movie revolves around the life of boxer “Irish” Mickey Ward (Wahlberg) and trainer-brother Dick Eklund (Bale), chronicling their early days on the rough streets of Lowell, Mass., through Eklund’s battle with drugs and Ward’s eventual world championship in London.

Adams will play Charlene, a tough, gritty bartender and former college high-jumper from Massachusetts who ends up dating Mickey.

Melissa Leo also has been cast as Wahlberg and Bale’s mother.

Mandeville partners David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman are producing with Paul Tamasy and Dorothy Aufiero.

The movie begins shooting next month in Lowell.

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I’ve added HQ versions to one of our photoshoot sessions.  Amy looks so beautiful in this set!

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Amy’s movie Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is still in theaters but we’ve managed to make and add over 600 screencaptures.  Like the ones from Sunshine Cleaning added yesterday, these are not the best quality.  But I hope you enjoy them until we can replace them with DVD quality versions later in the year.

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A lot of Sunshine Cleaning goodies for you all today.  First up – a release date for the R1 DVD and BluRay has been announced as August 25th.  You can preorder your copy now from Amazon or wherever you prefer to purchase your DVDs.  Special features include:

Audio Commentary
“A Fresh Look at a Dirty Business” Featurette
Trailer

I was able to make screencaptures of the movie and while they’re not the best quality, they will do until I can replace them with DVD quality screencaptures later. A few new additions to the posters and advertisements completes today’s Sunshine Cleaning update.

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According to the July issue of Allure, Amy will be the cover girl for the August issue.  Very exciting news!  I can’t wait to see the photoshoot.  The issue will probably hit newsstands around the middle of July.

The nominee list for the 11th annual Teen Choice Awards has been released and not only was Amy’s movie Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian nominated for Choice Movie: Comedy, Amy herself was nominated for her portrayal of Amelia Earhart in the same movie.  You can view the full list of nominees here.  Congrats Amy!

I had a few hours to kill while at the hotel and just had to update the site with these brand new candids.  They were taken today and feature Amy and Darren arriving for the Leap Year wrap party at a pub in Ireland.  Sounds like Amy might be back in the States soon!

• Candid Photos > Arriving for ‘Leap Year’ wrap party

As some of you are aware, I will be visiting China for ten days beginning on the 10th.  The people in charge of this group have assured us that we will have internet connection at our hotels and I am bringing my laptop.  Even so, I imagine that I’m going to be extremely busy while there and may not have much time to update the site.  If any major Amy news happens I will be sure to post it.  But from now until June 22nd, don’t expect any huge updates from me, Lisa.

My co-web Chelsa will still be around to keep the site up to date while I’m gone.

I’ve found and added several new photos of Amy at the premiere of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian to the gallery.  Enjoy!

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Thanks to my good friend Samantha, we have a gorgeous new layout at the gallery.  News about Amy has been nonexistant this past week or so but I’ll work on updating the gallery soon.