Last month we reported Rachel McAdams was in talks to join the new Woody Allen film. Today, Variety is saying Rachel McAdams and the great Marion Cotillard are in the final stages of negotiations of the untitled pic that rolls this summer in Paris.

Woody Allen Summer Project, as the production is known is helming in early July, it is a part-period, part-contempo comedy that Allen attempted to shoot in Paris in 2006, but abandoned as the city is too expensive.

Since then Allen has come into money thanks to a three-pic financing deal between his Gravier Prods. and Spanish media conglom Mediapro, which co-produced his Vicky, Cristina Barcelona in 2006.

The pact kicked off with You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and follows on with the Paris pic.

Source: Variety

Unfortunetly Variety is reporting that Morning Glory is being bumped to Nov. 12.

Paramount is pushing back the release of Harrison Ford-Rachel McAdams comedy Morning Glory from July 30 to Nov. 12, saying it wants to position the pic closer to the year-end holidays.

Decision came in response to a test screening of the comedy, which also stars Diane Keaton, Patrick Wilson and Jeff Goldblum.

Roger Michell (Notting Hill, ) directed from a script by Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada).

Comedy was produced by J.J. Abrams via his Bad Robot shingle and Michell. Bryan Burk also is a producer.

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Rachel is nominated several times at the MTV Movie Awards. Be sure to cast you vote until April 9, in all of the following categories on their site. The final nominees come out May 11th, 2010, with the show airing and winner announcement happening live June 6.

Best Kiss x2 – The Time Traveler’s Wife & Sherlock Holmes
Best Movie – Sherlock Holmes
Best Female Performance – Sherlock Holmes

This is a rumor at this point and does not come from our usual source, the incredibly reliable Hollywood Cog, so take it with a grain of salt. Just don’t rub it in your eye.

First up, it’s been a few months since he heard anything about the American remake of the Guillermo del Toro produced The Orphanage, which was also originally written by del Toro. The needless remake (as they all are) will be directed by Mark Pellington. My source, however, tells me that Rachel McAdams is attached as the lead, a woman who brings her family back to her childhood home, where she opens an orphanage for handicapped children. There, her son begins to communicate with an invisible friend, the same friend who terrorized the mom when she was a child.

I am hedging my bets on this one, however, as while I was attempting to get some confirmation on this casting news, I also saw a copy of Production Weekly note from last December which had Sandra Bullock in the lead. Given the genre, neither female seems a natural fit, but it feels like a movie better suited to McAdams. But then again, Bullock is a better age to play a mother. So, it’s hard to say, but I guarantee that the female role will be played by McAdams, Bullock, or some other woman. I’m leaning toward McAdams, if only because the source on this story seems to have some insight into McAdams’ career.

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The first still which features Rachel McAdams as Becky Fuller, Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton in a scene has been released. Check it out in the gallery.

Rachel reunites with her Family Stone co-star Diane Keaton in Morning Glory, a comedy from Roger Michell.

The film follows a hotshot television producer who has set the challenge of reviving a struggling morning show program, despite the constant feuding of its high-profile anchors