The photo gallery at Olivia Wilde Source has been updated with the first 4 images of Olivia Wilde on set filming “Better Living Through Chemistry” in Baltimore on May 23rd.

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Director Peter Bogdanovich is assembling an incredibly impressive team both in front of and behind the camera for his next feature. Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Olivia Wilde and Brie Larson (21 Jump Street) are attached to star in the indie comedy Squirrels to the Nuts with Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach onboard to produce the pic; it’s essentially The Avengers of quirky cinema. The film centers on a hooker-turned-Broadway-thesp, played by Larson, and follows the “recurring intersection between these two facets of her life.”

Per Variety, Larson is attached to play the lead in the film, which was also written by Bogdanovich. Wilson will play a Broadway director who pays for Larson’s escort services despite being married to the star of the play. Schwarztman is being courted to play a playwright who falls for Larson “despite the fact that he’s dating her therapist (Wilde), whose own alcoholic mother is in rehab.”

Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon is one of my favorite films of all time, so I’m eager to see what he’s been up to since his last theatrically released feature, 2001’s The Cat’s Meow. The addition of Anderson and Baumbach to the team only makes Squirrels to the Nuts even more appealing. Wilson is currently filming Mad Men creator Matt Weiner’s feature directorial debut, You Are Here, alongside Zach Galifianakis. He’s set to reteam with Vince Vaughn this summer to shoot the Shawn Levy-directed comedy The Internship.

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The photo gallery at Olivia Wilde Source has been updated with 3 production stills and 1 poster from the upcoming film “The Longest Week”.

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The first trailer for the upcoming film “The Words” has just been released!

“The Words” begins a theatrical release in the U.S. on September 21st, 2012.

In an early announcement to retailers, Starz/Anchor Bay is working on ‘On the Inside’ for DVD and Blu-ray on July 24.

In ‘On the Inside,’ Allen Meneric (Stahl) is committed to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane after carrying out a brutal revenge murder. There, he is forced to deal with the very ill and the dangerous until, as part of a socialization program, he is transferred to minimum security where he meets a beautiful bipolar female inmate named Mia (Olivia Wilde). Ever haunted by his past, Allen seeks his redemption when sudden events demand that he protect Mia from the violence and chaos of the institution.

The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, a Dolby TrueHD 5.1 soundtrack, and the disc doesn’t appear to have any supplements.

“People Like Us” is set to have its world premiere at the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival as a part of its “Summer Showcase” series!

Dreamworks Pictures’ People Like Us will have its World Premiere amongst the Summer Showcase screenings. The film is directed by Alex Kurtzman, written by Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and Jody Lambert, and stars Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, Michael Hall D’Addario, Philip Baker Hall, Mark Duplass and Michelle Pfeiffer. In a story inspired by true events, Sam (Pine), a twenty-something, fast-talking salesman, is tasked with fulfilling his estranged father’s last wishes – delivering an inheritance to a sister he never knew he had. Dreamworks Pictures will release the film on June 29, 2012.

Thus far, the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival has bestowed upon us, in no particular order, snoozing flesh-eaters (Eddie – The Sleepwalking Cannibal), young lesbians contending with monstrous first love (Jack and Diane), two friends contending against alcoholism and metaphysical horrors (Resolution), and a scholar who’s driven to violent ends over a missing copy of a Charles Dickens novel (Nancy, Please). And those are just a few of the New York City festival’s highlights up until this point, but one project sits above them all in terms of real-life importance.

Baseball in the Time of Cholera, directed by aid workers turned filmmakers David Darg and Bryn Mooser, tackles a crucial, call-to-arms subject in the limited span of 27 minutes, but every second counts. The documentary short follows young Joseph Avyns, a kid living in Port au Prince, Haiti, who loves playing baseball and dreams of making it into the MLB, but there’s one major roadblack standing in between him and those goals: His home turf is being ravaged by the disease known as cholera, a deadly ailment that has already claimed the lives of over 7,000 Haitian victims. Concurrently, a lawyer named Mario Joseph is working hard to make the United States take responsibility for allowing the disease to enter Haiti via unsanitary Nepalese soldiers, and, by the film’s end, the worlds of Joseph and Mario intersect in the wake of heartbreaking tragedy.

Riding alongside Darg and Mooser on their mission to raise worldwide awareness about this devastating issue is executive producer Olivia Wilde (TRON: Legacy, Cowboys & Aliens), the prolific Hollywood scene-stealer who’s been actively contributing aid to Haiti’s less fortunate since 2009. Together, the three filmmakers hope that Baseball in the Time of Cholera (which will begin a limited theatrical run in Los Angeles on May 4th, at the Laemmle’s NoHo 7 theater) reaches as broad an audience as possible with its theme of America’s pastime giving youngsters like Joseph fuel for optimism amidst cholera’s overwhelming impact.

Complex had a chance to sit down with Wilde, Darg, and Mooser over the weekend to discuss Baseball in the Time of Choleraand the magnitude of its messages.

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James Franco is once again reeling in the big guns for a film that he’s working on with his NYU class. Thanks to recent casting calls, we now know that Olivia Wilde, Chloe Sevigny, Logan Marshall-Green, Whoopi Goldberg and Vince Jolivette will be joining Franco in his next film, Black Dog, Red Dog. Furthermore, The Mercury Report is reporting Tim Blake Nelson, who stared in Franco’s Child Of God, will also be part of the film.

Black Dog, Red Dog is based on poet Stephen Dobyns’ book that focuses on his life from the 1950′s to 1980′s. The film will be feature length though it will be made up of a series of short films directed by Franco’s students.

Franco made a similar film last year about the life of C.K. Williams based on his book Tar, in which Franco starred alongside Jessica Chastain, Michelle Williams, Mila Kunis, Whoopi Goldbergh, Zach Braff, Bruce Campbell and Henry Hopper.

Personally, I think there needs to be more films made about poets so I’m all for this. I love Franco’s work and the cast he is gathering is quite impressive.

Black Dog, Red Dog is currently filming in New York until the end of the month and both Black Dog, Red Dog and Tar are expected to be released later this year.

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Last week, the Post reported that Oscar winner Paul Haggis was writing a new movie about a New York party reporter, and that scoop quite naturally got nightlife writers buzzing: While Haggis has kept up an active social life since moving to New York, he’s usually quite reticent with party reporters and certainly hasn’t been “overheard asking numerous young party reporters about their experiences,” as the Post reported. Last night, at the 2012 Revlon Concert for the Rainforest Fund, we grilled Haggis to find out what’s what. “That story is bullshit. Bullshit,” he said. Haggis is indeed prepping a movie called Third Person, which he hopes to shoot this August, but he’s been writing it for years and claims that the party-reporting element is minimal. “It’s about three story lines, three love stories, three relationships in three different cities that combine in a very odd way: New York, Paris, Rome. And so I wanted one of them to have a job in New York. So after writing the script, I thought, Oh, party reporting, that would be great. But literally, it’s just that. The character is not based on anyone, or anything like that. Imagine, the Post not having the correct information!”

So who’s been cast? “Liam Neeson is one of them, I can say that,” Haggis revealed. “The woman he’s in a relationship with, the party reporter, will be played by Olivia Wilde. That’s the character. I can’t tell you who else.” Certainly, a woman like Wilde would have no trouble as a party reporter; who wouldn’t want to talk to her? But ultimately, Haggis said, he’s not hitting up all these events just to observe party reporters in their natural element. “I go to parties to go to parties! It’s not for research. I just wanted to go to some premieres.”

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The first trailer for the film “People Like Us” was just released – check it out below! The movie comes out on June 29th.