Streep and Roberts together! Ryan Gosling may star in Clooney's Farragut North! Ben Affleck to direct Tales From the Gangster Squad!

• Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep are in talks to star in an adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play, August: Osage County. Streep would take the role of a drug-addicted matriarch and Roberts that of the eldest daughter, whose estranged husband has had an affair with one of his students.
  Promising? Well, Streep is overdue for her third Oscar and Roberts is one of the cinema industry's darlings and loved by the audiences. Yes, it may work, specially with the Emmy winning John Wells directing it.

• Ryan Gosling (one of my favorite actors so far) is attached to star in George Clooney's next directing project - Farragut North). In fact, according to Collider "Clooney is negotiating with Gosling to play the role of Stephen Meyers, an idealistic communications director who works for an inspiring though unorthodox, presidential candidate. Clooney plans to begin production on the film in March, which will tell the story of Meyer seeing the campaign become undone by ruthless, political masterminds who employ every dirty trick to win". It seems good, very good actually and may be a great role for Gosling, who's have been collecting raves from his performance in this year's indie production Blue Valentine and starring in a movie alongside Clooney with Clooney directing may put the indie star on a higher level of his career. Farragut North has also Evan Rachel Wood and Philip Seymour Hoffman rumoured to star under Clooney's direction.

• Ben Affleck is attached to direct a gangster movie (Tales From a Gangster Squad). According to Collider, "The script, penned by Castle writer and former L.A. cop Will Beall, tells the story of an off-the-record gang of LAPD officers who attempt to force legendary gangster Micky Cohen out of town in the late 1940s. The script draws substantially from the 2008 series of articles, also entitled Tales from the Gangster Squad, written by Los Angeles Times reporter Paul Lieberman". He may not be a great actor, but he's surely a great director according to Gone Baby Gone (which I loved) and The Town's reviews. It's good when someone finds his/her right way to sucess and recognition!