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Catherine Hardwicke will direct 'Miss You Already'.
The 58-year-old filmmaker will helm the picture which has Rachel Weisz and Toni Collette attached to star while Morwenna Banks penned the script based on personal experience.
It follows the story of two friends whose relationship goes through a tough time when one falls pregnant and the other falls sick.
Hardwicke said: "When I met Morwenna Banks and read her script, I really felt her passion for this story -- this is something she lived through. She managed to take real life and turn it into a powerful, laugh-and-cry-out-loud screenplay."
When the project was originally announced in 2012 it was based in London however this has since changed.
Samantha Horley, Managing Director of The Salt Company - who are co-producing - told Deadline.com: "We have a fresh new draft of the script for Cannes which has been worked on by Catherine and Morwenna. It's no longer just London set, for example, but London, Yorkshire Moors and beautiful Britain. What we feel Catherine has brought to it is a sweeping international appeal."
Meanwhile, Christopher Simon and Felix Vossen are producing the film which begins shooting in September.
Hardwicke previously directed and co-wrote the 2003's drama award-winning 'Thirteen' which starred Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood and earned Hunter an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
More recently, she directed 2008's 'Twilight' which featured Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in lead roles before working on 2011's 'Red Riding Hood' and last year's 'Reckless' and 'Plush'.

Blockbuster screenwriting duo Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have split up.
The writing team behind smash hit films such as the rebooted 'Star Trek' franchise and 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' have called it quits to concentrate on individual projects.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the split is "amicable" but has been "brewing" for some time as both try to set up their own directing careers.
Variety reports that Orci is eager to helm 'Star Trek 3', which is without a director as J.J. Abrams has switched to the 'Star Wars' franchise, but Paramount Pictures is wary of hiring him, as he has never directed a movie before.
Meanwhile, Kurtzman has already been hired by Sony Pictures to helm 'Amazing Spider-Man' spin-off film, 'Venom', which he will also co-write.
Orci and Kurtzman scripted the second 'Amazing Spider-Man' film with Jeff Pinkner and are already writing the third.
The high school friends first began writing together on TV series 'Hercules: The Legendary Journeys', before working with close pal J.J. Abrams on Jennifer Garner-starring thriller show, 'Alias'.
The pair wrote the first two 'Transformers' movies and 'Mission: Impossible III'.
They are also credited as producers on the 'Star Trek' films and magic film 'Now You See Me'.

The 'Fantastic Four' reboot will be treated as the "origin" of the story.
Producer Simon Kinberg says the film which is set to star Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm aka The Thing, Miles Teller as Mr. Fantastic, Kate Mara as the Invisible Girl and Michael B. Jordan as the Human Torch, will "ground the science" behind the adventure.
He told craveonline.com: "We're treating this as the origin of the Fantastic Four so in future movies you'd have them on sort of splashier adventures to some extent but in this one we tried to ground the science as much as possible and make it feel like it could take place in our world before it cantilevers into other worlds."
Before he added: "It's a much more grounded, gritty, realistic movie than the last couple movies. If I had to say, the tone of it would be somewhere on the spectrum between Spider-Man and Chronicle. The other movies were even further on the spectrum of being goofy and fun than Spider-Man."
Meanwhile, it was previously reported Toby Kebbell is in talks to play the villain, Doctor Doom, which American Hustle's Jack Huston and 'Anna Karenina' star Domhnall Gleeson were also being considered for.

Tom Hardy's 'Locke' was filmed in one take.
The 36-year-old actor stars as construction foreman Ivan Locke in the 2013 crime drama and director Steven Knight confessed they shot the complete film on every take and consequently they were left with 16 movies to edit before coming to the final product.
Talking to collider.com, Knight said: "All the actors apart from Tom were in a hotel conference room near to the motorway. We had a phone line open. It was a real phone line into the car. Tom was on the back of a low-loader truck. The vehicle had the wheels taken off so that it was at the right level. I was in front of him with visual contact and audio contact with him and also with the conference room, and the plan always was, and this is what we did, is to shoot the whole thing beginning to end every time.
"I would only say 'Action' once, and then the vehicle would set off. I would cue the first call, then the second, then the third. Effectively, we shot the whole film twice a night. That would be the end. In the end, we had 16 movies, all pretty ragged, but they were 16 movies, and then we'd cut together the film that we wanted to make."
The film came together "alarmingly quickly" after Hardy accepted the role and flowed from there.
Knight added: "I met Tom [Hardy] and put the idea to him and he loved it. Then I wrote the script after that. He loved the script and then we shot it. It all came together alarmingly quickly really."

Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are reuniting for a Cold War thriller. The award-winning actor and filmmaker duo are reportedly set to team up for their fourth big screen collaboration after 'Saving Private Ryan,' 'Catch Me If You Can' and 'The Termina...

Angelina Jolie's 'Maleficent' will "respect" the classic.
The 38-year-old actress stars as the titular villain, who is the self-proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil" in the forthcoming film, and although they have added a new twist to the story she insists there are elements familiar with the 1959 tale of 'Sleeping Beauty' where the character originates.
In a new featurette for the Disney movie, she said: "We've respected the classic, we've tried to bring you what you love about the story.
"We also hope to hope to bring a world that you've never seen before. It's a very beautiful story, and I think it is very different from what people are going to expect."
Director Robert Stromberg revealed the film will give the audience the chance to find out the history of the character who cursed the infant Princess Aurora in the original film.
He added: "This film gives us the opportunity to find out the history of 'Maleficent' and what drove her to the dark side."

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Aloe Blacc found acting more challenging than making music.
The 'I Need a Dollar' hitmaker is set to star in the upcoming James Brown biopic 'Get on Up' and he admits that getting behind the camera didn't come naturally to him.
When asked if he enjoyed making the film, he said: "It was a really new experience for me. I've never acted in a feature film before and it's challenging. It's a challenging career.
"Music is much more fun, now, but that's because I've spent so many years figuring out how to make music easy and mindless. Acting - I've got some work to do."
The 35-year-old star, whose real name is Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III, was surprised by the lack of control over a project you have as an actor and likened the role of a director to the way in which a musician plays an instrument.
He told BANG Showbiz: "You're basically an instrument and someone plays you. The writer of the script is playing you, he's stroking your chords. The director is playing you, he's the one smacking the drum and telling you where to go and how to do it.
"You're not in control of the material, you're not in control of the words or the time or the space. All you're in control of is how you deliver it and that is a very difficult thing to do and I commend all of the fine actors that I've had the chance to meet on that set."

Sarah Michelle Gellar admits she often struggles to balance motherhood with her career.
The 'Crazy Ones' star, who has daughter Charlotte, four, and son Rocky, 18 months, with husband Freddy Prince Jr., finds it hard jugging her family life with her job but she wants to inspire his children to work hard.
She said: "Look, it's hard work. We're usually on set by 6am and we try to wrap between 5 and 6 in the evening. I haven't been home to put my kids to bed in two nights."
Asked how she has the energy to juggle everything, she said: "I think every working mother would say the same thing - you find it. That's what we do. I have a job, and I think it's important to have balance. I hope to instil those values in my kids; nothing was given to us, and everything that we have is because Mommy and Daddy worked very hard for it."
Meanwhile, the blonde beauty manages to avoid slaving in the kitchen for hours to prepare a meal for her family as her husband does all the cooking for her.
She said previously: "I have my husband who is so incredibly hands-on. Thank God he can cook or I would probably never eat.
"We try to make [everything] a family thing, so we'll go to the farmer's market and Charlotte can pick out a piece of fish. And she and Freddie will go to the grill and she pretends to light her little grill."