Hollywood Ink: LeBron James Decides to Take the Year Off

· Movies! He's taking the year off movies! The NBA superstar and Hottest Free Agent in the World will not make his screen debut in Ballers after all -- at least not this summer. Universal bumped the hoops comedy back after the script polish it sought didn't quite come through in time for the August shoot it planned; producer Brian Grazer and director Malcolm D. Lee will revisit the project in 2011 after James's contractmania has died down and he has a season under his belt -- wherever he plays. As if there's any doubt now that Betty White has weighed in. [Variety]

This year's Cannes winner is coming to America, Taylor Lautner and Amanda Seyfried get new moms, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.

· Strand Releasing has acquired Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Palme d'Or-winning mindf*ck Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Movieline's man in Cannes dug it; look for it Stateside this fall. [THR]

· Emily Mortimer is out and Elisabeth Rohm is in for Abduction, with the latter actress now set to play the biological mother of Taylor Lautner's teen who hits the road after seeing his baby picture on a missing persons site. [THR]

· Not to be outdone, Virginia Madsen has signed on to Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood as the mother of Amanda Seyfried's title character. [Variety]

· Gina Gershon will star in Five Minarets in New York, Turkish director Mahsun Kirmizigul's U.S. debut about the "wife of a Turkish scholar who is arrested by federal authorities after being wrongfully accused of a crime." This naturally calls for Danny Glover to make an appearance as well; Robert Patrick also stars. [THR]