· Blake Lively and Scarlett Johansson are reportedly in the final two being considered for Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron's film about a female astronaut stranded in space. Either/or will replace the previously attached Angelina Jolie and co-star with presumed male lead Robert Downey Jr. Expect someone to make odds on this square-off by the end of the day. [THR]
· Channing Tatum is booked to star in The Contortionist's Handbook, in which he'll play a professional forger whose cool detachment from job to job is challenged when "he falls for a beautiful woman with her own dark secret." That's original. [Deadline]
· Max "Son of John" Landis and Josh "Son of Oscar-winning documentarian Richard" Trank have collaborated on a superhero project called Chronicle, about the ups and down of three Portland-area teens who one day discover they have special powers. Landis wrote and Trank would direct (reportedly in verite, shaky-cam style because that style is reportedly "in his genes"; I can't make this stuff up); Fox is reportedly in negotiations to pick it up for development. [THR]
· Paramount had the winning bid for the film rights to Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick, novelist Joe Schreiber's young-adult comedy thriller about a homely, mild-mannered exchange student who turns out to be an assassin. Of course she does. Josh Schwartz is among the producers expected to sign on; a franchise is expected. [Deadline]
· Spyglass Entertainment may yet make a deal to keep MGM alive, debt, James Bond, Hobbit, etc. Wake me when the check clears. [Variety]