Midnight in Paris Could Be Woody Allen's Biggest Hit Ever, and 5 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Also in this Thursday edition of The Broadsheet: The FBI finally catches the inspiration for The Departed... a tragedy strikes How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying... Viggo Mortensen lends his face to January... and more ahead.

· Sometimes the good movies win. When the box office figures from Wednesday night are released later today, Midnight in Paris will likely have eclipsed Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Match Point to become the highest grossing Woody Allen film since Hannah and Her Sisters in 1986. (If not Wednesday, then sometime on Thursday.) At the rate Paris is trending, analysts think it could even top Sisters' $40.1 million to become Allen's biggest hit ever -- especially after what is anticipated to be a lucrative Fourth of July holiday weekend. Still haven't seen Midnight in Paris? Perhaps some of these 10-word reviews can convince you. [THR]

· Crazy real life news to report: the FBI arrested James "Whitey" Bulger in Santa Monica, Calif. on Wednesday night, just days after launching a new campaign that focused on his companion, Catherine Greig. Bulger -- who was a top-10 most wanted criminal and had been on the run for 15 years -- was the inspiration for Jack Nicholson's character in The Departed, so you can only imagine how many screenwriters are currently working on treatments about his life on the lam. [LAT]

· The Wednesday night performance of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Broadway was canceled after a stagehand overdosed before the show and died. Star Daniel Radcliffe reportedly told the crowd a tragedy occurred backstage, and that the performers didn't feel comfortable going on with the show. The name of the 29-year-old stagehand was not released. [NYT]

· Tom Wilkinson is in talks to play a "railroad tycoon" in Lone Ranger opposite Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer. So, probably the bad guy. [Variety]

· Drive screenwriter Hossein Amini will potentially make his directorial debut with his adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel The Two Faces of January. Viggo Mortensen is attached for one of the leading male roles, either an American con artist or a stranger who ends up embroiled in a murder cover-up. Highsmith wrote the novels The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train, so flag this one as potentially great. [LAT/24 Frames]

· Alex Tse, who wrote Watchmen, has been hired by Relativity Media to write the studio's reboot of The Crow. [Deadline]