Jennifer Lawrence Could Find Silver Linings, and 5 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Also in this Thursday edition of The Broadsheet: Michael Bay is pissed at Variety... the Escape from New York remake isn't happening... Hilary Swank starts an uprising on Venus... and more ahead.

· It looks like The Silver Linings Playbook will be David O. Russell's follow-up to The Fighter after all. Deadline reports that Russell has decided on Jennifer Lawrence as the film's female lead, and that Playbook will shoot this fall following J.Law's work on The Hunger Games. If signed, Lawrence will play the "eccentric neighbor" of star Mark Wahlberg, whose character has just been let out of a mental institution after four years and hopes to win back his estranged wife. Issues! Playbook is an adaptation Matthew Quick's 2008 novel, one that Russell has been eyeing to make for years. [Deadline]

· Remember that Variety story about how between 47 and 52 percent of the 3-D in Transformers: Dark of the Moon was converted in post-production? Apparently, Michael Bay wasn't thrilled with the reporting. "I really do hate how writers get it wrong. They write as if they were there every day, every hour, for two years of production. David Cohen's 3D story for Variety, missed the mark. I often ask my what is the point in talking to writer's because they just want to print their own reality of the truth," wrote Bay on his website. "David didn't print the whole story from me, or my team, which makes a deceiving portrait of the truth. He got the conversion percentages wrong. And more importantly missed the true point of what the story should have been. The world was asking for a good 3D experience. How you could seamlessly blend Native to converted. Transformers 3D stands on it own, and we feel proud we delivered."

For his part, Cohen responded with equally strong words. "The percentage of conversion in the movie cited in the article, 47-52%, came from his team and was confirmed by both Bay and his stereographer, Corey Turner, in recorded, on-the-record interviews. Neither Bay, Turner nor Paramount have asked for a correction." [Showblitz, Shoot For the Edit]

· Here's one less thing for you to be upset about: New Line and Warner Bros. have allowed the option on Escape from New York to lapse, meaning the studio won't be remaking the John Carpenter classic. Of course, another studio could swoop in and plan its own remake, but fingers crossed better angels prevail. [Deadline]

· Holy crap! After two years of release date shuffling, it appears Cabin in the Woods is finally coming out. Lionsgate has scheduled Friday, April 13, 2012 for the Joss Whedon-co-penned film. Chris Hemsworth, Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins star. Now if only the remake of Red Dawn could get a release date... [Deadline]

· Hilary Swank is going genre. The two-time Oscar winner will produce and star in an adaptation of the comic book Shrapnel, about "a former military officer who organizes a revolt on Venus." [Variety]

· The Raven director James McTeigue has signed on for Message from The King, about a man named King who comes to Los Angeles to find out what happened to his sister. [Deadline]