Lifetime Working on Lizzie Borden Movie Starring Christina Ricci

After delving into movies dedicated to bad girls such as Jodi Arias and Casey Anthony, Lifetime is going historical with the concept with a movie about Lizzie Borden.

Lifetime is tackling a project about Borden, who was tried but ultimately acquitted of killing her father and stepmother with an ax in the late 1800s.

Christina Ricci will play the role of Borden.

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Nick Gomez ("Drowning Mona," "Burn Notice") is directing the project, with Sony Pictures Television producing.

Judith Verno will executive produce the movie after working on the network's "Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret," "Blue Lagoon: The Awakening," and "Drew Peterson: Untouchable," among others.

A writer has not yet been confirmed for the movie.

Also read: Lifetime Sets Jody Arias Movie Premiere Date

Ricci reunites with Sony TV after starring in their short lived ABC period drama, "Pan Am." 

This isn't the only Lizzie Borden project in production. HBO is producing a miniseries executive produced and starring "Big Love's" Chloe Sevigny.

Tim Kenneally contributed to this report.

SEO Follies: ‘Walking Dead’ Actress? Well, Sort of, but…

I was eating lunch when the news hit that a “‘Walking Dead’ actress” had been implicated in mailing ricin-tinged letters to President Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Then I clicked on the link: “Shannon who?” I thought.

Having seen every episode of the AMC zombie drama, it was a little jarring. For a supposed “Walking Dead” actress, I wouldn’t know who this woman was if she bit me.

To be fair, almost everyone spun that angle — not just Variety, but the Hollywood Reporter and Huffington Post and virtually any other site interested in traffic.

Welcome to the Search Engine Optimization Follies. See, it’s very simple. Pick a term likely to get a lot of traffic anyway, then use that. Say, George Clooney. I have met George Clooney, even interviewed George Clooney. I’m sure my posts would get more traffic if they were written by George Clooney, or at least offered tantalizing info about him.

But since I really have no excuse to write about George Clooney, it’s kind of gratuitous to use his name.

Which doesn’t stop anyone from trying — in the same way people picked the highest-profile credit associated with Shannon Rogers Richardson, “The Walking Dead,” and ran with that. Never mind that even the show’s former exec producer, Glen Mazzara, apparently had no idea who she is.

Linda Cardellini of Mad Men Engaged to Steven Rodriguez

Apparently engagements are contagious amongst the Mad Men cast. 

Just three days after news broke that the show's former actor Jared Harris proposedto Allegra Riggio, one of the show's current stars, Linda Cardellini, has also announced she's a spouse-to-be! 

"I was surprised that it was happening at that moment," Cardellini, 37, said on Friday's episode of The View, of fiancé, Steven Rodriguez's proposal. "We were actually with some of the people I love most: my sister, and my cousins and one of my best friends Maura [Tierney] … and we were sitting, and he started getting choked up and then got on his knee. It was very beautiful." 

The newly engaged couple welcomed daughter, Lilah-Rose in Feb. 2012.

James McAvoy Does Many Disgusting Things in Filthy Trailer

James McAvoy's latest film is aptly named.

In the international trailer for Filth, based on the novel by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, the usually adorable Scottish actor is a not-that-hot mess as Bruce Robertson, a detective who's more punk than peace officer. 

For the course of two minutes and 20 seconds, McAvoy smokes, drinks, does and deals drugs, throws up, gets slapped, masturbates, makes a photocopy of his junk, has rough sex with multiple people, unzips his fly in front of a very young woman, and otherwise offers up his best Bad Lieutenant impression.

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No wonder he cries, too. "There's something seriously wrong with me," Bruce laments.

There are also sing-alongs, hallucinatory down-the-rabbit-hole-type sequences and Jim Broadbent as a creepy pill-pusher. 

And, we're guessing, a fair amount of nudity. Jamie Bell, Eddie Marsan (who quite literally gets egg on his face at one point) and Imogen Poots are also along for the wild ride.

But if you're not ready to see McAvoy behaving badly, don't worry. The tour de excess, directed by Jon S. Baird, doesn't yet have a release date in the U.S.

Warner Bros. acquires 'Rasputin' pitch with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star

Leonardo DiCaprio’s next leading role may be Grigori Rasputin, the famed Russian mystic who was an advisor for the Russian Imperial family before he was brutally murdered. But we shouldn’t expect it to be anything like the last time we saw the historical figure on film — as the Christopher Lloyd-voiced animated villain in Anastasia.

The role would be for a film called, fittingly, Rasputin that is being developed with DiCaprio attached to star. Warner Bros. bought the pitch for the project that comes from Jason Hall, screenwriter of upcoming Bradley Cooper movie American Sniper. Deadline first reported the news.

DiCaprio reportedly became interested in the project because Hall uncovered some history about the controversial mystic. The three-time Oscar nominee also was drawn to idea of playing a man “who lost the better part of himself when his brother died, and was capable of kindness but also a ruthlessness,” Deadline reports.

Alyson Hannigan Excitedly Waves at Obama Motorcade While Cuddling Daughter Keeva

Today, the part of the excited constituent was played by Alyson Hannigan.

The How I Met Your Mother star was one of many Los Angeles residents out angling for a glimpse of President Barack Obama's motorcade, which transported the commander in chief from Santa Monica Airport to a private fundraiser at the home of former News Corp. exec Peter Cherninduring his brief trip to the Southland Friday.

So, what better time to get her youngest daughter excited about the federal government?!

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Hannigan, sporting a hoodie and loungewear, carried 1-year-old Keeva outside to wave at the procession, which apparently passed right through their neighborhood.

Though the actress seemed to do most of the waving herself (babies are so blasé about politics these days), the sweet image still made for a mother-daughter moment to remember.

And while Hannigan's show is on hiatus for the summer, hubby Alexis Denisof has a big weekend coming up: The Joss Whedon-directed Much Ado About Nothing, starring Denisof, Amy Acker, Nathan Fillion and other Whedonverse faves, opens today.

Kate Upton Shows Off Bodacious Bod, Bit by Bit

Thank you, Kate Upton, for sharing.

While we've long been privy to plenty of reasons why the 20-year-old model landed twoSports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covers in a row, the model took the liberty this past week of re-showing off some of her most marketable assets.

From the short-shorts she rocked at a Yankees game to the curves-hugging leather pencil skirt to the bra that could barely contain her, er, talent on the set of The Other Woman...

It's been quite a week in pictures for Kate Upton.

And, if you're not done ogling, here are more pics of the up-and-coming star, in color, in black and white, in bikinis, in clothes...etc.