I was looking forward to this role for Blake so I am sad to see her being replaced.

In her first lead role since her Oscar-nominated turn in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Rooney Mara has just committed to starring in Side Effects, the Steven Soderbergh-directed thriller. Mara will replace Blake Lively in a film that also stars Jude Law, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Mara plays Emily Hawkins, a sexy but unsettled young woman who is taking serious amounts of prescription drugs to deal with anxiety and depression surrounding the pending release of her husband from prison.

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“Gossip Girl” and “Green Lantern” star Blake Lively will topline “The Side Effects” as Emily Hawkins, a woman who turns to prescription meds to cope with the anxiety of the upcoming release from prison of her husband. Channing Tatum, who features in both “Haywire” and “Magic Mike,” will make it three in a row by taking the role of the husband, while Jude Law, who was part of the ensemble cast of “Contagion,” will play Lively’s new psychiatrist. While no deals are officially done, they will be imminently (casting has been underway since early December).

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Blake is nominated for Favorite TV Drama Actress! You can vote for Blake here

Blake Lively has just joined the A-list ranks of Scarlett Johansson, Emma Stone, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, and Natalie Portman as the latest actress to turn down the opportunity to star in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Craig Gillespie‘s beleaguered adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith‘s Jane Austen spoof. Lively’s rejection comes as yet another setback for the project, which has already suffered numerous stops and starts throughout the development process. (Source)

Project Runway, Top Chef, The Voice…the world loves a competition and Fashion’s Night Out is no exception. In fact, Fashion’s Night Out, Vogue.com and Polyvore.com have collided to create FNO Style Setter, where starting Aug. 15, users can go onto Polyvore.com and create a “set” (or a virtual mood board, if you will) based on the theme given to them by Vogue and Polyvore. Direction like, “fall wardrobe essentials” or “dress a style icon for fashion week” are meant to inspire participants to start building their visual sets online.

Each day, Vogue.com editors will highlight one standout set. At the end of each week, a judge — either Blake Lively (three-time Vogue cover girl), Alexander Wang or Grace Coddington (creative director at Vogue) — will pick two winning sets from the highlights that best sum up the challenge and grab them visually. At the end of the competition, which runs through Sept. 8, the six finalists will be posted at vogue.com, where users can vote for their faves.

Two winners will be announced Sept. 9, just in time for FNO, and will fly to New York to observe a Vogue photo shoot and tour the legendary Vogue fashion closet with a fashion editor.

This online competition and the continued synergy between fashion stars, celebs and traditional and social media is a sure sign that Fashion’s Night Out is growing even bigger and trying to gain more traction with a broader market.

And the grand prize of a shoot and closet tour certainly speaks to the fact that a wider swath of tweens and teens are fashion-obsessed beyond just playing dress up –- they’re clamoring for a behind-the-scenes experience with fashion insiders.

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