Casting Call: Jennifer Aniston’s ‘Girls’ Night Out

It’s “Girls” night out for Jennifer Aniston. It’s “Lovely” being Rachel Weisz. Greg Kinnear and Maura Tierney are having a “Baby.” Plus, the “Hulk” gets some more star power! It’s all in today’s Access Hollywood Casting Call?

Jennifer Aniston is hoping to hit a high note at the theaters with “Goree Girls,” a period musical which she will produce and possibly star in, per The Hollywood Reporter.

“Girls” is based on the true story about a group of eight women serving time in Texas’ Goree Prison during the 1940s who formed one of the first all-female country acts.

Film is based on a May 2003 article in Texas Monthly called “O Sister Where Art Thou,” which told the women’s tale, all of whom were eventually pardoned.

Aniston has several projects lined up including starring opposite alongside Meryl Streep in “Wanted,” a thriller about a former cop (Aniston) who is framed and subsequently imprisoned for drug trafficking, before planning an escape with her cellmate (Streep).

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Rachel Weisz is set to star in “The Lovely Bones,” a Peter Jackson adaptation of the Alice Sebold novel, according to Variety.

In the film, Weisz will play the mother of a young girl who is abducted and murdered.

Production is slated to begin in October in Pennsylvania and New Zealand.

Weisz, who won an Oscar for “The Constant Gardener,” was available after declining to reprise her role in the third installment of “The Mummy.”

She will also star opposite Isla Fisher, Ryan Reynolds and Abigail Breslin in the upcoming romantic comedy “Definitely, Maybe,” about a political consultant who tries to explain his impending divorce and past relationships to his 11-year-old daughter.

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Greg Kinnear and Maura Tierney have joined the cast of “Baby Mama,” per The Hollywood Reporter.

They join Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Dax Shepard and Sigourney Weaver in the cast, about a single woman (Fey) whose desire to have a child and keep her career leads her to hire a surrogate mother (Poehler).

Kinnear has been cast as the owner of a local juice shop who becomes close to Fey’s character as she searches for a surrogate.

Meanwhile, Tierney (“E.R.,” “NewsRadio”) will play Fey’s confident, conventional sister who is the mother of two but supports her sister’s choice.

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William Hurt has joined the cast of “The Incredible Hulk,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The Oscar winner joins Edward Norton (Bruce Banner) and Liv Tyler (who plays Banner’s love interest Betty Ross).

Hurt, who won the Oscar in 1985 for “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” will play Gen. Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross, the man who is trying to capture the Hulk and who is also Betty’s father.

Tim Roth was previously announced as villain Emil Blonsky/the Abomination.

“The Incredible Hulk” is slated to hit theaters June 2008.

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