Rumored Projects

[001] November 27th – Riding the Flight of the Hippogriff at Universal Studios Orlando

A super rare photo of a very young Catherine at the 1979 Junior Star Trail Competition.

[004] September 20th – Heading to the Wall Street Money Never Sleeps New York Premiere
[001] November 24th – At Epcot Center in Disney World

Added 9 scans from the issue to our Gallery.  Thanks to Elmira.

[022] September 20th – Wall Street Money Never Sleeps New York Premiere
[085] September 29th – Welcome To Wales
[014] October 28th – Mission Hills Star Trophy Tournament
[011] October 28th – Mission Hills Star Trophy Golf Tournament Press Conference
[010] October 28th – Mission Hills Star Trophy Dinner

When Catherine Zeta-Jones recently stepped back from public life because of bipolar disorder, it also highlighted an absence for the actress from somewhere else:  the movie screen. Her cougar-themed  movie, “The Rebound,” has been stuck in release limbo for nearly two years.Zeta-Jones is back to work — she turned out recently to the set of her new comedy “Playing the Field” and is set to star in the film version of “Rock of Ages.” But fans hoping to see the Oscar winner back on the big screen in “The Rebound” could be in for a long wait. The Film Department — the company that financed the movie and, after attempting to sell rights, had been raising money to distribute the picture itself in the fall — has announced that it will be closing its doors.

That means that plans to bring out the film in the coming months have been scotched. For the film to be released at all, a buyer would need to acquire it — something none did when it was initially peddled in 2009. Even then, it’s very possible the movie would be released direct to digital or DVD platforms, acknowledged Film Department founder Mark Gill. (The company also has a completed  Kate Hudson film called “A Little Bit of Heaven,” a $16-million romantic comedy that Gill said he hopes to sell to a theatrical distributor.)

Directed by Bart Freundlich and shot in 2008,  ”Rebound” is an inter-generational romance in which Zeta-Jones plays a single New York mother who falls for a younger man (Justin Bartha). Bartha has some box-office value — he stars in the upcoming “The Hangover Part II” — and the movie (which has been released internationally) taps into a vogue for cougars.

But privately, several movie distributors have said the asking price has been too high given the quality of the film.

While the movie doesn’t seem likely to approach the infamous territory of “Margaret,” a Matt Damon drama that has languished unseen by audiences since 2005, it remains a curious asterisk in the career of Zeta-Jones.

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[031] January 13th – 22nd Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival – Icon Award
[106] January 16th – 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards
[007] January 16th – Weinstein/Relativity Media Golden Globe Awards After Party
[006] February 6th – Fox’s Super Bowl XLV Pregame Show
[073] February 16th – Mercedes/Benz Fashion Week Fall 2011 – Michael Kors
[002] February 16th – Mercedes/Benz Fashion Week Fall 2011 – Nanette Lapore
[018] February 24th – CBE Ceremony
[014] March 4th – 176th Annual St. David’s Society Gala Dinner
[050] March 14th – 26th Annual Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony

Catherine Zeta-Jones is back in action and looking great.

The actress, 41, who revealed that she’d been diagnosed with and treated for bipolar II disorder, is already back to work – and beaming.

Zeta-Jones appeared to be all smiles Wednesday on the Shreveport, Louisiana, set of the comedy Playing the Field, which also stars Jessica Biel and Gerard Butler.

She’s also already lined up her next project: Zeta-Jones has signed on to star in the film version of Rock of Ages, PEOPLE confirms. She’ll play the wife of the L.A. mayor, a conservative character who wants to do away with rock and roll, according to Deadline.com.

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When Catherine Zeta-Jones received a recent diagnosis of bipolar II disorder, a mental illness marked by prolonged periods of depression alternating with episodes of mild mania, she didn’t hesitate to step forward with the news.

“This is a disorder that affects millions of people and I am one of them,” the actress, 41, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive statement in this week’s cover story. “If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.”

In early April, the Oscar-winning wife of actor Michael Douglas, 66, and mom to son Dylan, 10, and daughter Carys, 8, checked in to Silver Hill Hospital, a mental-health facility in New Canaan, Conn.

Shaken by Douglas’s battle with throat cancer, Zeta-Jones was privately struggling, a friend says. As Douglas recovered, Zeta-Jones didn’t – and with her new movie, the romantic comedy Playing the Field, slated to start shooting in Louisiana, the actress realized she needed help in the face of mounting depression.

“The simple things would just seem overwhelming, like going out to dinner,” says the close friend. “There was just a little piece of her chipped away. It was hard to watch because I knew how hard she was trying.”

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Catherine Zeta-Jones is in final negotiations to join the cast of director Adam Shankman’s musical Rock of Ages.

Zeta-Jones, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for 2002′s big screen musical Chicago, will play the villain of the movie, a part that was not in the stage production.

“It’s a character that we only really came to in the last month,” said Shankman. “The character was invented to streamline the stories.”

Shankman described the character as “if Tipper Gore and Anita Bryant had a love child. She is this hardcore, moral majority, arch-conservative  who wants to shut down rock’n roll in the great city of Los Angeles.”

“It’s like the musical gods just blessed us!” he said regarding Zeta-Jones’ boarding.

Based on the Broadway musical, the New Line production, which is scheduled to begin shooting May 19 in Miami, is also set to star newcomer Diego Gonzalez Boneta along with Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Mary J. Blige, Paul Giamatti and Julianne Hough.Ages tells the story, replete with hair-band music, of a small-town girl (Hough) who comes to Hollywood for the 1980s music scene and is nearly destroyed by it. Although she falls for a budding musician named Drew (Boneta), she also catches the eye of Stacee Jaxx (Cruise), an arrogant rocker at the height of his career, ends up as a stripper in a club run by Blige but also finds true love at the end.

Shankman’s Offspring Entertainment, Tobey Maguire’s Maguire Entertainment and Corner Store Entertainment are producing, with Garrett Grant serving as exec producer.

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