Doing very well in limited release in their debut weekends are the independent films The Ghost Writer and The Good Guy. First, the Roman Polanski directed film The Ghost Writer starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Hutton and Eli Wallach earned an impressive $44,750 on each of the four theaters that the film was shown in for an opening weekend total of $179,000. Also doing well in limited release was the Manhattan based romantic drama The Good Guy featuring former Gilmore Girls star Alexis Bledel, Scott Porter and Bryan Greenberg. The movie, which had an edge on the competition by opening Wednesday before the weekend was shown in only nine theaters and earned $4,022 per theater for a total of $36,200 in its debut week.

That’s so great! Go check out The Good Guy if you haven’t seen it yet.

It’s only fitting that “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” star Alexis Bledel is wearing a stylish salmon-colored dress for an interview rather than blue jeans. After all, the pretty, blue-eyed Houston native is no longer a teen.

Bledel, 28, is all grown up. Following a seven-year run on the popular TV series “Gilmore Girls,” playing a precocious teenager and the “Traveling Pants” adventures aimed at the high school crowd, she matriculated to the working world in “Post Grad” last year.

Now, in the independent pseudo-romantic comedy “The Good Guy,” she’s a full-fledged working Manhattanite with a good job, a place of her own and independence.

Then she meets a guy named Tommy (Scott Porter), who initially seems like ideal boyfriend material. He’s good looking. He’s smart. He has a high-paying job on Wall Street, where he is a hotshot hedge fund manager.

(It should be noted that “The Good Guy” was made just as the financial markets were starting to collapse, and though some adjustments were made in the script to reflect the financial crisis, the film has somewhat of a nostalgic, pre-recession feel to it.)

Complications arise when Beth meets Tommy’s handsome co-worker, Daniel (Bryan Greenberg). Daniel is less worldly and savvy than Tommy, but he also seems to be more in tune with Beth’s emotional needs and interests.

Bledel, her long brown hair swept back in a tight bun, says she can relate in some ways to her character. As a transplanted New Yorker, she is aware of the struggles young women face there, balancing career and relationships.

“It’s a comment of sort on modern life, if not modern love,” she says of the film, written and directed by first time filmmaker Julio DePietro.

“There are a lot of little moments in it that feel more realistic than your average movie with a romantic storyline,” she adds.

For starters, Tommy is a sociopath, carrying on relationships with multiple women simultaneously while pretending to be monogamous with each of them. It’s only a matter of time before Beth discovers Tommy’s true colors. In the meantime, she develops a friendship with kindhearted Daniel, who shares her fondness for reading and traveling.

Once she finds out about Tommy’s infidelity, Beth doesn’t lash out. Instead, she simply tells him, “I feel sorry for you.”

DePietro says Bledel had the hardest job in the movie, having to first sell a budding romance with Tommy; developing an attraction with Daniel, then convincing people she had the integrity not to act on the new romance until she discovered Tommy’s lies.

“It’s a lot to ask somebody to do in 90 minutes but she did it,” compliments DePietro, who worked at an investment firm before turning to filmmaking.

Bledel, who attended NYU Film School, made her television debut in the critically acclaimed series “Gilmore Girls,” a dramedy about a close-knit relationship between a single mother and a savvy daughter. She played Rory Gilmore for seven seasons, earning kudos for her depiction of a modern teen, including two Teen Choice Awards.

She made her feature film debut in 2002 in Disney’s “Tuck Everlasting,” in which she played a free-spirited teen trapped in the repressed Victorian household.

Starring alongside America Ferrara, Blake Lively and Amber Tamblyn, she embarked on “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” and its sequel. Both movies, depicting the adventures of four friends who despite their various body types share a magical pair of jeans, were box office hits. Her role as the sweet but independent-minded Lena only boosted her profile with young women, who saw her as a role model.

Bledel, though, insists she’s hung up her “Traveling Pants” for good.

Bledel’s next move is to step back in time for Robert Redford’s historical drama, “The Conspirator,” based on the true story about the only woman arrested in the plot to kill President Abraham Lincoln. In it, she plays Sarah Weston, wife of the attorney (James McAvoy) appointed to represent accused conspirator Mary Surratt, played by Robin Wright.

Imagine this—a Gilmore Girls movie!

It may not be in the works right now, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen some day.

In fact, Alexis Bledel, who played Rory opposite Lauren Graham on the hit drama series, says she’s kinda open to it…

“I don’t know what story is left to tell,” Bledel, now 28 told me yesterday during a chat at the Four Seasons Hotel. “But I’d very curious to read a script.”

Wouldn’t Rory be a mother by now?

“Oh my god—a baby bump! Could you imagine,” Bledel said with a laugh. “I actually always thought they were going to do that in the series. Since Lorelai got pregnant early, I thought my character was supposed to get pregnant early because she had all these boyfriends. Rory always had boyfriends.”

And speaking of boyfriends, Bledel stars in the upcoming flick The Good Guy as a young New Yorker who finds out the love of her life (Scott Porter) is, well, a cheating douchebag.

Bledel said she’s never dated someone similar, explaining that her love life is “not as exciting as the movie.”
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She just wrapped The Conspirator, a Robert Redford-directed, post-Civil War period piece about Mary Surrat, the only woman among the eight people arrested and charged with conspiring to assassinate President Lincoln along with his vice president and secretary of state.

Bledel would love to do an action movie someday. “I’m sporty,” she smiled. “But even if I’m not the action hero, I could be like one of the techies.”

And she’s been thinking about theater, too. “I don’t know that I see myself belting one out on stage, like singing on Broadway,” Bledel said. “But I think a dramatic play would be really cool.”

Gilmore Girls: The Play anyone?

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These days Alexis Bledel is trying her hand at being a film star and stepping away from television after seven years on the hit WB-turned-CW show Gilmore Girls. There she literally grew up before audience’s eyes as the bookish but fast-talking Rory who experienced first love, academic success, heartbreak, and even a spot of legal trouble. Now, though, she is just looking for more “adult” roles, which is why she took the part of Beth, a Manhattanite stuck between two suitors in Julio DePietro’s directorial debut, The Good Guy.

“That’s all I can really do [to break out of Rory's shadow], and try to find variety…I just try to find roles that seem interesting and entertaining,” Bledel shrugs nonchalantly at the press junket for The Good Guy.

But so far her film characters aren’t too far a stretch from Rory. In The Good Guy, Bledel’s character is a New York professional who has just ended a relationship with a married man and entered into a new one with a sweet-charming Wall Street guy (Friday Night Light’s Scott Porter). She is an avid reader and partakes in a book club where they read classics like “Lolita.” More importantly, though, she finds herself losing trust in her big league boyfriend and being pulled toward a secretive and quiet fellow reader (played by Bryan Greenberg).

And Bledel also just worked with Robert Redford, James McAvoy, and Robin Wright in a film about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln due out later in the year, called The Conspirator. In that film she portrays the girlfriend of the attorney (McAvoy) who defends a woman falsely accused of aiding in the planning of the assassination. Asking about that Bledel’s eyes widen and she gets animated: “It was awesome! I love period pieces!”

Bledel admits that she’s “not looking for [another series] right now…I would love to do a psychological thriller; I have one that I’m helping develop right now.” Bledel, who went to NYU for a year to study writing and directing, says she would like to step behind the camera as a producer but “I think I need to learn a little bit more about [it] first.”

The Good Guy opens on February 19.

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Alexis Bledel may not be known for her karate moves or superpowers, but the star said she wouldn’t mind strapping on the spandex on screen.

“I actually love action movies,” she told AccessHollywood.com during the junket for her latest film, “The Good Guy,” at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. “I don’t think there are enough female action heroes. One of my favorites is Carrie-Anne Moss in ‘The Matrix’ — so I would love to see more characters like that in film in general and to play one would be amazing.”

While she did star in comic book-turned-film “Sin City” in 2005, Alexis said one of her past “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” co-stars won’t need her help in bringing another comic to life.

“No, she knows what she’s doing, she doesn’t need my advice at all,” Alexis laughed of Blake Lively, who will star alongside Ryan Reynolds in 2011’s “Green Lantern.”

But as for her current film, Alexis was happy to play a more normal role in “The Good Guy” – a New Yorker settling in on her career and romantic options, which include Scott Porter and Bryan Greenberg vying for her affections.

“I just really responded to this script,” she said. “You read so many romantic stories that kind of follow a formula, so this one was different, and when I talked to [director] Julio [DePietro] about it before signing on, he had a clear idea of the movie he wanted to make and that was really encouraging.”

And while Porter and Greenberg may have a rivalry on film, she said there was no competition between the two actors on the set.

“No,” she laughed. “Nothing like that.”

With Valentine’s Day coming up this weekend, Alexis was thankful she hadn’t had to deal with any real-life love triangles.

“I’ve played this love triangle situation several times but I’ve never experienced it in real life,” she said. “It seems like an unlikely thing to have happen to most people.”

Up next, Alexis has a pair of movies on the way– “The Conspirator,” directed by Robert Redford, and an indie film called “The Kate Logan Affair.”

“Two people meet, an accident occurs and they end up on the road together,” she said of “The Kate Logan Affair,” adding that their journey comes to a tragic end.

One more film that might be on her plate? A long-rumored big-screen version of “Gilmore Girls,” which Alexis said she’d strongly consider if it ever came to pass.

“I really loved our series finale, I thought it tied up the story beautifully. I thought it came full circle,” she said. “I don’t know what story there is left to tell but I would be open to reading a script. I’d be curious to read a script!”

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Here’s the plot IMDb.com has posted.

Following the events of Return to Sleepaway Camp, “Reunion” focuses on the long-awaited return of Aunt Martha as well as Ricky and Angela Baker.

Please note that this is a rumour and nothing is confirmed yet.

6. Gilmore Girls: Aside from finally giving a great role to Lauren Graham, who had been on my “Why won’t someone make this woman a star?” list for years, this program featured the best dialogue this side of Aaron Sorkin’s White House, and one of the great mother/daughter relationships in TV history. And in an era where TV teen role models consisted of the brats on The O.C. and everyone on MTV, Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) was an oasis of wit and charm.

The top ten is as following.

10. Malcolm in the Middle
9. Scrubs
8. Friends
7. How I Met Your Mother
6. Gilmore Girls
5. South Park
4. Arrested Development
3. Curb Your Enthusiasm
2. 30 Rock
1. The Office

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