Looks like Julia has another project coming up!

Julia Stiles’ career has been a bit of an odd one. She’s been working consistently ever since the late ‘90s/early aughts but never quite became a household name. In recent years, she’s probably best known for her role in the ‘Bourne’ trilogy, “Mona Lisa Smile” and her turn on the last season of “Dexter.” And while the actress can never be quite pegged down, we really didn’t expect this bit of news.

As David O. Russell gets the final pieces of his cast for “The Silver Linings Playbook” in place, Deadline reports that Julia Stiles has boarded the film. Based on the book by Matthew Quick, the story centers on Pat Peoples (Bradley Cooper), a former high school teacher who, after being released from a four-year stint in a mental institution, moves back in with his mother; he then seeks to remake himself, finding the titular silver linings in his life. Jennifer Lawrence will play the love interest for Pat, with Stiles as her older sister. Jacki Weaver and Robert De Niro also star in the film, and remember when it was reported that Chris Tucker might be joining as well? That looks to be going through.

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Julia Stiles and Taye Diggs are joining Melissa George (A Lonely Place to Die) and David Harbour (The Green Hornet) in Between Us.

Between Us is a big screen adaptation of the off-Broadway play written by Joe Hortua, who is also co-writing the script with the film’s director, Dan Mirvsh (Slam Film Festival co-founder).

It’s a dark comedy centered around two couples, old friends, who discover the mess their lives have become through ambition, money, success, sex and children.

Production will begin in Los Angeles next month.

It’s so exciting to see that Julia is doing a new movie again! Updates will return shortly.

Director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) has stepped in to replace Neil LaBute in an adaptation of LaBute’s collection of short stories, Seconds of Happiness. The frame of the narrative takes place on an airplane and examines the interconnecting lives of various passengers through vignettes. Clearly, this will be just like Lost. Deadline also reports that Brendan Fraser and Kristen Scott Thomas will be joined by Christina Hendricks, Julia Stiles, and Matt Dillon. Hendricks will play a woman who catches her husband (Fraser) in a “compromising position.” Because I’ve never read LaBute’s book but have seen every episode of Lost, I imagine Fraser’s position has something to do with pushing a button every 108 minutes. LaBute is still on board to produce and shooting is expected to begin this summer.

Hendricks recently signed on to star in the ensemble comedy I Don’t Know How She Does It while Dillon is attached to co-star in Roman Polanski’s God of Carnage and Matthew Weiner’s You Are Here. Stiles recently co-starred on Showtime’s Dexter. Hit the jump for the synopsis of Seconds of Pleasure.

Here’s the synopsis for Neil LaBute’s Seconds of Pleasure [via Amazon]:

Neil LaBute is best known for his controversial films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, and his plays The Mercy Seat and The Shape of Things—which he also adapted for the screen. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Harper’s Bazaar, among others. Now, in his debut collection of stories, he brings to the page his cutting humor and compelling take on the shadowy terrain of the human heart. Seductive and disturbing, the stories in Seconds of Pleasure are not for the faint of heart. Each potent and pithy tale finds men and women exploiting—or at the mercy of—the hidden fault lines that separate them: a woman leaves her family at their vacation home after discovering her husband in a compromising situation in “Time Share”; a middle-aged man obsesses over a scab on the calf of a pretty young girl in “Boo-Boo”; and a vain Hollywood actor gets his comeuppance in “Soft Target.” Infused with LaBute’s trademark wit and black humor, Seconds of Pleasure unleashes his imagination in stories that offer unflinching insight into our very human shortcomings and impure urges with shocking candor.

Thanks to Collider.com

Tickets go on sale this Saturday, February 12 at 12:01am for the first ever Broadway production of Neil LaBute’s FAT PIG at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th Street), starring comedy superstar and actor Dane Cook, stage, film, and television actor Josh Hamilton, stage and screen star Julia Stiles and introducing Heather Jane Rolff. LaBute will make his Broadway directorial debut with the play, which begins performances Tuesday, April 12, 2011 for an official opening night of Tuesday, April 26, 2011.

Tickets for FAT PIG will be available through Telecharge.com (212-239-6200) and range from $51.50 – $129.00. The playing schedule for FAT PIG is as follows: Tuesday at 7pm, Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm, Wednesday and Saturday at 2pm, and Sunday at 3pm. Tickets are on sale exclusively to American Express cardholders through Friday, February 11.

LaBute’s razor-sharp comedy tells the story of Tom (Hamilton), a very eligible bachelor who falls for the beautiful, bright and plus-sized Helen (Rolff). Tom is overjoyed with his new relationship but his shallow co-workers are less enthusiastic. Tom shrugs off their objections but eventually the cruel jabs of his acerbic friend Carter (Cook) and Jeannie (Stiles), a former flame, force him to question his own values and the importance of conventional good looks. The bitingly funny FAT PIG is Neil LaBute’s candid and unapologetic depiction of our obsession with image and cookie cutter beauty.

The design team for FAT PIG will include scenic designer Neil Patel (Wonderland, ‘Night Mother), lighting designer David Weiner (Reasons To Be Pretty, The Real Thing), and sound designer Robert Kaplowitz (Tony Award winner for Fela). FAT PIG will be produced on Broadway by Heather Provost and Aldo Scrofani.

www.fatpigonbroadway.com

A star-studded reading of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, which will benefit PS 3, will be presented Jan. 9 at 7 PM at the Cherry Lane Theatre.

According to Telecharge.com, the sold-out reading boasts the talents of Ethan Hawke, Billy Crudup, Wallace Shawn, Louie CK, Alessandra Nivola, Julia Stiles, Mario Cantone, Emily Mortimer and Jonathan Marc Sherman.

The Odd Couple opened on Broadway in 1965 starring Art Carney and Walter Matthau. Matthau later repeated his work for the 1968 film. The play received a Broadway revival in 2005 starring Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane.

Neil Simon – the only playwright to have four of his works running on Broadway simultaneously – has been honored with three Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Drama Desk Award, an American Comedy Award, a Golden Globe Award and the Kennedy Center Honors. Some of his works for the stage include Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Chapter Two, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound. He also contributed librettos to the musicals Sweet Charity; Promises, Promises; They’re Playing Our Song; and The Goodbye Girl.

Cherry Lane Theatre is located at 38 Commerce Street, off 7th Avenue, one block south of Bleecker. For more information visit Telecharge.com.