Teen Choice Award winner Blake Lively from the sucky television show "Gossip Girl" (sorry, I just can't stand it) has signed on to join the solid cast for Ben Affleck's upcoming crime flick "The Town," the big-screen adaptation of Chuck Hogan's novel "The Prince of Thieves."

She joins Affleck, Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall and Jeremy Renner. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the awesome Chris Cooper is also in talks to join the Warner Bros./Legendary project, and I can only hope he does.

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Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper and Emilie de Ravin will join Robert Pattinson in Allen Coulter's upcoming drama "Remember Me," which is scheduled to shoot this month. Also in talks to join the project is Lena Olin, according to Variety. Written by Will Fetters (rewrite by Jenny Lumet), the film follows two individuals who meet and share their respective family tragedy.

Pattinson plays a man whose parents (Brosnan and Olin) split after this brother commits suicide. De Ravin ("Lost," "Public Enemies") is set to portray a woman who lives each day to the fullest after she witnesses the murder of her mother. Cooper, according to the trade, may play her dad.

Brosnan's credits include "Mamma Mia!," and some of his future projects include "The Ghost" and "Percy Jackson." As for Cooper, he will be seen in "New York, I Love You" and "The Tempest." Pattinson, of course, will lead "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" with Kristen Stewart.