Box office darling Saoirse Ronan has closed a deal to star in The Host, the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s novel of the same name.

Inferno Entertainment will begin shopping the project to foreign buyers at the Cannes film market, which gets underway May 11.

Ronan is currently in theaters with Focus Features’ smart thriller Hanna, which has grossed more than $36 million so far at the domestic box.

Meyer’s name — along with the success of Hanna and Ronan’s performance — should lead to brisk foreign presales for Inferno and Host producers Nick Wechsler and Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz. Host reteams Inferno and the latter two producers, the team behind Brad Pitt starrer Cogan’s Trade, which is now in post.

In The Host, Ronan will play the title character Melanie Stryder, who fights daringly against aliens — a.k.a. The Souls — who have taken over Earth.

Ronan, the Oscar-nominated star of Atonement, The Lovely Bones and most recently Hanna, will play Melanie Stryder, one of the last humans putting up a fight against an alien species called Souls. These parasites invade human bodies, fuse to each person’s consciousness and systematically erase their personalities. Melanie is captured by the aliens and implanted by a Soul called Wanderer, something of a legend because of all of the “hosts” she has attached to on numerous planets. Wanderer’s goal is to get Melanie to give up the remaining pockets of humans, but instead the alien finds Melanie to be unique in her unwillingness to surrender her consciousness. Wanderer is so overwhelmed by Melanie’s memories and feelings, the alien is driven to reconnect with Melanie’s old life.

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I’ve uploaded new stills and a behind the scenes picture of Hanna:

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Weekend Box Office Estimates (U.S.)
Apr 22 – 24 weekend

1. Rio – $26,800,000
2. Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family – $25,750,000
3. Water for Elephants – $17,500,000
4. Hop – $12,460,917
5. Scream 4 – $7,154,000
6. African Cats – $6,003,200
7. Soul Surfer – $5,436,868
8. Hanna – $5,296,302

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Brendon Connelly from Bleeding Cool talks about a new supposed Saoirse´s project. But it´s just a rumor of course.. Check out!

Eoin Colfer has described his Artemis Fowl novels as “Die Hard with fairies”. I’ve never read them, but I just ran that description past a former student of mine who has and she said “Okay, I suppose, if he says so”. She added that the books are named after their lead character, who’s like “the anti-Harry Potter”, and described him as a rather winning young master crook at large in a fantasy version of our world.

With a pitch like that, I’m not too surprised there’s a big screen adaptation in the works. Yet, according Colfer, who was speaking to the Irish Independent‘s Weekend Review, director Jim Sheridan is currently ” in LA, trying to get it unblocked”.

The problem, apparently, is “the format of the movie” – which might mean they’re arguing about how many books worth of story to squeeze into one film, or if they end on a cliffhanger or a happy ending with every bow tied neatly. These were arguments that the filmmakers behind, for example, Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings and The Spiderwick Chronicles all had to go through.

Sheridan previously directed My Left Foot and In The Name of the Father, to give just two fine examples, and has Dream House with Daniel Craig coming along later in the year. I like most of his films a great deal, and all of them at least a little. And yes, that includes Get Rich or Die Trying, the 50 Cent film he was responsible for.

The same newspaper reported back in February that Saoirse Ronan took meetings with Sheridan about the role of Holly Short, a member of the elven law force. Colfer punningly calls these characters LEPRecons, or members of the Lower Element Police Reconnaissance. This week, the Irish Independent say, Colfer “wants” Ronan to take the role.

Well, who wouldn’t?

Here’s hoping Sheridan can break through the blockage. I’d also like to see him sign Ronan. She’s good, even in bad films.

Watch a Blu-ray clip from The Way Back DVD.

Despite casting director Ros Hubbard making the claim last month that Saoirse Ronan has joined The Hobbit in an unspecified role, the young Irish actress has come forward to say that she hasn’t signed onto the project yet.

At this weekend’s Irish Film and Television Awards, Saoirse Ronan spoke for the first time about appearing in the The Hobbit. And she made it clear that nothing is official at this moment in time.

“No, nothing has actually been confirmed yet. I’d love to get a role in The Hobbit. I think everybody in the world would like a role in The Hobbit.”

Saoirse Ronan is rumored to be playing Itaril, a character that was created specifically for The Hobbit and The Hobbit Sequel. Itaril is described as a Silvan Elf chosen to become part of the Woodland King’s Guard.

The Hobbit comes to theaters November 2012 and stars Martin Freeman, Cate Blanchett, Ron Perlman, Saoirse Ronan, Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Doug Jones.

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I´ve added to the gallery a new still in HQ of Hanna:

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A new trailer of Saoirse’s movie Hanna was released today. Thanks Ana for the tip!