You guys! This is the very first official footage that we’re seeing from the Les Mis movie, can you believe it? Sure, it’s a trailer that was shakily filmed by someone watching it on a computer, and yeah, it will probably be pulled in a few hours. But look at it! You can see the barricade and little Cosette, and that loving look between Marius and Cosette, and … more Cosette. But we saw Hugh Jackman a handful of times, and we got to hear Anne Hathaway sing “I Dreamed a Dream.”

By the way, wow, Anne Hathaway. That’s … that’s some singing right there. And by that, I mean that it didn’t sound very good. It seems like they went for a more emotional take on the song, probably because Anne couldn’t pull off the vocals that the song usually requires. It seems odd that they would choose her song as opposed to one of Hugh’s, since, you know, he’s the star, he has multiple songs, and he has the voice for the role, without question. It would have been much better to hear Hugh sing “Bring Him Home” over this business, right? Or am I missing some sort of amazing, powerful emotion in Anne’s performance?

Basically, I’m still excited, but I kind of don’t get Anne Hathaway as Fantine anymore. What about you guys?

Can I be completely honest with you guys? I am freaking out. I am seriously, honestly freaking out over this movie. I am so excited about this whole thing. Les Miserables lives in such a dear, deep place in my heart, and when I go to see this movie, I have a feeling that it’s going to be like the time my dad took me to see Cats when the touring company was coming through back in high school. And by that, I mean that I’m going to hyperventilate and cry throughout the first two songs while surrounded by old ladies.

And if I wasn’t freaking out enough after Sarah posted those stills the other day, I certainly am now that I saw this video. The footage is from the filming of the show’s finale, and it looks so beautiful. I think Hugh Jackman is going to do such a phenomenal job with this (even though my BFF, who I have lengthy discussions of this movie with, thinks he’s a little too clean-cut and handsome for the role), and Anne Hathaway … well, to be fair, I always love Anne Hathaway. I think I’m going to have a hard time finding any fault at all with this whole thing. I just love it too much already.

But wait! That was a set-up, because I already had a serious fault in mind. See, the finale of Les Mis is … let’s just say that I have never, ever been able to listen to it without crying. Ever. I cried the first time I heard it, I cried when I saw the show, I cried just now, watching this video, and I cried every single time I’ve listed to it in between all that. If you’re not familiar, then, ok, Hugh Jackman’s character, Jean Valjean, lives this whole big life (you can’t honestly expect me to tell you everything that happens. It’s a lot), and spoiler alert, he’s about to die. Then Fantine, Anne Hathaway’s character, who died a while back, comes down to escort him to heaven. Eponine, who died recently, comes down to escort him too. And then everybody comes on in, like you see in the clip, to do the “Do You Hear The People Sing?” bit. And that’s great, but listen: Fantine and Eponine are supposed to be next to Valjean when he dies, not just Fantine, and certainly not just Fantine with Valjean all alone. Valjean is supposed to hold hands with Fantine and Eponine and sing the part that reduces me to a weepy mess of tears and grief: “take my hand, and lead me to salvation. Take my love, for love is everlasting. And remember the truth that once was spoken: to love another person is to see the face of God.” This is one of the most touching moments of the entire show for me, and if it’s done with Fantine and Valjean up high on a tower, away from everyone else, with no Eponine in sight, then I’m going to be a little hurt.

In an attempt to balance out my long-winded nerdiness, let me go ahead and show you this picture of Amanda Seyfried as Cosette:

What do we think?

Some of you guys didn’t seem all that excited about the possibility of an Amanda Seyfried-Josh Hartnett romantic pairing, and I just didn’t get that. I love Amanda, and I think Josh is still pretty hot after all these years (and after other, longer-lasting heartthrobs have come and gone), and hearing that the two were probably boning on the regular really made my heart go pitty-pat. And while, like I said, I don’t love them like I love Michelle Williams and Jason Segel (who I haven’t heard squadoosh about since initially talking about it a couple of weeks ago)

Well anyway, here. Here’s photographic evidence that these two are, at the very least, shopping at the same grocery store and may or may not know one another either on a casual or quite personal basis. It’s enough for me, but then again, I’m not all that hard to please. Sources say that the two left Amanda’s house and headed to Trader Joe’s, where they stocked up on breakfast items:

After the two stars left Seyfried’s home (which she shares with older sister and personal assistant Jennifer), they went grocery shopping at Trader Joe’s, where they picked up yogurt, tortilla chips, cereal, bread and juice.

OK, I know. They’re boring. It’s … boring. This whole thing is really rather uninteresting and bland and vanilla. But you know what? I’ll bet the sex is hot. And if there were ever a Josh Hartnett-Amanda Seyfried sex tape, I bet it’d sell like hotcakes. Hot. Cakes.

From Us Weekly:

Amanda Seyfried, 26, has been seeing Josh Hartnett, 33, since January, sources tell the new Us Weekly, on stands this week.

“Josh likes to keep things low-key, so they’ve just been hanging out,” says a pal of the pair, who were set up by a friend. After having hot-and-heavy romances with Ryan Phillippe and Dominic Cooper in the past, Seyfried dated an NYC real estate exec, Andrew Joblon in late 2011.

Hm, interesting. Just when I had *almost* forgotten who Josh Hartnett even was, and man, did I have a huge hard-on for him back in the day. Remember Halloween: H20 and The Faculty? God. That boy had sex for looks. You can’t forget Pearl Harbor, either. That movie was one big crapshoot of, well, total shit, but laws. He made the interminable, three-hour torture somewhat bearable.

And then, of course, you have Amanda Seyfried, who’s pretty much one of the hottest things in Hollywood (that, ahem, doesn’t feel the obligation to show up to events wasted and uninvited, or flash her cooter all over Sunset Boulevard in order to get some attention) right now.

So, alright. I like it. I don’t *love* it like I love Michelle Williams and Jason Segel, but … and oh, wait. Wow. How bizarre. Michelle and Josh were an on-screen couple in Halloween: H20, and I think that’s kind of neat. Right? Neat. Sort of like the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or whatever.

Anyway, the New York Daily News has some additional information backing Us‘s claims, and eyewitnesses say that the new couple was out partying with Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter. Somebody’s got love on their minds, especially if they’re doubling with unmarried-married folks:

Though they’ve managed to keep their blossoming romance hush-hush, the pair was reportedly spotted at L.A.’s Chateau Marmont on Feb. 6 while on a double date with on-again couple Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter, Seyfried’s “Gone” co-star.

What do you guys think – hot or not?

Sad news today, friends. Real sad news. Because further casting of the Les Miserables movie was announced today and, well, things aren’t looking so hot. What makes this even sadder was that I was seriously, genuinely excited about this movie. I love the musical with all my heart, and to see it immortalized in movie form was a dream come true. I was so thankful that the youth of today gets the privilege to experience one of the most loved musicals of all time this way, I truly was.

And the cast so far, could you imagine? Hugh Jackman would absolutely astound as Val Jean, and I’ll always love Anne Hathaway. Plus, we get to see Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter as the Thenardiers. We get to hear them sing “Master of the House”! What could be sweeter?

I’ll tell you what, friends. My favorite character, Eponine, getting the justice she deserves, that would be sweet. Hearing a true vocalist, nay, a true artist move me with a heart-wrenching rendition of “On My Own,” captured on film forever. I was truly worried that this would never come to be with the talk of that hellish sounding battle of actresses vying for the role. And, as it turns out, I was right to be worried.

Taylor Swift got the role, you guys. Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift, one of the most annoying ladies out there, is playing the role of Eponine. Why? Did she stun the director with her Dixie Chicks covers and her role in Valentine’s Day? You know, if they were going to pick an utterly obnoxious person anyway, they could have gone the extra mile and hired someone obnoxious AND talented. Like, you know how much I can’t stand the likes of Lea Michele, but that girl got shafted. I thought Lea was a shoe-in, and I think the rest of the world did too. I wonder what she did wrong?

Oh, and here’s some more casting news that I don’t feel as strongly about: Amanda Seyfried got the role of Cosette. I’ve never seen Mamma Mia!, so I can’t bitch about her voice like I can about Taylor’s, but Amanda was apparently trained in classical opera and worked with a voice coach for five years, so that sounds fair enough.

Back to Taylor real quick: did you know that the actors in this here Les Mis movie are going to be singing live on film? Have you heard Taylor sing live? Why is this happening? I honestly can’t understand it. To be fair, I am sick and feverish and I feel gross and there have been several times today where I’ve had to stop and analyze my surroundings so I could figure out if I was in reality or not. So maybe I’m overreacting. Maybe Taylor Swift was the obvious choice, and I’m too crazy to see it.

Please tell me I don’t live in that world. Please tell me this is ridiculous and upsetting and that this beloved musical deserves better. Please?

Have you guys seen this yet? I hadn’t either, until I saw the corresponding photo shoot for W magazine featuring both Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake. I knew the two of them were working on a project together, but I didn’t really take the time to find out what it was about, assuming that it was some kind of Dear John-Friends With Benefits hybrid, which would be the kiss of death for any cinematic appeal IMHO. But this? Well. I didn’t expect this. It’s called In Time, and it deals with, well, futuristic time stuff and an ill-fated love affair between Seyfried’s and Timberlake’s characters, but the best part of all? Cillian Murphy is in it. And Cilian Murphy? IS HOT HOT HOT.

Also, as far as I’m aware, the photos that W shot have positively nothing to do with In Time, in case you were confused for the first fifteen minutes of looking at them like I was.