Tennessee Film, Entertainment and Music Commission Executive Director Perry Gibson announced that production begins this week in Nashville on the Screen Gems feature film Love Don’t Let Me Down.

The $15 million project stars Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow, country music superstar Tim McGraw, Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl) and Garrett Hedlund (Friday Night Lights).
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An Academy Award-winning actress and a multi-platinum selling country hunk are teaming up on a project that is bringing an injection of cash to some Nashville-area businesses.

No, it’s not Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban.

Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw are starring in a $15 million movie that begins production this week in Nashville. The production company, Screen Gems, planned to hire local residents for 75 percent of the film’s crew and 90 percent of its cast (an open casting call was in December). The movie also stars Garrett Hedlund of Friday Night Lights (the movie, not the TV show), and Leighton Meester of Gossip Girl.
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Country star Tim McGraw is still riding pretty high on the success of his latest film, The Blind Side (Variety shows a box office cache of almost $220 million), which teamed him with top leading lady Sandra Bullock. But he’s already moved on to another movie, and another blockbuster leading lady — Love Don’t Let Me Down, with co-star Gwyneth Paltrow, which began production this week in Nashville.

Along with McGraw and Paltrow, Love will also feature Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester (who shares McGraw’s musical inclinations — you’ve likely heard her in Cobra Starship’s major hit “Good Girls Go Bad”) and Garrett Hedlund (who joined McGraw in the cast of 2004 football flick Friday Night Lights).

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, country singer Tim McGraw is slated to star in an upcoming country music-fueled drama, “Love Don’t Let Me Down,” alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Leighton Meester and Garrett Hedlund. Production will begin early next year in Nashville with Shana Feste directing.

McGraw will play the husband and manager of Paltrow’s fallen country singer character, who embarks on a “career resurrection tour” with Hedlund, who will play “a young rising singer-songwriter.” Also in the romantic entanglement mess is Meester, a “beauty queen-turned-singer.” Emotional hijinks will, no doubt, ensue throughout the course of the movie.

The Reporter also states that Tobey Maguire and Jenno Topping are producing via their Maguire Entertainment banner.

McGraw’s previous movies include “The Blind Side,” in theaters now, as well as “Four Christmases,” “The Kingdom,” “Flicka,” “Friday Night Lights,” and “Black Cloud.”

Screen Gems has locked down Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester as its cast of country singers in “Love Don’t Let Me Down,” which Tobey Maguire is producing.
Production on the drama is set to start in January in Nashville.

Pic, which Shana Feste wrote and will direct, revolves around a rising young singer-songwriter (Hedlund) who becomes involved with a fallen country singer, to be played by Paltrow. As they embark on a career resurrection tour with her husband and manager (McGraw) and a beauty queen-turned-singer (Meester), romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.

Maguire will produce with Jenno Topping through their Maguire Entertainment shingle.

Paltrow most recently played Pepper Potts in “Iron Man” and will reprise the role in next summer’s sequel.

McGraw most recently co-starred opposite Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side” and has also appeared in “Four Christmases,” “The Kingdom” and “Friday Night Lights.” Hedlund headlines Disney’s remake of “Tron,” while Meester is a regular on the CW’s “Gossip Girl.” She stars in Screen Gems’ upcoming thriller “The Roommate” and Fox’s “Date Night.”

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According to the Hollywood Reporter, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester will star in the upcoming drama, ”Love Don’t Let Me Down,” with production set to begin in January 2010 in Nashville.

The magazine says Hedlund will play ”a young rising singer-songwriter who becomes involved with a fallen country singer played by Paltrow. They embark on a career resurrection tour with her husband-manager (McGraw) and a beauty queen-turned-singer (Meester). Romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.”

This will be the second project for Tim – who’s getting rave reviews in his current flick, “The Blind Side” — and Hedlund. Previously they starred in “Friday Night Lights” as father and son. And, to continue the “it’s a small world” theme, Tim has often cited Paltrow’s husband’s band, Coldplay, as one of his favorites.

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By Andrea Reiher | December 2, 2009 1:12 PM

The Upper East Side’s Blair Waldorf is trading her “Gossip Girl” headbands for a cowboy hat — Leighton Meester is headed to Nashville for “Love Don’t Let Me Down.”

“Love Don’t Let Me Down” is shaping up to have an all-star cast. Not only has Leighton Meester signed on, but so have Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw and Garrett Hedlund, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The story is that a rising country star (Hedlund) teams up with a fallen country star (Paltrow). Their relationship is complicated by the fallen star’s manager-husband (McGraw) and a beauty-queen-turned-country-singer (Meester).

Production begins in 2010 in Nashville. Interestingly, though McGraw and Hedlund play romantic rivals in “Love Don’t Let Me Down,” they played father and son in the movie version of “Friday Night Lights.” McGraw can also currently be seen as Sandra Bullock’s husband in “The Blind Side.”

This is movie will undoubtedly help Leighton Meester’s burgeoning singing career and probably expose her talents to a different audience than the “Gossip Girl” set.

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009 – Tim McGraw will star with Gwyneth Paltrow in a movie about a country singer, Billboard reported.

Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester also will star in Screen Gems’ country singing drama “Love Don’t Let Me Down,” which Shana Feste, who was behind “The Greatest,” wrote and is directing.

Hedlund plays a young rising singer-songwriter, who becomes involved with a down on her luck country singer played by Paltrow. They join on a career resurrection tour with her husband-manager (McGraw) and a beauty queen-turned-singer (Meester).

Production is slated to start in January 2010 in Nashville.

McGraw is currently in the successful film “The Blind Side.” Hedlund recently finished shooting Disney’s “Tron Legacy.” McGraw and Hedlund were father and son in Universal’s “Friday Night Lights.” Meester, best known for her work in “Gossip Girl,” is featured in “The Roommate,” slated to open in September 2010.

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The country music drama “Love Don’t Let Me Down” will have big actors such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester.

Hedlund is a young rising singer-songwriter that will involve with a country singer, role performed by Gwyneth Paltrow.

The story was wrote by Shana Feste and Tobey Maguire and Jenno Topping are producing via their Maguire Entertainment banner.

Latest movies of these actors are:

- Garrett Hedlund in Disney’s “Tron Legacy”

- Tim McGraw co-stars the recent release “The Blind Side”

- Gwyneth Paltrow in “Iron Man 2″

- Leighton Meester in “Gossip Girl”, “The Roommate”

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Production set to begin in Jan. in Nashville

By Borys Kit

Dec 2, 2009, 03:10 PM ET

Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester are set to star in Screen Gems’ country singing drama “Love Don’t Let Me Down,” which Shana Feste wrote and is directing.

Tobey Maguire and Jenno Topping are producing via their Maguire Entertainment banner.

In “Love,” Hedlund plays a young rising singer-songwriter who becomes involved with a fallen country singer played by Paltrow. They embark on a career resurrection tour with her husband-manager (McGraw) and a beauty queen-turned-singer (Meester). Romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.

Production is set to begin in January 2010 in Nashville.

Screen Gems’ senior vp of production Nick Phillips will oversee the project for the studio.

CAA-repped Feste was the filmmaker behind the 2009 Sundance drama “The Greatest.”

Country singer-turned-occasional actor McGraw, repped by CAA, can be currently seen in “The Blind Side” while Hedlund, repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners, recently wrapped shooting Disney’s “Tron Legacy.” While McGraw and Hedlund play rivals in “Love,” they were father and son in Universal’s “Friday Night Lights.”

Paltrow, repped by UTA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners, reprises her role as Pepper Potts in next summer’s “Iron Man 2,” while WME and Leverage Entertainment-repped Meester, best known for her work in “Gossip Girl,” is featured in Screen Gems’ “The Roommate,” which opens September 2010.

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