•• Virginia Madsen has joined the cast of the Lifetime telemovie “The Anna Nicole Story” which Sony Pictures TV and Storyline Entertainment are producing. “American Psycho” director Mary Harron has also come on board to helm the biopic about Vickie Lynn Hogan, a pretty but plain small town Texan girl who transformed herself into the voluptuous, Marilyn Monroe-esque Anna Nicole Smith.

Virginia Madsen will play Vickie’s mom Virgie, Landau will play oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall who married then-stripper Smith when he was 89 and she was 26. John Rice and Joe Batteer penned the script.

•• New movie project for Virginia Madsen has been confirmed! She has joined the cast in “The Wilderness Of James”, an indie film coming of age tale that was scripted by Michael James Johnson, who will make his directorial debut and who also wrote the script. Already announced cast are Isabelle Fuhrman, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Evan Ross and Tabor Helton. The film takes place in Portland and is the coming of age story about a young boy dealing with absence of his father. Virginia Madsen will play the role of Abigail Charm. Super Crispy is producing the low-budget indie and shooting is scheduled to begin next month. Nicholas Frenkel and Glenn Howarton are exec producing.

•• Just a reminder here.. Don’t forget to watch Virginia Madsen as Mrs. Durant on her first episode of Hell On Wheels tonight 9pm/8central.