When considering which celebrity they would most like to share a fence with, most Americans would prefer moving next door to Sandra Bullock, according to a new survey.

Each year, the website Zillow takes a survey to determine which celebrities Americans would most like to call their neighbors. In 2010, Bullock, who won a Best Actress Oscar this year for her performance in “The Blind Side,” received 26 percent of the vote. Bullock also endured a widely-publicized split from her husband, Jesse James, after it was revealed he had had a number of indiscretions. The story may have gained Bullock more sympathy from females, 30 percent of which said they would enjoy living in the same neighborhood as her.

According to EW.Com, Sandy has recieved a new offer to star in Never Forget

Sandra Bullock has received an offer for the film Never Forget at Screen Gems. The film, according to sources familiar with the project, say it is loosely based on the documentary On Moral Grounds, directed by Robby Kushner, which depicts one woman’s quest to reimburse Holocaust survivors who were swindled out of their heir’s insurance policies by a European insurance company. The studio has been very hush-hush on this project but has confirmed exclusively to EW.com that she’s been offered the role.

The film is one of several movies recently offered Bullock, but she has passed on most of them. Bullock has already said no to starring in New Line’s Our Wild Life, aka Elephant Orphanage, which centers on the life of Dame Daphne Sheldrick, an animal conservationist in Kenya who devoted her life to preventing the extinction of elephants. Julia Roberts had been rumored for the role, too. New Line is now regrouping before reaching out to a new leading lady.

Bullock has also turned down an offer to star in Disney’s The Odd Life of Timothy Green, a film from Peter Hedges (Dan in Real Life) that centers on a family whose lives are touched by an unexpected child.

It’s understandable why the 45-year-old actress may have turned down both Wild Life and Timothy Green. Both parts have inklings of her Oscar-winning role in The Blind Side in them. Wild Life requires her to portray another real-life person, just as she did playing Leigh Anne Tuohy, and Timothy Green centers around a child who changes a family’s life, a la Michael Oher.

Bullock is currently negotiating to co-star opposite Tom Hanks in the adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s 9/11 novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which Stephen Daldry is planning to direct for Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures.

The post 9/11 drama centers on a young boy who finds a key that belonged to his late father who died in the World Trade Center attacks. Sources believe it will be the actress’s next project.

Tom Hanks is very excited to get work started on the film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s second novel, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.” Why? Well, aside from the story — which follows a nine-year-old boy in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks — he can’t wait to work with fellow Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock.

“Well I have left a voicemail for Sandra … Sandy. Can I call her Sandy? I can call her Sandy. I think she called the office back, but I hope to talk to her very, very, very soon,” the Emmy-winning Hanks told MTV News at the HBO Emmy afterparty. “The story is magnificent. Eric Roth wrote a brilliant screenplay, which makes our lives very easy because you just read it and you say, ‘I would be honored to be a part of this.’ ”

Although he isn’t a close friend of Bullock, he does admire her work. “I am a huge Sandra Bullock fan. I’ve only met her a couple of times. She is a magnificent actress,” he raved. “And every time we’ve seen her, even just as recently as ‘The Proposal’ and ‘The Blind Side,’ we’ve thought, ‘We’d be lucky to work with her.’ ”

“Extremely Loud” is focused on a New York boy whose father was killed in the 9/11 attacks. The boy finds a key that belonged to his dad, but he doesn’t know what it unlocks; the plot follows his attempt to answer that question. Foer’s book employs an untraditional writing style that incorporates multiple interconnected story lines, photographs and the like.

The rights to the novel were first acquired several years ago. Scott Rudin is producing and Stephen Daldry (“The Hours”) is attached to direct, with a script from “Forrest Gump” writer Eric Roth. Warner Bros. is the lead studio on the project.

Despite the rain-soaked gray Sunday morning and the somber fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Sandra Bullock managed to get a laugh out of the crowd at Warren Easton Charter High School in New Orleans.

Flipping over an hourglass, the Oscar-winning actress joked, “THIS is all the time I have.”

Bullock, a part-time New Orleans resident, donated money to help rebuild the school and to open a student health clinic. She appeared at weekend events to pay tribute to those behind the hurricane recovery effort.

“I have seen nothing but unimaginable kindness, perseverance and hope right in this room here,” said Bullock. “It gives me great pleasure to be in the company of these people who have actually made the difference. They did the hard work, they are here sitting before you.”

Joking that she was beginning to sound like a politician – “No offense,” she laughed to U.S. Sens. Mary Landrieu and David Vitter – Bullock said that despite the devastation, the anniversary should be seen as day for celebration.

“These young adults have seen the very worst, and they are committed to the very best,” said Bullock. ” They are our future leaders. I would like to thank the students who step up to the plate and do the hardest work. I didn’t do it in high school, and it makes me so incredibly proud.”

Wearing a V-neck dark blue knee-length dress, black belt and heels, Bullock stood with school nurse Cassondra Ferrand and principal Alexina Medley and other officials to cut the gold ribbon on the new health facility behind the school.

“It was more than her money,” says Easton Foundation board member Arthur Hardy. “She is like our spiritual leader. She is our angel.”

“What do you say about a human being who just pours out their heart and soul, who puts their money where their mouth is, walks the walk, talks the talk,” adds Mayor Mitch Landrieu. “And even if is was just in a movie, she married a New Orleans boy.”

For more information about the school and to donate to ongoing efforts, go to the Warrant Easton Charter Foundation.

Source: People.com

Last April, as his name was being tossed around in the derby for choosing a director for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Stephen Daldry went far classier by choosing to direct an adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close instead. The novel about a young boy coping with his father’s death on 9/11 was much more in line with Daldry’s track record of Billy Elliott, The Hours and The Reader, and I also assumed he’d once again pluck a young actor out of obscurity to play the lead and make him a star, as he did for Jamie Bell and David Kross.

While the role of the lead character, a clever nine-year-old growng up in Manhattan is still up for grabs, IndieWire reports that Daldry has cast two of his leads. Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock will play the boy’s parents, and though the father character is dead for much of the book, apparently he’ll be seen in a series of flashbacks. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button writer Eric Roth adapted the screenplays, and given Hanks’s Oscar pedigree, Bullock’s recent win and Daldry’s three nominations, this is about the most Oscar-baity cast you could imagine without making the movie about the Holocaust.

Production is set to start in January in New York City, and as the search for the lead character is just beginning, it might be a while before we see a name finalized. Still, with Bullock and Hanks on board– it will the first film Bullock has made since she won an Oscar, got a divorce and adopted a baby in the course of a few months– the movie has been guaranteed a clear road through production. Oscar season 2012 may well have its first entry.

Source: Cinema Blend

According to the new edition of People magazine, the adoption of Louis has been finalized. We’re so happy for you, Sandy!

Sandra Bullock is offering words of welcome as her ex-husband Jesse James prepares to move to her adopted hometown in Texas.

“I support Jesse in his move to Austin,” the Oscar winner, 46, tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week’s cover story. “We have both moved on with our lives and only want the best for each other. Anything else that is said on my behalf is inaccurate.”

For Bullock, moving on includes finalizing her adoption of 8-month-old son Louis on Aug. 13 surrounded by friends and her sister Gesine in a New Orleans courtroom. “She is so in love with her child,” says a source.

As for motorcycle CEO James, 41 – who recently stepped out in Las Vegas with LA Ink star Kat Von D. – he too is starting to move on in the wake of the cheating scandal that led to his June divorce from Bullock, according to a James source.

“I think he’s starting to grasp reality a bit more,” says the source, “and the realization that it’s going to take a lot longer and a lot more than he thought to bring things back to what they were.”

Source: People.com

You may have heard some rumors about Sandy & Jesse being photographed together, they’re not true. We can see clearly that the woman is not Sandy, besides, her publicist denied the rumors as well.

Some pictures are worth a thousand words. This one, not so much.

A photograph posted Wednesday morning, taken this week and purporting to show Sandra Bullock with ex-husband Jesse James, spurred several blogs to cover it as a “reunion” image of the couple. In fact, the shot doesn’t show the Oscar winner at all!

Bullock’s rep confirms to PEOPLE that the woman in question – shot from behind while walking into the West Coast Choppers offices – is not her client.

Bullock was in the L.A. area on Sunday, she says, but kept her reunions limited to Betty White, with whom she playfully boogied at the Teen Choice Awards.

Bullock, 46, and James, 41, have not been seen in public together since his cheating scandal broke in March, leading to their divorce in June.

Source: People.com

Sandra Bullock, the Oscar winning actress who last month asked to be removed from a video promoting the Women of the Storm’s Restore the Gulf campaign, is apparently back on board. Bullock’s publicist said today that the actress “has decided to continue with her involvement in the ‘Be the One’ PSA.”

Cheryl Maisel said Bullock “has notified the Women of the Storm that they may continue to include her portion of the video, provided that they include the following clarifying statement, which was posted today on the Women of the Storm’s website:

“Ms. Bullock’s participation in the Restore the Gulf campaign does not imply support for, or endorsement of, any organization or of any other message than as expressed in the Restore the Gulf public service announcement. The restoration of our Gulf Coast is of great importance to her. She supports any person or persons who are honorably trying to bring help and light to a very dire situation. She will NOT support anyone who is using these terrible circumstances to advance a self serving cause that does not benefit the Gulf Coast or that burdens tax payers with obligations that should rightfully be the responsibility of others.”
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Lots of rumors saying that Sandy would team up with Steve Carell for a movie based on The Abstinence Teacher novel were out yesterday but, according to E! Online, Sandy hasn’t decided about her next project and is not attached to The Abstinence Teacher:

A report claiming that Bullock has signed on for the flick is not true…

In fact, Bullock’s rep tells us she still hasn’t decided what her next project will be. (She will, however, be at Sunday’s Teen Choice Awards, where she is up for four surfboards.)

Source: E! Online

LOS ANGELES — Life can be hard for actresses in Hollywood. Good roles are few and far between, and their paychecks are usually smaller than their male co-stars’. It seems that no number of female-centric hits (like Mamma Mia and Sex and the City) can convince studios to treat the ladies better.

And if you’re a woman over 40, you might as well just play a grandma. The roles are even scarcer.

But last year Sandra Bullock bucked the trend in a big way. First her romantic comedy The Proposal grossed $320 million on an estimated budget of $40 million. That would be impressive enough, but then The Blind Side hit theaters five months later. Based on a true story about a white family that took in an African-American football prodigy, the film earned an amazing $310 million at the box office on an estimated budget of only $30 million.

Bullock cut her usual fee to star in the movie and reaped a large share of the film’s profits in return. Between her earnings on The Proposal and The Blind Side, Sandra Bullock earned $56 million between June 2009 and June 2010, tops among Hollywood’s leading ladies. Add in a messy divorce that had her on the front of tabloids almost every week, the adoption of a baby that she will now raise on her own and her first Oscar, and Bullock had one hell of a year. All of that helped land her eighth on our annual Celebrity 100 list.

To figure out actresses’ earnings we talked to agents, managers, producers and lawyers to determine what the stars earned as upfront pay on movies they are currently shooting, as well as back-end pay earned after a movie hit theaters. We also looked at any money actresses might have earned from perfume and clothing lines and from ad campaigns.

Source: Forbes.com