Warner Bros.’ new true-to-life drama “The Blind Side” is set to give Sandra Bullock a couple of career milestones: her biggest-grossing box-office hit (over $200-M and counting) and her first-ever potential Oscar nomination for Best Actress.

Bullock is already vying for the Best Actress honor in the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards for her sterling portrayal of a rich and feisty Southern woman who takes a poor, black teenager under her wing, and nurtured his abilities both on and off the football field, resulting in an inspiring story that is still unfolding today.

Casting on the “The Blind Side” began with Bullock, who producer Andrew A. Kosove says was “the first and only choice for the role of Leigh Anne Tuohy.”  Bullock read the screenplay and recalls, “It was a beautifully written script.  It had all the right beats in all the right places.  And I was amazed how [director] John Lee Hancock gave every one of the characters such a nice arc…each character has a distinct journey.”

Nevertheless, it took some convincing on the part of Hancock to get the actress to accept the role of the headstrong wife and mother.  Hancock remembers, “Sandy liked the script but was having trouble figuring out how to portray Leigh Anne.  We would meet and she would ask all kinds of questions, but I wasn’t able to come up with the answers she was looking for.”

“That was my biggest reservation,” Bullock affirms.  “John would try to explain her to me, but he’d always fall short.  I kept feeling something is missing.”

Hancock continues, “I think Sandy was understandably frustrated with my inability to describe the character, but that’s because Leigh Anne is indescribable.  It’s one of the wonderful things about her.  Finally I said, ‘Sandy, you just have to meet her.’  So we went down to Memphis and I introduced her to Leigh Anne.  It turned into a full day spent with Leigh Anne and everything that involves: craziness and mayhem and fun and laughter and getting a lot of stuff done in very short order.  At the end of the day, Sandy turned to me and said, ‘Okay I get it.’  She had experienced firsthand the tornado that is ‘Tuohy time,’ and we were off and running.”

“Once I saw the whole package, I realized why John couldn’t explain her,” the actress states.  “How can you explain that kind of energy?  By the end of one day with Leigh Anne, I was exhausted.  She manages to do what she wants to do in the manner she wants to do it.  She doesn’t care what it takes; she just gets it done her way.  All I can say is, if there were more Leigh Anne Tuohys, the world would be a better-run, more harmonious and more productive place…as long as it was by her rules,” she laughs.  “It was terrifying to think of playing her, but it was a challenge I couldn’t say no to.  She’s such an amazing person.”

Opening soon across the Philippines, “The Blind Side” is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

Sandra Bullock stars and produces in the upcoming hilarious feel-good flick “All About Steve” with the multi-layered Bradley Cooper as Steve in a story of a girl meets boy with missed calculations.

Bullock is super intelligent Mary Horowitz whom nothing is typical, especially with relationships. When she is set up on a blind date with handsome cable-news cameraman Steve (Cooper), Mary thinks their chemistry is undeniable. Steve, on the other hand, thinks Mary is crazy. Mary, who just knows she’s found her soul mate, decides to do anything and go anywhere to be with him. Mary begins to pursue Steve relentlessly as he crisscrosses the country, covering breaking news stories.

Both an actor and producer, Bullock who is known for her discerning eye for good material takes us on a riotous ride in the following q&a for “All About Steve.”

Q: What is it in the script that got you interested to star and produce the film?

A: “At the center of the comedy was the peculiar crossword constructor who seeded the story with heart and a raucous bite.  Mary is this incredibly brilliant person whose been raised in this bubble by her loving, overprotective parents. So she’s grown up to be exactly who she’s supposed to be without any outside influences.”

Q: How did you get into the peculiar character of Mary?

A: “At first, I didn’t know whom to model Mary after, so I had to start taking pieces of people whom I knew.  I took a three and a half year old.  I took Kim Barker, our writer.  I took myself at my most amped and manic.  Then I just pieced it all together.”

Q: What is different about your character Mary?

A: “The world isn’t too accepting of a true individual like Mary, and the film’s comedy reflects that with absurdity and brazenness at every turn.  Mary is different from most because she happens to be extremely intelligent. She hasn’t managed to find other people like her.  I enjoyed embracing those differences.”

Q: What are some of the challenges in the movie?

A: “Her loquacious puzzle-head character has rapid-fire dialogue exploding with facts and figures, so veering off the page was done judiciously.  You can’t improv a lot, when I did attempt to improv, I’d have to know the origin of the word, every definition, and three different language versions of that word.  So I’d have to pick a subject that I’m very familiar with, and just ramble.  I was able to do it a couple of times.  It was very challenging.”

Q: How did you relate to your character?

A: “It’s that part of us that we’re told to lose once we become an adult — the freedom of expression, the freedom of joy, excitement and innocence. I had a lisp I had to get rid of, and I had to have speech therapy. So then, I just go, “Why? Why did I need to get rid of a lisp?” It’s the whole “What is normal and why can’t we embrace adults like her?” We’re very excited to embrace children like that, but we don’t trust adults who are naïve and kind and happy. We want them jaded and cynical and street-wise. Why is that?”

Sandra Bullock’s career milestone over the years which earned her two Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, four MTV Movie Awards, an American Comedy Award, eight Teen Choice Awards, four People’s Choice Awards for Favorite Female Movie Star, a Screen Actor’s Guild Award and two Golden Globe nominations and NATO/ShoWest’s “Female Star of the Year” certified that she is indeed still one of Hollywood’s most sought after leading ladies.

Recently seen in Disney’s “The Proposal,” starring opposite Ryan Reynolds, the movie is Bullock’s largest grossing film to date.  Following acclaimed roles in several motion pictures, Bullock’s breakthrough came in the 1994 runaway hit “Speed” opposite Keanu Reeves.  Her string of hit features some of which she also produced include “Speed 2: Cruise Control,” “While You Were Sleeping,” “The Net,” “Forces of Nature,” “Hope Floats,” “Practical Magic,” “Gun Shy,” “Miss Congeniality,” “Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous,” “A Time to Kill,” “In Love and War,” “Two if by Sea,” “The Vanishing,” “Demolition Man,” “Wrestling Ernest Hemingway,” “The Thing Called Love,” the voice of Miriam in the animated film, “The Prince of Egypt,” “Divine Secrets of The Ya Ya Sisterhood” “Murder By Numbers,” “Two Weeks Notice,” “Infamous,” “Premonition”; “The Lake House” and “Crash.”

Bullock made her debut as a writer/director with the short film “Making Sandwiches” with Matthew McConaughey, and which debuted at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. She recently concluded her stint as the executive producer of the highly successful “The George Lopez Show” which aired on ABC for six seasons.

All about feel-good comedy in “All About Steve” starts November 4 in theaters nationwide from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.

Touchstone Pictures’ wedding-themed romantic comedy The Proposal starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds will have special whole-day sneak previews at regular prices on Monday and Tuesday, July 20 & 21, in selected theaters everywhere.

A recent No. 1 box-office hit in the U.S., The Proposal is directed by Anne Fletcher (Step Up, 27 Dresses). In the film, when high-powered book editor Margaret (Bullock) faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she’s actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew (Reynolds), who she’s tormented for years.

He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own.  The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family (Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White) and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another.

With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.

Opening across the Philippines on July 29, The Proposal is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International.

In Touchstone Pictures’ new romantic comedy “The Proposal,” Sandra Bullock stars as Margaret Tate, a high-powered New York book editor whose life is about to change.  Facing deportation to her native Canada (and with it, the end of her career), the quick-thinking exec declares that she’s actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds), whom she’s tormented for years. Andrew agrees to participate in the charade – but with a few conditions of his own.

Filmmakers tapped Bullock early on for the role of Margaret. “She’s really fun to play, because she’s in all of us,” says Bullock. “Margaret doesn’t try and rectify any of the wrongs. She doesn’t apologize. She doesn’t feel like she has to make the world like her. She has a job to do, and she’s gonna get it done. And there’s a large part of me in that.”

“I feel really lucky that we got her,” says producer Todd Lieberman of Bullock. “She’s a phenomenal actress and she can do any role, but she’s so good and naturally gifted at comedy. People love her even when she’s playing someone who’s as hard edged as the character Margaret.”

Producer David Hoberman adds: “Sandy gets to play a really fun character—there’s a lot of physical comedy in this movie, so she gets to do everything her fans want to see. She’s really smart and had really good instincts about her character, the script and the comedy.”

Director Anne Fletcher was equally impressed by Bullock. “Sandra Bullock is a female comic genius,” says the director. “There really isn’t anybody on her level. I’ve been completely and utterly spoiled by her professionalism, her talent, her mind, her sense of humor, her sense of being. And her chemistry with Ryan is bar none.”

The character of Margaret intrigued Fletcher. “Margaret starts off being a hard-nosed business woman who only focuses on work and wants to get to the top, and that’s really the only goal that she has in life,” says Fletcher. “When you really dig deep into this person, you realize that she’s got a lot of flaws. Margaret starts out really hard, but during the course of the film, she becomes herself again.”

“Margaret was written the way they usually write the male roles, which are usually the juiciest,” says Bullock.  “They’re allowed to be complex, unattractive, crabby, difficult, fun and funny, which is not how female characters are usually written.

“The film also reminds me of the really well-constructed comedies that happened to be about a relationship failing, working and failing again—and they don’t write ‘em like this anymore,” adds Bullock, “From the way Anne Fletcher sets up the scene, cinematographer Oliver Stapleton lights it and the landscape is used in the comedy, you realize that we’re not making a light, superficial romantic comedy. I think screwball—rather than romantic—comedy is a better way to describe this film.”

Opening soon across the Philippines, “The Proposal” is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International.

Movie audiences accepted a proposal from Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, who scored the summer’s first big romantic comedy hit.

Bullock and Reynolds’ “The Proposal” took in $34.1 million to open as the weekend’s No. 1 movie, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Disney flick delivered the biggest opening ever for Bullock, nearly double that of her previous best of $17.6 million for the 2007 paranormal thriller “Premonition.”

Bullock stars as Margaret, a ruthless publishing executive who coerces Andrew, her put-upon assistant (Reynolds) into a fake marriage so she can avoid deportation back to her native Canada.  He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own.  The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another.  With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.

“I think the market was ready for a really fun, broad romantic comedy,” said Mark Zoradi, president of Disney’s motion-picture group.

“The Proposal” took over the top spot from the Warner Bros. bachelor-party comedy “The Hangover,” which slipped to second place with $26.9 million. A surprise smash hit, “The Hangover” raised its total to $152.9 million.

Disney’s animated adventure “Up” was No. 3 with $21.3 million, lifting its total to $224.1 million and following Paramount’s “Star Trek” as the second movie of 2009 to cross the $200 million mark.

Debuting in the fourth spot with $20.2 million was Sony’s caveman comedy “Year One,” starring Jack Black and Michael Cera as Neanderthals on a road trip after they are banished from their village.

“June is officially comedy month at the theaters. Comedy is really ruling things,” said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com.

(Opening soon across the Philippines, “The Proposal” is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International.)