Rose Byrne replaces Greta Gerwig in The Place Beyond the Pines...

...according to Vulture at least:

Bridesmaids and Damages' Rose Byrne will be joining Derek Cianfrance's suspense crime dramaThe Place Beyond the Pines opposite Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper, taking the place of their planned co-star, Greta Gerwig. According to sources, Gerwig, who had never officially signed on to the part, has a film-promotion scheduling conflict, leaving the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated Byrne to take over as the wife of a police officer turned politician (Cooper) who finds himself in a showdown with a motorcycle-riding bank robber (Gosling, in the part he just went blond for).

Ray Liotta will join the cast of A Place Beyond the Pines!

Via The Playlist:

If you weren’t already pumped for “A Place Beyond the Pines,” director Derek Cianfrance‘s follow-up to “Blue Valentine,” you’d better be now. Variety reports that Ray Liotta, one of the most manic and entertaining actors working today, will be joining ‘Pines’ which already includes “Blue Valentine” star Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes and Greta Gerwig. Cianfrance, who co-wrote the film with Ben Coccio, has compared the tone of the film to “The Godfather” and “The Deer Hunter” (Holy crap!). Sidney Kimmel, Jamie Patricof, Lynette Howell and Alex Orlovsky are on board as producers.

Derek Cianfrance continues casting his follow-up to Blue Valentine...

...by casting some female leads to go along with his previously announced male ones. Here's the story from Deadline:

va Mendes is set and Greta Gerwig is in talks to star alongside Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper in The Place Beyond The Pines, a multi-generational crime drama that Blue Valentine's Derek Cianfrance will direct for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. The drama tracks the tragic consequences of a showdown between a motorcycle rider-turned-bank robber (Gosling) and a cop-turned-politician (Cooper). Mendes will play the robber's love interest and mother of his child, and Gerwig is in talks to play the politician's wife.The film begins production next month. Mendes most recently starred in Last Night and The Other Guys while Gerwig starred in Arthur and Greenberg and has just begun shooting Lola Versus, the Daryl Wein-directed Fox Searchlight comedy that also stars The Killing's Joel Kinnaman.

Who might co-star with Ryan Gosling in Derek Cianfrance's follow-up to Blue Valentine?

Via Variety:

Sidney Kimmel Entertainment has come on to finance and produce multi-generational crime drama "The Place Beyond the Pines."

Project's been in development since last year, with "Blue Valentine" writer-director Derek Cianfrance directing from a script he co-wrote with Ben Coccio. Ryan Gosling is attached to star, and producers have offered Bradley Cooper a starring role.

Gosling will portray a pro motorcycle rider who turns to bank robberies to support his newborn son, when he crosses paths with a rookie police officer -- the role Cooper is being lined up to play -- their confrontation spirals into a generational feud.