When word broke yesterday that actor Adam Scott might be leaving the Starz sleeper Party Down to become a new regular on the increasingly overstuffed Parks and Recreation, it came as some surprise. Sure, Parks offered network exposure, but as Scott had told Movieline in December, he loved working on Party Down so much that he was devastated when the second season finished filming, stating that he "could keep doing it forever."
So will he? Movieline cornered Scott last night on the Indie Spirit red carpet to clarify the situation.
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After taking home the Best Actress prize at yesterday's Independent Spirit Awards, all eyes are on Gabourey Sidibe's next move, and actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson would like that move to land her on his sitcom Modern Family. "The one [guest star] I actually have gone after -- because she'd be so brilliant -- is Gabourey Sidibe," Ferguson told PopWrap last week. "I think she would be fantastic as a nanny we hire. She's just so bubbly and sweet and a fan of the show. I think this would be a seamless fit for her."
Movieline caught up with Sidibe last night prior to her win -- did she know that Ferguson was going all out to woo her for a guest stint?
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American moviegoers' wallets are a stunning $41 million lighter today thanks to Alice in Wonderland, which is currently enjoying the biggest March opening ever. The Tim Burton/Johnny Depp collaboration is the latest film to capitalize on the 3D-ticket bump, and if you don't believe it, look where Avatar slid to on Friday -- its first without a monopoly on 3D screens. The week's only other wide release -- Brooklyn's Finest -- performed mediocre at best, while Shutter Island, Cop Out and The Crazies all managed respectable showings against the Disney juggernaut. Find Friday's complete top 10 after the jump.
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The Independent Spirit Awards used to be held the day before the Oscars on a beach in Santa Monica, and while sticking to that paradigm would have made for a rainy, muddy day today in Los Angeles, moving it to last night and setting it in downtown's cavernous LA Live was just as ill-advised. The team from Precious was happy since the film picked up the lion's share of awards (such as Best Feature, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best First Screenplay), but grumbling over the corporate feel and red carpet gauntlet dominated talk among the attendees. Carly and I will have more from that carpet for you this weekend, but in the meantime, here is the full list of winners:
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So you know what you're doing Sunday night, but do you know where you're doing it? No matter which direction the Academy Awards take you, check in with Movieline's livetweet extravaganza, and if you're in New York, please do stop by our Oscar Viewing Party at 92YTribeca. There will be prizes, drinks and good company just like you to salute and/or heckle winners off the screen. Anyway, please read on for convenient talking points for that night and the rest of the weekend, and as always, may your Oscar ballot be a winner. Cheers!
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· Here's a gallery of "honest" Best Picture movie posters. [College Humor]
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Hey there, all you Avatards, Blind Siders, District 9iacs, An Educationados, Hurt Lockeroonies, [DEEP INHALE] Fan Basterds, Preciousites, Serious Man-hards, Upsters and Up in the Air-icans! [PANT, PANT.] What are you doin' Oscars, Oscars eve? If you live in the greater New York area, we strongly suggest you swing over to our Oscars Viewing Party at 92YTribeca, where Stu VanAirsdale will be slinging hors d'oeuvres like a champ while your hosts/expert commentators Michelle Collins, Sara Benincasa and Sara Schaefer will preside over the insanity. If you're trapped elsewhere in the lower 48, or anywhere else on the planet with an internet connection, you can still feel like you're hanging out with your friends at Movieline, as we'll be having another tweetstravaganza like the one we held for the Golden Globes. Feel free to comment, too! It's going to be totally drunk! Uh, I mean fun! It's going to be fun.
Movieline's commenters have enjoyed a committed sexual relationship with Mo'nique for some time. Now, after years of waiting, five of Movieline's retorting fans receive Mo'nique's approval to schtup other people. This is a sure sign that humping the cute girl/studly dude/foxy transgendered person who works the crank at Bar Louie/a nearby wharf/Dairy Queen is A-OK. So, who wins the liberating lay?
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Let's end this Friday with delightful news: The Office, 30 Rock, and Community have all been renewed for another season. You'll recall that Parks and Recreation was renewed back in early February. This means NBC's entire Thursday night lineup will return, and you can continue murmuring, "I can't believe Chevy Chase/Tracy Morgan/British ideas can be so funny" once a week.
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Another week of Project Runway has come and gone, and another eliminated contestant opines to Movieline about their departure. Was it the cocky, conductor-hatted Emilio? Was it the perky Amy? How about feisty southern-belle Anthony? Hyper-banged Maya? Combed-over Jesse? Ever-silent Ben? We reveal the loser and talk with him/her after the jump.
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A trip to grimmest copland with a fine pedigree and long tradition on both the big and small screen standing behind it, in a way Brooklyn's Finest falls prey to the paradox it sets up in its first and most riveting scene. A known criminal named Carlo (Vincent D'Onofrio) is explaining to his NYPD connection Sal (Ethan Hawke) the lesson in the difference between ethics and morals that a judge recently gave him. "It's not a question of right and wrong," Carlo recalls the judge saying, citing a defendant who had to break the law to do the right thing, "but of righter and wronger." The three cops whom director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) follows through his two-plus hour urban melodrama traverse a similarly tricky x/y axis of good and bad vs. right and wrong, each one plotting a different course across the matrix of what it means to serve and protect. It's a classic set-up, if one whose tropes are ultimately pumped up beyond recognition with pomp and portent.
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Look: We know that you're incredibly busy people, with barely enough time to skim, much less absorb, all the pre-Academy Awards coverage competing for your attention on the Oscarnet™. And so in the interest of delivering you only the most essential information in the most efficient way possible, we've mustered every ounce of our Photoshop skills to render everything you need to know about this year's ceremony in a single, easy-to-understand infographic. Don't waste your time with beautifully designed infographics that squander your precious mental bandwidth by filling your head with useless, but very interesting, trivia!
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As a faithful Movieline reader, we want you to win your Oscar pool this year. Still, let's be realistic: This goal is going to take determination, focus, drive, and a lot of cribbing from Movieline's fully completed Oscar predictions ballot. Read on for our informed guesses, and good luck!
- Kyle and Seth
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It may seem like celebrities were placed on earth by God himself but they actually descended from a messy web of ancestors just like the rest of us. That might be the point of NBC's new Friday night placeholder Who Do You Think You Are? Of course, the point could also be that it is pretty inexpensive to throw together a field crew, get some lab nerds to run some DNA, and then dig deep into the music library for motifs that can disguise blandness and shallow emotional content.
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Project Runway returned from the ether this week with a challenge that baited the toolshed demographic -- and not just because Jesse was prominently featured! (Guh-her.) The ten remaining designers used hardware supplies to construct their look, but more impressively, Tim Gunn did not take a circular saw to his own dainty wrists. This man is bored. I make it all entertaining after the jump.
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