· The Star Trek scribe team of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci has booked a Danno for their Hawaii Five-O remake. Scott Caan has signed on to join the CBS series in the role of Danny "Danno" Williams (originally played by James MacArthur), a Jersey cop transferred to Hawaii after a bitter divorce to be close to his young daughter. Alex O'Loughlin has already been cast as the lead. [THR]
ABC plans to injure more celebrities for your entertainment, Larry Charles finds leads for his Show, and more TV Bites after the jump.
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Stop! Stop! LOL, no, haha, seriously -- cut these Angus T. Jones-as-Spider-Man rumors out right now. No one knows where it started, but a brief published late Thursday suggested that once-rumored front-runner Logan Lerman is out and somehow the Two and a Half Men star slipped into consideration for Sony's franchise reboot to be directed by Marc Webb. Haha, OK, OK. Nice kid, happy for his show's success, but come on. Seriously. Stop. [MovieWeb]
Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or overbearing at the box office. This week, a glance at the release calendar yields some frighteningly slim pickings, Avatar achieves another milestone, and I'm still looking for a decent Underdog to recommend. At least the DVD marketplace is looking up. Read on for a quick spin through what's out there.
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· Say what you want about Tim Burton's auteur vision, but don't mess with Danny Elfman. That dude will cut a bitch.
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Sorority Row targets that narrow cross section of the population who are both slasher film fans and people willing to watch Rumer Willis act. The film also is best seen by anyone not familiar with Scream, since the ruling principles of both films are the same: cozy, anonymous town terrorized by a killer, cameo by a celebrity (okay, in this case it's a reality show "celebrity") who gets offed in the first ten minutes, a series of creative slashings and gashings, and a heroine with a conscience trying to save her friends. Carrie Fisher's presence as the boozy house mother is also an unexplained phenomenon that is neither funny nor campy; I guess that just makes it just sort of sad. Help her, Obi Wan, she's accepting terrible roles.
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Oscar producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic are trying to banish winners' thank-you speeches to a backstage camera, leaving precious time at the podium for tearful blubbering, one-armed pushups, and cute-but-in-retrospect-creepy-and-unsolicited French kisses, but I'd wager that we're still going to hear more than a few winners thank God, and more importantly, their agents. At least it will provide more material for this helpful montage (after the jump), which collects just about ever salient Oscar thank-you ever committed to YouTube, I'm guessing. Marvel at the uniformity of gush, and remember what Anna Paquin once looked like with clothes on. [Buzzfeed via Vulture]
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Movieline caught up with Megan Mullally today on the set of Children's Hospital, the gleefully subversive web series from Rob Corddry that graduates to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim this summer. We asked the Will & Grace star and two-time Emmy winner, who seems to have no qualms with moving freely between network, cable and online, if there's perhaps a looser attitude now among TV actors when it comes to choosing projects. We also asked her how she felt about Conan O'Brien's recent treatment by her sometime-employer, NBC. In a word? Pissed.
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Law and Order: SVU's failure to broadcast the leaked kiss between star Mariska Hargitay and guest actress Kathy Griffin is shameful enough, but Griffin may have harbored her own share of regrets the day she filmed the kiss, considering that her first run-in with Hargitay in the early '90s ended in disaster.
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Box Office Mojo is reporting that Zack Snyder's action fantasy Sucker Punch and the Ryan Reynolds superhero tentpole Green Lantern will both be released in 3D, a post-production conversion for the former, and a pre-emptive strike for the latter. At this point (especially if the 3D-converted Alice in Wonderland does gangbusters this weekend), it's almost more notable if any potential blockbusters on the horizon stick stubbornly to their 2D guns. By 2011, expect three dimensions for all summer movies, and pinkeye-related headaches for all summer movie audiences. [Box Office Mojo]
It is now Day Four of the Jay Leno at 11:35 experiment and magically NBC is borderline relevant again. Who would have thought that having three hours of actual entertainment during primetime could make viewers want to watch your network? Only everyone in the history of television, but at least Pam is finally pushing out that kid so The Office can start having interesting storylines again.
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Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline's weekly showcase of up-and-coming nonfiction cinema. Usually each installment features one new film and filmmaker, but hey: It's Oscars Weekend! This calls for an exception. As such, Movieline reached out to this year's nominees for Best Documentary Feature, hosting a virtual roundtable including:
· Rebecca Cammisa (Which Way Home, about Latin American child migrants to the U.S.)
· Judith Erlich and Rick Goldsmith (The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, about the famous Vietnam War-era whistleblower)
· Robert Kenner (Food Inc., about the grave implications of U.S. food production)
· Anders Østergaard (Burma VJ, about citizen journalists documenting uprisings in Burma)
· Louie Psihoyos (The Cove, about the secret slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan)
Congrats to them! But now we have some questions. Take a moment to get to know them, their stories, their takes on the race, and, of course, their respective Oscar-night dates.
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Kelly Killoren Bensimon has been a lot of things in her life -- model, magazine editor, author, jewelry designer, self-proclaimed equestrian, and the former wife of famous photographer Gilles Bensimon -- but within the past year, her reputation has exploded thanks to her newest and most sinister role (and landmark fight with Bethenny Frankel) on The Real Housewives of New York City, Bravo's reality show dedicated to the women of Manhattan's upper crust. Just ahead tonight's third season premiere, Bensimon talked with Movieline about fashion industry events, the intentions of Ms. Frankel, and the camera's ability to lie.
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The recently renamed Legend of the Guardians is the first CG-animated film from director Zack Snyder, if you don't count Watchmen and 300. Rimshot! What's interesting about the new trailer for the film, though, is how it tries to sell Guardians as a fun family film with talking animals, while playing down the many Snyder trademarks on display.
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· Kristen Wiig poses as Brigitte Bardot (!) in the new issue of V. Not to be outdone, Wiig's one-upper character Penelope submitted to a cutting-edge procedure to graft Bardot's face onto hers. She died on the operating table.
· Casting! Hugh Jackman will come aboard the Lee Daniels-directed Selma, while Benicio del Toro will play undercover FBI agent Jack Garcia in Making Jack Falcone.
· Michelle Rodriguez is returning to Lost. Here's hoping she's able to make stop by Michael's Shooting Gallery.
· "Basically everyone I know is knackered, me included," GOOPed Gwyneth Paltrow this week. Oh, I get it. Because your husband is British.
· Were Jeremy Renner and Jessica Simpson flirting at an Oscar party this week? If only The Hurt Locker had included a scene where he had to defuse sexual napalm.
Sure, his movies are "semi-decent," writes Melissa Lafsky, but look at the big picture: "His persona, actions, and body of work stand for the victory of a wretched set of luck and circumstances that solidify the current septic tank state of the American Dream. [...] Roth's career -- and even the success of Hostel -- has rested on the unbelievably lucky move of becoming Quentin Tarantino's shoulder monkey." Oh yes she did, and then some. If you read one ego-deflating knuckle sandwich of an essay today, make it this one. [The Awl]
