New Legal Ruling Could Affect Oz: The Great and Powerful, and 5 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today
Also in this Thursday edition of The Broadsheet: Giovanni Ribisi joins Gangster Squad... Charlie Sheen really might get a show based on Anger Management... Daniel Radcliffe gets immortalized in hedcuts... and more ahead.
· We're off to see the Wizard, just not the Wizard as envisioned by Warner Bros. in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. At least that seems to be the takeaway from a ruling handed down by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, which states that Warner Bros. holds the rights to the character traits of Dorothy and her friends, if not Dorothy and her friends themselves. Translation: if Oz: The Great and Powerful director Sam Raimi wants his Tin Man to look like the Tin Man as embodied by Jack Haley in the 1939 film, he's going to have a problem. Anyway, something to keep an eye on while you wait two more years for Oz to arrive in theaters. [THR/Esq.]
· Are there going to be any women in The Gangster Squad? Deadline reports that Giovanni Ribisi has joined the cast, which already includes Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Anthony Mackie and Michael Pena. [Deadline]
· Actress Alexandra Daddario (Percy Jackson) is in negotiations to star in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D. [Variety]
· Apparently that speculation about Charlie Sheen wanting to star in a television version of Anger Management is true. Sneaky thing about this: it's not that bad of an idea. [Deadline]
· The Daniel Craig-Rachel Weisz pre-Honeymoon film Dream House had its R-rating upheld by the MPAA. "Darn!" said no teenagers. [Deadline]
· Here are six Wall Street Journal hedcuts to show how much Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has grown over the course of the series. Accio, adorable. [WSJ/Speakeasy]
Comments
Ribisi was one of the minor pleasures in the otherwise bland _Public Enemies_ so that's some pretty welcome casting news. Hopefully _The Gangster Squad_ doesn't collapse under the weight of its cast.