The TIFF Bell Lightbox museum in Toronto just scored an exhibit worthy of Alfred Hitchcock's horny gaze. "Grace Kelly: From Movie Star to Princess," an attraction chronicling the Philadelphia native's ascent from Oscar winner to Monacan royalty, will run from Nov. 4 to Jan. 22, 2012. Kelly died almost 30 years ago, concluding a life that still seems about ten times better than a fairy tale; to fans, however, her cinematic legacy is just as important. But, class: is Grace worthy of such critical praise?
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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.
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It's like everyone is adapting a selection from your high school reading list for the big screen this week! First, David Schwimmer announced that he was commissioning a project based on Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and now Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt and star Andy Serkis are working on a performance-capture adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm.
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Legendary Pictures -- the production company behind Batman Begins, Watchmen, Clash of the Titans, and all the movies you can't wait to see in 2012 and beyond -- will host its first Comic-Con panel later this month, and while footage will likely be scarce, expect a parade of talent to come through Hall H for upcoming films Pacific Rim, Seventh Son, Paradise Lost, and the Mass Effect video game adaptation. Hit the jump for Legendary's roster of talent!
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Did you hear the one about sexy Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star Daniel Craig meeting Clint Eastwood in the dorkiest way possible on the set of Steven Spielberg's mega-budgeted Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn? If not, allow Craig to tell you the anecdote himself.
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Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg first teamed up on the big screen with pals Jonathan Levine and Will Reaser in the forthcoming 50/50, based on Reaser's own fight with cancer. Next, the gang will tackle Jamaica, another Reaser tale based on true events, "loosely based on a vacation [Reaser] took to Jamaica with his grandmother when he was 14." In a word: Hot. As with 50/50, Reaser will script with Levine directing and Rogen and Goldberg producing. [Press release]
Nearly three weeks after Natalie Portman gave birth to a baby boy, People has confirmed that the Oscar winner and her fiancé Benjamin Millepied have named their son Aleph, which is also the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet. Portman and Millepied met on the set of Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan in early 2009. Congratulations to the happy family. [People]
It may seem like some cruel joke, but this past weekend marked the midway point of 2011. Where has the time gone!? Actually, don't answer that rhetorical question -- there will be plenty of time for looking back on the first six months of the year in the coming days here at Movieline. Instead, click open your Google Calendars and mark off the nine most important dates to remember for the rest of the year.
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If you thought that sitcom rerun advertising was exclusive to commercials, you're apparently wrong. Sadly (or excitingly, depending on your views on time-travel marketing), networks have found a way to generate ad revenue from new films and products in old episodes of your favorite television series by straight-up superimposing those products into a scene. For evidence, look no further than a recent rerun of a 2007 episode of How I Met Your Mother that allegedly (and eerily) advertised this weekend's Kevin James vehicle Zookeeper.
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You heard it here first (or second, if you heard it in your own head and wished it away already): Daniel Radcliffe might be transforming into a Robert Pattinson doppelganger. In his new photo shoot for the UK version of GQ, Radcliffe cops the Pattinsonian pompadour and points his jaw all the Pattinsonian ways. Are the similarities eerie? You tell us if he's starting to resemble the the dearly departed Cedric Diggory.
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When fans of Wes Anderson's 1996 debut feature Bottle Rocket heard that the iconic motel used in the film was in danger of going under, they sprung into action to save it. So this July 9, devotees will gather en masse in Hillsboro, Texas for the ultimate event, hosted by the Alamo Drafthouse: a special screening of Bottle Rocket, with co-star Robert Musgrave in attendance, held at the very same motel off of I-5 where aimless crooks Dignan, Anthony, and Bob hide out in the film.
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Wondering how Paul Thomas Anderson and David Schwimmer could be forever connected? Try Upton Sinclair. In a new interview with Empire Online, Schwimmer confirmed that he has "commissioned an adaptation of The Jungle," Sinclair's 1906 novel about immigration and the meat-packing industry. Fingers crossed this latest Sinclair film adaptation works as well as There Will Be Blood. [Empire]
· If you're a fan of the Harry Potter series of films, you're likely a fan of Evanna Lynch. As the delightfully looney Luna Lovegood, Lynch has stolen the last few Potter entries with minimal screen time thanks to her deadpan line-readings. Plus, it doesn't hurt that she has great chemistry with Daniel Radcliffe. Click through to watch Luna give Harry a helpful tip for finding one of the final Horcruxes, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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Leave it to Jennifer Aniston, lovable TV star-turned-Horrible Boss, to introduce a new frontier on Bad Movies We Love: the lovable, horrible TV movie. Three cheers for network budgets and forgettable scripting! Low-five! This week's selection is the summer camp non-classic Camp Cucamonga, which features an unphotogenic cavalcade of TV stars (Candace Cameron! John Ratzenburger! Jaleel White!), Wonder Years cast members for coming-of-age credibility (Danica McKellar! Josh Saviano! Not Fred Savage!), and so much of Jennifer Aniston's old nose that she looks like... an unpolished, Degrassi version of Jennifer Aniston. Cute!
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