· Various interests have various reasons for dropping hints about Tim Burton's next project, and today it's Monsterpocalypse's turn. A co-producer says screenwriter John August is hard at work on the board-game adaptation for a film that could arrive in theaters by the end of 2012. Your move, Dark Shadows.
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Ryan Murphy has inked a $24 million deal with Fox to continue his Glee show-running duties across the next four years. Additionally, Murphy will earn a percentage of the profits from the Glee tour, albums, merchandise and possibly a Glee Broadway musical; Deadline estimates that in total, Murphy will be making $10 million a year. The only other non-singer profiting this much off of Glee might be Cory Monteith. [Deadline]
A year after this idea was originally floated out into the ether, it seems that Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand have officially been offered roles in My Mother's Curse. The Dan Fogelman-scripted film will be directed by The Proposal's Anne Fletcher and casts Rogen and Streisand as mother and son on a road trip across the country. Last summer, Rogen called the film "one of the many projects [he] may or may not do in the next fifteen years," so expect to see it sometime before 2024. [The Playlist]
While the rest of the world spent the weekend debating the legitimacy of Christopher Nolan's filmmaking talent, Russell Brand quietly went on the offensive to pull the director's signature brand out from under him. The occasion was Brand's remake of Arthur, his collaborator was Luis Guzman, and the results are far, far from pretty. Click through for evidence.
If you choose to be optimistic about Thor -- the once highly-anticipated Marvel comic adaptation set to smash into theaters next summer -- maybe it's just getting all of its backlash out of the way now. Otherwise, is there a movie that more desperately needs a fast-acting image rehabilitation heading into Comic-Con '10? Probably not.
Say hello to the upcoming cast members of Celebrity Rehab 4: Tiger Woods mistress Rachel Uchitel, Jeremy London (the Party of Five actor who may have faked his own kidnapping), Janice Dickinson, former teen idol Leif Garrett, Frankie Lons (Keyshia Cole's mother), Jason Wahler (The Hills), and "socialite" Jason Davis. Now, if VH1 could only air a series featuring the stars who turned down Dr. Drew's care -- which include Liza Minnelli, Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, and Jenna Jameson -- they might have a show worth watching. [VH1.com]
While doing the press rounds for The Other Guys, director Adam McKay revealed that the idea for the now-never-happening sequel to Anchorman was to make it a musical. "We were going to do four months on Broadway and then jump right into filming." Except for one little problem...
Leave it to the Weinstein Company to find a way to showcase its skintastic summer gorefest Piranha 3D at Comic-Con this week, despite the fact that 'Con organizers deemed the planned sizzle reel too hot for the all-ages audience. The solution: Show it somewhere else!
Bryan Singer dropped by Hollywood United Methodist Church on Sunday, when the church's ongoing "Crossflix" series featured a discussion of the religious and spiritual themes of the X-Men franchise. Which, as it always will these days, ultimately came down to, "Please, please, God, let Taylor Lautner be in our franchise reboot."
If you saw Inception this weekend -- and judging from the receipts, you probably did -- then you might have awoken this morning wondering what you actually saw. As in: Was that really Michael Caine, or did you blink and miss him? Click ahead as Movieline helps you answer that questions and more -- but be warned: Spoilers abound.
After nearly two and a half years of appeals, Wesley Snipes's three-year prison sentence for tax evasion was upheld Friday by a panel in Atlanta. The actor's lawyers had insisted the punishment was "unreasonable," arguing instead for probation after more than $15 million had gone unpaid for the better part of a decade. Snipes has been free on bond since April 2008; his reporting date to begin his sentence hasn't been announced. [CNN]
A trio of Oscar winners are thrown into a legendary pair's biopic sweepstakes... Simon Pegg considers a franchise reunion... Hollywood faces another strike... These stories and more as Hollywood Ink continues after the jump.
Drew McWeeney at HitFix has laid his hands on a secret, unproduced script for a Saturday Night Live movie so unknown that even a long-time head writer had never heard about it. But was it more Wayne's World or closer to It's Pat?
It was a dreamy weekend indeed for Inception as it ruled the box office with a fantastic haul of $60 million. But The Sorcerer's Apprentice had no magic at all, with a fizzled opening at third place. Your weekend receipts are here.
Have you ever wondered what goes on in the relationship between Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson, 20, and his Nowhere Boy director Sam Taylor-Wood, 43, which has produced one little girl and no shortage of tabloid headlines? Let them get naked and show you.
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