ABC has broken up Emmy Nomination Day by announcing its premiere schedule for this autumn. Nearly all of the season's shows debut during the week of September 20, with the new Michael Imperioli cop drama Detroit 1-8-7 premiering September 21, r Emmy nominee Modern Family returning September 22, and Grey's Anatomy beginning its seventh season on September 23. For the full schedule, click here. [Deadline]
You know that new second teaser for The Social Network that you keep chasing around the internet like some game of Whack-a-Mole, trying to catch before Sony pulls it down? Well as the studio told Movieline, that teaser -- which is awesome, for those who haven't been lucky in tracking it down -- is actually exclusive to the New York Film Festival. And hey, look at that: The Social Network is going to open the New York Film Festival on September 24, a full week before it opens nationwide. Fear not, though: you're about to get something new much sooner than that.
Sure, Aaron Johnson didn't get that Spider-Man role. He didn't want it anyway! At least the 20-year-old actor has two nifty consolation prizes: a rumored role as Cyclops in X-Men: First Class (where he'd reunite with his Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn), and a new baby daughter, Wylda Rose, birthed by his 43-year-old Nowhere Boy director Sam Taylor-Wood. It is safe to say that no one loves his directors more than Aaron Johnson. [AICN, Daily Mail]
Were you a little put out by the DC Comics unveiling of the newly redesigned Wonder Woman, who now wears pants and a Hot Topic jacket while boasting breasts the size of her head? If so, I'm curious to hear what you'd make of the following designs, which were commissioned for Joss Whedon's aborted take on the project.
They say the heat wave that crushed much of the East Coast all week has abated, but 10 out of 10 respondents to a Movieline poll of melting men on the street agree: 90 degrees with 100 percent humidity still sucks. But at least we're all in this together -- and with the movies, which are rich with tales of city folks sweating out the worst seasonal crap summer has to offer. And I don't mean The Last Airbender. Read on and recount nine of the best.
I can't believe it's come to this for me or... anyone, but Lindsay Lohan's Twitter feed has developed into a sincerely fascinating current-events sh*tshow since her jail sentencing Tuesday. As if her chosen background of topless nymph communing with a fluffy white Yak of the Heavens weren't awesome enough, how about the stream-of-consciousness flow from vulgar manicure self-defense to her assailing of "constitutionally perverted" sentencing guidelines to... well, it's complicated. Read on and let's sort it out.
OK, maybe not much of a shocker: After Avatar was released on a flimsy and featureless DVD back in April with promises of a more lavish, extended edition this fall, one could only presume that meant a theatrical return to Pandora was in the cards for late summer. And lo and behold, Fox has announced that the highest grossing movie of all-time will add even more money to its coffers when Avatar returns to theaters Aug. 27 with eight minutes of new footage. So which movies opening that weekend will stand in James Cameron's way and prevent Avatar from reaching No. 1 at the box office for an eighth time since December?
· Let's hear it for Ridley Scott's publicists, who keep the man in the news almost daily via quasi-historical Web projects and vague attachments to half the movies in the development cycle. This time it's The Wolf of Wall Street, the onetime Martin Scorsese/Leonardo DiCaprio drama that Sopranos/Boardwalk Empire writer Terrence Winter adapted from Jordan Belfort's riches-to-rags memoir. Scorsese reportedly ditched it in favor of directing Shutter Island, but he and DiCaprio remain linked to produce, with the latter to star. Which will still probably never happen, but hey. [Deadline]
Denzel Washington goes south, Little Mermaid goes live-action, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
· Happy I'm Not Here to Make Friends Day! Gabe from FourFour has again compiled 2010's best reality television moments involving the biggest confessional cliche ever spoken. What a fine occasion to revisit Celebrity Apprentice, The Bachelor, and a little gem called Ice Road Truckers. [FourFour]
Regrets? Chris Columbus has a few. "I learned a big lesson way back when we did Home Alone because when I cast that I wasn't really looking at the kid's family life," the director admits in a new interview with the Coventry Telegraph. "I was casting a kid who truly had a troubled family life. I don't think it worked out for him or his family. When I did [Harry Potter], I realized that you really have to cast the family as well, and look at their parents, and those Potter kids have turned out pretty well." Still unapologized for? Columbus's bigscreen version of Rent. [Coventry Telegraph]
Just add "jilted creator/executive producer" to Hayden Christensen's resume. The Star Wars actor and his brother filed a lawsuit yesterday against the USA network, alleging that the second-season series Royal Pains is a ripoff of their own idea. The Christensen brothers claim that in 2005, they pitched a concierge doctor show called Housecall to the network, and a USA executive even admitted that he had never heard of the profession before their meeting. This whole situation smells (unfortunately, not like the Christsensen-endorsed Lacoste. [NYP]
Bad news, James Van Der Beek fans and board members of the Dean Cain Fan Club. It looks like Law & Order: Los Angeles has finally found its leading man: Former Jericho star Skeet Ulrich. The Poor Man's Johnny Depp will star as Rex Winters, an ex-marine with a porn-ready name whose experiences during the Rodney King riots "shaped his philosophy on policing." He's also married to his ex-partner. Issues! Of course, Ulrich's current partner hasn't been cast yet, but that just means there's still a chance it could be Master P. Or Danica McKellar. Get on this, NBC. [EW]
· The women may be dressed in patterns that look ripped from a 1970s chaise lounge, but you're excited for this new cast photo from Mad Men's season four anyway.
· Mad Max is going to shoot in 3D -- none of that crappy post conversion stuff.
· "I think they got the [Captain America] costume right," says Chris Evans, who'll be suiting up for it. "The casting they completely ruined, but the costume they nailed!'"
· However, he didn't take off his costume recently to cavort nude with Anna Faris on the set of What's My Number -- those were body doubles snapped by paparazzi.
· "Tired Gay Succumbs to Dix." You know you want to click.
Universal this afternoon passed along a new batch of release dates for its 2010-11 slate, and it looks... unfortunate. Not to be the eternal skeptic or anything, but how else should one respond to The Adjustment Bureau getting moved a second time in three months -- and this time all the way to next March? Will this be 2011's surprise off-season blockbuster, a la Shutter Island? Or will it be its bloated, mistimed flop The Wolfman?
If you were wondering which of the 5 Movieline-approved stars would be the first to pull ahead in the race to be the next Betty White, here's your answer: Richard Dreyfuss. The veteran actor has signed on for four episodes of Weeds to play an "unexpected character" from Nancy Botwin's (Mary Louise-Parker) past. So, her father. Also guest starring on the Showtime series this season: Mark Paul-Gosselaar, Alanis Morissette, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Stormare and Linda Hamilton. Talk about a motley crew. [TV by the Numbers]
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