Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Selleck is returning to CBS. Just this morning, the Tiffany Network picked up Blue Bloods (previously titled Reagan's Law), in which the former Magnum, P.I. stars as a second generation New York City cop. CBS also ordered full seasons of Mike and Molly (from Big Bang Theory creator Chuck Lorre), Hawaii Five-0 and Defenders. [Deadline]
Some anonymous Hollywood creative has taken to Twitter to air his/her grievances against Paramount. "Not since we released Breakfast At Tiffany's has Paramount been prouder to bring yellow face 2 cinemas with our fantastic The Last Airbender," wrote the person behind @ParamountFilms, who also has an unusual infatuation with Anchorman 2. "We just got Scientology to put up the full budget for Mission Impossible 4. Maybe it's time to get your thetans checked @ghostpanther," they tweeted yesterday, referencing director Adam McKay. Later: "Yes, we @ Paramount R planning 2 remake every movie in our library. So while we won't give U Anchorman 2, we will give U the remake in 2015." Hmm. I have my money on Paul Rudd. You? [@ParamountFilms via Deadline]
Since one big-budget remake of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea clearly isn't enough, here comes another. Because, of course. After it was reported over the weekend that David Fincher was circling an adaptation of the Jules Verne classic for Disney, now comes word that Fox and Scott Free Productions have been planning their own take with help from a script by Clash of the Titans co-writer Travis Beacham (yes, that film did have a script). The studio wants the incredibly busy Timur Bekmambetov to direct, meaning this 20,000 Leagues will get made right around the time the Fincher-led version does: Never. [THR]
· Keanu Reeves will star in Passengers, a sci-fi romance (or something) about a space traveler on a 120-year-mission that goes awry when his hibernation pod fails. He makes some robot pals, then apparently winds up horny and awakening a beautiful female passenger hibernating on the same voyage. Complications ensue. The female lead has yet to be cast, suggestions welcome below. [THR]
Zoe Saldana will get up her assassin game, Dustin Hoffman has a two-fer on the way, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
We don't know if it's the fresh, sea air or perhaps some important life choices he's decided to make, but Shia LaBeouf simply cannot stop speaking truth to power. Scant days after telling the world he thought Transformers 2 was an ungodly mess, LaBeouf told reporters in Cannes that he believes that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was an unworthy entry in the series -- and that he doesn't care if Spielberg hears him complaining or not.
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Conan O'Brien's multi-million-dollar, Mario-evoking studio on the Universal Studios lot is no more. Vulture reports that the new TBS frontman will be heading to the Warner Bros. lot to tape his upcoming basic cable late-nighter. As for the old digs? They should be able to host at least eleven of Jay Leno's classic cars. [Vulture]
No longer content to merely reach out to gamers to ensure Prince of Persia's success, Jake Gyllenhaal has decided to launch a one-on-one charm offensive across Eurasia. No matter what the cost, no matter what the personal toll, as this new video proves, he will chat up any leggy Russian girl up in the club to tell them what it was like to be kicked in the face by Sir Ben Kingsley. And if any of them have boyfriends, he could always just say he was leaning in close to spell out his name. It's a toughie!
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This weekend at the box office offered a wealth of options: overstuffed sequel or overlong prequel? Amanda Seyfried in Verona's court or Queen Latifah on the basketball court? It's enough to make you curl up with a bottle of expensive vodka and your cockatoo as company -- and wouldn't you know, that's what most moviegoers preferred to do. Here are the weekend receipts.
What do you get when you team studio fence-sitter David Gordon Green, Lost portraitist Marilyn Manson, and his on-again girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood? The new slasher romp Splatter Sisters, which Green will produce with Manson and Wood starring. "This is a role Marilyn Manson was born to play, and with Evan Rachel Wood bringing dramatic gravity to the ensemble, I have no doubt this will take the horror genre to a new level," Green said. Good, because I think I've got enough doubts for the both of us. [Variety]
In last week's episode, Lost dipped back in time to tell what was, in effect, the prequel to its main story. It was an episode that was about as well received as George Lucas's own Star Wars prequels, which makes the fan letter that Lucas just sent the Lost producers all the more poignant -- and potentially revealing.
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If David Fincher can mainstream himself enough to direct a megabudget family tentpole, Steven Soderbergh can shoot his next studio film in 3D. He'll be doing just that with the star-laden virus thriller Contagion, it was announced today -- a fact made more interesting by Soderbergh's tendency to lens all his movies himself. Of course, he'd hoped to crack that visual frontier first with his musical Cleo, but alas, bedbug crazy campfests with Catherine Zeta-Jones singing Guided by Voices are awfully hard to mount. [Coming Soon]
Upgrade! After trying to mount a big-budget version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with McG helming, Disney has now plunked David Fincher in that director's chair. Coming off the Facebook drama The Social Network, it seems that Ol' Hundred Takes was anxious to make a "visually dazzling" "four-quadrant tentpole movie," reports THR. Disney's budget-crunchers are already saying their novenas. [THR]
Break up Universal! While the beleaguered studio's Robin Hood may not have been able to notch the No. 1 spot on Friday, It will gladly take a $13 million opening on the way to a likely $36 million weekend. (It will handily break $100 million worldwide). That's about $10 million off the pace of Iron Man 2, which suffered a Friday-to-Friday drop of more than 70 percent. Letters to Juliet and Just Wright opened at what you might call "modest" and "soft," respectively, while A Nightmare on Elm Street closed off the Top 5 for the last time in its lucrative, miserable run. Full figures after the jump.
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Another adorbs week winds to a close at Movieline, and so we sing our bittersweet goodbyes until Monday. At least some of us do, anyway; expect more sharp, sophisticated and delightful news and commentary (and Cannes coverage) here throughout the weekend. Enjoy, and have a good one!
· If the newest press junket trend is to weirdly embarrass celebrities during one-on-one video interviews, we're all for it! Hot on the heels of Scarlett and Gwyneth being made to put on makeup and endorse kitty litter at the Iron Man 2 junket comes this new clip from the one for Prince of Persia, where Jake Gyllenhaal's castmates either refuse to spell his last name or garble it entirely. If someone could ask the Wall Street 2 cast at Cannes whether they can actually spell "LaBeouf," I'd be golden. [YouTube]
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