76-year-old love bandit Larry King just filed for divorce from his wife Shawn Southwick, who he married in 1997. The couple had two sons together, but this makes eight divorces for King. Suspender your disbelief. The filing lists "irreconcilable differences," but I imagine the romance stagnated; this is a guy who'll marry anyone who lifts up her skirt and lets him yell, "Hello, Tuscaloosa!" UPDATE: Per TMZ, sources allege infidelity: Southwick "is accusing Larry of having an affair with one of her close relatives." [TMZ]
So this happened! Perhaps you've heard of the magazine VMan, an arty, marketed-to-men version of the fashion bible V? As far as avant-garde American periodicals go, it's a good one -- or at least it used to be, when it would give up dozens of pages to James Franco and his collaborator Carter to use as an art project. Lately, VMan has been trending in a weird direction (a signed Nick Jonas cover, really?) and it's all come to a head with this bizarre Shrek Forever After photoshoot.
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· Cinematical's got the poster for the Duplass brothers' Cyrus. And you thought the Eclipse poster threesome was awkward!
· District 9's Sharlto Copley is joining I Am Number Four.
· Is Seth MacFarlane's talking teddy bear movie a rip-off of the alt-comic Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles?
· Glee returned last night to its best ratings ever.
· The Onion is going to satirize sports in its new Comedy Central series. Game on.
Nothing is more fascinating than a vast rip-off conspiracy, which is definitely the way to classify the marvelous parallels drawn today between Iron Man 2 and Rocky III. Successful, wealthy men gone complacent? Check. Formidable, blind-siding enemies? Check? Good-vs.-evil preparation montages? Check, right down to the villain's solitude. And so on. If it weren't for the key difference that Talia Shire did all her own stunts, someone might have a lawsuit on their hands. [Moviefone]
For a dead man, Stanley Kubrick sure is prolific. Steven Spielberg mounted his A.I.: Artificial Intelligence as a semi-posthumous collaboration with the director, and now a lost Jim Thompson story commissioned by Kubrick is scheduled to go before cameras with Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johanssen starring. Next up for dead Stanley: tackling 3D! [Production Weekly]
Word on the street is that James Mangold is in talks to direct a biopic about the legendary New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath. While there appears to be no script as of yet, the film would no doubt cover all the crucial milestones of Namath's life, from leading his team's heroic upset of the Colts in Super Bowl III to shilling for Hanes BeautyMist pantyhose to his stunning, drunken on-air flirtation with ESPN sideline reporter Suzy Kolber in 2003. The high-profile project will make for one of the most coveted roles in Hollywood, for which every agent in Hollywood will have only one question for the filmmakers: "Who's playing Kolber?"
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Remember when you heard about Seth Rogen's plan to co-write and star in The Green Hornet and thought, "Man, that's a terrible idea!" Then when the project added Cameron Diaz and Christoph Waltz, you wondered aloud, "What kind of fever dream is this thing going to be?" And, of course, you got the answer when Michel Gondry took over the reigns from chopsocky director Stephen Chow: The Green Hornet was one gloriously hot mess. And now that the film is in the can, it looks like even its backers at Sony might agree.
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Werner Herzog will reportedly join Martin Scorsese in the race to become the first internationally recognized auteur to adopt 3-D. More jaw-dropping still: The Bavarian master/raconteur/adventurer will use the technology on a documentary about cave paintings. "I can have only three people with me, and I can use only lights which must not create temperature," Herzog said of the filming process. "For each shot, because the technology is not really advanced, we had to build [our] own camera from zero using a specific configuration of lenses and mirrors. We are doing something nobody has done with 3-D." Sounds great! Not so great: The odds of finding an art-house theater that can project it. [Roger Ebert via The Guardian]
Happy April 14, dear reader! Time to join Movieline on another breezy expedition through the historical arcana and milestones that helped shaped the pop culture you know and love today. And let it suffice to say that Oscar was busy.
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· That momentary, Katzenbergian blip of panic about ZOMG fake 3-D is gonna kill us all run for your liiiiiiives has abated this morning with news that none other than Martin Scorsese himself will employ the medium in the making of his upcoming The Invention of Hugo Cabret. It only makes sense, really, for the adaptation of a young-adult novel scheduled for a December 2011 release; Michael Bay will no doubt pay close attention to see how his fellow American master does it before officially embracing the third dimension himself. [Variety]
Rachel Weisz may take on Jackie Kennedy, yet another I Love You Phillip Morris development, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
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· In a subtly titled parody called Phonetourage, we realize just how committed Ari and the Entourage gang are to cellular correspondence. We also shiver after realizing "The Snickers movie" is not such an outrageous idea anymore. [YouTube]
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That was fast. Less than 24 hours after the Tonight Show bandleader Kevin Eubanks announced that he would officially be leaving Jay Leno's side after 18 glorious, "Headlines"-filled years, NBC has allegedly hired his replacement. One quick word on who it isn't: Max Weinberg, who had been angling for the position to the chagrin of Team Coco.
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The more I mull it over, the more Joss Whedon makes sense as the director of Marvel's high-profile feature film adaptation of The Avengers. His time in the director's chair isn't extensive, but neither was Jon Favreau's before helming Iron Man, and Whedon's got plenty more geek cred and comic book experience than Favreau ever did. In fact, once you start to really examine Whedon's television work, you might see that his characters aren't so dissimilar from the superheroes who will be populating The Avengers. Let's take a look at who resembles who:
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If you remember a time before Sex and the City was about globetrotting tomb raiders, you've probably been watching it in syndication on TBS. Now, though, the original six-season HBO series will venture past even stranger borders, setting up camp at the Seacrest-friendly E! and Style Networks. If you're concerned that E! won't follow TBS's lead and play multiple episodes alongside showings of Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, don't worry: TBS still retains the show for awhile. E! won't start airing the series until July 2012. [Variety]
It had been rumored for a little while, and now it looks like Joss Whedon is in negotiations to direct Marvel's all-star team-up The Avengers. (You may remember Clash of the Titans helmer Louis Letterier was also on that shortlist.) The Buffy the Vampire Slayer just wrapped his last gig, directing an episode of Glee; this will surely prove invaluable when Iron Man leads his fellow heroes in a rousing, Auto-Tuned group-sing of JoJo's "Too Little Too Late." [Deadline]
