If you're as excited about Piranha 3-D as we are -- and how can you not be, with a cast that includes Richard Dreyfuss, Ving Rhames, Jerry O'Connell, Christopher Lloyd, and Elizabeth Shue (whose arms could be spun off into their own franchise, Pythons 3-D) -- then you'll undoubtedly have a vested interest in these paparazzi photos taken on the Lake Havasu set. We got them directly from Paul Scheer's blog -- who informs us that he's in the cast of Piranha 3-D, too, and promises a report from the set. We'll pass that along just as soon as we can, but in the meantime, enjoy Kelly Brooke and Riley Steele doing their morning Piranha check. All clear -- oops, I think you got one on your face! [Full photosuite, including 3-D Nipple Slip action, over at Egotastic.]
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· Miley Cyrus has reportedly split with her underwear beau Justin Gaston, and is maybe, possibly even back together with ex-flame Nick Jonas. Upgrade/downgrade?
· Here's a less ambiguous one: Actress Tania Raymonde (Ben's daughter Alex from Lost) was spotted canoodling with Jeff Goldblum, which is definitely an upgrade from that drip Karl.
· Is The Hangover simply a remake of Old School? Is every fratty comedy about male bonding a remake of every fratty comedy about male bonding?
· Rob Zombie may not be a big fan of Adam Lambert, but at least the Rolling Stone coverboy can console himself with a brand new recording contract.
· While exhorting her film My Life in Ruins on HuffPo, Nia Vardalos asks, "So, women: can we speak up with our wallets?" In response, women look away uneasily and mutter something about going to see The Hangover instead.
As mentioned in this morning's Hollywood Ink, the big-screen adaptation of The A-Team is nearer than ever to realization. Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper are close to signing on as Hannibal and Face, respectively, leaving fans to speculate about the candidates for Howlin' Mad Murdock and Mr. T's gruff, gilded B.A. Baracus. Around here, the latter role is the subject of the most vibrant discussion, which means only one thing: This calls for a vote.
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Where the 11:30 p.m. TV hour was always something of a no-brainer -- Letterman if you wanted to laugh, Leno if you wanted to sleep -- now it proposes something of a late night viewing conundrum. Conan and Letterman, treading similar waters of brainily askew comedy, court the same audience, with Conan's perhaps skewing younger. Letterman's the curmudgeon, O'Brien's the clown. Dave is the king of the awkward celebrity interview; Conan excels at pushing the envelope via childish framing devices (pimp robots, masturbating bears, insulting dog puppets, etc.) We've been gravitating to Conan, lately, mainly because his Tonight Show tenureship still has that new car smell -- but we'll gravitate back to Dave eventually and time shift O'Brien. There really is no one funnier.
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Just a quick congratulations to the people of Riyadh, Saudi Arabi, who last weekend got their first look at a theatrically screened movie in more than three decades. Or rather, the men of Riyadh (and, inexplicably, girls under 10) had a look, which puts kind of a damper on things, but hey. Baby steps! Or something.
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Just in time for his new film, a brain-cramping new M&M's ad campaign features one of cinema's most bombastic filmmakers reduced to a bite-size morsel of strawberry-peanut butter goodness. Think twice before eating him, though -- harmless as he looks, he's known to be brutal on actresses in particular and may set you back as much as $80 million per bite. Join me in some long, silent head-shaking after the jump.
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· Bryce Dallas Howard co-wrote a screenplay called The Originals, which her father Ron Howard may have in mind as his next project. It's pegged as a "quarter-life crisis," following a group of 20-something former schoolmates who reunite after their influential teacher slips into a mysterious coma. The trades also note that co-writer Dane Charbeneau became engaged to Ron's other daughter while writing; surely Clint Howard's casting as the comatose mentor is inevitable, soon inciting an ugly nepotism-turf skirmish with the Wayanses. [THR]
After the jump: New A-Team casting rumors, David Letterman re-ups, My Name is Earl lives?
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· Were Heidi and Spencer tortured on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here? "No," their rep has revealed after a weekend of speculation that forced readers all over the internet to wonder, "Shouldn't I be enjoying the idea of this more?"
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I just got off the phone with Harold Ramis, whose comments about the prospects for Ghostbusters 3 (a/k/a Dan Aykroyd's Christmas Wish) dovetailed cleanly with some other franchise news making the rounds today. Movieline will have more with Ramis next week in advance of his new release Year One, but for now, it seems like a lovely day to go hang out by the rumor mill.
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· At right, your first look at James Franco as Hot Allen Ginsberg in Howl.
· Heather Graham has opened up about her love of tantric sex and transcendental meditation, making it all the stranger that the prompt for her revelation was, "What was it like to work with Ed Helms?"
· The Tonys are very, very important to the whole country because they are about shows you can only see in one tiny neighborhood in one state, and also because Bret Michaels hit his head.
· Past Emmy winner Terry O'Quinn has declined to submit his name for this year's awards, though we're pretty sure that the man in the coffin on stage will turn out to be him.
· Presented without further embellishment, this top headline from People: "Susan Boyle Reunites with Cat Pebbles and Preps for Career."
After some minor backsliding from first place on Friday, The Hangover was believed to have trailed Up by the narrowest of margins at the top of the weekend box office. Warner Bros. took another look at its $40-million-plus stack of cash overnight, however, concluding that it had indeed eclipsed Pixar when the final figures came in. Shocker!
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Of the many young luminaries to walk the red carpet at this year's Hollywood Life Young Hollywood Awards, none caused quite the stir that Artist of the Year Adam Lambert did, his late arrival setting off a flurry of flashbulbs and shouted questions, all of which he took in stride. (Accepting the award later, he'd observe, "This is crazy. Last year I was living in a studio apartment at Wilcox and Melrose, and worried about whether or not I'd be able to get into Teddy's.")
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Anyone with even casual familiarity of Harvey Weinstein's resilience knows the Weinstein Company can (and in fact has) run on fumes as long as it takes to find that string of hits that will bail it out. Oscar wins don't count, apparently, with The Wall Street Journal reporting in a classically Harveyesque Friday news dump that TWC has summoned help to restructure its sizable debt.
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· Kidding. They're just good friends. Billy Elliot was the big winner at last night's Broadway Who Cares awards, winning 10 trophies including Best Musical. God of Carnage took Best Play, and Hair took best musical revival. Movieline-tormenting Shrek: The Musical, however, came away with nothing. [Variety]
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Based on a string of triumphant test screenings and a hit trailer at ShoWest, Warner Bros. had green-lit a sequel to The Hangover more than two months before it became the summer's biggest sleeper smash to date. Yet even more than clever marketing and extraordinary word of mouth, its estimated $43 million opening reflects the success of one phenomenally well-told joke: Three guys lose another on a depraved trip to Vegas. SPOILER ALERT: They find him. Even if the principals return (and they will), how do they follow that? This, dear reader, is where you come in. (Be advised, though: Real spoilers after the jump.)
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