· Hey, it's a Lego version of Carl from Up. Call us when the Wall-E bento artist makes some Russell sushi. Wait, is that racist?
· Kevin Williamson (who was less-than-pleased to see Ehren Kruger take over his Scream scripting duties for Scream 3) is picking up the franchise with plans to make...you guessed it...another trilogy.
· Congratulations, Kurt Wimmer: after writing and directing sci-fi non-classics Ultraviolet and Equilibrium, you've been handed Total Recall to remake.
· Sex and the City is not a bomb, no matter how much men might wish it to be.
· Sorry, Gawker: I thought this was kinda cute.
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Michael Sheen is all done with his Volturi-boss stint in New Moon, which went exceedingly well if his liberal flow of tweets and other commentary are any indication. But today, in his first interview since fleeing the scene, his scary audience with Dakota Fanning was just a microcosm for the overall blessings of youth on the set. Which is to say, even Frank Langella is apparently no Robert Pattinson.
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On a daily basis, it takes me an incredible suspension of disbelief to realize that all those billboards around town are advertising a $200 million movie about angry, talking robot toys, so forgive me for only just now taking notice of "The Fallen," the Transformers sequel's titular Decepticon (there's that disbelief again...suppress it like you do your urge to fill your shopping cart with Any'tizers, Kyle).
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Visitors to ZacharyQuinto.com were treated to two photos, posted under the heading "spockbama," in which the Star Trek star was captured being granted a rare audience with the President.
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Even Edie Falco, at Tuesday's lavish premiere for her new series Nurse Jackie, wasn't quite sure if the world needed another show set in a hospital. Not because of the competition, though. It's a little simpler than that.
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· Having already taken on the Bible and Twilight, Catherine Hardwicke has zeroed in on yet another of the world's great literary masterworks: Hamlet, in which she'll direct Emile Hirsch as Shakespeare's tormented Danish prince. Milk producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks are overseeing the project for Overture Films; Philadelphia scribe Ron Nyswaner will rewrite the Bard. [THR]
Brian Grazer, Octo-Mom and much more Hollywood Ink after the jump!
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· Here's the latest promo for Season 3 of Mad Men. Don't think of it as Don Draper cold-cocking Jimmy Barrett. Think of it as a fist-spaceship, taking our knuckle-sandwiches to a place where they ache to go again. [AMC]
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Pop Quiz: What had 800 legs, an obsessive fascination with Taylor Lautner, a raging outbreak of Legionnaires Disease, and floats? If you said the Alaska Twilight Cruise and Convention at Sea for Twilight Fans, leaving port from Seattle on August 9th and providing that franchise's hormonal fans a gluttonous buffet of Twilight-themed goodies, then you were correct! Like what?
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This weekend, audiences looking to plop down a dozen bucks in exchange for a few laughs (and those audiences will be huge) will have two choices. Well, three, but let's just eliminate My Life in Ruins right off the bat. 1) The Hangover, following a trio of dudes trying to piece together an evening of Las Vegas debauchery after a roofies-induced blackout, and 2) Land of the Lost, a big-budget adaptation of the Sid and Marty Krofft show, reconfigured as a Will Ferrell vehicle. It mixes dinosaurs, cavemen, sci-fi crystal-speak mumbo-jumbo, and a lumbering race of upright lizard people into a sort of stupidity-glazed decoupage of Saturday morning nostalgia.
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As Robert Luketic nudges Robert Rodriguez out of the picture to helm the rebooted sex-and-space epic Barbarella, we can't help but remember that Hollywood rarely knows how to cast a woman as the lead in a big action film (witness the perpetually thwarted development of Wonder Woman as lesser comic book heroes get their big-screen moment). It's in that spirit, then, that Movieline has stepped in to narrow down the potential casting pool. Who's up to filling out Jane Fonda's skintight spacesuit?
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· We think we know who Zachary Quinto is emulating with that mustache, but first, we'd need confirmation that his sweater is angora.
· The ratings for I'm Heidi Montag, Get Me Out of Here! are in...and they're decent, climbing after each half-hour. Stop this right now, America.
· Also! Daniel Baldwin will be filling in for Speidi, now that the latter pair has quit the show.
· Adam Lambert stepped out with his maybe-boyfriend, and they held hands -- a quaint custom that's been resuscitated specifically so that celebrities can indicate their couplehood in front of the paparazzi.
· Brad Pitt absolutely loves using baby wipes...on himself. I smell a buddy comedy with Terrence Howard!
We've known for some time now that Oliver Stone would be revisiting the world of Wall Street in Wall Street 2: Gekko Rising. (Not the title to my knowledge, but might work nicely as one.) Beyond that, however, little was known of the plot, aside from the fact that the sequel would feature at least one scene in which Michael Douglas lifts a brick-sized carless-car-phone to his ear and shouts, "Buy! Sell! Sell then buy then sell!" to no one in particular. Now, Deadline Hollywood Daily has the inside track on several key details about the mysterious production: Shia LaBeouf has indeed signed on, as has a swarthy Oscar winner. Read on for plot spoilers.
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· Conan O'Brien's tram-spinnin', 99 Cent-store-lootin' debut on The Tonight Show earned a 7.1 rating and 17 audience share. That's the highest ratings for a Monday episode of the show in four years, and beat Late Show and Nightline's ratings combined. Great start. Now all we need is to find more busy work for Andy Richter and we're set. [THR]
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The first image from the remake of Clash of the Titans is making the rounds today, featuring Sam Worthington in the lead role as Perseus. In keeping with the contemporary sword-and-sandals trend best personified by Gladiator and 300, grit, grime and bulk appear to be the stylistic standard, which of course raises the question: Do you miss Harry Hamlin's 1981 original yet?
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