A new trailer for Sofia Coppola's pulled-from-the-headlines film, The Bling Ring, is out, and there's a lot to pick over. For one thing, Emma Watson is riveting as Nicki, one of the spoiled, cynical and morally adrift Los Angeles teens who made news robbing celebrities' homes. As J.J. Hunsecker from Sweet Smell of Success would say, she's a cookie full of arsenic. more »
Music video director and celebrity progeny Adria Petty (daughter of Tom) has inked a deal to direct the horror pic Suffocate, about "a group of city workers who enter a hoarder's condemned brownstone and find it loaded with deadly traps and an unrelenting killer." If you've seen A&E's Hoarders, you know what a brilliant set-up this is. Beware the lady with the piles of crap and a family of stray cats living underneath stacks of newspaper clippings and Costco boxes! And hey, while we're on the subject of Petty's fascination with real-life horrors, what ever happened to that MTV-bought Paris Hilton doc she made, Paris, Not France? [Deadline]