You've been hearing about it for years, and at last, the fabled Hugh Hefner biopic that will never get made has moved from Universal to Warner Bros. The one and only Jerry Weintraub will produce, at least until he won't. "While Universal had filmmakers like Brett Ratner attached at one time or another and actors like Robert Downey Jr. and Hugh Jackman mentioned as possibles to play Hef, the project languished," Mike Fleming writes at ML's sister site Deadline. "Wentraub would not disclose what part of Hefner’s life he will cover, and he denied that Harry Potter scribe Steve Kloves is being talked to as a potential screenwriter." Finally! We're getting somewhere. [Deadline]
Here's one way to deflect attention from NYU GradeGate: Variety reports that James Franco is in talks to play Playboy impresario Hugh Hefner in Lovelace, the porn biopic starring Amanda Seyfried as the titular XXX actress Linda Lovelace, of Deep Throat fame. Unfortunately -- or fortunately? -- Franco's role would be limited to a one-day cameo, which sounds like something along the lines of his blink-and-you'll-miss-it Green Hornet appearance. The film is currently shooting in Los Angeles. [Variety]
Bad news about Lindsay Lohan's Playboy cover: It's kinda cute! Sure, it's waterlogged with Photoshop tricks and the Marilyn Monroe thing's been done 145,000,090 times, but it's an undeniably successful photo. Unfortunately, it's also calls to mind a number of questionable images. Here are the first 10 things that Lindsay Lohan's Playboy debut reminded me of -- please add your own recollections after the jump.
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So much went down here at Movieline HQ in the week leading into Halloween 2011, including the revelation that nobody loves Halloween more than Heidi frickin' Klum. And nobody loves arguing over the vocal stylings of patriotic Hollywood starlets more than Movieline readers! (We love you. Don't ever change.) Throw on some blue face paint and fangs and six extra arms and reminisce as we traipse into the Halloween weekend!
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This is what things have come to for actress-singer-celebrity criminal Lindsay Lohan; at the tender age of 25, as the media watches her every move, the onetime promising Disney star has reportedly agreed to pose nude for Playboy. For less than a million! Oh, LiLo.
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You may have been disappointed by both of Adrianne Palicki's new Wonder Woman costumes -- the one that looked exactly like a sexy Halloween costume and then the one that looked like a slightly-less-sexy Halloween costume -- but something tells me that you will not be disappointed by Amber Heard's get-up in NBC's drama pilot The Playboy Club. Especially when you hear that there is a chance she will be taking it off. Captioning pens ready?
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