The Playlist tips us off to this confirmation in the LA Times by a spokeswoman for the film. It was slated for release March 26, then pushed to April 30. Now, there is no planned date. Neither story, however, touches on the elephant in the room, Jim Carrey’s recent and unexpected break-up with Jenny McCarthy, announced via Twitter earlier this week. The two incidences...
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Should that headline come equipped with more question marks??? Deadline reports the possibility: Bill Condon has emerged as the number one choice to direct the final two installments of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, I’m told. Summit Entertainment hasn’t signed him, but I’m told that after several strong meetings, they are negotiating. Condon was...
We first visited Taylor Hackford’s Love Ranch in October 2008. Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci star as Joe and Sally Conforte, proprietors of the Mustang Ranch, where prizefighter Oscar Bonavena was gunned down over a suspected fling with Mustang madam Sally. Sticky lawsuits over the financing have kept the film handcuffed to head board, but the months of foreclosure...
Thanks to Jon Pace for forwarding this story about Winona Ryder landing the female lead in the upcoming Ron Howard film, Cheaters, starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James.  EW reports that Ryder beat out Kate Beckinsale and Uma Thurman for the role: Why is the role so coveted? Well it turns out the film is no tried-and-true fat guy/hot wife comedy. Rather, the movie,...
I got a bit of a laugh out of this Big Hollywood post which plans to offer a new perspective on film criticism: Over the past few weeks, thanks to a courageous Whistleblower — a dedicated, savvy and patriotic individual — Big Hollywood has accumulated, not one, not five, not twenty… but nearly fifty television and film screenplays at various...
The New York Times pays tribute to people they believe are originals. ¬†Here is soon-to-be-new mom Diablo Cody – notable because it’s a really good picture of her: Diablo Cody is in on the joke. And this stripper-turned-writer is as agile on the page as she was on the stage: among her current projects are developing the sudsy ‚ÄúSweet Valley High‚Äù...
Star Wars – The Robot Chicken version! Rumblings on the internet forced George Lucas’ hand and he’s now revealing that there will be a animated series that will “look at the saga’s characters with a playful and irreverent tone,” said a statement released to Variety. It will be produced by Jennifer Hill, of the Backyardigans fame. Hill...
The news broke a day or so ago that Aaron Sorkin was contemplating tackling the John Edwards failed politician/husband/father story. ¬†My thoughts immediately leapt to casting. But of course, Gawker beat us to the punch. ¬†This is how they see it playing out, depending on whose pulling the strings: Aaron Sorkin: If the rumors are true, we’d like to see Edwards...