- Josh Schwartz has swapped out Smallville‘s Kristin Kreuk for Sara Fletcher for the lead of his comedy pilot Hitched. The half-hour comedy format apparently wasn’t a good fit for Kreuk, but I choose to think Fletcher just took advantage of her huge stash of Kryptonite. (And, yes, I realize that doesn’t make any sense, Superman fans. Just roll with me here.) [Deadline]
- Vera Farmiga has nabbed a starring role in A Thousand Guns. The film is an indie Western, and not a movie about a Jersey Shore-area gym. [Variety]
- Bill Haber and Tina Brown have optioned Laura Lippman’s In a Strange City for a TV series. The book, the sixth in the author’s Tess Monaghan series, follows a journalist who becomes a private eye. If Lippman thinks Baltimore is strange, I bet she’s never been to Mitchell, S.D. [Variety]
- AMC has added Michelle Forbes (True Blood), Brent Sexton (In the Valley of Elah), Eric Ladin (Generation Kill), and Jamie Anne Allman (The Notebook) to its drama pilot The Killing, which follows police as they investigate a girl’s murder. Yes, but how stylish will they look drinking scotch? [THR]
- Vh1 has ordered eight episodes of reality series Football Wives less than a week after premiering Basketball Wives. Next up: Bocce Wives. [Variety]
- French actress Astrid Berges-Frisbey has been cast as a mermaid in the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Does this mean Gérard Depardieu will play a reggae-loving crab? [THR]
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Apr 15
2010
12:54 PM ET
Josh Schwartz makes a casting swap on 'Hitched,' Vera Farmiga shoots for a Western (Excess Hollywood)
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Apr 15
2010
12:53 PM ET
Carla Gugino joins 'Californication'
Image Credit: Ethan Miller/WireImage.comCarla Gugino will have a season four-long arc on Showtime’s Californication, Deadline Hollywood reports. She’ll play a “likeable corporate attorney” and new love interest for David Duchovny’s Hank Moody. Hank was arrested in the season three finale after physically assaulting Mia’s boyfriend/manager, who’d suggested Hank and Mia come clean about having sex when she was 16 — and her blackmailing him into letting the world think she wrote his novel about their affair — on Oprah. (Hank finally had to tell Karen about the secret — on the eve of them moving back to New York together as a family — and, well, that didn’t go well.)
What do you think? If anyone could make a corporate attorney “likeable,” it would be Gugino. She has that sweet face, and the rare ability to see-saw between family-friendly fare (the Spy Kids trilogy, Night at the Museum, Race to Witch Mountain) and decidedly-adult offerings (Entourage, Watchmen, Women in Trouble). I think she’ll be an interesting match for Moody — she’s someone the audience will feel protective of, and yet trust to take care of herself.
Cashmere Mafia‘s Addison Timlin has also been cast in a recurring role.
Apr 15
2010
12:38 PM ET
Rickey Minor talks new 'Tonight Show' gig, current season of 'Idol': 'They just have to break out of their shells'
Image Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty ImagesRickey Minor might have landed his new gig just over 24 hours ago, but The Tonight Show has been on his mind for decades. “As a kid, watching [The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson bandleader] Doc Severinsen, I can’t say that I wasn’t enamored with it,” Minor tells EW. “What musician is not looking at this institution, one of the iconic shows that has live music?” And now, since Minor will be following in Severinsen’s and, more recently, Kevin Eubanks’ footsteps as The Tonight Show‘s bandleader, he’s prepared for the work ahead, which includes fostering a relationship with the show’s host, Jay Leno. “It’s like a marriage, but unlike a marriage, you really don’t have a dating period,” Minor says. “You just have to start living together right away.” Not that Minor’s worried about developing chemistry with Leno. “It’s gonna take a little time,” he says. “But I’m a pretty funny guy. So I don’t see it taking that long.” READ FULL STORY »
Apr 15
2010
12:17 PM ET
'Titanic' in 3D is spectacular, says Jeffrey Katzenberg. Will you see it?
Image Credit: Everett CollectionI know, I know. I should be writing about how DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Show on Wednesday that DWA is converting the first three Shrek films to 3D for a Blu-ray release. (They’re going back into the digital files, with the filmmakers, and doing it right, he noted, so no need to throw his recent statements dissing poorly-executed, post-conversions in his face. He was asked to speak again about Clash of the Titans, if you were wondering, and politely declined, Variety reports.) But really, 3D Shreks don’t excite me. Instead, this bit of news in the Hollywood Reporter‘s recap of his chat grabbed me: “He added that he saw a test for Titanic and said: ‘It is spectacular. Jim is a perfectionist.’” READ FULL STORY »
Apr 15
2010
11:18 AM ET
Courtney Love thinks the idea of Robert Pattinson playing Kurt Cobain is 'stupid.' Who should portray the Nirvana frontman?
Image Credit: Credit: Janet Mayer/PR Photos; Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.comCourtney Love has described the rumors that Robert Pattinson could play Kurt Cobain in a proposed biopic of the Nirvana singer as “stupid.” “Isn’t that so stupid?” Love told the Canadian Press of the casting scuttlebutt, “That’s just so wrong.” The Hole singer, who is also of course Cobain’s widow, said that she recently watched “the Twilight stuff,” and that “it resonates with the teenaged girl in me,” but that she would prefer the role go to either Ryan Gosling or James McAvoy.
Cobain was previously depicted in the 2005 Gus Van Zant film Last Days, though that movie was more experimental mood piece than biopic. Personally, I’m not that excited about anyone playing the doomed singer-songwriter. But what do you think? Who should play Cobain? And is there anyone out there who thinks Pattinson does have the smell of teen spirit?
Apr 15
2010
09:52 AM ET
Viola Davis in talks for 'The Help': Who else should they cast?
Academy Award-nominated actress Viola Davis (Eat Pray Love, the best seven minutes of Doubt) is in talks to slide into the Dr. Scholl shoes of Aibileen, the weary and tough Mississippi maid at the heart of Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel The Help. According to Variety, Davis would star in DreamWorks Studios’ adaptation of the story about the long-ignored community of African American maids in pre-Civil Rights era Jackson, Miss. and the young white writer who pushes the women to tell their story. Emma Stone, so interesting and funny in the House Bunny, is in talks to play earnest local journalist Miss Skeeter. Tate Taylor (Pretty Ugly People), a childhood friend of Stockett’s and graduate of Ole Miss, adapted the screenplay and is set to take the helm. READ FULL STORY »
Apr 15
2010
09:32 AM ET
'America's Next Top Model' recap: Subway series
Image Credit: Barbara Nitke/The CWIf there’s ever been a more appropriate metaphor for ANTM than this week’s photoshoot, I don’t know what it is: All aboard the S train, which just shuttles back and forth, back and forth, never really making much of a journey, and always smelling like career failure and boiling garbage. (Trust me.) So it is with Top Model, loathe to break any new ground or move in compelling, fresh directions; instead it just sways to and fro, from Grand Central to Times Square, from ratty weaves to arguments about respect, from annoying “you don’t know me” screaming matches to over-enthusiasm for Seventeen magazine. Back and forth. Back. And forth. Never changing. Never growing. Never explaining the guy who’s always playing “Feliz Navidad” on the accordion, even though it’s not Christmastime. He = Tyra’s jumpsuits in this metaphor, FYI. READ FULL STORY »
Apr 15
2010
09:00 AM ET
This week's cover: Summer movie preview!
The stars and directors of summer’s most anticipated films share what it was like to create them. A sample:
Angelina Jolie stars in Salt as CIA agent accused of being a Russian sleeper spy. The role, originally written for a man (Tom Cruise was previously attached to star), called for a lot of butt-kicking action. “I had just had two babies, and the push to be physically strong was very welcomed at the time,” says Jolie. Stunt work is something the actress has taken pride in doing herself since the beginning of her career. It turns out, motherhood hadn’t scared her straight. “The funny thing about having children is that now I am twice as motivated to do a cool stunt because my kids will like it,” she says. READ FULL STORY »
Apr 15
2010
08:32 AM ET
Can the so-bad-it's-awesome cult movie 'The Room' sell out New York's Ziegfeld Theatre?
In 2008, when I first wrote about the entertainingly terrible cult film The Room, the movie’s actor-director-writer-producer Tommy Wiseau told me he dreamed of one day screening his demented drama at the 20,000 capacity Staples Center. Despite the film’s still growing cult — whose members include such famous fans as Paul Rudd, Kristen Bell, and Tim and Eric — that prospect remains an unlikely one. On April 30, however, The Room will be viewed by its biggest audience to date when the movie is shown at New York’s famous Ziegfeld Theatre, a venue that is capable of housing 1,200 souls. READ FULL STORY »
Apr 15
2010
08:00 AM ET
'The Real Housewives of NYC': Meet new housewife Sonja Morgan
Image Credit: Mitchell Haaseth/BravoThe Real Housewives of NYC cast may already be brimming with six divalicious ladies, but make way for one more! A new housewife, socialite Sonja Morgan, joins the cast of ladies in tonight’s new episode. (And in case you’re wondering, she will get full, golden apple-holding privileges in the credits eventually.) Morgan rang up EW to introduce herself, revealing that she’s BFF with Roberto Cavalli, is working on a Candace Busnell-esque screenplay, and knew Ramona back in the ’80s when she “was really crazy” (more so than now?!?). Read on to find out what makes Sonja tick.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Why’d you want to join the cast of The Real Housewives of New York City?
SONJA MORGAN: I don’t know that I wanted to join a reality show — that’s kind of scary for a single mom with a 9-year-old. But, you know, I’ve been working my whole life, started at 14 years old put myself through college, and then I was modeling in Europe, doing the restaurant business, and brokering deals. Then I got married, had a baby. Then I produced a movie, then I produced an art show and produced an art tour. I said, “You know, I think it’s time to highlight my career. We’re in a recession, I’ll be lucky if they even have me.”
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