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Sep 14 2010 03:13 PM ET

James Cameron adapting 'True Lies' for TV

Categories: Advance Advancement, James Cameron

James Cameron directs big movies. Gigantic movies. Movies that take the box office behind the middle school and get it pregnant. But big-screen success doesn’t necessarily mean much in TV land: Cameron’s early-’00s TV show, Dark Angel, puttered around Fox for two seasons without making much of a ratings dent. (Although we can thank Dark Angel for the Cult of Jessica Alba and the less-glitzy-but-more-rakishly-charming Cult of Michael Weatherly.) Apparently, Cameron is ready to try again: EW has confirmed that the director is currently working on adapting his 1994 spy-thriller True Lies into a TV show. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 14 2010 02:42 PM ET

Jennifer Lopez's 'American Idol' deal valued at $12 million: Reports

by Michael Slezak

Categories: American Idol, Jennifer Lopez, Reality TV, Television

Image Credit: Jamie McCarthy/WireImage.comGet ready to call her Jenny from the Fox (Broadcasting Company). Or maybe the $12 Million Woman. Jennifer Lopez will be joining the judges’ panel for the 10th season of the network’s ratings giant, American Idol, in a deal worth $12 million, according to an anonymous source who spoke to People.com. (The contract was first reported yesterday by Deadline.com.)

Lopez has been the subject of intense media scrutiny with regard to a coveted spot on a rebooted Idol panel. Her name first surfaced for the gig in late July, before a number of media outlets counted her out of the running due to alleged “diva” demands. As first reported by EW.com on Aug. 12, however, a source close to the show set the record straight that “no deals have fallen apart due to unreasonable demands” and that “This may simply be a case of one diva’s rep slinging mud to make another potential candidate look like a diva.” Soon after, Lopez’s name was back in the mix — along with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler and original panelist Randy Jackson — as a front-runner for one of the three most coveted chairs in the reality TV universe. The J.Lo.-Tyler-Jackson rumors got a further shot of adrenaline when Fox announced — the Friday night before Labor Day — that judge Kara DioGuardi would not be returning to the show for its 10th season.

Spokespersons from Fox, Fremantle, and 19 Entertainment declined comment for this story; a rep for Lopez did not return calls from EW. According to Deadline, Lopez had sought an overall deal with Fox that would have included guaranteed movie and TV pilot deals, but that portion of the contract did not come to fruition.

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Sep 14 2010 02:38 PM ET

This Vulcan salute sweatshirt is amazing

by Margaret Lyons

Categories: Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion, Sci-Fi, Star Trek

Oh holy cats, this Spock sweatshirt is genius. When zipped, it’s simply a hand. When unzipped, it’s inviting you to live long and prosper. I just died from the awesomeness. My ghost is typing this. [insert spooky sounds here]

Threadless.com

It’s even better than the Tron hoodie. Ah, Threadless, I love you.

Sep 14 2010 02:33 PM ET

Lady Gaga to launch a fragrance: What should it smell like?

by Archana Ram

Categories: Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion, Lady Gaga, Music

She’s inspired thousands of her monsters to dress like her. So it’s only natural that Lady Gaga has decided to inspire her fans to smell like her, too — at least that’s what the pop star can hope for with the launch of her first fragrance, due out in spring 2012, according to Women’s Wear Daily. That gives Lady G plenty of time to ponder the scent.

Will she take a cue from her VMA dress and go for notes of bacon and flank steak? Or will her her love for tea cups steer her towards earl grey, mint, and chamomile? Or, in Lady Gaga’s signature everything-has-a-message manner, will it smell like nothing to symbolize the unnecessary masks we wear to hide from our true selves? Only time will tell — and smell.

Would you wear a perfume by Gaga? What do you think it should smell like?

Photo: Hedi Slimane

Sep 14 2010 02:15 PM ET

'The Social Network' new commercial: Zuckerberg as mean Josh Lyman

by Margaret Lyons

Categories: Facebook, Movies, Television

There’s a new trailer out for The Social Network, and while it loses some of its gravitas without “Creep” playing, it still looks great. Come for the sillies, stay for the phrase “the Facebook.” It’s like “the Batman.” READ FULL STORY »

Sep 14 2010 02:00 PM ET

'Glee: Season 1' DVD giveaway

by Emily Exton

Categories: Giveaways

Hey PopWatchers! We’re giving away Glee: Season 1 DVDs!

Get ready for next week’s season premiere by reliving all the best moments and performances from season 1. It’s been a busy summer with news of guest stars (John Stamos!) and special tribute episodes (The Rocky Horror Picture Show!), but what do you hope to see for New Directions’ upcoming school year? The DVDs are courtesy of Fox Home Entertainment and are available while supplies last.

Here’s how to enter to win:

1. Go to our Facebook page.

2. Click “Like” at the top of the page

3. Find the post on our Wall announcing the giveaway, click Comment, and give us your dream guest star or theme episode for Glee. (Note: Commenting on this post won’t enter you in the giveaway; see the official rules after the jump.)

4. If you’re a winner, we’ll contact you via Facebook message to request your mailing address.

The giveaway starts NOW! READ FULL STORY »

Sep 14 2010 01:50 PM ET

Justin Bieber's acting on 'CSI': Not horrible!

by Mandi Bierly

Categories: Justin Bieber, Television, The Bad Man Scares Me!

CBS has released a sneak peek at Justin Bieber’s acting debut on the Sept. 23 season 11 premiere of CSI. It’s an interrogation scene opposite Nick (George Eads), who wants Bieber’s character to give up information on his bomb-happy brother. The director uses a fair number of reaction shots, which leads me to believe producers were pleased with Bieber’s chops. While we’re handing out praise: Here’s to the prop department for showing some restraint on that soda can product placement — it could have been turned the other way — and to the costumer for making sure the pink in Bieber’s shirt matched his lips. Knowing the singer gets to shoot a sinister glare at some point in the episode makes me think this is an early scene, a set-up for Bieber’s character to pretend he’s a good boy before proving he’s bad. Let’s hope! Check it out below. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 14 2010 01:25 PM ET

HBO's 'Game of Thrones': Five reasons I'm psyched for it, even though I have no clue what it's about

by Mandi Bierly

Categories: Television

Cast and crew are hard at work on the 2011 HBO series Game of Thrones, based on the George R. R. Martin fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire. I have not read this addictive series yet, and frankly, the synopsis on the back cover of the first book is mildly overwhelming. But I’m intrigued. Reasons why:

1. HBO simplified the synopsis on the show’s website to break us in gently. “Summer span decades. Winters can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plots, lusts, and intrigues; to the cast and savage eastern lands; all the way to the frozen north, where an 800-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond. Kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords, and honest men… all will play the ‘Game of Thrones.’”

2. As show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss point out in their new behind-the-scenes video embedded below, no one has ever done fantasy the HBO way. “It’s not a bloodless, sexless PG-13 tale of the eternal conflict between Good and Evil. No, ser,” they add in a note to fans on the show’s making-of site. “This tale is bloody, it’s sexy, and few of the characters can be neatly labeled Lawful Good (well, okay, maybe Ned Stark, Maester Luwin, and a few others). This stuff isn’t for kids, and the story won’t fit neatly into a two-minute trailer.”

3. In that same note, Benioff and Weiss admit they were Dungeon Masters who “ran very strict games.”

4. It’s been too long since I’ve seen Sean Bean, pictured, in something. This is like Lord of the Rings, only he has better hair.

5. Peter Dinklage! READ FULL STORY »

Sep 14 2010 01:15 PM ET

'Mad Men' taking the comic world by storm (even if Superhamm is just a dream)

by Karen Valby

Categories: Jon Hamm, Mad Men, Movie Casting, Movies, PopWatch Petition, Things That Are Awesome!

Image Credit: Landmark/PR Photos; Bob Charlotte/PR Photos; Tommaso Boddi/PR PhotosWhat is it about cigarette-puffing Madison Avenue types that screams capes and super powers? Today’s most exciting rumor award goes to the gloriously welcome idea of Jon Hamm pulling on blue tights and taking that shiny black hair of his on a ride through the sky. The Mad Men star’s lantern jaw has long been bandied about as an obvious fit for a Superman reboot, with director/comic book geek Kevin Smith wholeheartedly endorsing the prospect last year. Today, unconfirmed reports have begun swirling again that Hamm is being “seriously considered” for the David Goyer-penned script that Christopher Nolan is producing for Warner Bros. Unfortunately, Hamm’s rep tells us that the actor hasn’t talked to anyone about the role. “This is definitely false. So much speculation on these comic projects and 99% is wrong/wishful thinking!” the rep said via email. So as much as we’d love to see Hamm turn in his suit for a cape, at least for now, it will remain a dream. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 14 2010 01:00 PM ET

Lunchtime Poll: Kenny Powers' Best in Hair?

by Annie Barrett

Categories: Eastbound & Down, Grooming, Lunchtime Poll, Television, Things That Are Classy

HBO’s Eastbound & Down returns for its second season Sunday, Sept. 26. Kenny Powers is in Mexico now! What is this, Weeds?

In season 2, Danny McBride’s Powers — EW’s favorite crude-as-hell, washed-up former major-leaguer-turned-gym-teacher — is now pitching for a team named the Charros. Great, all I want to do right now is eat a churro. The trailer (embedded after the break) looks great, Charo will hopefully show up at some point, and Kenny Powers still does not like children.

Vote below. Change your look, change your life!

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