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Russell Brand is circling “Rock of Ages”, the film adaptation of the popular big-hair musical that Adam Shankman (“Hairspray”) is directing for New Line. According to Deadline, Katy Perry’s bra-unstrapper “is circling the role of Lonnie, who runs the ’80s rock club The Bourbon for owner Dennis (Alec Baldwin)”. Brand will join a cast that includes Tom Cruise, playing Reagan-era rocker Stacee Jax (More…)
Documentary writer Mark Bailey has been tapped to write the screenplay for Marvel’s long-gestating “Black Panther” movie. A movie version was previously in development in the ’90s with Wesley Snipes attached to play the king of a resource-rich fictional African country who becomes a super hero. (More…)
Lee Tergesen (”Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning”), Christopher McDonald (”The Faculty”) and Emma Fitzpatrick (”The Social Network”) will join Josh Stewart in Marcus Dunstan’s sequel to “The Collector” (More…)
People has a new image from “Scream 4”, featuring the characters of Dewey and Gale, played by David Arquette and Courtney Cox, respectively; while Coming Soon has a couple of stills from the forthcoming “The Three Musketeers 3D” starring Logan Lerman, Christoph Waltz and Orlando Bloom.
Dawn Oliveri (“Heroes”) will star opposite Don Cheadle in the Showtime series “House of Lies”. The laffer centers on Marty (Cheadle), a self-loathing highly successful management consultant from a top-tier firm who is never above using any means (or anyone) necessary to get his clients the information they want. (More…)
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions announced Thursday that it has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to Morgan Spurlock’s ”The Greatest Movie Ever Sold”, a playful yet thought provoking documentary examining the world of product placement, marketing and advertising through a film financed entirely by product placement, marketing and advertising.
Sacha Gervasi (“Anvil : The Story of Anvil”) is in discussions to write and direct “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho” for producer Ivan Reitman (“Ghostbusters”). (More…)
Liam Neeson will reprise his role as Qui-Gonn Jinn in two upcoming episodes of “Star Wars : The Clone Wars” for the Cartoon Network.
Neeson was happy to do it because he feels “these characters resonate… even after all these years. Growing up, my heroes were cowboys; they were strong and mysterious, and it seemed like they always rode off into the sunset. For kids today, Star Wars has that same kind of magic. I really wanted to be a part of that.” (More…)
Annie Ilonzeh (“Melrose Place”) will play Kate, one of the three kick-butt heroines at the center of the new “Charlie’s Angels” reboot over on ABC. Robert Wagner (“Hart to Hart”) is already onboard to voice the never-seen Charlie. (More…)
NBC has picked up “17th Precinct” a cop drama with supernatural elements from “Battlestar Galactica” brainchild Ron Moore. The show, set in a town where magic rules over science, is described as an adult Harry Potter (More…)
Sony Pictures will distribute Neil Blomkamp’s next film “Elysium” starring Matt Damon and Sharlto Copley. Says the filmmaker, ”I literally could not be happier. I have a brilliant relationship with Sony. I loved them during District 9, they 100% get this film and they get me. Elysium is in very good hands.” (More…)
Showcase, an offshot of the Showtime channel package in Australia, has announced a March 27 debut for the acclaimed drama “Boardwalk Empire” starring Steve Buscemi and Michael Pitt.
Mike White, who, funnily enough, was brought in to replace David O’Russell, has now departed “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, the daptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel that injects flesh-eating corpses to Jane Austen’s 1813 literary classic. White had a scheduling clash. (More…)
Before Michael Scott leaves ‘The Office’, he’ll bump into David Brent. Yep, Ricky Gervais has filmed a cameo – reprising his role from the original Brit “Office” – for NBC’s “The Office”. (More…)
Michael Clarke Duncan (“Daredevil”, “The Green Mile”) will star in a spin-off of Deschanel/Boreanaz winner “Bones”. ”The spinoff, based on The Locator books written by Richard Greener, centers on Walter Sherman aka “the Locator” (the role is still being cast), a former military policeman who can find anything. Duncan will play Walter’s partner Leo, a tough, raw-hide cowboy philosopher”. (More…)
”Time Crimes”, the remake of the 2007 Spanish time travel film, has been moved by Steve Zaillian from United Artists to DreamWorks. Zaillian is also rewriting the script. (More…)
Kyra Sedgwick (TVs “The Closer”) will join Jeffrey Dean Morgan in “Dibbuk Box”, the Ghost House Pictures scarefest about a youngster who becomes strangely attached to an antique wooden box purchased at a yard sale. Sedgwick and Morgan play the young girl’s parents. (More…)
We know they’re out in September, but what date exactly are the “Star Wars” Blu-ray set’s headed to shelves? September 27, according to Amazon (More….)
