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Claude Brodesser-Akner

  1. the social network
    What Producers Do: Explaining The Social Network’s Social NetworkA guide for the perplexed.
  2. the coen brothers
    From Their Childhood Friend, How to Better Know a Coen Brother“We always cast him in the submissive female role.”
  3. Your Box Office Explained: Liam Neeson Shows Alex Pettyfer How It’s Done’Unknown’ wins the weekend.
  4. exclusive
    Precious Director Lee Daniels Wants Sofia Vergara, Bradley Cooper for Thriller The PaperboyAlso Alex Pettyfer.
  5. the star market
    The Star Market: Can January Jones Successfully Go From Betty to the Big Screen?“I don’t really know what her range is; for that matter, I don’t know what her ambitions are,” says one top agent.
  6. exclusive
    Fox Bullish on The Story of FerdinandFox Animation Studios has acquired the classic children’s book and plans to adapt it into a CGI feature film.
  7. exclusive
    Mila Kunis Melts for Role of Wicked Witch of the West in Sam Raimi’s Oz, the Great and PowerfulThe Hughes brothers’ loss appears to be Sam Raimi’s gain.
  8. exclusive
    Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio to Reteam for The Wolf of Wall StreetOut: Ridley Scott. In: Martin Scorsese.
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    YouTube Offering Millions for Celebrity-Created ContentYouTube is launching what’s understood to be a massive $100 million bid to attract Hollywood talent.
  10. exclusive
    Warner Bros. Offers 300 Sequel to Guy RitchieZack Snyder had planned to direct it himself. So what gives?
  11. exclusive
    Justin Bieber: Never Say Never May Be Quickly Updated in Theaters to Lure Kids BackNew musical numbers and recent footage should keep the grosses up.
  12. your box office explained
    Sandler Beats Bieber by a HairHow did ‘Never Say Never’ come so close to defeating ‘Just Go With It’?
  13. exclusive
    Megan Ellison in Talks for Rights to DivergentThe billionairess strikes again.
  14. breaking
    Bieber Set to Beat Sandler at the Box Office This WeekendStunning box-office news this Friday afternoon.
  15. exclusive
    After Batman 3, Christopher Nolan Wants to Make His Shelved Howard Hughes BiopicIt’ll be freakier than The Aviator.
  16. exclusive
    Justin Timberlake, Catherine Zeta-Jones Likely to Bet on Lay the Favorite, Take the DogOdds are good that Timberlake will play the part of Rosie, a Long Island bookmaker.
  17. exclusive
    Bruce Willis in Talks for Lay the Favorite; Interviews Directors for Die Hard 5Bruce Willis is now in negotiations to star opposite Rebecca Hall in Stephen Frears’s ‘Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog.’
  18. exclusive
    Paul Thomas Anderson’s Scientology Movie and Inherent Vice Adaptation Close to Finding FinancingWhich will get made first?
  19. exclusive
    Can Director Craig Gillespie Reanimate Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?Much like, well, a zombie, ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ keeps coming to life, dropping dead, and then clawing its way out of the grave.
  20. the industry
    Snakes on a Plane Director Fighting to Call His Next Film Untitled 3D Shark ThrillerWhat does Roger Corman think of all this?
  21. the star market
    The Star Market: Can Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester Become the Box Office’s Queen B?“Blake Lively’s just exploded after ‘The Town’ and here you’ve got Leighton, with her agents stuffing her into genre schlock?”
  22. exclusive
    Werner Herzog Wants to Crown Naomi Watts Queen of the DesertHerzog’s written a new drama called ‘Queen of the Desert’ and is in serious discussions with Naomi Watts about starring.
  23. exclusive
    Julia Roberts Now in Talks to Play Mean Queen in Brothers Grimm: Snow WhiteRoberts is finally engaging on Tarsem Singh’s upcoming 3-D film The Brothers Grimm: Snow White.
  24. movies
    Why Aren’t Americans Cast As Superheroes Anymore? Not Manly EnoughSuperman, Batman, Spider-Man, and Thor have all been outsourced, and one casting director says it’s because “American men aren’t men on the screen.”
  25. your box office explained
    The Rite Performs Only All Right’The Rite’ opened to $15 million, or $4 million less than expected.
  26. the star market
    The Star Market: Will Action Hero Jason Statham Have the Career of Bruce Willis or Van Damme?His low-budget bone-breakers always make a profit, but how long can his run last without making a new move?
  27. exclusive
    Alex Pettyfer Circling ‘The Last Apprentice’He’d rather do the ‘Last Apprentice’ series than ‘The Mortal Instruments.’
  28. exclusive
    Summit Entertainment in Talks to Pick Up Emma Watson’s Perks of Being a WallflowerThis blog is pleased to be first to report that Emma Watson’s first post–’Harry Potter’ starring role appears to have found a home in Hollywood.
  29. your box office explained
    Natalie Portman’s on Top’No Strings Attached’ wins the weekend.
  30. the star market
    The Star Market: Ashton Kutcher Has Built a Career Out of Goofy Charm and Trendspotting — How Long Can It Last?When a movie fails, he walks away unscathed. Natalie Portman beware: ‘No Strings Attached’ is all on you.
  31. exclusive
    Alex Pettyfer Offered Another Y.A. Movie Franchise, The Mortal InstrumentsIt’s like ‘Twilight,’ but with demons!
  32. yee-haw
    Read the First 15 Pages of Sam Peckinpah’s Long-Lost Script for The TexansBloody Sam is plotting a comeback.
  33. your box office explained
    Your Box Office Explained: The Green Hornet Stings The Dilemma’Hornet’: The “highest-grossing opening ever for a live-action superhero comedy,” whatever that means.
  34. the star market
    The Star Market: Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively Surprised Critics in The Town, But Will She Be a Movie Star?“Blake is already a leading lady, who’s now proving that she’s a very good actress.”
  35. exclusive
    Paul Greengrass Readies MLK Assassination Thriller MemphisInsiders tell us that producer Scott Rudin is in discussions about possibly making the project with Greengrass at Focus Features.
  36. exclusive
    Charlize Theron Won’t Be in Eastwood’s Hoover Movie, May Star in Alien PrequelTheron’s reps at William Morris Endeavor were a bit ahead of the curve on their client’s willingness to star as Hoover’s secretary …
  37. your box office explained
    True Grit Guns Down Fockers, Season of the WitchThe Coens’ biggest movie to date has now become one of the best-performing horse operas of recent memory.
  38. the star market
    The Star Market: Gwyneth Paltrow Is Suddenly Everywhere, But Can You Call It a Comeback?Paltrow’s got ‘Country Strong’ in theaters, but many people in town think her future might be in television.
  39. exclusive
    Eminem Returns to Hollywood to Commit Random Acts of ViolenceHe intends to star in a new crime thriller at 20th Century Fox called ‘Random Acts of Violence.’
  40. the star market
    The Star Market: Can Rabbit Hole Help Nicole Kidman Reconnect With Audiences?“People want to root for Sandy Bullock and Julia Roberts in a movie — they don’t really want to do that with Nicole Kidman.”
  41. exclusive
    Poor Tracking Indicates Gulliver’s Travels May End Up a Fallen GiantOnly one in four people who know about the movie want to see it.
  42. the star market
    The Star Market: Can Justin Timberlake Succesfully Reinvent Himself As a Movie Star?“I think the question mark is whether men will connect with him,” notes one rep.
  43. exclusive
    Jon Favreau Won’t Direct Iron Man 3Did too many Marvel heroes spoil the fun for him?
  44. the star market
    The Star Market: Can Amy Adams’s Role in The Fighter Bump Her Up a Casting Weight Class?“I never thought she was a real movie star, but she’ll make a picture go, she will green-light a film.”
  45. exclusive
    Paradise Found: Ridley Scott’s Alien Prequel Gets a Title, Takes Aim at Yeoh and FassbenderIt’s called ‘Paradise.’
  46. exclusive
    Charlize Theron Tapped for Clint Eastwood’s Hoover BiopicClint Eastwood’s Hoover biopic, ‘J. Edgar,’ continues to vacuum up stars.
  47. your box office explained
    Box Office: Tangled Wins, But Everything TanksAttendance for November: the weakest in 15 years.
  48. the star market
    The Star Market: Are Audiences Still Willing to Say, ‘We Love You, Jim Carrey’?“No more dumb comedies; that’s death,” advises one Hollywood rep.
  49. exclusive
    Paul Thomas Anderson Wants to Adapt Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent VicePlus: Robert Downey Jr. as Doc Sportello?
  50. exclusive
    CBS Films Fires COO After Faster FlopsIn Hollywood as in baseball, it’s three strikes and you’re out.
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