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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.
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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.
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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.
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Warner Bros. Offers 300 Sequel to Guy RitchieZack Snyder had planned to direct it himself. So what gives?
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Sandler Beats Bieber by a HairHow did ‘Never Say Never’ come so close to defeating ‘Just Go With It’?
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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.’
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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.
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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?”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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The Rite Performs Only All Right’The Rite’ opened to $15 million, or $4 million less than expected.
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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?
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Alex Pettyfer Circling ‘The Last Apprentice’He’d rather do the ‘Last Apprentice’ series than ‘The Mortal Instruments.’
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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.
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Natalie Portman’s on Top’No Strings Attached’ wins the weekend.
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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.’
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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.”
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Jon Favreau Won’t Direct Iron Man 3Did too many Marvel heroes spoil the fun for him?
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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.”
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Charlize Theron Tapped for Clint Eastwood’s Hoover BiopicClint Eastwood’s Hoover biopic, ‘J. Edgar,’ continues to vacuum up stars.
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Box Office: Tangled Wins, But Everything TanksAttendance for November: the weakest in 15 years.
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CBS Films Fires COO After Faster FlopsIn Hollywood as in baseball, it’s three strikes and you’re out.
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