Richard Linklater Gets Long-Awaited Release Date for Orson Welles Biopic
Pushing through multiple delays, a filmmaker finally manages to get a release date for his film about another filmmaker directing a Shakespeare play on Broadway. It rarely gets more convoluted or meta than that. Small wonder, then, that it took nearly a year for said film to get that release date in the U.S.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsZac Efron, Lil Wayne, More to Guest on Entourage
Entourage came back to life in its fifth season, and with the sixth round set to debut on HBO on July 12, new major-wattage cameos have begun to take shape. Among the first announced this year is Zac Efron, who will play a lightly caricatured version of himself in an episode later this summer.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsZac Efron to Play Jonny Quest in Film Adaptation of Cartoon
After the Wachowski Brothers failed to attract audiences with the fast-talking, live-action fim version of the Japanese anime Speed Racer, those working on the adaptation of Hannah-Barbera's Jonny Quest cartoon seem to be wary of going the same route.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsZac Efron's exit leaves Footloose revival in limbo
So Zac Efron does want to have an actual career. The actor has dropped out of Paramount’s revival of Footloose, the future of which is now uncertain.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo, Day 4: Cello Centered gets my vote
So! It's election day! Kind of a big deal, right? Right! Thusly, I tackled the “C” section of NaBloPoMo's November blog roll expecting a barrage of political chatter: Last-minute advocating on the behalf of beloved candidates, fervent ranting, harried tales of voting booth kerfuffles, or at least a bit of griping about how SNL's Presidential Bash last night was kinda super lame. But not one of the blogs I clicked through this morning even so much as mentioned “election day” or “voting” or “democratic process” or “averting the course of American history” or anything. Not nothin'. ... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPretenders in Chief: Paste Casts the Presidents
When we learned Josh Brolin would be playing George W. Bush... read more
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