At Long Last, ‘The Breakfast Club’ For The Sitting-In-An-Airport Generation
· Count the things wrong with this sentence: Bumped, a modern-day version of The Breakfast Club set at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, has been given a greenlight, with McG protege Anna Mastro attached to direct. [THR]
· SAG StrikeWatch threat alert: Honeysuckle! The actors guild won’t start negotiating until April at the soonest. Asked for a reason, president Alan Rosenberg paused for a moment, then offered, “Oh, who are we kidding. I’m a slave to the draaaamaaaaa.” [Variety]
· A campaign for Diane Lane dud Untraceable, which allowed Facebook users to pull up “gruesome torture scenes” from the movie about, uh, a Facebook-using serial killer or something, has been pulled by the social networking site. Let’s keep it to werewolves and zombies, folks. Maybe a nice Underworld 3 promotion? Thanks. [Variety]
· The Judd Apatow Repertory Players are back for Five-Year Engagement, from the Forgetting Sarah Marshall writer/director-writer/star team of Nick Stoler and Jason Segel. Your circle of friends, meanwhile, have yet to sell anything besides overpriced coffee and crumble pastries to Universal. [Variety]
· ABC wants to breathe new life into canceled Zach Braff launching-pad Scrubs with an order of 18 episodes. An unnamed representative from NBC countered, “No! We killed that! Let it die, you sad little D-girl!” [THR]
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Scrubs was not (and has never been) cancelled. ABC Studios is still in negotiations with NBC. So that part of your story is probably a bit misleading.
Also, the representitive from NBC probably would’ve said something like, “No, we seriously want to kill it. We don’t want to air the final 6 episodes, but we don’t want anyone else to either. Apparently moving it around to 19 different time slots has never done the trick. And if ABC DOES pick it up, we’ll still market the final episode we show as the series finale, just because we can.”