Jonathan Lipnicki Is A High School Girl From Nebraska
News from Cannes and from Mickey Rourke. A strange movie gets strange casting, terrible TV shows are picked up, and New York will collapse on October 16th.
Oddly named actor Cylk Cozart has signed on to direct Sandy Creek Girls, about a Nebraska high school’s girls basketball team. Cozart will also play a role, alongside a cast of notable damned souls such as Brian Austin Green, Tiny Lister, Dean Cain, and the ultimate in Hollywood will-o’-the-wisps, Jonathan Lipnicki. One can only assume that they’re all going to play high school girl basketball players. [Variety]
At Cannes, Sony Pictures Classics has acquired distribution rights to Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, a creeper about a boarding school. Right now the general buying climate seems mild, with some eager to see smaller pictures by Ken Loach and Grant Heslov, but nothing big sticking out. Though it’s only the third day. [Variety]
Mickey Rourke is set to star in a remake of the 1980’s British crime flick Mona Lisa, possibly alongside former Bond girl Eva Green. Larry Clark, who made the disturbingly entertaining Bully a while back (as well as Kids), is attached to write and direct. Doesn’t sound too high profile for the recent awards darling. But, you know, it’s something. [Variety]
Oh… good? The not-so-good seeming New York, I Love You has been given a release date by Vivendi. On October 16th you can rush out to the theatres to see New York shorts directed by the likes of Natalie Portman and Brett Ratner. Terrif. [Variety]
Two new shows—the ugh-inducing Melrose Place reboot and the, um, ugh-inducing Vampire Diaries—have both been given permission to begin staffing by the CW. So it looks like they’re going to air. The ghostly specter that is the Gossip Girl spinoff? Still awaiting word on whether they’ll be picked up for midseason. Ouch. [THR]
Wonderful! Another show about rich, entitled little shitty teenagers. This one is called Gigantic and it’s going to be on the N and it’s about the children of celebrities and poor Marti Noxon, of Buffy, has co-created it. Sigh. [THR]
Oh, and Scrubs is coming back on ABC. [THR]
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@DahlELama: MICHAEL AND SYDNEY ARE BOTH COMING BACK. Sorry to yell but I don't know how else to convey my excitement.
I recall back after Jerry Maguire how it seemed for three or four years that little Jonathan Lipnicki was not growing at all.
I saw NYILY at Toronto Film Fest. Not even close to the same league as 'Paris'. As each story unfolded I kept hoping the next one would be great, but notsomuch. The only one that was any good had Robin Wright Penn in it.
secretagentman
@Chadams28: I think it was Scarlett Johansson's segment that got cut.
@DahlELama: Ashlee Simpson is gonna be in Melrose Place 2.0? Ha! I never really got into the original, and I must confess, I don't think I will get into le deuxième, either.
I thought the Portman piece was cut from "New York"?
Chadams28
But what word of Dollhouse?
@unclevanya: it also had a spin-off, Candy Crack Girls.
Sandy Creek Girls? There has to already be a porn out there called Sandy Crack Girls. Which would make this a first of some kind. I'm not sure what kind without coffee.
Come on, I can't really be the only one excited by the Melrose Place spinoff, can I? The trainwreck that is Ashlee Simpson! The adorableness that is Michael Rady! The mere memory of Kimberly ripping off the wig! This is gold, people! Well, fool's gold, really, but still, shiny!
DahlELama
@Richard Lawson: Correct, sir. I totally get a pass for confusing the two, right?
Chadams28
@downlow: And I'm not sure how they're going to brink Syndey back from the dead but, frankly, I don't really care. I'll buy into whatever fantastical tale they come up with.
@rina: Michael!!!!??? YES! He was the best. So smarmy and so funny at the same time and it only got better with the addition of Jack Wagner.
@General Halfshaftery: and as it turns out, he not-grew from a kid right into a douchebag.
as someone who grew up in nebraska, i know that all girls from sandy creek, stuart, loomis, hampton, rock county, omaha bryan, wahoo neumann, st. paul, mccook, beatrice, falls city sacred heart, south sioux city, and fairmont are totally sluts. moreover, the male basketball coaches of women's teams are even bigger sluts. you should only pay attention when zooey deschannel comes to nebraska: wonderful things happen. some people call it magic.
hornrimsylvia