Nadya Suleman Isn’t The Only One Starring In A Show About Babies
Hollywood gets on with the business of being Hollywood, selling top-quality products and bottom-shelf products all in the same breath. In that vein we have a 1910 adventure series going to screen, and the Octo-mom lady getting a show.
Barry Sonnenfeld has successfully pitched a movie based on the Tom Swift adventure novels to Columbia. Hopefully it’ll be more Men in Black Sonnenfeld and less R.V. Sonnenfeld. [Variety]
Halle Berry is close to signing onto the thriller The Surrogate, about a wicked lady who carries a couple’s baby, only to turn out crazy. Oddly, her Perfect Stranger costar Bruce Willis is in an upcoming thriller called, um, Surrogates. [Variety]
Rebecca DeMornay, John Mahoney, Aidan Quinn, and Penelope Ann Miller have all been announced as cast members of Flipped, a tale about two kids falling in love, based on a young adult novel. And with a cast like that, it’s bound to be… something. [THR]
Revolutionary Road growler Michael Shannon is signing on to costar in The Runaways, the Joan Jett biopic starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning. Hm. [THR]
NBC has signed a deal with Hallmark, which means we’ll soon be able to buy 30 Rock and Battlestar Galactica greeting cards. Nothing says “Happy Birthday” quite like a card reading “Frak! I’m lizzing all over the place.” [Variety]
Crazed octo-mom Nadya Suleman has finally landed a reality show deal, with the Dutch-owned reality hut that produces US The Biggest Loser and For Love or Money (exactly). It won’t be as “intrusive” as other reality shows, rather it’ll occasionally check in on the lives of the enormous brood, sort of like the wonderful British Up series, except not at all because everyone will be miserable and vulgar. [THR]
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@BadUncle: That title is gonna cause problems with the upcoming adaptation of the Brian K. Vaughn/Joss Whedon graphic novel,though.
Arceus
@TableNine: so, this may be the glorious results of misspent production budget? Well, I still love rock and roll.
@TableNine: Yeah, this line was definitely a head scratcher: "the Joan Jett biopic starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning"
Really, is Kristen Stewart any more fitting a choice for Joan Jett than Dakota Fanning?
nowmedusa
@semiserious: I would chip in for that. But my money is on Jon settling down with a nice young 27-year-old. That way he has a few good years before she starts whining that she wants a baaaayyyyybeeee.
@BadUncle: I would be excited if it weren't for the bad reputation of the actress portraying her. I'm afraid this is going to be a cherry bomb.
TableNine
@FormerEnglishMajor: By "something," he must mean "successful in 1990?"
The Runaways should be awesome. Wrap me in gingham and exile me to Jezebel, but I still think a Joan Jett biopic is long overdue.
How much would a production company have to pay to force Jon to leave Kate for Octomom and catch the whole thing on camera?
"Rebecca DeMornay, John Mahoney, Aidan Quinn, and Penelope Ann Miller have all been announced as cast members of Flipped, a tale about two kids falling in love, based on a young adult novel. And with a cast like that, it's bound to be... something"
Shouldn't there be, um, YOUNG PEOPLE in a movie about "two kids"?
@BadUncle: Sure, but it's going to get the twee treatment. I feel bad for Michael Shannon though. I guess he can't keep doing projects like Shotgun Stories.
Cecil's Wielder