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Justin Timberlake Officially Joins Facebook…The Movie
3:02PM Andrew Belonsky | Well, the contentious rumours have been confirmed: Justin Timberlake will play founding president Sean Parker in a little film entitled The Social Network, which everyone else just calls “that Facebook movie”. Meanwhile, Jesse Eisenberg will play founder Mark Zuckerberg. [AFP]
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‘Would You Be Willing To Have Unsimulated Intercourse On Screen?’
4:34AM Richard Lawson | Peter Greenaway, director of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover and Pillow Book is casting for a new film. Yes it sounds like porn. But artful porn! The NSFW deets: [Fleshbot] More »
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Sean Penn’s Addition To Stooges Movie Doesn’t Make It Oscar Bait
6:33AM Richard | Sean Penn will play Larry, alongside Jim Carrey as Curly and Benicio del Toro in the Farrelly brothers’ Three Stooges movie. While some had assumed/hoped this would be a classy biopic, it’s not. Just slapstick. More »
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And Now She’s Dead: Ramona Quimby, Age 8
4:55AM Defamer Hollywood | Another children’s book is ruined, Christopher Nolan plans his next project (yay!), a crazy old rich man gets his day in Hollywood, Mickey Rourke steamrolls on, as does, sigh Sherri Shepherd. More »
Everyone You Used to Love Comes Back for Pilot Season
3:31AM Defamer Hollywood | It’s that magical time when many actors clamour for parts that will probably never see the light of day. Scott Wolf, Alyssa Milano, that lady from Sabrina the Teenage Witch. But first, movie casting: More »
Jake Gyllenhaal To Continue His Illustrious Singing Career
3:44AM Defamer Hollywood | Casting has been announced for the movie version of Damn Yankees, the baseball musical. Jake Gyllenhaal will sing! Also in casting news are Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, a Woody Allen movie, and Gossip Girl.
Jessica Alba, Cloris Leachman Join Jack Black as Glitzy ‘Office’ Temps
8:29AM STV | NBC will leave no stunt unplayed in its attempt to own Super Bowl Sunday, with Jessica Alba and Cloris Leachman now confirmed to appear alongside Jack Black in that night’s special hour-long Office episode. More »
Maggie Cheung Goes French, Samuel Jackson Goes Invisible for ‘Basterds’
3:01AM STV | Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt’s Teutonic catalogue-shoot adventure became all the more glamorous today as news leaked that Hong Kong icon Maggie Cheung is preparing to join the cast of Inglourious Basterds [sic]. Not to be outdone, Tarantino alum Samuel L. Jackson finally got around to reading the bootlegged script on his desktop, apparently phoning the filmmaker to lobby for some motherfucking narration up in this motherfucking war movie. And it worked! More »Attention Rough Bogan Ladies Of Australia – Channel Nine Wants YOU!
2:09PM Jess McGuire | Jesus wept. Channel Nine are making a local version of Ladette To Lady, and they’re looking for potential makeover candidates. Do you fit the criteria, vagina owning Defamer Australia readers?
Are you a woman with a loud mouth? A foul-mouth?
Can you drink any bloke under the table?
Are you more interested in footy than fashion?
Are you a domestic disaster?
Consider yourself a party animal?
YES! YES! THAT’S ME! WHY? DO YOU THINK I SOUND LIKE A ‘CATCH’?
If this sounds like you, then you might be a “ladette” – a foul-mouthed, loud and uncultured young woman who needs a crash course in etiquette and manners.
Oh my god. That’s so depressing.
If you’re a filthy beer-swilling lass with the mouth of a trucker, I guess I’ll be seeing you at Eggleston Hall Finishing School later in the year.
Apply here, fellow revolting women. More » 
