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‘G.I. Joe’ Posters Still Hiding Joseph Gordon-Levitt As Gawky Cobra Commander

6:54AM Kyle Buchanan | We typically regard the upcoming G.I. Joe movie as a necessity we’ll have to suffer through before the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Garbage Pail Kids epic, but that’s not to say there aren’t elements that intrigue us. More »

Channing Tatum Tapped For ‘Sky Rooferz’

6:00AM Seth | · New Line is developing a movie about Parkour—”a free-jumping extreme sport in which agile practitioners run and jump from rooftops.” Set to star is Channing Tatum, who’ll play a self-taught rooftop-jumper who falls for a beautiful, classically trained Parkourist from the other side of the tracks. Several thousand copycat deaths to follow. [Variety] · Maverick Films president Mark Morgan is splitting with partner Guy Oseary, and rebranding the studio under the new name Imprint Entertainment, though we prefer the sound of Pooped My Corset Productions. [Variety] · Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless have been hired to write the Flash Gordon remake no one has been clamoring for since Dino De Laurentiis’s gay-acid-trip take on the material in 1980. [THR] · 24 EP Carlos Coto has paired with Brett Ratner for Wild Boys, an action-comedy pilot about Iraq war vets turned suburban dads. [Variety] · Russian bodybuilder and action star Alexander Nevsky—this man—will play Hercules in a $12 million production, eventually going on to become America’s first completely incomprehensible Russian President. [THR] More »

Hollywood Privacywatch: Adrian Grenier Not Afraid Of A Little PDA

7:40AM Mark Graham | PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our millions of Defamer operatives. We’d like to remind you that this feature is powered by you, so if you want to see more installments of PrivacyWatch, then all you’ve got to do is to send us your sightings. Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put “sighting” or “PrivacyWatch” in the subject line so we don’t lose them) and tell everyone about the time you saw Adrian Grenier getting ready to Diving Bell the Butterfly out of “some model looking chick.” More »

Are Ryan Phillippe’s Abs Enough To Convince Audiences To See An Iraq-Themed Movie?

9:40AM Molly Friedman | Judging from the TV ads and posters for Stop-Loss, the film looks as if it would be just another teen flick where pretty boys with pretty faces chase some equally pretty girls with equally pretty faces. However, director Kimberly Peirce’s first film since Boys Don’t Cry is actually a big, serious movie about the plight of soldiers fighting in Iraq. But before you go and tune out the film solely on the basis of it being another one of those dirge-like films, it’s worth noting that THR is predicting that this may be the very first movie centered around the War in Iraq that actually breaks through with both critics and audiences: “The recent boxoffice fate of Iraq movies has prompted Paramount to take a notably careful approach that downplays the war. The movie is being sold as an MTV Films picture with an attractive young cast (Ryan Phillippe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) that will lure people to theatres for other reasons.” More »