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Small Screen
15 Years Later, Claire Danes Returns To Television
7:43AM Richard Lawson | Sure she did that Temple Grandin thing, but that was a TV movie. This is a TV series. Also today: Leonardo DiCaprio goes back in time again, Kelsey Grammer returns to the cable waves, and Dane Cook breaks our heart. More »
Big Screen
James McAvoy Is Fleming, Ian Fleming
5:26PM Adrian Chen | The baby-faced Scottish actor James McAvoy (Atonement, Chronicles of Narnia) will be starring in an upcoming biopic about the life of Ian Fleming, the man who created James Bond. Pajiba.com notes this puts him out of the running for Bond. More »
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The Nine Lessons We Learned From Nine
7:02AM Brian Moylan | Nine doesn’t open in Australia until next year, but it’s opened – disastrously – in the US and the Americans have learnt something from it. For instance, it can tell you how to keep a disaster like Nine from happening again. More »
People
8:48AM Brian Moylan | [Alongside Kate Hudson, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench and Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman greets her tiny ex-husband on the red carpet at the Nine premiere in London today. Image via Getty]
‘Hi, Tom. Thanks For Coming.’
8:48AM Brian Moylan | [Alongside Kate Hudson, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench and Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman greets her tiny ex-husband on the red carpet at the Nine premiere in London today. Image via Getty] 
Big Screen
Nine Throws Down The Oscar Gauntlet
3:30AM Dodai
Judi Dench! Penny Cruz! Nicole Kidman! Daniel Day-Lewis! Kate Hudson! Sophia Loren!!! And, uh, Fergie! And everyone is SINGING & DANCING. [YouTube]
Now You, Too, Can Lose Money Financing a Weinstein Company Film
3:50AM Defamer US Edition | The inevitable karmic payback for Fraggle Rock: The Movie is coming swift and severe at The Weinstein Company, where Harvey Weinstein is reduced to bringing in outsiders to get two of his long-delayed passion projects off the ground. Relativity Media appears ready to kick in at least half of Nine‘s $80 million budget, meaning the long-delayed, Daniel Day-Lewis/Nicole Kidman-starring musical will finally start shooting this fall. More »
New J.J. Abrams Series ‘Fringe’ Billed By Fox As ‘Felicity With Smoke-People’
8:35AM Seth | Fox’s fall schedule announcement introduces only two new shows: a comedy called Do Not Disturb (formerly The Inn), and J.J. Abrams’s new series Fringe, which will air Tuesdays at 9 after House. Details on Fringe are being kept under close wraps, but based upon a slew of promotional images over at TV Week, we think it revolves around a conspiracy discovered by a quality control technician at a menthol cigarette factory, played by Joshua Jackson. Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, meanwhile, and new animated shows Sit Down, Shut Up and The Cleveland Show won’t air until mid-season. Executed: Back to You, Canterbury’s Law, K-Ville, Nashville, New Amsterdam, The Next Great American Band, The Return of Jezebel James and Unhitched. [Variety] Daniel Day-Lewis may be taking over the role vacated by Javier Bardem in Rob Marshall’s movie on the musical Nine. Bla bla milkshake jazz-hands bla bla. [Variety] More »
Top Five Most Cringeworthy Facial Hair Moments In Cinematic History
8:15AM Molly Friedman | We didn’t think it was possible, but the insanely dateable John Krasinski is not looking so hot these days. Due to an upcoming role in the Sam Mendes-directed Farlanders, John is sporting a nasty beard that resembles something one of the Geico cavemen would wear. And while we’d never judge an actor for tossing out their razors for months for the sake of their craft, this terrible beard inspired us to take a look back at the most cringeworthy facial hair in cinematic history. From one actor’s frizzy salt-and-pepper rat’s nest to one mustache’s journey inside another man’s taint, our top five lie after the jump: More »Unleash Your Inner Oil Baron
7:47AM Defamer US Edition | While we wait for Paul Thomas Anderson to reissue a There Will Be Blood DVD edition that his masterpiece and its fans deserve, we can take comfort in the imagination of said fans around the Internet. We’ve learned that today, for example, is the first-ever International Talk Like Daniel Plainview Day, honouring Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis’s eminently quotable anti-hero for the ages. “If you’ve ever heard about ‘Talk Like A Pirate Day,’ this is essentially in the same vein,” write organisers Harrison Simon and Donald Polaski. “Also, do your best to drink a milkshake, preferably someone else’s.” Some sample quotes follow, but we will probably default to taking our dates to the Peach Tree Dance. I said, get liquored up and take ‘em to the Peach Tree Dance! Bastard in a basket! I’m finished. [Facebook] More »