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1:51AM Maureen OConnor | But now we’ve got a marijuana rumour. Emma Watson gets an on-campus boyfriend. Liz Hurley and Hugh Grant reunite to trade tips for graceful aging. Courtney Love admits to physically harming her daughter. Today’s gossip turns back the clock. More »
Brangelina’s Sex Life Not As Noisy As Previously Thought
1:51AM Maureen OConnor | But now we’ve got a marijuana rumour. Emma Watson gets an on-campus boyfriend. Liz Hurley and Hugh Grant reunite to trade tips for graceful aging. Courtney Love admits to physically harming her daughter. Today’s gossip turns back the clock. More » 
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Spotted! Ed Norton Plays The ‘Celebrity’ Card To Blow Off A Bill
7:28AM Maureen OConnor | In Leaves of Grass Edward Norton plays twins, one of whom deals pot. At last night’s snack-accompanied SxSW screening, Edward’s mellow went up in smoke when he thought he received a bill for his munchies. A witness writes in. More »
Edward Norton Enters The ‘Denial’ Phase Of Grieving For ‘The Incredible Hulk’
2:10AM Defamer Hollywood | Defamer HQ opens for business this morning with an apology to newly non-difficult Edward Norton, whose squabbles with Marvel and Universal over The Incredible Hulk appear to have been blown out of proportion by a naturally overzealous press. Via Entertainment Weekly, Norton himself went public for the first time this week to shout “Piffle!” at the accounts of acrimony dug up by Nikki Finke and The New York Times (and dutifully passed on by us); lest we risk decontextualization of any of his precious 257 words, we now pass along his full statement and more of our own profuse contrition after the jump: More »
‘Passionate’ Edward Norton Quietly Plots Revenge For Stalled Masterpiece ‘Hulk’
2:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Try as it might, Universal is facing another orgy of resistance to its big-screen efforts on behalf of the Incredible Hulk comic franchise. This time around, five years after Ang Lee’s expensive, cheesy The Hulk flatlined into muscly green oblivion, The Incredible Hulk has studio flacks spinning, onlookers shrugging and temperamental star Edward Norton naturally pouting over the whole drama. Reports NY Timesman Brooks Barnes: More »
9:40AM Seth | And in the debate over which cartoonish, nearly-identical-looking summer blockbuster Hulk is cooler, we’ll have to go with the one that looks less like the colour of Green Giant frozen peas, and more like the colour of Green Giant canned peas. [incrediblehulk.marvel.com] More »
9:40AM Seth | And in the debate over which cartoonish, nearly-identical-looking summer blockbuster Hulk is cooler, we’ll have to go with the one that looks less like the colour of Green Giant frozen peas, and more like the colour of Green Giant canned peas. [incrediblehulk.marvel.com] More »
‘The Incredible Hulk’ Trailer Offers Promise Of Giant, Green, Angry Thing
9:25AM Seth | The just-released trailer for The Incredible Hulk shows few signs of the shocking truth–splashed across the pages of The Finkeian Tattler–about the power-play going on behind the scenes. (For the uninitiated: Ed Norton has been offering up his creative point of view, which differs slightly from that of the 1200 other cooks required to make a superhero blockbuster. We know! Entirely shocking!) Based on these two-minutes of footage, it seems the touchy-feely beast of Ang Lee’s version, weighed down with boring daddy-issues and roaming the streets of San Francisco like an HGH-abusing Gumby, has been replaced with something a little more in line with what Hulk fanatics expect from their gamma-ray-enhanced avocado-beasts. GRAGGGHHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!! incrediblehulk.marvel.com More »
Trade Roundup: Michael Bay Wonders How We Can Sex-Up A Basically Solid ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Premise
8:45AM Seth | Hollywood Out of Ideas: Michael Bay Instigating Another Completely Unnecessary Horror-Classic Remake Edition. After the announced despoiling of A Nightmare on Elm Street by his Platinum Dunes “horror shingle,” the director is in talks to produce a remake of Rosemary’s Baby for Paramount. Look for Megan Fox to star as the totally babealicious swimsuit model knocked up by Shia LaSatan. [THR] Ugly Betty showrunner Silvio Horta has signed a two-year, mid-seven-figure pact with ABC Studios to continue his Betty duties, and develop other series for the studio. [Variety] Finicky Hulk Edward Norton and highly blogpinionated Endeavor head Ari Emanuel are shopping around a documentary about Barack Obama’s presidential bid. Some studios have expressed interest, so long as it’s on a “happy-ending-contingent basis…And we think you know what we mean…Wink, wink…” [Variety] More »
Creative ‘Hulk’ Differences Make Norton Smash! Norton Crash! Norton Bash!
8:20AM Seth | Few came away from Ang Lee’s vision of Hulk–about two freakishly massive, green cowboys who smash boulders and each others’ hearts on the open Wyoming plain–feeling the director had really done the Marvel source material justice. So it was with a measure of relief that Ed Norton announced he would be sweeping in to reclaim the franchise, with a bold re-envisioning of the beloved tale of Dr. Banner and his rageoholic, gamma-bomb-enhanced Mr. Hyde. Now, reports Deadline Hollywood Daily, the legendarily exacting Norton has been locking horns with the Marvel Studios brass over final cut: Insiders say Norton was “promised tremendous involvement and access” after Marvel invited him into the core team to rewrite Zak Penn’s script. Says one insider, “There’s a lot of posturing going on between Edward’s camp and Marvel over how you edit the final version.” More »
