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7:40AM Kyle Buchanan | Duck and cover, Los Angelenos: it’s just been announced that the long-rumoured Gossip Girl spinoff will be set in LA. In the eighties. More »

‘X-Men’ Latest Franchise To Be Hit By The CW-ing Of Sci-Fi

4:22AM Seth | The O.C. and Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz has been hired to write X-Men: First Class, featuring a “younger set of mutants.” Pyro’s gonna go totally psycho on Rogue and burn all her dress designs! [Variety] McCain-stumping cultural barnacle Patricia Heaton continues to work, this time in ABC sitcom The Middle, about which we could give a shit. [THR] Disney and Imax have paired for a five-movie deal that begins with Robert Zemeckis’s motion-capture A Christmas Carol, and probably ends with 10,000 amazingly lifelike chihuahua-asses shaking in your face. [Variety] p>After the jump: What modern Asian monster classic is about to be improved immeasurably by Hollywood? We know you want to know! More »

‘Gossip Girl’ Actresses Quietly Starting To Mimic Their Bitchy On-Screen Personas

8:50AM Molly Friedman | As we’ve been told time and time again, life often imitates art. And while we’d refrain from calling Gossip Girl “art,” Leighton Meester has allegedly been using her on-screen character’s controlling and manipulative tendencies behind the scenes as well. Nan Zhang, who played suspected Gossip Girl scribe Jenny, has disappeared from the New York set. Though creator Josh Schwartz is blaming the sole minority character’s displacement on Zhang’s ridiculous decision to focus on school, those on set are pointing their fingers in Meester’s direction: “‘She was pushed off the show,’ says a snitch. ‘Leighton didn’t like her, and she went.’” More »

Has She Never Heard Of Adam Brody?

4:00AM Defamer Hollywood | At the premiere of Gossip Girl, an overly excited The OC fan provides series creator Josh Schwartz with a chilling preview of his epitaph: “Oh my God! He’s the genius behind Ben McKenzie!” [Gatecrasher, 2nd item] More »

Trade Roundup: ‘Lost’ Writers Have Just 48 More Episodes To Figure Out What’s Going On

5:23AM Defamer Hollywood | · Lost’s producers officially get three more years to pretend that they have any clue what’s happening on that island, as the US ABC network gives the series an advance order for three more 16-episode seasons. As currently scheduled, all loose ends involving smoke monsters, polar bears, and Jack and Kate finally getting it on should be tied up in early 2010. [Variety] · Did we mention that Spider-Man:3’s $US227 million outside the US was an international box office record? Well, it was! Unless you don’t think it should count because it includes a six-day total from some early-opening foreign territories. [THR] · DreamWorks wins the bidding war for Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones adaptation, committing at least $US65 million to the project. Now that the deal is closed, perhaps Jackson’s lawyers will calm down about assistants sharing the script. [Variety] · Fans of the The OC who think the show was mercy-killed prematurely should be heartened by creator Josh Schwartz’s pilot season buzz, which indicates that his projects for NBC and The CW are looking like strong contenders for pick-ups. [THR] · In other pre-upfront pick-up news, NBC has already greenlighted Medium for a fourth season, ensuring that at least one network will have a juggsy psychic on its primetime schedule. [Variety] More »