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‘One Tree Hill’ Makes It To 100 Episodes You Haven’t Seen

5:30AM Seth | One Tree Hill celebrates its 100th episode with a very special one in which Chad Michael Murray slips into autopilot while secretly fantasizing to himself about how nice it would be to break free of The CW ghetto for the feature movie career he so richly deserves. [Variety] Peter Berg signs on to direct Dune for Paramount, presumably righting whatever wrongs were committed against the sacred source material by David Lynch’s Sting-in-a-licorice-thong version. [Variety] McLovin works! The voice talents of Christopher Mintz-Plasse, along with Superbad buddy and child insult comic Jonah Hill, will be employed to thrilling effect in Dreamworks’s computer-animated fantasy, How to Train Your Dragon. [THR] More »

7:17AM Defamer Hollywood | While we stand by our casting choices for the inevitable movie version of the Eliot Spitzer debacle, Hollywood Reporter columnist Ray Richmond has his own bright ideas. Lots of them, in fact: he’s got a feature starring Kevin Spacey as the disgraced New York governor; a network TV movie featuring Meg Ryan as Silda Wall Spitzer; a Comedy Central film with Sarah Silverman as high-priced hooker “Kristen”; and the one we’re personally rooting for, a BET biopic of lieutenant governor David Paterson starring LeVar Burton. “Synopsis: A film about The Man Who Would Be Governor,” Richmond writes, “one that embodies the slogan, ‘When life hands you a New York governorship, make New York governorship-ade.’ ” Throw in Burton’s stylish Geordi La Forge eyewear from Star Trek: The Next Generation for the legally blind governor, and we’ll even donate our next month’s pay to the production budget. At least that should cover the props. [Past Deadline] More »

7:17AM Defamer Hollywood | While we stand by our casting choices for the inevitable movie version of the Eliot Spitzer debacle, Hollywood Reporter columnist Ray Richmond has his own bright ideas. Lots of them, in fact: he’s got a feature starring Kevin Spacey as the disgraced New York governor; a network TV movie featuring Meg Ryan as Silda Wall Spitzer; a Comedy Central film with Sarah Silverman as high-priced hooker “Kristen”; and the one we’re personally rooting for, a BET biopic of lieutenant governor David Paterson starring LeVar Burton. “Synopsis: A film about The Man Who Would Be Governor,” Richmond writes, “one that embodies the slogan, ‘When life hands you a New York governorship, make New York governorship-ade.’ ” Throw in Burton’s stylish Geordi La Forge eyewear from Star Trek: The Next Generation for the legally blind governor, and we’ll even donate our next month’s pay to the production budget. At least that should cover the props. [Past Deadline] More »