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‘Get Your Hands Off My ‘Push’ Baby!’: A Defamer Timeline
7:25AM Seth | Sundance darling Push is at the centre of a bitter tug-of-war, with The Weinstein Company filing multiple suits against Lionsgate and Cinetic, the company that brokered the deal, alleging fraud and breach of contract. More »
Switch-Hitter Anne Heche Goes To Bat for ‘Hung’
1:51AM Seth | Anne Heche will play the ex-wife of Ray, the anatomically superendowed protagonist of Hung. She replaces Kristin Bauer, last seen being escorted away in a wheelchair, dead-eyed and repeating, “The diameter…the diameter…” [THR] More »
How Many Wrong Buttons Can The NY Times ‘Push’?
3:00AM Kyle Buchanan | Remember Push: Based on a Novel By Sapphire, the wild Mariah Carey/Mo’Nique starrer that lit up Sundance (and took home three awards)? Lionsgate took our advice and bought it, and now things have gone haywire.
Defamer Futurologists Correctly Predict Sundance Sale of ‘Push’
6:15AM Kyle Buchanan | We don’t want to toot our horns or anything, but…hey, what’s that loud, sustained honking? Shortly after SPC picked up An Education just as we’d prognosticated, Lionsgate has followed our other Sundance advice.
Renée Zellweger Taken As POW In ‘New In Town’ Culture War
8:07AM STV | Most midwinter dump-jobs are happy just to get some lukewarm reviews and, if they’re lucky, $US67 million in two weeks of release. But you’re really on fire when you’ve earned a rarer-than-rare “anti-Minnesota” designation. More »
Tyler Perry Still Having Trouble Settling On Mrs. Right
3:56AM Seth | Yesterday, we relayed the frustrations of gender illusionist/multimedia mogul Tyler Perry in his search for “Mrs. Right”—one of the many sacrifices one makes on the journey up the slippery slope of fame and success. More »
Unsigned ‘Mad Men’ Creator Sounds Ominous Season 3 Alarm
8:10AM Kyle Buchanan | Though AMC recently set an optimistic US summer return date for the next season of Mad Men, show mastermind Matthew Weiner (whose contract dispute remains unresolved) has a much gloomier forecast, he tells E! More »
10:01AM Seth | The Future of Weiner. A rumour that Lionsgate is approaching various agencies in search of a Mad Men showrunner to replace a too-rich-for-their-blood Matthew Weiner was shot down by an insider, who told Defamer the negotiations had just begun, and that while he asked high, they were absolutely “not looking to replace him. He IS the show.” Fret not, Mad Men fans still in mourning over the end of Season 2 and sweating the fate of Season 3: the studio is confident the deal will close before Christmas. (And without the celebrity dancing competition Jon Hamm promised in his SNL monologue.) More »
Oliver Stone’s Pocket Guide To Penetrating The Mystery That Is Bush
10:24AM STV | Oliver Stone is keeping everyone waiting today at Slate, where he’s set to engage Bob Woodward and a few other reporters over the facts and slip-ups threading his new film W. Things have remained mostly civil so far — no Taser jokes or Christian Bale casting rumours — though a few factual liberties have set off a bit of protest in the ranks. Thankfully, while they wait for Stone, Lionsgate now offers a pleasing historical reference for the rest of us. Behold — W. For Dummies. More »
