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Gun—Not Small Amounts of Coke and Morphine—Was What Killed Scott Ruffalo
8:34AM Seth | “Basically he wasn’t under the influence,” the Coroner’s Office told reporters today after releasing the Scott Ruffalo toxicology report findings . Still, “faint traces” of cocaine, alcohol and morphine were detected. More »
Hollywood Crime Update: Arrests and Indictments in Jennifer Hudson, Mark Ruffalo Cases
5:24AM Kyle Buchanan | Today brought news in two murder cases: the death of Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew, and the mysterious shooting of Mark Ruffalo’s brother, Scott. More »
More Ruffalo Fallout? ‘Brothers Bloom’ Moved to May ‘09
9:00AM STV | The director of the long-delayed Adrien Brody/Mark Ruffalo caper flick The Brothers Bloom confirmed today that his film was pushed back once again — this time to May — for better “counter-programming” chances. Really? More »
‘Us Weekly’ Unable to Determine Mark Ruffalo’s Problem
4:16AM Kyle Buchanan | From Us Weekly, this bit: “Mark Ruffalo dropped out of the dramatic feature film, Greenburg, and will be replaced by Ben Stiller. It is unclear why Ruffalo — whose brother, Scott Ruffalo, passed away late Monday from a self-inflicted gun shot wound to the head — backed out of the project.” MAYBE THAT’S WHY, Us Weekly. [Us] More »
3:48AM Seth | Playing With Guns. Shaha Mishaal Adham, the “Saudi princess” who had turned herself in in connection with the shooting of Mark Ruffalo’s little brother Scott Ruffalo—who died yesterday—was released last night. Police have concluded she was with him at the time of the shooting, but that the wound was self-inflicted during a round of Russian Roulette. We thought this was a Texan Poker town. The family issued this statement: “Mark Ruffalo and his family deeply appreciate the outpouring of prayers and support during this most difficult time of the passing of Scott Ruffalo, beloved son, brother and husband. The funeral service will be private. A memorial fund has been established in Scott Ruffalo’s name.” [ABC, TMZ] More »
8:00AM STV | Hollywood PrivacyWatch: 10/20, lunchtime — Spotted Mark Ruffalo with a blonde woman and cute little girl (his daughter?) hanging out by the Loteria! Mexican food place at Farmer’s Market. They went to the rad sticker store, where he helped the kid decide between Dora the Explorer and Wall-E stickers. It would have been too obvious to walk in behind them (the store’s pretty tiny), so I don’t know what they ended up picking — sorry. He’s scruffy, with surpisingly grey hair, and smaller than expected (natch). An awesome lunchtime sighting. [Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to tips@defamer.com.] More »
Outraged Activists Suggest ‘Full Blindness’ is the New ‘Full Retard’
8:10AM STV | You really can’t make this stuff up: If it’s not the developmentally disabled failing to grasp the point of Tropic Thunder’s “full-retard” satire, then it’s the blind protesting a movie they can’t even see. Or so says the president of the National Federation of the Blind, who sat in on a recent screening of the Julianne Moore/Mark Ruffalo film Blindness with a few sighted allies, only to emerge outraged over the depiction of townspeople reduced to madness and violence when struck by a blindness epidemic. Based on Nobel laureate Jose Saramago’s novel, the film actually reflects the author’s metaphor of sudden, corrupted social order; little did Saramago know he was actually composing the Simple Jack of modern literary allegories. More »
Warners Buys ‘Drink, Play, F@&k’ On Strength Of Title Alone
5:10AM Seth | · Warner Bros. purchased the rights to the upcoming book Drink, Play, F@#K, a parody of chick-lit bestseller Eat, Pray, Love, in which a man “goes on a bender in Ireland, takes a gambling jaunt to Las Vegas and a embarks on a sex-tourism trip to Thailand.” The hope is to launch a new guy-friendly franchise, with a sequel—Puke, Broke, AIDS—already in the works. [THR] · Incomprehensible-pirate-trilogy-directing genius Gore Verbinski has a signed a three-year deal with Universal, where his adaptation of the videogame Bioshock is currently in development. [Variety] · Mark Ruffalo, last of the great Ruffalos that once covered the majestic American plains, will direct Sympathy for Delicious, about “a paralyzed DJ struggling to survive in his wheelchair on the streets of L.A.” We think we can picture it: Sort of Wheels meets Glitter. [Variety] · Aging tween idol Amanda Bynes has shaken free of CAA’s deathlock embrace, disappointed that the best material they’ve brought her in the past six months is a script for She’s The Man 2: Basic Training and an opportunity to parody the Nikki Blonsky airport beatdown on Mad TV. [THR] ·CBS is hoping to develop a series based on the book Confessions of a Contractor, but producers keep pushing up the pilot finish date and demanding more money if they expect the wiring to meet city standards. (Honk!) [Variety] More »
What’s Stopping Cannes From Embracing Bleak New Julianne Moore Film?
7:25AM Defamer Hollywood | The Cannes rumour mill is whirring at full speed again today as the trades pick up whispers that the Julianne Moore/Mark Ruffalo drama Blindness is likely to occupy the opening-night slot. The Toronto Star is saying it’s a done deal, but it’s not official, and we’re not so sure; with barely two weeks remaining before the May 14th opener, word over the Defamer transom suggests that Blindness is bad enough to make festival programmers wait — and make distributor Miramax stall — before committing the plum spot to a stinker. More »
