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Owen Wilson To Be Woody Allen’s Next Larry David?
5:43PM Adrian Chen | Owen Wilson, Woody Allen and Carla Bruni make a movie. Ben Affleck does a movie too – about wife-swapping. Steven Segal is back. Zac Efron is rich. Our last significant digit must be five or greater, because we’re rounding up. More »
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Al Pacino, Robert De Niro Indistinguishable Even To Movie Directors
4:23PM Adrian Chen | Al Pacino steps into Robert De Niro’s Italian leather shoes. Amanda Bynes’ sex comedy. Judd Apatow forsakes the bromance for Kristen Wiig. Erector Sets’ movie adaptation is not a soft-core porn. The Trade Roundup just ate an entire frittata. More »
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Taylor Lautner Makes So Much Money
4:26PM Adrian Chen | Well! Nikke Finke has a good scoop today: 17 year-old Taylor Lautner is getting $US7.5 million for starring in the upcoming Tom Cruise directed film Northern Lights. Young, talented and much richer than you. How’s your coffee? Kinda bitter… More »
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Will And Jada Pinkett Smith Will Sneak Into Your Bedroom For A Shag
9:59PM the cajun boy | Jada Pinkett Smith says she and Will like to bang in other people’s homes, Victoria Beckham has her third boob job, Nicole Ritchie breaks up Lohan and Ronson, Owen Wilson still loves Kate Hudson, and Judd Apatow sucks in bed. More »
Rolex Watches Saved Owen Wilson’s Life, Says Blogging Jeweler
6:06AM Seth | Having journeyed through the dark abyss and emerged to become the current Biggest Star in the World Upstaged by a Mischievous Doggy, junketphobic Marley & Me star Owen Wilson will be counting many blessings in 2009.
Five Lessons Learned From the ‘Marley and Me’ Box-Office Windfall
4:36AM STV | The Monday Morning Box Office looks basically the same as it did on Friday, with Marley and Me shocking everyone with a $51 million holiday frame. But what does its surprising success really mean? More »
Owen Wilson Walks Out On Awkward Puppy/Suicide Interview Segue
2:51AM Kyle Buchanan | For someone whose interview rider now includes stipulations like, “Three (3) bottles of Evian, one (1) bowl of peeled grapes, and absolutely no (0) questions about suicide-say,” Owen Wilson couldn’t have picked a better comeback vehicle that the innocuous dogcom Marley & Me. After all, what journalist could bluntly work in a query about wrist-slitting after asking tossing Wilson this softball: “Was there any specific moment when you realised you [and co-star Jennifer Aniston] had great chemistry?” Wait, did we ask what journalist? How about the one from the notoriously hard-nosed, er, USA Today, who tried nudging up to the elephant in the room in increasingly Wilson-unfriendly ways: More »Oscar-Winner Brad Pitt, Resurgent Weinsteins and 9 Other Bold Predictions For Fall Movie Hell
1:55AM STV | Our office’s crystal ball usually tends to function best on Fridays — and even then, as we handicap new releases in our Defamer Attractions column, it can be a tad hinky. But after a few weeks of painstaking inquiry, we think we now have a handle on some of the fall movie slate’s biggest revelations to come. Will Brad Pitt backward-age his way to Oscar immortality? Is Twilight really the best investment for your vampire-movie dollars? Can Beverly Hills Chihuahua live up to its exceptional promise? Follow the jump for answers to those and a few of the season’s other pressing questions. Feel free to scan your own tea leaves as well; our own oracle shuddered and crapped out the minute we asked about Australia, so any and all input is welcome. Onward!