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Is ‘The Greatest’ Destined For Greatness?

2:00AM STV | Susan Sarandon and Pierce Brosnan’s The Greatest screened twice over the weekend at Sundance, and however overcooked the dead-son weepie feels, we can’t argue with multiple standing ovations. More »

The 10 Celebrities With The Most To Lose at Sundance ‘09

1:43AM STV | Sundance affords as many opportunities for career setbacks in 10 days as it does for meteoric advancement — not even Robert De Niro or Dakota Fanning could get out of Park City alive. More »

Missy Higgins Says Thank You To Barack Obama!

10:44AM Jess McGuire | Wow, Jillian Michaels and Missy Higgins together at last? It’s true! Along with the likes of Pierce Brosnan, Wilmer Valderrama, and a whole lot of people I cannot recognise for the life of me but I am led to believe they are celebrities of some kind, the pair star in a new YouTube video thanking the President-Elect and urging him to accomplish important environmental goals whilst in office. I am a bit confused by Missy Higgins’ presence, but supportive nonetheless. MORE: Thank You To President Obama More »

Behold Next Year’s Crap Today: ‘Vanilla Gorilla,’ Starring Pierce Brosnan

8:10AM STV | After his golden-throated turn as Sperm Donor #2 in the hit Mamma Mia!, Pierce Brosnan had all the leverage he needed to push one passion project of his own through a Hollywood machine that had all but given up on him. Finally, life after Bond — real life, not his DOA indie Married Life — shone on the horizon in its unmistakeable, honey-tinged haze. And looking into that haze, we see a figure emerging in the distant hills — a hulking shadow of mysterious provenance, that rarest of phenomena we’d only heard rumoured about before today and which Brosnan is determined to redeem. Behold Vanilla Gorilla, which one wag is pegging as the Beverly Hills Chihuahua of 2009, but about which the IMDB summary has us feeling slightly less optimistic: More »

Just Add Alcohol: ‘Mamma Mia! The Sing-Along Version’ Opens Friday

7:20AM STV | Resisting the Lucas-esque compulsion to digitally swap Pierce Brosnan’s open-throated squawk with a mellifluous gay lilt, Universal has instead touched on a decidedly more modest touch in tweaking its hit Mamma Mia! for a late-summer revival: Subtitles, and plenty of them. Behold Mamma Mia! The Sing-Along Version, announced earlier this month and finally making its way into karaoke-plexes near you this weekend. And the early reviews describe just the scenario that can make the ABBA musical a phenomenon all over again: More »

Chosen Two Outed As Test Tube Babies

10:15AM Molly Friedman | Excellent news to report for anyone who still thinks Angelina Jolie is perfection incarnate, in spite of that silly husband-stealing fiasco, heroin tape, Billy Bob phase, Life Or Something Like It and…well, there are probably a few of you left! According to Us, the conception of the Chosen Two was quite literally chosen to arrive at a specific point in Brangelina’s magical life. A source tells the weekly that the “impatient” soccer team managers didn’t rely on Brad’s super-sperm or Jolie’s scream-filled bedroom style to spontaneously produce Knox and Viv. Rather, the no-longer-immortal duo paid a hefty sum for in vitro treatments to speed up their plan to “have 10 kids…while [they're] young.” But their goal may not work out quite as planned. Reports that Angelina is being forced into joining the trendy rapid weight loss/gain club for her next role may cause a serious delay in recruiting new Jolie-Pitts for quite some time. More »

Pierce Brosnan’s Fists Of Paparazzi-Breaking Steel Could Cost Him In Court

6:15AM Defamer Hollywood | The Great Paparazzi Wars continue with news that a freelance photographer, who alleges he was sucker-punched by Pierce Brosnan after snapping the actor and his son outside a Malibu restaurant in October (see before-and-after pap-pummeling photos here!), is going forward with his lawsuit against the hairy-chestiest Bond since Connery: Robert Rosen said he was taking photos of Brosnan on Oct. 26 when “suddenly and without warning,” the 54-year-old actor struck him in the chest, causing “severe physical and emotional pain and injuries, including bruised ribs.” More »

Trade Roundup: An Appropriately Dark Awards Season Awaits

7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | · This year’s Oscar contenders display a “bleak, even nihilistic worldview,” a largely coincidental development as all were put into production long before Hollywood’s collective spirits were darkened by the ongoing labour Armageddon. Should the strike drag on into February, look for replacement host Ryan Seacrest to provide an appropriately somber tone to the proceedings. [THR] · The Pinkett-Smith family is getting together to make the drama The Human Contract, a film Jada is directing and writing and Will is executive producing. No role is specified for precocious son Jaden, though he may eventually be awarded an associate producer credit for secretly punching up the script during trips to the set with mum and dad. [ Variety] More »