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4:15PM Andrew Belonsky | Now here’s a Big Apple-based show we could love. Spike Lee and Robert De Niro are coming together to bring Showtime a new drama series about the nitty-gritty 80s-version of the once-fearsome Alphabet City. It’s called Alphaville. [THR]
Lee And De Niro Learning ABCs For Showtime
4:15PM Andrew Belonsky | Now here’s a Big Apple-based show we could love. Spike Lee and Robert De Niro are coming together to bring Showtime a new drama series about the nitty-gritty 80s-version of the once-fearsome Alphabet City. It’s called Alphaville. [THR] 
Kiefer Sutherland’s African Safari Doubles as Popular TV Movie
5:33AM STV | Kiefer sighting! 12 million of them, in fact, as Sunday night’s 24: Redemption returned Jack Bauer to sneering, skull-cracking form with modest (at best) ratings. His next appearance is scheduled for January — when 24 returns as a series — or in a heartwarming holiday video, should the inspiration strike this year. [THR] Let’s hear it for Catherine Hardwicke! Her $US70 million weekend for Twilight made it the highest opening gross ever for a woman director. [BBC] Steven Seagal’s law-enforcement hobby is evidently serious enough for A&E to feature him in Steven Seagal: Lawman, a new reality series showcasing the actor on duty as a deputy sheriff in Louisiana. [Variety] After the jump: What actress is set to join the Mile-High Club with George Clooney? More »
Violent Mark Wahlberg Kicks Dogs, ‘W.’ Out of His Way at Multiplex
1:30AM STV | Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your one and only guide to everything new, noteworthy and potentially noxious at the movies. This week sees Oliver Stone officially establish the land-speed record for producing an Oscar contender, joined by skull-cracking Mark Wahlberg, sex-driving Seth Green and our diva-coloured underdog. As always, someone’s gotta lose; we’ll call our shot there, too, along with cherry-picking through a new crop of DVD’s. As always, our opinions are our own, but we have little doubt they would look great on you. Try them on after the jump. More »
Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, Hypothetically Together Again
5:20AM STV | In their highly anticipated return to rumours of reuniting, Martin Scorsese is attached to direct Robert De Niro in I Heard You Paint Houses, based on the story of a mob hit man reputedly linked to the death of Jimmy Hoffa. Steven Zaillian will adapt the source book. [Variety] With the Jetsons movie permanently stalled and Huckleberry Hound resting snugly on the bottom of the Hanna-Barbera remake barrel, Warner Bros. has defaulted to Yogi Bear as its live-action/animation hybrid to make entire generations cringe in 2010. [THR] After the jump: Kung Fu Panda reups in 3D, Fringe reups in 2D, and crisis! grips! Bollywood! More »
AUDIO: Leaked Harvey Weinstein Tapes Warn Tarantino Of ‘Midnight Phone Call’ From Enraged De Niro
2:50AM Kyle Buchanan | As if suffering through Righteous Kill and a stultifying Letterman Top 10 weren’t career punishment enough for Robert De Niro, the actor has found himself the subject of just-leaked phone calls between Quentin Tarantino and Harvey Weinstein during the making of Jackie Brown — and the conversation paints the supposedly money-grubbing De Niro in a light more unflattering than the entirety of Rocky & Bullwinkle: More »
Robert De Niro’s Golf Game a Prime Suspect in Recent Job Loss
8:20AM STV | Robert De Niro has been picking up work where he can — a speaking engagement here, a morning-show gig there — so we were more than little surprised last week when we heard he’d backed out of the thriller Edge of Darkness, currently shooting in Boston. That’s not the De Niro who jumped to ostensibly greener pastures at Endeavor a while back, and it’s definitely not the consummate professional whom producers brought aboard to make alpha-male magic with Mel Gibson and director Martin Campbell. But a report today out of Massachusetts offers no fewer than four scenarios making the rounds — chief among them being a sort of fantastically Kubrickesque golf-course torture:
‘Appearing on Letterman’ Strangely Left Off Al Pacino and Robert De Niro’s Acting-Perk Top 10
4:40AM STV | Clearly exhausted from their earlier morning-show rendezvous with Brian Williams, Righteous Kill co-stars Robert De Niro and Al Pacino last night indulged David Letterman with one final on-camera tryst before returning to the anonymity of their respective solo careers. And what a fitting send-off, with the pair teaming up on the “Top 10 Reasons I Like Being an Actor” — a droll bit of thanksgiving that still won’t make us forget Heat, but may yet be proven our lone cultural reward for tolerating the existence of Righteous Kill at all. See what kind of magic is possible when less than 12 producers are involved? Next time, guys, next time. [CBS] More »
Robert De Niro Woos ‘Righteous Kill’ Viewers With Delicious ‘Endangered Tuna Value Meal’
5:30AM STV | The marketing squad behind Robert De Niro’s latest film may not have an especially well-developed touch with movie posters, but you can’t say it isn’t getting its money’s worth with the brilliant new cross-promotion, “Righteous Kill Tuna — Only at Nobu!” While the summer’s blockbuster superhero crop nickel-and-dimed their way through Happy Meals and Whoppers, De Niro and restaurant’s London outposts ventured waaay outside the box recently with high-priced helpings of the rare Atlantic bluefin tuna — a species that activists contend has been overfished to the point of near-extinction and which Nobu should apparently know better than to serve: More »
Five Reasons Why the ‘Righteous Kill’ Poster Makes Us Want to See Anything But ‘Righteous Kill’
6:00AM STV | Our visit to the multiplex last weekend went well enough for the most part; we liked The House Bunny just fine, and the Babylon A.D. trailer looked suitably career-ending for our tastes. It wasn’t until we exited the theatre that our nerves deadened and our hearts sank: There, in a lobby dotted with orphaned popcorn kernels and bereft souls, we had a closer look at a poster for the upcoming Al Pacino/Robert De Niro cop flick Righteous Kill. And while it might seem too easy to write the film off as a gimmicky genre exercise at first blush, it would hardly be fair to do so without seeing it. That said, we noticed five things off the bat that not only implied an alarming sloppiness, but seemed to actively discourage our viewership. After the jump, our essential wake-up call for studios, poster designers and casual fans alike. More »
