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Trade Roundup: On Broadway, Aaron Sorkin Rekindles Tumultuous Love Affair With Television

11:32AM Defamer Hollywood | · Aaron Sorkin returns to Broadway with The Farnsworth Invention, a play about the birth of television, the deliciously flawed storytelling medium he recently sought to redeem with a little-seen primetime serial about the life-or-death stakes involved in producing a weekly sketch comedy show. [Variety] · Thomas Haden Church is in negotiations to join Sandra Bullock in All About Steve, a romantic comedy that should reinvigorate the moribund genre by focusing on the previously unseen pairing (we think?) of a lady who writes crosswords and a CNN cameraman. [THR] · Michael Moore’s Sicko sells out the single NY screen on which it debuted, bringing in $US70,000 over the weekend. [Variety] · The Agent Dance, Abbreviated Mid-Level Actresses We Can’t Get Excited About Edition: Heroes‘ Hayden Panettiere signs with WMA, while Julia Stiles hooks up with ICM. [Variety, THR] · Cartoon Network and Hasbro are co-producing a new Transformers animated series, which will reimagine the property as a “superheroes story” with robots featuring “a lot more human qualities, allowing kids to identify with the characters” they will soon mindlessly consume in an all-new toy line. [THR] More »

Trade Roundup: Fox Hoping To Simulate Quality Entertainment

9:55AM Defamer Hollywood | · Sandra Bullock will star in The Proposal, a romcom about a “demanding female boss” who winds up in a sham marriage to her “young male assistant” in order to avoid deportation to Canada. Hopefully this won’t put any bright ideas into the heads of nebbish agents who hired their call-rollers based on their fuckability alone. [Variety] · Fox has bought the rights to The SIMS videogame series, which they feel has great potential for “traditional story telling,” something the simulated gay cowboy love story Brokeback SIMS Mountain has already poignantly proven. · Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is on a course for a box office bounty as bloated and incomprensible as the movie itself. [Variety] · Despite having taken out a full-page ad trumpeting Nicolas Cage would play young(er) Al Capone in The Untouchables‘ prequel, “scheduling conflicts” won’t allow the actor to participate. Producers can take great comfort in knowing that not only have they dodged a massive bullet, but that white-hot breakout Spartan Gerard Butler is on board, taking over for Sean Connery in the role of Jimmy “That’s the Chicago Way” Malone. [Variety] · TV Networks scan the 2006-2007 ratings data, then promptly crap their pants. [THR] More »

Overly Enthused Fan Ordered To Keep Her Deadly Mercedes Away From The Bullocks

9:35AM Defamer Hollywood | We suppose the delicate balance of trust forged between celebrities and their adoring, chemically imbalanced stalkers was breached at the precise moment when Sandra Bullock’s current obsessor, Marcia Diana Valentine, attempted to run over her husband Jesse James “three or four times” with her silver Mercedes in the couple’s driveway. (Topic for discussion: Is the stalking class getting wealthier?) Bullock made sure to show up to a court date in the O.C. in person today – see her walking into and out of the hearing here! – where a judge granted her a restraining order: Actress Sandra Bullock on Friday won a three-year restraining order against a woman she said had tossed animal fur over her gate, left woven palm fronds in her yard and tried to run down her husband. The “Miss Congeniality” star told a court in the Orange County city of Westminster that the woman, identified as Marcia Diana Valentine, had left the fronds, complete with “weird signs”, and “pieces of animal fur” in her yard on five occasions. More »