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Disaster Addict John Cusack to Drive Limo Into the Apocalypse

8:40AM Defamer Hollywood | After the implosive one-two punch comprising his recent tandem War. Inc. and Grace is Gone (not to mention, of course, his spellbinding online short film featuring Diablo Cody as “Girl Who Thought He’d Be Cooler”), fortune may yet favour the slumping John Cusack. Or at least that’s the only option our optimistic hearts will allow upon reading about the actor’s reported next project, a massive-budget, honest-to-goodness end-of-the-world film by apocalypse maven Roland Emmerich: John Cusack is in negotiations to star in director Roland Emmerich’s (10,000 B.C., The Day After Tomorrow) new disaster movie 2012 for Sony Pictures. The title refers to the year the world is supposed to end after a global cataclysm. Cusack is negotiating to play Jackson Curtis, a divorced dad who alternates between writing and driving a limo. … More »

The impossible dream imagined last year as …

6:45AM Defamer Hollywood | The impossible dream imagined last year as word of the scintillating, straight-to-DVD Zombie Strippers — an actual movie starring Jenna Jameson and Nightmare on Elm Street veteran Robert Englund — circulated around the Web inched closer to reality last week, with Sony Pictures so certain of the magic at hand that it announced theatrical releases in more than a dozen cities April 18. A note slipped over the Defamer transom this morning (with the accompanying poster) alluded to “worldwide media sensation” Jameson’s role in a strip club that gets hit with a secret government virus: “As one of the strippers gets the virus, she turns into a supernatural, flesh-eating zombie stripper, making her the hit of the club. Do the rest of the girls fight the temptation to be like the star stripper, even if there is no turning back?” We can hardly wait to find out, though we’re guessing that like all canonical zombie films with ripe moral metaphors on hand, only a forceful 20-spot to the G-string can save the afflicted dancers from an eternity of brain-chomping damnation. [Sony Pictures] More »