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The Ulcer-Inducing Career Updates Of Lindsay Lohan
3:00AM Foster Kamer | Lindsay Lohan’s career brings out the worst in Jewish Mother impulses. Brad Pitt busts himself up on a motorcycle, LADIES. The Rock shows true colours: stone cold asshole. Sienna Miller, Roman Polanski, Gays, Musicals: presenting your Monday Morning Gossip Roundup: More »
Dwayne Johnson Fully Recovered From Recent Rockoplasty
6:10AM Seth | “Ashley Judd is set to star with Dwayne Johnson in 20th Century Fox comedy Tooth Fairy.” You know what’s notable about that sentence? The absence of the words “The Rock” anywhere inside it! His transformation is complete! [Variety] Cable spinoff fever! Both The Closer and The L Word have spinoffs in the works. [THR, Variety] Voltron: Languishing in Turnaround gets a director: Max Makowski, who also wrote the Hawaii Five-O movie, and is attached to direct a movie version of the David Carradine series Kung Fu. His previous credits, curiously enough, include an episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. [Variety] You, Me and Dupree and Arrested Development directors the Russo brothers are writing and directing the movie version of Ciudad, a graphic novel about a hostage negotiation on the Paraguay border. [Variety] ABC has ordered a pilot of Mark Burnett’s The Shark Tank, which features aspiring entrepreneurs pitching their business ideas to moguls, then dropped through trapdoors into giant aquariums filled with hungry sharks. It’s a hilariously literal take on life in the high-stakes business world! [THR] More »
Brendan Fraser and The Rock To Fight C.O.B.R.A., Sing Y.M.C.A.
7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Actors have finally been found to play the two soldiers in the G.I. Joe crew who most resemble members of the Village People. At least, according to movie scoop site Latino Review they have. G.I. Joe, Steven Sommer’s tentpole movie about the legendary action figures, will be hitting theatres in the summer of ‘09. And so far, the casting news has been pretty ho-hum — you’ve got your Sienna Millers, you’ve got your Ray Parks — but today that all changes, thanks to Brendan Fraser and the Rock. More »
Precocious Abigail Breslin Surprising Fan Of ‘Metal Machine Music’
12:00PM Mark | Enjoy Blue Reed, Abigail Breslin’s cat, while you can. We have a feeling he’s going to go mysteriously missing very soon, the only clue to his whereabouts a note in what seems to be Dakota Fanning’s handwriting reading, “Stop!” · Rainn Wilson’s ass to steal the show at the Spirit Awards. ·Scarlett Johansson does Tom Waits. · It was all but inevitable: Ice Road Truckers is going to be adapted into a feature, probably to star The Rock as the slip-sliding-big-rig-drivingest badass the Canadian tundra has ever seen. More »
Lionsgate Presents: Tyler Perry’s When Did I Become The Biggest Box Office Draw in Hollywood?
6:10AM Defamer Hollywood | 1. Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married – $US21.5 million Reacting to the third number one opening posted by the producer/actor/director/playwright/media mogul behind Why Did I Get Married?, Lionsgate president Tom Ortenberg somewhat ominously warned all of Hollywood, “My strong hunch is that this is the last time anybody will underestimate Tyler Perry.” More »
The Rock Takes His Position As America’s Biggest Family-Comedy Star
6:00AM Defamer Hollywood | We’d wish you a happy morning, but we know you’d just see through that transparent attempt at merry-making on the bleak beginning of a seemingly unending work week. So: have a look at the weekend box office numbers, doing your best to ignore the days of pain that await you: 1. The Game Plan – $US22.675 million Not since Vin Diesel so movingly revealed his softer, stroller-pushing side in The Pacifier has an action star so seamlessly transitioned into the family-comedy genre. This weekend, Dwayne “The Rock, But The Cuddly Kind” Johnson captured America’s hearts by successfully dramatising the parenting challenges faced by any self-absorbed NFL superstar unexpectedly saddled with a bastard offspring, winning untold millions of new fans. More »Short Ends: Lisping Rocks, Posh Nazi-Hunters, And Tumescent Hacks
7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | No, The Rock, don’t eat those cookies your daughter baked for you! There’s cinnamon in them, and you’ll have a hilarious allergic reaction that makes you talk like Robin Williams doing his Deaf Guy impression! · Posh makes the far tougher-looking Nazi-hunter, in our opinion. · Two generations of Stillers offer updates on Owen Wilson’s recovery. · Ratner embonered by the hott, NC-17 sex in Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution. Sun rises, sun sets, Ryan Adams melts down onstage. More »
