3:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Because that weekend-house mortgage isn’t going to pay itself, Don Cheadle signs on for the Emma Roberts vehicle
Hotel for Dogs (plot more or less self-explanatory). [
Variety]
· Hollywood Out of Ideas, Recycling Lightcycles Edition: Newly assigned
Logan’s Run director Joseph Kosinski is in “final negotiations to develop and direct” a new
Tron movie from a top-secret idea by two
Lost writers, a cutting-edge take rumoured to involve
Tron Guy’s efforts to
escape the YouTubes after being digitised into the viral video world by the evil Master Control Program. [
THR]
· Fear of the looming labour apocalypse leads Roman Polanski to withdraw from his megabudgeted Pompeii project. [
Variety]
· Cinea discontinues production of the magical, privacy-preventing DVD player that could play enchanted Oscar screeners issued by the MPAA’s copyright-respecting wizards. [
THR]
· Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson’s
Dreamgirls catfighting experience should come in handy on the set of the
Sex and the City movie, where she’ll play Carrie Bradshaw’s assistant. [
Variety]
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