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2:34AM Natasha VC | A peacocked network has been brutalised by the economy. Meanwhile, a Burbank studio stores away a billion dollars in their water tower. And back at the ranch, robots are learning how to come together fight evil, eat, pray, and love. 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 »
‘Voltron: Languishing In Turnaround’ Just Doesn’t Have The Kick Of ‘Defender Of The Universe’
6:10AM Seth | · Voltron: Defender of the Universe, a movie based on the greatest single achievement in Toy-Commercial- Loosely-Dressed -Up-As -Saturday-Morning -Cartoon History, has been put into the dreaded turnaround until a more affordable means of convincingly depicting giant fucking robot lions is devised. [Variety] · “Plunging sales, recession fears and spiking gasoline prices” are being blamed for GM’s decision to pull out of sponsoring this year’s Oscars, a polite way of saying, “Look—50-year-old gay men just don’t buy heavy-duty trucks.” [Variety] ·The Banana Splits—your grandparents’ favourite cartoon rock band!—are making a big comeback in a “multiplatform effort” that will put them front and centre on your mobile phone wallpaper or something. [Variety] ·Cowboy Curtis Investigation is official: Lawrence Fishburne has signed on as the lead on CSI! Turn the black light on the Playhouse—there’s bound to be some kind of evidence on Chairy’s upholstery. [THR] ·Freaks and Geeks/Bones star and screenwriter John Francis Daley and his partner Jonathan Goldstein have been hiring to rewrite Burt Dickenson, Most Powerful Magician on the Planet Earth. Obviously, Judd Apatow was born with a talent-divining rod in his pants. [THR] More »
