Archive: February 2009 (91-100 of 218)

Feb 18 2009 10:58 AM ET

Robert Rodriguez directing futuristic thriller 'Nerverackers'

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Categories: Movies

Robert Rodriguez is will write and direct the futuristic thriller Nerverackers for Dimension Films, Variety reports. The story, set in 2085, focuses on a member of an elite unit dispatched to quell a crime wave in a theoretically perfect future society. The pic is set to release April 16, 2010.

Feb 18 2009 10:44 AM ET

Ashton Kutcher starring in football comedy

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Categories: Movies

Ashton Kutcher is in final negotiations to star in Paramount’s upcoming football comedy, Traded, Variety reports. The story is about a superstar NFL quarterback and a 12-year-old middle school geek who magically trade bodies and learn important life lessons. Brian Robbins and Mike Tollin (Coach Carter, Varsity Blues) are producing alongside Jason Hoffs.

Feb 18 2009 10:29 AM ET

MC Hammer gets A&E reality show

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Categories: Television

A&E has ordered 11 half-hour episodes of Hammertime, a reality series that will track the life of former superstar rapper MC Hammer, Variety reports. 3 Ball Prods. (Biggest Loser, Beauty and the Geek) is producing the show, which is currently in production for a debut later this year.

Feb 18 2009 02:11 AM ET

Sandra Bullock's 'All About Steve' moves to fall

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Categories: Movies

Audiences will have to wait a little longer to see Sandra Bullock’s latest romantic comedy, All About Steve, says Variety. Fox has decided to push the film’s release date back, perhaps to next fall, in order to distance it from other femme-friendly fare (such as the current Confessions of a Shopaholic and He’s Just Not That Into You), and also to move it off the same March 6 weekend as Watchmen, in which Fox now has a stake. A specific release date for All About Steve — costarring Thomas Hayden Church and Bradley Cooper — has yet to be announced.

Feb 18 2009 01:50 AM ET

Michael Jackson to auction off American Music Award, Rolls-Royce

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Categories: Music

Michael Jackson is preparing to sell more than 2,000 of his personal items at an auction in April, the Associated Press reports. While the auction was announced in December, the list of items was released on Tuesday. Included are an American Music Award that the self-styled King of Pop won for "Thriller," a basketball signed by Michael Jordan, a cape that Jackson’s kids gave to him for Father’s Day, and custom vehicles, including a Harley-Davidson and Rolls-Royce.

Feb 17 2009 11:34 PM ET

Jerry Springer to star in 'Chicago' on London stage

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Categories: Stage, Television

Talk show host Jerry Springer is set to star as lawyer Billy Flynn in the London production of the musical Chicago, the Associated Press reports. The 65-year-old Springer, a former Cincinnati mayor and journalist, will take singing lessons for the role, which will last six weeks this summer. A parody musical called Jerry Springer: The Opera played on London’s West End in 2003.

Feb 17 2009 11:27 PM ET

J.R.R. Tolkien: New book due out this spring

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Categories: Books

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, J.R.R. Tolkien’s previously unpublished early-career work based on Norse mythology, will be released this spring, the Associated Press is reporting. Tolkien wrote the book, which predates his seminal The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in the 1920s and 1930s, when he was teaching at Oxford University. He died in 1973.

Feb 17 2009 08:46 PM ET

Midway Games files for bankruptcy

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Categories: Misc.

Midway Games, the Chicago-based videogame company best known for its Mortal Kombat series of games, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week, the Associated Press reports. Yesterday, the company announced that a bankruptcy judge had approved several of its first-day motions, which will allow Midway to "utilize its cash to maintain ongoing operations pending a final hearing," according to a company statement. The filing comes in the wake of Sumner Redstone selling his 87.2 percent majority stake in the company this past December.

Feb 17 2009 04:44 PM ET

Sundance's Geoffrey Gilmore jumps to Tribeca

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Categories: Movies

Sundance Film Festival director Geoff Gilmore will become Chief Creative Officer of Tribeca Enterprises, the New York-based media company that operates the Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival International, and Tribeca Cinemas. Gilmore will be responsible for Tribeca’s global content strtegy and lead creative development initiatives and expansion of the brand. He’ll also join the Board of Directors. The company’s Tribeca Film Festival leadership team will stay intact.

Feb 17 2009 04:29 PM ET

Mackenzie Phillips to publish memoir with Simon Spotlight

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Categories: Books

Publisher Simon Spotlight announced plans today to publish former child star Mackenzie Phillips’ memoir. The memoir will not only touch on her days as the star of One Day at a Time, but also her drug addiction and "sex, drugs and rock-and-roll" upbringing (her dad was The Mamas and The Papas’ John Phillips). Says Phillips: "I’ve always known I would write this book. As the famous daughter of a famous rock star there are plenty tales of trashed hotel rooms, a 301-foot empty swimming pool, drugs (if you hadn’t heard), and off-the-charts hedonism. But ultimately, it’s about the shadow that fell over my life when I was young and full of hope and promise, and how I survived, got clean, and found that the person underneath that gray cloud of drugs and (let’s admit it) bad parenting was pretty okay." The memoir will likely reference the actress’ relapse in 2008, when she was arrested at LAX for possession of cocaine and heroin. The book is scheduled to be on stands in March 2010.

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