Archive: March 2009 (171-180 of 349)

Mar 18 2009 12:24 AM ET

'The Hunger Games': Lionsgate purchases movie rights to Suzanne Collins' novel

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According to Variety, Suzanne Collins’ sci-fi novel The Hunger Games has been acquired by Lionsgate. The book, the first of a trilogy, is about a future society in which a teenage boy and girl are forced to fight to the death on live TV.

Mar 17 2009 11:15 PM ET

Will Ferrell's George W. Bush HBO special nets big viewership

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Will Ferrell’s HBO comedy special You’re Welcome America — A Final Night With George W. Bush drew 2.3 million viewers last Saturday, Variety reports. The 90-minute program, in which Ferrell inhabited various incarnations of the former President, attracted the largest audience for an HBO special since 2004′s Chris Rock: Never Scared.

Mar 17 2009 10:27 PM ET

Madonna to release greatest hits album in the fall

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Madonna’s first "greatest hits" album since 2001′s GHV2 will be released this fall, according to People.com. Madonna’s publicist hints that the album may be released in September, and that it will include a few new songs that the singer will record specifically for the collection. On Tuesday, Madonna’s manager asked his Twitter followers to weigh in on which hits should be included on the compilation, which will be the last Madonna album to be released by Warner Records (Madonna signed a $120 million deal with Live Nation in October 2007).

Mar 17 2009 02:50 PM ET

Jesse Eisenberg, Chris Evans cast in Beat Generation biopic

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Jesse Eisenberg, Chris Evans, and Ben Whishaw have been cast in Kill Your Darlings, a biopic about the murder that led to the birth of the Beat Generation. Eisenberg, star of next month’s Adventureland, plays poet Allen Ginsberg, while Evans (Fantastic Four) takes on the role of writer Jack Kerouac, and Whishaw (Brideshead Revisited) appears as Lucien Carr, the man credited with bringing together Ginsberg, Kerouac and William Burroughs. Newcomer John Krokidas is directing. Killer Films’ Christine Vachon (Boys Don’t Cry) is producing. 

Mar 17 2009 12:09 PM ET

'Twilight' director Catherine Hardwicke may direct 'Maximum Ride'

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Three months after Summit Entertainment announced that Catherine Hardwicke will not be filming the Twilight sequel, the director is in talks to helm an adaptation of another young-adult fantasy series, Maximum Ride. Ride is a five-volume series by perennial best-seller list chart-topper James Patterson that follows six genetically altered teenagers known as "the Flock." (The teens are half human, half bird). According to The Hollywood Reporter, Patterson will executive produce the film while screenwriter Don Payne is signed on to pen the script.

Mar 17 2009 09:55 AM ET

Brad Pitt and Paramount team up for spy thriller

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Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B, is teaming up with Paramount to release an adaptation of espionage thriller The Night Manager, by The Constant Gardener author John Le Carre. Land of the Blind‘s Robert Edwards has been selected to direct, Variety reports. The critically acclaimed Manager follows a night watchman who’s recruited to spy on a network of international arms dealers.

Mar 17 2009 09:55 AM ET

ABC schedules season finale dates

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Loving this season of Lost? Well, you only have two more months to enjoy it. ABC has scheduled the series finales for most of its line-up. The network has set the possible series finales for Scrubs and According to Jim for May 6 and May 5, respectively, while fellow sitcom Samantha Who? is set to end its season April 30. Lost will end its fifth season May 13, Variety reports, Grey’s Anatomy will bow out May 14, and Desperate Housewives will wave goodbye to at least one character by May 17. The network has selected end dates for Private Practice and Brothers and Sisters as well (April 30 and May 10). ABC has also set the dates for their reality series: Dancing With the Stars is scheduled to end May 19, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition May 17, America’s Funniest Home Videos May 15, and Wife Swap and Supernanny May 1. As for ABC’s freshman series? In the Motherhood will wrap up April 30, Better Off Ted April 29, Castle May 11 and Cupid May 12.

Mar 17 2009 03:30 AM ET

Natasha Richardson critically injured in skiing accident

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Actress Natasha Richardson, best known for roles in The Parent Trap (1998), Nell (1994), and Maid in Manhattan (2002), was admitted to a Montreal hospital Monday following a skiing accident. People.com confirms that the actress, wife of actor Liam Neeson and daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave, was first admitted to the Centre Hospitalier Laurentienfollowing a skiing accident in the Mont Tremblant resort area. At 5 p.m. she was transferred to Hôpitaldu Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, reportedly having suffered a traumatic brain injury. The accident was first reported by IrishCentral.com, which claimed that their source was an insider at a Montreal hospital.

Neeson’s spokesperson, Alan Nierob, said he had not been able to reach the actor and could not confirm the reports. Calls and e-mails to Richardson’s talent agency, CAA, were not returned, presumably due to the late hour. The 45-year-old mother of two, who won a Tony Award in 1999 for her performance as Sally Bowles in Cabaret, was said to be in talks to costar with her acting legend mother in a revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music on Broadway.

Mar 17 2009 01:21 AM ET

DJ AM sues for $20 million for plane crash

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DJ AM (a.k.a. Adam Goldstein) filed suit Friday against Learjet for the crash that injured him and Travis Barker, and killed the jet’s pilots and Barker’s assistant and bodyguard, People.com reports. The suit seeks $10 million in damages (for injuries and lost earnings) from Learjet and other defendants, and an extra $10 million for pain and suffering. DJ AM and Barker suffered burns in the September 2008 accident, helping each other to escape the wreckage in which they were the only survivors.

Mar 16 2009 11:31 PM ET

J.J. Abrams to produce diamond heist movie

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Paramount has acquired the rights to a forthcoming Wired magazine article about diamond thieves that J.J. Abrams will produce as a feature film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The article tells the story of a ring of Italian burglars who allegedly stole at least $100 million from a Belgian vault thought to be impenetrable. The ringleader, Leonardo Notarbartolo, was arrested and convicted of the crime in 2003; although he was released this week, the stolen goods have never been recovered. Variety reports that Joshua Davis, the author of the Wired article, will adapt the story into a screenplay.

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