Archive: March 2009 (21-30 of 349)

Mar 30 2009 06:49 PM ET

Liam Neeson completes work on 'Chloe'

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Liam Neeson has finished up his work on the drama Chloe, according to his publicist, Alan Nierob. The actor had only a day or two of shooting remaining on the film before he left the production following his wife Natasha Richardson’s tragic skiing accident. In Chloe, Neeson plays a doctor whose wife (Julianne Moore) hires an escort (Amanda Seyfried) to test her husband’s fidelity.

Mar 30 2009 05:57 PM ET

Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Bruno' lands NC-17 rating

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An early cut of Bruno, the new comedy from Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen that opens July 10, has earned a preliminary NC-17 rating, The Wrap is reporting and EW has confirmed. The movie apparently received the adults-only rating due to its graphic sexual content. An MPAA spokesperson would say only that ratings assignments are a multi-step endeavor and that "filmmakers, if they choose, can make cuts [after a preliminary ruling] to get the rating they want. And there’s also an appeals process." A spokesman for the film’s studio, Universal, said simply that "the process of rating Bruno is only in its earliest stages and the film has not yet been rated."

Mar 30 2009 05:56 PM ET

Josh Hartnett hospitalized with stomach ailment

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30 Days of Night star Josh Hartnett was hospitalized early this morning for "a flare-up of a gastro-intestinal  problem that plagued him while he was starring in the west end of London during the production of Rain Man," according to a statement released by his publicist. Hartnett boarded an ambulance around 1:45 a.m. Monday morning and is now "under observation but is resting comfortably." 

Mar 30 2009 04:03 PM ET

Mitch Albom's latest scheduled for September

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Mitch Albom, the author of 1997′s Tuesdays With Morrie, has finished his manuscript for his first nonfiction book in more than ten years, Have a Little Faith: A True Story of a Last Request. Hyperion will publish the book in September.

Mar 30 2009 01:23 PM ET

Additional $350 million could be added to New York's popular tax credit program

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New York state lawmakers are scheduled to vote on a budget bill byWednesday that would help replenish the state’s film/TV production tax incentive program with $350 million, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Under abudget agreement reached in Albany over the weekend, the program, which already ran out of its original  $685 million piggy bank and had no renewal in sight, could be reinstated, thereby making the industry reps who have been strongly pushing for it, happy— at least for now. "We certainly don’t want to wait until next year’s budget to talkabout this," said John Johnston, executive director of the New York Production Alliance. "This is a short-term fix, not along-term solution."

Mar 30 2009 12:52 PM ET

David O. Russell to adapt 'Silver Linings Playbook'

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Three Kings director David O. Russell will adapt and direct The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel for the Weinstein Co., Variety reports. Matthew Quick’s debut novel, published in September, follows a former high school teacher who’s just been released from a mental institution into the care of his mother.

Mar 30 2009 12:45 PM ET

Nickelback rules Juno Awards

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Rock band Nickelback dominated the major categories at the Juno Awards — the Canadian Grammys — on Sunday night. The group took home the fan choice award as well as Album of the Year (for their Dark Horse), and Group of the Year. Other big winners included: Kardinal Offishall’s "Dangerous" (Single of the Year), Coldplay’s Viva la Vida (International Album of the Year), Sam Roberts (Artist of the Year), Lights (New Artist of the Year), The Stills (New Group of the Year), and Dallas Green (Songwriter of the Year). For the complete list of winners, visit the Juno website.

Mar 30 2009 12:36 PM ET

'More to Love': Dating show for the over-size-2 set will air on Fox

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A new Fox reality dating show, titled More to Love, has began casting its "average-looking" contestants, according to The Hollywood Reporter. With a format similar to The Bachelor (Bachelor exec producer Mike Fleiss is teaming up with Mike Darnell, Fox’s president ofalternative programming, on the series),the contestants will vie for one man, who is being labeled as a "Kevin James type," by going on lavish dates. One new category being added to the mix: makeovers… but not of the physical kind. "We want to send the message that you can be the size you are andstill be lovable," Fleiss told THR. "We aren’t going to thin these girlsdown so they can find love — that’s a backwards message." Adds Darnell, "For six years it’s been skinny-minis and good-looking bachelors,and that’s not what the dating world looks like." No air date for the series has been set.

Talk about it on PopWatch:

The Bachelor + Biggest Loser = (Brilliant? Horrible?) New Fox Reality Show

Mar 30 2009 12:29 PM ET

Green Day's 'American Idiot' to become stage musical

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Green Day’s 2004 album American Idiot – composed as a disaffected punk opera about a suburban kid-turned-drug dealer — will get its due as a stage musical when it opens the 2009-10 season at the Berkeley Repertory Theater, Variety reports. Spring Awakening Tony winner Michael Mayer will direct and cowrite the script with Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong. The Grammy-winning concept album sold 12 million copies and has been compared to The Who’s Tommy, which became a Broadway hit in 1993, though there are no Broadway plans for Idiot as of yet.

Talk about it on Music Mix:

Which album would you like to see turned into a musical?

Mar 30 2009 09:56 AM ET

Matthew McConaughey to star in legal thriller

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Matthew McConaughey has signed on to star in The Lincoln Lawyer, adapted from Michael Connelly’s best seller of the same name. McConaughey will play Mickey Heller, a "low-level criminal defense attorney…who finds himself representing a wealthy client with ties to a previous murder case," according to Variety.

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