Archive: April 2009 (201-210 of 341)

Apr 13 2009 09:29 PM ET

James Franco, Mark Wahlberg join Steve Carell and Tina Fey in 'Date Night'

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Categories: Movies

James Franco and Mark Wahlberg will costar in the Steve Carell-Tina Fey comedy Date Night, reports Variety. The cast of the film, about a couple on the date night from hell, also includes Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester, SNL standout Kristen Wiig, recent Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), and rapper/actor Common (Wanted). Night at the Museum director Shawn Levy will helm the project.

Apr 13 2009 08:51 PM ET

Marilyn Chambers, adult film star, found dead at age 56

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Categories: In Memoriam, Movies

The Associated Press is reporting that adult film star Marilyn Chambers — best known for the 1972 porn film Behind the Green Door — was found dead in her California home by her daughter. The cause of death for the 56-year-old actress, who modeled for Ivory soap before becoming one of the country’s first mainstream porn stars, had not yet been determined.

Apr 13 2009 07:39 PM ET

'The Tudors': Showtime renews drama for a fourth season

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Categories: Television

Fresh off of passing on a number of buzzworthy prospective pilots (including a spinoff of The L Word and a pilot written and directed by Tim Robbins), Showtime has announced it will renew historical drama series The Tudors for a fourth and final season, according to Variety. The 10-episode season will debut in the spring of 2010. Series creator and executive producer Michael Hirst will also be back to write each episode, which will conclude the saga of King Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and chronicle his final two marriages and subsequent mental instability. The Tudors is one of the network’s top-rated series, with the third season’s April 5 premiere netting a cumulative total of 1.3 million viewers.

Apr 13 2009 05:12 PM ET

Eminem to perform at 2009 MTV Movie Awards, fans to choose nominees

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Categories: Movies, Music, Television

Eminem, whose new album Relapse drops May 19, is the first performer announced for the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, which will be broadcast live May 31 from Los Angeles’ Gibson Amphitheatre and hosted by Saturday Night Live‘s Andy Samberg. For the first time, MTV is allowing fans to help choose the nominees in all categories — including Best WTF Moment. The first round of voting runs now through April 20. On May 4, the official nominees will be named, and fans will again vote to pick the winners. 

Apr 13 2009 05:08 PM ET

Mel Gibson's wife files for divorce

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Mel Gibson’s wife, Robyn Moore, has filed for divorce after almost 30 years of marriage and seven children. The couple released a statement today saying, "Throughout our marriage and separation we have always strived to maintain the privacy and integrity of our family and will continue to do so."

People.com says Moore is seeking joint physical and legalcustody over their minor child, Thomas, 9, according to court papers. She is also seeking spousalsupport and attorney’s fees, and is asking the court to deny her husband anyspousal support.

Apr 13 2009 02:05 PM ET

Amazon.com under criticism for de-ranking gay-themed books

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Categories: Books, Tech

An uproar began on the Internet on Sunday after writer Mark R. Probst posted on his blog that he’d noticed the sales rankings on hundreds of gay and lesbian books — including the newly released Transgressions by Erastes and False Colors by AlexBeecroft — had suddenly disappeared on Amazon.com. The rankings (and placement on best-seller lists) often help produce more sales. In response to a note Probst sent the online retailer, a customer service rep said, "In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude ‘adult’ material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists."

Information Week and CNET, however, are reporting that the "adult" tag is also being given to Heather Has Two Mommies (a children’s book that explains homosexuality) and Ellen DeGeneres’ autobiography — neither of which include explicit or racy content. Meanwhile, a raunchy memoir by porn star Ron Jeremy and Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds, which includes pictures of more than 600 naked women, are still being ranked.

A blowup over this "adult" policy continued on Twitter where users, using the hash tag "#amazonfail," discussed a perceived bias by Amazon against books with gay, lesbian, and transgendered themes. On Sunday night, however, Amazon spokesperson Patty Smith told the L.A. Times that it wasn’t a bias, that it was merely a glitchthat had occurred in its sales ranking feature that was in the process ofbeing fixed.

Apr 13 2009 12:56 PM ET

Showtime passes on Tim Robbins pilot

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Categories: Television

Showtime has rejected Tim Robbins’ high-profile pilot Possible Side Effects, marking the fourth of its four pilots this round to get shot down, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The net also declined The L Word spinoff starring Leisha Hailey; Matthew Perry comedy The End of Steve; and comedy Ronna and Beverly fromJessica Chaffin, Jamie Denbo, and Jenji Kohan (Weeds).  Side Effects, about a dysfunctional family that runs a major pharmaceutical company, was written and directed by Oscar winner Robbins and starred Ellen Burstyn, Josh Lucas, and Tim Blake Nelson. 

Apr 13 2009 12:45 PM ET

William Hurt joins cast of Robin Hood film

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Categories: Movies

Damages actor William Hurt will star in the Ridley Scott-directeduntitled Robin Hood movie as William Marshall, the Earl of Pembroke, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Universal and Imagine film, which is being described as a retelling ofthe origins of the tale’s main characters, will also star Russell Crowe (as Robin Hood), Cate Blanchett (as Maid Marian), and Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand and Alan Doyle as theMerry Men. The project just began production in the U.K.

Apr 13 2009 12:44 PM ET

Navy 'Pirate Hunters' docu-series greenlit by Spike TV

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Categories: Television

A new Spike TV pilot will document the U.S. Navy’s efforts to combat pirates — like those making news in the five-day standoff that culminated in Sunday’s rescue of American sea captain Richard Phillips — Variety reports. Pirate Hunters: USN, from 44 Blue Prods. (The True Story of Black Hawk Down), will focus on anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden, where Phillips was taken captive by a band of Somalians. The producers will have cameras aboard warships the USS Boxer, which was on the scene for this week’s standoff, and the USS San Antonio.

Apr 13 2009 09:40 AM ET

Fourth Bourne movie 'in the works' for 2011

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Bourne series producer Frank Marshall tweeted yesterday that the fourth installment of the Matt Damon–led franchise is "in the works" for summer 2011, a year later than previously anticipated. According to Marshall, writer George Nolfi will be turning in a draft of the script in June.

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