The CW will announce tomorrow that it is airing the reboot of Melrose Place after 90210 on Tuesday nights next season, sources confirm. If this is causing a case of deja vu, here’s why: The original Melrose was unveiled in the time slot following Beverly Hills, 90210 way back in 1992. The network will also move Smallville from Thursday to Friday this fall to make room for the new drama Vampire Diaries.
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Natalie Cole undergoes successful kidney transplant surgery
Singer Natalie Cole is "resting comfortably" after undergoing kidney transplant surgery yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, her reps said in a statement today. Cole, 59, has been receiving kidney dialysis treatment three times a week as she toured the world in support of Still Unforgettable. Per doctor’s orders, she will postpone her summer concert dates while recuperating for the next three to four months.
Michael Jackson delays first London concerts
Michael Jackson has pushed back his London concert dates by five days, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. The show’s director, Kenny Ortega, and exec producer, Randy Phillips, blamed the delay (from July 8 to July 13) on the spectacle’s technical complexities, not Jackson’s health or preparedness. Three makeup performances of the show, called "This Is It," will be scheduled for next March.
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'Fringe' star Kirk Acevedo announces firing on Facebook?
Fringe costar Kirk Acevedo has announced via his Facebook status update that he’s apparently been let go from the Fox drama. "WELL BOYS AND GIRLS THEY DONE DID YER BOY WRONG! THEY FIRED ME OFF OF FRINGE, AND IVE NEVER BEEN FIRED IN MY LIFE!!!!" he wrote. The news was first reported by the blog ohnotheydidn’t. Acevedo played Agent Charlie Francis on the show, which just aired its season finale.
'American Idol': Simon Cowell's ex-girlfriend Terri Seymour attacked outside Tuesday's show
Extra‘s Terri Seymour — the ex-girlfriend of Simon Cowell — was assaulted outside the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles after last night’s American Idol finale performance, the LAPD confirms to EW. According to police, a 33-year-old woman named Janice Thibodeaux approached the British beauty and asked if she was Simon Cowell’s ex. When Seymour said yes, Thibodeaux allegedly began choking her. Police officers apprehended Thibodeaux and booked her on felony battery charges.
"It was all so sudden….Very scary," Seymour, who declined medical treatment on the scene, told Extra the following day. "Nothing like this has ever happened to me before."
Although Seymour and Cowell are no longer dating, she still interviews him often on Extra and they have remained good friends.
Dean Koontz best seller 'The Husband' gets movie greenlight
Focus Features and Random House have announced that Dean Koontz’s 2006 best-selling thriller The Husband will be adapted for the screen by Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch). The director will pen the screenplay, which will center around an ordinary man who has to pass a series of tests to save his kidnapped wife.
Lars Von Trier's controversial Cannes film 'Antichrist' gets U.S. distributor
IFC Films has purchased the American distribution rights to Lars Von Trier’s polarizing film Antichrist. IndieWIRE.com reports that IFC will release the same controversial cut of the film that recently screened at the Cannes Film Festival. In the movie, Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg play a couple who retreat to a wooded cabin to overcome the grief of losing their only child.
No Von Trier film has ever grossed more than $6 million in the United States, but his avant-garde movies (Dogville, Breaking the Waves) are notable for their explicit realism.
More on Antichrist:
Cannes report: the scariest moment yet
Cannes report: Lars von Trier’s Antichrist: ‘The closest film to a scream’
Robert Pattinson to star in 'Bel Ami'
Twilight hunk Robert Pattinson will star in Bel Ami, an adaptation of a Guy de Maupassant short story scheduled to film in Paris next year. The British actor told Variety in Cannes that he’ll play "a totally amoral character" who ruthlessly rises to power in French society. British theater director Declan Donnellan is attached to make his film debut.
'Medium' gets picked up by CBS
CBS announced its Fall 2009 lineup on Wednesday morning, and Medium, which was just dropped by NBC after five seasons, has found a new home. Confirming a report by EW’s Michael Ausiello, the Patricia Arquette starrer, produced by CBS TV Studios, moves to Fridays on the Eye, between Ghost Whisperer and Numb3rs.
After NBC cochairman Ben Silverman had axed the show, labeling it "an aging franchise, without a single fan letter, with no passion," CBS TV Studios had issued a sternly worded statement: "NBC’s cancellation of Medium is inexplicable to us," it said. "The ratings don’t lie: Medium outperforms many of NBC’s renewed shows."
Bret Easton Ellis at work on original screenplay
Bret Easton Ellis, the author of polarizing novels like American Psycho and Less Than Zero, is writing an original screenplay for director Brad Furman (The Take). According to Variety, the plot revolves around a humiliated social misfit whose attempts to exact revenge on his peers go awry.
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