Archive: May 2009 (191-200 of 345)

May 13 2009 12:05 PM ET

Robert Pattinson, Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz join Madeleine Stowe's directorial debut

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Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz and Robert Pattinson will star in the 19th-century drama Unbound Captives, and Madeleine Stowe will make her directorial debut from a script she cowrote more than 15 years ago, according to Variety.

Stowe originally wrote the script in the early 1990s with her husband Brian Benben (Dream On), but she turned down a multimillion dollar offer from Fox when they wouldn’t promise her anything more than a writing credit. Now, she’ll direct.

Weisz will play the role Stowe once envisioned for herself, a frontier woman whose husband is killed and whose two children are kidnapped. Pattinson will play her son, and Jackman will play the man who comes to her rescue.

Talk about it on PopWatch:
Robert Pattinson! Hugh Jackman! We always did like Madeleine Stowe

May 13 2009 10:05 AM ET

Paulina Porizkova fired from 'Top Model'

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Categories: Television

On last night’s Late Late Show, Paulina Porizkova told host Craig Ferguson that she has been fired from America’s Next Top Model. She said the news came to her over the phone on her birthday. "The reason I was told I was fired was because it seemed that America’s Next Top Model has gotten too fat and they needed to cut some fat and the fat was me," sha said, adding later, "So I figured it was either that or my gigantic huge ego. Which I wasn’t aware of until I was told by the producers that I have an ego problem." Porizkova will make her last appearance as an ANTM judge on tonight’s finale.

Talk about it on PopWatch:
Paula Porizkova fired from Top Model: When will the recession end?

May 13 2009 12:14 AM ET

Kevin Spacey to play Jack Abramoff in thriller 'Casino Jack'

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Categories: Movies

Kevin Spacey will star as the infamous lobbyist Jack Abramoff in the thriller Casino Jack, Variety reports. The film, which is being directed by George Hickenlooper (Factory Girl), begins shooting in Toronto this month. Abramoff was a former lobbyist who pled guilty in 2006 to defrauding American Indian casinos; he’s currently imprisoned until 2011.

May 13 2009 12:02 AM ET

Sarah Palin signs book deal for memoir due in 2010

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Categories: Books

Sarah Palin is writing a tell-all. Or at least a tell-some. The Associate Press reports that the Alaskan governor and former vice presidential candidate has signed a deal with Harper Colins to pen a memoir for publication in the spring of 2010 (which happens to be when she runs for relection in Alaska). Palin tells the AP: "Being a voracious reader, I read a lot today and have read a lotgrowing up. And having that journalism degree, all of that, will be agreat assistance for me in writing this book, talking about thechallenges and the joys, balancing the work and parenting, and, in mycase, work means running the state."

May 12 2009 11:49 PM ET

Fox picks up 'Sons of Tucson,' 'Human Target'

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Categories: Television

Sources confirm to EW that Fox has picked up the comedy Sons of Tucson and the DC comic adaptation Human Target. The network will unveil their full fall schedule next week at Upfronts.

May 12 2009 10:41 PM ET

James Spader to make Broadway debut in David Mamet play this fall

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Categories: Stage

James Spader will make his Broadway debut in David Mamet’s new play, Race, according to the AP. The production will open for previews on Nov. 17 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York. Spader has won three Emmys for his performances on Boston Legal and The Practice.

May 12 2009 10:17 PM ET

Depeche Mode lead singer taken to hospital, concert canceled

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Categories: Music, Music Biz

Dave Gahan, lead singer of British band Depeche Mode, was taken to a hospital on Tuesday in Athens, Greece, where the band was scheduled to perform, according to Reuters. A concert organizer said Gahan had fallen ill in his dressing room and that the Athens performance had been canceled.

May 12 2009 04:33 PM ET

Miss California Carrie Prejean will keep her crown

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Donald Trump announced today that Carrie Prejean will keep her crown as Miss California despite the controversy surrounding her views on same-sex marriage and the semi-nude photos of her that surfaced on the Internet. "We are in the 21st century," Trump, who owns the pageant, said of the photos at a New York press conference today, with Prejean sitting next to him. "We have determined that the pictures taken were fine." As for the anti-same-sex-marriage answer she gave during the nationally-televised Miss USA pageant last month, Trump said, "She gave a very honest answer when asked a tough question."

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May 12 2009 01:00 PM ET

Joss Stone to return for 'The Tudors' final season

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Categories: Television

Singer Joss Stone will return for the the next — and final — season of Showtime’s The Tudors in her role as Henry VIII’s fourth wife, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She’s appearing in the current, third season of the drama as Anne of Cleves opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ marriage-happy monarch.

May 12 2009 01:00 PM ET

Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, and Julia Roberts in talks for all-star romantic comedy 'Valentine's Day'

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Garry Marshall will direct New Line’s ensemble romantic comedy Valentine’s Day, with no less than Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Shirley MacLaine, Bradley Cooper, and Ashton Kutcher in talks to star, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The interconnecting storylines include Roberts as an Army officer on leave from Iraq, Cooper as a gay man whose boyfriend is a closeted football player, Kutcher as a flower shop owner who proposes to girlfriend Alba but is in love with best friend Garner, MacLaine as Roberts’ mom, Hathaway as a talent agency assistant dating a mailroom worker, and Biel as a publicist who’s unlucky in love.

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