Al Pacino is in talks to play Dr. Jack Kevorkian in the upcoming HBO telepic You Don’t Know Jack, according to Variety. The film will be directed by Barry Levinson (Wag the Dog, What Just Happened) and written by Adam Mazer (Breach). Based on an authorized biography of the famed "suicide doctor" by his assistant Neal Nicol and his lifelong friend Harry Wylie, the movie will be about Kevorkian’s creation of the "Mercy Machine" and his role in helping his patients commit suicide.
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May 26
2009
08:10 PM ET
May 26
2009
04:44 PM ET
Dave Matthews Band Radio to air on Sirius XM
Sirius XM Radio announced that the Dave Matthew Band will host its own music channel for a week starting June 1. Timed to the release of the band’s first studio album in four years, Big Whiskey and the GooGrux King, the all-Matthews-all-the-time programming will include songs from the band’s entire catalog as well as tracks from the new album introduced by Matthews and his bandmates, who will also share stories about the making of the record. Dave Matthew Band Radio will also feature a different live recording at 9 p.m. each night during the week.
May 26
2009
03:58 PM ET
Bill Engvall to host the 2009 CMT Music Awards
Comedian Bill Engvall has been tapped to host the 2009 CMT Music Awards, which air live from Nashville’s Sommet Center on June 16. The fan-voted awards show will feature performances by Trace Adkins, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Sugarland, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, and Def Leppard. Voting continues through June 14 on CMT.com.
May 26
2009
03:47 PM ET
Rapper T.I. to begin prison sentence
Police are guarding the country road leading to a Forrest City, Ark., prison, as they wait for rapper T.I. to arrive for his year-long sentence on a weapons conviction, the AP reports. T.I. (ne Clifford J. Harris Jr.), 28, was arrested in 2007 after attempting to purchase unregistered machine guns and silencers from undercover agents. He faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each of three charges in his indictment, but reached a plea deal that included house arrest before his sentencing and speaking to high schools about the dangers of guns and drugs. He will be on three years probation after he’s released and must pay a $100,000 fine.
May 26
2009
03:28 PM ET
Bravo plans 'The Real Housewives of D.C.'
Bravo has announced that it’s developing a new cycle of its popular docu-series The Real Housewives in the nation’s capital. "We’re tapping personalities who are among WashingtonD.C.’s influential players, cultural connoisseurs, fashionsophisticates and philanthropic leaders — the people who rub elbowswith the most prominent people in the country and easily move in thecity’s diverse political and social circles," said Frances Berwick, executive vice president and general manager of Bravo Media. Casting is underway.
May 26
2009
01:58 PM ET
Bacon's Blackberry stolen on subway
Actor Kevin Bacon tried to chase down a man who stole his Blackberry at a Manhattan subway station but couldn’t catch the thief, The New York Post reports. The perpetrator likely made off with a cache of Hollywood numbers at his disposal when he escaped the star’s chase at the 53rd Street and 7th Avenue stop.
May 26
2009
12:51 PM ET
Actors taking sides in SAG battle
High-profile actors like Melissa Gilbert and Martin Sheen are picking sides in the increasingly bitter struggle to ratify the Screen Actors Guild’s proposed new contract, Variety reports. "I’m still amazed and shocked at the level of vitriol among theopponents of this deal," Gilbert, who served aspresident from 2001-05, told the trade publication. "There’sno room for dissent." While former SAG president Ed Asner compared the possible deal to the Holocaust during a closed-door meeting, Sheen joined John Heard, Nichelle Nichols, board member Elliott Gould, and secretary-treasurer Connie Stevens in a "vote no" video posted online over the weekend. Opponents of the proposal have criticized its new-media rates and the fact that it gives SAG no jurisdiction over original new-media works that cost less than $15,000 per minute, $300,000 per production, and $500,000 per series. SAG’s 110,000 members received ballots on the deal last week, and must return them by June 9. The group’s national board approved the proposed contract at 53 percent in April, ten months after the last deal expired. If it’s voted down, SAG must ask members for a strike authorization vote, which would require 75 percent approval. SAG estimates actors have lost $85 million in pay increases already by holding out for a better deal.
May 26
2009
12:28 PM ET
Twitter developing TV series
Twitter is working on its first TV series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The social networking service is teaming with producers Reveille and Brillstein Entertainment Partners to incorporate tweeting into the action of the unscripted show, a creation of novelist Amy Ephron (sister of Nora and Delia). Reveille has already been working with Twitter on MTV’s The Alexa Chung Show.
May 26
2009
12:15 PM ET
Beastie Boys reveal new album title
The Beastie Boys have finished their next album and dubbed it Hot Sauce Committee, Billboard reports. They’ll appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight "to offer insights into how it was crafted," according to a message e-mailed to fans Monday. Rapper Santigold appears in a guest spot on the album, the band’s first since 2007′s instrumental The Mix-Up.
May 26
2009
09:55 AM ET
'Flight of the Navigator' remake planned
Disney is digging into the vault for a remake of the 1986 sci fi-adventure film Flight of the Navigator. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Brad Copeland (Wild Hogs) has been tapped to write the movie, about a child exploited by NASA after he returns from an alien abduction.
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