Variety is reporting that Julianne Hough from Dancing with the Stars will appear in the forthcoming Footloose remake contingent on working out scheduling. Hough will star opposite Chace Crawford.
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Reports: Walter Cronkite ailing
Former CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite is seriously ill, network sources told Media Bistro’s TV Newser blog yesterday. Last week, the network reportedly began updating the obituary for the 92-year-old newsman, who anchored the CBS Evening News for 19 years, earning him the moniker “Most Trusted Man in America.” When reached by EW, a spokesman for CBS News declined to comment on Cronkite’s health.
Susan Boyle cancels concert; rep says she was 'feeling tired'
The second-place finisher of Britain's Got Talent canceled her Thursday performance in Liverpool. It was the second time she'd missed a show on the BGT tour; she failed to appear onstage last weekend in Manchester. "She was feeling tired and she decided not to perform," said a rep for Boyle, according to People.com. In the wake of Boyle's recent hospitalization from exhaustion, her camp may decide to cancel with the tour promoters. The tour is slated to conclude July 5.
'Melrose Place' update: Here comes Josie Bissett!
Josie Bissett, who played Jane Andrews Mancini from 1992 to 1999 on the original Melrose Place, will reprise her role with a guest-starring appearance this fall on The CW's reboot of the classic soap, according to People. Laura Leighton and Thomas Calabro, who respectively played Jane's scheming sister Sydney and scheming husband Michael, previously signed on as part of the new cast. (EW's own Michael Ausiello reported last month a MAJOR plot spoiler involving Leighton's character; click here to read it!)
Oscar winners Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker to remake German drama
Oscar winners Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker, as well as Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood, have signed on for Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring's remake of the German thriller Das Experiment, according to Variety. The plot focuses on a psychological study in which a group of men are randomly divvied up into the roles of prisoners and captors. (Check out the trailer for the original, after the jump!)
Jennifer Love Hewitt's new book: 'The Day I Shot Cupid'
VOICE/Hyperion will publish Jennifer Love Hewitt's The Day I Shot Cupid, in which the Ghost Whisperer actress will explore the new landscape of modern dating and offer "a wide range of practical tips, from text-flirting and IM-ing to what men and women really want," according to a statement released Thursday. The book will be in stores in the winter of 2010.
Angelina Jolie attends World Refugee Day ceremony in D.C.
The actress and activist, who serves as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, spoke at the World Refugee Day commemoration in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. Expected guest Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had broken her elbow in an accident and could not attend. The Today Show's Ann Curry filled in to host the event for Anderson Cooper, who suffered flight problems. The ceremony's audience heard firsthand stories from refugees who have been relocated to the United States, and cheered via webcam along with students from a school in a Chad refugee camp. "They are the most impressive people I have ever met," Jolie said of the refugees, according to People.com.
Austrian actor may be new 'Conan the Barbarian'
Lionsgate and Nu Image/Millenium are in talks with a 41-year-old Austrian actor named Roland Kickinger to play the title role in a reboot of 1982's Conan the Barbarian, according to THR.com's Risky Biz blog. Like Arnold Schwarzenegger, who played the original Conan, Kickinger is a bodybuilder-turned actor who has also been involved in the Terminator franchise; Kickinger plays a T-800 in Warner Bros.' Terminator Salvation. Kickinger has already played a Conan-era version of the Governator in See Arnold Run, the 2005 A&E biopic about the actor-turned-politician.
DreamWorks greenlights animated ghost project 'Boo U'
DreamWorks Animation is pushing forward with a new untitled ghost project, referred to internally as Boo U., about a ghost who is bad at his job and must return to ghost school. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tony Leondis (Igor) will direct, and writer Jon Vitti (The Simpsons Movie) has been tapped for the screenplay. DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg has said the ghost picture would hit theaters in late 2012. Meanwhile, Katzenberg has mandated that all future projects will be made in the 3D format. 2009's Monsters vs. Aliens has grossed $362 million worldwide.
Neil Patrick Harris and partner: 'Not currently expecting a baby'
The How I Met Your Mother star and recent Tony Awards host made a statement to People that did not directly address a report that he and longtime partner David Burtka are searching for a surrogate mother. But Harris, 36, did add, "Maybe someday…"
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