Archive: March 2010 (131-140 of 463)

Mar 23 2010 10:29 AM ET

Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage launch production company, Fake Empire

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Categories: Television, TV Biz

O.C. and Gossip Girl creative forces Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are forming their own production company called Fake Empire to be based at Warner Bros. TV, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Schwartz’s College Hill Prods. will be folded into the new enterprise in a multi-year deal. The two met when McG’s Wonderland Sound and Vision, which Savage ran at the time, co-produced Schwartz’s first television creation, The O.C. Savage made her writing debut on the show and went on to become an executive producer. The two then teamed up to adapt the Gossip Girl book series for The CW. The new venture will focus on television projects but may also produce features, online series, music, and books.

Mar 23 2010 09:15 AM ET

'Popeye' going 3-D for Sony

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Categories: Movie Biz, Movies

Classic cartoon series Popeye will get the 3-D CGI treatment from Sony, Variety reports. This will be the sailor character’s first foray into film since 1980′s live-action movie starring Robin Williams and directed by Robert Altman. Though the storyline is being kept secret, it will involve villain Bluto, love interest Olive Oyl, and adopted child Swee’Pea.

Mar 23 2010 08:51 AM ET

Jaime Pressly to star in CBS comedy pilot

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Categories: Television, TV Biz

Jaime Pressly has been cast in CBS’ untitled comedy pilot from How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series centers on an unmarried couple, Tommy (Kyle Bornheimer) and Gina, and their friends in Pittsburgh. Pressly will play Tommy’s friend and coworker at the local zoo.

Mar 23 2010 08:30 AM ET

'Hairspray' star Nikki Blonsky cast in ABC Family's 'Huge'

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Categories: Television, TV Biz

Hairspray‘s Nikki Blonsky will star in ABC Family’s new series Huge, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Also cast in the new series are TV-actor offspring Hayley Hasselhoff (daughter of David) and Zander Eckhouse (son of James). The weight-loss-camp comedy/musical — described as Ugly Betty-meets-Glee and based on Sasha Paley’s book of the same name — was written by My So-Called Life creator Winnie Holzman and her daughter Savannah Dooley. Blonsky will play a camper named Will who’s the acerbic daughter of the wealthy owners of a chain of fitness centers, while Hasselhoff will play Amber, the hottest girl at camp who still thinks she’s too heavy. Eckhouse’s character is a fitness counselor and Amber’s love interest. The series is expected to premiere in late June.

Mar 23 2010 06:55 AM ET

EA Sports: Reports of a 'South Park' suit are 'completely false'

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Categories: Lawsuits, Tech, Television, Tiger Woods

EA Sports denied rumors today that the company was seeking legal action against South Park for a recent episode that contained reference to Tiger Woods PGA Golf 10, one of the company’s major games. “The reports that EA Sports plans to sue the creators of South Park are completely false,” a rep tells EW.

Mar 23 2010 06:00 AM ET

HBO revisits the Louds for 'American Family' movie

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Categories: Television

HBO and producer Gavin Polone are planning a film based on the Louds, the family featured on PBS’ 1973 documentary series American Family. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cinema Verite will be a behind-the-scenes look at the clan and the groundbreaking docuseries, which showed wife Pat asking husband Bill for a divorce and featured the coming out of their eldest son Lance, TV’s first openly gay character. David Seltzer (The Omen) will pen the script; Shari Springer Berman and Bob Pulcini (American Splendor) will direct.

Mar 22 2010 11:00 PM ET

'Blind Side' Berlin premiere canceled, Bullock absent

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Categories: Movies

Monday night’s Berlin premiere of the hit movie The Blind Side was canceled, as expected, because of star Sandra Bullock’s decision to suspend her promotional plans in light of the infidelity accusations being made against her husband Jesse James, People.com reports. The Oscar-winning actress previously pulled out of the film’s London premiere, and left the Seal Beach, Calif., home she shares with her husband after a San Diego tattoo model claimed she had an affair with James.

Mar 22 2010 10:30 PM ET

Michael Jackson's doctor stopped CPR to hide drugs, witness says

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Michael Jackson’s personal doctor, Conrad Murray, allegedly stopped performing CPR on the late singer and delayed calling 911 so he could gather and hide various drugs at the scene, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press.

Alberto Alvarez, Jackson’s logistics director, told investigators last June that Murray grabbed a few drug vials and told Alvarez to store them in a plastic bag. Murray then allegedly told Alvarez to put the plastic bag inside a brown canvas bag, and asked Alvarez to also remove an IV bag containing a milky white substance and store it in another blue canvas bag. Alvarez said that Murray waited until the bags were filled before asking the logistics director to call paramedics. Two days after Jackson’s death, Murray led police to a closet in Jackson’s bedroom, where they found the anesthetic Propofol and other sedatives stored inside a bag.

Jackson’s death on June 25 was ruled a homicide caused by an overdose of Propofol and other sedative medications, according to the Los Angeles coroner. Murray was charged last month with one count of involuntary manslaughter. The doctor pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial. Murray’s lawyer, Ed Chernoff, denied that his client attempted to hide any drugs. Chernoff also told the AP that Alvarez’s first and second statements to investigators have been inconsistent. “He didn’t say any of those things, then two months later, all of a sudden, the doc is throwing bottles into the bag,” Chernoff said.

Mar 22 2010 08:07 PM ET

Chris Evans to suit up as Captain America for Marvel

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Categories: Movie Biz, Movies

28-year-old actor Chris Evans (Fantastic Four, Sunshine) will step into the red boots of superhero Captain America (and his alter ego Steve Rogers) in Marvel Studios’ upcoming movie, The First Avenger: Captain America, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Evans was offered the highly sought-after role late last week, beating out other prospective candidates such as Ryan Phillippe, Mike Vogel, Channing Tatum, and Sebastian Stan. The deal with Marvel will include options for eight additional movies, including two Captain America sequels, three Avengers movies, and three potential crossover films, according to a source close to the production.

The First Avenger: Captain America is being directed by Joe Johnston (The Wolfman, Jurassic Park III) from a script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who both co-wrote the first two Chronicles of Narnia films. Also, Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) is close to a deal to play the title character’s nemesis, Red Skull, according to a Marvel source. Paramount Pictures will release Captain America on July 22, 2011. Marvel and CAA, which represents Evans, declined to comment to EW.com regarding the actor’s casting.

Mar 22 2010 07:36 PM ET

'Harry Potter': Fire at Hogwarts, reports exaggerated

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Categories: Harry Potter, Movie Biz

A fire broke out on an exterior set of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at Leavesden Studios outside London Friday night, but early reports of the size of the fire and the resulting damage have been exaggerated, according to a source familiar with the incident. During filming for a scene in the final Harry Potter installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, a small fire ignited and was quickly extinguished. No actors were present at the time, no one was injured, and no significant damage was caused to the set or to the studio lot in Watford, where all of the Potter movies have been filmed. A fire truck was called to the studio as a precaution, but the fire was out by the time firefighters arrived. The studio, Warner Bros., declined to comment. Hallows, the final book of the Potter series, is being made into two films. The first will be released this fall, on Nov. 19. The second will be released next summer, on July 15, 2011. So far the franchise has grossed more than $5.4 billion worldwide.

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