http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/pabloescobar http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/pabloescobar Pablo Escobar is the new Steve Prefontaine! Or the new Truman Capote! Undeterred by the possibility that no matter how seriously they approach the material, they may never be able to erase Entourage's indelible, Tony Cliftonesque image of the Colombian drug lord, no fewer than three Escobar-related movies (including ones by Smoking Aces director Joe Carnahan, Oliver Stone, and Bob Yari) will be competing for attention at the American Film Market this week, where the projects' producers will try their best to laugh at each, "You can get me Vinnie Chase in this, right?" just as good-naturedly as if it's the first time they've heard it. [NY Times]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=316829&view=rss&microfeed=true · Jake Gyllenhaal joins director Doug Liman on DreamWorks' Untitled Moon Project, in which Gyllenhaal is dispatched to populate a lunar colony with a super-race of dreamy-eyed pioneers. [Variety]
· NBC Universal is acquiring Oxygen Media, including the Oprahcentric Oxygen network, for $925 million, a piddling sum Winfrey will merely toss on the cash pile occupying much of her 25-acre Santa Barbara backyard. [THR]
· Pablo Escobar is the new Harvey Milk: Oliver Stone is producing his own biopic on the life of Colombia's most lovable drug-cartel kingpin, a project that will try to race into production ahead of the recently announced, competing Killing Pablo feature. [Variety]
· Lisa Kudrow joins the cast of "let's just squeeze in one more job before the strike" flick Hotel for Dogs, joining fellow speedy-paycheck-chasers Don Cheadle and Emma Roberts. [THR]
· Apatow Comedy College alumni Michael Cera and Kat Dennings sign on to star in a film adaptation of the novel Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. [Variety]

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