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Finally, The Jake Gyllenhaal/Ron Howard Hip-Hop Video You've Clamored For
Sometimes, life is kind enough to fill a need you didn't even know you had. Here, then, is a hip-hop video that stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Ron Howard for some reason. You're welcome! More »
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Comment by ellagood: by Jamie Foxx, who is now firmly at the "Waiting for Tonight" phase of his Jennifer Lopez-emulating career BEST PHRASE EVER.... 2 Responses | Other threads
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arrested development
Arrested Development Casting Breakdown Gives Loyal Fans False Hope
Excited for the potential Arrested Development movie? (Not you, Michael Cera.) A brand-new casting breakdown and release date would appear to confirm its production, but there's an unfortunate twist. More »
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Comment by TheLemon: I want to cry so bad, but I don't think I can spare the moisture. 5 Responses | Other threads
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Ron Howard Unwilling To Blame 'Punk' Michael Cera for 'Arrested Development' Holdup
Lower your pitchforks! Even as yet another Arrested Development actor comes aboard the movie (more on that later), Ron Howard is defending Michael Cera's right to maybe shred the film's script, if he wants to. More »
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Comment by DarkKnightShyamalan: Someone needs to slip Michael Cera some Teamocil. 1 Responses | Other threads
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By George: Here at Defamer, we've made it no secret that we didn't really care for Frost/Nixon (in the crowded cinematic genre that is "movies that employ a titular blackslash," we still have a soft spot for Face/Off). But could our opinions have been swayed by the suavest, most-mustachioed actor/director around, George Clooney? Writer Peter Morgan says Clooney made a full-court press for the helming gig: "(Clooney) said things like, 'We are really going to kick ass with this!' Not going with him was a complete fucking agony because he suggested doing some script work at his house by Lake Como - at which point my wife was just shaking her head." We can see it now: noted Clooney wingman Mark Wahlberg as Richard Nixon. "Hey there, Frostie. Say hi to your mother for me!" [Daily Express]
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'Arrested Development' Film Tracker: Two Contracts, Two Directors?
It's time to haul out our favorite "musty old claptrap": Defamer's Arrested Development Film Tracker™! Today, THR says that two important AD contracts have finally been signed, locking down a studio (Fox Searchlight) and paving the way for an actual script to be written. Then, though, the trade throws out a bizarre curveball about just who exactly will be directing the movie: More »
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Comment by Sweet Panda Love: I haven't been this excited to see a movie since "The Ocean Walker" and the remake of "Dangerous Cousins." 3 Responses | Other threads
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Introducing the Handy New 'Arrested Development' Film Tracker!
Now that our fierce election year is over, Americans can turn their attention to more pressing matters like what is the goddamned status of the Arrested Development movie. In that spirit, then, we offer you the brand-new Arrested Development Film Tracker™, which will bring you up-to-the minute cast confirmations, disavowals, and cagey statements of, "I don't understand the question, and I won't respond to it." Today, we have a brand-new development straight from the mouth from one of Arrested's key players. To the banana stand! More »
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Comment by SunnydaZe10 is BANNED!: I hear the "Hot Cops" refuse to be in the film, stating they are too damn "hot". BUT, The "Hot Construction... 6 Responses | Other threads
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barack obama
Richie and the Fonz Reunite For 'Happy Days: The Obama Years'
Today we offer a new pair of videos as an addendum to our recent, authoritative list of Dos and Donts for Making the Perfect Celebrity PSA. First up: Absolutely DO coax Ron Howard and Henry Winkler into whatever outlandish pro-Obama Happy Days reprise they can stand, such as the one after the jump that premiered today at Funny or Die. And if Andy Griffith agrees to join Howard for a bewigged ride all the way back to Mayberry, all the better. However: DO NOT, under any circumstances, enlist Rhea Perlman, Valerie Harper and/or Garry Freaking Marshall as your elder voice of reason. Especially Marshall! This election is just too close — and Georgia Rule far too recent — to risk some new, William Ayers-like smear campaign this late in the game. More » -
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Grazer/Howard Lament Lackluster First Reviews Of 'Frost/Nixon'
In our ongoing effort to bring you the very latest critical distaste for every prestige film this fall, we follow up last week's collection of lukewarm W. reviews with hot-off-the-presses ambivalence toward Frost/Nixon. Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's adaptation of the Tony Award-winning play reunites Frank Langella and Michael Sheen as, respectively, the 37th president and his pesky TV inquisitor; the early word confirms that the film offers gravitas to spare, but you'll want to bring your own pillow: More »
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By STVComment by Huge Tracts of Land: I prefer a funnier kind of Nixon, like Nixon from Futurama with a robot body. Or...well, actual sweaty Nixon. more » | Other threads
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Enraged Vatican Rallies Opposition, Foul-Mouthed Allies Against 'Angels and Demons'
Nothing suggests a good week to come like the Catholic Church calling out "godless" Hollywood — or, more specifically, rebuking Tom Hanks and the rest of the fork-tongued heathens who had requested access to shoot parts of Angels and Demons in a few of Rome's celebrated cathedrals. The Vatican apparently has yet to get over the whole Jesus-was-married thing from The Da Vinci Code, and the part in Angels and Demons when Hanks's Robert Langdon arrives at Santa Maria della Vittoria "to find a cardinal being set on fire" doesn't seem to help matters: More » -
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Injured Finger the Least Agonizing Part of Tom Hanks's Day Shooting 'Angels & Demons'
As EW spoiler kingpin Steven Daly might have hinted they would, shutterbugs recently got a glimpse of Tom Hanks reprising his role as coiffure-challenged Da Vinci Code symbologist Robert Langdon on the Rome set of Angels & Demons. Everything was going appropriately by-the-numbers when the chronic anguish of complacency rocketed into the Oscar-winner's pinky, requiring a brief stoppage of production as medics attended to the finger. "What ees eet, Tohm?" they were heard to ask. More »
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By STVComment by Cultmember: A symbologist should know better than to touch an Elder Sign without gloves. more » | Other threads
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Comment by moochia: Back in the Bosom Buddies days, I thought Scolari was going to be the breakout star. Guess that explains why I... more » | Other threads
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Now that Imagine's Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have had blockbuster Da Vinci Code prequel Angels & Demons put off indefinitely by the strike, we think we've identified a perfect fill-in project that could hit on many of the controversial religious themes that made Da Vinci such a huge success: The 13th Disciple, a planned "fantasy-adventure" film about Jesus Christ's reincarnated evil twin. We've already cast longtime Grazer muse Russell Crowe in the heretical leading role. [Reuters] -
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As it turns out, the script for Da Vinci Code prequel Angels & Demons that screenwriter Akiva Goldsman rushed in to beat the pre-strike deadline wasn't as shoot-ready as Sony had hoped, forcing the studio to indefinitely postpone production of Ron Howard's next crowd-narcotizing blockbuster: More » -
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Possible Strike Quietly Rushing Ron Howard's Middlebrow Genius
· Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman are frantically finalizing the shooting script of Da Vinci Code sequel Angels & Demons before the Oct. 31st deadline, hoping that the mad rush towards production won't jeopardize the duo's ability to produce the kind of easily digestible, crowd-pleasing entertainment that always results from their lucrative collaborations. Meanwhile, star Tom Hanks has been presented with a hair-growing schedule that will barely provide the actor with enough time to reproduce his character's signature demi-mullet. Truly, no one is immune from the pressures of the looming™ strike. [Variety] More » -
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Leonardo DiCaprio And Bodyguard Companion Spend An Intimate Evening At Teddy's
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week, so if lady luck should happen to gift you with one, don't squander it: Write it up and send it in! Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and tell everyone about the time you dined among the boy band diaspora: More » -
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Hollywood GrazerWatch: Unleashing The Colossus
When last we encountered superproducer Brian Grazer. he was at the center of a media maelstrom resulting from his selfless desire to unscrew the top of his singularly coiffed head and share with the world an unobstructed view of the constantly churning works within through an ill-fated guest-editing stint on the LA Times Sunday Current section, but today's Var brings news that Grazer has quickly shaken off the scandal and gotten back to what he does best: finding material for Imagine Entertainment partner Ron Howard to chew up and regurgitate into a form easily digestible by the moviegoing masses. The just-announced project is a remake of 1970's Colossus: The Forbin Project, the tale of the government supercomputer controlling America's nuclear arsenal achieving malevolent sentience and plunging the world into chaos (think Wargames meets, um, Wargames), which Grazer plans to reimagine as a somewhat more personal narrative: His Colossus: The Spring Street Project will be the story of a revenge-obsessed Hollywood producer's cybernetically enhanced brain hacking into the mainframe of a major metropolitan newspaper and erasing its entire archives as payback for its refusal to publish some essays he solicited from some intellectual friends. More »
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By MarkComment by Greasy Thumb Guzik: I just want Scarlett Johannsen doing the Susan Clark part in a Forbin Project remake! Especially the nude scene, which in... more » | Other threads
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Today In Second-Hand Office Furnishings Once Touched By Lovable Famous People
Because even the most utilitarian of office furniture becomes highly desirable when you're told it once belonged to a former child star turned helmer of blandly palatable Hollywood blockbusters, we offer for your online bidding consideration this blocky, brown specimen, which, an eBay seller tells us, once sat in The DaVinci Code director Ron Howard's Imagine offices. More »
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By SethComment by Cutting Makes You Sexy: Just because Brian Grazer's ass sanctified the polyester on that very couch does not necessarily mean I want it for... more » | Other threads
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By MarkComment by jeanutters: All that money and he is STILL using L.A. Looks... more » | Other threads
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By MarkComment by NotReadyForPrimeTime: This picture reminds me of something. There is a car dealership on the 405 near the Orange County line.... more » | Other threads
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Trade Round-Up: Fox Follows Up The OC's Barton Reduction With Epidsode Reduction
· Fox has cut back its episode order for The OC from 22 to 16, a move that will surely enrage fans still clinging to the idea that the show will eventually recapture some of its first-season, every-episode-a-party-and-a-fight glory. [Variety] More » -
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Ron Howard Liked It Better When Everybody Loved Him
Director Ron Howard has always shown an aptitude at creating handsome-looking, unchallenging, middlebrow movies that satisfied critics and audiences alike. So it's not surprising that the overwhelming criticism launched at Howard and his Da Vinci Code, accusing him of not only execrating Christ's name, but of doing it in the most boring way imaginable, has weighed heavily on the affable people pleaser. With one eye on the bottom line of his opening weekend, Howard chucks his "reverse psychology" strategy of telling audiences to skip the movie, and tries the opposite approach: More » -
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Ian McKellen Allays 'Da Vinci' Concerns By Debunking Bible
Director Ron Howard has been soft-shoeing around the growing uproar over his controversial new movie, The Da Vinci Code. (We hear it has something to do with the fact that it's just a thinly veiled retread of What's Love Got To Do With It?, with Jesus recast in the Ike Turner role.) So leave it to star Ian McKellen to dismiss Matt Lauer's questions of whether or not the movie requires a disclaimer by insisting Christianity's shoddy source material needs a disclaimer instead. From Us Weekly's blog: More » -
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Ron Howard Tries To Trick Outraged Catholics Into Seeing 'Da Vinci'
As Sony executives distractedly oversweeten their morning coffees while nervously taking in the first round of heinous reviews and reports of a mushrooming international outrage over The Da Vinci Code, Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks took a moment to address some of the concerns in a Q and A with reporters moments before the film had its premiere at Cannes today: More » -
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First Rumblings Of A 'Da Vinci Code' Disappointment
Based on the first reviews trickling in from an eve-of-premiere press screening of The Da Vinci Code at Cannes, this might be a good time for the Imagine assistants to make a busy-work project of re-alphabetizing the office take-out menu binder in anticipation of a possible office-lockdown lunch of shame once their bosses return to LA from their promotional rail tour on the Blasphemy Express. An early Da Vinci Code panning round-up: More » -
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Da Vinci's Bullet Train To Hell
At the Waterloo station in South London today, Ron Howard proudly showed off his Da Vinci Code-branded Eurostar train to stars Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou, which will carry the trio from England to their movie's world premiere in Cannes. The train is specially equipped with a state-of-the-art loudspeaker system which will blare controversy-exploiting promotional messages such as "Hey Catholic ! Did you hear how Jesus married a prostitute? Come see The Da Vinci Code and find out more!" and "Everything the Pope told you is a lie!" as they hurtle through the idyllic European countryside, ensuring that they'll be met by throngs of curious moviegoers when they disembark in the south of France. More » -
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iPod Becomes Weapon In Battle For 'Da Vinci Code' Souls
According to today's LAT, rather than resort to the shrill protest tactic of picket lines manned by clergy armed with holy-water-filled SuperSoakers, some Christian churches have decided to take The Da Vinci Code's imminent, mass-market blasphemy and make blasphemy-ade. Upbeat, Da Vinci-themed sermons aimed at debunking the message soon to be delivered by cherub-faced emissary of Satan Ron Howard and spikey-haired incubus sidekick Brian Grazer have proved quite popular, and some progressive ministers have adopted even more modern techniques to head off the coming cinematic apostasy at the pass. Reports the Times: More »
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By MarkComment by Princess Sparkle Pony: Holy cow, the Catholic church I grew up in never handed out consumer electronics. Kids today have all the luck.... more » | Other threads
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