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The Dailies: December 18, 2007

Posted 12/18/07 4:42 pm EST by in Dailies


Sit back, relax, and enjoy a hot, steaming cup of our links of the day, back again with news on "Star Trek," "Wall-E," Judd Apatow and more.

- "Star Trek" writer Roberto Orci leaves the door open on a William Shatner cameo...but says it's really not very likely. (SCI FI Wire)

- The last man on Earth is a robot. Second trailer for Pixar's "Wall-E" surfaces online. (IGN)

- Basically, it'll be three hours of Jon Stewart looking awkwardly into the camera. WGA denies waiver for Golden Globes, Oscars. Telecast can have no written segments and show no montages or clips. (AP)

- No escape: Ewan McGregor to play romantic lead opposite Jim Carrey in "I Love You Phillip Morris," dark comedy about a homosexual recidivist escape artist. (Variety)

- The Judd Apatow backlash has begun, and it's coming from...Judd Apatow? (Funny Or Die)

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Glenn Close Anxious To Walk Down 'Sunset Boulevard'

Posted 8/10/07 11:59 am EST by in News


Sunset BoulevardConsidering it's been more than two years since composer Andrew Lloyd Weber first announced plans to bring his musical version of "Sunset Boulevard" to the big-screen, with nary an update since, should fans continue to hold out hope of seeing Norma Desmond get a second Hollywood close-up? Yes, but according to its lead, don't exactly hold your breath waiting for it.

"It's going very slowly," sighed Glenn Close, the five-time Oscar-nominated actress who played Desmond in the stage production and is also attached to portray her in the film adaptation. "I think a lot of people are scared [because] it's a musical."

Billy Wilder's original 1950 film noir starred Gloria Swanson as an aged femme fetale who entices desperate screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) into a whirlwind -- and soon spiraling -- life of surrealism and financial dependence.
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Danny Boyle Not Quite Ready To Film 'Porno'

Posted 7/6/07 10:55 am EST by in News


Danny BoyleChoose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. But for god sake's, Ewan McGregor, don't choose that face moisturizer...not if you ever want to film a "Trainspotting" sequel, director Danny Boyle exclaimed during an interview with MTV News' Kurt Loder.

"We won't be able to do it for a while because the guys don't look any different. They haven't aged at all!" Boyle said of the oft-rumored to be right-around-the-corner "Porno," writer Irvine Welsh's follow-up to "Trainspotting." "They give this impression to the public that they're out drinking and smoking, when in fact they are in a spa somewhere in the country!"

Released in 1996, "Trainspotting" centered on a group of heroin addicts ("Rent Boy," "Sick Boy," "Spud" and Begbie), and their adventures in Edinburgh, Scotland. "Porno" reunites the same cast of characters nine years later -- some of whom have kicked their addiction, some of whom are beaten down by life, one of whom is in prison for manslaughter -- when Sick Boy, now a heavy cocaine user, decides to make a porn film financed by Renton (McGregor). Read More...

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Casting Call: Who Should Play Hugh Hefner?

Posted 6/25/07 12:24 pm EST by in Casting Call, Commentary


In a strange way, it's kind of fitting that Brett Ratner is going to direct a biopic about Hugh Hefner, titled "Playboy." After all, if you can't score an invite to the mansion to rub elbows with Pauly Shore and Stephen Dorff, isn't the next best thing dropping by Chez Ratner for some quality time in a photobooth with Bob Evans?

So with "Playboy" looking to get the fast track to your local multiplex (by the way, how is it that Larry Flynt got Milos Forman and Hef gets the director of "After the Sunset"?), let's do some casting, shall we? Who should play Hef? How about...

Ewan McGregor --  The only thing stopping us from loving this idea is Ewan tends to fall a little flat when he goes American ("Stay" still makes us sleepy thinking about it). Read More...

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