David Duchovny by Jeffrey Mayer/ WireImage.com
David Duchovny has signed on to play a father living a lie in the upcoming dramedy The Joneses according to The Hollywood Reporter The actor who entered rehab last month for sex addiction will star alongside Demi Moore Amber Heard and Gary Cole in the film about a faux family feigning the picture of a perfect clan as a marketing ploy to introduce luxury products to neighborhoodsDuchovny will play the bogus father who is currently undergoing a crisis of confidence due to the phony life hes leading while Moore will portray the career-driven mother whos struggling with her growing affection for Duchovnys characterHeard who most recently appeared in Pineapple Express will play their fake daughter who herself is putting the moves on Duchovnys character while looking for a rich sugardaddy Cole who will next be seen on Chuck will play a neighborEcho Lakes Doug Mankoff and Andy Spaulding will produce the flick with Kirsti Zea Goodfellas Filming starts next month i
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Jon Tenney by Andrew Eccles/TNT
The Closer's Jon Tenney has joined the remake of 1987's The Stepfather. Tenney will play a dad trying to reconnect with his teen son (Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley) after a divorce. Oh, and Hidden Palms' dewy Amber Heard is now playing Badg's GF, a role previously eyed by FNL's Adrienne Palicki.... Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood) will star in and exec-produce Gigantic, an offbeat comedy about a mattress salesman and a woman he meets in his store. Zooey Deschanel will also star.... DreamWorks Animation has pushed the release of the 3-D How to Train Your Dragon to March 26, 2010, after realizing the original November '09 date was overcrowded with other 3-D flicks: A Christmas Carol (starring Jim Carrey) and James Cameron's Avatar. — Adam Bryant
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Megan Fox by Steve Granitz/WireImage.com
Transformers' Megan Fox is a cheerleader with a perfect life who becomes possessed and begins killing local lads in Jennifer's Body, a thriller fancied as Heathers meets Beetlejuice.... Also per the Reporter, Hidden Palms' Amber Heard is a sexually promiscuous woman in 1980s L.A. in The Informers, based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel.... Julia Stiles stars opposite Paddy Considine and Scott Speedman in the thriller Cry of the Owl..... Per Variety, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will reteam next year for Shutter Island, an adaptation of the Denis Lehane novel about a U.S. Marshal investigating an heiress' vanishing.... Toby Wilkins (Splinter) will direct The Grudge 3.
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Josh Flitter in Nancy Drew courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
Per Variety, Nancy Drew's Josh Flitter has been tapped to star in Ace Ventura 3, playing (an assuredly off-camera) Jim Carrey's son, who fancies himself a pet detective for the 7th-grade set.... Brittany Murphy, Jason Lee, Giovanni Ribisi, Jim Broadbent — pausing for a breather amidst indie overload... OK — Tim Roth, and Lili Taylor are signed on for The Other Side, a comedy in which a grad student toiling for a scientific institute on a remote island discovers a community of people who are hiding a secret about a tragedy that took place years before. Sure the title isn't "The Others Side"?.... All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, which was set to spook moviegoers this Friday, has had its release pushed to early 2008 — ostensibly to get a wider run.
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Laurence Fishburne is adapting the best-selling novel The Alchemist into a feature film fancied as "Harry Potter meets Indiana Jones." Fishburne will also direct.... Rapper 50 Cent is in final talks to join Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in the crime thriller Righteous Kill, playing a drug dealer who helps track a serial killer.... Djimon Hounsou is a mixed-martial-arts coach in Get Some, an indie drama also starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard (Hidden Palms) and Cam Gigandet (The O.C.).... Alfred Hitchcock's first film, The Lodger, is being remade as a modern-day urban thriller set in Los Angeles.... Oliver Platt will play television exec Bob Zelnick in Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon film.
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Hello, all you Hidden Palms fans! My, but you are an exclusive lot. Perhaps a tad too exclusive. That might be why the network is now showing two episodes (that’s right, two original episodes back-to-back!) this Wednesday and next Wednesday, in the hopes that they can ignite Hidden Palms fever by the time our finale airs on July 4. (Cue fireworks here.)That being said, I deeply appreciate all your comments and votes of confidence and will continue to blog no matter what. Or at least until TV Guide tells me to stop. Which might happen on July 5. We’ll see. Anyway, let’s talk about our two upcoming episodes. I think you will enjoy them for the following reasons:1. The mystery surrounding Eddie’s death deepens.2. The adults start to become more of a factor in the developing events. Trust me, this is a good thing. Kids misbehaving is one thing, but when the adults go naughty, it’s a hoot!So, here's the scoop:• Cliff finally has it out with his mom’s sl...
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Amber Heard and Taylor Handley, Hidden Palms
Hot, rich kids with equally attractive parents, a sexy California setting, and a new guy who doesn't quite fit in. Sound familiar? "Of course we're getting all The O.C. comparisons," says Kevin Williamson, the creator of the CW's brand-new Hidden Palms (Wednesdays at 8 pm/ET), who was also the brains behind Dawson's Creek. "But we were just trying to make something fun and juicy, a guilty pleasure." There's Johnny, who moves to Palm Springs with his mom and her new husband after his dad's suicide and his own brief stint in rehab. He's befriended by slick Cliff and falls for gorgeous Greta, whose former boyfriend supposedly killed himself in what is now Johnny's bedroom. But if you ask science geek Liza, it was more like murder. Hooked yet?
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Nobody likes a stalker.OK, where are my fellow teen-drama fans? The O.C.'s gone, One Tree Hill's fourth season is coming to a close, and The Hills — although technically not a drama, but has enough in it to fall into the category — is on hiatus. Hello, I need my mindless, love-torn, unrealistic TV! The CW wasn't about to leave us hanging, though. I've got to admit, the opening of this show surprised me and yet it didn't at the same time. "Life shouldn't be so expected." Well, I didn't expect Johnny's (Taylor Handley) father to shoot himself just then, but again, how can I be that shocked, right? "C'mon, Dad, I love drunk time, but I really need to finish this." Just with that line alone, Johnny's former structured self became just a cover for someone whose parent was so out of control, the only thing that made sense was numbers. Definite answers. One year later, camera in hand, hair as messy as a wannabe rock star's (or Jesse McCartney's possible twin brother?), Johnny's i...
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Hello there, good people, and thanks for checking out the blog! I have gotten a few comments and I just want to say that I appreciate the compliments both on the blog and on my previous work. It means a lot to me that people out there have followed my career. But more than that, I want to say your budding enthusiasm for Hidden Palms is fully justified. I think you guys are gonna love it! My first blog was a little indulgent insofar as it chronicled my personal experiences associated with getting to work on Hidden Palms. So now I’m going to be a little more generous and talk about the basic premise of the show, the experience of shooting the pilot and, of course, my fellow cast-mates. So let the dirt-slinging begin! So some of you have asked about the premise of Hidden Palms. It’s a classic coming-of-age story, unique to our times and distinctive in that it comes wrapped in the particularly arch intelligence of a Kevin Williamson project. Those of you who have never seen o...
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Sigourney Weaver is in talks to play the owner of the agency that hooks up wannabe-mom Tina Fey with surrogate Amy Poehler in Baby Mama.... Wedding Crashers hottie Isla Fisher is The Cookie Queen, the holder of a 20-year-old Girl Scout cookie sales record who resorts to sabotage when a fifth grader eyes her title.... Amber Heard (the CW's Hidden Palms) has boarded The Pineapple Express, playing Seth Rogen's honey.... Per Variety, Ridley Scott will direct Russell Crowe in the revisionist Robin Hood tale Nottingham.
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