Hayden Panettiere by Chris Haston/NBC Photo
Hayden Panettiere is in talks to star in I Love You, Beth Cooper, a coming-of-age comedy in which the Heroes heroine would play a high school's hottest cheerleader who gives a nerd the night of his life after he confesses his love for her in his valedictorian speech.... Also per the Reporter, Timothy Olyphant is a newlywed whose honeymoon turns sour when he and his bride are stalked by killers in A Perfect Getaway.... Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Antonio Banderas and Romola Garai will star in The Other Man, based on a Bernhard Schlink book.
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Jaime King courtesy Dimension Films
Jaime King and Paz Vega have joined the cast of the Frank Miller-helmed Will Eisner's The Spirit, playing Lorelei, a phantom siren, and the knit-wielding Plaster of Paris, respectively.... Also per Variety, Radha Mitchell is a temptress who comes between Antonio Banderas and his partner in thievery, Morgan Freeman, in The Code.... Ving Rhames has come on board The Goods: The Don Ready Story, starring Jeremy Piven as an ace used-car liquidator.... The Reporter also has Queen Latifah making a cameo in the Ashton Kutcher/Cameron Diaz rom-com What Happens in Vegas.
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Before I give away too much for those of you who haven’t watched the results show and haven’t heard the news — and obviously live in a vacuum, because this news will be everywhere — let's just say that Ryan walked past the Idols as he does every Wednesday and looked at Sanjy when he asked the fateful question, “Is your favorite safe?”But first, Simon and the “eye-roll” warranted commentary from he, himself. He broke his rule never to discuss press frenzies, not wanting to be thought of as that guy who finds tragedy worth ridiculing. And my how they went on about it. They spent more time explaining what actually happened on the show last night than they did making any intelligible or coherent comment the night before about the VT tragedy. Ryan told Simon that if he did less talking and more listening, we would not have to spend so much time reviewing the tapes to see what really happened.Ryan announced the kids would sing “I’m Alright...
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Chris Columbus is in talks to helm The Lightning Thief, a family fantasy based on the first novel in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and concerning a boy who discovers he descends from a Greek god.... Eric Bana is a librarian who involuntarily juts to and fro in time and Rachel McAdams is the woman he falls in love with in The Time Traveler's Wife.... Writer-director Gideon Raff (The Killing Floor) is remaking 1980's Terror Train.... The soundtrack for Shrek the Third finds Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas dueting on Sly & the Family Stone's "Thank You" and Fergie covering Heart's "Barracuda." Also on the May 15 CD: Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" and Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die."
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ABC is calling upon the big green guy to usher in a new holiday tradition, developing a half-hour animated special based on Shrek, and featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas. The special will pick up where the forthcoming Shrek the Third feature leaves off, and is set to debut in December 2007.... Per Variety, FX has picked up It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia for a third, 15-episode season, to premiere next summer.... CBS has given a pilot order to an ensemble drama about a team of public defenders, from Law & Order/Numbers vet Barry Schindel.
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Anna Paquin and Breckin Meyer will costar in Blue State, about a young Democrat who follows through on a promise to move to Canada if George W. Bush got reelected.... Aaron Eckhart is Bill, a distraught man who mentors an unruly teen.... Antonio Banderas will play Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés in the historical epic Conquistador.... Nicolas Cage and 50 Cent are ready for The Dance, based on the life of prison boxing coach Billy "The Kid" Roth.... Focus Features has grabbed the rights to Dean Koontz's upcoming novel The Husband, about a man whose love for his wife is put to a harrowing series of tests — an O.C. marathon not included.
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America's Next Top Model: Where the Girls AreDid anyone else get the sense that this was all about Tyra convincing us that the Top Models do eventually model after the show and aren't just doomed to a career of guest shots on UPN shows? No? Never mind. Well, it is nice to see some of my favorites — Brittany, Toccara, Yoanna and Ann — looking like they really get campaigns and runway gigs. During her season I don't think I ever wished as much evil on Yaya as I did after her bit about "acting" with Antonio Banderas — from her story it sounded like her scene took a whole lot of takes; perhaps it wasn't quite as perfect as her pretentious death scene with Taye Diggs. But oh, how we love to hate Camille even
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