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Nothing Ewing: Dallas Movie Drops Travolta | Today's News: Our Take | 12/17/2007
Attached to the big-screen adaptation of Dallas for more than two years, John Travolta has been released from the role of J.R Ewing and "given a nice seven-figure 'gift' to go away quietly," a source tells Page Six. A pal of the former Vinnie Barbarino confirms the news, saying the film's producers "have gone in a different direction than was originally intended."What sort of different direction? Originally envisioned as a dramedy, the talk is that Dallas will now be a "comedic,... read more
New on the Tube: Ben Stiller's Behaving Badly, and More | Today's News: Our Take | 11/27/2007
Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films has decided to make a series of Gods Behaving Badly, a popular British novel (being released on our side of the pond Dec. 10) about what happens when the deities of ancient Greece, now roomies in a modest London flat, stop being polite and start getting real.... West Wing Emmy winner Alex Graves will direct Fox's Fringe, the J.J. Abrams pilot about a cute FBI agent who, in another place and time, would've been Veronica Mars.... GSN has ordered 40 episodes of How... read more
Stop the Presses! Sesame Street's Elmo Isn't Jewish?! | Today's News: Our Take | 7/24/2007
Ben Stiller (voicing an elf named... Stiller) and The Sopranos' Tony Sirico and Steve Schirripa (as a wannabe Bert and Ernie) are but a few of the stars who will help out with Elmo's Christmas Countdown, a one-hour holiday special coming to ABC. Per the Hollywood Reporter, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Hudson, Ty Pennington, Alicia Keys, Sheryl Crow and Brad Paisley are also set to appear as themselves to perform in musical numbers, while Big Bird, Grover, Oscar, Snuffie and the Count will be... read more
At the Movies: Michael Apted to Direct Third Narnia | Today's News: Our Take | 6/20/2007
Per the Hollywood Reporter, Michael Apted is set to claim the reins from Andrew Adamson and direct The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third film in the seven-pic series. Among the returning cast members are (spoiler alert?) Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley and Skandar Keynes.... Marc Forster (Monster's Ball) will helm and cowrite with Paul Haggis the 22nd James Bond film.... Ben Stiller will produce/perhaps star in the comedy In Deep, in which a man fighting a parking... read more
April 25, 2007: 70 Million Votes and Everyone's Safe! | American Idol | 4/26/2007
This is going to be a different kind of blog tonight as I am frankly stunned, shocked and really pleasantly surprised that Idol pulled this little telethon together so quickly and so effectively. Idol is in a position to do something to help others less fortunate, and I am proud they took this opportunity to do it. They have friends in very high places, and scores of Idol-worshiping celebrities offered their services to help spread the message. Not only that, but they partnered with One.org to... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/24/2007
There's a man small of stature but incredibly big on talent and Hollywood luster at the center of the box-office blockbu read more
Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller Are the Hardy Boys | Today's News: Our Take | 2/13/2007
Twentieth Century Fox has signed Tom Cruise and his sometime impersonator, Ben Stiller, to play The Hardy Men, a Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum)-directed action comedy based on The Hardy Boys. According to Variety, the plot finds the onetime sleuthing siblings grown up and estranged, then reunited to have a three-way with Katie Holmes' Nancy Drew crack one last case. read more
Short Cuts: Scarlett Johansson, Wiggles and More | Today's News: Our Take | 1/30/2007
Scarlett Johansson and Ben Stiller are this year's recipients of Harvard University's Hasty Pudding awards, given to performers who have made a "lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment" and/or bikinis.... Disney Channel has set a Feb. 19 premiere date for Season 5 of The Wiggles.... Family Ties: The First Season arrives on DVD Feb. 20, or on my desk yesterday, hee-hee.... (Sometime?) today, Nickelodeon will unveil Nicktropolis, a new online community where visitors... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 11/22/2006
No sooner does Kim Raver miraculously (and barely) survive another crazy day on 24 than she ups and innocently walks int read more
Casting About: Virgin Star Joins Stiller's Sitcom | Today's News: Our Take | 9/25/2006
Funnylady Jane Lynch (of The 40 Year Old Virgin and Christopher Guest-movies fame) will play mom to Christine Taylor's small-town-girl-turned-Hollywood-superstar in CBS' untitled comedy pilot being exec-produced and directed by Taylor's husband, Ben Stiller. (It just hit me: Lovespring International's riotous Jennifer Elise Cox included, Lynch will have worked with both "Jan" and "Marcia Brady").... Sara Paxton (Aquamarine) will star in The Party Never Stops: Diary of a Binge Drinker, a (as if... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 7/31/2006
For those of you who Valerie Cherish'd HBO's read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/14/2006
The American Film Institute celebrates America's 100 most inspiring movies in the three-hour CBS special read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/1/2006
We asked 100 men, 'Would you drown yourself if it meant read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 5/31/2006
We asked 100 men, 'Would you drown yourself if it meant read more
Ask Matt | 3/10/2006
Just read your read more
Roush Dispatch | 3/6/2006
Jon Stewart did his best, but it wasn't good enough. There are limitations in being a clever, self-deprecating ma read more
The Watercooler | 3/5/2006
The 78th Annual Academy Awards 8:01: The opening scene just demonstrate read more
Ausiello Report | 2/17/2006
You know that nasty smell permeating throughout TV land? It's most likely the stench of death. As if regular readers of read more
Today's News: My Take | 2/3/2006
Universal has announced a Dec. 22 premiere for Steve Carell's Evan Almighty, where it will go read more
Today's News: My Take | 1/24/2006
A rep for Ben Affleck tells the New York Daily News that, contrary to a rumor going around, th read more