Get Billy Ocean on the horn! NBC is planning to adapt Romancing the Stone as a television series, Deadline reports.
The 1984 romantic comedy stars Kathleen Turner as romance novelist Joan Wilder, who travels to Colombia to save her kidnapped sister, with the help of con man/charmer Jack T. Colton (Michael Douglas). The box office smash, which launched Turner's career and is considered Douglas' comeback film, spawned an equally successful sequel, 1985's Jewel of the Nile — and two killer theme songs, Eddy Grant's funky original and Ocean's peppier follow-up.
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Oprah Winfrey and Tina Fey are among the celebrities selected to receive stars next year on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced Thursday.
Other TV stars to be honored include Neil Patrick Harris, Danny DeVito and Ed O'Neill, as well as ER and Southland creator...
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Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild plan to hold an emergency meeting after the union's New York board came out against holding a strike authorization vote.
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The Screen Actors Guild will send strike authorization ballots to more than 100,000 members of the union on Jan. 2, but the dismal economic climate and the pleas of several prominent actors not to strike could make the vote close.
Votes will be tabulated by Jan. 23, and could lead to a strike that would affect all shows covered by SAG — mostly expensive, filmed series like Lost. Taped shows, such as Gary Unmarried, Rules of Engagement, and 90210 are covered by another union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
That union, which also includes 44,000 people who also belong to SAG, has already accepted a contract similar to the one studios are offering SAG.
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Does Danny DeVito have a chance at romance with Kristen Bell The actor has just been added to the list of men in hot pursuit of her in the upcoming film When in Rome The new romantic comedy features Bell as a single New York art curator who could use a little love Her fortunes change however when she swipes some magic coins from a fountain in Rome and is suddenly pursued by a coterie of men who follow her all the way back to the Big Apple In a strange twist the coins she took belonged to the men who are now trailing herDeVito will play one of the amorous aggressors joining a cast that already includes Will Arnett Josh Duhamel Jon Heder Anjelica Huston and Dax Shepard With an all-star cast how do you think this flick will shape up Is the DeVito a strange comedic fit or will he be awesome opposite Kristen Dish it up below Anna DimondUse our Online Video Guide to give a little amore to Kristen Bell
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