Sarah Jessica Parker is a single woman who, after the death of her mother, bonds with her dad as they each venture into the dating world in The Late Bloomer's Revolution, an adaptation of the Amy Cohen book and Gilmore Girl boss Amy Sherman-Palladino's feature-directing debut.... Also per Variety, Frank Langella will present Cameron Diaz with The Box in a horror flick helmed by Donnie Darko's Richard Kelly.... The 300 team of director Zack Snyder and scribe Kurt Johnstad are reuniting for The Last Photograph, a drama based on an original idea of Snyder's.
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Drew Barrymore will voice Chloe, a pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua who gets lost in Mexico in the live-action, talking-animal Disney comedy South of the Border. Also on board are Andy Garcia (as a German shepherd), George Lopez (as a macho pooch with eyes for Chloe) and Salma Hayek.... The red-hot Frank Langella will star with Elliott Gould in On the Hook, a thriller about a corporate whistleblower and the PI who protects him from killers.... Flags of Our Fathers' Jesse Bradford will star in The Echo, a remake of the Filipino thriller Sigaw.
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Though studio suits had been pushing for an A-lister to play the disgraced prez in Ron Howard's upcoming take on the stage drama Frost/Nixon, Playbill.com reports that Frank Langella, currently channeling the Watergate wonder on Broadway, may snag the gig — despite names such as Warren Beatty and Kevin Spacey being bandied about. Similarly, Michael Sheen (aka Kate Beckinsale's babydaddy), is in talks to reprise his role as David Frost. Having seen the production three days ago, I predict that Langella will win the Tony and perhaps an Oscar for his stunning work. Almost makes me forgive him for Cutthroat Island. Almost. In other stage news, Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein has booked its out-of-town, pre-Broadway tryout, but as of yet has not announced a cast. The monster will run loose Aug. 4 through Sept. 1 at Seattle's Paramount Theater, says Variety, aiming to hit the Great White Way on (wait for it) Halloween. — Reporting by Raven Snook
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Are things about to heat up for ex-lovers Will Pope and Brenda Leigh Johnson on TNT's The Closer (Mondays at 9 pm/ET)? Sensing that an interdepartmental romance might be brewing sometime soon, TVGuide.com Q&A'd the assistant police chief's portrayer, J.K. Simmons, about the show's success and its possible move to the fall battlegrounds, while also seeking out some scoop on Spider-Man 3.
TVGuide.com: I'm looking at this scene shot of you in the new TV Guide, and you're curling dumbbells that are, what, 30, 40 lbs. each?
J.K. Simmons: I think those dumbbells were 80 lbs. [total]. I always do half [re
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Lauren Ambrose and Frank Langella will star in the indie Starting out in the Evening, about a writer whose world is shaken by an ambitious grad student.... Also per Variety: Pride & Prejudice director Joe Wright has been tapped to remake the 1944 thriller Gaslight, in which a woman's suitor tries to drive her insane.... Warner Bros. is in talks to rent out a 191,000-square-foot space in the Bronx's Kingsbridge Armory to be used for production of a film version of the famed sci-fi novel I Am Legend, reports the New York Daily News.
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