After freaking us out with a "posthumous" appearance on Lost's season premiere, Dominic Monaghan has landed the lead role in Pet, a psychological thriller about a man who becomes obsessed with his high-school crush.... Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) and Kieran Culkin (Igby Goes Down) are girlfriend and boyfriend in Daydream Nation, described by producers as an intellectual teen comedy à la Juno or Election.... Michael Douglas, Amber Tamblyn (Joan of Arcadia), and Jesse Metcalfe (Desperate Housewives) have been cast in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, a remake of a Fritz Lang film noir. Metcalfe plays a journalist trying to expose Douglas' corrupt district attorney. — Mickey O'Connor
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That voice you are now hearing introducing anchorman Brian Williams at the top of each NBC Nightly Newscast belongs to none other than Gordon Gekko. Recalling the decision to recruit Michael Douglas' pipes, Williams tells the AP, "I appealed to Michael's sense of romance and sentimentality and his love of the industry.... I called him and said, 'On top of all you've done as an actor, producer and Academy Award winner, this will mean a small slice of immortality in our industry. It also means wherever you are on Earth, at 6:30 pm Eastern time, you'll know your voice is on the air.'"Now if we can just get Catherine Zeta-Jones to be the weather girl....
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When I need to get away, I plan a weekend at the Jersey shore. But Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas? When they get wanderlust, they plan to shoot a movie in India. "We will take our kids and all of us will come there, set up camp… and shoot a film," the Chicago vamp told The Times of India but declined to get into specifics about the pic. As long as Zeets isn't hidden behind a sari, I know Mitovich'll be down with it.
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How many more yachts can you water-ski behind, Gordon? Per Variety, Twentieth Century Fox is developing Money Never Sleeps, a Wall Street sequel to again potentially star Oscar winner Michael Douglas, but not involve Oliver Stone as writer or director.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, though Shrek the Third doesn't even hit theaters until the 18th, Deuce Bigelow's Mike Mitchell is already in talks to direct No. 4.... Stana Katic (aka Heroes' wireless gal) is an assassin in Stiletto, an indie thriller also starring Tom Berenger and Michael Biehn.... Sydney Pollack has been cast as Patrick Dempsey's father in the rom-com Made of Honor.
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Thanks to all of you who have been watching The Real Wedding Crashers [Mondays at 10 pm/ET, on NBC]. People keep asking me for insight into the next episode, so I may as well give it all away. This is actually one of my favorite episodes. There are pranks involving a mishap at a tanning salon and an audition for wedding singers. I got to play three different characters: a horrible wedding singer with neck tattoos, an animal rights protestor, and, of course, an annoying wedding guest. I really had fun doing all three, but my favorite had to be the animal rights protestor. I am conducting a protest because a store sells fur, and the bride enters with one of her bridesmaids. When they exit the store, I give them a hard time for shopping there, and let's just say, the mark does not like me very much at all. The bit also includes live farm animals. It's always been a dream of mine to work with farm animals. Now, I'm proud to say it's a reality. I guess all kinds of weird things start to...
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