Per Variety, a Christmas Day 2008 release date has been set aside for the new Star Trek feature to be helmed by J.J. Abrams, produced by Lost cohort Damon Lindelof, and penned by Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci (Mission: Impossible III).... Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, III) will direct a remake of David Cronenberg's Scanners.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Alan Arkin will reunite with Little Miss Sunshine costar Steve Carell when he plays "Chief" in the big-screen Get Smart.... M:I:III's Michelle "Don't I look like Kate Holmes?" Monaghan will star opposite Patrick Dempsey in Made of Honor, a romantic comedy about longtime friends who come to want something more just as Monaghan's character is about to wed.... Robert Downey Jr. and Jay Baruchel will star in Tropic Thunder, a Ben Stiller-directed comedy about the making of an epic war film. Downey plays "the greatest actor of his generation," while Baruchel is a newbie.
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A role at one time eyed by Tom Cruise, the big-screen's Iron Man will actually arrive in the form of Robert Downey Jr., the Hollywood Reporter reports. In the Marvel Comics character's first feature foray, to be directed by Jon Favreau and to start filming in February, Downey will portray Tony Stark, a billionaire industrialist/genius inventor who escapes an abduction by constructing and inhabiting a high-tech suit of armor. "High-tech," in today's world, meaning it can play streaming video of The Office and wirelessly download "London Bridge" from iTunes.
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The likes of Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Hanks, Don Cheadle and Robert Downey Jr. are scheduled to appear on Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio this spring — perhaps signifying that the series is back to profiling, you know, actual actors.... Tonight at 7 pm/ET, TV Guide Channel premieres Idol Tonight, a live preshow airing before each of this season's remaining American Idol telecasts.... Sci Fi Channel presents V for Vendetta: Behind the Mask, an inside look at the making of Natalie "I'll Kill Your Dog for Fun" Portman's new film, on March 16 at 11 pm.
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Ray Wise
Tonight's two-hour 24 "event" (beginning at 8 pm/ET on Fox) will host a parade of faces new and familiar, including Elisha Cuthbert's return as Jack's beleaguered daughter and the debut of C. Thomas Howell as Kim's (overdue, if you ask me) therapist. The evening also introduces us to Vice President Hal Gardner, who has been choicely cast with Ray Wise, a star of the Oscar-nominated Good Night, and Good Luck and who is familiar to TV fans as Twin Peaks' very bad dad, Leland Palmer. TVGuide.com welcomed the chance to ask Wise about his 24 VP, working with George Clooney
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Ray Wise
Monday's two-hour 24 "event" (beginning at 8 pm/ET on Fox) will host a parade of faces new and familiar, including Elisha Cuthbert's return as Jack's beleaguered daughter and the debut of C. Thomas Howell as Kim's (overdue, if you ask me) therapist. The evening also introduces us to Vice President Hal Gardner, who has been choicely cast with Ray Wise, a star of the Oscar-nominated Good Night, and Good Luck and who is familiar to TV fans as Twin Peaks' very bad dad, Leland Palmer. TVGuide.com welcomed the chance to ask Wise about his 24 VP, working with George Clooney
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