Zooey Deschanel, Emily Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel ((500) Days of Summer) has signed on to guest-star on an episode of Bones alongside her sister Emily Deschanel.
Bones shuts down production due to Boreanaz's flu
In the first-ever on-screen pairing of the Deschanel sisters, Zooey will play ...
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Zooey Deschanel, Ben Gibbard
Zooey Deschanel has tied the knot!
The (500) Days of Summer actress and singer married Death Cab for Cutie front man ...
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Zooey Deschanel, Ben Gibbard
Zooey Deschanel is saying "yes" not just on screen, but off.
The actress, who currently stars in Jim Carrey's Yes Man, and Death Cab for Cutie front man Ben Gibbard (who also fronts The Postal Service), are engaged, People reports. Deschanel's rep could not immediately be reached for comment.
Deschanel, 28, is also pursuing music of her own...
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Minka Kelly by Eric Charbonneau/ WireImage.com
Friday Night Lights Minka Kelly is joining Joseph Gordon-Levitt 3rd Rock From the Sun and Zooey Deschanel Weeds in 500 Days of Summer an offbeat comedy slated for a January 2009 releaseKelly will play a woman who has a chance meeting with Gordon-Levitts character while at a job interview Meanwhile he is hopelessly in love with a woman Deschanel who doesnt believe in true love JR WhalenMore Movie News149 Mrs Garrett Does What with Adam Sandler149 Christmas Spirit Frank Millers Latest to Arrive Early149 Junos Ellen Page to Take in Some Eyre
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Jon Tenney by Andrew Eccles/TNT
The Closer's Jon Tenney has joined the remake of 1987's The Stepfather. Tenney will play a dad trying to reconnect with his teen son (Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley) after a divorce. Oh, and Hidden Palms' dewy Amber Heard is now playing Badg's GF, a role previously eyed by FNL's Adrienne Palicki.... Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood) will star in and exec-produce Gigantic, an offbeat comedy about a mattress salesman and a woman he meets in his store. Zooey Deschanel will also star.... DreamWorks Animation has pushed the release of the 3-D How to Train Your Dragon to March 26, 2010, after realizing the original November '09 date was overcrowded with other 3-D flicks: A Christmas Carol (starring Jim Carrey) and James Cameron's Avatar. — Adam Bryant
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The West Wing's Donna ain't lovelorn no more. Janel Moloney is joining the cast of Showtime's Brotherhood for at least four episodes this season, playing a woman who has an affair with Jason Clarke's ambitious politico. (All together now: Poor Annabeth Gish.)In other Showtime news, in addition to Matthew Modine joining Weeds for at least 10 episodes (first scooped by the Ausiello Report, he'll serve as a love interest for both Nancy and Celia), Zooey Deschanel's krazy Kat is returning for the Season 3 opener, while Carrie Fisher will guest this season as Celia's "May-the-divorce-be-with-you" lawyer.
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Speaking of Bones, Emily Deschanel's sister, Zooey Deschanel, has landed the female lead in Tin Man, Sci Fi Channel's trippy retelling of The Wizard of Oz. Per Variety, Deschanel will play DG, a young woman who finds herself transported from her dull existence into the fantasy-filled world of The O.Z. (Outer Zone). As previously reported, Alan Cumming is on board as a friend of Dorothy's, the Scarecrow-like Glitch. The six-hour miniseries is eyed for a December debut.
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Like her costars, Sam Rockwell and Martin Freeman, Zooey Deschanel was no aficionado of Douglas Adams' seminal comic novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when she signed on to be part of the big-screen version, now in theaters.
"I read the book in the fifth grade," she says. "It was kind of a big thing to read
Hitchhiker's at that age. Everybody thought we were so sophisticated to be reading it, but because I was 10 I didn't really get a lot of the humor. I thought I did, but I read it again before starting the movie. There's no way I would have gotten this when I was 10!"
In the film, Deschanel plays Trisha McMillan (although she more readily answers to her space name, Trillian), a free-spirited young woman who has to choose between two very different guys. On the one hand, there's Zaphod Beeblebrox (Rockwell), the president of the Galaxy, who's got a big spaceship and an even bigger ego. But she's also got a soft spot
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