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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Meryl Streep is in a sexy new movie, Chloë Sevigny gets scary, and The Avengers is already a hit.

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Here is a trailer for the upcoming comedy Hope Springs about an older married couple, played by Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones, who are trying to get the spark — wink wink, nudge nudge — back in their marriage. (No, unfortunately, it is not a remake of this.) So they go up to some sort of crazy sex camp or something and just figure the f-cking the f-ck out. Or, actually, they go to a therapist played by Steve Carell and hilarious awkward situations ensue, including three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep sitting on the toilet reading Sex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay Man and contemplating putting a banana… somewhere. Nothing wrong with that, of course, it’s just a little surprising. Which is of of course the point. The most surprising thing in this trailer, though, is that Elisabeth Shue, yes the Elisabeth Shue, appears in the movie and gets to do at least one scene with Meryl Streep. So, all is not lost in that particular true Hollywood story. Anyway, this looks pretty good? It’s directed by The Devil Wears Prada‘s David Frankel and seems to be easy and glossy like many a summertime comedy. (Streep’s latest box office specialty.) Can’t wait to see Tommy and Meryl’s big O. Well, hm, that sounds a little… prurient or something, doesn’t it. How about… Looking forward to this comedy movie. That’s better.

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Marvel’s big superhero party The Avengers — everyone’s invited! No, not you, Green Lantern, never you — doesn’t open in the States until next Friday, but it’s debuted in several markets overseas and it is already kickin’ butt and taking names. It’s only been out for a day and it’s already taken in $17 million, which is pretty freakin’ good for overseas. So, we all knew this movie would be a big fat hit, but could it be a really big fat hit? Seems likely. It’s a bunch of hit movies all squished into one enormous ball of a mega-movie. Who doesn’t want a mega-movie? Everyone wants that. If this movie does extraordinarily well, look for some sort of Superman/Batman mashup from DC Comics. No, not with you, Green Lantern. What did we just say? [Deadline]

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Be still all downtown gay hearts: Chloë Sevigny, former queen of the Beatrice, is in talks to be a cast member on the second season of American Horror Story. So, that’s big enough news itself, but here’s the real kicker: She’ll be playing a character named Shelly the Nymphomaniac. Yes. Terrific. Signed. Done. We’re on board. Toot toot, next stop FX to watch that. Well done, everyone. You’ve got us. [Entertainment Weekly]

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Oh, well, hm, then some sad news. ABC Family has canceled its teen gymnastics series Make It Or Break It after three seasons. The May 14th episode will be its last. So wait, will we not find out if they go to the Olympics?? Wasn’t that the whole damn point, that the Olympics are this summer and that’s what they’re trying to get to??? Oh dear god no! This is a disaster. (Did they already get there on the show? I have no idea.) This is almost as bad as that time when a show that nobody watched got canceled and everyone was like “What show? Who?” and then went about their days. (In all seriousness, RIP you weird, earnest show. In my dreams, you all got the London gold.) [Entertainment Weekly]

Apparently the upcoming Total Recall remake, the one with Colin Farrell directed by the guy who does Underworld, went over very, very well when footage of it was shown at CinemaCon, the convention of the National Association of Theater Owners (yes, NATO — the Norwegians loved it!). They were all comparing it to Blade Runner and just totally gushing like children about it. So… that could mean good things? We may tease Wiseman about Underworld, but he also directed Live Free or Die Hard, a perfectly competent installment in the Bruce Willis franchise. (It’s on FX basically every day. Which is about as often as we watch it.) Maybe this is his big artistic breakthrough. The trailers we’ve seen so far don’t look that promising, lots of Matrix-style slo-mo and stuff, but who knows. If the theater owners liked it then, well… Well, then it actually could still potentially be awful, couldn’t it? [The Hollywood Reporter]

Here are the first two stills from Quentin Tarantino‘s slave revenge movie Django Unchained. One is of Leonardo DiCaprio as a hammer-wielding plantation owner named Calvin Candie (he’s the bad guy), the other is of Christoph Waltz (who owes Tarantino his mainstream stardom) and Jamie Foxx as the guys out to get him. Nothing terribly revealing here, but still it’s very exciting! But, alas, we must wait a while for the whole thing. Fitting for the season, this brutal revenge picture comes out on Christmas Day.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Paul Rudd and Leslie Manna are feeling their age, Tina Fey gets a boyfriend, and Jane Fonda returns again.

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Here is a trailer for the sorta sequel to Knocked Up, This Is 40, which deals with Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann‘s characters from the first film struggling with midlife crises. In this trailer it seems to mostly be Mann who’s having the problem, but Rudd’s in there too, getting upset with his butt. So, y’know, that’s the movie. It’s interesting to see a movie about the experience of being middle-aged — The Forty-Year-Old Virgin doesn’t really count — getting a big marketing roll out and a plum Christmastime release date and everything considering it’s an Apatow picture. And it will be even more interesting to see if it ultimately sells. Also, are the Apatow girls just full-blown actors at this point? Like, do they have agents and get lots of money and stuff? Or is Apatow just working them for free? Whatever’s happening, the whole Smith family vibe is a little unsettling. Get your kids outta the limelight, Apatow!

Speaking of funny people (but not Funny People, never Funny People) Tina Fey will be joined in her upcoming movie Admission by, not only Mr. Rudd, but now Michael Sheen, Fey’s onetime sorta love interest (they hated each other, but felt they should try anyway) on 30 Rock. He’ll play Fey’s stuffy British boyfriend while Rudd is a more easygoing old friend from school who comes back into Fey’s life. So basically not bad choices for some lowly old college admissions officer. Who’s going to play her secretary, Joe Jonas? (Please cast Joe Jonas as her secretary.) [The Hollywood Reporter]

Steve Kloves, who adapted all of the Harry Potter movies, yes all of them, is, instead of taking a break and not working for the rest of his life because holy hell what a job, will be not only writing but also directing a planned live-action version of The Jungle Book. So that won’t be a big task at all, developing a beloved children’s book that’s already been a beloved animated feature into a live action thing and then also directing that live action thing. Jeez, Steve. You’re gonna run yourself into the ground. But, oh well, do what you want. And please cast Joe Jonas as Mowgli. [Deadline]

While on the topic of adaptations, Vampire Diaries showrunner/14-year-old at heart Julie Plec has been tapped to write the adaptation of The Tiger’s Curse, a young adult book about a teen girl (of course) who takes a job at a zoo only to discover that the white tiger they’ve got is actually an Indian prince who was turned into a tiger by a curse but becomes human for 24 minutes every day. So it’s like Swan Lake except with an Indian tiger. Sounds… I don’t know how that sounds, actually. Depends on who plays the prince. Plec has an eye for talent, so who knows. We’d assume an offer has already been put out to Joe Jonas. [The Hollywood Reporter]

Nerds, make thankful sacrifices to your nerd gods! Fox, in its infinite kindness, has decided to renew its multidimensional soap opera Fringe for a fifth and final season. Yes, you’ll get 13 more episodes of Pacey and Old Man and the gang as they figure out how to close the hole in the dimensions, all the while hoping that the next leap will be the leap home. That’s what that show is about, right? Pretty sure that’s what it is. Either that or it involves John Rhys-Davies and San Francisco and Jerry O’Connell? Something like that. Who knows. Anyway, there’s gonna be more of it! [Deadline]

And here’s a trailer for Georgia Rule 2: This Time It’s Hippies, or as it will be known in international releases, Peace Love and Misunderstanding. Catherine Keener plays the buttoned-up daughter of a free-love old lady (Jane Fonda) who heads up to her mom’s hippie camp with her two adolescent kids (Elizabeth Olsen and some kid) to sort things out during a divorce. People learn lessons and bonds are strengthened and all that, so it’s actually On Golden Commune. Basically Jane Fonda makes the same couple of movies over and over again. But this time she’s gone and made one with Chace Crawford! So, y’know, this one’s got that goin’ for it.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: A new book/movie combines tropes (sort of), Keanu Reeves suffers a setback, and Pixar contemplates death.

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As The Hunger Games suggests, dystopian worlds where young people struggle to stay alive are all the rage. And as Mormon fever prophecy Twilight indicates, people love them some vampires. So if both things are popular, why not, like those pre-made peanut butter and jelly in a jar things, combine them! Thus a production company called Palomar Pictures (founded by a guy who used to do Movies of the Week at ABC) has bought the rights to the book series Blood of Eden. In the first book, The Immortal Rules, a young girl living in the post-vampire-apocalypse world hates the vampires but then is made into a vampire and so can’t decide whether to join her new family or continue to rebel against them. It seems that she chooses to rebel against them, if this sentence from the Amazon description is any indication: “But it isn’t easy to pass for human. Especially not around Zeke, who might see past the monster inside her.” OhhhOooOhhhHhh. Especially around Zeke. Girl, Zeke don’t care if you’re vampire! Zeke loves you for you. Early reports are coming in that Harry from One Direction has already been cast as Zeke. They should just call this movie Zeke. [Deadline]

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Oh, dear. Keanu Reeves, who was sad a while back and might still be, has a new 3D samurai movie called 47 Ronin that was supposed to come out on November 13th, right in the middle of the fertile fall season, but now it’s been pushed back to February 2013, the dumping ground of junky movies. Universal didn’t give a reason for the pushback, but it could mean that the movie is pretty bad and might fare better without so much stiff autumn competition. Or it could just be weird schedule reshuffling and the movie is great and wonderful and everything’s fine don’t look so sad Keanu don’t worry everything is good, we’re sorry for even suggesting it, everything’s good. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Pixar has announced that Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich will be directing a new movie for the studio based on the Mexican Day of the Dead. Yeah, the movie is called (right now, at least) Dia de los Muertos and everything. So that ought to be interesting! Maybe a little ’90s Tim Burton-y? Or something else entirely. We really hope it’s a Pixar movie about Mexican skeletons, because that would be kind of great. That’s the kind of movie we would have wanted to see as a child and could very well enjoy as an adult. Pixar has given us no reason to doubt their ingenuity, not even Cars 2 can deter us, so we are looking forward to this and eagerly anticipate 2015. (Wait, no, god, we don’t want that, we’re going to be so old in 2015. So, um, stay away, los muertos!) [Entertainment Weekly]

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Sad news out of superhero land today: Scarlett Johansson says that she will not be reprising her Black Widow role in Iron Man 3. (Which Jessica Chastain was just cast in. Maybe as a replacement sexpot?) She said she’d be up for her own Black Widow movie in the style of the Bourne movies, though. Hm. Let’s hope for more Salt on that one and less Elektra. [Screen Rant, via Vulture]

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The Cannes film festival has announced this year’s lineup of jurors, and it includes actress/director Hiam Abbass, Pacey Witter’s girlfriend Diane Kruger, and beautiful braid-wearer Ewan McGregor. Plus, y’know, some directors and stuff. Oh plus Jean Paul Gaultier, who was either called because he’s trying to pull a Tom Ford and get into movies, or the Cannes people meant to call Gotye and their assistant misunderstood them. [Deadline]

Here is a trailer for the new John Hillcoat (The Road) Prohibition action/thriller Lawless, which used to be called The Wettest County in the World. Speaking of wet, the movie stars Tom Hardy as a bootlegger, plus Shia LaBeouf (well, he’s the real star, I guess) as his brother, Mia Wasikowska as A Girl, Jessica Chastain as Another Girl, Gary Oldman as an evil villain, and Guy Pearce as a maybe even eviler lawman. It looks like less of a straight-up drama than we thought it was going to be, but we suppose the action could be played up for the trailer. Either way, it looks good! Lots of good actors and an interesting time period. Hillcoat is a moody, effective director, though his pictures can kinda prod along sometimes. So maybe all that action is actually a good thing.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Lindsay Lohan gets a big Lifetime role, Gina Carano keeps on acting, and the BBC cancels a show.

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Apparently Lindsay Lohan is definitely, like for sure definitely, going to play Elizabeth Taylor in an upcoming Lifetime: Television for Soft Focus Stunts original movie. For a while lots of people thought Lohan’s casting was just a rumor that Lifetime was perpetuating to get attention for the movie, but nope. It appears to be real. It’s a real thing that’s happening. The movie is going to be called Liz Dick, because ever since The Client List premiered the network has been feeling a little wild, must be spring or something, and it will be about Taylor’s relationship with Richard Burton. Nothing is confirmed, but word is that the network has offered the Richard Burton role to Jesse Camp. [Vulture]

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Gina Carano, the mixed martial arts fighter whom Steven Soderbergh cast in this winter’s action movie Haywire, may be joining the cast of Fast and the Furious 6, which is about Paul Walker and Vin Diesel zooming around Ft. Lauderdale in Hoverounds. This is actually kind of perfect, because Carano seems nice and everything and has a neat story so we want her to get work, but, um, she’s not so good at the acting. Which makes a Fast and the Furious picture perfect for her! Nobody acts in those things. They just stare sweatily at each other and hug. (There was a lot of hugging in the last one. Seriously, go watch it and notice all the hugging.) Nice work, Carano! [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Oh dear. The BBC has canceled its rebooted series Upstairs, Downstairs after only one season. Which sort of adds insult to the injury apparently done to the show by Downton Abbey, which stole Upstairs‘ thunder last year and is basically the same show, even though Upstairs thought of it originally back in the 1970s. One hopes this means that Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith will soon be engaging in fisticuffs in Trafalgar Square while Jean Marsh wallops Hugh Bonneville with her purse. Get ready to fight, old British people! [Deadline]

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Zach Galifianakis’ genuinely funny web series Between Two Ferns will soon be a Comedy Central special. There will be a half-hour version of the absurdist interview show airing before the Comedy Awards on May 6th. The show will feature Tina Fey, Jon Stewart, and supposedly Richard Branson, though it might be a comedian just pretending to be Richard Branson. So, that’s something to look forward to? Yeah, sure. Sure. [Vulture]

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Malin Ackerman recently said that she doesn’t think a planned biopic of porn star Linda Lovelace, in which she was supposed to star (after Lindsay Lohan dropped out), is going to happen. Apparently shooting was supposed to start in March but now, a month later, she still hasn’t heard anything. So it’s probably dead in the water. Which is a real tragedy. Now we’ll only get one depressing biopic about a battered porn star from the 1970s, the one that’s just been made with Amanda Seyfried playing Lovelace. One is just not enough of this story. We need more and more and more. Won’t some kind benefactor give Ackerman’s movie the money it needs? For the good of the nation? [The Hollywood Reporter]

Interim Haitian president Sean Penn (right? Wasn’t he down there doing something?) has been cast in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a remake being directed by and starring Ben Stiller. Penn’s role is said to be “small but pivotal,” a phrase which could probably be the setup for some sort of penis joke, but we’re tired. Anyway, Penn joins Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, and Patton Oswalt. Finally with Penn’s inclusion a true comedian joins the cast. [Deadline]

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Taylor Swift considers sacrilege, Catching Fire has its director, and Matthew Perry is going back to work.

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Remember when you first heard a Joni Mitchell song and it was like some astral stranger was crawling out of the speakers and wrapping you in a bittersweet embrace? Remember the first time you heard “The Last Time I Saw Richard” or “Rainy Night House” and it was like an emotional revelation? Well, friends, those fond memories will soon be gone, destroyed by none other than Taylor Swift. Yes, America’s most famous deer fetus is “circling” the role of Joni Mitchell in a planned biopic of Mitchell, Carly Simon, and Carole King. Which, ugh. Taylor Swift writes fun pop songs and seems like a nice enough young lady, but Joni Mitchell she is not nor will ever be. Why would you cast Taylor Swift when Mia Wasikowska, a proven good actress who bares some resemblance to a young Mitchell, is right there? (Plus she’s already played a character named Joni.) Who’s going to play Carly Simon, Selena Gomez? Miranda Cosgrove as Carole King? This whole court’s outta order! Please let this be like that Taylor Swift in Les Mis thing, a terrible rumor that gets thrown around a lot but ultimately proves untrue. C’mon, guys. Don’t this. Don’t do it for Joni. [Variety]

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Lionsgate has hired I Am Legend and Water for Elephants director Francis Lawrence to replace Gary Ross as the director of the Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire. They had been looking at Moneyball‘s Bennett Miller for the job, which would have been cool, but he alas couldn’t work with their rigid schedule. So Lawrence it is. The first hour or so of I Am Legend was pretty well done, so hopefully he can manage the elaborate craziness of Fire, but we wish they’d picked someone a little more outside-the-box. Did you guys even ask Spike Jonze? You should have at least asked him. He might have said yes! Eh, it’s OK. This will be fine. At least it’s not Chris Columbus, after all. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Matthew Perry might have a steady job again! NBC has officially picked up his new sitcom Go On for thirteen episodes. The show is about a slick sportscaster who is forced to go to a support group where he encounters a group of wacky but lovable characters. Hm. You know what would be a fun version of that show? A show about a slick lawyer who is forced to go to community college, where he encounters a group of wacky but lovable characters. Wouldn’t that be interesting?? Ah well, it’d never happen. Anyway, congrats to you, Matthew Perry. And to cast members Allison Miller (Terra Nova) and Laura Benanti (The Playboy Club), both casualties of high profile flops last season who now have a second chance. Good luck everyone! [Deadline]

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Click the below link to watch a trailer for the new documentary from sassy little prankster Morgan Spurlock. It’s a movie called Mansome and it’s all about how men groom themselves and want to look good these days which is such a crazy trend because it used to be that men would just run around covered head to toe in thick, greasy, matted hair, wearing tree bark as pants with poison oak leaves wrapped around their nipples. I mean, just look at those ungroomed savages of the Victorian era or any courtly fop of the monarchy periods. Men have never taken any care in their appearance before so it’s a good thing we now have a documentary about this fascinating, completely new thing. Well done as always, Spurlock! [Entertainment Weekly]

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Netflix goes all in, Bravo renews your favorite show, and Showtime has a new project.

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Netflix announced today that the new Arrested Development episodes it has everyone in a panty-twist about will all premiere at the same time. Yup, all ten episodes will be dumped on the site on the same day, sometime next year. This initially seems like an odd choice — Why wouldn’t Netflix and everyone on the crew want to mete the show out one by one, drawing out the joy and anticipation? But then we think about it and it’s like, eh, why not just unload them all at once? That’s how people watch TV on Netflix anyway. Plus it gets rid of all the annoying recap and live-Tweet culture that absolutely would have existed had the rollout been slower. So we say good on you, Netflix. Why not just throw everything out there and let people immediately judge the whole. Obviously this makes us a little concerned that the episodes are bad and Netflix hopes you won’t notice when they’re just all in a pile like that, but we’ll choose to ignore that fear. [Entertainment Weekly]

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Oh, goodie, some more wonderful television news. Bravo has decided to renew their reality show (ha, “their reality show,” as if they only have one, would that were true) Shahs of Sunset, about rich, oblivious Persians running wild in Los Angeles, for a second season. So that’s great! We’ll get a whole ‘nother season of Whiny girl and Other girl and Hair dude and Gay guy. You know, all your favorite characters from Shahs of… Wait, sorry, we forgot the title. What is this show? All we remember is that Eugene Levy from Father of the Bride Part II is in it. Congrats, Eugene. [Deadline]

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This year’s The Descendants breakout and the past four years’ Secret Life of the American Teenager breakdown Shailene Woodley has chosen her next movie project. She will star in an adaptation of the book The Spectacular Now, about a drunken party teen whose life gets fixed by a girl. Woodley will play that girl. Who will play the party teen, named Sutter Keely, remains to be seen. Wait, “Sutter Keely”? Sutter Keely. I wish Shailene was playing that part because then you could say “Shailene Woodley is Sutter Keely” and it would sound like a made-up language that xylophones speak to each other. [Variety]

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Showtime is developing a series called The Angry Buddhist, which is based on a novel that hasn’t even come out yet. That’s a good literary agent, right there! The book is set in “the high California desert between the trailer parks and amphetamine labs of Desert Hot Springs and the classic mid-century architecture of Palm Springs” and is about three brothers. One’s a Buddhist cop, one’s a congressman, and the other’s a crook. It’s all atmospheric family drama set in weird scrubby high desert with a dash of local crime color. So it’s Breaking Justified, basically. Sounds kinda more like an HBO show than a Showtime show, but they’re trying to get all classy over there these days (have you seen those Game of Thrones-esque ads for the silly Borgias show?), so this follows. Could be interesting! [Deadline]

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Here’s a trailer for the indie drama/comedy (slowly phasing out “dramedy,” for better or worse) My Sister’s Sister, starring the likable duo of Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt and the suddenly ubiquitous Mark Duplass. Guy with a girl best friend sleeps with girl’s sister, girl best friend tells sister she’s in love with guy, complications ensue. It looks charming and all, but one question: Why is one sister British and the other not? Maybe they explain that at some point, but it’s trippin’ me up. Anyway. Here it is.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: a wildly talked-out about show wasn’t watched that much, James Cameron is huge in China, and the Tribeca Film Festival picks some strange judges.

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The much-ballyhooed Hot in Cleveland prequel Girls premiered on HBO last night in the wake of mountains of breathless blog coverage, and after all of that it did… just OK. The show raked in 1.1 million viewers, lower than Eastbound Down‘s season/series finale, which came in at 1.6 million. So it’s not exactly an enormous TV phenomenon, despite what internet coverage might suggest. It’s just a modestly viewed HBO comedy. Oh well. That’s that. Guess we’ll just… Talk about something else now, I guess. Hm. Um… Anyone, I dunno, read a good book recently or anything? [Entertainment Weekly]

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From a fizzle to a sizzle! (Shoot me.) James Cameron‘s big rerelease The Abyss: Now Even Longer Titanic 3D has earned the biggest opening for any film ever in China. Splish-splashing into theaters all across China this weekend, the film earned a whopping (for China) $67 million, well ahead of expectations. The big opening beats the previous record of $56 million, earned last year by Your Highness. No, just kidding, it was Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Well done, Mr. Cameron! Though, should we be concerned that the Chinese apparently love to watch Americans die in horrible accidents? Suspicious, don’t you think? [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Ha. The Tribeca Film Festival, which begins on Wednesday, has announced the judges for its various competitions, and among respectable names like Susan Sarandon, Mike Newell, and Patricia Clarkson are some less likely choices. Like, won’t you be so proud when you are awarded the Best New Narrative Director by… Kellan Lutz? Nothing says film savvy and artistic integrity quite like the Oscar statue made of fried chicken that is Kellan Lutz! Or how about getting your Documentary Short award from none other than, y’know, Justin Bieber’s manager? I mean, that really says something about your documentary short, doesn’t it? That Justin Bieber’s manager/part time swagger coach thinks it’s tight. Brave, strong choices, Tribeca. [The New York Times]

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Emily Blunt has been hired to fight aliens in a new Tom Cruise movie. So, it’s come to this. Finally Emily Blunt must pick up arms against Tom Cruise and save us all. What’s that? She’s fighting alongside Tom Cruise? Because he’s “not an alien”? Aha. Hm. OK. The film is called All You Need Is Kill and is about a guy who has to keep repeating the same day, a day of battling aliens, over and over again until he gets it right. Emily will be a soldier who fights with him. (Psst, Emily. Maybe you’re the one repeating the day and the trick to getting it right is that you have to kill the real alien, and he’s, y’know, right next to you. Just a guess!) [Variety]

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Shawn Levy, director of Real Steel and the pilot of TV’s Pepper Dennis, has acquired the rights to the upcoming book by Time goofball Joel Stein. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Shawn Levy doing Joel Stein. That’s… Well, that’s gonna be something. Even better? The book is called Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity and is about “a guy trying to learn how to be a man so he can be a better role model for his infant son.” So that ought to be terrific, huh? Lots of dude man jokes from Joel Stein all shaped and guided by Just Married director Shawn Levy. Look out, China! Here’s your next record-breaker. [Entertainment Weekly]

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Disney gives a blog to a dog, Nancy Meyers and Tina Fey are looking for an old man, and Pauly D is very very rich.

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The Disney Channel, the nation’s repository for our most important television shows, has announced that they’ve picked up a new series called Dog With a Blog. The show is about a cat with a Twitter account. No, dumbos, it’s about a dog what done have itself a blog! There’s also of course a human family involved, a recently married couple and two frequently fighting step siblings, one of whom will be played by this young lady. The mom is going to be played, sadly, by Beth Littleford, who was on The Daily Show like a million years ago and is now on Dog With a Blog. You deserve better, Beth! Anyway, so yeah, the dog is brought into the family as a way to pacify the step-siblings but then they find out that the dog can talk and write and stuff so they freak out and set it ablaze shrieking “Burn, demon! Burn!” which really brings them closer together. That or they find out that the dog wrote something really racist on Taki’s Mag and everyone feels really uncomfortable for a while. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Paramount will be producing a new comedy from lifestyle porn expert Nancy Meyers called The Intern. In the film, Tina Fey will play the owner of some sort of e-commerce business that sells mostly fashion and who gets a new intern who’s “a senior,” only to find out that that doesn’t mean high school or college, it means like senior citizen. Like an old man. So…um, well, that happens and Fey is upset but then of course the old man proves invaluable and they form a close bond. Not a romantic bond, mind you. None of that happening here. Just a friend bond. (And they didn’t even need a blogging dog to do it!) Apparently Meyers has an old dude in mind for the senior role but hasn’t said who, so let’s guess. Ian McKellen? Morgan Freeman? George Clooney? Haha, jk jk, McKellen’s not that old. Maybe Jack Nicholson? He worked with Nancy Meyers in Something’s Gotta Give, after all. Whoever it is, it’s kind of hard to get excited about someone getting cast in some old man comedy about friendship. Though of course this could end up being good, Nancy Meyers movies are all strangely enjoyable (yes, even The Holiday), if for no other reason than people’s houses are always really nice. Bring on the nice houses! Or, like, nice nursing homes. [Deadline]

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Hunger Games broodpot Liam Hemsworth has signed on to star in the film Paranoia, a corporate espionage thriller to be directed by Robert Luketic, the genius behind Killers, The Ugly Truth, Monster-in-Law, and Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!. (And, to be fair, Legally Blonde.) Possibly joining Hemsworth in the film will be Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman, who will play, respectively, a ditzy coed who winds up at Hemsworth‘s highly selective law school and the bitchy, controlling mother of Hemsworth‘s fiance. Should be interesting! [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Pauly D from Jersey Shore is being sued by his former agents at ICM and the lawsuit reveals hideous facts about the exorbitant amounts of money that Pauly D has made for being Pauly D. There are figures like: “Pauly D’s pay went up in season five of Jersey Shore, with MTV giving him a $400,000 signing bonus and $150,000 an episode.” ……… What’s even the point, you know? What’s even the point of trying to do anything if that’s going on one state away? Pauly D is a multi-millionaire by now (if he hasn’t spent it all already, which is certainly possible) and everyone else is just struggling along like idiots. Only, like, regular-type idiots. Not idiots who make $2,000,000 a year for being idiots. Sigh. We’re moving to South Georgia Island. We’ll just work at the museum. [Deadline]

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Warner Bros. has bought an adapted screenplay called Lore and plans to make it a vehicle for The “Dwayne Johnson” Rock. The story is described as “Men in Black with mythological creatures,” which basically means it’s Percy Jackson with a few swears, I guess. Sounds perfect for The Rock, as he tends to alternate between grownup stuff (Journey 2 the Mysterious Island) and kiddie fare (Fast Five). Oh, wait, no, I know what this basically is. It’s Grimm, right? Except with myths instead of fairy tales, which really are the same thing, except not religious I guess? It’s Grimm and the Olympians: You Know the Difference Between You and Me? I Make This Look Good. Sounds great. [The Hollywood Reporter]

The Office reached a series low in ratings last night, this coming amid reports that show creator Greg Daniels is considering scrapping all the Dunder Mifflin stuff and starting over with a new office and a new cast next season. Sounds like a lot of work for something that probably won’t ultimately pan out very well, but what do we know. They need to figure something out, because it’s sinking in the ratings and no one really cares about it anymore except to say that it stinks, y’know? So, figure something out, guys. (Meaning: Just end the damn show. Seriously, put it to bed before all we remember is when it stunk and no one watched it.) [Entertainment Weekly]

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: The two cool guys are putting something together, AMC gets back in the comic business, and LMFAO is trying to make it official.

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Ed TV costars and all around laid-back dudes Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are teaming up once again to do a television series, all about detectives in the South. The idea is that they’ll do eight episodes and solve a murder mystery at the end of them (for real this time, no Rosie Larsening around, guys) and then the next season it will be a whole new set of characters and a new mystery and everything. So American Horror Story but about two drawlin’ detectives wandering around the bayou. There’s no network attached to this, but they’re aiming for premium cable it seems. They have Jane Eyre director Cary Fukunaga (nice choice!) attached to direct all eight episodes, two of which are already written, so they’ve got like a lot established already, which could be enticing to networks. Though, of course it doesn’t really matter in the end how prepared they are, as despite the director and scripts and whatnot all that’s gonna happen when “action” is called is that Woody and Matthew will start lazily going “Hyuuuhhhhhhhhhhh” while rolling around in hammocks, for hours. Still, we respect the effort. [Deadline]

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Curiously enough the producers of Justified are looking to cast Modern Family clown (quite literally!) Eric Stonestreet as some sort of villain next season. Hm. That’s interesting casting! Obviously Stonestreet can play things other than a charmingly oafish and mincing fop, but a villain? On Justified? Seems strange to us. But what do we know. If they want to do it, they should do it. In related news, Jesse Tyler Ferguson has been tapped to step into the role of Loras Tyrell on Game of Thrones. [The Wrap]

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AMC is working to develop another show based on a Robert Kirkman comic, following the successful end of The Walking Dead‘s second season. The comic is called Thief of Thieves and it is a sequel to Prince of Thieves and the show will star Kevin Costner and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. No, no, just kidding. The world is not *that* kind to us. Thieves is about a thief trying to reform but who can’t stop thieving so he only thieves what other thieves have thieved. It’s basically Dexter but instead of murder it’s thieving. They should just call it Dexter: Thief Edition. C’mon, guys. Just call it that. Anyway, we look forward to nothing interesting happening on this show until the end of the second season, as is AMC/Kirkman tradition. [Entertainment Weekly]

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The band LMFAO is trying to trademark its name for various merchandising purposes. They’ve submitted an application to the U.S. Trademark Office to get LMFAO, a common web expression, trademarked. They say it stands for “Laughing My Freaking Ass Off.” No swears, guys. Well no bad swears anyway. So, this is completely ridiculous. But not as ridiculous as the fact that one of the guys in LMFAO is the other guy’s nephew. So. Think on that for a while. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Yay. The wonderful Donna Murphy, known the world over as Juliet Simone the ballet coach in Center Stage, has officially been cast as The Witch in this summer’s Public Theater production of Into the Woods in Central Park. She joins the previously cast Amy Adams and a whole host of good theater actors. Man. This thing is just going to be impossible to get a ticket to. Not as impossible as it would have been had Meryl Streep taken this role, as was rumored, but still pretty damn hard. I mean, Center Stage is one of the most watched movies of all time. Right? Isn’t it? You guys all watch it all the time over and over again too, right? OK. Thought so. [The New York Times]

It seems that The Hunger Games director Gary Ross opted out of the second film because he didn’t like the available production schedule, which was constricted because the film’s star Jennifer Lawrence has a preexisting contract with Fox to film the X-Men: First Class sequel, which starts in January. So basically Ross would only have like four months to do the whole thing and he didn’t feel comfortable with that so that’s why he’s out. There was probably some money stuff involved too, but this seems to be the main reason. Who should replace him? We have some ideas! [The Hollywood Reporter]

The three writers of the Broadway musical Wicked — Gregory Maguire who wrote the original novel, Winnie Holzman who wrote the book of the musical, and Stephen Schwartz who wrote all the music and lyrics — have all split some $95 million in profit since the show debuted in 2003. So… that’s pretty insane. Write a musical, guys. Write a big fat hit musical and never work for the rest of your lives. Everyone, just go write a musical. Goodbye. [Bloomberg]

Here’s video of Uma Thurman singing a song on the next episode of NBC’s theater school cautionary tale Smash. She sounds… OK? Not great, but OK. Which is appropriate for this show.

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