Daily News - October 8th 2010

A fairly busy day today, I just want get it started...

Movie News:


Paramount Pictures acquired rights to "Young Adult", the film will
reteam Juno scribe Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman. Deadline
broke the story about the film and that they had landed Charlize Theron
to play the lead role, a ghostwriter of young adult novels who dips into
some childesh behavior.

Warner Brothers made the announcment today that the next Harry Potter
film won't be in 3D after all. They only filmed it in 2D and made
attempts to make it 3D after the fact. They were happy with the results
at all and decided to go back. Glad to see they had the sense not to
ruin that two films in the franchise. Harry Potter and The Deathly
Hallows Part One will be released on November 19th 2010. Part Two will
be released July 15th 2011.

Speaking of Harry Potter; it was announced today at New York Comic Con
that the first trailer for Green Lantern will be show before the Harry
Potter film. I just hope it's not just a bunch of text and green shapes
flying around, then with 3 seconds left we see a flash of Ryan Reynolds
in the suit. Green Lantern has a release date of June 17th 2011.

Vulture sat down with Sarah Jessica Parker last night where it was
revealed that there might be yet another Sex and the City movie. The
movie was hated by critics, but Parker points out it isn't the critics
that get a movie made, it's the audience. The final decision will come
down to the director and writer Michael Patrick King.

Slumdog Millionaire villain Anil Kapoor has signed up for a role in the
upcoming Mission Impossible movie. Shocker he'll play one of the movies
two villians.


TV News:

Word has it ABC is developing a surburban comedy titled, Suburgatory.
It's about a girl from the city that is now living in hell, aka: The
Suburbs. My guess is that this might eventually replace Better With You
in the 8:30 slot.

ABC Family is ordered the pilot of What Would Jane Do, it's about a 16
yeard old girl who juggles life as a teenager and a demanding new job.

Mario Lopez's new reality series will be called Saved by the Baby. The VH1 series will debut November 1st.

'Lost' star Rebecca Mader will guest star on 'Law & Order: Los Angeles.' Mader will play a character named Rebecca who gets run over by a car, but survives. Look for Mader to appear in the episode titled 'Pasadena,' the season's sixth episode.

Robert Kirkman's zombie comic, "The Walking Dead," which is heading to
the small screen later this month with AMC's television series of the
same name, will also be transformed into a trilogy of original novels,
the first of which will be released in 2011. Kirkman will provide the
concept and outline for the novels, which will be written by Jay
Bonansinga

Not to worry Deadliest Catch fans, the three Captains that were having a
dispute with the Discovery Channel, Sig Hansen, Johnathan and Andy
Hillstrand have reached an agreement and will be returning to the show.

Angus T. Jones of Two and a Half Men, has signed to get raise to
$300,000 an episode for two seasons making the deal worth 7.8 million. I
should point out that Angus is just 17 years old.

Today many sites were posting the first look of scenes of Smallville's
200th episode. Check it!



USA's newest series Fairly Legal will premiere on January 20th, at 10:00
PM. Royal Pains will start back up at 9:00, which will serve as its
lead-in. Original episodes of White Collar will run Tuesdays 10 PM
beginning January 18th.

It looks like Fez is returning to television. ABC has won the right to
a musical based comedy starting Wilmer Valderrama.

Kathryn Erbe will join Vincent D'Onofrio for the final season of 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent.' Erbe and D'Onofrio left the show at the start of season 9, but according to Ausiello Files, both will reprise their roles for an 8-episode season 10, the final season.

Munsters reboot show runner Bryan Fuller has decided that he wants Kristen Bell to play the normal cousin Marilyn.

Is Ryan Seacrest not busy enough? American Idol, his own radio show,
producing several shows and doing all sorts of work for E! Ryan decided
that he just needed his own channel! He is in talks with talent agency
CAA and entertainment company AEG so they could make this happen. His
goal is to have a channel that features programming featuring Music, Pop
Culture and Lifestyle.

Music News:

Jackie Evancho, have you heard of her? I hadn't until this afternoon
when I read on ew.com that she's signed a record deal with Simon
Cowell's label. Ok, but who is she Ant? Good question. She's a 10
year old girl that was a runner up on this years America's Got Talent
was heavily praised on the show and considered a fan favorite. We'll
see if the fans the opera sounding singers album when it's released.

This seems like a very strange pick to me, but Eva Longoria has been
chosen to host the MTV Europe Awards on November 7th. Performers
include Kings of Leon, Kesha with Kid Rock, Katy Perry and Linkin Park.

General Media News:

Not sure if you saw this anywhere or not, but it's a cool story. Johnny
Depp was invited to 9 year old Beatrice Delap's class so he could help
her and her classmates in a mutiny against her teacher. So was does
Captain Jack Sparrow do? He grabs some of his shipmates and heads to
the school to have a bit of fun. Depp called ten minutes ahead of time
and the school was told to expect him, so there was an assembly in which
he greeted the students and asked where Beatrice was where she was given
a big hug by Depp in full costume. Depp told her that we shouldn't
mutiny today as the please are outside monitoring me. Depp is in London
filming the next Pirates movie.


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