Posts by Zach Dionne
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Box Office Top Five: You Love ‘Ride Along’ So Much, America
Kevin Hart and Ice Cube have this thing on lock. Also: ‘That Awkward Moment’ is Zac Efron’s worst opening ever, and ‘Frozen’ is still going hard.
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Ready for a ‘Back to the Future’ Stage Musical?
Also in the Afternoon Links: Michael Pitt is coming to Hannibal, Katy Perry has conquered Twitter, and André 3000’s Jimi Hendrix movie has set its premiere.
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‘Rock the Kasbah’ Will Star Bill Murray, Zooey Deschanel, and the Newly Unretired Shia LaBeouf
Directed by Barry Levinson, the film will star Murray as “a burned-out music manager who goes to Afghanistan on the USO tour with his last remaining client.” Then he winds up on a path toward ‘Afghan Star,’ a reality show in the vein of American Idol. Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson, and Danny McBride will also appear.
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David O. Russell Has Found His Next Jennifer Lawrence Project
For his follow-up to American Hustle and Silver Linings Playbook, Russell is negotiating to rewrite and direct a film about Joy Mangano, “a struggling Long Island single mom of three who became one of the country’s most successful entrepreneurs with her self-wringing Miracle Mop invention.” J-Law would play the role, and J-Law would get her fourth Oscar nomination, at something like age 24 or 25.
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‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ Trailer: Seth’s Baaack
Also in the Afternoon Links: Joss Whedon is modeling The Avengers: Age of Ultron after The Godfather: Part II, Tina Fey did an episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s web-show, and more than a dozen Game of Thrones Season 4 pictures are now online.
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Is Louis C.K.’s ‘Tomorrow Night’ Worth Your $5? (And Other Assorted Questions About His Directorial Debut)
In late 2011, Louis C.K. decided to sell a new stand-up special for $5 on his website. It was a huge hit, pulling $1 million in less than two weeks. Now he’s doing it with Tomorrow Night, a film he wrote and directed in 1998. The black-and-white project went to Sundance and some minor festivals before heading straight to the vault, having never found distribution. Did Tomorrow Night deserve to stay hidden all those years, or is it worth your five bucks?
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Justin Bieber Went to Jail Again, This Time in Toronto
Bieber and some friends hired a limo in December and someone wound up hitting the driver in the head numerous times after a dispute. Now the Biebs has a DUI court date in Miami in February and an assault hearing in Toronto in March. Weee!
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Bruce Willis Dares to Star in Another M. Night Shyamalan Movie
Also in the Afternoon Links: ABC ordered a sitcom pilot about Henry Winkler’s family, Laurence Fishburne is back in Morpheus black, and the first trailer for ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ is here.
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Mötley Crüe Is Retiring Forever (Really. There’s a Legal Document.)
“We wanted to leave a legacy,” says Nikki Sixx. “We feel there are a lot of bands that don’t have dignity. We want to call it a day and be proud.”
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NBC Will Move the Emmys to a Monday in August (and It Canceled ‘Sean Saves the World’)
“NBC had no comment on the shift, but both the Oscars and the Golden Globes used to air on Monday nights before moving to Sunday, a night that has become synonymous with big events,” says Variety. Now we just have to wait and see if a long working Monday diminishes the quality of awards show tweets versus the customary 140-character zingers folks store up over lazy weekends building to Sunday night telecasts.
