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Introducing The World's Richest Grandma With A
Dick [Trade Roundup]

post from Defamer on 27 August 2008 03:15:00 PM. © Defamer

· Tyler Perry, whose syndicated sitcom House of Payne could wind up earning him $200 million, now has a series pickup from TBS for a show based on Meet the Browns. Asked how he'd spend all this money, Perry squealed, "Zac Posen said he'd custom-design me a whole line of frumpy dresses. How 'bout that for starters?!" [Variety]
· Meanwhile, on the movie front, former co-president of Paramount production Alli Shearmur has hopped aboard Tyler Perry Productions vanity imprint Lionsgate, where she'll oversee a slate of six-to-eight releases a year. [Variety]
· Warners will produce Coco Avant Chanel, with Audrey Tautou playing the legendary fashion designer. No word yet on who'll play her little dog. [Variety]
· Burn After Reading's world premiere was the hot ticket at the Venice Film Festival, where crowds four-deep piled around the red carpet to cheer on guests of honor Brad Pitt and George Clooney, screaming, "Hey—whatever happened to that gay bed and breakfast you guys were fixing up? Is that still happening?" [THR]
· ABC ordered another season of Here Come the Newlyweds, a fun twist on the honeymoon game show genre that requires couples to swap sexual partners, then hunt each other to the death with assault rifles on "human newlywed game preserves." [THR]

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Chop Shop: A New American Indie Classic

post from Row Three on 27 August 2008 03:02:00 PM. © Row Three

It?s no surprise that Ramin Bahrani?s upcoming TIFF selection Goodbye Solo (not to be confused with[...]

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Rain of Madness on iTunes

post from /Film on 27 August 2008 02:59:12 PM. © /Film

Paramount has released Rain of Madness, the entire 30-minute documentary about the movie within the movie (” I’m the dude playin’ the dude, disguised as another dude! “), for free on iTunes.“German born documentarian, Jan Jürgen blows the lid off Hollywood, exposing the frenzy, the insanity and the madness surrounding the filming of ” Tropic [...]

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What's With The Stain, Statham [A Call To The
Bullpen]

post from Defamer on 27 August 2008 02:55:00 PM. © Defamer

Boomp3.com

Movie tough guy Jason Statham is just the latest celebrity to jump on the mystery stain fad. The Death Race star was spotted leaving popular Italian eatery Café Med with a rather large wet spot on the front of his t-shirt. Statham deflected any questions about the stain with the classic grade school defense, "That's for me to know and you to find out." Statham saw that interest in his stain was being to dwindle once he left the restaurant.

It was then, and only then, that Statham quietly admitted that he had knocked over a glass of water onto his lap during the course of his meal. Statham said, "I wanted to be the mysterious guy for a change. The brooding guy where you don't know if he has proper table manners or not. You know, as opposed to the guy with coordination issues."

[Photo Credit: Flynet]

*A Call To The Bullpen is a work of fiction. Although the pictures we use are most certainly real, Defamer does not purport that any of the incidents or quotations you see in this piece actually happened. Lighten up, people ... it's a joke.

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If You Don't Read This Post, We'll Kill This
Chimpanzee [Going Bananas]

post from Defamer on 27 August 2008 02:30:00 PM. © Defamer

While it pains us to stoop to the animal-threatening tactics of National Lampoon, it seems that Hollywood is far more cavalier with the fates of its four-legged thespians. According to the LAT, one of filmdom's most enjoyable genres — that of the monkey movie — is being assailed by PETA activists, who are demanding that actor chimps be replaced by CG versions. They allege that the trained monkeys are being abused to solicit a performance — and based on this anecdote about "Clyde," the orangutan from Every Which Way But Loose, they may have a point:

According to "Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People" by famed primatologist Jane Goodall and Dale Peterson, the original "Clyde" was trained with a can of mace and a pipe wrapped in newspaper. He was viciously beaten the day before filming started to make him more docile. Near the end of filming the sequel "Any Which Way You Can," the orangutan was caught stealing doughnuts on the set, brought back to the training facility and beaten for 20 minutes with a 3 1/2 -foot ax handle. He died soon after of a cerebral hemorrhage.

You'd think that 30 years would improve the lot of chimps. In some cases it has, as filmmakers like Peter Jackson are opting for animatronic apes or actors in ape suits. At least two high-profile trainers have been pressured out of the chimp business in the last few years by lawsuits or protesters. Yet some persist. This summer " Speed Racer" became one of the only films in recent history to earn an "unacceptable" rating from the American Humane Assn., the group that monitors the use of animals in films.

Now there are certainly moviegoers who will argue it was they who were mistreated by the Wachowski brothers' candy-colored box-office bomb, but at least consumers weren't physically manhandled. According to the AHA website, two chimps were used to portray the character of Chim-Chim (who performed such feats as driving a golf cart in the movie), and a trainer hit a chimp during a training session in front of a representative of the AHA. (Warner Bros declined to comment.)

Ironic, then, that virtually the only thing left unpixellated in the Wachowski Bros. bomb was the monkey whom activists actually wanted to go CG. Naturally, the reclusive directors had no comment, preferring instead to pass along a message from their publicist that appeared to be scrawled in feces, bearing only the mysterious phrase, "Ooh ooh ooh AHH AHH AHH!"

PETA doc ask movies to end chimpanzee abuse [LAT]

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Please, No: Aaron Sorkin and Scott Rudin Making
FACEBOOK: THE MOVIE

post from /Film on 27 August 2008 02:25:38 PM. © /Film

Okay, let’s make this quick because I’m logging off, going outside and sitting quietly under a tree for the rest of eternity. Writer Aaron Sorkin (Charlie Wilson’s War, Studio 60) has joined Facebook. More importantly, he’s created a Facebook group where it’s announced he’s penning Facebook: The Movie (our title) for mega-producer Scott Rudin (NCFOM, [...]

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Screenwriting, 8/27.

post from GreenCine Daily on 27 August 2008 02:14:00 PM. © GreenCine Daily

In the run-up to Get Your Act(s) Together, the screenwriting workshop he'll be conducting in San Francisco on Saturdays, starting September 6, our own Craig Phillips has been posting screenwriting tips, which he's counting down here. Meanwhile, at the...

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THE INCREDIBLE HULK on DVD and Blu-Ray, October
21st, 2008

Despite the face that THE INCREDIBLE HULK only earned about $134 Million in domestic box office (not a good result since the production cost $150 Million), it’s still one of my favorite movies of the year, the kind I could watch over and over again because it was just so damn entertaining, (Read my review [...]

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WB Launches Flashy, Beta Version of Hulu
Competitor [Offbeat]

If there is anything I need in my life, it is most certainly not a free venue for watching more television shows that I've avoided getting hooked on over the past few years. Of course, my addiction to Hulu has not helped -- everything from "Burn Notice" to "Life" to ...

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TAD Film Fest Promo

Along with the titles, the new promo reel for Toronto After Dark was posted on YouTube. Pass it on[...]

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