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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Charlie Sheen has fired literary agent Peter McGuigan after he could only get a $1M deal — offered by a single publisher — for Sheen's life story, Apocalypse Me. Sheen had wanted $10M for the project. Meanwhile, another "goddess" has been added to Sheen's warlock harum. The 26-year-old Megan Levant apparently has been dating the actor "for several months," and seems a perfect fit as it's reported she "loves porn and is a regular visitor to the Playboy mansion."
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While Lindsay Lohan is taking her chances with a trial by rejecting a plea deal in the jewelry theft case, her dad, Michael Lohan, is headed for the same courthouse and may even face the same judge as his daughter in his domestic violence case.
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Katherine Heigl is seen puffing away on an e-cigarette over a pasta and beer lunch in an apparent effort to beat her addiction to nicotine. Either that, or dealing with the stress of an acting career in jeopardy as her latest movie, the crime comedy One for the Money, has been pushed from this summer to the graveyard of January 2012.
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There is a mistress involved in the Bradley Cooper–Renee Zellweger split, and it's apparently Cooper's rising career and ascention to leading man status. "Renee had to take a backseat (to his career)," a source says. "It was just not working out."
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Two weeks after Julianee Moore was tapped to play Sarah Palin in HBO's upcoming film Game Change, Ed Harris has been cast as candidate John McCain.
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Are you old enough to remember watching the steamy sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in the 1973 thriller Don't Look Now? Neither are we, but a new book by Variety editor Peter Bart claims the two actually had unsimulated sex in front of the camera.
Posted 03.24.11 by reelz -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Mel Gibson has reached a plea deal in the domestic violence case against Oksana Grigorieva that will keep him out of jail, but will likely involve probation and anger management counseling. Meanwhile, Gibson's extortion case against Grigorieva was thrown out by Los Angeles County DA's Office.
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Lindsay Lohan is adamantly rejecting any plea deal in her jewelry theft case because it would involve six months of jail time. The alternative is to take the case to trial where, if convicted, LiLo could face a year in prison for grand theft. Last night Entertainment Weekly aired jewelry store surveillance footage showing LiLo leaving Kamofie & Co. wearing the necklace while an employee holds the door open, smiling.
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The "Who is that cute girl Ryan Reynolds is hanging out with?" mystery is over, as the woman he was spotted with in South Africa last week has been identified as 25-year-old German model Agnes Fischer. The 35-year-old Reynolds will have his hands full, as Fischer says she does "running, cycling (race & mountain bike), scuba-diving, climbing, snowboarding, skiing, inline-skating, yoga, and aerobics" to stay in shape.
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Actor and rapper 50 Cent is the latest member of the Gaddafi Concert Donation Club and says he will donate to Unicef money he was paid for a 2005 concert at the Venice Film Festival. There are still several other stars who have not responded to reports they were paid for appearances or performances at Gaddafi events, including Lionel Richie, Timbaland, Enrique Iglesias, Jay-Z, Lindsay Lohan, and Jon Bon Jovi.
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Julianne Moore will star as Sarah Palin in HBO's adaptation of Game Change, the bestselling book about John McCain's 2008 presidential run.
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Charlie Sheen's pick to replace him on Two and a Half Men, Rob Lowe, will not be leaving Parks and Recreation, according to that show's executive producer Michael Schur. Meanwhile, a Sheen party pal tells Life and Style magazine that Sheen is "losing it. He's really mad about the show, and dealing with the kids and Brooke is getting to be too much. Charlie is a ticking time bomb, and we all fear he could do something drastic like committing suicide or falling back on hard drugs."
If it's any consolation, TeamSheen's opening for a social media intern has received 74,040 applications from people in 181 countries.
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Since she made her debut with 1998's High Art, director Lisa Cholodenko has been on a mission to tell personal, family-oriented dramas, continuing with 2002's Laurel Canyon and the upcoming comedy-drama, The Kids Are All Right. Kids tells the story of two mothers (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) whose 18-year-old daughter (Alice in Wonderland's Mia Wasikowska) decides to make contact with the sperm donor (Mark Ruffalo) that is the father to her and her brother (Josh Hutcherson). Usually the sole screenwriter on her movies, Kids marks the first time Cholodenko has co-written a screenplay (with Stuart Bluberg). Cholodenko told ComingSoon that bringing Bluberg onto the project helped give the story a more personal angle, the continuing hallmark of her directorial work.
Cholodenko on co-scripting and dancing with the MPAA >> Posted 07.07.10 by Ryan -
Sony Pictures Classics has released a new Red Band international trailer for director Atom Egoyan's (Adoration) erotic thriller, Chloe, starring Julianne Moore and Liam Neeson.
A remake of the French film Nathalie, Chloe tells the story of a married woman (Moore) who suspects her husband (Neeson) of infidelity and hires a prostitute (played by Amanda Seyfried) to confirm her suspicions, ultimately putting her entire family at risk.
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Up until a few weeks ago, Julianne Moore was to star as the Hillary to Dennis Quaid's Bill in HBO Films' upcoming The Special Relationship. Moore then announced that she would withdraw from the project due to scheduling conflicts. EW now reports that HBO has signed Hope Davis (Proof, American Splendor) to take her place.
The project's focus is the relationship between Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, but part of the movie will dramatize Hillary Clinton's relationship with Bill during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Davis talked to EW about her identification with the situation:
Almost every woman in the world has been in that position -- it was along time ago in my life -- where the person that you trusted looks at you and says, "I have an admission to make." It's a moment we've all lived through.
Davis also reflected on having to prepare for the role very quickly:
With something like this, you can't spend all your time worrying aboutwhat you sound like, that you're not doing the storytelling part. That has to come first.
Davis will be flying to London this weekend to meet Quaid and director Richard Loncraine. Loncraine was signed on after the project's writer, Peter Morgan, decided not to direct. Morgan also wrote Frost/Nixon and The Queen, both of which starred Michael Sheen. Interestingly enough, Sheen will appear in The Special Relationship as Tony Blair, reprising his role in The Queen.
HBO Films plans to air the movie sometime in 2011.
Posted 07.12.09 by reelz