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Pegg knows ‘How to Lose Friends’
Simon Pegg, best known for his starring role in Shaun of the Dead has been tapped to take the lead in the movie adaptation of Toby Young’s bestselling book "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People,” in which the self-promoting British writer mercilessly details his disastrous stint as a contributing editor for Vanity Fair in New York and his often vain attempts to ingratiate himself to various celebrities and supermodels.
Paramount Swats at ‘Flies’ with Soprano Scribe
The world behind the world. Those lives that we all see, but never experience. The pain that is reserved for the broken, the downtrodden, the lost. There seems to be a resurgence in interest in Hollywood for the seedier underbelly of our society and the heroes that reach into it to try to pluck life out without their sanity being drug down.Todd A. Kessler, formerly a scribe for the HBO hit 'Sopranos' has been tapped to pen Black Flies based on the unpublished memoirs of Shannon Burke, a former Emergency Medical Technician in Harlem.
From ink to lenses for Charlie Kaufman
Production Weekly reports that screenwriting brainchild Charlie Kaufman will now go behind the camera for his directorial debut on a project that looks to touch upon the same anxieties that were under the scope in his previous 2 penned projects.
Review: Half Nelson
"Ryan Fleck shows tremendous poise for a feature debut – he delivers a portrait that is a truly beautifully character study with the kind of backbone that is rarely attributed to a culturally and generational mixed drama."
Hayden teleports onto ‘Jumper’
Samuel L. Jackson and Hayden Christensen are back together again (aww). Thankfully however, it's not another Star Wars (my apologies to all the sci-fi geeks out there). The duo will be putting away their lasers and picking up...teleportation devices? I guess the sci-fi kids will be pleased after all. The film is Jumper, an adventure/drama/sci-fi/thriller from Regency Enterprises directed by Doug Liman. Although Christensen wasn't the original choice for the lead role (Tom Sturridge is still listed as the part on imdb), it was decided by execs a bigger name might sell more tickets.
