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‘Jobs': Kate Winslet Eyed for Female Lead (Exclusive)
14 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Kate Winslet is in negotiations for the female lead in Universal’s “Jobs,” the biopic of the late Steve Jobs.
Michael Fassbender is set to play Jobs, while Seth Rogen is on board to play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Danny Boyle will direct.
Aaron Sorkin penned the script with Scott Rudin, Mark Gordon and Guymon Casady producing.
The pic is based on the Walter Isaacson biography and was originally set up at Sony before Universal picked it up out of turnaround when Sony let it go.
Jeff Daniels is also circling the role of former Apple president John Scully, though no offer is in place.
Given the pedigree of the pic, it’s no surprise Winslet was drawn to the role. She’s already garnered six Oscar nominations and one win for best actress for her performance in “The Reader.”
She can be seen next reprising her role as Jeanine »
- Justin Kroll
President Obama: Sony ‘Made a Mistake’ in Canceling ‘The Interview’
15 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
President Barack Obama held a press conference on Friday, just hours after the Federal Bureau of Investigation named North Korea responsible for the hacking of and brutal threats against Sony Pictures Entertainment.
“I think they made a mistake,” Obama told the nation from the White House, referring to Sony’s actions in pulling “The Interview” in the face of the crippling cyberattack.
See photos: Sony Hack Attack Timeline: From First Cyberbreach and Leaks to ‘The Interview’ Dropped
“Sony’s a corporation, it suffered significant damage, there were threats against its employees. I am sympathetic to the concerns that they faced … having said all that, »
- Travis Reilly, Jordan Chariton and Debbie Emery
George Clooney Pushes For VOD Release Of 'The Interview,' Calls Out Hollywood For Lack Of Courage
19 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Right now, the biggest movie story in Hollywood isn't about an Oscar contender, or even a movie that will be opening this holiday season. Instead, it's about Seth Rogen and James Franco's "The Interview," which might be the most notorious unreleased film in recent memory. Certainly, everything around the movie has been unprecedented, with exhibitors across the country cancelling their plans to put the movie in their cinemas, following threats by hackers with ties to North Korea invoking 9/11. This in turn forced Sony to drop any and all release plans for "The Interview." And while there seemed to be a glimmer of hope when a new promo for the film appeared on Sony's YouTube channel yesterday, it has since been yanked. So too have all clips from the film. And an unlikely, angry voice has emerged calling out Hollywood's lack of courage. George Clooney took some time to talk to Deadline, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
David Schwimmer Cast As Robert Kardashian In FX’s ‘American Crime Story’
11 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
“Friends” star David Schwimmer has signed on as Robert Kardashian in FX’s upcoming miniseries, “American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson,” the network announced Friday.
Schwimmer will play O.J. Simpson’s attorney, starring opposite Cuba Gooding Jr., as O.J. Simpson. Sarah Paulson is set to portray prosecutor Marcia Clark.
The first episode of “The People v. O.J. Simpson” will be directed by “American Horror Story” creator Ryan Murphy. The miniseries, based off of Jeffrey Toobin’s book, “The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson,” will be written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.
Murphy, along with Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Brad Falchuk, and Dante Di Loreto are executive producers.
“American Crime Story” is produced by Fox 21 Television Studios and FX Productions. Production begins in Los Angeles in 2015.
Schwimmer is represented by Gersh and attorney Michael Gendler of Gendler & Kelly, Apc. »
- Elizabeth Wagmeister
Michelle Obama Can't 'Let It Go' - Sasha and Malia Are 'Too Old' for Frozen
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The Obamas open up about raising their daughters, the impact of stereotypes, and what's on the Potus dance party playlist. Subscribe now for instant access to the exclusive People interview!First lady Michelle Obama may be the only American mom of girls who hasn't had "Let It Go" stuck in her head at one time or another this year. Mrs. Obama told People ruefully that she has not even seen the animated hit Frozen. Daughters Sasha, 13, and Malia, 16, "are a little too old," President Obama explained in an exclusive interview with People for this week's issue. Said Mrs. Obama: "I »
- Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, @sswestfall
Queen of Pop says 'Bitch I'm Madonna' dropping six new tracks from 'Rebel Heart'
1 hour ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
It isn't quite what Beyonce pulled off a year ago, but Madonna gave her fans a Christmas surprise by releasing six new songs from her upcoming album "Rebel Heart" late Friday night on iTunes. In a statement Madonna noted, "I was hoping to release my new single 'Living For Love' on Valentine's Day with the rest of the album coming in the Spring. I would prefer my fans to hear completed versions of some of the songs instead of the incomplete tracks that are circulating. Please consider these six songs as an early Christmas gift." The new tracks, which included more rap than even rumored, include "Living for Love," "Devil Pray," "Illuminati," "Ghosttown" and "Unapologetic Bitch" and "Bitch, I'm Madonna" featuring Nicki Minaj. Producers on the tracks are Diplo, Kanye West and Billboard. They were recorded in New York, Los Angeles and London. "Living to Love" is an upbeat track »
- Gregory Ellwood
10 stories you might have missed: Five 'Star Trek 3' directors short-listed
1 hour ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
This week on 10 Stories You Might Have Missed: Five directors have been short-listed for the next "Star Trek" film now that Roberto Orci has exited. Did your favorite filmmaker make the tally? Plus, Miguel drops a surprise 3-song Ep, more details arrive on Sarah Silverman's HBO pilot, a CW dog show gets a host, Julian McMahon heads to SyFy, TV on the Radio release a new music video, President Obama has some sick burns about Sony's canning of Seth Rogen's "The Interview," Terry Crew's get's "World's Funniest Fails," J.K. Simmons may come face-to-face with King Kong and Jenny Slate tries on a Fleetwood Mac song in her Marcel The Shell voice. What did you read this week that made you go "Hmm?" »
- Katie Hasty
Madonna Releases 6 Songs from New Album: "Consider These an Early Christmas Gift"
2 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
One Madonna surprise follows another, as the Queen of Pop has dropped her forthcoming album, Rebel Heart — with six new songs immediately available for purchase — onto iTunes for pre-order well ahead of schedule. The arrival of the pre-order and its songs on Dec. 19 follows a flood of leaks earlier in the week, where over 10 demo tracks from the album's sessions found their way to the Internet. "I was hoping to release my new single 'Living For Love' on Valentine's Day with the rest of the album coming in the Spring," Madonna said in
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- Keith Caulfield, Billboard
Craig Ferguson Signs Off ‘Late Late Show’ with Jay Leno, Homage to Classic TV Finales
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
A wistful Craig Ferguson wrapped a 10-year run on CBS’ “The Late Late Show” on Friday with a surprise closing segment that paid tribute to a handful of classic TV series finales.
Spoiler Alert: Stop reading if you haven’t seen Friday’s edition of “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.”
Ferguson signed off after 2,058 episodes in characteristically quirky fashion, running through many of the show’s regular comedy bits, such as bantering with sidekick Geoff the talking robot skeleton and showcasing Secretariat, the show’s “fake horse” brought to life by two people in a classic pantomime horse costume.
The guest segment featured Jay Leno in a candid, and for Ferguson fairly low-key, session of swapping stories of talkshow host gripes about lame guests, pushy publicists and the trials of aging on the job. Leno, who signed off “The Tonight Show” in February, looked like a guy who’s been semi-retired for 10 months, »
- Cynthia Littleton
Craig Ferguson Wakes Up in Bed With Drew Carey on Final ‘Late Late Show’ (Video)
3 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Stephen Colbert wasn’t the only late-night TV talk show host to say goodbye on Thursday night.
Craig Ferguson, the longest-tenured host of “The Late Late Show,” bid his staff and studio audience adieu at the Thursday taping, which aired on Friday night (technically Saturday morning, if you’re a stickler). TheWrap was at the taping, but one special moment was held back from both Ferguson’s final crowd and the press — until now, of course.
Also Read: 14 Late Night TV Hosts Ranked by Popularity (Photos)
At the end of the final Ferguson show, after the Scottish comedian revealed TV »
- Tony Maglio
Interview: Baylor Wilson talks 'Survivor: San Juan del Sur'
4 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
"Survivor: San Juan del Sur" finished its season on Wednesday (December 17) night with a terrific finale that trimmed the field down from the episode-opening Top 5 of Baylor, Missy, Keith, Jaclyn and Natalie down to four and then three and then a very deserving winner. Over the next five nights, I'll be posting the five exit interviews I did all before 10:15 on Thursday morning, counting down from fifth place. It happens that the fifth place elimination was one of the season's most shocking, as Natalie bucked with a long-established plan to go to the finals with Baylor and Missy by playing an Immunity Idol for Jaclyn, turning a shocking vote against the totally blindsided Baylor. The season's youngest player at 20, Baylor got a bit of a negative rap through the season for being wishy-washy, for being a brat, for being carried along by her mother Missy. But if you look at certain moments in isolation, »
- Daniel Fienberg
Film Review: ‘Poker Night’
4 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Poker Night” offers a near-indigestible mix of tricky “Pulp Fiction”-esque structural convolution, torture-porn tropes and a somewhat distasteful level of snark, making for a self-satisfied puzzle that most viewers will run out of patience trying to unravel. This first theatrical feature for TV veteran Greg Francis won’t linger long in theaters after its single-screen Los Angeles launch on Dec. 20. Nonetheless, some familiar cast faces and other marketable elements should make it salable in various markets as a home-format item; it was released on VOD and iTunes earlier this month.
Jeter (Beau Mirchoff, TV’s “Awkward”) is a rookie cop just promoted to detective. After an instance of highly public heroism, he’s invited to the titular ritual evening, where, between playing hands, a circle of older policemen (including Ron Perlman, Giancarlo Esposito and Ron Eldard) school him by relating stories “worth a year’s street experience.” Each invariably »
- Dennis Harvey
This Guy Is Casually Hanging Out With Nicki Minaj's Naked Booty (Sorta)—See the Funny Pic!
5 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
This guy is just livin' the life, right? Fans of Nicki Minaj were greeted with some extra sexy early Christmas gifts via her Instagram, when the female rapper posted a number of racy photos that will be featured in her 2015 calendar. The bootylicious and boobalicious images left little to the imagination, but someone opted to get creative with one of the pictures, anyway. A genuis went to Photoshop to insert either themselves or a friend (or a complete stranger?!) into Minaj's seductive snapshot of her baring her booty in front of the fireplace. As she does her come hither look at the camera, this guy is just chillin' and listening to music as he wraps his arm around her ass. It's perfect, and it »
See Bradley Cooper Play a Reluctant Hero in New 'American Sniper' Clip (Exclusive)
5 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
American Sniper is not off to the sort of start that Warner Bros. wanted for its principal Oscar hopeful this season — after landing a spot on the AFI's year-end top 10 list, it was completely excluded from the SAG and Golden Globe nominations and recognized only in the action movie categories of the Critics' Choice noms — but Oscar nomination voting doesn't begin until Dec. 29, and there is still time for Academy members to catch up with and/or come around on Clint Eastwood's drama about the deadliest American sniper of the Iraq War, Chris Kyle, who is
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- Scott Feinberg
What happened to 'Top Five' at Golden Globes, and can it rebound at Oscars?
6 hours ago | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
"Top Five" is a comeback of sorts for Chris Rock, a celebrated stand-up comic and TV host whose filmic ventures have ranged from successful (the "Madagascar" animated franchise) to not so much ("Pootie Tang," "I Think I Love My Wife," the critically drubbed "Grown Ups" films). But with "Top Five," which he wrote, directed, and stars in, he has gotten the best reviews of his film career. So why were he and the film snubbed at the Golden Globes? -Break- Shocking Golden Globes snubs: Angelina Jolie (twice), Bradley Cooper, ... The film has scored 81 on MetaCritic and 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. Manohla Dargis (New York Times) calls it "fast and blisteringly funny … a romantic comedy that’s also an extended riff on art, identity, authenticity and what it means to be a black entertainer." Peter Travers (Rolling Stone) adds that it's Rock's "best movie by a mile … authentica..." »
Kris Jenner Talks Finalizing Bruce Jenner Divorce—Plus, Will They Still Celebrate Christmas Together? Watch Now!
6 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Kris Jenner has officially entered a new chapter in her life. The E! matriarch and now ex-husband Bruce Jenner just finalized their divorce (but they won't be officially divorced until March 23, 2015, due to the six-month legal requirement), and regardless of what people may have expected, Kris reassures us that there's absolutely no bad blood between her and Bruce following their split. "Things are really good," she tells E! News' Ken Baker and Giuliana Rancic while guest co-hosting the show today. In fact, Bruce will be with the family for Christmas. "I mean, it's kind of surprising, and we work together, and we talk all the time and he'll be there on Christmas. We're still »
Joanna Krupa Gets Egg-Retrieval Procedure (Video)
6 hours ago | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
Joanna Krupa has now successfully undergone an egg-retrieval procedure, the final phase of the egg-freezing process she decided to undergo so that she can become a mom in the future. "I'm happy that I decided to do this," she told People right before her procedure at The Fertility Institutes in Encino, California. "I will feel more secure about the fact that, no matter what the future holds, I will have these eggs stored, healthy and ready whenever I'm ready to become a mother." The Real Housewives of Miami and DWTS star, 35, says the preparation process - which entailed 12 days of »
China’s Wanda Opens First Movie Theme Park in Wuhan
6 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Wuhan – Dalian Wanda group, the Chinese conglomerate that controls the AMC cinema chain in North America, Saturday gave official openings to its latest entertainment industry extravaganzas.
In the central Chinese city of Wuhan, chairman Wang Jianlin headed a ceremony to open the Wanda Movie Park, which it claims is the world’s first indoor theme park, and the specially built Han Show Theatre. Wang said that the two sites had cost a combined RMB7 billion ($1.14 billion).
Giving a measure of the influence of the giant Chinese group, at least four foreign ambassadors to China were present Saturday morning. So too was former Ambassador Gary Locke; former AMPAS chief Hawk Koch, who is now a consultant to Wanda’s studio development in Qingdao; and leading Chinese film and events director Zhang Yimou.
The company has plans to compete with Disney, DreamWorks and Universal, which all have theme park ambitions in China. »
- Patrick Frater
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard Welcome Another Baby Girl, Their Second Child Together—Check Out Her Name!
6 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Christmas came early for Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard! The couple have welcomed a baby girl, their second daughter together, Bell revealed Friday night via Twitter. "The estrogen has now hit critical mass! Good luck, @daxshepard1. And welcome to the world Delta Bell Shepard :)," she wrote alongside a photo of a mama monkey's hand holding the wee fingers of a baby monkey. We're kinda diggin' that name! Delta joins big sister Lincoln in the family fold. The couple kept the gender of their baby a secret throughout the pregnancy, but Shepard has hinted that more kids could be in their future. "We're building a circus," he joked during a recent appearance on The »
Recap: 'The Amazing Race' Season 25 Finale - The Winners Are...
6 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
There are several things that have to be discussed in this recap of Friday (December 19) night's "Amazing Race" finale, but I want to get this out of the way: I don't think Brooke was wrong to be pissed off to see The Candy Girls arrive at the Manila airport after the last Leg and I don't think Adam was wrong to say that he was frustrated. When I talked to Phil Keoghan about the rash of episodes in which teams didn't go home this season -- Four out of 11 episodes -- he said that people were universally excited by the ending of the last Leg, because it was something they had never seen before. True. What they hadn't seen before was a team get spared from elimination at the end of what was, for all intents and purposes, a Leg despite finishing last, only to be immediately rewarded with an Equalizer at the airport, »
- Daniel Fienberg
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